Blessed New Year, I pray that this new year be the year of blessing and the year of fruitfulness

for the Lord in your life and in your family's life.

May he continue to bless you in a new way this new year.

Thank you for responding to the appeal last month. Thank you for helping us to make

it to the finish line. Because of what you have done, God is now opening new doors for us. And I pray

that God will use us both, you and me, together in unity, to serve him throughout this coming year.

Welcome to Leading the Way with local Atlanta pastor and international author of more than 50 books, Dr. Michael Youssef.

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You'll be so glad you did.

Now, coming up next, Dr. Yousef offers a challenge

as you begin 2025, a challenge to experience a spiritual reset for the new year. So listen with me to Dr. Michael

Yousaf's perspective-changing words. Turn with me to Philippians chapter 3 and I want to look

at verses 13 and 14. I'm going to translate it like a home-spun translation.

It's a, I always tell you, it's a use of translation. So I promise you, it is accurate.

Here's what the Apostle Paul is saying, and I'm going to put it in context in a minute.

Brethren, I count not myself to have made it.

I haven't made it yet.

I haven't reached it yet.

But one thing that I do is obviously the one thing that occupies his mind, the one thing

that is constantly impacting every aspect of his life. The one thing that are constantly impacting every aspect of his life.

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