Today I would like to speak to
you about the topic of "The Domino Effect of Fasting" the domino effect of fasting. Fasting is abstaining from food for spiritual reasons. Fasting is not abstaining from food to lose weight. Fasting is not starvation and fasting is
not a hunger strike, fasting is not to get deeper spiritually or to be more self-righteous.
Fasting is abstaining from food for spiritual reason as we presented at the beginning of the
fast and I'm just going to repeat it, we encourage people with one of the three fasts, the first one
is the full fast or the fast that's just on liquid and we highly encourage you to do that one. The second
one is they call it the Daniel's fast where you abstain from all the pleasant food from the meats,
from the bread, from the dairy, and from the sweets. Pretty much you eat you know, very unpleasant but
healthy food and that one may seem first "oh it's easy" until you start just eating grains you know
every day and apples and after about three days you're like "man this is hard" and so that one is not easy. The third fast, and that's for people who maybe are currently nursing or people who
are in the taking medicine or some other things where you do just one meal a day and so we really encourage every person to jump on this fast, we're two-thirds through and so just one week left. If you kind of ignored this, you know like "Nah this doesn't apply to me,
I'm fine" I really want to correct that today. You're part of the church, this is something that
the church is doing, you know you don't have to do what maybe somebody else is doing but jump on
it. Jump on the train, there's a grace on this fast, the amount of people that are fasting in our
church is crazy, so many people that are doing just on water who've never done before and they are
strong and they're more sensitive to the holy spirit and they're passionate and honest.
A lot of them like "thank you for calling this fast" I'm excited that they're coming to prayers very early in the morning. They're dedicating their life to the Lord. We're not fasting just
because too fast we are fasting so that God can propel our spiritual growth and God can do things in the church as well. We're believing for a new building, we're believing for many people
to come to know Jesus in our city, we are believing for incurable sicknesses to be healed in Jesus
name, we're believing for the deformed people with deformities, people with metal things in their
body, people who have broken and missing organs, or cut out organs to be miraculously restored by
God, we're believing for the dead to be raised, we're believing for the lepers to be cleansed. I'm
not mentioning anything that is not in the Bible, I'm not mentioning anything that Jesus did not
do and disciples did not do, I'm not mentioning anything that we are not encouraged and mandated
by Heaven to do, and so and that is one of the reasons why we fast, it's the Lord we position
ourselves for your best for what you have for us this year in Jesus' name. Fasting is not only
for pastors, fasting is for anybody who has flesh. Amen, come on somebody if you're taking notes,
fasting is trading the ball for the blessing, it's trading the temporary for eternal, the
physical for spiritual, and for visible for invisible, the scripture says that Jacob gave
Issa bread and stew of lentils then he ate and drank arose and went his way thus Issa despised his birthright. Genesis 25:34. so watch this Issa traded his blessing for a bowl of soup. Jacob,
he got the blessing by trading a bowl of soup. Jacob gave up a meal so he can get a blessing and
Issa gave up a blessing so he can keep his meal. There are people in this room today who are
like Issa's, you will trade whatever so you can keep your tummy happy and there are people
today who will trade whatever so that they can have a future with God I want to challenge you to be
Jacob, maybe you were born on the wrong side of the tracks, maybe the blessing wasn't given to you at
your birth, maybe your mama your daddy didn't give you anything in the genes or inheritance, you
did not have a good example like Jacob you feel deprived, you feel like you know you got the second
best, you're fighting against demons left and right, be like Jacob, learn to trade your bowl so God can give you a blessing. Salvation is free but the blessing is an invisible power propelling you for expansion. Self blessing is empowerment for expansion, God wants you to expand, God wants you
to go further in your family, in your finances and in your walk with him but there is a price that we
have to pay, we have to lay our flesh on the altar and one of the practical ways you can do that and
