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3 Reasons to Fast [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, and God bless your family. God,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to the Morning Devo with your bro Sam
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  Speaker 1: you for coming through. We're here again for another day,
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  Speaker 1: a man, a new day, a new start. God is good.
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  Speaker 1: He's faithful at everything he does in your life and
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  Speaker 1: in my life. He's an amazing guy, first and foremost. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times during this beginning part of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of areas in the world and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of communities, a lot of churches, we do a
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day fast. So I've been looking at reasons
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  Speaker 1: to fast, what a fast truly is are we're commanded
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  Speaker 1: to fast? You know? Along those questions along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: So today I just want to give reasons, three reasons
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  Speaker 1: that I found too fast, Amen, just in case you'd
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  Speaker 1: be like me. And but like I don't think God
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  Speaker 1: call me the fast. I say that to myself a lot.
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  Speaker 1: My flesh is really the one that's sparking up that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Is my flesh doesn't want to turn down anything. The
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  Speaker 1: flesh wants everything. The flesh wants. The Spirit of God speaks, though,
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  Speaker 1: and if we're focused on listening to the Spirit, Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit God speaking Amen, we will be guided and directed
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  Speaker 1: in amazing ways. Bible says that Holy Spirit God is
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  Speaker 1: a comforter. He's our guide, a man. He leads us
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  Speaker 1: into all truth, teaches us all truth, reveals all truth
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  Speaker 1: according to His will and purpose for each individual life
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  Speaker 1: that called upon a day to be saved with God's children. Right.
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  Speaker 1: If we're God's children, that means we have a father
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  Speaker 1: in Heaven who sent his spirit to live inside of
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  Speaker 1: us and man, we have perfect union with Christ through
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  Speaker 1: his spirit. Fasting can be a personal choice for Christians,
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  Speaker 1: but please understand that it is not a requirement for
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  Speaker 1: spiritual growth or closeness to God. Literally literally, I heard
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  Speaker 1: a brother in Christ yesterday say I fast, I want
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  Speaker 1: to get close to closer to God. And I challenged
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  Speaker 1: it politely and a nice way. How do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: You know? How do you get closer to the one
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  Speaker 1: who's already living inside of you? Right? So, I know
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  Speaker 1: it sounds popular and it sounds right. Oh, I fast
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  Speaker 1: and I pray to get closer to God. It sounds legit, right,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not really biblical if you think about it.
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  Speaker 1: If you have Christ in you by way of this
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, I don't know how closer you want to get.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you got to explain that to me. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But we're clean already, We're watched by the blood of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: and we're close already. We have Holy Spirit God living
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  Speaker 1: inside of us. So we're clean and close at salvation. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The rest I know the process. We're growing in our faith,
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  Speaker 1: were growing on our knowledge. We're babies at first, and
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  Speaker 1: then we get pure spiritual milk. And then after the milk, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we want meat. We want the meat of God's word,
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  Speaker 1: and we want to keep on growing. At least the
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  Speaker 1: spirit is inviting us. The spirit of God is always willing.
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  Speaker 1: The flesh is the only weak part. Amen. Really, of
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  Speaker 1: a Christian the flesh, First Corinthians, eleven thirty. We want
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  Speaker 1: to hit three scriptures because I have a scripture to
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  Speaker 1: back up each reason. Amen. The first reason will be
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians, eleven thirty. Second reason will be based out
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  Speaker 1: of tewod Peter chapter one, verses three and four, and
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  Speaker 1: the third reason will be based out of Galatians chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: verse number one. So we got a little way to go, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reading. I believe we could get it done.
