Preparing the Next Generation, Part 4

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

Michael Youssef, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons, Bible Study, Theology, Health & Fitness, Jesus, Mental Health, Preaching, Bible, Spirituality, Religion, Holy Spirit, Ltw, Leading The Way

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Each generation is responsible to pray for, train, and model faith in Jesus Christ to the next. As such, our culture is always just one generation away from the virtual disappearance of Christianity. With so many ungodly influences vying for their attention, how will the emerging generation find the strength to follow God's ways? Dr. Michael Youssef shares how we can train up our children in the faith so that when God calls them, they will be ready to serve Him. In this series, you will learn what means for the next generation to be "arrows in the hand of a warrior" (Psalm 127:4) and be energized to invest in the young people God has placed in your life.

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0:00.0	I want you to raise your hand if you have heard the name George McCloskey.
0:07.0	He was never on evening news. There was never a biography written about him. He was an ordinary
0:16.0	Christian who decided to make a very important investment in his life.
0:21.6	He made a decision that he is going to pray for one hour every day for the next generation.
0:31.6	Not just that they would know the Lord, but they would serve the Lord in some way.
0:35.6	They would be used of the Lord. Several years later,
0:39.6	he has two daughters, and they each got married, and they married people in full-time ministry.
0:47.1	The two daughters had four daughters of their own between them. So now George has four granddaughters.
0:55.9	At that moment, he made a decision that is going to take from 11 o'clock a.m. to noon every
1:02.7	single day, regardless of what's going on, and he's going to pray now for the third generation,
1:09.4	the next generation.
1:11.3	Well, each of the four granddaughters married men in full-time ministry.
1:18.0	Then the fourth generation started coming and George is still praying.
1:22.2	The fourth generation, among others, the first two were born, were two cousins, two boys, and they became good friends
1:30.9	as cousins. In fact, they went to the same college together, and they were roomed together.
1:35.9	There were roommates in college. And at the end of their college years, one of them decided
1:42.2	to follow in the family tradition and went to full-time ministry.
1:46.2	The other one rebelled against this family tradition. He did not want to go to the ministry.
1:51.8	In fact, they thought of him as a black sheep in the family. Well, he decided that he's not going
1:58.4	to study theology, he's not going to go to ministry, he's going to
2:01.3	study psychology. And he did. And then he did a PhD in psychology, wrote a best-selling book,
2:08.7	and today the black sheep in the family is heard on thousands of radio stations around the world.
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