How's Your Appetite | Jason Martin

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What is the difference between hunger and appetite? What's the

difference between hunger and appetite? Tough question, right, Kayla? All right,

that's quite a good analogy, so I would give you

all the definition. Actually, it's quite in line with that.

It's desire versus need. Appetite is what you desire. Need

is what your body needs. All right. So when you

have an ay, do you have an appetite for uh, broccoli?

You're like no, But if your body is hungry and

you've got nothing else to eat there, you'll probably eat

it because your body is that there is a need

for it. But do you have an appetite for it?

Not really, okay? And appetite is the desire for food,

while hunger is the body's need for food. So when

we are fasting, what are we doing? What are we doing?

We are sort of putting aside food. I mean, one

of the most basic ways of fasting is abstaining from food,

right of course, right now, there's a lot more variations.

Some abstain from social media, some abstain from various other things.

But again, when for the context of today's sharing, I'm

talking about food. Okay, So when we are fasting, we

say that, Hey, when I'm fasting, I'm very hungry. Okay,

so I'm depriving my body of food, all right. But

and you know, when you're fasting, right, your desire gets higher, Right,

your desire gets higher. Suddenly all the food is very nice.

Suddenly everything's delicious, you know, Like, but when you're full,

nothing is appetizing. You could have the best food in

front of you and it would not be ampetizing. Okay,

So how does that tie in to our fasting because

it is fasting purely hunger or is it about our appetite?

Because hunger is not just about depriving. This is again,

this was me trying to make sense of why is

it difficult for me to fast? Okay? So I'm asking

y'all to just follow me on my journey in terms

of how I made sense of it. Okay. So I

was like, why is it so difficult for me to fast?

Is it because I have to abstain something? Then only

I realized that, hey, it's not only about depriving myself,

but what's my appetite? Do I have an appetite for

food or do I have an appetite for the things

of God? So fast thing could just mean that your

appetite for the things of God is higher than your

appetite for food. It is not that you have no

appetiti No, you are shifting the focus of your appetite

from food to God. And this is one way that

I can sort of summarize what fasting is. Next, fasting

is feasting on the Word. Well, fasting from the world.

That is what fasting is. That is what fasting is.

It is about feasting on the Word and fasting from

the world. If you take away the first part, what

is it? If you take out feasting from the Word,

what does it become? If you take out feasting on

the word, what does it become? It becomes diret loard.

You know, if you take away just if instead of

just abstaining from food and you do not feast yourself

on the Word of God, what it is no difference

than just going on a diet. But in fact, we

are changing our appetite from what the world, what our

body requires, to filling it with what God wants us

to be filled with. Right, so that we did this

in mind, and I was like, oh, okay, so fasting

is not about just me being hungry and skipping a meal.

I need to feast on the word of God. Okay.

So knowing that again y'all that are fasting, right, I

wanted to ask y'all the next question next fast things

finish line. So we are fasting twenty one days, right,

So at the end of twenty one days, what do

you hope to accomplish? What do you hope to accomplish?

Because right in everything that we do, there has to

be a why. We may be just doing it because

a the whole church is doing it corporately possible, Okay,

so that would be a why. But for me, I

was thinking that why is fasting difficult for me? Because

I didn't have a strong why. Why am I doing it?

And what do I hope to accomplish at the end

of fasting? Because if I am the same person at

the end of the twenty one days, then I just

abstained from food but nothing else changed. And then when

that happens, it's very easy to give up fasting none

because there is no goal at the end of the

twenty one days. For some of us, of course, the

goal will be you listed down your prayer items, and

the goal is that God will come true for you

for your prayer items, and God will that God is

a good God, and in his timing he will give

you your breakthrough. But that is God's part. But what

is our part? What is our part after the twenty

one days? What do we need to do or what

do we need to accomplish after the twenty one days? Okay,

So all these questions were playing in my head. I

just put it down in slides and unjumble them in

my mind and put it here. So I went back

to scripture and went back to the Bible and said, okay,

since it's discipleship, I have to learn from Jesus, live

like Jesus, and teach about Jesus. What did Jesus say

about fasting and how did he live while fasting? Right?

