The Prayer that God Answers, Part 2

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful second message of The Prayer That God Answers, Dr. Michael Youssef proclaims the Biblical Truth that only those who are in Christ can call God “Father.” The world claims a universal fatherhood of God, but Scripture reveals that God is uniquely Father to those adopted through the shed blood of Jesus Christ (Galatians 4:4–6). Drawing from the Lord’s Prayer, Dr. Youssef exposes the false assumptions many have about prayer and corrects cultural distortions of God’s character. With urgency and clarity, he shows that no repentance, no forgiveness, and no relationship with the Father is possible apart from Jesus. This message drives home the series’ central call: we must pray rightly—approaching God His way—for only then does true intimacy and answered prayer begin.

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0:00.0	With the only way to reach the Heavenly Father, listen, as Dr. Michael Yousuff begins today's leading the way.
0:09.0	Jesus and Jesus alone can get you adopted by the Father.
0:15.0	There is no other way under heaven, there's no other name under heaven by which men are given to call upon God. Only the name of Jesus.
0:22.6	Jesus and Jesus alone can make it possible for anyone who comes to him in repentance and faith
0:28.6	to be able to call his father our father.
0:32.6	What memories come to mind when you think about your dad?
0:36.6	Some may recall sweet happy times, but there are plenty of others. What memories come to mind when you think about your dad?
0:47.4	Some may recall sweet happy times, but there are plenty of others who may be overwhelmed with fear-filled anxiety, loaded with emotional memories.
0:53.5	Well, sometimes these same negative things come into play when you think about your heavenly father.
0:58.8	Today, on leading the way, Dr. Michael Youssef continues his series called The Prayer That God Answers. You'll hear how the story of the prodigal son reveals the heart
1:05.0	of the Heavenly Father. So let's listen as Dr. Yousaf begins.
1:11.6	One of the most basic elements of the Christian faith, which distinguishes it from all the other religions,
1:20.9	is that biblical concept that Jesus taught about the fatherhood of God.
1:26.6	There are a lot of people who go around and say, God is the father of everybody.
1:30.3	In the sense that he is the creator of everybody, he is the father of everybody.
1:34.3	But he is uniquely the father of all of those who are brothers and sisters of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:41.3	They alone can truly call him a father and know what that privilege is all about. It is not
1:47.8	just a word, Father in heaven, because to understand the fatherhood of God for the believers in the Lord
1:54.7	Jesus Christ, it will absolutely revolutionize your life. Now, the greatest challenge for understanding and comprehending the fatherhood of God,
2:06.8	and what it is like to call God Father, is the wrong image that so many of us have
2:13.5	because of our earthly fathers.
2:16.1	Those who have grown up with harsh, angry, hard earthly fathers
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