Being Hungry, For God | Eld Rosalind Tay

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We hope this message will light up your teath.

Being hungry for God literally. Okay, So now let let's

go to the next one. Next one. Okay, So a

little quick question, right, like a trivia trivia? What is

the difference between fast food and fasting food? Okay? Okay,

think about it. What is the difference between fast food

and fasting food? Sounds the same, but very big difference. Okay,

So tell me, very very intellectual and smart people, what

do you think is the difference? One? God for one?

No food? Very good? Well, but the wood looks quite

the same, right okay? One got food? One no? For

what else? And it is? Okay? Adjectives and objective? You

want to explain a bit more more? This is a

very deep English. Let's go for an English lesson today.

Oh he has a lot of additives? Is it like

unhealthy things? Your msg? Is it? Oh? Okay, I'm lost? Okay,

but anyway you can help interpret that letter? Okay, Okay,

it's different, It's different. Okay, I very simple. If you

ask this to a five year old, what do you

think they will answer? I'm looking for the answer. Was it.

I yo, are you thinking so hard? People? One God,

I G and one don't have ig corn on Okay.

So interestingly, when I saw that, then let actually the

answer is I ANGELA simplistic answer that I'm looking for

is ieng. But when I saw the ing, then this

tree phrase work came to my mind. I G stands

for I need God. Oh boom, wrap it up. Okay,

that's it. Okay, service is over. Do you see the

difference of that fast for you don't eat God la,

but first thing for uni God. Yeah, And so this

is where I want to go this morning because you know,

in the many years I've been with ex church, right,

so I've been in X for about twenty years now,

I cannot see right, Yeah, yeah, I know, I know

God is good. God is good twenty years since I

was a freshly graduated young adult. So I can make

you can please together? How old I am? Anyways? Yeah,

so I we've been going through these twenty one days

of Utah. And first thing, I remember there was a

season in our ex church corporate life where we did

forty days remember those old jeeza you know that we

did forty days after that were like you, we cannot thanks, like,

because many found it very difficult. So we say, okay,

let's do twenty one days and yeah, so so we've

stuck to twenty one days. And do you know that

this is also in the season of Lent, right, season

of Lent, which is practiced by all Catholics worldwide, and

it leads up to what is the ultimate? Yeah, it's Easter,

good Friday, Easter, right, and so so that's a season

of really just coming to God and repenting. Now, one

of the things I've recently sort of been made more

aware of in recent years that when we talk about

prayer and fasting, especially fasting. You'll understand prayer, but when

we talk about fasting, and when I talk to other ones,

you know, like what kind of fast are you going into?

I have very very different responses. Okay, So so the

usual response will be I'm fasting social media, Yes, I'm fasting.

Maybe my you know, sweets or coffee my favorite think

All right, And so we did this at our homes

just last Friday, talking about prayer and fasting. And one

of my homies who's a long time Christian but she's

new to act a long time Christian, and she's like,

you know, but I'm not tempted by food, So why

should I fast? Right? You know, I eat very little anyway,

so why should I fast? And so that got me thinking, right,

so actually, what is the reason of fasting? And if

we want to draw back to scriptures, right, the only

kind of fast that is mentioned in the Bible that

you and I know is a food fast. It's a

food fast. You know, it's abstaining from food, and so

in you know, maybe in this day and age, that

becomes like it's okay, I don't need to fast food.

I just need to fast other things, because what's the

whole reason is to remember and get back to God.

But I want to tell you that there is a

reason that God instituted Jesus himself fast right, Jesus faster? Right?

Was he fasting social media? I don't think so. He

was fasting the very basic need human needs, do you know?

And there's the reason why I feel that if we

don't fast a tangible need, right, then it's very easy

to miss the point. Okay. So so that that's where

I'm going, all right, So, oh sorry, you'reing malfunction, no Ice,

no ice, It's okay, I'm synergy do you know that

when when I was young? Right, do you know the

the cartoon gem synergy change? So, okay, so today I

give my jam. Okay, those of you young one don't know,

you can go and look it up on YouTube anyway, huh,

don't have a okay, but anyway, anyway, so it's okay,

don't don't get distracted. Okay, this is a test to

see whether you're following me or not. So, so okay,

let's go to the next light now, bibically there when

you know, there are many many incidents when the fast

truly mattered, right, So if I ask you what would

cause you to really fast? Right, most of us would

be like, hey, when there's crisis in my lifela, So

maybe for some of you right now there is no crisis.

