So We Fasted... | Ezra 8:21-23 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

00:49:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxR8g6RSDM

Summary

TLDRNy mpitari-pivavahana dia miresaka amin'ny mena-fatana tokony hiofana amin'ny fifadian-kanina sy ny vavaka mba hitovy amin'ny fiangonana voalohany Akta. Koa satria eo am-piandrasana ny fiangonana amin'ny taona vaovao, izy dia niantso ny mpino ao anatiny sy ny mpino an-dahatsary hanao fiandrasana iray herinandro, hanapotika ny nofo, ary hanao vavaka sy fifadian-kanina. Ny fifadian-kanina dia tsy hoe miala amin'ny sakafo sy zava-panaovana fotsiny, fa ny onge no zava-dehibe indrindra ary manakaiky an'i Kristy. Ny mpitarika dia mampiasa ohatra ara-baiboly toy ny an'i Ezrah sy i Jodidy mba hanasongadinana ny herin'ny fifadian-kanina sy ny vavaka amin'ny fitondrana valiny mahagaga sy fiovana lalina. Ny fiangonana dia hirotsaka amin'ny vavaka ifanakalozy sy fangatahana ny fahasoavan'ny fanahy masina. Ny mpitory dia mamporisika ny fiangonana tsy hofetsifetsena amin'ny fifadian-kanina fa hiandany manokana sy haminavina izay ho avy.

Takeaways

  • 🙏 Fanohanana amin'ny vavaka sy fifadian-kanina
  • 📖 Fanfondràtana amin'ny Baiboly
  • 🤝 Hampandehanana ny fiarahamonina amin'ny OT
  • 🕊️ Fanoloran-tena hifanatreha 7 andro
  • 🚫 Fisorohana ny fitsikerana ny apôkrify
  • ⚖️ Fomba fanavaozana avy amin'ny Jodidy
  • 📈 Fitantanana ny vokatry ny fanatitra ara-pinoana
  • ✝️ Fampileferana ny nofo amin'ny fifadian-kanina
  • 🎊 Fampielezana ny evanjelistika sy ny fizarana
  • 🏦 Fampifidianana fiaraha-mihetsika faran'izay kely

Timeline

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    Nisy fampidirana fanao ara-pivavahana ao amin'ny evanjely ny mpandahateny ary izy manamafy ny maha-zava-dehibe ny fanompoana sy ny finoana ny fomba fitondran-tena araky ny boky. Manindry izy fa tena ilaina ny fahatsaram-panahy amin'ny fiaraha-monina, ny fitomboana ara-panahy, sy ny fanolorana rehetra ho an'ny tenan'ny tsirairay ho an'ny fiaraha-monina. Ny tanjona dia ny ho lasa eklesia tahaka ny amin'ny Asan'ny Apostoly faharoa.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Ny mpandahateny dia nanambara fa miantso ny fiangonana mba hanokana herinandro iray ho an'ny Konsèkrasi, miantso ny mpianatra eo an-toerana sy dizitaly mba hanolo-tena amin'ny fivavahana. Izy dia miarahaba sy miaina ao anatin'ny fifadian-kanina sy ny vavaka satria ilay tena zava-dehibe indrindra amin'ny fiainana ara-panahy azy dia ny fahalemena sy ny ho akaiky an'Andriamanitra.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Nizara ny mpandahateny ny niarahany tena nijaly sy nitomany noho ny toe-draharaha eo amin'ny eklesia sy ny fahotana eo amin'ny tena manokana sy ny andraikitra izay tsy manakatra mora an'Andriamanitra Inianarany izany ho toy ny tokony hisian'ny fanavaozana ara-pivavahana lehibe.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Ny tena zava-dehibe tamin'ny hafatra dia ny herin'ny nofo sy ny ady eo amin'ny nofo sy ny fanahy. Nanentana ny mpihaino mba hahatsapa ny antony mahatonga ny fisian'izy ireo ao anatin'ny fahalovana sy ny fihanaky ny hatezerana.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Ny halehiben'ny ady amin'ny nofo sy ny filana eo amin'ny nofo no nambara tamin'ny fifohazana sy eo amin'ny faharesen'ny fahotana vokatry ny filana voajanahary. Maika ny mpandahateny mba hilaza amin'ny mpihaino fa ny antony rehetra ratsy eo amin'ny fiainana dia avy amin'ny maha nofo antsika.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Voalaza fa ny fanokanana amin'ny vavaka sy fifadian-kanina dia ahafahana mifandray akaiky amin'Andriamanitra. Ny mpandahateny dia nanavaka ny fifadian-kanina ara-baiboly avy amin'ny fanaovana tsinontsinona ara-nofo.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Ny ohatrin'ny herin'ny vavaka sy fifadian-kanina dia masina sy manome fa ny vavaka sy fifadian-kanina miaraka amin'ny finoana dia afaka manova ny toe-javatra. Ny olona ao amin'ny Baiboly koa dia nampiseho fa nanova hatramin'ny toe-draharaha noho ny fifadian-kanina.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Nantsoina ny fiangonana mba hanao fifadian-kanina tanteraka mandritra ny herinandro ho avy io ary ny mpandahateny dia nanazava ny fifadian-kanina. Io fotoana io dia hanokana ny tenany sy hidera an’Andriamanitra.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:49:50

    Nampitandrina ny mpandahateny ny vondron'olona avy izany mba ho azo antoka fa ny anton'ny fifadian-kanina dia marina ary ny anton'izany dia ny ho akaiky an'Andriamanitra, tsy ny miezaka hanao banga fotsiny saingy ny atao amin'ny fahamarinana sy ny fiderana an'Andriamanitra.

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Video Q&A

  • Inona ny fiantsoana atao amin'ny fiangonana?

    Ny mpitarika dia miantso ny fiangonana manontolo hiarahana amin'ny herinandro ho fiankohofana sy fifadian-kanina.

  • Inona no tanjon'ny fifadian-kanina?

    Ny tanjon'ny fifadian-kanina dia ny hanatonana akaiky an'Andriamanitra sy ny hamoahana ny nofo mba ho raffina mifantoka amin'i Kristy.