So let's turn to scripture Matthew chapter four. So this

is when Jesus fasted. Okay. The context of the story

is Jesus, who is the son of God who came

down to earth. He also fasted. Okay, so he says here,

then Jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness

to be tempted there by the devil. For forty days

and forty nights, he fasted and became very hungry. During

that time, the devil came and said to him, if

you are the son of God, tell these stones to

become loaves of bread. But Jesus told him no, that

scripture says people do not live by bread alone, but

by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Okay,

so this is the first one. Next light, then the

devil took him to the Holy City Jerusalem, to the

highest point of the temple, and said, if you are

the son of God, jump off, for the scriptures say

he will order his angels to protect you, and they

will hold you up with their hands, so you won't

even hurt your foot on a stone. Jesus responded, the

scriptures also say you must not test the Lord your God.

And the final one. Next, the devil took him to

the peak of a very high mountain and showed him

all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. I

will give it all to you, he said, if you

kneel down and worship me, get out of here, satan.

Jesus told him, for the scriptures say you must worship

the Lord your God, and serve only him. Then the

devil went away and the angels came and took care

of Jesus. Okay, So if you have been in church

long enough, you would have probably heard this story. Jesus

his fasting was supernatural. It's forty days in the wilderness. Okay,

that is crazy. And how you know that Jesus was

man because it stays here that he became very hungry, right,

so he was both God and man. He also experienced

what man experienced. And then we know that after that time,

the devil came to tempt him. Okay, So as I

was reading this, I saw that Jesus was so fasted,

and he was tempted most of the times previously. What

I would do is I would focus that, oh, Jesus

must have been very very weak. Right after you fasted

for forty days physically, you must be really weak, you

ask me, at your lowest point, and that is when

the devil comes and tempts you and attacks you and

stuff like that. But I think the Holy Spirit gave

me a revelation that, Hey, who said Jesus was weak?

Because it's just said here that Jesus was hungry. Okay,

Jesus was hungry, and probably physically he was weak, but

did you know that spiritually he was strong. He was

much stronger spiritually forty days after fasting than he was before.

And that was a revelation to me. I was like, Wow,

after fasting, instead of becoming weaker, Jesus became stronger. And

when he became stronger, whatever the enemy true at him,

it had no power. It had no power at all.

And I said, wow, that is the kind of fasting

I want. I want to fast. I might be hungry,

but spiritually I want to be able to be so

strong that no weapon formed against me will prosper. Right,

So there are three points today that I wanted to

share in terms of what is probably the finish line

that we can aspire to while fasting. So if you

have if you're fasting, great, If you're not fasting, you

can probably consider fasting as well. Because again, while I

was doing this, then I realized, why does fasting only

have to be once a year? Fasting can be any time.

The only reason why we're doing it once a year.

It is like a it's a drill. It's a drill

where we use it together do it together as the

whole church, you know, so that we can it's easier.

But you can do fasting on your own as well. Okay.

And there's three h points that I want to bring across. Okay.

So the first one is spiritual supply. It all starts

with s. Okay, first one is spiritual supply. When we

are hungry, what is speaking to us? It is our flesh, right,

it is our flesh, you know, our flesh is saying that, hey,

I'm hungry, you know, just to to sort of preach

to myself, right, I want. I told myself, I'm gonna

I'm going to preach this fastest. I'm like, I need to.

I need That's what I'm telling you. This is my

journey that I'm going to I'm going to preach this fastest.

I want to show that, Hey, God, I want to

experience what your word says that I do not need

physical food to do what you have called me to do.

If I depend on you spiritually, then I can do

what you need me to do. Right. So the first

one is overcoming the temptation of the flesh. So just now,

I told you all right, when we went to Beacon Resort,

we're considering, Hey, holiday, you need to fast, not you know,

actually you do need faster. You know, we're trying to rationalize,

you know, us rationalize, rationalizing lies. That's what rationalize is

you're making lies and you're making it make you know who,

we are selling the lies to yourself. You're the best

salesperson and you will buy your own good one. That's

what rationalizing is. You know what is right, but you

rationalize and you you say that, hey, actually it's okay one,

you know, it's it's fine. When God will understand, you know,

all these kind of thoughts go into your mind. But

what is happening is your flesh is winning. Your flesh

is winning, and that's what God. I mean. I was

caught in that scenario as well, you know, like, hey,

how come, uh, I'm rationalizing, you know. And we are

sometimes very afraid of discomfort. You know that it is

okay to feel this comfort. When we are hungry, first

instinct is we look for food. You know, there's this theory,

it's called this the Pavlovian Ah, what the where is

this thing? Yeah? Yeah, I forgot the actual work, but

is there's this scientist he did a study on the

Pavlovian effect. So what happens, right, you know, he noticed

that dogs, ah, whenever they see food, they start celebrating,

you know. So what he did is like, hey, so

is the dog celebrating because of the food or because

of something else, or because he saw the person that

is bringing the food or whatever it is. So what

he decided to do is he decided to test anytime

the food was brought they rang a bell. They rang

a bell. So after a while, what he did is

he rang the bell without bringing the food. So the dogs,

they soon caught on the habit that anytime there is food,

there will be the sound of the bell. And when

there's the sound of the bell, they will start cealibrating.