I can do that is to leave the ball aside and say "Lord I want something more than that temporarily,
temporarily I forgo this bowl, temporarily I forgo this plate of food so that you can give
me the blessing, it doesn't mean you'll get rich the next day, it doesn't mean you're going
to grow wings the next day, it doesn't mean angels will be up showing up the next day but
there will be a shift in the realm of the spirit. With the blessing of God started to follow
Jacob now and people who always live their life feeding their flesh, they can never forgo
today, it starts with "ah, I can't deny myself of food" tomorrow is "I can't deny myself of lust"
tomorrow is "I cannot deny myself of cigarettes" " I cannot deny myself of alcohol", why? because when the
flesh is spoon-fed when the appetites always get what they want, we live a sensual and a fleshly
Christian life, we're not spiritual beings. We become soulish beings who are trying to have a
spiritual experience, fasting is giving up my bowl for His blessing. The foundational verse that I
would like to take for today's message is Romans chapter 12 verse 1 and verse 2. If you have a
Bible you can open there or if you have a phone you can open that as well. "I beseech you therefore
brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice Holy acceptable to
God which is your reasonable service and verse 2 is the verse we've heard so many times "and do not
be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God" and I'm gonna go through just a few
basic points on the topic of fasting, our goal is not to just inspire you, our goal is to educate and bring enlightenment of God's word. Number one; fasting increases spiritual weight, not spiritual
worth, fasting increases spiritual weight but it does not increase our spiritual worth, you don't
become more loved by God because you're fasting, you don't become more righteous because
you're fasting, you may feel more righteous, just because you're feeling more righteous
then somebody else, it doesn't mean you're more righteous. Come on somebody! I want
you to notice what Paul starts with The first 11 chapters of the book of Romans is the
best explanation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Paul is diving deep into the wrath of God. He's
diving deep into the righteousness of Jesus, he's diving deep into the fact that we are saved
by grace through faith, in all 11 chapters, Paul is explaining and diving into the mystery of the
Gospel. Chapter 12, Paul says now "I beseech you by the mercies of God, so because of this
the righteousness we respond to God's grace by offering our body as a sacrifice" no knowledge
of God's grace is not an excuse to sin knowledge of God's righteousness is not a license
to do whatever, it is an empowerment to offer your body as a living sacrifice, not take Jesus's only
sacrifice so that my body can do whatever it wants so when I know what Jesus did on the cross
my response is sacrifice in other words fasting is not to receive God's righteousness
it's to respond to God's righteousness we don't fast to receive God's grace, we
fast because we have received God's grace. When I fast, when you fast, when you pray
when you fight, when you give it is not to get it from God, it's because you got a
revelation of what you already got from God. I beseech you by the mercies of God, Paul said
in other words, I implore you by the grace of God. I beg you because of the righteousness of
Jesus, now offer your body as a sacrifice, do not fast with wrong motives to become more
righteous to become closer to God or to become more Holy we receive that as a gift of
righteousness, we receive the grace as a gift but fasting does increase your spiritual weight, you
lose the physical one and you get a spiritual one during fasting and pastor Dmitry, last Sunday he
preached a wonderful message and he mentioned that that fasting decreases your physical weight
but it increases your spiritual weight, you feel like a feather after 14 days or seven days
you feel light but in the spirit, you feel heavy in the spirit you walk and you feel like it's like
some giant is walking there is a boldness that is there there is a sharpness that is in your spirit
there is it's not that you're more righteous but you're more aware of His righteousness.
It's not that Jesus is closer your awareness is growing because it's not that you get more
of God because God didn't give you 50 of Him, He gave Him all Hisself to Him to you He gave
all of His spirit but you become more aware of what Jesus is in you can somebody say amen!
so we fast as a rational response to God's mercy not an attempt to receive it.