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  Speaker 1: God knows how to take the time that we have, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and reveal his powerful, impactful, transformational word to us, so
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  Speaker 1: that way we can have eyes to see, in the
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  Speaker 1: ears to listen, and then we could speak it out
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  Speaker 1: of our own moles, the word of God. Speak it
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  Speaker 1: out of our own moles for ourselves to see what
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  Speaker 1: God is speaking and what He's saying into directly into
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  Speaker 1: our lives. Three reasons to fast it in the morning, Devo.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or any prayer requests,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your man, Amen, don't hesitate to leave it on
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  Speaker 1: a live chat. If you're watching or listening at a
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  Speaker 1: later time, then you can still connect with me from
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  Speaker 1: whatever platform you're listening from or watching from. It should
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  Speaker 1: be a way to contact me, or there should be
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  Speaker 1: a live chat or somewhere where you could connect so
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  Speaker 1: that way we could reach back to you. Three reasons
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  Speaker 1: to fast. We're gonna pray first. After we pray, we
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  Speaker 1: share this out for like sixty seconds, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: get right into got three scriptures to share. Amen, So
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  Speaker 1: devote our time to the Lord. Meditate on these three
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  Speaker 1: scriptures during the day, and I believe God will do
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  Speaker 1: an amazing work in your life concerning fasting. Amen. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: sister Joanne, I see you. Good morning, God, bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning. Devote so let's pray. Father,
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  Speaker 1: I thank you that we even have the ability and
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  Speaker 1: the strength to fast. Thank you LogD for our communication
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  Speaker 1: method with you, which we call prayer. Thank you Lo
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  Speaker 1: God for responding to our prayers, for listening to us,
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  Speaker 1: for caring enough for us, that you have sent your
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  Speaker 1: only begotten son to die so that we could live,
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  Speaker 1: and that you are alive still. And you said and
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  Speaker 1: your promises, you said, you're coming back. So we are
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  Speaker 1: expecting the return of the King of Kings and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Lords. But in the meantime, LOGI help us
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  Speaker 1: have these reasons, biblical reasons of why we do what
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  Speaker 1: we do when it comes to fasting. I pray, LogD
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  Speaker 1: for every single person who is fasting right now, that
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  Speaker 1: you will strengthen them, encourage them. That Lo God, they
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  Speaker 1: will also know that they are not alone in the fast,
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  Speaker 1: that we are joining together by faith, knowing that there's
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters all around the world joining in this
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  Speaker 1: twenty one day fast. I pray, Lord God, I had
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  Speaker 1: your protection over all of us, our marriages, our children,
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  Speaker 1: our families, our household, our finances. I pray health to
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  Speaker 1: the body, strength to the bones in the name of Yashiahamashiah,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to Christ. And I pray this's by faith, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that you answer all the prayers according to your will
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  Speaker 1: and purpose to every single individual man or woman of
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  Speaker 1: God in Jesus name. I pray this's by faith. And
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  Speaker 1: we all say amen to the amen if you agree. Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Brother Frank, I see you. Good morning, God, bless you
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  Speaker 1: good to see you again. Yes, yes, I've been here
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  Speaker 1: first time. This is the third time of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for noticing. And Sister Joys, good morning, God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you, Bless you and the group. Yes, bless you
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  Speaker 1: as well, my sister and my friend. You're an amazing
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  Speaker 1: woman of God. So let's go for it. Help me
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  Speaker 1: share this out for sixty seconds, and when we come
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  Speaker 1: back on the other side, we'll get right into three
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  Speaker 1: reasons to fast and three scriptures to back it up.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. H h h. I think I'm
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  Speaker 1: officially like a lot of groups. Amen. So excuse me
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  Speaker 1: for the time laps here, but we're back. So let's
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  Speaker 1: go for three reasons to fast today in the morning devo. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: There's different ways of fast thing. There's a no food fast,
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  Speaker 1: which I believe is the most powerful one. There's a
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  Speaker 1: Daniel fast, which is an example that Daniel gave was
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  Speaker 1: he didn't eat the king's plate, the king's food, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and he stained from or believe meat, and he just
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  Speaker 1: ate clean foods and vegetables for twenty one days. There's
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  Speaker 1: an intimate and fast that I do as a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: You take portions of the day and say I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to eat between this time and this time, and after
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  Speaker 1: a certain time you don't eat until the next day
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  Speaker 1: at a certain time. Amen. I think that's a healthy habit. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: consult your physician if you have underlining issues health issues,
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  Speaker 1: and pray first. Pray and that's God for wisdom when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to fasting. So let's get this ready for
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  Speaker 1: the screen for those who are Celebratio Network listening. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for coming through, Amen. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: continually coming through to the certain cities and the states
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  Speaker 1: and the countries that I always see coming through to
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  Speaker 1: the morning, Devo. Bless you all in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your support, and thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the hunger that you have. You must have hunger
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  Speaker 1: for the Word of God, Amen, because that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get here on the morning, Devol. And that's
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  Speaker 1: to me, that's good because I'm like, what happened to
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  Speaker 1: the hunger? I know a lot of people don't have
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  Speaker 1: that hunger as they used to have. Amen. But listen,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a new start. It's always a place that
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  Speaker 1: we can rekindle the fire of God in our hearts,
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  Speaker 1: in our minds, Amen. And I believe it's the word
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  Speaker 1: of God that aspires us ultimately to get back into
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  Speaker 1: who he is, Amen, in a deeper way. So three
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  Speaker 1: reasons to fast today in the morning, Devo, let me
