This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

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The secular bookstores are bulging with motivational books.

Books about winners and winning.

In most of these books, you find the psychology of winning, the psychology of winners,

what makes winners, how you can be a winner. Now, most of this talk

about winning, of course, has to do with reaching the height of your corporate letter, or reaching

the height of your profession, or making vast amounts of money. None of these, of course,

are bad or wrong in themselves, as long as they use

for the glory of God and helping others. However, the Bible gives us a portrait of a winner,

a different kind of winner, God's type of winner. He gives us that portrait in the life of Joseph.

I personally doubt whether Joseph would have made one of these motivational books.

I tell you why.

Probably because he was not aggressive enough.

Probably he was not forceful enough.

Because he was not a go-getter in the terms that we understand them today.

Perhaps he was not ambitious enough and did not see that he will follow his goals,

stepping on as many toes as he can, to achieve his goals and to fulfill his dreams,

probably because things happened to him, and he reacted to to them instead or didn't react to them

forcefully but as far as heaven was concerned Joseph was a winner God's type of a winner

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