  • Inona no atao hoe fiangonana Akta sy ny antony tian'ny mpitarika iray hitarina mankany amin'izany?

    Ny Fiangonana Akta dia miompana amin'ny vavaka sy fizarana ny Filazantsara, ary ny fiovana ho lasa moto ny mpino.

  • Azaota lalindalina ve ny fijanonan'i Ezrah sy ny fifadian-kaniny?

    I Ezrah, mpisorona sy mpandika lalàna, dia nitarika ny mpiangona tamin'ny lalan'ny fifadian-kanina sy ny vavaka mba hiantsoana fiarovana ao amin’ Andriamanitra.

  • Inona no tolotra ataon'ny Eklesia 2819?

    Ny eklesia 2819 dia manolotra fihaonana ary maniry ny ekipa halaim-panahy hitombo amin’ny Baiboly, vavaka, ary fifehezan-tena.

  • Ahoana no fomba fanazavana ny vavaka nataon'i Jesoa?

    Ny vavaka nataon'i Jesoa dia modely amin’ny vavaka, izay ampianariny ny mpianany amin'ny fomba tokony hivavahany.

  • Inona ny tombony amin'ny fifadian-kanina?

    Amin'ny fifadian-kanina dia maheno an'Andriamanitra kokoa, manakaiky kokoa Azy, ary mety miteraka fitarihana sy fahitana mazava.

  • Inona ny fangatahana hetahetan'i Jesoa momba ny vavaka sy ny fifadian-kanina?

    Amin'ny Toriteny teo an-tendro, Jesoa dia miantso ny mpanara-dia Azy hanao vavaka sy fifadian-kanina mangingina ary amin'ny vatana manontolo.

  • Inona no fanoharana nataon’ny mpitarika momba ny Eklesia any Roma?

    Ny mpitarika dia niresaka ny ady ataon’i Paoly any Roma momba ny nofo sy ny fanahy mba hampahatsiahy ny maha-zava-dehibe ny fandresen’ny matihanina ny nofo.

  • Inona ny fifadian-kanina ara-baiboly fampiasa?

    Ny mpitarika dia miantso ny fiangonana hanao ny fifadian-kanina ara-baiboly tanteraka na ny fifadian-kanina ampahany ihany.

