How Do We Fast Forward | Jason Martin

You're listening to a message to go from ax Church. We hope this message

will light up your team. We have just started this season of Uton,

correct, all right? So Uton is fast and prayer season that we do

in ex Church. We've been doing it for the past I think about twenty

two years, twenty three years x chests about twenty three years, and we've

been doing it every year. So we fast for twenty one days, okay.

And how many of y'all were at homes for the past week okay some

of you all, and we were talking about fasting, right, So y'all

should be experts about it. Are y'all experts about fasting right now? Yes?

No? Okay, but yess what today I'll be talking about fasting as

well. So it's probably a supplement to what we have learned at homes and

let's take it from there. So it's actually an interesting time, right,

Fasting is it's an interesting word. It has suddenly become very popular in recent

times due to different reasons. One of it is intermittent fasting. How many

of you all have done intermittent fasting? Right? Intermittent fasting. There's so

many different kind of fasting that we do to sort of look better, feel

better, get better. When you go for a medical check up, before

you take a blood test, you need to do also fast. Correct.

And actually this Thursday, our whole nation, about sixty percent of our nation

will be going into a time of fasting as well. Right, it's a

passa month. Yes, it's fast a month this Thursday. Right and uh.

And in Malaysia we are Fasting is not a foreign subject to us.

Do you remember when you were in school, um, and you had other

classmates, probably Muslim classmates. I remember some of them, I think Standard

one, Standard two, Standard three, they were already doing the full fast

and not drinking any water. I was like, wow, it's incredible,

you know. And then they were doing it from from a young age of

yeah, eight nine and um, and sad to say, up till now,

I have not even attempted one day of that kind of fast yet,

you know. But these people they have been doing it for so they've been

doing it so vigorously, they're doing it so religiously, and they really take

it seriously. Right, and we know that for us as Christians, why

is fasting important? Right? We have learned in homes that fasting is a

discipline. It is not a feeling, so same thing as a discipline.

Right, working out is a discipline. Eating healthy is a discipline. Studying

is a discipline. And discipline right most of the time is not very comfortable.

Right, But there is a reason why discipline is important. So what

are the reasons why discipline is important? It takes us from point A to

point B, which is from a place where we are currently to a place

where we want to be. Right, for example, working out, When

you want to discipline yourself, you want to workout, you want you're probably

not happy with your current state of fitness. You want to go to the

next stage, so you discipline yourself. For how many of y'all have you

remember your final year assignment or you do your TCS or whatever. How many

year all enjoyed that time? No? Right, because but you had to

discipline yourself. I have to finish this. I need to go to the

next level. So how is fasting than a discipline? What is the next

level of fasting? If point A is now point as yesterday, Actually yesterday

was day one, But it's not too late. You can always fast any

times. Anytime you start is the right time, right, just too fast.

So if current day is day one, where do we aspire to be

at the end of twenty one days? What do you? Okay, So

there's a quote here there are people who fast and get nothing from their fast

except hunger. That's a very powerful quote, right, And this quote,

I think there are years which I have done uton which this was what happened

to me. There are people who fast and get nothing from their fast except

hunger. And in terms of that, that's just diet. You know,

sometimes you don't even diet low because after you hunger, right, then you

go and feast and then you end up putting out more weight. You know.

I was talking to some of my colleagues, are some of my Malay

colleagues, right, So they want to encourage their kids too fast. So

they want to encourage the kids the faster. They sort of incentivize the kids.

So what they do is the kid who loses the most weight, guess

the biggest I'm powerful, rya, I mean, okay, but it works.

It's sort of to build a habit build a culture, right in terms

of I thought it's quite a unique way of getting kids involved. Yeah,

So today's message, right is actually on the basis of we are at point

A and at the end of twenty one days, where do we plan to

be after our fasting? What do we need to achieve, what needs to

change, and how will our relationship with God improve? Okay, so the

fasting is actually very important. And before I even with the title, right,

there's the first light I put up. It is from Matthew six So

for the previous few sermons that I shared, right, it is about prayer,

if you recall, so, prayer is one of the cornerstones of our

Christian foundation. And Matthew six right lays down a few cornerstones of our Christian

foundation. The first one verse two, so when you give to the needy,

do not announce it with trumpets. Giving is one of the key cornerstones

of our Christian foundation. Second one, when you pray, do not be

the hypocrites. Do not be like hypocrites. And prayer is another cornerstone,

which is why I went into the whole sermon series about prayer and you fast.