You're like, then why do I need to fast? Okay,

So I'm gonna show you some examples of why when

fasting truly met. So do you remember in the story

of Esther? Right right, Sorry, I'm just gonna give you

over you in a story in the Book of Esther,

you know that there was a plot to annihilate the

whole Jewish people, right, and so then Esther was raised

by mother kai and then she became queen, right, and

so it was that pivotal point where she was challenged

as the queen to say, Okay, I have to go

and do something for my people, right, and you'n't like

to quote the famous ones for such a time as this, right,

for such a time as this, you know, but we

don't know the weight of that, you know, because that

actually meant death for her. It is a death sentence

right for such a time as it sounds like so heroic,

but actually what awaited her was death. So and and

so before she went to do a heroic heck, she

needed the people to intercede together with her. So she

declared her fast, you know. And that time the fast

was three days, no food, no water. Okay, I personally

have fasted, but I think the hardest is to fast water, really,

really really, I you know, if I don't drink water

for one hour, I'll be like a song. You know.

Food still okay, but water is really hard. So they fasted,

and you know what happened after that. Hayman got hang on.

That's a tachliner hashtag. Human got hanged. But yeah, it

turns situations around, right, God moved supernaturally and what seemed

to be a day end for the Jewish people. Turn

around and you can see that God Ocayes straighted all

of this. Now, the question you might ask is if

they had not prayed and fast, would this have happened?

Would God still have saved it? I think God would

have through a different person, right, if not Esther? Right? Yeah,

but but do you see that there is a little

bit of an interplay right now between the key to

miracles happening, right, pray and fasting. Let me give you

another example. Let's go to the next one. Now, how

many of you know the story of Jonah. Yeah, yeah,

y'all know Jonah. Right. The thing that you remember is

the big fish. Big fish three days is also very important. Now,

Jonah was in the belly for three days, and then

after that he came out of course, And do you know,

you see this Jonah, you think he's a good guy.

Do you think he's a good guy? Actually, Noah, I

also don't think so. You might think that, Okay, he's

a prophet of God, you know, send by God, a prophet,

send to bring the good news of salvation to this

group of Ninavites, you know. But actually he's hot motive

not right one. He's like, why I want to tell them?

You know, that's why he ran away, Ma, that's why

he ran away, got eaten up, you know, was in

the belly for three days. And after they say, okay,

I cannot run away Anymore's many of us like that, Jonah,

we run away, We run away from God's calling because

we don't like the people. And there's a good reason

for that. But you see what we don't like about

certain people, God sees very differently. It is still his people, right,

no matter how bad they've turned. And so he was

giving the Ninavites a chance. And then there after what

happened was he went there and he quickly like, okay,

don't you don't repent, right, you will die. That's it,

nothing convincing, I'm just telling you. But you know, ah,

at that alarm, at that warning, what did the people do,

what did the king do? Straightway repented? You know, they

heard that God was going to judge them and bring

judgment upon the land. And so the king he declared

a tree day corporate fast again, and this time the

cows also cannot eat, the animals also cannot eat. Okay,

So you're saying, if I'm gonna I'm gonna faster out,

my dog was a better fast. Uh. And so they

declared a tree day corporate fast. You know, they went

into mourning. They were insect cloth and ashes, and then

what happened, God relented got relented. Okay, So this fast

thing and prayer it seems to turn nations around. You know, guys,

it's turning nations around. It's not just you know, something

that I do at the individual level that doesn't affect anyone.

It really this coprofist. That's why we're doing church. We're

doing it corporately because we are one thing to see revival. Amen.

That's our team this year. There's there's a really we

need to come to this place where like this is

for the bigger picture, This is for our land, Malaysia.

Do you believe that sometimes we think so small or

that this is just for us as Actually okay, can

I tell you that Passer's heart has always been for

the nation and the nations? Right, It's not just for

our church. We were not about our church, about how

can we be a blessing to the nations? And that's

what I'm proud to be part of X all this

world because it's kingdom minded. Amen, it's not just for us. Okay,

let me give you another corporate example. Okay, So King

Jehosha first, all right, so you can read this latter

in second chronicles, where again the armies were coming around them,

actually they were going to be they were greatly outnumbered. Right.

Do you feel that sometimes that all your enemies are

crushing against you? The deadlines, your financial obligations, you know,

everything just crushing on you. And then Joshaphat said, okayla,

what do I do? Do I have the money, Do

I have the power, Do I have the warheads? Do

I have the drones? Don't have nothing like that? Okay?

What I have? I just pray and fast. That's all

he knew how to do, right, And of course he

declared the fast. And then after that, guess what you know?

Just how me saying the song God, you fought the

battle for me, right, you want it all for me?

And this is exactly where that came from. God thought

the enemies, and then they just clean the victory. How nice? Right?

How nice? Okay? So okay, let's move on. So this

is old Testament, Yeah, old Testament. Many examples of how

this prayer and fasting right really turned nations around. Let's

move on to a little bit more modern now. Okay,

so let's move on to the New Testament. Okay, you

know Jesus himself, right, and we we claim to be

a follow of Jesus. I think we need to learn

and actually follow what he does. La. Okay, I'm not

saying you have to do forty days praying first. Okay, no, no,

I'm not saying that. But do you know that when

he was teaching his disciples in Matthew, for he says,

you know, when you fast, close your door and all that.