Paul says because of mercy now offer your body number two fasting is
presenting the body as a living sacrifice to God fasting is not the only way we present the body
to God unbelievers sin using their body believers sin abusing Jesus's body man abuses and neglects
and ignores his body by overeating, becoming inactive, being too active, cursing, fighting, and
killing by partaking of harmful substances by caring for an external abusing the internal
and by getting too much, or too little rest when we offer our body to the Lord, I want
you to notice what God wants from our body He wants not only that we offer it as Holy to
God and acceptable but the first thing the Lord wants us to do with our body is to offer it as
a living sacrifice, every sin majority of sins not every sin because we can sin with our thoughts
and with our attitudes, it doesn't require you to know the body but most of our sins we commit with our
body if we drink it's with our body, if it's smoke it's with our body, if we have a violent outburst
it's with our body, if we watch pornography it's with our eyes, if we engage in the moral behavior
it's with our body, we don't sin without our body we use our body in fact we abuse the body of Jesus
when we commit sin and the scripture says first and foremost if you want to live Holy in your body
if you want to be acceptable to God in your body, God says I want you to do something as a response
to my mercy and grace offer it as a sacrifice not an offering what is the difference between
offering and sacrifice the story I like to use a lot is a chicken and the pig was walking
by decided to make a breakfast for the farmer and the chicken said you know I'll give
him some eggs you gave him some bacon and of course, the pig says well there's a problem with
that if you give him eggs that's an offering if I give him bacon that's a sacrifice God is
not asking for an egg He's asking for bacon He is asking not for an offering offering
His Lord here it is but when your service to God through your body causes a feeling of loss
sacrifice it's pleasing to God when you we're not talking about torturing, we're not talking about
some martyrdom mentality where you constantly want to beat yourself up for something no we're
talking about you know the love of God for you and you say Lord my body belongs to you and you offer
it as a sacrifice during fasting it's one of the best ways you can offer your body as a sacrifice
and God wants a living sacrifice, not a dead one He doesn't want you to die, He wants you to live Can I submit to you until you offer your
body as a sacrifice you will never truly live you will exist there will be a life that comes
from God that will be released in your body you will feel it those of you who are fasting
there are those moments yeah you're like man whose idea was it God I just this is not good have
you noticed when you're fasting days are slower it's like it's a fast it's supposed to be fast,
it's slow, it's like the opposite of a fast it's so slow you're looking like it's only two o'clock
looking at the clock so many times it seems like so slow, please understand God is pleased when you
give him your body not to earn His love but to reposition yourself to be more aware of who
He is amen and the Bible says after that so number one is that fasting is not to earn God's love fasting is to respond to it. Number two is that fasting helps us to offer a body as a living sacrifice. Number three fasting enables you not to be squeezed into the mold of this present age
watch the domino effect I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, present your body as a living
sacrifice and watch the beginning of verse 2, do not be conformed to this world I believe
if you are struggling if I am struggling to follow the patterns of this world the secret
is this I need to get the righteousness from God the second thing is I respond to the righteousness
of God, I gotta get my body in check I gotta give it to God. And then number three comes
I have now the courage, the inner strength not to conform to this world, it's not the other way
around you don't start with not being conformed to the world, you start with righteousness and then
you respond to that righteousness by saying, Lord I offer my body as a sacrifice I gift it to you
not because I want to go to Heaven, but because Jesus died on a cross for me and then there
is a power that is released in you and I not to be conformed to the world have you noticed that
during fasting, it's very difficult to watch movies have you noticed it's very difficult to be
engaged in unimportant conversations, have you noticed that there are certain things that were
totally acceptable for some of us before that and you start doing you're like uh it's
like eating a donut while working out I don't think I should be doing this because there
is something within you that begins to pull you toward righteous living, there is something within