Then what the scientists did is he stopped bringing food,

but he just ring the bell. What do you think happened?

The dogs started salivating as well, because it is the flash.

You know, it has preconditioned your mind that anytime there

is a bell, food is coming. And that's why I

have to salivate. And sometimes we have conditioned ourselves. Anytime

we are hungry, we need to feed ourselves. I cannot

be hungry on I cannot be hungry, you know, and

like like sometimes like my kids, if they watch TV,

then suddenly it must have something to munch. You know,

you go to movie, I must have pop corner must

it's you don't need it, but it's an appetite that

is pre conditioned. It's pre conditioned there and sometimes right

we are being preconditioned by the world. Like everything that

our emotions tell us, we need to fulfill it immediately.

If it's too hot, I need to find a place

that is cooler. If I'm uncomfortable, I have to find

a place that is more comfortable. If it's too loud,

I need to place find a place that is softer.

Instead of adapting and growing, we are fleeing. And because

of that we cannot grow, you know. But spiritually God

wants us to grow. So one of the ways fast

thing is when you feel hungry, it's okay, how many

of y'all know you first, one meal won't die one

We all know that. I think all of us look

very healthy, you know, very healthy. You won't die. But

just saying that a I will not say yes to

my flesh, but I will commit it to God, you know.

So let me go to some scripture next. So this

was the scripture. During that time, the devil came to

and said to him, if you are the son of God,

tell these stones to become loaves of bread. But Jesus

told him no. The scripture says people do not live

by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

the mouth of God. So previously, when I was reading this,

I'm like, what's the big deal. You have the power,

you are hungry, makes sense, right, just change the stone

to Brailah. But then what I realized is what God

revealed me is sometimes just because we have the power

to do something, it doesn't mean that it is in

line with God's will. You know, Jesus was not there

to fill his tummy. He was there to do the

will of the Father. And most of the times we

shot cut what God wants to do with us by

taking things into our hands and feeding ourselves. So an

example was Abraham. God promised Abraham that he will have

a son ninety nine years already, No son, How would

you pending on it? If you're Abraham, you'll be like God.

The whole generation depends on I mean ninety nine, I

mean ninety nine years old. The whole sand I mean,

my generation would be like my descendants will be as

many as the sand on the sea and the stars

in the sky. But ninety nine are still dry. How

I think God forgot or maybe he's busy. And what

did the fleshly desire? You take the shortcut? You take

the short cut. God does not forget God's promises. A

yes and amen. And when we are able to summit

ourselves to him and say that God, I do not

know how you're going to come true for me. I

don't see the money. I don't see Hey, do I

have to go and take a loan from the loan shot?

All these are real questions, and I have to pay

the bills. My kids are hungry. I have so much

of needs. But when you seek God, what does he

tell you to do? Because he says here right, people

do not live by bread alone, but by every word

that comes from the mouth of God. Do you know

that the words that come from the mouth of God

are more powerful than bread? Because there are so many

promises in the world of God, And all we have

to do is to silence our flesh and listen, God,

what are you telling me? Okay? Next verse, Therefore, dear

brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what

your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you

live by what it detates, you will die. But if

true the power of the spirit, you put to death

the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. Okay.

So you see here I give into the flesh, we

will give into sinful nature. I think, for example, right,

like fasting, right, I was thinking, why is it so

difficult for me to fast? But and also like, for example,

going to work, say going to work every day? Okay,

if you go to work every day, you may or

may not like your job, but you turn up every day.

It's a discipline, you know, because it is what I mean.

You're being paid for it, of course. But if you

have that commitment and you do what it takes, you

die to yourself. How many of y'all loved your Monday

morning alarm clocks? You don't write, but you die to self.

