Focusing on Our Heavenly City

MY Devotional: Daily Biblical Encouragement & Prayer from Leading The Way · Aug 27, 2026 · 2m

Abraham understood that God had a greater plan for his life, so he learned to shift his focus from the world he could see to the world that was still to come.

In today’s episode of the MY Devotional Podcast, Dr. Michael Youssef turns to Hebrews 11 and the faith of Abraham and the other Old Testament saints. They lived as foreigners and strangers on earth, trusting promises they could only see from a distance because they were “longing for a better country—a heavenly one.”

For believers in Jesus Christ, that same eternal perspective changes everything. Through salvation, we have been adopted…