you that begins to say "ah that that that's not that's not the word that that's the
the world you gotta start not to be conformed to this world if you want to have the power to live a
holy life not holier than thou but holy life begin to know the righteousness begin
to offer your body as a sacrifice and you won't be conformed to this world
I truly believe that fasting helps us not to be conformed to this world because
everything the world is is about self-discovery, fasting is about self-denial, the world is about finding yourself,
when you fast you lose yourself and it goes contrary to the world it goes
contrary to the standards of this culture everybody is chasing their little energy everybody
wants to find their gifts their talents their personality and everybody wants to develop
themselves, what fasting does is you deny yourself and it goes contrary to the course of this world
that's why when you offer your body as a sacrifice you will not look live and act like the world
because you will go the opposite of the direction and the beautiful part is when you deny yourself,
is when you will truly discover yourself, you gave that up and then you found yourself, you left your
ego at the altar and then you found a purpose, you gave up your pride and then you found His eyes,
you found His purposes and His goal for your life Come on somebody! are you with me If my people who are called by My name will humble
themselves and pray and seek My face and churn from their evil ways and I will hear from heaven
I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land second chronicles chapter 7 verse 14. Watch
the progression My people humble themselves first, then what they will do they will pray and then
they will seek My face and only then they will turn from their wicked ways. God does not ask
His people to turn from their wicked ways, first because there is no inner power to help you do
that, you can do that when you feel guilty, you can do that when you get caught pulled over, you can do
that when you finally got in trouble but after a while that doesn't last more than a few days the
motivation wears out there is no inner strength to turn away from the wicked ways but the Lord says if you humble yourself in the Bible humility is associated with fasting, David says through
fasting I humbled myself, Ezra said we humbled ourselves with fasting, Ahab the most wicked
king of Israel humbled himself with fasting, so replace the fast the humility with fasting if My
people fast they will pray, they will seek My face and then the power will increase on the inside
to not do wicked things, you will have the power to overcome the wicked ways, you have no power
within you, my friend the willpower is good until the demon comes against you the willpower is good
until the flesh rises against you and then your willpower is like a little mice runs around
runs from that demon and the flesh power but when you humble yourself you cripple your
flesh from its strength you cripple your appetites from its flesh and then you begin to pray you
begin to seek the face of God something happens, you come out no longer as you trying to be
holy, you're trying to quit this and that, you're trying to keep this and that you come out as the
spirit of God gives you the strength to overcome your wickedness hunger subdues bad habits
hunger physical hunger spiritual hunger cripples bad habits. everyone wants a prayer line
but not many of us want God's protocol. We all want, I want to be transformed but God
says know your rights in Me offer your body as a sacrifice and some of us
choose to fast, that's an offering we know we can fast good but we're like no I
just don't want to cause any sacrifice and then we're like l Lord but I don't want to conform to the
world and God says follow My steps don't skip them follow my steps but no, God, I want this way it's
not about how you want it, it's how God says you should do it offer Him as a sacrifice and then
He will give you power to not be conformed to the things you're begging crying and asking and
going to counseling Lord get this out of me God help me not to slip into that do into that your
wife already put a little restrictions on you and your social media has limitations and
everything but there is a power that doesn't come from you, it comes from God, and that power is
released when you respond to God's righteousness, you offer your body as a sacrifice and
then there's a strength there's still a choice, it's not automatic but there is a
strength to not be conformed to this world. Number four, fasting exposes the weakness
in the mind as faith expels them, fasting exposes our weak minds where faith helps
us to strengthen our mind I want you to notice the mercy of God offer a body as a sacrifice don't
be conformed to the world and the next step it says renewed mind the word of God renews our
mind but the war makes our mind resilient, let me say that again, the word of God renews our