He didn't say if you fast, you know, He's like,

when you faster, meaning you will do it rah right.

And again the context of fasting is fasting food, friends, Okay,

fasting food, really fasting food. And then for him, Jesus

personally was for do you know that this was before

he started his ministry. Many of us start on missing.

We jump first, right, We're just going to do first.

Then after that we run out of battery, we get

burned out, and we wonder actually wire because there was

not that preparation, there was an alignment. Do you know

that Jesus had to pray and fast to get ready

to do the ultimate work. And the ultimo work was

not the healing, the automotive work wasn't raising the date.

That was not the ultimate. What was the ultimate work

to die in the cross. So he had to prepare

at age thirty when he started his ministry, he prit

and fasted to prepare him for what he was going

to do at thirty three years old, to go to

the cross. Do you see did you see that this

is not a one time thing, that this has a

long term implication and repercussion. All right, Now let's go

to a little bit more modern times. All right, so

you say, yo, but this is not all in the Bible,

lar right, what about modern day? Okay, I give you

one modern day. This is considered quite modern. Aw maybe

only one hundred years ago. Some of you feel like, huh,

but by both two thousand years ago? All so I

bring it up earlier, like, okay, in the nineteen hundreds,

have you heard of this Welsh Revival? Some of you, yes,

you know. Now what happened was there was this guy.

His name was Evan Roberts. Evan Roberts was a twenty

six year old coal minor. How many of you are

twenty six years old? Okay, don't have about that kind

of age, ranger, and you work as a hard labor.

But do you know that when he knew Jesus, he

began to have a hunger for his nation. Do you

know that he actually prayed for thirteen years every day

Evan Roberts prayed for his nation to know Jesus. Thirteen

years every day he prayed for revival. Now, at the

end of the thirteen years and he started. Do you

know that They say that he was not an eloquent speaker,

this guy, Evan Roberts, but probably not highly educated as well.

But people began to flock to the service because the

presence of God. And this is what revival is. Yeah,

God's presence, tangible present. And do you know that what

happened was from that moment when he was doing one

of the service, right, someone prophesied over him and say, oh,

ginny one hundred thousand, what's the meaning of this? Do

you know that in nine months time one hundred thousand

new souls added to the church. One hundred thousand new souls. Guys, Oh,

it's crazy. It seems impossible to us, but it is God.

Can you see this? But God working through the prayer

of this very faithful one man. You know, do you

know that it didn't happen like Sally Boom? He just

did it? Did you hear the story the thirteen years

of sewing in prayer having a hunger for his land,

his nation? And can I tell you that this didn't

just you know, sometimes we're like, whoa, one hundred thousand

new souls praise the Lord? Right, WHOA, He's mentioned in heaven.

It's gonna be so big man, right talking about rewards

in heaven. Okay, but that's besides the Poyna. But do

you know what happened was it was because of this

right that in the years to come, because of this revival,

it spread throughout the whole of UK and one million

people came to know the Lord. And this was also

the part that actually sparked the Azusa revival later on

in California, even he went to America. What was even

more amazing was now with this happening, right, people touched

by God. What happened was pubs begin to close down

because people stopped drinking. No, I'm serious, crime, race dropped

dramatically until it was reported that reported don't know real

orna that the police people what they did, they got

nothing to do. They form a choir. That's what the

police crowd did. Okay, they're like, no crime, not everybody

revive and transform good people already, right, drug addicts all

off the streets and then police. Okay, let us form

a choir sing for the Lord. Amazing or not? This

is the kind of transformation do you want to see

from Malayia? Not friends, I do? You know? It's things

that you hear of. It inspires us, but it also

makes you think that do I really want this? Do

I want this for my land, my nation? Or are

we so absorbed in our own lives that we have

no space for this right to see the move of God.

All right now, I want to give you another more

recent example of this is on a personal level. Okay,

how many of you know this guy named Kevin James.

Do you know this guy named Kevin James? Like? Who's that? Okay? Yeah, yeah,

so who do you know who this is? He's an actor?

Is comedian? Yeah yeah, yeah, that Kevin James. That Kevin James. Okay,

let's show the next picture. So so you know, ah,

this guy, this guy, you're not this guy, Ah, Kevin,

his name is Kevin James. I just got to know him, okay, No, no, no, no,

I think like I just attached the name to face,

like you know, I'm very bad with names, you know,

and actors and all that. So anyway, Kevin James. Now

it was interesting because I was talking to the elther

pane hole about brand fasting and he said, so, there's

this story about Kevin James and he's a Catholic, Catholic

and he actually underwent so there was an amazing story.

So the articles were writing about him, right, So he

wanted to go on a fast like all good Catholics do, right,

So he said, okay, I will go on a fast.

