This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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Security.

Everyone is looking for security. I think lots of people are searching for security, whether it be physical security

and install alarms and security personnel at our work, or it is in terms of health security,

where we try to pop pills and do whatever it takes to stay healthy,

whether it is financial security, where we guard and plan and organize against those days that could be challenging in the future.

In fact, that's why many financial institutions

call what they sell securities. And you see how the drug manufacturers and the investment firms

and the alarm manufacturers, they all team up with marketers to convince us that we can be physically secure if we buy

their alarm system or health-wise we can be secure if we pop their pills or that we can be financially

secure if we invest with them. Here's a statement I don't want you to miss.

There is nothing wrong with that.

In fact, a wise person must think and plan and guard against recklessness and carelessness.

I believe that will all my heart.

The problem arises when our need for security, whatever it may be, turn into a life of worry and anxiety and fear about these securities. When the

securities we seek turns into a fearful obsession, that is where we need to stop and take

account of our lives. Please think with me, okay? All of this concern about our security,

it would be physical or health or financial. all of these have to do with this life,

right? It's to do with this life, whether it be short or long. It doesn't matter. It's all the

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