If you can die to self for your boss, why

not to God? You know? So when we die yourself

and say, hey, we don't give into our sinful nature,

because this is what God wants me to do, and

I will do what is pleasing to him. Next verse,

when you follow the desires of your sinful nature. The

results are very clear. Sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy,

outburst of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties,

and other sins like this. Let me tell you again

as I have before, that anyone living that sort of

life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. But the

Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,

and self control. There is no law against these things.

Can you see the first part right that is highlighted

up there, the sexual immorality, impurity, laschical pleasures. You know

what is the flesh hungering? For they are desired. The

flesh is desiring for pleasure. And can you see that

the world is giving more, giving in more and more

to the pleasures of the that the flesh desires. And

when you give into the pleasures of the flesh, right,

it is like a monster, and it will one more

and more and more. What satisfied you before will not

satisfy you later. You will need more and more. So

that's why the war world is becoming more and more

immoral because we are feeding our fleshly desires. So you

know the story of the the two Wolves. I'm not

sure that. So there's this guy. He was talking to

his grandson and then the grandfather is telling your grandson, Uh,

do you know in every person there are two wolves.

One wolf is a good wolf and one The good

wolf will help you and achieve everything that you need

to do, and the bad wolf will destroy you. So

the boy asked the grandfather, how wish wolf wins? Which

wolf wins? You know what? The grandfather said, the wolf

that you feed. So which wolf are you feeding? Are

you feeding the desires of your flesh or are you

feeding the desires of the spirit what God desires? And

that's why the first point was that we wanted spiritual supply.

Fasting will help us replenish our spiritual supply. If we

are not replenishing our spiritual supply, we are filling it

with fleshly supply, and fleshly supply will lead to all

of this, Okay, all right, And so that's the first

point spiritual supply. Second point secular severance or very big words.

I was like thinking, how to make this easier. But

I thought, okay, big words or make it sound most

but it is true secular severance, so overcoming temptation of pride?

What does this mean? Let me take us to the

scripture next. Then the devil took him to the Holy

City Jerusalem, to the highest point of the temple and said,

if you are the son of God, jump off, for

the scriptures say he will order his angels to protect you,

and they will hold you up with your hands so

you won't even hurt your foot on your on a stone.

Jesus responded, The scriptures also say you must not test

the Lord your God. Okay, so again, when you read this,

you'll be like, okay, what you have the power to do?

So you know, yeah, Jesus has the power to do so,

but he chose not to. Why do you think he

chose not to do so. If you have the power

to command angels at your will and to save you

or to do whatever you want, what would you do

if you have the power to you have the like,

for example, right, Jesus, if he did this, do you

think he will get famous? Right? You'll like show the

whole world. Wow, I can beckon angels at anything. You know,

I'm suddenly superman, or you can jump off, you can

have angels, you know, I'm immortal. I would die, you know,

But what does that have? What happens then? I think

Jesus realized, Oh, Jesus is trying to teach us that

it's not about us getting fame. Jesus didn't need to

be famous. Jesus didn't need to prove himself to anybody else.

Jesus didn't need to say that, hey, I'm the son

of God and that's why I can do this. So

all of y'all, you know, look at me. I'm great.

He did not need to do so. And the devil

will tempt us with pride because all of us want validation, right,

how many ons validation? Everyone's wants validation? Right. Everyone wants

to say, wow, you are amazing, you did a good job,

you're awesome, and stuff like that. But at what cost

would you pay for validation? You know us reading the

article right on article article, it's on Facebook. So recently

you know the Putra Heights explosion, right, So I remember

Danzel and me were like running back on Tuesday morning.

They were looking to the left. You're like seeing fireballs

in the sky. Like from Quota Kommuning. We can see

it was like huge, huge fireballs in the sky, you know,

and all of us know what happened that so many

people lost their homes. Thank god nobody died. But there

are still a number of people in the hospital right

They are injured, they have been burned, severe burns and

a lot of damages. But then what I read on

Facebook is right now influences are trying to go and

see all these victims to create content. They are going

there for the sake of getting publicity for themselves. They're

going there just to get more likes. They're going there

to prove to the world that hey, look at me,

I am kind, look at me, I care look at me.

