There are some people who have physical weaknesses that causes loss of joy and loss of contentment.

There are other people who have moral weaknesses and they are constantly losing their joy because of that moral weakness.

Whatever the area of your weaknesses may be, if you have not learned to apply the grace of God on the area of your weaknesses,

chances are you've lost your content.

You're already in a major detour and you've lost your way.

Thankful for pointed practical words from Dr. Michael Yousaf to begin this episode of leading the way.

How about you? Have you lost your joy? Maybe past life choices or current circumstances, have you feeling down or discontented?

In a moment, Dr. Youssef offers encouragement to grow through discontent.

On this episode of Leading the Way audio, Dr. Yosef brings you a message he's called

The Detours to Contentment. And please do remember that leading the way is a listener-supported ministry.

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You're invited now to listen with me as Dr. Michael Yousaf begins today's teaching time.

Have you ever gone to a strange city and picked up a car or or maybe even a strange country, where you're not

very familiar with the language.

And they started driving.

Now you've done your homework, you already have looked at the map, you mapped your way

through, and you know how you're going to get there, and you got it all worked out. And then after you've gone for a few

miles, there it was, a sign that says detour. Now, you followed the detour, of course. You say,

well, you know, what can be all that bad? I'll just go exactly what the word said. And having experienced

that in other countries, and most European countries, the word detour is very similar. So you figure

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