Forward to verse sixteen. When you fast, do not look somber as

hypocrites do. The Jesus did say if you fast, he said, when

you give, when you pray, when you fast, All these are required.

All these are required. So you can see it's not a feeling.

It's not if I want to do it, but if you call yourself a

follower of Christ. This is what we need to do, and we need

to do it right. There is a wrong way of doing it, and

the wrong way of doing it is very clear here. You do it like

the hypocrites. That means you do it for the form, but not for

the function. You do it so that other people will be impressed rather than

your life's being changed. Right, So this is fasting. So the title

of today's sermon right is how do we fast forward? We need to fast

forward after our fast, we need to go forward in our walk we got

although our fast and prayer is called you turn, But why do we?

I say you turn right because we were going in the wrong direction. So

we need to you turn and fast forward in the right direction. Yeah,

so we need to really that is the key thing. Right when we fast

again, the worst the worst I mean the like I said the quote earlier,

right, you get nothing from it from fast except hunger. That is

a wasted twenty one days. That is a waste twenty one days. But

when we want to fast. Make sure we fast forward and forward, meaning

we are walking towards where God wants us to go to. All right,

so how do we fast forward? Okay? I made it simple. Four

points. First point, it's all in the acronym of fast. First one

is focus. So we just now we sang the word. We sang the

word, we sang the song. My focus is Jesus. It's the alpha

and omega. Right, when we fast, who are we focusing on?

Because if we are just focusing on the form, then we are saying that,

hey, everyone here is fasting. Like for example, everyone here is

fasting. I need to fast. Then the focus is what are people thinking

about me? If I don't fast? But when you fast, you have

to ensure that your focus is Jesus. So whether people know you fast or

not, it doesn't matter. The important thing is God knows your fasting,

and God knows that you're focusing on him. Right. So one of the

examples right, next line, So this is from the book of Ezra.

So a bit of contacts. Right, Ezra came after Daniel, right,

and Daniel you know that they were taken to baby Lawn. They were made

slaves, and Ezra was after Daniel's time where all the Jews were going back

to Israel, all right, And to go back to Israel, right,

they had to make a nine hundred mile track. That is a very very

long journey. No, nine hundred miles. There's no joke walking Okay.

There were no cars. There were I don't know. If you have camels,

there'll be a lot of camels, right, And but to do this

it was it was a very dangerous journey. So Ezra, this is where

Ezra says, Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava,

that we might humble ourselves before God. Okay, So when he proclaimed the

fast, he said, humble, humble ourselves before God. When you humble

yourself before God, you are focusing on God to seek him from the right,

to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and

all our possessions. For I was ashamed to request of the King and escort

of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because

we had spoken to the King saying, the hand of our God is upon

all those for good who seek him, but his power and his wrath against

all those who forsake him. So we fasted and entreated our God for this,

and he answered our prayer. So, Ezra, he's the prophet.

He needed to lead, he was the man of God. He needed to

lead the Jews back to their country nine hundred mile track, and it was

a dangerous journey. But you see right. He also was very concerned.

He did not want to ask the king for help because he said, hey,

my God can do everything. He will protect us. You know,

he says, the hand of our God is upon us, all is upon

all those for good who seek him, but his power and his wrath against

all who forsake him. So and verse twenty two he says, for I

was ashamed to request of the king and escort of soldiers. So you have

a mission at hand. Who do you ask for help? Who do you

ask for help? If you say that Jesus or God is your protector and

your provider, and you ask the world for help, what does that look

like? Because your actions speak louder than words. Words are just words.

But Ezra took his words and made it to action by saying that I will

fast and I will focus on God, and God will give me the answer.

How I don't know. I do not want to depend on human strength,

but I want to depend on God. So that's focus. Right.

So when we start fasting, right, we it's for us again uturn,

uturn is we have to focus on God. You know, in this day

and age, there are so what's the opposite of focus? Distractions? There

are so many distractions, so many distractions from a handphone to the news,

to the weather, to roadblocks just now, there's so many distractions, you

know, to the politics. Uh, there's even distractions within the church.

