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Fasting for Jesus · The Bible Gal

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Bob A Gow Podcast, and I'm Miguel Amber.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just a Proverbs 31 woman, empowering women to step into their on-the-fire for the Lord mentality.
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  SPEAKER_00: I encourage us to live out our faith, to grow, and to believe in the calling that God has for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: My vision is to help women break the chains of their past of inner struggles and fears to create new chapters that only our Father can write for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm on a mission and passion to empower you and all the women out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is going to be your new favorite podcast for daily devotionals and Bible study chats.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey y'all, welcome back to episode 37.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I really want to talk about fasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I know many people have um just different opinions about biblical fasting, and so I really just wanted to kind of dive into um the scripture and um really what the Lord says about fasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But before I get started, you know I always have to start us out in prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dear Heavenly Father, I just ask um that you open our hearts and minds of every single listener listening to this message, Father, that you fill us up with your Holy Spirit, uh, that you guide this message and speak through me um with the words that uh are meant to be said.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I just pray that over this message, and I pray safety and protection over every listener wherever they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Lord really does give us instructions on fasting in the Bible and how we should be carrying and representing ourselves during that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and so I wanna get right into that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so in Matthew chapter six, um, depending on what translation you have, it literally says like how to pray, and then underneath of that is how to fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so verses sixteen through eighteen says this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you fast, don't make it obvious, as the hypocrites do.
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  SPEAKER_00: For they try to look miserable and disheveled, so people will admire them for their fasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: I tell you the truth, that is their only reward they will ever get.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you fast, comb your hair and wash your face.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then no one will notice that you are fasting except your father, who knows what you do in private, and your father, who sees everything, will reward you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I think that I pulled that from NIV, I believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be real honest with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: My actual Bible is CSB, which is Christian Standard Bible, but um I have like the Bible app and I love to jump around a lot sometimes um between NIV, NLT, CSB, and sometimes even um KJV.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I believe this one was NIV, but in CSB and Christian Standard Bible translation, it says um don't be gloomy like the hypocrites, and I think uh the one I read at first was miserable or disheveled.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so he's telling us here not to go around telling people that we're fasting for the Lord, and he warns us that when we fast, if our reason um is to be looking for recognition in other people, um, to pity us during our fast or to praise us during our fast, then our only reward is going to be that attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, think about you know, meaning think about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like when you're fasting something hard, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you tell people like, oh, I'm fasting this week, I haven't had any chocolate since Thursday, it's been really rough, I've been craving it, like I can't wait till my fast is over, and I'm just feeling extra tired, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, by saying that and you know, talking about it to other people, you're looking for attention for other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're looking basically like let's be honest, you're you're looking for somebody to be like, Oh, I'm so sorry, like you're looking for pity, you're looking for you know uh anything, you're looking for attention, whether it's good or bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so the Lord says that that will be your only reward during the fast if that is how you are and that is how you act.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, when we take on our fast, embracing the hardship during that time, and continuing to stay grounded in Jesus and keeping that fast as an intimate thing that is done just between you and him, then you start to see this breakthrough, you start to see this blessings, this healing through this fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't get me wrong, I have fasted many times.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really do understand that when you are fasting, it is rough, it's a hundred percent rough.