And his purpose for fasting was too fast for his daughter,

who was unwell, sick daughter. Right, So this aren't you know,

father's I'm speaking to your mom's parents. This an really

guts you or not. If your child is sick, you

do anything right, You do anything, You go to the

best doctors, you spend no matter how much money, to

seek treatment. And he knew that God can hit well

at least he turned to godla so so he you know,

he's a big set guy, right, big set guy, And

so he says, I'm gonna do a full fast. Full fast,

right means you don't eat anything but just drink water. Okay,

that's what full fasts means. Okay, a fool fast. So

he went on it for seven days. Some of you like, huh,

seven days no food? So he wanted to give out ready,

He's like, I cannot do this anymore. Seven days is

all that I can do. His body was just like

I cannot write. And what he heard then was his

daughter told him that, thank you so much for fasting

for me. I'm getting better. Guess what. Kevin James fasted

forty one days. What made him continue day eight onwards

was because he knew that whatever he's doing right now, interceding, praying,

fasting for his daughter is working right. And so my

question is this, what would compel you to want to fast?

Is it just because you know, yeah, Jesus said so.

Is it because yeah, maybe out of obedience it's so

so good? Ah, But what is it really that you

are hungry for? Do you see that Kevin James could

turn his hunger for something out of himself it was

not about him anymore. It was interceding for someone else.

Now let's go to the next one. And I want

to say, you know, he said this in the interview

that they had with him. He says, so I am

locked in here. You're loved, right. I know this is

a very gen alpha language. Oh is it better? Do

you know what locked in is? Or your old parents

are Let me educate you. I also have to learn

from my daughter, and so now I'm hearing from my girls. Right,

It's like, oh, I really need to lock in, man,

because my exams next week. Right, And and locking in

basically just means I just need to focus and locked in.

Like you know, when you're locked in something, you're not

distracted by other things. You're just kind of focus, really

really looking, you know, just just one thing to just

do that thing, study locked in. And for Kevin James,

he says, I'm locked in, right. How many of us

are locked into God? Or do we want to be

locked in to him? Okay, let's go to the next one. Yeah,

what are you locked in for? So? I find that

the motivation for our own prayer and fast is very

important because it's the key difference between just letting the

day pass you? Right? Ah, yeah, I'm just fasting a meal.

No difference but no impact, right right? How many of

you have gone through that before? I have that you

just do it as part of routine. It's just like

you know, it's church, say is prayend? Okay, I just

for ask a meal, I just fad something. I just

fask coffee and like, okay, it passes by, right? But

do you know that? I think that on a surface

level it looks okay, but I think we're missing out. Friends,

do you know we're missing out? We're missing out on

what God wants to do in us, for us through us.

I want to say that again, we are going to

miss out if we let this season passes by. There's

a specially anointing. Can I tell you that there's a

special covering and anointing in this season? When I've experienced

this before, Because on a normal day you ask me first,

I'm like, oh, it's so difficult. But when you come

to it with a different motive, different intention, there's a

covering and you go like, eh, I feel weak, but

I'm strong. Do you know what I'm saying? It's very different.

It's very spiritual. Unlocking, you know. And this comes from

this place of being hungry, physically hungry Lord for the

Lord man. So so yeah, I think let so. So

my encouragement to you, Exampung, don't miss out, don't miss

out on what God wants to do in you, for

you and through you. There is this big, bigger dimension

you know that that that it's just waiting to be unlocked.

God wants to unlock it for us a man, all right,

So so let's go in and and I like this

quote that Kevin James gave. He said at the end

of it, he said, this a love carries us further

than comfort can. It's comfortable to continue with your routine lot,

just every day, you know, go go on with your life.

That's comfort. And you know, one of the greatest things

against the modern church is comfort. So what the enemy

cleverly does is it makes you so comfortable. He Hello,

you're sitting on a nice chair, falling asleep in a

nice econ, right, and it's comfortable of a connos that

we're hot or bitter. Have you ever been to a

rally in Indonesia where the people come out in you know,

in the field with some lights, you know, and Persson.

Matt shed this, okay, he shared you when he was

doing the rally. There he was standing there and as

we were talking, all the flies were going to his mouth.

The insects were there because why they were attracted to

that one light. And there was the one light that

that lighted the whole rally. And people just came hundreds

sitting on the floor the dirt, waiting to hear the

word of God. That is what real hunger is. No,

we are so comfortable here, well, I mischange yours, so

no problem. Why nobody misses me? No impact? Come on, right,

let us be the disciples that say, no, I am

gonna make every moment count right, I'm gonna be locked in,

not every time you come and counter. You got your

locked in. You come to Sunday worship, you're locked in.

