Fasting: Preparing for Spiritual Breakthrough and God's Presence

``It's more than just an adjustment. There's something that happens in the prolonged fast that is deep transformation. So again, what is he inviting you into? But let me remind you, fasting has to be partnered with prayer. Fasting disconnects us from the world. Prayer connects us to God. Fasting replaces the physical appetite with a spiritual appetite. The verse that talks about from within rivers of living water flow. Sometimes fasting can be, man, I'm so full of the world that I'm emptying my stomach and I'm being filled with the spirit and from within rivers of living water flow. God, I just want to be closer to you. It's a, it's an empty fasting and denying the physical appetite. And God, I need, I just want to be hungry for you. [00:18:50] (59 seconds)  #TransformativeFasting

I mean, the world can beat you up and you can, your faith starts, what did he say? Oh, this kind only comes out through prayer and fasting. And he told him before, unbelieving and perverse generation, what he was saying is you don't have enough faith for this one. And it's not that fasting, prayer and fasting, you're denying yourself and your faith is being built. So when I'm fasting, my faith, my complete confidence into, oh, this is what God says. This is what he's speaking. [00:39:16] (26 seconds)  #PowerInPrayerAndFasting

worshiping and fasting. And when you and I, we need to spend some time in direction and calling that we're, we're going to spend some time fasting, asking the Lord, where are you leading? Can I tell you anytime you are making some big moves in your life? You, you're, uh, you know, big decisions. Uh, I'm quitting my job and I, I like, you might want to spend some time fasting to get some clarity. Is this what the Lord is leading? And I've seen, I've seen people move to a whole nother state because they got offered $24,000 more a year. And then three years later, they're not serving the Lord and their family has fallen apart. And yes, great. You made more money. You live in a warm state, but was it what the Lord was leading you to? And so before making some big moves, maybe take some time to fast. [00:26:20] (54 seconds)  #FastingForRepentance

And I'm not joking. It was like three to four yellow jackets a day I'm killing with one of those zapper things. You know, and it's like, okay, I don't want to get stung by a yellow jacket getting a bowl of cereal. What is going on? And so we find out, okay, they're coming in the house over here. Oh, there's a hole in the roof over here. And so I go to Menards and I buy a bunch of yellow jacket cans, you know, and I'm spraying all kinds of everything. And guess how many yellow jackets I kill a day? Three to four. So then I go buy more yellow jacket cans. I probably did that three different times. There's cans everywhere. And I think she's like, you know, it would be just as cheap, like just to hire someone to come and do this. So we call a professional and he comes in and he finds all these, you know, stuff and he puts his powder down and closes the hole. Finding out they go into the hole of the house, all down the sheetrock. I mean, they're everywhere. And he said, for the next day, you're going to have some, you know, next couple of days that they're going to be mad. The ones that are still there. And like, man, there were so many in the house. Like it was crazy, but eventually we took care of it. When I'm saying to fast for deliverance, maybe there's just three to four yellow jackets, three to four things every single day. And it's, it's messing with you. And maybe God is calling you to a fast. And it's like the powder to get in, to get through. [00:29:15] (87 seconds)  #FastingRestoresSensitivity

And sometimes it's a short one, and sometimes it's a prolonged one. And let me give you sometimes a short one for me. A one-day or a three-day is really kind of like an oil change. I bet all of us in this room, we drove our car. Most of us probably have a sticker in our car that tells us when we need to get our oil changed. And if you don't get your oil changed over time, how do you know that oil gets really heavy? And it can actually destroy your engine. And so what do you do? There's certain miles that, okay, hey, you need to go get your oil changed. And spiritually speaking, there's times where the cares of this world, fear, all this kind of stuff, and people, and we just are, it starts to get a little bit heavy. We start to get a little bit in a spiritual funk where we're not as into the word, we're not into the, as focused and all of this. And so a short fast, a one-day fast, a three-day fast is like a reset where we're, we're getting our oil changed. And it's like, man, man, I just, it's a reset. Life is getting kind of heavy. A prolonged fast sometimes he calls us into. [00:17:40] (70 seconds)  #FastForRevelation

I'm hungry, but I'm more hungry for your presence. So I'm reminding myself right now that, God, you are the most important. Fill me up with you. I want to give you some reasons of why to fast or reasons that people fasted in the Bible. The first one is they fasted for wisdom, revelation, and understanding. [00:20:07] (22 seconds)  #FastingAndPrayerTogether

And so again, when it comes to fasting, it's what is the fast that he is inviting you into? What is he calling you to? What's the reason, the purpose behind this fast? Now, I want to give you some very practical things before we get to some just, you know, under, like, heart things of, like, why. [00:12:24] (22 seconds)  #BreakBondageWithFasting

Maybe a one day, maybe three days apart, like whatever it is, maybe one day of water and like, I just, that's why I love like, we're not all just doing the same thing. I'm letting, I'm praying and like, let the Holy Spirit speak to you, but let's take this next three days [00:38:44] (18 seconds)