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So the fast.

That God chooses, the fast that God chooses.

It's not something that you choose.

And you know, like after I came from a Hindu faith,

I I a lot of a lot of trouble.

Like when I.

Sleep, I wake up, I will have scratches. I mean,

warfare is very very real. So I used to fast.

I mean, I'm I felt like I used to fast

forty days every year twice. I mean I used to

fast during these days forty days, and then I used

to fast during the year in forty days. Like I

do that regularly because I know that if I have

to overcome this kind of attack in my life, I

need to fast and pray. Somewhere around twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,

suddenly my health went for a toss. I started acidit,

I started kind of irritation, and when I went to

the doctor said, oh, you can't fast because so and

so so. I said, God, I felt like, you are

the one who called me to fast. You are the

one who told me or led me to fast, and

now you are asking me, oh, so you led me

to fast. And now I'm feeling that I am not

able to fast, and very interestingly the Lord, the Lord

laid into my heart. It is not the fasting that

please says God. Only when God pleases I should be

led to fast. I cannot manipulate God by fasting because

I fasted.

You have to do this.

No, he He is not a government who is going

to acknowledge your hunger strike.

No, you fast, you it is your problem.

But if we are led by the Holy Spirit, God

is going to heal you. And God will give you

that grace to fast. He will give you that grace

to fast, you know. And some of us fast, but

we will not pray. That's hunger strike. You fast, but

you don't pray. That is hunger strike. No matter what

hunger strike, so.

God will not.

So when you fast, if that is a three meal,

some of us go five meals. So if you fast,

and with that time of fasting, if you.

Don't pray, forget about it. Forget about it. You need it.

I mean that fasting, I mean that fasting made. How

long do you eat?

Roughly? Okay, that's an interesting question.

So minimum minimum thirty minutes minimum okay, five ten minutes real, I.

Know twenty twenty five hours, it's okay.

And Homer Okay Malaysia, boulet Malaysia, God bless Malaysia.

Everything is across the table.

Let's assume at least ten to fifteen minutes. But the

point is during that ten to fifteen minutes are we praying.

If you don't f if you fast, and that ten

to fifteen minutes we go, we play lego, we play no,

you're not fasting, forget it. And I remember, like I

didn't know she was here. So during the last year before,

when we were in the university, we said when we

are fasting and praying, we divided among the team amoritulum,

so we went around the university to pray. We went

to places. There are a few places that they cannot go,

so I go, just make an excuse, go there, fast

and pray. I prayed on the on the on the

on the corridors of offices.

What I meant to stay is if.

You fast, and if you don't, if you don't pray,

you are doing what And God is not going to

worry about your hunger. God is going to worry about

your humility.

You know what is humility.

Humility is something that you know your place, You agree

to your place and say I need this. When I

don't pray, I am arrogant. When I don't pray, I'm

saying I can do, isn't it? Why would I ask

my brother, can you please help me with this? That

means to say I am humbling, I know my place,

and then I come and ask him to help. So

the days we start without a prayer, we are posting

a protest against the heaven by saying, don't intervene in

my personal life.

I repeat this a little more.

The day I start at, the day I start without

praying is the day I post to the heavenesting Heaven's

intervention in my life. When I pray, when I go

for test, when I go for meeting somebody, when I

go and do something, what I am doing is I

am preparing for the divine intervention and the spirit's guidance

by saying I have done, but can you help me

to flow through it? So every day that I fast

is to unclog my soul, and every time I pray

is to seek the Heaven's help with my human flesh workout.

It's two ways. Are you are you guys, so fast Okay.

Jesus fasted, Jesus prayed, and Jesus overcame, and that is

what we have to do. And it is not something

that we do buy our own self.

Okay.

There is this interesting worse that Jesus. Jesus says when

you when you fast, right?

Is that right? When you fast?

Do not be like the hypocrite who puts on the clothes.

And everyone knows that is why we call them as sad.

You see Bible says sad. You see them also? You

know yo, you're fasting? Lah?

Hey, but Jesus said, when you first go to the

go to the close set? Is that right? Can someone

read that passage? I haven't prepared, so I'm going not

going to the rest line when you first when you pray?

Is that right or not?

Please?

Now Google a car can help us. Sorry, Please fust

Matthew six when six sixteen right?

I think your version is wrong. My version said if

you first, are you sure? No?

No?

If if? What is the difference?

Any English teachers in the house, what is the difference

between if you fast and when you first?

If it's.

Sorry, if it's conditional, you choose or not to choose.

But when is.

When I say when you come, that means I assume

that you are coming. A by the way, it's not

a conditioner. It is a commandment. It's not if you

choose to fast. Now when you fast, when you first

and immediately, it's very interesting, it's Matthew six, is very

very interesting.

When you first, do not be like it, but do

like this? Is that right? Yeah?

And immediately after prayer, when you pray first, don't do

so he goes hand to hand and just run through it.