You come for your homes, you're locked in. You come

for your prayer service, you're locked in. Amen. And that

that's the kind of disciples that we wont you know,

locked into God so powerfully and so powerfully used for

him and by him. Amen. Amen. So okay, so just

think about it, ruh. Let's not chase comfort, friends, Let's

not chase comfort. And let's say maybe let you think

about it, Rah, what chasing comfort means to you? Let's

chase after God? And do you know what I can

tell you? Chasing after God is not comfortable. Yeah, it's

not comfortable. It's gonna bring you out of your comfort zone,

do crazy radical things for God. But that's where life is, Amen,

that's a real life is all right? Okay, so let's

move on. Let's move on. Okay, Now what prayer and

fasting do to Usa? I'm just gonna go this on

four very tangible levels that you can see this for

domains now physically, right, if you're faster before, how many

of your fast food before? Okay? Now, do you know

that God designed our body here in such a way

right that we need to rest from eating what Joe

lives like in this belief? What do you know that

so so in the olden days, right, they don't eat

like we do, and Malaysians worse, We eat twenty four

to seven one meal. We just eat continuously, right, no,

non stop. And the body that you know the reason

why there's so much sickness these days is because there

is a constant feeding in our gut that it doesn't

have time to rest. And what that causes, you know,

is this whole intricate system that then causes inflammation. Do

you know that? Actually I realized that I learned this

in recent years, that most of our sickness, right, it's

not like cancel or whatever, it's actually the root cause

is inflammation. Everything is being inflamed insight. There's just too

much fuel, too much guess, too much of everything. Malaysians,

I know we love our food, right, I really believe

if Jesus come to Malaysia, your love to eat with us.

And I have to say this of all the countries

that you go and travel now, and I have this

so many times. People always say they come back to

Malaysia and say Malaysia is the best food. You know, No,

I'm serious. In terms of bang Chang, I cannot say

my canon tot koya. So it's cheap, it's affordable. Malayian

food is affordable. It's amazingly good. Do you know that? Again?

I have to talk to you. I have to tell

you about Pasta met because he's my kieling like he

is in front of me. So we talk about all

these things right in office, and he's like, you know,

I've been to Japan. I've been to Korea. I've been

to many places, you know, and I still find out

that the quality of foods here is on par you know,

Japanese food. Why you need to go? In fact, you

say this time that he's going to Japan, r He's

gonna eat Italian and French food. I'm like, okay, fine,

you know you can go to different places. High Land

they have good coffee, but actually Malaysia got better coffee.

You know why it goes so far? When? When? When

Malaysia has it? Okay? Why did I come here? Anyways?

So I want to say, ah, so I thought about

all this food? Right, how to rest? Like Joe like say,

how to rest? Because there's so much goodness, so much goodness? No, no, okay,

but scientific scientifically right, even when you okay, let's say

you don't eat, you technically we all fast. When do

you fast when you sleep? Because when you're not eating, ma,

so even between from twelve to eighteen hours onwards. Right,

what it does is it empties your body out of

glycogen nor more glucose. Right, and then it kicks off

into a kitosis mode. And some of you know what

kittosis is right, a kito diet whatever, burning fat. Now

what's even more interesting is I think after you do

that twenty four hours fast, right, it unlocks this process

called autophaggy. I think I'm pronouncing it wrong. A U

T O p H A G y. I don't know,

okay about their about de la? Now what that does?

You think about it? Now? Is it kicks off this

regenerate it's it generates yourself at the molecular level. So

what it does is it goes goes to your body,

go nor more food? Really right, twenty four hours guess

what It starts looking around damaged cells and eats it up.

It burns it up as energy. So it's a cleansing

your body is starting. Is auto cleansing mod The body

is amazing. God created it right, and it's created with

a self cleansing mechanism we have we sometimes we know

it in our washing machiner, but we never use that

moon right, so our body also we never use that mood.

And so there is a wisdom and God declared, you know,

to to let the people fast because he knows that

actually the body need to rest, you know, to auto cleanse,

to regenerate new cells, and that's how you get healthier.

There have been different reports where people, you know, they

have cancer and all that they just went on fasting.

And guess what. The cancer cells also shrink because there's

nothing to feed it. Food feeds it. Glue called sugar

feeds cancer cells. Right, So you think about it. This

is for health purposes, you know. Yes, God wants you

to be healthy. Friends. Yeah, God wants our bodies to

be healthy. God is holystic. He's not just thinking about

you spiritually. He's thinking about you physically as well. And

that's the reason why we fast. Okay, so's to rest

and repair. Next, next, go to the next light. Now, emotionally,

what happens to you when we are deprived of food, Joe?

What happened? Angry? Angry? Doesn't it reveal? Doesn't it reveal?

It reveals what's going on? Right? Do you know the

thing is right? Psychologists you know, have made this known

that we eat because of emotional reasons. It's either we

you know, you heard the term eating emotionally right. We

use food as a dependent when we are hungry, when

we are bored, when we are anxious, you know, we

just eat, We just touff ourselves because we don't want

to deal with what's inside. And so fast thing gives

us this space where all these things come all right, angry, angry,

and then we have to confront we have to deal

with it, and hey, what's wrong with mere? What you know?