And right now we are living in that kind of

world where if you look at it right again, there

are people who are genuine, you know. I see, like

suddenly so many car companies are loaning cars. I'm like,

how many cars can these people drive? You know, like

three or four car companies have loan cars and stuff

like that. Insurance companies also have waived different clauses and

stuff like that. Again, these are good things, but again,

what is the intention if it is done from the

intention to help people, then great, But if it's from

the intention to like, like I see some people are

donating money and all stuff like that. Right, it's good stuff,

But a lot of it is for publicity because you

need the camera man there, You need the cameraman that

you need publicity. It needs to come out here, it

needs to come out there. And then to say that, hey,

how good, what a good job I'm doing what I'm

trying to help, you know, and tying it back to this, right,

Jesus didn't have to prove a point. He didn't have

to prove a point and say that, hey I can

command angels, Hey I got the power to do so,

I can jump of the building. He did not. That's

why he said, you must not test the Lord, your God.

You must not. So what does that mean. It's just

do what God has called you to do. Don't do

it for the likes, don't do it for the publicity,

because when you do it, that's all the kudos you

will get. Now, if you get your kudos here on earth,

you may not get your kudos well done, my good

and faithful servant when you reach heaven. You know, because

the main thing is doing what God wants us to do. Okay,

next slide, do not love this world, not the things

it offers you. For when you love the world, you

do not have the love of the Father in you.

For the world offers only a crave for physical pleasure,

a craving for everything we see, and a pride in

our achievement and possessions. These are not from the Father,

but from this world. So when I am fasting, or

when all of us are fasting, we should be like

saying that God, less of me, more of you. We

should have less self pride and say that God, what

is it you want me to do? Even though it's

behind the scenes, even though there is no applause, Well,

I still do it. And that's what we are called

to do. Right next James faur and he gives grace generously,

as the scriptures say, God opposes the proud, but gives

grace to the humble. So humble yourselves before God. Resist

the devil and he will flee from you. Humble yourselves

before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.

Fasting is about humbling ourselves before God. When I realize

that is that Wow? When I fast it's about feeling

my spell selves spiritually. When I'm fast, it's about humbling

myself before God and separating, severing myself from the secular.

Severing myself from a secular means whatever is important to

the world in terms of fame and fortune or whatever

it is, if it's not aligned to what God has

for me, I want to cut it away. Okay. And

the last point is this stead fast spirit, steap fast spirit.

So it's a picture of an anchor, you know, right,

a ship and an anchor. I was starting to find

a picture of an anchor underwater with the ship. Now

I'm like, I don't think I can find the love

because it'll be super deep and be a very weird picture.

But anyway, you get the point. And anchor. When a

ship is anchored, right, the anchor goes down and it

locks into the ground. A ship that is not anchored

the moment the waves or the wind or whatever storm

hits it will be blown off cost And that is

what fasting is to us. Fast thing will help us

anchor ours spirit and no matter what comes away God,

we know that our spirit is strong, so it is

overcoming the temptation of power. Let me see the verse.

So the next the devil took him to the peak

of a very high mountain showed him all the kingdoms

of the world and their glory. I will give it

all to you if you will kneel down and worship

Mee down, get out of here, Satan, Jesus told him,

for the scriptures say you must worship the Lord your

God and serve only him. Then the devil went away,

and the angels came and took care of Jesus. Okay,

what I wanted us to focus on is verse nine.

I will give it all to you if you kneel

down and worship me. What is the price of your faith?

Is it a million bucks? Is it five million? Is

it ten million? Is it one hundred million? If you

can put a price on your faith, then it is

not anchored in Jesus, because what the devil just needs

to know is to know what's your price. Once he

knows your price, he will keep on a giving it

to you. He gives challenges you. And that's why that's

how bribes happen. Bribes is people knowing what's the value

of your integrity? How much is your integrity worth? If

I know the value, I pay you. That's it your mind.

Once you take a bride, right, you are hooked already

in terms of that you can't. You are scared that

the person can rat you out. You know that, and

then you are forever hooked. And that's what the devil

will do that because right he will tell us, okay,

what's your price? He will throw at us everything that

the world has to offer. It can be fame, it

can be fortune, it is power, anything. And if we

are not careful, if our spirit is not anchored, then

we will sway. So let's see some verses. No one

can serve two masters, for you will hate one and

love the other. You will be devoted to one and

despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved

to money. What is money? Money is power? Money is power.

You know why say here? You cannot serve go both

God and money. That is why I tell you not

to worry about every day whether you have enough food

to drink or enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more

than food and your body more than clothing? Okay, next life?