So you fast, you pray, and then comes the major

scripture in Matthew chapter six, verse thirty three, seeking first

the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be

added on to you.

Is that right, Matthew?

Interesting? Interesting, When we go back home and when we

read it, you will be surprised. Between the six six

sixteen onwards. Look at the birds of the act. They

need us so notr reap, but your father in heaven

will give them food.

Is it right? Hey?

If God takes care, and if you are from a

different country, you are from a different place.

You have tried everything.

And if you have tried to show you have tried

to reap. May I prophesy that the god Father in

heaven knows what food to give to you at the

right time, and he will love you and he will

care for you, and he will bring that food that

you need. He will bring that money that you need

at the right time. Because your Father in heaven knows

that you are more valuable. You are more valuable, not

because you are valuable.

You are more valuable.

Because you are purchased by the blood of Jesus.

His blood is invaluable.

You are known, you are chosen, you are called, you

are blessed, and you have been redeemed by the blood.

And your Father in heaven knows what to give at

the right time.

Makes sense.

And then the Bible goes on to say, when look

at at the lilies, they did not they did not

do anything, but they.

Have been clothed.

May I prophesy that you are clothed with the righteousness.

You're clothed with power, You're clothed with authority, You're clothed

with favor, You're clothed with the power.

You're clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit.

And whenever you go like the way the esther was

leading into the king, the king is going to stretch

his scepter, and he is going to come welcome because

you are greatly blessed and seek e first the Kingdom

of God, and all these things shall be added on

to you.

Is that okay?

So I just wanted to end with this Isaiah chapter

fifty eight. Just I'll be escaping many slides. You're not

going according to the slides. Maybe go to this ten slide, brother,

you know, like I want to end with this. Zacharia

chapter seven. Zachariah chapter seven. Zakaria chapter seven. The priests

the people will come to Zacharia and they will tell, oh,

do we It's now seventy years they are in the

in the wild. I mean they have been chased away

from Israelites. And after seventy years, the people will come

and talk to Zacharia. Oh faster, I've been fasting for

the last seventy years. I fasted on the first month,

I fasted on the seventh month.

I fasted. Do I need it to fast? Who? Zacharia asks?

And word by word, compare Zacharia seven and Isaiah fifty eight.

It is the same, isn't the kind of fast that

I ask?

In other words, did I ask you to first, and

you did on your wound, and you wanted to show.

It's almost God confronting, you know, like sometimes I wanted

to hear this. When you come to God, he comforts

when you're hurting, He confronts when you're fighting. God gave

grace to humble, So I wanted to bless Imagine I

am God, and I wanted to bless Doc paster Jack.

When he is humble broken, he comes as a balm

of healing. And when he is going away, when I called,

and if you're not coming, I will confront you. Not

because I oppose you. I confront you because you should

be in a place of receiving. If you felt God

has abandoned you, come back and God is going to

bless you.

You know.

Isaiah chapter fifty eight, is this the first I ask?

But this is tenth verst that just.

Go go to the tenth slight brother. We have been awake, right,

So the question that God asks is right. So if

you read chapter Isaiah, chapter fifty eight, verse eight, it says,

if when you fast.

Lose bones number one.

Now when you fast unknow, yolks, free the oppressed, break

every yoke, share your bread, open your house, cover the naked,

do not hide. In other words, in other words, during

this fasting and praying, I just wanted to ask, is

there anyone anyone who have hurt you so much you

don't want to see them. You say I forgive, but

I don't want to see I just wanted to let

you know. God wants you to forgive them today, and

he wanted to release that bond because when you don't forgive,

they are still in the bondage. When you are fasting

and you know that your friend need and help, don't

say I am tired and I don't want to help.

Just go and help them.

This will be the person who hurt you, and God

wants to see whether you are ready to hurt I

mean help those who hurt you. And Bible says free

the oppress speak for the wiseless. There are people here

who needed us to speak for them. Sometimes unless or

until we speak, people will take advantage. So we needed

to break disrupt your convenience. You know what is the convenience.

Convenience is that little and I come in the same.

Convenience is that we eat together. There is convenience in

everything it. Convenience is for Pastor Jack and doctor Jill

to find a church in Semine. Easy man quota comaning.

Maybe that is profetic, take it down, Okay, okay.

So quota comaning.

It is convenient for Andrew and Olivia to have Anderson

and the other girl in the house. It's inconvenient, but

God wants you to do something that is inconvenient so

that you know you are breaking the bondage. I am

not going to be bonded by my comfort. Please make

sure when you're fasting, shared your bread.

Don't put it in the fridge. Share your bread.

Maybe take that twenty tearing it off, telling it and

keep it as an offering, and then we can release

it during one of these days. Take the food and

pass it to your security guards. Take the food and

give it to your maids because that is what God wants.

And open your house speaks to us. Open your house.

We need homes.

Yes, cover the naked, share your resources, and do not hide.

Repair your relationships.

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