1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,440 OK, so this is the year of the great fix. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,960 Very simple, great fix. God spoke to us through Word. 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,880 Isaiah 58 is the year of the great fix. 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,280 OK, rebuild, repair, restore, right? 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,120 So that's Isaiah 58 and I am super excited for this year. 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,079 2026 is the year of the great fix. 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:17,880 OK, we've looked at that last week in detail. 8 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,360 So powerful. But today we are going to go 9 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,880 deeper. Are you ready to go deeper? 10 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,640 Because we're going to go in detail through Isaiah 58, OK? 11 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,440 Last week we just touched on it. God gave us the theme. 12 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,600 Now we've got the foundation and we're going to build on that and 13 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,200 we're going to go through scripture upon scripture. 14 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,560 And I love it when things on context because we'll be shocked 15 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,720 when we see how what's actually in Isaiah 58. 16 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,880 It's loaded with promises. Wow. 17 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,240 Please this week spend time in Isaiah 58. 18 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,480 That is from heaven. That is the word of God for us 19 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:49,360 for such a time as this. If you want to know what God 20 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,400 saying that is it OK, So Are you ready for the for the great fix 21 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,320 somebody? Yeah, I'm like Lord, do it. 22 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,680 Fix it. Come on, somebody say fix it, 23 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,960 Lord. OK, side like a minute. 24 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,240 Come on, somebody fixed it, Lord. 25 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,520 Yeah, yeah. Hallelujah. 26 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,960 OK, So whatever Mason problem or trouble that you are facing 27 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:13,920 today, whatever situation or challenge that you are, yeah, or 28 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,680 going through, OK, get ready because God is about to fix it. 29 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,000 Yeah, I'm yeah. With the words from heaven, God 30 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,440 sent me here, tell my people, whatever trouble, whatever 31 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,080 difficulty, whatever challenge it is, I am fixing it. 32 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,920 So what of the Lord? I am the main messenger, OK? 33 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,440 I'm delivering the mail, OK? So just receive that message 34 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,240 from the Lord that God is saying, listen, I'm about to fix 35 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,200 it because that is who our God is, OK? 36 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,120 So if you've been here last week, you will know that God is 37 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,840 a repairer. That is what God does. 38 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,760 He's a repairer. He read balls, he's a restorer, 39 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,320 he's a finisher. That is our God. 40 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,840 God repairs. So whatever problem you've come, 41 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,160 God knew that you're going to be here and God is already 42 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:56,640 numbered. You got us or you're not living 43 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,560 the same way today. You're not living the same way. 44 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,720 You can. You're walking out of this place 45 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,400 different. You cannot sit under the word of 46 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,080 God and stay the same because the word of God comes and brings 47 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,560 fixing. The word of God brings repair. 48 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,759 He repairs. He fixes our lives. 49 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:11,280 Come on, somebody shot Hallelujah. 50 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,520 He's got some place in this place. 51 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,080 If you are receiving this word from heaven, Hallelujah. 52 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,520 Yeah, he's fixing it. Come on, tell your neighbor. 53 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,040 Tell somebody he's fixing it. He's fixing it. 54 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,440 Yeah. It's like, OK, we can relax, 55 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:26,960 breathe, right? He's got it. 56 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:28,920 God's in control. God is Lord's and in charges. 57 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:31,480 Goddess. OK, it's time. 58 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,960 We're not going to be uptight this year. 59 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,280 We're going to be relaxed. OK, Relax at peace, OK? 60 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:37,600 Because God's taking care of things. 61 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,840 And so right there in Desire 58, God shows us one of the ways he 62 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,200 brings fix in our lives, how he fixes things in our lives. 63 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,960 And I was like, Lord, I was really Desire 58 and just boom. 64 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,400 So off the page. It's right there in the very 65 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,880 beginning of the chapter. God says it is through fasting, 66 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:58,480 Hallelujah. And so today we are stepping 67 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:03,480 into our 21 day of prayer and fasting Hallelujah. 68 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,480 Praise God, Are you ready for this 21 days? 69 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,760 OK, and listen, this is a corporate fast. 70 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,880 The church as part of the body of Christ, we are fasting around 71 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,160 the country, OK? It's happening. 