Thank you for taking time to listen to leading the way with pastor and international Bible teacher, Dr. Michael Yousaf.

Life balance is often defined as kind of healthy amounts of exercise, sleep, nutrition, and then a good balance between work and family time.

These all need to be kept in check, because if

anyone gets out of sorts and then the entire system is in trouble. Well, that same principle

applies to our spiritual lives. Today, on leading the way, journey into the life of Joseph

through a classic teaching from Dr. Yousef called Portrait of a Winner.

You'll see how Joseph gives a great example of what it means to balance honoring God

with facing the challenges of life and culture.

Listen with me now as Dr. Michael Youssef begins.

Most people view God in the way they were brought up.

Children who grow up in a stern, angry, abusive parents,

most often, unless they are instructed in the word of God,

unless they become to know the God of Abraham, unless they become to know the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ,

they will immediately think of God as a stern, angry, constantly ready to punish.

It was Martin Luther, that Dominican monk, who God used single-handed

to bring reformation to the whole world. It was him before he discovered the absolute

biblical truth of justification by faith alone, of salvation by grace alone. Before that happened in his

cell, he would weep and he cry all day long.

Why?

Because he saw a window right there in a monastery of God standing with a sword in his hand.

And every time he had a wrong thought, he would run to the Father Confessor,

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