What more external? And when we are distracted, right, what does that

say about our dependence on God? Because no matter what comes my way,

I will depend on God. I will focus on God. And that's what

uton is supposed to do. So when we fast, we need to focus

and say, God, you are the center. Do you know that?

Can you accidentally focus? Cannot right accidentally focus? Maybe you go bowling?

You go bowling, right, you you if you haven't bowled for a long

time, and the first time you go bowling, you can get straight one,

you know, because you're actually aiming wrong, but accidentally God, then

after that you get a few rounds, right. I don't know how it

happens to me if after a few rounds. I'm like, I think I

got the hang of it. I'm going to aim properly now. Then all

tuet, no more strike anymore? You know? So focus right? Well,

I'm trying to say is focus requires effort. Focus requires effort, and

it is not accidental. It is intentional. So when we fast, it

has to be intentional that our focus is Jesus. Okay, if I move

to the next slide. So collosions three was one to two. If then

you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ

is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above,

not on things on this earth. So focus our eyes on the things

above. You know, you think about it this way. If your kids

are having issues at school, don't worry. I'm all right, yeah,

so the kids have all right? No, So for example, right,

yeah, the kids are having issues at school. Like for example, if

Jeroman Jude come back and tell me that they got issues at school, all

right, do you think it will be effective for them to find a solution

from their friends or to come back and tell the parents and get the parents

to provide a solution or an alternative or a new perspective. When we are

facing troubles of this world. Why do we look for solutions of this world?

We are in but not off this world. So we need God to

give us the wisdom. And only God can only give us the wisdom if

we focus on him right now, I think a few sermons I mentioned this

already. Everyone is looking to chat Gypt as the answer right now. It

is ticking over everything you know, But is that the answer? What is

chat Gypt? It is human wisdom. It's not even human wisdom, it's

artificial intelligence made by human wisdom. But who made humans? Why do you

want artificial intelligence when you have the King of kings and the Lord of lords?

You know. So let's not be overly dependent. Let's be very cautious

to reduce our dependency on God and increase our dependency on men because we know

that men will fail. Right, So let's again focus next line, Ah,

this is yes, okay, yep, this is the one. So

one way of focusing on God right is by meditating on God's word. So

I won't go through all the verses, but these are just some of it.

Okay, Like when you focus and meditate on God's word, your prayers

become more effective. So John fifteen, verse seven. He says, if

you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish,

and you'll be given to you. Your prayers become if active. Second

one is you will hear God's voice I Psalms one on nine, verse ninety

nine, I have more insight than all my teachers. For I meditate on

your statutes. I have more insight than all my teachers. Next one,

it strengthens our faith. Faith comes true hearing the word of God. And

that's how it strengthens our faith. It brings us joy and delight. So

Psalms one nine, fourteen and sixteen says, yeah, I meditate on your

precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrease. I will not

neglect your word. So how many of y'all need delight and joy in your

life? You know this is a scarce commodity. Now, joy in this

world is a scarce commodity. Everyone is looking for peace and joy and last

but not least right, succeed in life. How many of you all want

to succeed in life? Joshua one it do not let this book of the

law depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night, so that

you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be

prosperous and successful. So when our focus is on God, right that the

list is endless. This is just some of them, and it starts all

this during this time of fasting. When we focus on God, this is

some of the benefits because we are aligning ourselves to God. Okay, So

that is f okay. If I go to the next line, A anticipate,

So what are you fasting for? What are you fasting for? Have

you come up with specific ask from God? Because like just now when Laura

mentioned, right, if you have a testimony from Uton, share it at

a link, how will you know you will get the testimony if you didn't

ask. So when you focus and then you anticipate, you anticipate means you

are you're you are very clear on what you want and you're waiting for God

to move or you're waiting for God to move you and to change you.

So A is anticipate. So some of the things that we anticipate, right,

is we pray for direction, Right, we pray for open doors,

we pray for break true, we pray for discern monment and wisdom, We

pray for providence, we pray for healing. All these are very specific and

the most specific you are when God comes true. You know that it only

can be God. Again. If you do not like, you cannot accidentally

focus. You also do not want to like you accidentally get a testimony.

You know, I mean, God is a good God. He will still

provide. He will give us even more than what we could ask or imagine.