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    family I want to I want to start this
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    talk with just a moment of
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    transparency um I got up this morning
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    3:24 a.m. and as soon as I walked into
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    my prayer
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    room uh immediately uh I just burst into
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    tears when I walked into my prayer room
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    and in those moments when that happens
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    to me I am aware now after walking with
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    the Lord for 20 years that the Lord is
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    just impressing some burden on my heart
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    and and as I knelt down and as I wept
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    bitterly I I I felt this grief in my
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    heart just over the things that has
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    infected the church in the West in
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    America and and I I begin to grieve over
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    the state of the church over the
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    condition of the church in the West in
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    America I was grieved over the sin that
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    is in me the sin that is in you the sin
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    that is in the church in America the sin
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    that is in the body of Christ I was
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    grieved over our
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    Shenanigans and our Antics and our
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    foolishness and how we've turned the
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    church into a
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    market I was grieved over the things
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    that I see in the American church that
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    grieve the spirit of God things that we
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    have made Western and try to make it
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    Christian and things we have taken that
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    is Western and try to make it gospel and
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    and I wept over those things and I
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    pleaded with God and I cried out with
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    God God I pray for another Great
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    Awakening
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    to hit this nation I prayed for an
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    outpouring of repentance on our nation I
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    prayed for an outpouring of conviction
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    on our nation I pray that there would be
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    Mass Revival in this nation a mass
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    turning away from the world towards
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    Christ away from apathy away from Idols
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    away from all of our sexual perversion
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    away from our immorality away from all
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    of it towards Christ I pray that God
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    would pour out a spirit on the church
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    that we the people of God will be
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    grieved in our hearts over the things
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    that's inside of us the darkness in my
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    own heart and the Darkness Y and I wept
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    for hours and I prayed for hours until I
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    was completely empty and was in that
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    moment I got this flashback in my head
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    of what Paul said to the church in Rome
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    how he wrote in Romans chapter 7 how he
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    talked about in me that's is my flesh
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    that dwells no good
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    thing and how in the back half of Romans
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    7 Paul is complaining about his flesh
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    and the war between the Flesh and the
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    spirit paraphrase like the things I want
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    to do that's right I keep falling short
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    I don't do them I want to pray and I
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    want to read and I want to be I keep
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    falling short and the things I don't
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    want to do man I keep finding myself
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    doing I'm I'm watching porn and I'm
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    lusting and I'm smoking and I'm doing
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    all and the things I and I and I grieve
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    over that and Paul has this wrestle
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    between the Flesh and the spirit and I'm
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    thinking about that and then as I was
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    praying and crying hear me man I thought
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    about the thing I probably hate the most
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    that brings me the most grief is like a
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    thorn in my
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    side and it's me
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    it's my flesh it's the nature that I
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    can't take off until the Lord delivers
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    me from this body is why I look forward
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    to Eternity I don't know about you
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    people think they know me and they don't
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    I look forward to the day I leave this
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    life to go be with my Lord my only
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    desire to stay here is Felina my
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    children 2019 and the spread of the
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    Gospel I have no other desire to be here
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    don't care about Fame don't care about
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    platforms don't care about
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    money I have no other desire to be here
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    I'm I'm being changed in the presence of
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    my
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    savior the things that used to matter to
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    me does not matter anymore this is true
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    story no
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    cap and I thought about man that this
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    thorn in my side this flesh that when
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    you grow in maturity when you grow with
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    God you start to hate the flesh because
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    you feel like man this thing it
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    frustrates me all the time like dang it
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    you thought about that again
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    again dang it you doing that again dang
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    it you talking like that again like when
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    will you grow out of
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    this nobody's never felt that you've
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    never been angry at your own
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    flesh no let let me talk to the men
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    strolling be
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    like dang it I shouldn't have been
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    looking at that no yes you have Jesus
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    and then I thought to myself man there
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    was a time when this was not a
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    problem where the first human beings was
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    created perfect and they had moral
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    perfection and they walked with God in
