Dr. Michael Youssef calls the Church to repent of secular thinking and return to wholehearted obedience to God’s inerrant Word. Teaching from Psalm 128, Dr. Youssef declares that God’s blessing on future generations is inseparable from the faithful walk of the present one. He confronts hypocrisy in the church, exposes self-centered Christianity, and warns that a gospel focused on this life alone will forfeit the next generation. True fear of the Lord is not terror, but reverent obedience rooted in gratitude for Christ’s saving work. As believers walk with God, intercede in prayer, and model Biblical Truth, God raises enduring “olive shoots”—generations shaped to stand firm for Christ until He returns.

In this urgent opening message of Embracing Your Mission for the Future, Dr. Michael Youssef issues a bold call to reclaim our God-ordained duty to raise the next generation in Biblical Truth. Drawing from Psalm 127, Dr. Youssef exposes the Marxist roots of today’s cultural deception and warns of the systematic targeting of family, faith, and identity. Children are not victims of culture—they are arrows meant to pierce darkness and advance the Kingdom of God. This episode calls parents, grandparents, and church leaders to train children not to conform to the world, but to stand as warriors of Truth—sharpened by Scripture, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and aimed by the hand of God. Now is the time to embrace your mission.

Dr. Michael Youssef teaches from the Gospel of John 17, encouraging us that no matter what the future brings, we have confidence because Jesus is interceding for us with God the Father.

He then shares three things about Jesus' intercession in John 17:

1. He intercedes for His own glorification

2. He intercedes for His disciples' sanctification

3. He intercedes for the unity of believers and the church.