Hello, my friends, Michael Yousaf here, and I just wanted to thank you for connecting with leading the way.

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I want to start by sharing with you a testimony, personal testimony, and I pray to God that

you would not misunderstand it, but you will receive it for the glory of God and that your edification, your challenge.

It's a testimony. Like all of you, we have some milestones in our lives, some stones of remembrance that we place in order to remember

the faithfulness of God.

So when we go through a dark time, God will remind us, the Holy Spirit, says, remember.

Some of these are humongous.

Some of them are small, but we remember them all.

And it's what I call in the walk of faith as we walk in faith with Jesus. I call

those growth spurts, just like young people when they're growing. They go through growth spurts.

They're growing all the time, but then there's a time when they really grow. And that's what

happens in the walk of faith as well. And if you have never experienced one of these,

I pray to God that you start today. You will never be the same. This was back in 1978.

We have been living in the United States for about a year in California. I was doing my graduate studies there.

We had two small children at the time, and I had a part-time job that basically covered two-thirds of our needs.

The other third was met by savings and came out of sale of our furniture in Australia,

and my wife cashing her teacher

retirement fund. And so we were able to supplement our income. These resources, after a year,

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