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  Speaker 1: see if I could get this going. Yes, ayman, the
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  Speaker 1: graphics of moving and the first scripture, and the first
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  Speaker 1: reason actually is refocusing on Christ. Refocusing on Christ. When
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  Speaker 1: you fast, you start getting focused right away. Your flesh
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  Speaker 1: is like, wait, wait, wait, why are you not feeding
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  Speaker 1: me as you feed me normally. I'll come, You're not
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  Speaker 1: watching certain things or listening to certain things. What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: So the flesh will automatically right right out the gate.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try to bell against any kind of fast. But
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  Speaker 1: when you start your fast, I believe one of the
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  Speaker 1: three reasons, the reason number one is to refocus on Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Right, refocus on Christ. And here's the scripture
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  Speaker 1: to back it up. We have First Corinthians, Chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 1: verse number thirty. First Corinthians, eleven thirty. The Baba says
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  Speaker 1: that careless and unworthy participation is the reason why many
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  Speaker 1: among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep
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  Speaker 1: in death. Now, of course you have to dig deeper
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  Speaker 1: into why I picked it up from here. But there
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  Speaker 1: are people who are participating in so called fasting that's
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  Speaker 1: just ritualistic, traditional and religious, and it's going to do
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  Speaker 1: them nothing. It's going to do no benefit for them.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they might be trapping some
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  Speaker 1: kind of deception or trapping some kind of cultish activity
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  Speaker 1: that they're taking time to follow a leader, an icon
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  Speaker 1: on whatever idol. And Apostle paul was watching this and
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  Speaker 1: dealing with it in the church in Corinth, and he
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  Speaker 1: calls that careless and unworthy, unworthy participation. And because of that,
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  Speaker 1: people might be thinking they're doing something religious that's going
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  Speaker 1: to benefit them because of their careless and unworthy participation,
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  Speaker 1: and things like prayer and fasting that have no power
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  Speaker 1: of God, that are based on a man, not based
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  Speaker 1: on the word. This happens, and Apostle Paula's addressing those
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  Speaker 1: type of areas in the Church of Corinth, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe he's still addressing it right now to communities and
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  Speaker 1: churches and communities that are doing things just to do them.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason why many among them are weak and
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  Speaker 1: sick and a number fall asleep or number are in
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  Speaker 1: death is because they're practicing things based on tradition and religion,
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  Speaker 1: not based on relationship. So I always tell people listen,
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  Speaker 1: pray first before you do any fasting. No, so I
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  Speaker 1: see you good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the morning Devo. Amen, it's good to see you here
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  Speaker 1: on the Morning Devo with us. God bless you and
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  Speaker 1: keep you Amen, and thank you for showing up. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the next reason. Ready. Avoiding distractions. Man, this
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  Speaker 1: is huge. As I get older, I get distracted quicker. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if I should be admitting that
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  Speaker 1: on a live stream, but just the way it is. Well,
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  Speaker 1: not an enemy knows more about how I'm easily distracted.
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  Speaker 1: So keep on praying for me. I'll keep on praying
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  Speaker 1: for you, Amen. Avoiding distractions. Well, the second reason why
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  Speaker 1: we should be fasting is to avoid the distractions of
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  Speaker 1: this world. Avoid distractions of other people, of the voices
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  Speaker 1: that the enemy tries to put on our mind in
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  Speaker 1: our heads, the thoughts, the desires, and all that other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Let's avoid those distractions, and fasting can help you avoid
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  Speaker 1: those distractions. Two Peter, Chapter one, verses three and four.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, for his divine power has bestowed on
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  Speaker 1: us absolutely everything necessary for our dynamic spiritual life and
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  Speaker 1: godliness through true and personal knowledge of Him who called
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  Speaker 1: us by his own glory and excellence. So we are
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  Speaker 1: called out. We have the divine nature, we have the
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  Speaker 1: power of God. We have a dynamic spiritual life, a
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  Speaker 1: man of godliness. How through true and personal knowledge of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who called us by his own glory and excellence verse
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  Speaker 1: number four. For by these he God, Jesus, has bestowed
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  Speaker 1: on us his precious and magnificent promises of inexpressible value,
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  Speaker 1: so that by them you may escape from the immoral
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  Speaker 1: freedom that is in the world because of disreputable desire,
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  Speaker 1: and become sharers of the divine nature. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: the world is free to do what the world wants
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  Speaker 1: to do. Christ followers are free to do whatever we
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  Speaker 1: want to do. But we all know that everything I
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  Speaker 1: want to do and everything you want to do won't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily be beneficial. Hey man, we're warrying against our own flesh,
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  Speaker 1: the world's system, the lust of the eyes, the proud
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  Speaker 1: of life, and the devil. I know, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: we're being ganged up on. Right. Well, all we need
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  Speaker 1: is one who lives inside of us, one God, one Lord,
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  Speaker 1: one faith, one baptism, one holy ghost that will take
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  Speaker 1: us and give us magnificent promises of inexpressible value, so
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  Speaker 1: that we could escape. We could escape from the immoral
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  Speaker 1: freedom that is in this world. The moral freedom that's
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  Speaker 1: in this world is like, give me all I can get,
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  Speaker 1: and can all I get, give me more. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the world wants. The world wants you to buy into.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you have this amount of money and you're
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by this amount of people and you can do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want, don't worry about it. You're above now, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: and the Kingdom of God. Listen, we're the servants of
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  Speaker 1: each other. We love one another with the love of Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And the world is disrespectful. They could disrespect each other.