mind but it's the war that makes it resilient and we need both renewed mind and resilient minds in the pandemic during covid news and everything,
many people's minds are very wobbly, very undecisive divided not sure constant attack on the
mind the Lord wants to make your mind resilient. Oh and fasting is a good tool to do that because
most what fasting is not physical, it's mental how many times you were tempted with food and
you were not even hungry during fasting, I'll prove it to you, Jesus fasting 40 days and
the Bible says after 40 days he was hungry. He wasn't hungry for 40 days that's what
the Bible said now I ask you a question, why was He tempted with food during 40 days,
for the same reason you and I, it's right here, the enemy will tempt you during your fast
with food with other things and this is an opportunity for the Lord to build within you
a resilient mind, people who finish the fast are not those who have the most weight, it's
those who are most resilient in their mind and during the fast something will be exposed, the
weakness of the mind, how weak we are to let go and to start following the flesh and the Lord
will strengthen our minds so that when you make up your mind, you don't quit when it's hard, you
finish when you're done, can somebody say Amen humanity's first sin was with food, Jesus's first
temptation was with food, food is not evil, food is actually very good but for most of us food
is the reason we have problems in our body and food, abstinence of food can also be the
reason, why we will get, rid of those problems if eating those foods brought some things maybe
not eating them can solve those things, my dog Jacko, anytime he gets sick he stops eating for
three days now I have never taught him on fasting, he hasn't watched our youtube channel,
he has never been to our church where we talked about fasting, he's been a few
times to church for a sermon illustration there is a natural thing God installed within
an animal that when he gets food poison or when he gets sick and we know that he is sick, he stops
eating for three days we don't take him to the doctor, he simply stops eating after about
three days, I don't know what happens but he gets cured through fasting, fasting can cure
even certain things in the physical, I'm not saying fasting cures everything but there are
certain things it will even cure if you fast fasting helps us to build a resilient mind. Number
five, fasting brings transformation to your soul, body and spirit as I mentioned fasting has
physical benefits not only a doctor but I watched not only a dog but I watched his doctor Dr. Ellen
Goldhammer, he uses fasting as a therapy or healing mechanism for patients he does 21 days
and 40 day fastings in the clinic, he has his old clinic set up, doctors that are watching people's
vitals and people's health and he had a testimony, had many of them but one of the testimony is
a lady who had the last stage of lymphoma and the doctors, her doctor, regular doctor told her
there's nothing you can do, there's no diet you can change already honestly you should just
prepare for your death and so she heard this Dr. Ellen's, she heard his testimony on youtube
and others, she went to his clinic and said I have the last stage of lymphoma I have nothing
to lose, can you help me and he said we can try, so she goes for 21 days they were there
supervising her she went for 21 days on a fast, water fast every morning and every
evening, they checked her, she stayed in that hospital, within 21 days she felt
better, she left the hospital goes back to her old doctor who diagnosed her with lymphoma, they
did tests on her and they did not find lymphoma, a year later they did another test
on her they did not find lymphoma, two years later they did another test, three years
later and now she's in the fifth year completely cured of that disease and this doctor he's
not a believer who takes people into his super supervised 40-day water fasts, he claims there are
sicknesses in the body could be destroyed, if you stop feeding your body, he's not a Christian
doctor and he says this he says every religion disagrees on everything except one, every religion
has one thing in common they all fast, he says it's not because they're dumb, he said they
knew something, he says the scientists now have to figure out this doctor when he
started this discovery, he actually was sued for killing people, they sued him, they took him
to court and said you're trying to kill people there is no way fasting can cure people this
is wrong, this is some middle-aged things and then of course he won the lawsuit, today he's
considered an expert on alternative medicine. I want to encourage you that your fasting is for
spiritual reasons but the benefits of your fasting will be physical, your skin will get better, your
metabolism can be restored, your appetites will be subdued, and you will feel even physically better.