72 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,920 Head office, our campuses, the churches globally. 73 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:23,920 It's amazing how many people are prayer and fasting the first 74 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:28,320 month of the year, setting the rest of the year, consecrating 75 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,400 mate, setting God first, seeking God in this time. 76 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,000 It's amazing how it's happening around the world. 77 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,960 And this is not just something we've just, we've been doing 78 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,880 this for many, many for a long time. 79 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:43,040 We've been every first month of the year, we consecrate that 80 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,560 time and we seek the face of God with powerful results. 81 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,960 If you put God first the first month, the rest of the month, 82 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,800 February, March, and then it's blessed. 83 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,640 I said largely, firstly, God's Kingdom and then all the other 84 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,560 things will be added. Yeah. 85 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,160 So when you put God's first, OK, your week goes better, your mind 86 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,920 goes better, your family goes better, your career goes better. 87 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,600 When you start, like today, we starting today, it goes better 88 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,840 because the Bible says that when you put God first, all these 89 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,200 other things shall be added to you. 90 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,880 And so I'm very excited about this faster today. 91 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,640 So the theme, it's just so amazing how it fits in with the 92 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,080 theme of the great fix. OK, so the great fix. 93 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,240 So today I'm talking about fasting and the title of the 94 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:33,200 message is the great fast fix. So the fix. 95 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,400 So it's a great year of a great fix 2026, the year of a great 96 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,240 fix. And so this is the great fix 97 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,280 fast. So we're going to talk about the 98 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,440 fast and this fast is powerful. It's straight from Scripture and 99 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,800 is so in line with this year's theme of rebuild, restore, OK, 100 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,640 repair. And so as we step into this, we 101 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,560 are going to keep on reminding ourselves that, and this is so 102 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,480 powerful, that God is not finished. 103 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,240 He is fixing it. OK, He's not finished with you. 104 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,400 He's not finished. He's still fixing it. 105 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,080 God is fixing it. OK, Say that with me. 106 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,280 God's not finished, he's fixing it. 107 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,200 They said again, God's not finished, he's fixing it. 108 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,440 I'm super excited because this is one of the end times signed 109 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,560 Acts chapter 3, verse 20. Before Jesus comes back, there 110 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,840 must first be a fixing. He said in the Bible we looked 111 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:28,400 at the law. So I don't have time to re cut 112 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,680 that, but please go listen to the message. 113 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,320 Go and get that sermon because there must first be a 114 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:37,280 restoration, a great fix before the great tribulation. 115 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:39,680 There must first be a fix and a restoration of the church. 116 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,920 Jesus not coming back for a week, struggling church. 117 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:43,680 He's coming back for a victorious church. 118 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,080 So right now what we look out for is the signs of the restored 119 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,760 church. And it's happening through US, 120 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:53,720 OK, for each one of us, Hallelujah. 121 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,000 I says they're so strong. Get ready somebody for this 122 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,600 great fix fast. This is going to be of grateful 123 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,160 because this fast, OK, it's about to break change lift 124 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,040 patterns and that's what I want you to get out of this fast 125 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,200 because he's about to repair. He's about to restore, rebuild. 126 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,280 I say it's the move of God in this place. 127 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:21,960 Yeah, God's already moving. Yeah, he's not leaving you the 128 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,000 same way He's not leaving you. Not staying the same way. 129 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,160 He's not leaving you like you. OK? 130 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,680 God's fixing God. It's like God's. 131 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,240 I just like a picture of God's rolling up his sleeves. 132 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,240 OK, Getting ready. He's ready for the great fix. 133 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,200 Yeah, and he's saying get ready. I'm about to repair what has 134 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,080 been weighing you down. I was about to restore what the 135 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,880 devil stole. I'm about to report your light. 136 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,920 Stronger than the. Oh, until the boom. 137 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,520 I feel the moving of the Holy Ghost in this place. 138 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,560 Whoa, Hallelujah. Whoa, come on, somebody shout 139 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,960 Hallelujah. Yeah, yeah. 140 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,240 I feel it's so strong because God is not finished yet. 141 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,120 He's fixing. He's fixing. 