Am I a real Christian? It reveals what's going on

inside and when you see the thing is the only

way we can restore it to balance is when we

acknowledge it. And so fast it gives us that space

now to say, man, this is something that I really

need to pray about. Man, if you think you've got

nothing to pray about her for your brands, Fastinger, maybe

this is it. No, God, I think there's something that

needs to be cleansed out of my system. Why am

I so impatient? Why am I so easily angered? Right?

It's me God, this one needs Cleansinger. Amen, let's move on.

So emotionally it does something to us mentally, our friends mentally.

Now do you know how much time on average we

spend on preparing food, buying food, eating food, cleaning after food,

and then going on shopping to look for more food.

How many hours do you think on average? Oh, Leona,

you are next level five hours, then what do you

do buy Cleod? So for the average household in Leona's

household is five hours. What about your because you don't

have to cook off the pick up the you know,

look after tree kids, right, so maybe less time? What

do you think is average? Okay, average is about two

hours fifteen minutes. So if you think about it, it's

it's quite logical. Like morning, most of you don't eat breakfast,

or you do, that's like fifteen minutes, or you make

your coffee. Then maybe lunch and dinner is the longer one,

right eating sitting there also one hour? Ready, you think

about it, this is not even preparing food and all.

It actually more than two hours. It's actually what exactly

the research is not right? No, this is for people

who eat outside all the time. Ah, they weren't true

for Selena because you know she Yeah, maybe you want

to next time you just go to Leona's house to correct, correct, correct,

So so you think about it, right, do you know

that when when I fasted full fast with my husband

last year, dinner, everything slows down the clock tick th

th there we realize it. Actually I got so much time,

you know, just because we're not eating no, seriously, there's

so much time. You're like, what do we do? What

do we do? So you know that just by even

abstaining from one meal, it gives you time at least

forty minutes to do something else. Right, we were just

not occupied, man, Right, We're not occupied with thinking about food,

feeding the body anymore, and feeding, feeding, feeding, so it

actually releases us to spend to rebuild other things that

we need to do in our lives. Hello friends, we

very fun life, feed our body, we food. We are

very good at feeding our minds with entertainment. Hello friends,

social media, Netflix. Right, we were feeding. We're constantly feeding

because it's a way of numbing ourselves, I think, to

face reality, real reality, you know, and so we rush through.

Or life is so busy, Life is so busy. I'm

so tired.

That da da da da, and that, my friends, is

the enemy strategy to just get you so frazzled and

busy until you don't even know who you are anymore,

and until you don't even know who your God is so.

Clever, Right, you have to applaud the enemy for the strategy.

He's very clever, very clever. We all of us are

caught into it easily easily. You you know, your phones

are quite helpful in a sense. You can just check

hamping hours you spend on your phone screen time? Okay,

can you please stant on that function just to help

you like he Actually I spend a lot of time

readier okay. Now finally, finally, spiritually, of course, it's to reconnect.

When you really come into this place of fasting and prayer, right,

it just does something to you. Can I tell you,

just does something to you and you can really then

reconnect with the Lord and to just re anchor yourself

unto him. Okay, So prayer, prayer alone is good, but

coupled with fasting, that's where power is. Do you know

that when Jesus was talking to his disciples, right, and

then they came to you and say, hey, Jesus, you

know we went in your authority. You know you gave us,

you know, the power to cast out demons. But this one,

why cannot Jesus say some of these are can only

be cast out by prayer and fasting. That means that

it is deeper. You want to go for the bigger fisher,

the bigger things in life are. It has to be

coupled with fasting. You know you I had this many

times before. They're not past the chow yong Gi, the

largest church in the whole world. I think they have

one million or more at one point in South Korea.

What is you know? They ask him fast, Joe YONGI,

what is your secret to church growth? Pray, pray, pray, fast,

fast fast. That's it. Pray, pray, pray, fast, fast fast,

that's it. Man. Prayer and fasting the strategy to church growth. Hey,

not your social media no, not how great our Instagram is,

not how whatever you do. Pray and fasting not dependent

on you know, sound system likes, which locations strateded you know,

nothing like that. Bran and fast, because then that allows

you to hear from God. You see. The thing is right.

I've been talking about how we've been so distracted that

we can't hear God's voice, and so prayan fasting gives

us this moment where we enter into this space where,

like God, I'm locked in so I can hear from you.

And Jesus says, you know, Peter and James, the fishermen,

they were in the boat, right, and they were fishing.

Oh my toiling tourning. Sometimes we feel like that toy.

We try and try and do so many strategies, caught nothing,

and Jesus just say, just let down your nets here,

and they caught so much fish that the boats begin

to break, their nets begin to break. I think that's

what we want, only when we are able to hear

from Him, And that's what brand fasting does for us. Amen.