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  Speaker 1: They ain't disrespecting our God, Amen, even though they think
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  Speaker 1: they are. But we are escaping from the immral freedom
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  Speaker 1: that this world is already in because of the grace
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  Speaker 1: the divine power. We have everything that we need, a dynamic,
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  Speaker 1: dynamic spiritual life. We have godliness. We have true and
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  Speaker 1: personal knowledge of the One who called us by his
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  Speaker 1: own glory and excellence. So fast thing will help us
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  Speaker 1: realize this scripture. Fast thing will help us remain right,
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  Speaker 1: step fast, standing strong in the faith no matter what
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  Speaker 1: comes our way, Amen, And things will come your way,
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  Speaker 1: things come our way, and it will come your way too.
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  Speaker 1: But when when you're fasting, when you're refocusing on Christ
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  Speaker 1: and now you are avoiding distractions based on biblical principles,
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  Speaker 1: based on Holy Spirit, and allowing others to speak life
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  Speaker 1: into your life as long as they're inspired by the lifegiver,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus. Amen. Hope this makes sense. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot, Heymember. I wanted to make sure I
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  Speaker 1: backed these reasons up with scripture. The third reason the fast.
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  Speaker 1: See if I can get this here is this there
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  Speaker 1: it goes celebrating freedom. I love it. Amen. Listen. We
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  Speaker 1: just went through like three months of celebration. Some people
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  Speaker 1: celebrate Halloween. I don't. But we had Thanksgiving, and I
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  Speaker 1: know the history of Thanksgiving. It's not what I celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: I celebrate Thanksgiving giving thanks to God. That's what I celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: And then we had Christmas, the season to focus on
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  Speaker 1: a birth of our Lord and savor to the Lord Jesus. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And then we had New Year, a new star on
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  Speaker 1: our calendar based on the calendar that we have. So
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  Speaker 1: we have reasons to celebrate. But how about celebrating our
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  Speaker 1: freedom in Christ, celebrating the fact that we are free?
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  Speaker 1: Who the sun sets. Free is free what. Indeed, we
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  Speaker 1: are saved, we are sanctified, we are delivered, we are right,
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  Speaker 1: we are blessed, be all measured. We are living the
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  Speaker 1: abundant life that Jesus promised. So we have everything we need,
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  Speaker 1: and we have every reason to celebrate freedom. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: scripture Galatians, chapter five, verse number one. It was for
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  Speaker 1: this freedom that Christ set us free, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: set us free just a little bit, completely liberating us. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: keep standing firm, and do not do not be subject
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  Speaker 1: again to a yoke of slavery, which you want once removed.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, that could preach. Amen. I'm not much of
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  Speaker 1: a preacher, but amen, but that could preach. Don't go
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  Speaker 1: back to a yoka slavery. You're free. Oh boy, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta do this. No you don't. Who said, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know my tendencies. Well, your tendencies and your desires
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  Speaker 1: are being chained and transformed and redeemed. Oh I have
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  Speaker 1: to do this or else this person is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: like me tomorrow. Oh well, celebrate your freedom in Christ
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  Speaker 1: by way of Holy Spirit, knowing that you're completely liberated.
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  Speaker 1: You're free. Therefore, keep standing firm, in your freedom. Do
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  Speaker 1: not be subject I believe every time I see ado
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  Speaker 1: or do not, I believe that's a commandment from God.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery
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  Speaker 1: which you once removed. Amazing, man, Three reasons to fast? Right? There?