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    perfect intimacy and had no issues with
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    the flesh until they thought they were
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    smarter than
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    God and was deceived by the enemy Jus
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    Christ and plunged the whole world into
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    sin
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    and as a result of that all of us have
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    to keep
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    wrestling with the
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    Flesh and while you sit there and you
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    look at
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    me with your crooked
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    eyes I just want to remind you that it
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    is your flesh the darkness of your own
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    heart and your sinful nature from that
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    Fountain flows all of the issues that
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    you hate your guilt that's
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    right your shame your insecurity
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    your jealousy your pride your arrogance
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    your judgment your criticism your
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    marital issues your relationship issues
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    your friendship issues
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    divorces fights and Wars sickness and
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    disease aging and gray here all of the
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    things we hate in this
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    life man they flow from the issues of
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    the heart and the sinful nature and and
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    while we who are followers of of Christ
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    man man we have
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    to live in such a way as to keep
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    subjecting the flesh while we try our
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    best to connect with the Lord in
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    intimacy because a lot of us don't
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    realize that the best treatment for all
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    the issues of your heart is the presence
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    of God let
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    me all right let
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    me the best treatment thank God for
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    counselors thank God for your spa day
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    thank thank God for getting your Manny
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    and Petty thank God for Soul Care and
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    the best treatment for all of the issues
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    of the human heart is God
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    himself Hallelujah but the flesh often
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    times keeps this Veil between us and God
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    that sometimes it's hard to get close to
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    God because of the issues of the Flesh
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    and there is this one ancient
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    practice that significantly weakens the
  • 00:13:30
    Flesh and it makes the spirit grow
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    strong that through that practice we we
  • 00:13:36
    tap into God in a way where we have like
  • 00:13:38
    antennas up we can hear him clearly and
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    it is this ancient discipline of
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    fasting and
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    prayer for the uninformed what is
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    fasting is not getting rid of just
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    social media come on sir that's a lazy
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    fast it's not just getting rid of Music
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    That's a punk fast okay biblical fasting
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    is the abstinence from
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    food for a period of time for the sake
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    of consecrating the heart to grow closer
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    to God through
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    prayer it's not a hunger strike it is
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    the denial of the thing the flesh wants
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    most food and
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    pleasure no food no sex no food no
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    social media no food no Fillin the blank
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    it's it is crushing it is telling this
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    flesh I have authority over
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    you I like the way that feels right
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    Carina it's telling the flesh I have
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    authority over you and I will deny you
  • 00:14:51
    what you want most for a period of time
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    I will weaken
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    you so so that who I really am a spirit
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    inside of a body
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    God can grow strong in intimacy with
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    Christ and when you
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    fast you hear God more
  • 00:15:11
    clearly when you fast you draw closer to
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    God than ever before when you fast you
  • 00:15:17
    can move God to intervene in
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    circumstances people have prayed and God
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    has moved people have prayed and God
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    protected people have prayed and God
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    intervened people have prayed and God
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    healed people have prayed I like this
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    one and God
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    answered and in this room and in that
  • 00:15:43
    room and in the scriptures man this
  • 00:15:47
    rooms these rooms and the scriptures are
  • 00:15:49
    replete with true stories and
  • 00:15:52
    testimonies of people who fasted and
  • 00:15:54
    prayed and seen God move mightily on
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    their behalf
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    I want to just mention three of them
  • 00:16:02
    from the word of God that I love
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    personally the first one comes from
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    Ezra who was a priest and a scribe and a
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    mighty spiritual
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    leader the people of God have been
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    exiled by
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    Babylon Persia conquers Babylon and they
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    allow some Jews to go back to their
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    Homeland and in the 400 unds BC Ezra is
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    coming behind a priest named zerubabel
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    who becomes a governor and he's leading
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    like over a thousand Jews back to
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    Jerusalem back out of Exile now the
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    journey from where they was back to
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    Jerusalem a very dangerous Journey
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    people were killed along that
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    route so Ezra watch who was a man of the
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    scriptures and a man of God in Ezra 8
  • 00:16:59
    and verse 21 before they leave to head
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    to Jerusalem he says in verse 21 then I
  • 00:17:07
    that is Ezra proclaimed a fast there you
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    know what it is he called the whole
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    group over a thousand of them to a fast
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    so we see corporate fasting is
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    biblical then I Ezra proclaim the fast
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    there at the river Hara that we might
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    humble ourselves before God cuz that's