All right, so let's go on. I'm hungry enough for revival?

Are you? We have to ask ourselves this, are you

hungry enough for revival? Maybe even revival in your own life? First,

let's not even talk about revival of nation. But if

you have our greater that's God's anointing and calling her.

But do you even have a revival for yourself? A

hunger for revival for your own life? Hey? God, you

know I'm going to challenge myself. You know I I

want to be able to read the word of God,

understand it, apply teach others. How about that that's revival man.

I want to be able to have that bonus to

invite my friends, you know, to have a conversation about God.

It is revival. Friends. Do you do you do you

desire that? Not alive? That is just walking with God?

Constantly hearing him, obeying him, and then you see things

happen your whoa, It's like walking through the red seamen

and it's parting right before you like whoh, because God

is with me. That's what revival is. Friends, We want

to see that. Yeah, starting with us ourselves first. Okay,

so let's move on. Let's move on now. So we

talked about fasting, so in in you know that if

you're part of the ut, and I'm sure Selena the

super efficient one, has sent you all the links that

you can download the booklet to prayer and fasting. Today

we are reading Josiah too, which is amazing. You know,

just just catch up if you have not. But it

also shows you the ways too faster. You can fast

one meal, abstain from one meal. You can do partial

sun up to sundown, meaning you don't eat from I

don't know, nine to nine, seven to seven whatever. There

is a Daniel fast, meaning you just eat small portions

of vegetables and fruits throughout the twenty one days. Right.

For some of my canny wall friends, you will really

feel it. But you know, Daniel came out at the right.

Don't get fatter, no, no, no, healthier, healthier, healthier is

the word, not fatter. And then also there's the total fast, right,

total fast meaning just water, no food. Okay, how many days? Really?

As the Lord leads you? Can I say that as

the Lord leads you? Okay? All right, okay, So that's

it now, just to help us to have some handle

some mindsets as we enter pranfasting. Firstly, remember that the

goal is God himself. Hello. The ultimate goal is not

that so that I can get the promotions so that

this one can heal. Yes, they're all part of your

prayer list. God knows. Hello. You think God don't know.

He's like, oh, surprising you going through this challenge. I

didn't know you didn't tell me. Hello. No, God knows,

he knows. So the goal is to come into communion

with him. Amen. Now let's declare the word of God together.

So let's read these Psalms twenty seven, verse four. Let's

go one thing I have desired of the Lord, that

will I seek that I may dwell in the house

of the Lord all the days of my life, to

behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in

his temple. Amen. So what is that one thing? What

is that one thing. It's God himself. Right, So when

you come into this prayer first, it's like God, I

just want you. I just want you. If there's anything,

nothing else, it's just you because when I have you,

I have everything. Hey, friends, lodging or not, because he

owns everything. Well, so when you go after everything, when

you should just go for the one. Just go after God.

He will give you peace, he will give you hope,

he'll give you direction. But you go to Hymp first. Amen,

that's the most important thing. Okay, let's go on prayer

as surrender. This is when you enter into this timer.

When you go after God. Right, you have to give

up yourself. You know, it's not saying God, I'm coming

after you, but do it my way. Yeah, do it

this way because I think that's the best way. Then

you become Godlah. God is not God. Okay, so be

very careful that we don't come into this place and

just say God. You know you have to do it this,

You have to do it this way. No, it say God,

what is your way? What is your way? So let's

read from Luke twenty two, verse forty two. This is

Jesus himself as he prayed to the Father just before

he went to the cross. Are you ready? Okay, let's

read this Father, If it is your will, take this

cup away from me, nevertheless, not my will, but yours

be done. Amen. Are you do you dare to pray

this prayer? Do you dare to pray this to say God,

not my will, but yours be done? Okay? So think

about that, all right? So the third one, let's go now.

Can I tell you friends that when you go into

this season that you are also fighting a battle. It's

a real battle. You might not see it, it's very real. Okay,

So you're basically when you're entering into this time. Hello,

I cannot call you soldiers. I can because that's what

the Bible calls us, soldiers of God, because we are

fighting a spiritual battle. All right. So let's read from Ephesients,

chapter six, verse twelve. For we do not wrestle against

flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the

rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual holds

or wickedness in the heavenly places. Yes, and that's why

we fast, you know, because we are saying, flesh, keep quiet,

I need to win this spiritual battle. And do you

know the flesh and the spirit is different realms. So

we are saying, flesh, you cannot win this. You can't.

I want to read to you just now we will

saying the song from Romans aid right, nothing can separate

from the love of God. Let's go to let's got

earlier a little bit. Romans chapter eight. I don't have

this on the slide, but if you can turn with me,

Romans chapter eight. I just want to give the word

of God to you. Verse one. Romans eight. Verse one,

he says, now there is therefore now no condemnation to

those who are in Christ Jesus, Amen, who do not

what according to the flesh, but according to the spirit,

for the law of the Spirit of life. For the

law of the Spirit of life. In Christ, Jesus has

made me free from the law of sin and death. Amen, hallelujah.

