Pursuit - Hungry For More - Fasting 101 10:45

Church, we we so many times, we we look at the world, and we say, God, change them. God, change the ones that are living in sin. God, change the ones out there that are that are just opposing you, God. And God is saying, okay, but first, I wanna change you. I wanna change the ones inside the four walls. Because church, when we get it right, when we are denying our flesh and living in the power of the Holy Spirit, that is when the world will change because he will change the world through that kind of a church, through a church that is the the truly the light. [01:03:57] (36 seconds)  #ChangeStartsInside

Here's what we need to understand today. Whatever you feed will grow, and whatever you starve will die. Whatever you feed will grow, and whatever you starve will die. We want to be Christians that don't live with an overfed flesh and a malnourished spirit. We want to be Christians that crucify the flesh, that live according to God's word. [01:00:19] (27 seconds)  #FeedYourSpiritNotFlesh

When you fast to crucify the flesh, you need to have the word of God ready. And when the enemy comes, you need to say, no, this is the person I used to be, but this is who God is calling me to be. This is what his word says. And when you submit yourself to God, and when you resist the enemy, the enemy's gonna flee. You're gonna begin to see breakthrough, you're gonna begin to see victory in those places that you felt like you would be bound your whole life. [00:59:48] (27 seconds)  #ScriptureAsYourWeapon

When you fast correctly, when you pair it with prayer, when you pair it with his word, you're gonna find that those desires for those things that you used to have will begin to go down, and the desires that you that you have for the word, for Jesus, begin to grow. And that's exactly what God wants for his church. [01:02:35] (19 seconds)  #HungerForJesus

And and the and the short version is that God showed him this oven, and there was this bread in the oven. Okay? And God takes it out, and he shows it to Luke, and he says, look, it's not done yet. And so he puts it back in the oven. K? Takes it back out, shows it to Luke, he says, look, it's still not done. He does this time after time after time, and God showed him that that was a picture of the church. [01:03:10] (24 seconds)  #ChurchInTheOven

You need to know those areas that you're trying to crucify, and you need to say, Lord, what does your word say about this? And you need to have those verses ready, so that when you fast and you say, Lord, I'm giving this to you, when the enemy comes, because he will, just like he came to Jesus in the wilderness. Right? He he tempted Jesus in the wilderness, and Jesus came back with scripture. Now, this is what God has said. And we need to be armed with scripture so that when that battle comes, we can resist the enemy. [00:59:06] (30 seconds)  #KnowYourScriptures

Church, we have to be willing to deny ourselves. That is how we grow spiritually. We grow spiritually when we deny our flesh, and we choose to deny those things that God calls sin. And we instead, we we devour his word. We come to him in prayer, and we'll begin to see God moving in us. We'll begin to see God grow in us. [01:02:00] (26 seconds)  #DenyYourselfGrowSpiritually

And then the enemy comes in and begins to bring deceitful ideas. Did God really say? And what was the thing that the enemy used to help usher sin into the world? It was food. It was food. He used food, something that that God in general had made to be a blessing to us, to to bring sin sin about into the world. [00:42:04] (24 seconds)  #TemptationCameThroughFood