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    what fasting is it is humbling yourself
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    before God it is acknowledging that God
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    has the power and the capacity to move
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    on your
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    behalf to seek from him a safe journey
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    for ourselves and our children and all
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    of our goods for I was ashamed to ask
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    the king for a band of soldiers and
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    Horsemen to protect us against the enemy
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    on our way so this this is powerful so
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    Ezra says to himself we have to make a
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    journey that's dangerous should I depend
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    on men or should I depend on
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    God and because he was bragging on God
  • 00:18:11
    which he says next watch and because he
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    said he told them the hand of our God is
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    for good on all who seek Him and the
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    power of His wrath is against all who
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    forsake Him so he's bragging about God
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    to a King and he says to himself well
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    since I was bragging on the ability of
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    God now I have a choice to make do I go
  • 00:18:33
    back to that King and ask for soldiers
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    to protect us and ruin the reputation of
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    God or do I put my faith out there fast
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    and pray and trust God to provide for me
  • 00:18:45
    what man cannot provide for
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    [Applause]
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    me so he calls the congregation to a
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    fast and what is their response verse 23
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    so we fasted that is we hear you man of
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    God we got you man of God we going to do
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    this watch this word together man of
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    God all of us together we going to seek
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    God together we're going to Humble
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    ourselves together we going to fast
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    together we going to consecrate
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    [Applause]
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    together so we fasted and implored you
  • 00:19:29
    know what implored is pleaded petitioned
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    prayed asked Our God for this and I like
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    this next part and he
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    listened to our in treaty did you see
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    that watch this they fasted and prayed
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    and God answered watch this this is God
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    meeting a need through fasting and
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    prayer and I know there are plenty of
  • 00:19:53
    people under the sound of my voice you
  • 00:19:55
    have a need right now in your life that
  • 00:19:58
    may be inside the context of God's Will
  • 00:20:01
    and God might be so inclined to move on
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    your behalf if you would humble yourself
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    consecrate fast pray seek Him implore
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    him and trust him to move to meet the
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    need that you have right now in your
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    life here is a group of people fasting
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    God responds by meeting the need am amen
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    amen a second example I love is in Acts
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    chapter
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    13 I'm just going to Jump Around the
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    scriptures can I do that I'm I'm I'm
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    going outside of what I normally do is
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    that anybody got a problem with
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    that the book of Acts was written by a
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    gentile named Luke he records the first
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    30 years of church history he records in
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    Acts chapter 2 the birth of the
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    Christian church as Peter preached the
  • 00:20:51
    very first sermon on the day of
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    Pentecost the church grows to
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    3,120 disciples the church church then
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    grows to 5,000 men the church is then
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    spreading out all over Jerusalem the
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    church is then persecuted as the church
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    is persecuted they flee Jerusalem and
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    the gospel spreads around the known
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    world at that time the first martyr is
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    killed
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    Stephen and then the second martyr is
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    killed James he's killed by a king named
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    Herod so now the church is growing and
  • 00:21:25
    dealing with persecution at the same
  • 00:21:27
    time okay everybody missed that the
  • 00:21:31
    church is growing and dealing with
  • 00:21:33
    persecution at the same time okay let
  • 00:21:36
    mean it's going to hit somebody when
  • 00:21:38
    they get home the church is growing and
  • 00:21:41
    dealing with persecution at the same
  • 00:21:44
    time the church is growing and dealing
  • 00:21:47
    with persecution at the same time sounds
  • 00:21:51
    like another church I know
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    I'm trying to
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    Sister the church is growing and dealing
  • 00:22:03
    with persecution at the same time but
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    persecution is not stopping the church
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    from
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    flourishing they could sa what they want
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    on social media they can they can say
  • 00:22:18
    what they want in the city this the
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    persecution is not slowing down the move
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    of God that he's doing in the
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    church just keep the parallels in the
  • 00:22:32
    text and then in Acts chapter
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    13 uh verse one now there were in the
  • 00:22:40
    church at Antioch which was the second
  • 00:22:42
    home base of the church after Jerusalem
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    where the people were first called
  • 00:22:46
    Christians there prophets and teachers
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    Barnabas Simeon who was called
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    Niger Lucius of sirene Manan a lifelong
  • 00:22:57
    friend of Herod the tetri and Saul while
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    they were worshiping the Lord
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    and while they were worshiping the Lord
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    and while they were worshiping the Lord
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    and
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    fasting the Holy Spirit I like this next
  • 00:23:15
    word he
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    said okay because the holy spirit is not
  • 00:23:22
    an it stop saying
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    that he's not a spook a ghost or wind
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    the the holy spirit is a person the
  • 00:23:31
    third person of the godhead God the
  • 00:23:33
    Father God the son God the holy spirit
  • 00:23:35
    all in the New
  • 00:23:37
    Testament Jesus calls him a he because
  • 00:23:40
    he has a pronoun he's not a female and
  • 00:23:43
    he's not a spook
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    that that's for all the false prophets
  • 00:23:48
    who preach God our mother I'm talking to
  • 00:23:52
    you I'm talking to you all the false
  • 00:23:55
    prophets who preach God our mother no
  • 00:23:58
    God God gave us his pronouns Jesus said
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    when he
  • 00:24:02
    comes he will and he will and he will