But don't you want to ask knowing that God is a good God?

Why do you just want to just leave it as blank and say, Oh,

if God is good, then he will give me what I need.

Luck, what is it that you need? And if you ask according to

His will, he will give it to you. So when you focus,

you know his will, and then when you ask you anticipate. You know

that God will give it to you. So what are you anticipating for At

the end of these twenty one days? Are your prayer requests clear? If

it's not clear, try and get it clear. Make it as specific,

measurable, attainable, realistic and timely as possible. Right because it's very clear,

you know, and then God, you can see God move. So

if I go to the next light. So this is an example in Second

Chronicles twenty right. So it was when King Josephet and the Israelites they were

under siege, right, they were at war, and it says, yeah,

it happened after this that the people of Moham, with the people of

Ammon and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Josaphat.

Then some came and told you, as the fat saying, a great multitude

is coming against you from beyond the sea and from Syria. And they are

in Hazazon Tamar, which is and Jetty and Josephat feared and set himself to

seek the Lord proclaimed a fast throughout all Judea. So all Judah gathered to

get to ask help from the Lord. And from all the cities of Judah

they came to seek the Lord. Their prayer request was very specific, God

deliver me, and they fasted, they focused their prayers. They asked what

God to deliver them, and then they anticipated God to move a lot of

times. Right. Why we do not want to anticipate God to move,

you know, is because I mean, this is this is for me.

Sometimes I feel, oh, I have to be realistic, load you know,

I cannot control God, you know, or I have had my own

prayers that have not been answered before. So I don't want to fully anticipate.

I don't want to fully trust in God. But what's the benefit of

half trust? Half trust is no trust. If you have a half trust

in God is as good as saying God, whatever. If you come true,

great, you don't come through, It's okay. But we have to

come to this place where it's life and death situation. And the Israelites anticipated

God to move on their behalf. That's the kind of prayer requests. That's

the kind of asking that we need to depend on God for and that can

only happen right when if we get our focus on Him and we ask according

to his will. Right next slide another example. Queen Esther, So y'all

know Queen Esther right, so it's easier, right, go gather all the

Jews who are present in Susion and fast for me. Neither eat nor drink

for three days night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise and

go I will go to the king, which is against the law. If

I perish, I perish. So when she asked all the Jews to fast.

What were they supposed to fast for that she will have favor with the

king. And they and she, I mean she and the Jews they anticipated

and they put all their eggs in one basket, which is God's basket,

because it's easier if I perish, I perish. There is no safety net.

With God. We do not need a safety net. If we ask

according to his will. He is faithful man as the next one. This

is in the book of Daniel. So Daniel, earlier I spoke about Ezra

right bringing the Jews back from Babyland. So this was before that, just

before that, it says Daniel understood by the books the number of years specified

by the word of the Lord True Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish

seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. So this was coming towards the end

of the seventy years. That means the Jews was supposed to go back right

and verse four, and I prayed to the Lord my God, and made

confession, and said, Oh, Lord, great and awesome God, who

keeps his covenant and mercy with those who love him and with those who keep

his commandments. Right. So David Daniel was very specific. He said,

God, you promise seventy years, So I'm going to fast. I'm gonna

find out and anticipate what you are going to do. Right next verse verse

eighteen, Oh my God, incline your year and here open my eyes and

see our desolation. And then verse nineteen, Oh Lord, here, oh

Lord, forgive, Oh Lord, listen and act. They are anticipating God

to act. So are we anticipating God to act at the end of our

twenty one days? Or would it just be a fast? They just resulted

in hunger? Right next one? Okay, so there's this exodus another example.

So this was Moses, right, So Moses, the Lord said to

Moses, write these words, for according to the tenure of these words,

I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. So he was there

with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank

water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the Covenant and the

Ten Commandments. You want a word from God, anticipate you won direction,

anticipate and fast, because he sees here that Moses, when he fasted and

prayed, God gave him the Ten Commandments. Get God gave him the word.