When you fast, fasting has emotional benefits. How so many of us eat because of our
emotions, not because of our stomach. Some of us process toxic emotions with food, we are
not overweight just because of genes but some of us have emotional problems that we use food as a
medicine to cure emotions which is not a good idea but we don't know that until you start fasting,
and the negative emotions surface and now you have to find another comfort for your negative
emotions that's not food but the Holy Spirit. That's why fasting helps to heal your emotions, it
doesn't heal your emotions Holy Spirit does but it exposes a sickness that you have that the moment
you are sad you open the fridge, the moment you're depressed you're simply just making an order
through uber eats, the moment you are down you just stuff yourself, and it helps you to feel better
for a moment and then in the morning you look at yourself like "man I hate myself why did I pick up
weight again" and so it's the cycle of depression and feeling worse feeling better and feeling
worse and fasting stops the cycle and you have this ugly feeling surfacing looking at you and
saying give me food you're like I ain't got none, give me something and then you say okay
let me take that negative emotion to the Holy Spirit right now let me take that
negative pattern to the Lord right now let me find a different path for this thought
where it always leads to the fridge, let me take you somewhere else right now and then when you
finish the fasting you retrain your negative toxic emotions to go to the proper place for
healing and then you will keep off the weight because you're not
feeding your emotions physically, somebody's saying man come on this was worth for just
coming, just for this to the church today that the third benefit of fasting is that I said
it brings transformation in the brain spiritual benefit the bible says the spirit of man can
sustain him in his sickness but who can bear a broken spirit, fasting has spiritual benefits it
moves me not God, it increases my sensitivity to the Lord it's not that fasting makes God talk,
it just helps us to listen, fasting restores our hunger for God and fasting regains control
over appetites, something happens when we fast, spiritually is that your spirit begins to finally
get full nourishment as your flesh was doing before the fasting, you finally can feel what your
spirit felt because physically you feel that ache that's how the spirit always feels this ache and
hunger for God's word now I am not talking about when you're only going without food but when we
are feeding our spirit during the time of fasting we are feasting in our spiritual life something
begins to happen, our spirit gets stronger, and for those of you who are like "oh but my body is dying"
listen to this what the scripture says your spirit can take care of your body but your
body cannot take care of your spirit, your spirit can handle weak, sick, and broken body
that's why you can go without food for 21 days and you're like "how come my body is better" spirit
is carrying it, the bible says a spirit can sustain when your food cannot sustain your body, your
spirit shifts things and begins to take care and sustain your
body, watch this with Deuteronomy chapter eight says this so he humbled you in bringing this
message to a close he humbled you allowed you to hunger fed you with manna which you did not know
nor your fathers knew that him that he might make you know that a man shall not live by bread alone
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god this is the verse jesus quoted to satan in
the wilderness he humbled you he made you hunger and I'm remembering Israel when did they
hunger every day they had mana before they got mad now do you remember that first three
days after exodus, they had no food and no drink what if I were to tell you it's my opinion,
it's not in the Bible, just my opinion take it and leave it, God created
a three-day fast for Israel, so that He can teach them that
they should live by His word. God made them fast first three days without
telling them so He can humble them, now of course what they did, they whined, complained, doubted and
all of the negative emotions came and instead of taking those negative emotions to the word of
God, they took him to Moses and they tried to take Moses out wanted to go back to Egypt and so they
never learned the lesson of fasting which was this the humility of the flesh so you can feed your
spiritual life and so then you can be positioned to receive God's supernatural provision
and step into God's promises in your life even when God made Adam, He also
made him fast, it was a daniel's fast, you can't eat of that tree guess what Adam did,
broke his fast. God took Israel out of Egypt He took them through fasting, guess what they did,
they complained in their wine because the slave the negative, toxic emotions, had to find source in
the food and God wanted them he says "so that I can teach you that a man shall not live by
everything that's in your refrigerator" but lives by the word of God fasting
teaches you, you are more than your body, fasting teaches you are more than your food,
fasting teaches you, you are an eternal spirit and your spirit is the lamp of the Lord and if
you take care of your spirit, your spirit will take care of your body, and so fasting helps to
transform the soul, the body and also strengthen your spirit. Somebody say amen! and the last one