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  Speaker 1: Should I go through them again? I guess we'll review it, right,
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  Speaker 1: let me get back on screen. So what you think
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  Speaker 1: we got three reasons? I believe those are three strong
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  Speaker 1: reasons why you could fast. I know some people around
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  Speaker 1: fasting time, including myself, start thinking what am I fasting for? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: And I have to, you know, snap out of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, well, let me refocus on Christ, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: let me avoid distractions and let me celebrate freedom. Right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: those are good reasons to fast. Man. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, I think the world is so busy, and
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  Speaker 1: we could get so busy that we could easily fall
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  Speaker 1: into getting distracted. We could easily fall into not focusing
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  Speaker 1: on what we should be focusing on. Amen. We should
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  Speaker 1: be focused on Christ. Fast thing could be a person
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  Speaker 1: or choice for believers, for Christians, for children of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's mandated to be honest, Amen. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we have to fast. But Jesus said, when
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  Speaker 1: you do fast, when you're talking to the disciples, amen,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see the benefits. I believe he was saying, when
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  Speaker 1: you do it, you get to know the benefits, and
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  Speaker 1: then you get to know from then on that it's
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  Speaker 1: power and fasting in prayer, when you pray, Amen, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's our lifeline. We should be communicating with the
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  Speaker 1: Father daily anyway. Amen. I believe one day me not
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  Speaker 1: talking to God, it's going to be a bad day.
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  Speaker 1: He's always speaking to me. He's always speaking to you. Right,
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  Speaker 1: He's always whispering his love. His grace is mercy. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, he commands man's the goodness. Something follows, right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the scripture. Mercy and grace
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  Speaker 1: are good. These things follow us, Amen, Like for instance, money. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't work for money. Money works for me. Money
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  Speaker 1: should be working for the Kingdom of God, Amen, even
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  Speaker 1: though I don't see a lot of it. But when
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  Speaker 1: it comes, it should be my servant. I shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: mastered by money. Money should be my servant, and it
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  Speaker 1: should be your servant. So when we put things in place,
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  Speaker 1: and when you're fast, you start refocusing on the principles
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  Speaker 1: of Guy that are already in us. Right, he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: the law of the Lord is written in our hearts,
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  Speaker 1: on our hearts, so we have what we need to
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  Speaker 1: live this life out in godliness and righteousness. We could
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  Speaker 1: just get easily distracted. Like for me, when I refocus
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  Speaker 1: on Christ during the fast, I'm like, Okay, let me
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  Speaker 1: stay at peace. Let me not let anything ruin my peace.
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  Speaker 1: Let me stay in bay, Let me stay grounded, let
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  Speaker 1: me stay rooted. Because thing, God, bless you. It's good
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  Speaker 1: to see you, my sister, my daughter, my friend, so
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  Speaker 1: missed by us. Mercy and goodness, thank you, that's what
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  Speaker 1: follows us, right, He says, those things to follow us,
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  Speaker 1: ay man, chasing mercy and chasing goodness. That could be
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  Speaker 1: a little religious. But when we're in the right pattern,
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  Speaker 1: we're in the right flow, and we allow on Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit to move and to have his way seeing goodness
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  Speaker 1: is gonna follow us for the rest of our lives,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, so we have what we need. I
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  Speaker 1: ran out of excuses a while ago, long time ago,
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  Speaker 1: of why this and why I'm complaining about that. I
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  Speaker 1: ran out of excuses because God covers me every single
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  Speaker 1: which way, and He covers you every single which way.
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  Speaker 1: So last battle that we have right because death won't
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  Speaker 1: have no sting on the believer of a child of God.
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  Speaker 1: Last battle we're gonna have on this earth. To believe,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not, it's not even the devil he's
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  Speaker 1: defeated last battle. I believe it is just gonna be
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  Speaker 1: us our own flesh and our own evil, sinful desires.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, all Holy Spirit to move. Continue to
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  Speaker 1: allow him to move in your life, Amen, And you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna notice that you're gonna grow past certain certain patterns
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  Speaker 1: and certain things that you know used to take you out.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're gonna look at those things face to face
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  Speaker 1: and call the mob be like, now that's not that's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. Man. I know that pattern and I
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  Speaker 1: want to set be set free from it because we
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  Speaker 1: are free. We're totally, absolutely completely free by the finished
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  Speaker 1: work of the Lord Jesus. So ultimately, the point is fasting.