So if you need that word for your life as well, you need

to anticipate it. Okay, next one, so again first John five,

and we are confident that He hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases

him. And since we know that he hears us when we make our requests,

we also know that He will give us what we ask for. So

this verse right, you have to be very confident of what you are asking,

and you have to be very confident that God will come true. How

confident are you that God will come true for your prayer requests? This is

a question that you need to ask yourself. You're listed down your prayer requests

for U turn right. First gauge is ensure that you have written it in

according to His will. When it is according to His will, one hundred

percent of the time, he will come true. That is the kind of

faith that we need to have. Right. It's a bit quiet here,

but I hope you'll like getting something right. Okay, So that was a

Next I moved to s so S is submit, so F is focused a

anticipate s submit so for submit right. This is very interesting. I think

I think during homes I I was sharing right, Why did Jesus have to

fast? Because fast thing? It's like you turned back to God. But

Jesus is God. Why did Jesus have to fast? Have you all ever

thought about it? Why did Jesus have to fast? Okay? So if

I go to the worst, then Jesus was led by this spirit into the

wilderness to be tempted there by the devil. For forty days and forty nine

he fasted and became very hungry. I stopped there first. Then Jesus was

led into the wilderness, led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted

there by the devil. That one verse already can like a see you too,

like hey, what's happening here? You know? And then when I

was just studying this world, right, you know that God is fully man

and fully God. And this was right after Jesus was baptized. Right,

it was right after Jesus was baptized and the Holy Spirit brought him into the

wilderness to be tempted by the devil. So if you think about it,

right, if was this, if you know that Jesus, Jesus is godla

no problem for him, and you know, no issues he wouldn't face the

same struggles that we face, supposed Leila. Right, But he says here,

for forty days and forty knights, he fasted and became very hungry,

very hungry. I think four hours or so will be very hungry. This

forty days, forty nights, he became very hungry. What happens when you

become very hungry hungry? Right? And you know the Masslow's hierarchy of need,

You know the triangle, the Masslow's Iraqi of need. One of the

base foundations, right, is your physiologic logical needs, which is food.

When you are desperate, right, and food is not available, people will

become desperate, and people are willing to do whatever it takes. Right,

So it says here, right, the devil knew that. The devil knew

that when you are your lowest point forty days, right, you are hungry,

you are desperate. That's when the devil will come and tempt you.

And I think I preached on this sermon before. There are three ways where

the devil will tempt you. Right. The three ways is last of the

yeah, last of the flesh, pride of life. And I'm trying to

get last of the eyes, last of the flesh and the pride of life.

So that was how that's how the devil will come to tempt us.

And the devil also came and tempted Jesus. And the devil didn't send his

minions or no, he came big gun came to tempt Jesus. Like for

us, I don't know what the devil sends one minion also were like all

already, But the devil came down himself to tempt Jesus and forty days right,

you see, right, if you are the son of God, tell

these stones to become loss of bread just by reading this? Right? Do

you think it is wrong? Hey, you're hungry. You have the power

to do so, so why not? Because last time when I was reading

this, I'm like, what's the problem? Easy word? But then Jesus

told him no, the scriptures say people do not live by bread alone,

but by every word that comes from the word of God. So why why?

I mean when Jesus replied like this, I'm like lucky, Like,

hey, what why was he so against it? Any thought? Why was

Jesus? I mean, this is supposedly I don't think there's anything wrong with

it. But what I came to realize is sometimes the good answer is not

the God answer. So the devil can rob us from God's best by giving

us good when what we need is God. What is sin? Missing the

mark? So if God wanted you a hundred percent and you say ninety nine,

you've missed the mark. And this is what Jesus says, because who

brought him into the wilderness the spirit, and the spirit told him to fast

for forty days. If he turned the bread rocks into bread, he would

be defying the spirit. So although the scriptures say it is true, and

although I have the power to do it, yes, but am I defying

the spirit? Yes? I am not submitting to God. And this is

a big thing for us. Right submission, You know that submission? Right?

How many of your think is easy to submit? Even in marriage?

Submission? So it's what makes the marriage stronger. Submit to each other.

Right, submission is a sacrifice. Okay, next one, next line?

Yeah, so again, then the devil also brought him up to the temple

right and asked him to jump off, but Jesus responded, you must not

test the Lord, your God. So again this is the pride of life

and the final one. Next it's like right, and saysia, I will

give it all to you 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. You see, right,

when you are fasting, it is when you need to fully submit yourself to

God because you are not depending on your own strength anymore. And the devil

knows it. So that is when he will attack. And if we draw

our strength from God, and we ask we take our strength from him.