  • 00:24:09
    all of John 1314 15 161 17 all
  • 00:24:15
    all
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    word right as they were fasting the Holy
  • 00:24:22
    Spirit spoke as they were fasting the
  • 00:24:26
    Holy Spirit spoke and said set apart for
  • 00:24:29
    me Barnabas and Saul for the work of the
  • 00:24:32
    ministry or for the work to which I have
  • 00:24:34
    called them then after fasting and
  • 00:24:37
    praying they laid their hands on them
  • 00:24:39
    and sent them off do you see that so the
  • 00:24:42
    first group fasted and prayed God met a
  • 00:24:44
    need this group fasted and prayed God
  • 00:24:47
    gave them Guidance just like there's
  • 00:24:49
    many of us right now we need guidance
  • 00:24:51
    should I take the job should I move to
  • 00:24:53
    the city should I marry this person
  • 00:24:55
    should I sign that contract I'm
  • 00:24:57
    wrestling with this decision like
  • 00:24:58
    there's some of us who need gu and say
  • 00:25:00
    God why can't I hear you maybe you need
  • 00:25:01
    to quiet your
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    [Applause]
  • 00:25:08
    flesh there are people under the sound
  • 00:25:11
    of my voice who are trying to make
  • 00:25:12
    important decisions like we are as a
  • 00:25:15
    church and sometimes you need to quiet
  • 00:25:18
    your
  • 00:25:19
    flesh fast and seek God your antennas go
  • 00:25:23
    up you can hear him more clearly I just
  • 00:25:25
    want you to see from the scriptures that
  • 00:25:27
    God speaks during
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    fast he meets needs he
  • 00:25:37
    speaks he gives guidance he gives
  • 00:25:39
    Direction and sometimes he whispers when
  • 00:25:42
    we have the discipline to quiet this
  • 00:25:50
    flesh so we get guidance during a fast
  • 00:25:53
    another one I love is probably my
  • 00:25:55
    favorite I know you're not going to like
  • 00:25:57
    this one but I don't care I'm going to
  • 00:25:58
    read it to you
  • 00:26:00
    anyway Joel chapter 2 you never read
  • 00:26:04
    that book right the people of God do
  • 00:26:07
    what Americans do who call themselves
  • 00:26:10
    Christians the Lord is not
  • 00:26:13
    enough so they stray from God to loving
  • 00:26:16
    other idols and doing what they do and
  • 00:26:19
    then a swarm of locust comes into the
  • 00:26:22
    land and ravishes their economic
  • 00:26:24
    livelihood it is a sign of God's
  • 00:26:27
    judgment God's discipline upon them
  • 00:26:30
    because of their sin and you would think
  • 00:26:32
    that God is so cruel he just leave them
  • 00:26:34
    out there suffering in their said no no
  • 00:26:37
    no no no but joob chapter 2 and verse 12
  • 00:26:40
    I love this part so my God I'm I just
  • 00:26:42
    want to jump off this platform and Shake
  • 00:26:45
    somebody this is for everybody who deals
  • 00:26:48
    with guilt everybody who deals with
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    shame everybody who feels like I don't
  • 00:26:52
    know if I could consecrate because you
  • 00:26:54
    don't know what I've been doing there's
  • 00:26:55
    no way God is going to listen to me he's
  • 00:26:57
    not going to hear me man I've been in
  • 00:26:59
    sexual immorality man I've been far away
  • 00:27:01
    from God I know it's a new year but I'm
  • 00:27:03
    not feeling God right now I'm far away
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    this is for all of us who are dealing
  • 00:27:07
    with that listen what he says in verse
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    12 yet even
  • 00:27:12
    now in the middle of your Rebellion
  • 00:27:16
    declares the Lord watch this word return
  • 00:27:18
    to
  • 00:27:22
    me return to me with all of your heart
  • 00:27:26
    how do you do that
  • 00:27:28
    with
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    fasting
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    gosh with
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    weeping with
  • 00:27:38
    mourning break
  • 00:27:41
    yourself shed
  • 00:27:43
    tears cry over the issues of your
  • 00:27:47
    heart come to me and tell me how far
  • 00:27:50
    away you are tell me your cold tell me
  • 00:27:53
    your prayer life sucks tell me you don't
  • 00:27:55
    read tell me you're far away tell me
  • 00:27:58
    return return return to me with fasting
  • 00:28:02
    and weeping and mourning and I like
  • 00:28:04
    verse 13 Rend your
  • 00:28:07
    hearts and not your garments I don't
  • 00:28:10
    want your empty praise and I don't want
  • 00:28:12
    no dead service I want your heart he
  • 00:28:15
    says break your heart pour out your
  • 00:28:18
    heart watch
  • 00:28:19
    this ring out your heart tell me God I'm
  • 00:28:23
    struggling I'm struggling with
  • 00:28:25
    masturbation I'm struggling with lust
  • 00:28:27
    I'm struggling with jealousy I'm
  • 00:28:29
    struggling with pride I'm struggling
  • 00:28:31
    with anger I'm mad at you God I'm mad at
  • 00:28:34
    my wife I'm mad at my husband I'm Str
  • 00:28:37
    I'm jealous ring out your heart in
  • 00:28:39
    fasting and prayer
  • 00:28:43
    gosh
  • 00:28:48
    God and not your
  • 00:28:50
    garments man you can dress it up and
  • 00:28:52
    come to church and fool
  • 00:28:56
    everybody but the Lord said to them ring
  • 00:28:59
    out your hearts and not your garments
  • 00:29:00
    return to the Lord your God for he is
  • 00:29:03
    gracious and he is merciful he is slow
  • 00:29:07
    to anger and abounding in steadfast love
  • 00:29:11
    and he relents over disaster that is he
  • 00:29:15
    can turn off
  • 00:29:17
    his he can turn off his punishment
  • 00:29:20
    whenever he's ready he can he can move
  • 00:29:22
    into your situation whenever man he can
  • 00:29:24
    give you a breath of listen you know
  • 00:29:25
    what I want to say he can give you a
  • 00:29:27
    personal no Revival
  • 00:29:30
    hallah
  • 00:29:32
    hall
  • 00:29:33
    hallelujah my marriage is cold my prayer
  • 00:29:36
    life is cold my Bible reading is cold my
  • 00:29:39
    service is cold my heart feels cold I'm
  • 00:29:42
    talking to all of you who feel far away
  • 00:29:44
    from God man return to him with what
  • 00:29:46
    with fasting and with prayer Watch and
  • 00:29:50
    he can give you a
  • 00:29:55
    personal see and I I know I'm not the
  • 00:29:58
    only one since y'all are so phony and
  • 00:30:01
    since you you're so holy I know I'm not
  • 00:30:03
    the only one who has drifted into a
  • 00:30:06
    place where I just feel like I'm in a
  • 00:30:16
    funk just Lord I'm in a funk I'm busy
  • 00:30:20
    job got me stressed don't feel like
  • 00:30:22
    going to church kids got me tired got
  • 00:30:25
    bills I can't pay haven't talked to you
  • 00:30:27
    in a long time the one was the last time
  • 00:30:29
    I read I didn't pick up my devotional
  • 00:30:31
    blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
  • 00:30:33
    blah blah in a complete Funk but return
  • 00:30:36
    to me says the Lord with fasting and
  • 00:30:40
    weeping and ring out your heart ring out
  • 00:30:43
    your sin tell me what's going on and he
  • 00:30:46
    can give you
  • 00:30:52
    personal I mean forget the country
  • 00:30:55
    me Revival
  • 00:30:59
    some of us just need to be set on
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    fire
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    [Applause]
  • 00:31:08
    again the Lord meets needs the Lord
  • 00:31:12
    speaks the Lord revives man the Lord
  • 00:31:15
    does mighty things during fasting and
  • 00:31:18
    prayer family listen to me I'm almost
  • 00:31:19
    finished man it was during a
  • 00:31:24
    fast that a woman with a damaged cervix
  • 00:31:28
    I'm going keep saying this a hundred
  • 00:31:30
    times who the doctors told her you will
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    never have
  • 00:31:35
    children she fasted and prayed and cried
  • 00:31:39
    out to God if you give me a son I will
  • 00:31:42
    give him back to you her name is Sharon
  • 00:31:46
    Mitchell who God performed a creative
  • 00:31:50
    miracle in her womb and not only gave
  • 00:31:53
    her a son but a daughter to shame the
  • 00:31:57
    adversary she got
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    a the evidence is talking to you right
  • 00:32:11
    now what we talking about man he's
  • 00:32:16
    able it was during a fast that God
  • 00:32:19
    performed a creative miracle in her
  • 00:32:23
    womb she medically could not have
  • 00:32:26
    children
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    stand up
  • 00:32:35
    Abby no just just run up here right here
  • 00:32:37
    just stand right here quick quick quick
  • 00:32:38
    move
  • 00:32:40
    quick come here yeah
  • 00:32:45
    2010 Bible
  • 00:32:47
    College first ultrasound Cy on the brain
  • 00:32:52
    doctor says she will not speak she will
  • 00:32:55
    not walk she will be mentally
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    we can't do anything leaking fluid in
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    her spinal cord and her parents
  • 00:33:05
    [Applause]
  • 00:33:16
    fasted her parents fasted and prayed and
  • 00:33:20
    cried out to God and he performed a
  • 00:33:26
    creative
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    [Applause]
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    Miracle the doctor said she would never
  • 00:33:43
    speak say hallelujah Abby Hallelujah the
  • 00:33:46
    doctor said she will never walk stomp
  • 00:33:48
    your feet Abby
  • 00:34:03
    [Applause]
  • 00:34:09
    you have no idea what God would do when
  • 00:34:12
    you turn your plate down and you get
  • 00:34:15
    serious about Consecration and prayer
  • 00:34:18
    and fasting and going after him with all
  • 00:34:22
    of your
  • 00:34:25
    heart what we talking about
  • 00:34:29
    I feel Faith rising up in the room right
  • 00:34:32
    [Applause]
  • 00:34:41
    now so did Jesus are you all in the old
  • 00:34:45
    test did
  • 00:34:51
    Jesus give a
  • 00:34:53
    charge to you his follower of about