142 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,200 It's Hallelujah. Now let me make fasting simple 143 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,240 because some people when they hear the word fast, they're 144 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:19,520 like, oh great, I'm going to be grumpy, OK? 145 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,640 Now, fasting is not about being miserable, OK? 146 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,880 Fasting is about being focused. Fasting is simply, according to 147 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,160 the Bible, giving up food. OK, that's fasting. 148 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,000 Giving up food and the Bible through the Bible, that's 149 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,040 fasting. The definition of fasting is 150 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,440 giving up. OK, So you're putting food 151 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:46,560 aside, OK, Without food to see God, that's the definition of 152 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,320 fasting. OK, Now people like, OK, Lord, 153 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,400 how? Because the Bible says very 154 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,600 clearly that we shall not live by, OK? 155 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,320 We shall not just live by McDonald's alone, OK, but by the 156 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,800 word of God. So we, there is more to than 157 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,240 just food, OK? And so it's not punishment, it's 158 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,520 not performance. It's not like earning Browning 159 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,560 points, earning God's love. And so, OK, fasting is 160 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,640 positioning. So it's position, it's putting 161 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,760 our heart in a place where we can hear God more clearly 162 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,400 because how many of you know, life is busy, there's a lot of 163 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,920 noisy distractions. So we're putting our hearts in a 164 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,720 place to year to align with God to year to receive what God was 165 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:37,200 all wants to already give us. Okay, And so if you are near to 166 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,559 fasting, okay, because I know when years ago, 20 years when I 167 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,120 got born again, it's bird fall. I'm like, Oh my God, what's this 168 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:45,680 fasting? People are fasting 40 days. 169 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:49,000 I'm like, wow, I really felt into if you need to fasting, 170 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,920 relax, breathe, okay. God's not asking you to impress 171 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:54,760 him. God's inviting you to come 172 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,040 closer. So if you're new to fasting, 173 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,240 start where you are. Everyone is unique. 174 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,280 Everyone runs their own race, OK? 175 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,720 There's no competing or comparing in the Kingdom. 176 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:07,320 Oh, that person's done a 40 that fast to anyone that you start 177 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,720 where you are. OK, If you cannot do a 21 and 178 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,240 you're like, OK, maybe one meal a day, something like that. 179 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,280 Start where you are and just flow as the Lord leads you 180 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,280 personally. Because the main thing really is 181 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,960 fasting is this increasing hunger for God because a lot of 182 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,400 people out there, they filling ourself with so many different 183 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,600 things. And so there's only little bits 184 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,040 left for God, OK, filling ourselves with the design and 185 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,640 all sorts of things. But now when we put food aside, 186 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:38,880 we have more space. We, we make room for God. 187 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,000 So it increases our hunger for God. 188 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,200 So we have a hunger God because a hungry heart God honors a 189 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:51,120 hungry heart. And so when life gets busy, gets 190 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:56,000 loud, OK, we get distracted, we get busy, OK, we get pulled in 191 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,960 10 different directions. There's entertainment 192 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,680 everywhere, OK? And So what we do is fasting if 193 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:08,080 one of the ways, turning the volume down, turn the volume 194 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,720 down on entertainment, mute the entertainment, mute the Netflix 195 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,480 on the entertainment, turn it down, turn down everything, shut 196 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,880 it down muted so that I can turn the volume up for you God. 197 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,680 So we want to hear God more clearly. 198 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:26,920 So we, we shut those things down during fasting. 199 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,120 And Jesus said something very important when his disciples 200 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,080 came to him and they said, so why couldn't we get the 201 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,080 breakthrough? Jesus said something very, very 202 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,480 profound. This company come out through 203 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,160 fasting and prayer, very profound. 204 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,360 Why couldn't we get that breakthrough? 205 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,040 Jesus gave them the he gave them the answer I want to I want to 206 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:55,120 show you Mark 9/29. He says he said to them, Jesus 207 00:10:55,120 --> 00:11:04,760 said to his disciples, OK, let's just go back to the our title, 208 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,200 the great fix fast. Somebody say the great fix fast, 209 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,320 right? This is very exciting. 