You're free, guys. You're free for what the law could

not do, in that it was weak. Through the flesh.

God did by sending his own son in the likeness

of sinful flesh on account of sin. He condemns sin

and its flesh. Do you know that our flesh is

very sinful? Verse all that the righteous requirement of the

law might be full feel in us who do not

walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit

Verse five. For those who live according to the flesh

that set their minds on the things of the flesh,

But those who live according to the spirit the things

of the spirit. For to be cornerly minded is death,

but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Amen.

Do you see that? So we are what thing our

flesh to rest as we pass in the lot, and

we're saying when something rests, something comes alive. You see

that there's a battle between the flesh and the spirit.

You know, So if you're saying this time around, spirit,

you're going to written over my flesh, or when hunger

strikes you, you're like, no, it's okay, it's just hunger pangs.

It will pass. But what the spirit wants to do

in us is life and peace. Amen. Amen. All right,

let's move on to my last few final slides. Fasting

for a humility. Do you know that when you're fasting,

the only posture that is right before the Lord is

one of humility and full dependency. Do you agree? It's

very hard to fast because actually when you're fasting, You're

saying God, I'm doing this for you. Right, So there's

this posture. Whe're like, God, I need you just now right,

ieng I need God, I need God. And Joe to

top says is yet even now they class a lot.

Return to me with all your heart, with fasting, eh, hello,

with weeping oof. There's a lot of surgery that needs

to happen in our hearts and with mourning. Return to

the Lord. Friends, Can I encourage all of us to

return to the Lord in a very deep way, very personal,

very significant way. Amen, Let's move on. Let's move fasting

for breakthrough, justice and compassion. Now, like I said, uh,

the evidence that you have been with God is not

that you are suddenly super spiritual, you are suddenly super good.

That's not everything. That's one sign. But what this Isaiah

fifty eight tells us. Okay, so let's read this together.

Is this not the fast that I have chosen to

lose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,

to let the oppress go free, and that you break

every yoke? Is it not to share your break with

the hungry, and that you bring to your house the

poor who are cast out? When you see the naked

that you cover him and not hide yourself from your

own flesh. Do you know that when we are truly

the kind of fast that pleases God, right is the

fast that causes us to act for others. It's not

about you anymore, friends, It's not about It's never been

about you. But we made it all about us. It's

never been about us. It's always God working in us

so that He can work through us. Right, would you

have greater compassion for others? Will you look at the

poor in you know, in your season fast thing? Are

you going to remember the poor? Are you going to

remember the offense? Are you going to remember those who

are cast out? Some of us don't even come to

that dimension we come out to any one days you're like, oh, yeah,

I had a great fast. Did you do something? Did

you share your break with the hungry? Did you bring

to your house invite those who are poor and feed them,

give them a good meal? Think about how do we

express this? This is a true fast that God desires

and pleases him. Okay, final one, final heart fasting for

sharpening or calling and ministry. And this is so important

you know, as disciples of Jesus Christ. Right, do you

know that there is a call and ministry for all

of you? Yes? Do you believe that as a disciple

of Jesus Christ, each of you have a unique and

personal mandate, a calling, and a ministry. Do you believe

that you have to? Because otherwise, then don't call yourself

a disciple of Jesus Christ. No. Really, if you're saying

I come to church so that I can fit myself, no,

like CPC saying, okay, so don't come to this church

and feed yourself. She said, come to this church and

help me feed others. Hey, hello, true? Not come and

help help Jesus says, if you love me, he told Peter,

feed my sheep, feed my lamb, take care of my sheep,

take care of my lamb. If you love God. And

so we are saying we love God. Right, let's not

just God. Do you love me? Yes? He does, Lah,

I tell you he does. But my question to you

is do you love God? And if you love God,

then we need to help fulfill the great commission, make disciples,

feed others, meet their needs. Amen. Okay, I'm gonna end

with this one quote from John Wesley, and I thought

it was very beautiful as we remind ourselves of what

the bigger picture is is that. Okay, John Wesley says this,

give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin,

desire nothing but God. And I cannot whether they be

clergymen or laymen meaning pastors, and all that full time

or non full time, they alone will shake the gates

of hell and set up the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth. Amen.

How about that? Is there fifty people in Exampum well

fear nothing but sin. There's nothing that you fear in

your life except sin, you know, and you desire nothing

in your life except God, whoa powerful man. And that

if this becomes our live goal, that we fear sin,

that we do not want to sin because it hurts God,

and we desire nothing but God. I tell you your life,

my life is going to be transformed. Not only that

Unfun will be transformed, not only that Malaysia will be transformed. Amen.

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