  • 00:34:58
    prayer and fasting watch this here's a
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    better question is it
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    optional can I check out and his most
  • 00:35:05
    famous sermon Matthew recorded The
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    Sermon on the Mount Jesus said to you
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    and to me in Matthew chapter 6 and
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    beginning at verse 5 he says and when
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    you
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    pray you must not pray like the
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    Hypocrites for they love to stand and
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    pray in the synagogues and on the street
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    corners that they may be seen by others
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    truly I say to you they have their
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    reward uhhuh I want you to draw your
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    attention to the word when the word when
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    is a presupposition in the text that
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    means the Lord expects you to pray so no
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    follower gets an out from prayer it's
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    not for pastors it's not for leaders
  • 00:35:50
    it's for every follower of Christ not if
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    you pray When you pray that is the Lord
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    expects you to pray
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    and then he says when you do it don't
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    pray like these Hypocrites so you can be
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    seen and heard yeah yeah he's not
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    against public prayers he's against
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    false
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    prayers don't pray to be seen just be
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    seen
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    praying he says when you pray with false
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    motives your only reward is people
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    saying dang she can pray dang he can
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    pray When you pray with false motives
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    that's your only reward your only reward
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    is the affirmation of people who can't
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    answer your
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    [Applause]
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    [Music]
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    prayer and then he says but when you
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    pray this is what you do during the fast
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    go into your room your closet your
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    bathroom your car the park the office
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    the cubicle shut the door wherever you
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    want and pray to your father who is in
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    secret The Secret of prayer is praying
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    in
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    secret okay
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    okay the secret of prayer is praying in
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    secret and your father who sees in
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    secret will reward you that is he
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    promises a reward for secret
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    praying if you pray you will be rewarded
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    now he does not tell us what the reward
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    is he leaves at Nuance so as to not
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    limit him in our thinking of what he
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    could do when you pray come on Sir that
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    is the Lord did not cap God to what he
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    could do when you pray that is he can do
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    anything he desires to do in the context
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    of his will he says man go in your room
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    shut the door during the
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    consecration in secret and keep crying
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    out to God in
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    secret verse seven and when you pray do
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    not Heap up empty phrases as the
  • 00:37:46
    Gentiles do for they think that they
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    will be heard with their many words do
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    not be like them but your father knows
  • 00:37:51
    what you need before you ask you know
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    what he's saying pray with honesty pray
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    with security that is just be honest
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    about what you need is and pray that God
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    will in such a way that you have an
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    assurance that God will hear you when
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    you pray you don't got to impress him
  • 00:38:05
    with speech oh Lord Thou Art great and
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    awesome like you think if you don't pray
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    King James English the Lord won't hear
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    Sometimes the best prayer is like Lord
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    help this dude right
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    here the Lord speaks more than
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    Elizabethan English
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    he says don't pray like that he says
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    pray then like this Our Father who are
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    in heaven Hallowed Be Your Name Your
  • 00:38:34
    Kingdom Come your will be done on Earth
  • 00:38:36
    as it is in heaven give us this day our
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    daily bread and forgive us our debts as
  • 00:38:40
    we forgive our debtors and lead us not
  • 00:38:42
    into temptation but Deliver Us from all
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    evil theologians call this The Lord's
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    Prayer and you could pray at verbatim
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    but that's not why Jesus taught it he
  • 00:38:53
    didn't teach it for us to pray at
  • 00:38:54
    verbatim he gave it to us as a model to
  • 00:38:56
    teach you how to pray so how do you pray
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    you start your prayers by acknowledging
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    who you talking to our father and you
  • 00:39:05
    think about where he is he is in heaven
  • 00:39:07
    he is exalted he is above you think
  • 00:39:10
    about who you're talking to and where
  • 00:39:12
    he's seated then he says your kingdom
  • 00:39:14
    come and your will be done or he says
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    Hallowed Be Your Name That is worship
  • 00:39:18
    God in your time of prayer then he says
  • 00:39:20
    pray your kingdom come and your will be
  • 00:39:22
    done that is busy yourself with praying
  • 00:39:25
    about the things that God is concerning
  • 00:39:27
    about pray for the spread of the Gospel
  • 00:39:30
    pray for the planting of churches pray
  • 00:39:32
    for missionaries pray for spiritual
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    leaders pray for people to be saved pray
  • 00:39:36
    for the lost and know Jesus pray for
  • 00:39:38
    every unsaved family and loved one pray
  • 00:39:40
    for the kingdom if you pray like that
  • 00:39:42
    your prayer life will be on fire some of
  • 00:39:45
    you you'll be bored in your prayer
  • 00:39:46
    because all your prayers are about
  • 00:39:49
    [Applause]
  • 00:39:51
    you but when you see the world through
  • 00:39:53
    the eyes of Jesus you will be grieved
  • 00:39:55
    over the state of cities and America
  • 00:39:57
    you'll be praying for the government and
  • 00:39:59
    for Nations you'll be praying for places
  • 00:40:01
    where they've never heard the name of
  • 00:40:02
    Jesus you'll be praying for Islamic
  • 00:40:04
    Nations and Buddhist Nations and places
  • 00:40:07
    where they've never heard Christ you be
  • 00:40:09
    pray your kingdom come and your will be
  • 00:40:13
    done then he gets to you give us this
  • 00:40:16
    day of Daily Bread ask God for your
  • 00:40:17
    needs and don't be ashamed there's
  • 00:40:20
    things you want in your heart you'll
  • 00:40:21
    never say but you have not because you
  • 00:40:23
    ask
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    not then he says for forgive us our
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    debts as we forgive our debt as that is
  • 00:40:29
    deal with your sin like don't go into