is fasting helps you to know the will of God Romans 12 1-2 we know the mercy of God we give
our body as a sacrifice we don't get conformed to this world, we have renewed of the mind we
experience transformation in our life so that we can prove to know the will of God I truly believe
that there is our plan for our life there is the devil's plot for our life and there is also God's
purpose for our life and when you begin to fast, even if God doesn't reveal to you His purpose He
will guide you, He will steer you to His purpose. He will close doors that have been opened before
and He will open doors that are not open right now, He will call you and lead you to His purpose, He
will begin to open doors where they previously have never been open, He will begin to connect
you to prophetic words supernaturally, I'm talking about where you could not take the credit for it,
God will begin to take you to that place you know a long time ago I think it was Ivan who mentioned
that at one conference somebody prophesied to me that I will go back to my country what I came
from and I will preach there it's been 20 years, I never went back to my country to preach I went
few times but not to preach and I wasn't honestly looking forward to it and I wasn't planning
for it and I did not um have a desire for it, last week on Sunday we came back from the
Holy Spirit conference in California and I get a call from one of the most known pastors
in the Ukraine who has a very large church over 1500 people and some seven churches under him,
I met him previously and just in passing and I struggled with my Russian, couldn't make sense of my own Russian and so i'm pretty sure he thought of me like man,
this guy can't even speak and so he facetimes me and he said he said this is weird he says i want
you to come next weekend and speak at my church 11th anniversary which is church anniversaries are
a big deal I was like I can put two words together in Russian, he says this is weird but I really
feel that you need to come for a youth conference and for a four hour anniversary and so we
prayed about it I asked my pastor's permission and next weekend at this time I ask you that you pray
for me because it will be still during the fast where the prophetic word that was given a long time
ago God somehow connected the dots God will unlock His will in your life, you may say why does it take
fasting because fasting is humbling yourself and God exalts those who humble themselves fasting is
not showing up it's not bragging about it it's not saying "hey look at me because I'm fasting, look at
me because I'm more spiritual, look at me because I'm more disciplined, fasting is about denial not
self-glorification and when you begin to do that the Bible says he will reveal his perfect will for
you in book of acts it says that Apostle Paul and Barnabas was ministering to the Lord and fasting
and the spirit of God said separate Barnabas separate Paul to the work which I've called them.
I preached a message a few years ago called fast forward there is a work you currently have
and there is a work you were called to have when you fast God takes you
from the current to the cult He takes you from what is familiar to what is
His will right now in your life what is His perfect perfect will in your life there are
things that God called you to do that is not available right now there's no open door they're
not hiring, there is no vacancy in that area there are dreams you just don't have resources
and the connections but when you begin to fast you're humbling yourself say Lord lead me to your
will God there is what I want but I want what you want from my life i want your purpose for my
life you know we want a new building for a church but most importantly what we want is a revival
in our church most importantly what we want is salvation of people in our church we know that
this is God's perfect will for our church that every service double-digit salvations will come
in here that every week hundreds of people will give their lives to Jesus Christ you know what
we want is what God wants that none will perish the people in the city will meet Jesus pulled
from darkness into the light you know what we want is that the sick will be healed the children
will not be buried their mother or their father because of tumors in their heads or because of
cancer in their lungs but the power of Jesus will heal the power of Jesus will restore that the
name of Jesus will be glorified people who died prematurely that they will not die, that's what
we want and God says when you begin to know my grace when you begin to offer my body, your body as
a sacrifice when you begin to not be molded to the image of this world, I will make your mind renewed,
I will make your mind resilient I will transform your life and I will make my will known to you
I will make my will known to you my perfect will my good will, my acceptable will, for your life
that is the perfect that is the good and that is an acceptable will of God for your life and
we're about to step into it, I'm not saying this will be your best year but I believe that if we
humble ourselves God will lead us to His best will I believe if we humble ourselves God will lead
us to His bath paths God will lead our children God will lead our businesses He will be in control
and whoever is in the white house will not affect what's happening in your house because your house
will be under their control, your house will be under the leadership and the power of the great
white throne of the presence and the glory of God