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  SPEAKER_00: The temptations are crazy, the tiredness is crazy, the laziness is crazy, the you know, the doubting thought is crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're they're high, and I'm gonna tell you the truth, it's genuinely because it's the devil, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, of course, the temptation is gonna be high for you to cave through, um, and for you to think of fasting negatively, and you know, the devil wants you to to fail in the fast and and to give up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because during this fast, it's such a intense, uh, close time that you have with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's such an intimate thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, that of course the devil doesn't want us to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, of course, it's gonna be a hard time, and I'm not taking away from that, but I I want you to rethink about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to rethink how you approach it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's gonna be times that you know you're craving that that thing that you're fasting, but I encourage you that when you do crave that thing, instead of telling somebody about it or complaining about it, or just allowing yourself to be and look tired, pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spend time with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, whether it's a devotional or worship music or prayer or outreaching, whether it's asking somebody to pray for them, whether it's typing up, you know, I don't know, devotion notes for you and a per, you know, a friend who are doing Bible study together next week and you want to get your notes together, like whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's listening to a sermon on YouTube, maybe it's listening to a podcast, whatever it is, get in the word, get with God, because that really helps that moment of temptation and craving so much, and the Lord really does curve that moment of craving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and fasting really should be an intimate gesture or an intimate sacrifice, if you will, with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's one thing if you're fasting with one of your friends in faith and you're like fasting together, or you're fasting with a family member, like together, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because like obviously you guys are doing it together, you guys are doing the devotions together, you're doing the fast together, you're helping each other be accountable.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's definitely one thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you're talking to that person that you're fasting with about the fast, because obviously, like that's the point of doing some a fast with somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but going to work and being like, oh my gosh, like I haven't had Duncan in six days, like, or oh, I'm fasting chocolate right now, or oh, I'm fasting caffeine right now, or whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, um, we don't really want to be talking about it, um, because as the Lord says, we that would be our only reward.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and for one, it loses the private intimacy with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Truthfully, because now it's no longer intimate, it's no longer sacred, it's no longer I don't want to say romantic, because that's like not the word I'm looking for here, but I don't know, it's no longer intimate because you you told other people that you're fasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And whether they know why you're doing it or not doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's no longer a sacred thing between you and the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for two, it's kind of an insult, truly is honestly an insult to the Lord because Jesus should be enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when we start to feel ragged, if you will, and tired, and we start craving that thing that we're fasting, we replace it with time with the Lord and praying with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so expressing that drowsiness, expressing that temptation, expressing that craving in a negative connotation and a negative feeling, it's kind of really saying that Jesus isn't enough to to fill that gap and that you really need that thing, or else you're going through like withdrawal because you don't have that thing while you're fasting it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me say the truth, it's gonna be tough, and you're gonna have a moment because, like I said earlier, like the devil wants you to cave in, he wants you to lose focus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is here to kill, steal, and destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we have to remember during that moment stop pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take a minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if you were I'm just using this example because I'm a teacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if you're a teacher with kids in the classroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are having a really hard moment where you're craving that thing, maybe you together as a class, stop, take a break, take a breather, tell the whole class to stop and regroup and you know, I don't know about your school or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's this thing right now in my school called like conscious discipline, and it's like really big on like redirecting and breathing through your, you know, like kind of re-regulating your emotions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like, for example, you know, if you're going through a fast, you're having a tough time, stop the class, do a little breathing exercise, and while the class is breathing, that's a perfect quiet opportunity where you can just kind of quietly to yourself pray to the Lord and recenter your whole focus and be like, Lord, I need you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me remember why I'm doing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me remember that you're enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that I'm doing this for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Isaiah 43, chapter two, he says, When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you pass through the rivers, the wives, the rivers, they will not sweep over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned.
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  SPEAKER_00: The flames will not set you ablaze.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is like one of my favorite verses, if I'm being really honest with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually had to go find it when I was writing my notes because like I love it so much, and I know it's in Isaiah somewhere, but don't couldn't remember where it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it's in the 40s somewhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was like Isaiah 40 something, and I was like, is it 41, 43, 45, 46, 49?
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to look it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, because I knew it was Isaiah 40s, but I was like, I can't remember.
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  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, it really is my favorite verse because that leads us to the question of why do we fast?
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the point of fasting?
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  SPEAKER_00: We choose to fast with the Lord because we are removing those temptations, we're removing those distractions in our lives, and we're saying, Jesus, you are enough, and I want to fully rely on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to take that thing away.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to sacrifice that thing, whether it's food or something else, like social media, watching a show that you've been binge watching, reading a book, certain music, whatever it is that's pulling you away from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I definitely encourage it to be something that is taking a lot of your time, whether it's pulling you away from the Lord or not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And replacing that thing that you like doing or eating with Jesus and say, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: This doesn't matter because I have you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Matthew, I think, Luke, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll draw in a blank right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when Jesus is in the wilderness and he's fasting for 40 days and 40 nights, and the devil is tempting him, and he's like, if you're Jesus, like just make this rock into bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus says, No, because we are not to live on bread alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what fasting is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus was like, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't need food.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need we don't live off of food alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can remove the food, and I live through God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I live because of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I live for God.