Yet true godliness, with contentment itself is great wealth. When

we have a price, we will never be contented. If

we are chasing after power and wealth. Remember I share

this before, right. They asked Rockefeller how much Rockefeller is

one of the richest guys in America. How much money?

How much more money do you need so that you're satisfied?

And his answer was just a little bit more. You

will never be satisfied if you are chasing for the power, wealth,

whatever the world has to offer. But through Godliness, with

contentment itself is great. Well, can you imagine what is contentment?

You'll be like, Wow, I'm out of the rad race.

I'm content because God will supply all my needs according

to his richest in glory. But you see here, but

people who long to be rich fall into temptation and

are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge

themselves into ruin and destruction. How many scams are there

out there? You know why scams work? It works because

of worse Nine, If the moment we put we live

a life of contentment, all your scam factories to top early.

But you see, for the love of money is the

root of all kinds of evil. And some people craving

money have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves

with many sorrows. So if riches is the way to happiness,

then why are so many rich? Why are in the

why are the divorce rates in Hollywood or in America

supposed to be the richest country. Why is there so

much of sorrow? Because we are chasing after things that

are not of God and that will run us to

the ground. Right, So, even as I draw towards the close,

I just wanted to recap the three points. Right, So

when we fast, our finish line should be that we

are spiritually supplied. You know, God will fill us up.

We will separate ourselves from the secular, severe ourself from

the secular. And the third part is that we will

be stepfast. The second one is secular severance. Yes, separate

ourselves from the world. So again, when we probably if

I get Anthony to help you. Yeah, the slight eighth

is the first point spiritual supply. So when we are

being filled by the spirit, we are overcoming the temptation

of the flesh. That's the first point. Second point is

in Slight twelve, overcoming the temptation of pride. It is

not about us and what we can do, but it's

about God. And what he wants us to do. It's

not about our fame, but making the love of Jesus famous.

And the third point again was being steadfast. Our spirit

needs to be steadfast and anchored in Jesus. So at

the end of twenty one days, I want this is

my goal, that I will be stepfast that no weapon

formed against me will prosper, just as Jesus was able

to stare the devil in the eye and refute all

his temptations according to the Word of God. That's the

kind of faith I want. And the last slide is

this so use how should I put it? Yes? So fast? Thing? Right?

I liken it to a boxer, Okay, A boxer will

never train in the fight ring during a fight. A

boxer will never train during the fight. When there's a

boxer trained before for the fight. The box like imagine

right if you have Mohammad Ali or Evander Hollyfield or

Mike Tyson, all of them they train for their fight before.

When India, when they are in the ring, right, you

know what they do, they just execute. They execute their

training and their training includes physical training, It includes their diet,

It includes their recovery, It includes being coached. It includes

sparring with someone else, and when they are ready, they

enter into the ring and they execute everything that they

have been trained. Fast thing is our training. If we

don't train ourselves spiritually, when we get into the ring,

he'll be k oh, knockout. Then you'll be like I thought, God,

your promises are this, but you never tested them, You

never trained. You never know what it takes. You know

that Jesus after forty days, that is when he launched

his ministry. After he finished forty days of fasting, then

he was ready to like do his three years of

ministry which changed the world. The Israelites. After forty years

in the wilderness, they were ready to take on Canaan

land for us. After fasting, I want to take on

new ground. I want to go forward. I want to

be spiritually supplied. I want to separate myself from the secular.

I want to have a stepfast spirit so that when

the enemy attacks, I am able to give a knockout.

And that is fasting. Fast. Thing is why it was

difficult for me is because I thought of it as

a legalistic thing to do. It's just something that oh,

the whole chest is doing. So we just do it,

you know, And I'm being very honest. But right now,

when I see that, Wow, this is the why of fasting,

I feel again fast even more. Suddenly it is no

longer hey, my stomach is hungrier. Suddenly it's like, oh,

it's hungry for a reason. And I know the reason,

and I know what I plan God will accomplish in

me at the end of the twenty one days. Man, right, So,

even as I get extreme up the last line, at

the end of twenty I want to come to a

place where I seek the Kingdom of God above all

else and live righteously. I do not want to take

shortcuts to supply my own needs. I don't want to

pull strings to supply my own needs to climb my

own corporate leather. But at the end of twenty one days,

the main thing I want to do is to seek

the Kingdom of God and to live righteously, and He

will supply all my needs according to His riches in God.

So again, when we are fasting, let's feast on the Word,

fill ourselves with the Word, and lets fast from the world.

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