That's the only way we come up on tops by strengthening our relationship with God

and submitting to him. Okay, all right, after all this, what

happened after the three temptations? What happened? Yeah, after the angels attended

to him. After the angels attended to him, Jesus began his ministry.

You want to be used by God, you have to submit to him first.

You submit yourself to him. You say, God is you. I

will put my faith and trust in you, and God will use you in

miraculous ways. God needs to know that it's not we don't want to do

it out of our own pride, but we only do it to glorify him

man. Okay, and the last one t okay. Yeah, so t

is transformation. So at the end of twenty one days we should be transformed.

We should be transformed, all right. So the worst this is from

the book of Daniel. Okay. So Daniel spoke with the attendant who had

been appointed by the Chief of staff, and then he said, please test

us for ten days on a diet of vestables and water. Daniel said,

at the end of the ten days, Daniel and his friends looked healthier,

better nourished than the young men who had been eating the food assigned by the

king. Okay, so you want to look good and healthy, go on

a Daniel fast yeah, wigetable and water, no coffee and okay, so

this one is here. Next line so yeah, this one is here right

just now was truncated. So at the end of the ten days, Daniel

and his three friends looked healthier and better nourished. And then verse seventeen.

God gave these four young men an unusual aptitude for understanding every aspect of literature

and wisdom. And God gave Daniel the special ability to interpret the meanings of

visions and dreams. So you think about it right when Daniel, if I

go through the fast acronym, they were focused on God. Right, They

had a f and then they anticipated God to move by giving up the king's

food. So I told you already the king's food is good, but is

it God's plan? Right? And they submitted to God. And because they

submitted to God, God transformed them. God gave them unusual aptitude for understanding

every aspect of literature and wisdom. And God gave Daniel the special ability to

interpret meanings of visions and dreams. So, Church, this is the power

of fasting done right. By the end of twenty one days, we need

to have a transformed life. How transformed, again, depends on how much

you trust God, how much you submit to Him, how much you focus

on him. Because God can do it. Do you know that Daniel?

Right, he lasted three different kingdoms, three different kingdoms. That means,

right, you don't care whether your boss change or not. You don't care

whether your company changed, You don't care whether the government change. In every

government change, right, he was still top. And God is the one

that can bring about that transformation. Man. So even as I just draw

towards the close next line. Yeah, So this is no one impressed him

as much as Daniel, Hananiah, Michelle and Azariah. So they entered the

royal service. Whenever the King consulted them in any matter requiring the wisdom and

balanced judgment, he found them ten times more capable. This can only be

God. When you submit to God. Like I say, God is able

to do exceedingly abundanly more than you could ever ask or imagine. God will

give it to you. Do you think that Daniel asked to be ten times

No? No, he just focused, he enter, he praised it,

say God, I want to remain faithful to you, and then he submitted

to God and God gave him exceedingly abundantly more than he could ask or imagine.

So when we pray, right, let's not focus on the results.

Let's focus on our spirit. Is our spit it aligned to God? Because

you just say God, I want a million bucks? What does that do

for your spirit? God, I want to have six backs? What does

that have to do with you? How does that impact your spirit? But

if you just say God, I want to be fully submitted to you,

the sky is the limit. God will be able to do exceedingly abundantly more

than you can ask or imagine. Man, So humble yourself under the mighty

power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in

honor. Don't chase for glory. In the right time, God will lift

you up. As much as we want to strife, you know, we

know that God is in control. And sometimes I have to do in the

corporate world, right, sometimes you feel that, Man, I need to

be I need to stand out. I need to yeah, be visible,

like in your performance review and all day they say, hey, people need

to know you. People. You have to go and make your your name

famous and stuff like that. But I don't know. Sometimes I just it's

like not in me truly. So I just told God, God, you

promotion comes from you. And when we fast, right, we come to

a place of submission and say, God, it's up to you. I

submit to you. God, you are my CEO, and at the right

time He will lift you up in honor. And the last line ning next,

Yeah, so fast, let's focus, let's anticipate, submit ourselves to

God and read the end of the twenty one days of prayer and fast we

will be transformed in Jesus name. Man, we hope you've been blessed by

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