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  SPEAKER_00: His word, his presence, his uh relationship, his living word.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is what keeps me alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: I live off of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I live through him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that is a big reason why we fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that we rely on him fully to a different level.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we can fast for so many other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So many different things, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, as we talked about in the last episode, it's to get out of a rut.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're just having a hard time, you feel distant from the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a great way.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my favorite reason, actually, why you why I fast is whenever I'm feeling like in a rut or just kind of a little far from the Lord recently, I will do a fast because that intimacy while you're fasting with the Lord is honestly the best.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes, if I'm being completely honest with you right now, some days, sometimes when I'm fasting, I'll be doing really intense fasts sometimes, not all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't want to end the fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'll never forget.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mmm, trying to think of what it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was like kind of recent, but not super recent.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did a food fast, like all food.
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  SPEAKER_00: I literally was on like a liquid diet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I only did it for three days because I mean we can't like not eat food food forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was on a liquid diet, and I did it for I did it for three days, and it's the first time I I did all of food.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I usually do a type of food or you know, different things, you know, types of food, but um, it was the first time I did like all solid food.
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  SPEAKER_00: And anyway, I'm getting off the subject.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a really rough like the first day was super rough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second day, rough but better.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the third day, like my relationship with the Lord was so intimate.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was hearing from the Lord like so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the fruit was crazy, the breakthrough was crazy, the Lord's voice was crazy, like all day, every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, actually, like I'm joking, obviously, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, this is not something I was actually gonna do, but like low key, the intrusive thoughts were thinking about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I don't think I'm ever gonna eat food again.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna fast for the rest of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, if this is the level of relationship that I have with the Lord, I don't want to eat food again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't ever need food, right?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, just kidding.
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  SPEAKER_00: But um, anyway, I'm so getting off subject.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where was I in my notes?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we we fast for a breakthrough and in our relationship with Jesus, we fast for maybe a breakthrough in a family member in their faith, or maybe it's for a great success and breakthrough in a church conference coming up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know my church is doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know if they're still doing it, but they are fasting for a women's church conference that's coming up, so they're fasting for you know, breakthrough and success in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, maybe you're fasting for salvation over somebody you've been praying for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've been really battling anxiety lately or anger lately, and you're looking through, like looking for a breakthrough from that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're looking for answers in a situation.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's the beginning of the year fast, um, where you're just fasting to get your heart right with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you've ever heard of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, my church does it in the beginning of the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: We do um a big fast, a 21-day fast with the Lord, and we get on Zoom together every morning, bright and early, and we get right in the word, and it's super great because it really aligns you and cleanses you and sets you up for the year, um, you know, to see the direction and the divine plan that he has for you for the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so honestly, there's endless reasons that we could be fasting, but what matters is that we're fasting for Jesus, regardless of the subcategory of the reason, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: At the end of the day, we're fasting for Jesus, we're we're fasting to refocus our entire life on Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I encourage you to choose a fast that's something that you're giving up for the Lord, something that's not easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, now, if you don't want to jump gung-ho and be like, I'm not ready to fast all food, that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying you have to.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I am saying is choose something difficult.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't choose something that you're like, oh yeah, I can do that, no problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, do something that's like that's gonna be tough.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: I got the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I promise you, you will have so much more breakthrough and overall this beautiful experience, and just I don't even know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's just I don't I can't find the words to say right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It'll just be such a great time with the Lord, and there will be so much things that He will teach you more about the Bible, He will teach you more about Himself.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will see fruit from seeds you've planted, you will see trust in the relationship with the Lord, you'll see Him talking to you through the Word, through worship, and it just starts coming, it starts flowing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it's just the most beautiful thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And especially when you choose something, at least this is for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't speak for everybody, but for me, when I choose a harder fast and I really give it up, and I really rely on Jesus like during that time, then I really stick to it like super strict.