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  Speaker 1: Even though those are three reasons, Amen, you can check
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  Speaker 1: it out for yourself through the scriptures. You'll have different reasons,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, amen, And some people have different ways of fasting,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, But I think a biblical fast is how
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  Speaker 1: we see it in the scriptures, and I only see
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  Speaker 1: a two ways of no food fast, which completely a
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  Speaker 1: rasist What should I eat? What can I eat? If
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  Speaker 1: you do no food, then you don't gotta worry about
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  Speaker 1: what is good and what is not good to eat
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  Speaker 1: during fast, you're not eating at all. Pray to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: asks the Father if that's what he wants you to
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  Speaker 1: do during this season or any season that matter. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have underlining issues, consult with your physician.
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  Speaker 1: They probably won't agree with you fasting a man, especially
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  Speaker 1: if they're in an atheistic culture. Right, They're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: want no parts of anything coming good from God anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But take it to the Father first, and wise counsel.
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  Speaker 1: Be around wise counsel, be under wise counsel, and God
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  Speaker 1: will direct you. He's not going to be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you on your own, work it out. I know you
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  Speaker 1: don't like it, but do it anything now. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the God we serve. He's going to speak to you,
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  Speaker 1: respond to you. Amen. But I just put three reasons
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  Speaker 1: out there, Amen, so you can look at the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: and see if that's what God would have you do.
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  Speaker 1: So the reason number one, we're focusing on Christ number
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  Speaker 1: two of whatdding distractions? Number three celebrate freedom and you
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  Speaker 1: have to rewind the tape. I have the scriptures there
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  Speaker 1: to back those up. So ultimately, fasting should be a
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  Speaker 1: personal decision, personal decision, amen. We don't have to pray
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  Speaker 1: it around and say I'm fast and I'm fast, even
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  Speaker 1: though it's hard to say you're not fast thing if
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  Speaker 1: you're in a corporate fast. But you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: people outside of the community, people outside of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God, said why do you look like that today?
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  Speaker 1: You look hungry? You would, and that's an opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: you to share something with them. But you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to reveal fast, amen, because if you start doing that,
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  Speaker 1: you'll start getting used to it, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: you might think, oh, you know, I'm religious now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: super something now because I'm fasting. Pray daily. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you could fast daily, but pray daily for sure,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess you can fast daily. You can fast daily.
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  Speaker 1: But imagine we're not doing the three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: five day fast no food, right, that's impossible, but we
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  Speaker 1: got all things impossible. Anyway, Let me not go down
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  Speaker 1: that rabbit Trail'll bless you, Sam, but I have to
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  Speaker 1: go inside to work. Love you, amen, Amen, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for hanging out with us, brother Frank, as
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  Speaker 1: long as you could before. You're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: blessed day at work. And I know you're a blessing
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  Speaker 1: and a shining light inside that workspace. Amen. So personal
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  Speaker 1: decision made in context of your freedom in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: That changes everything about a fast. Right. You're not doing
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  Speaker 1: it based on religion or based on men. You're doing
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  Speaker 1: your fasting and praying based on Christ Jesus, your freedom
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  Speaker 1: in Him. You do it because you can with His
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  Speaker 1: power and strength to do it. Amen. And it gives
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  Speaker 1: you focus. Trust me. Try not eating for two, three,
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  Speaker 1: four days, seven days no food, and your flesh is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like, okay, what's going on? The spirit is gone,
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  Speaker 1: but you're gonna be keenly connected to the voice. You
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  Speaker 1: could really hear the frequency of the Holy Spirit when
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  Speaker 1: your system is detoxified and all that is happening. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a change in you. Also, we are
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  Speaker 1: already complete in Jesus, So please don't fast to be
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  Speaker 1: closer to God or to be more complete in God.
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  Speaker 1: You already have the completion, the complete work of God
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  Speaker 1: living inside of you. Amen. Earning favor, don't fast to
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  Speaker 1: earn favor with God. You already have favor with God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And also we are already complete in Him and have
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  Speaker 1: everything we need for life and Godliness. So I hope
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  Speaker 1: you encouraged. Amen. If you're fasting, continue to go forward
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  Speaker 1: and strength. Amen. We're praying for one another. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have not yet fasted any time during your spiritual journey,
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  Speaker 1: ask the Father if he wants you to join it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So I gave you three reasons, three scriptures you can
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  Speaker 1: meditate on that. God bless you all. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for hanging out with me. God keep you all,
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  Speaker 1: and remember always that God is Good. Peace.