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    God's presence and act holy go into
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    God's presence and act lowly and deal
  • 00:40:35
    with your sin tell them you're a sinner
  • 00:40:37
    tell them you messed up this week tell
  • 00:40:39
    them you messed up last night and ring
  • 00:40:41
    out your heart from sin and lead us not
  • 00:40:44
    into temptation that is ask him for
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    strength right so you see the Lord
  • 00:40:48
    commands us to pray and then in verse 16
  • 00:40:52
    the last set of verses and I'm done he
  • 00:40:55
    says and when you
  • 00:40:58
    fast do not look
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    gloomy like the Hypocrites I'm glad
  • 00:41:05
    you're laughing so that mean I don't
  • 00:41:07
    have to interpret that for they
  • 00:41:08
    disfigure their faces for their fasting
  • 00:41:10
    may be seen by others now let me just
  • 00:41:12
    tell you what that means that is don't
  • 00:41:14
    brag about your fasting don't go to work
  • 00:41:16
    and be like oh God I'm fasting oh God we
  • 00:41:19
    want a consecration he said don't let
  • 00:41:22
    people know that you're doing that cuz
  • 00:41:24
    when you're doing that you're just
  • 00:41:25
    looking for people to give you props oh
  • 00:41:27
    snap your fasting if if that's what you
  • 00:41:29
    do your only reward will be the the
  • 00:41:32
    affirmation of men right that's your
  • 00:41:35
    reward he said don't do that truly I say
  • 00:41:37
    to them you have a reward but when you
  • 00:41:39
    fast anoint your head and wash your
  • 00:41:43
    face that your fasting may not be seen
  • 00:41:45
    by
  • 00:41:46
    others but by your father who is in
  • 00:41:49
    heaven and in secret and your father who
  • 00:41:51
    sees in
  • 00:41:52
    secret will reward you openly
  • 00:41:57
    so here's what the Lord is saying he
  • 00:41:59
    calls us to pray everybody look at me he
  • 00:42:02
    calls us to fast he says when you pray
  • 00:42:04
    do it in secret he's not against group
  • 00:42:06
    prayer and he says he calls us to fast
  • 00:42:08
    but don't brag about your fasting that
  • 00:42:10
    is iron your clothes go to work do what
  • 00:42:13
    you got to do man fast and don't let
  • 00:42:15
    people know you're doing that it's
  • 00:42:17
    between you and God now hear me I'm
  • 00:42:21
    calling this entire church to
  • 00:42:24
    consecration this week
  • 00:42:27
    and I'll give you only two options not
  • 00:42:29
    these little punk American fast you get
  • 00:42:31
    two options they are biblical and that
  • 00:42:34
    is it for the majority of us 85% 90% I'm
  • 00:42:39
    calling you to what's called a total
  • 00:42:42
    fast that is we won't eat again until We
  • 00:42:46
    Gather in this room next week and the
  • 00:42:48
    first meal we'll have will be communion
  • 00:42:51
    together that will be my next meal
  • 00:42:54
    starting tomorrow the fast starts
  • 00:42:56
    tomorrow when Monday morning comes my
  • 00:42:58
    next meal will be communion in 7 days
  • 00:43:01
    and we deny this body What It Wants most
  • 00:43:05
    you get no food you get no
  • 00:43:09
    stimulus this is what Jesus did in the
  • 00:43:12
    wilderness in Matthew 4 he was out there
  • 00:43:14
    watch this for 40 days and 40 nights
  • 00:43:17
    watch no food no stimulus no food no
  • 00:43:21
    social media no television no radio no
  • 00:43:25
    stimulus nothing that my flesh and joys
  • 00:43:28
    this is me and Jesus alone for S
  • 00:43:32
    days total fast liquid for me water
  • 00:43:37
    only and I'm calling the majority of you
  • 00:43:39
    to do something you've never done before
  • 00:43:42
    break your flesh crucify it tell your
  • 00:43:46
    flesh it has no authority over you
  • 00:43:49
    discipline it crush it you give it no
  • 00:43:52
    pleasure and no food your food for the
  • 00:43:55
    next week will be the word of God
  • 00:43:58
    Matthew 4:4 for man shall not live on
  • 00:44:01
    bread alone but by every word that comes
  • 00:44:04
    out of the mouth of God man this will be
  • 00:44:07
    my breakfast this will be my lunch this
  • 00:44:09
    will be my dinner this will be my snack
  • 00:44:12
    man I'm going to I want you to Gorge
  • 00:44:14
    yourself on the word of
  • 00:44:17
    God listen to worship songs take walks
  • 00:44:20
    in the park the first 3 days is going to
  • 00:44:24
    hurt I've been 21 days without food the
  • 00:44:27
    first 3 days is going to hurt by the
  • 00:44:29
    fourth day you're going to be sailing
  • 00:44:32
    and the focus is not on what you can't
  • 00:44:34
    eat that's fleshly the focus is on I'm
  • 00:44:37
    going after Christ with my whole
  • 00:44:40
    heart watch and the greatest reward you
  • 00:44:45
    will get from fasting is whatever he
  • 00:44:47
    wants but the greatest reward you get
  • 00:44:48
    from fasting is him it is intimacy with
  • 00:44:51
    Christ you're going to hear him you're
  • 00:44:53
    going to feel him you're going to be
  • 00:44:54
    near him it's going to for some of you
  • 00:44:56
    it's going listen and this will be a
  • 00:44:58
    good week if you're struggling no sex
  • 00:45:00
    this
  • 00:45:01
    week no weed no cocaine no meth no
  • 00:45:06
    pornography this would be a good week to
  • 00:45:09
    put all your vices on the Altar and see
  • 00:45:11
    if God breaks it out of your life in
  • 00:45:14
    seven
  • 00:45:20
    days and then if you're pregnant or you
  • 00:45:23
    work a manual labor job and you ain't
  • 00:45:25
    gangster to do a toal fast that should
  • 00:45:28
    be 90% of y'all but if you're not
  • 00:45:30
    gangster to do that you're pregnant or
  • 00:45:31
    you got a manual job your only second
  • 00:45:33
    option is from the scriptures not these
  • 00:45:35
    little punk American fast oh I'm not
  • 00:45:36
    going to have coffee but then you're
  • 00:45:37
    going to do everything else no punk
  • 00:45:39
    American
  • 00:45:40
    fast this is the Bible your only other
  • 00:45:43
    fast partial like what Daniel did in
  • 00:45:47
    Daniel chapter 10 who went 21 days with
  • 00:45:50
    no meat no delicacy partial stimulus cuz
  • 00:45:53
    he worked a government job this is you
  • 00:45:56
    saying I just do one meal a day or I
  • 00:45:59
    just do salad and vegetables but I'm
  • 00:46:02
    going to deny myself the things that I
  • 00:46:03
    want no chicken no fish now all that
  • 00:46:05
    stuff that you love the things that make
  • 00:46:06
    you feel M you deny that no steak and
  • 00:46:09
    cab no steak and cab no steak and cab no
  • 00:46:13
    wine none of that stuff if it don't hurt
  • 00:46:16
    it's not a
  • 00:46:18
    fast it's a poke American
  • 00:46:21
    [Applause]
  • 00:46:25
    fast I got two
  • 00:46:28
    minutes this week we kill the flesh we
  • 00:46:33
    take authority over this body we run
  • 00:46:37
    after Jesus with our whole Hearts we
  • 00:46:40
    deny ourselves and we press into his
  • 00:46:44
    presence we run after him we draw near
  • 00:46:47
    to him we Gorge ourselves on the word we
  • 00:46:51
    walk we fast we pray we worship we sing
  • 00:46:55
    We lean into God's presence we want all
  • 00:46:58
    of God and nothing else listen to me you
  • 00:47:01
    will
  • 00:47:04
    survive and don't spend this week
  • 00:47:07
    talking about what I can't eat and oh my
  • 00:47:09
    God my church got me on my fast and we
  • 00:47:11
    can't do this that's so American and
  • 00:47:13
    it's so lame if you start talking like
  • 00:47:16
    that Isaiah 58 is for you if you fast
  • 00:47:19
    with the wrong motives the Lord will not
  • 00:47:23
    here call each other this week and enage
  • 00:47:27
    each other this week say man what are
  • 00:47:28
    you hearing from God and it's Wednesday
  • 00:47:31
    what are you reading from God and it's
  • 00:47:32
    Tuesday man how you holding up and it's
  • 00:47:35
    Thursday what you're getting in the
  • 00:47:36
    spirit and it's Friday encourage one
  • 00:47:39
    another this week man and spend the next
  • 00:47:41
    seven days Monday to Sunday get it out
  • 00:47:44
    your system this
  • 00:47:46
    afternoon and run after
  • 00:47:50
    [Applause]
  • 00:47:51
    God run after God with your whole heart
  • 00:47:55
    this week and let the be the weak man we
  • 00:47:57
    tell Jesus you are my
  • 00:48:05
    priority set the course for the year man
  • 00:48:09
    shoot set the course for the
  • 00:48:12
    decade believe for miracles believe for
  • 00:48:15
    healing believe for salvations tell God
  • 00:48:18
    to speak to you get your questions
  • 00:48:19
    answered I mean run after him I want you
  • 00:48:22
    to get to God's heart and nothing else
  • 00:48:24
    this week
  • 00:48:30
    now with every hand lifted in this room
  • 00:48:32
    and the overflowing across the camera
  • 00:48:34
    hold it high
  • 00:48:40
    H every hand
  • 00:48:43
    lifted this ain't no joke some of you
  • 00:48:45
    you're going to be changed you're going
  • 00:48:47
    to be radically transformed your bodies
  • 00:48:49
    are going to be healed you're going to
  • 00:48:50
    hear God see him like Isaiah did you're
  • 00:48:53
    going to feel him on another level
  • 00:48:57
    [Music]
  • 00:49:01
    man I feel this in my spirit father in
  • 00:49:03
    the name of
  • 00:49:05
    yua I pray over my spiritual family
  • 00:49:08
    local and abroad that you give us the
  • 00:49:12
    grace to consecrate ourselves to fast to
  • 00:49:17
    pray to worship to read to listen to
  • 00:49:23
    write to be disciplined to get us close
  • 00:49:26
    to your heart heart as we can I pray
  • 00:49:29
    that over them right now that they will
  • 00:49:31
    be changed transformed healed delivered
  • 00:49:35
    set free they will fall in love with you
  • 00:49:37
    like they've never have before we ask
  • 00:49:39
    that in the mighty and the Majestic and
  • 00:49:43
    the matchless name of our Lord and
  • 00:49:45
    Savior Jesus Christ now everybody put
  • 00:49:47
    your hands together
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