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  SPEAKER_00: I of course I crave it really bad, but I run to him, and the more I crave it, the more I run to him, the more I run to him, the the bigger the breakthrough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it really does just make it so beautiful, and it grows your relationship with the Lord so much on such an intimate level.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: If I could explain it in even like the slightest bit of a worldly way, and I think my dog farted and it smells really bad.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, um squirrel, um oh my gosh, what was I saying?
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, my analogy.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's like if you I don't know, for example, a husband and a wife who've been married for 20 years, and they've just been feeling distant from each other, getting stuck in the day-to-day, you know, mundane life, and they go on this five-day-long vacation together.
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  SPEAKER_00: No phones, no kids, just them together for five days.
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  SPEAKER_00: That level of intimacy, that level of connection, that level of growth in their relationship is so intimate, so sacred, so private, but so pure and beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's like the only thing I can think of that's even remotely close to what it it is like to fast with the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I really encourage you if you've never done it before, I really or maybe you've only done it once, maybe you've heard things like, oh, only people you know who are like super religious do that, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, it doesn't have to be like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do encourage you to give it a try, or if you've done it before, I encourage you to try something harder or longer next time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, as I wrap this up, um, I encourage you if you are like, I would love to fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is really something I want to do, but I don't know where to start.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, first of all, ask the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because let me tell you what, He will reveal to you what you should be fasting, what's something that you really should be giving up.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you what, there was one time I am a caffeine addict for anybody who doesn't know.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, I'm Amber, and I'm addicted to caffeine.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I feel like as a mom, a working mom and a working wife, and being awake like 18 out of the 24 hours and moving that whole time is like caffeine's needed.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, I'm just justifying my issue here.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one time I really wanted to fast and I wanted to do something hard, and I wanted to do something different, not like that I've normally done.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because sometimes I feel like I have been repetitive in the things I've fasted.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so I asked the Lord one time, like, hey, I want to fast, I don't know what to fast, and I I don't really know, you know, what I should give up, but I really want, like, I really needed a big breakthrough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord revealed to me that I should fast caffeine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I don't know, like, that's different.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's some next level stuff right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm alive, I made it, I'm here today, right?
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: I I still drink caffeine, but um, it was such a beautiful fast, and I'm forever grateful to this day for for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, ask the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't want to do it alone, hello, me, hi, I'm Amber, I'm here for you.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, send me an email, find me on social media.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: I have a prayer request form in the show notes.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Literally, if there's so many places you can find me, um, please, please, please, please, please reach out to me because I will gladly do a fast with you.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: I will always be supportive of my fellow people in faith, and I will absolutely do a fast with you to support you and um just to help you, you know, with your breakthrough with the Lord as well, um, and just give you some ideas on what you can fast and how long to fast.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: And during your fast, sometimes, sometimes you really just need that accountability partner and just that support person, especially and if it's like one of your first times to really just kind of check in with you and make sure you're doing okay and you know, all the things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if you need that, I'm always here for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will gladly do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so as we close this up completely, I want to pray, and I always want to um remind you guys that if you have any topic requests that you would like to hear me talk about, any message um messages that you want to hear more of, then shoot me an email or in the prayer request form link.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can click on that and you can tell me what you would love to hear more of, or maybe if it's not an episode you want me to do, but you just want like a one-on-one time with me, and you know, you just want some intimate Bible study time where it's like just you and I, please reach out to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would love to to get together with you.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: So let me close us out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for this message.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you so much for speaking through me and and helping deliver this message.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: I just pray over every single listener.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: I just pray that wherever they are, I pray that this message really got to their heart, and I pray that they walk away today change, that they walk away today with a takeaway, that they walk away today with just a new revelation on biblical fasting and and how to fast for you.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I just pray that they are encouraged to fast, that they're encouraged to want to grow in their faith with you.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: And I just pray over protection wherever they are.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: I just intercede on their behalf and I just rebuke the devil in the name of in the name of Jesus, and I just lift them up to you and I pray that you will um shine your light upon them and favor on them wherever they are.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: All right, thank you guys so much for listening.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go to the fruit breeze because, like, I swear, like my dog farted again.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna go do that, and I'll see you guys next time.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening to today's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to pray for you.
• 24:39
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• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: And remember, sisters, you walk fully in faith this week.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: God is with you every step of the way.