210 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,240 This fast is very, very exciting. 211 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:16,880 It's not weighing down, it's lifting us up. 212 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,120 Why I'm super excited about this measure that God gave us. 213 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,000 It says here, So Jesus said to his disciples, he said to them, 214 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:32,680 this kind can come out by nothing but prayer and forces. 215 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:36,640 So that teaches us there are some things that do not shift, 216 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:46,720 do not move, do not change just casually, just because there are 217 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,400 some things that only change, that only move and shift and 218 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:55,480 change when we get serious about seeking God, when we get 219 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,080 serious, when we hang out, thirst for God, some burdens 220 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,040 only left when we stop trying to manage ourselves and we give it 221 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,040 to him. There are some struggles, 222 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:14,560 cycles, burdens, some change, only break when we fast and pray 223 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,440 words of Jesus. So there's some certain things 224 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,240 in our lives, sometimes generational curses that's been 225 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,480 landed down by families, patterns in our lives that never 226 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:31,560 shifts, never breaks at all. We fast, we pray, we seek God 227 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:35,000 with a hunger, with a focused hunger. 228 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,800 OK, somebody. And so Isaiah 58, this great fix 229 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,000 fast. This is a 5 step that breaks 230 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,520 James this fast, but we are stepping in. 231 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,960 It lifts burdens. Now let's go there because 232 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,320 Isaiah 58 is full of the promises. 233 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:59,040 So he says right, this great fast, OK, when we do this, this 234 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,640 is what I promise you any listing, there's a list. 235 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,800 It's powerful. Then your light will 236 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:06,760 breakthrough, then the healing will come. 237 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,600 Then you'll call and I will answer. 238 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,360 Now let's go to as I 58 and we start there because that's God's 239 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,360 road map for us straight from Scripture, verse 6. 240 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,000 Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen? 241 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,640 Take note of that. To loose the change of 242 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,040 injustice, untie the courts of the yoke, to set the oppressed 243 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:33,160 free and break every yoke. That's the kind of fast that God 244 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,440 chose. He says this is the fast that I 245 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,960 chose. Isaiah 58 fast, the great thick 246 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:42,160 fast that breaks change, that removes the enlist burdens. 247 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,920 Let's pray together. Father, as we come to your word, 248 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:54,000 Lord speak to us, give us focus, give us hunger, let every chain 249 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,440 break, let every burden left, let every heart come alive. 250 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,960 Do your great fix work in and through us. 251 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,800 In Jesus mighty name we pray, Amen. 252 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,040 Somebody say Amen. OK, now let me give you a simple 253 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,760 picture to carry through this farce because Jesus looking at 254 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,360 us and he's looking at his, you know, that smile, that gentle 255 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,360 smile, and he's saying bring, bring the shoulder. 256 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,440 OK, bring it, bring the shoulder, bring the cheek and 257 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,760 bring the stomach. Because those are the three 258 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:29,080 places where a lot of real life battles show up in those three 259 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,040 places. Shoulder, that is a picture of 260 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,600 burdens, anxiety, pressure, heaviness that we cannot 261 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,520 explain. The cheek talks about offence. 262 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,560 The Bible talks about, you know, when somebody hitch on the 263 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,360 cheek, turn the other cheek, right cheek is offence that is 264 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,040 hurts, bitterness that speaks of unforgiveness. 265 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,800 Then the stomach speaks of appetites, control. 266 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,600 That's addictions. That is the the comfort zones, 267 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,800 OK, the place that we run to when love gets hard. 268 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,040 And so he, he gives us this stream and Jesus is saying, OK, 269 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,840 those that's tired, those that's heavy laden, those that come to 270 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,280 me because I will give you rest, OK, I will lift it off you. 271 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,640 I will restrain you. I will charge you, I will give 272 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,760 you energy. I will lift off the heavy yoke. 273 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,480 I will hurt. I will heal what hurts. 274 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:26,320 And so we are not just talking about skipping meals, but we are 275 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,600 talking about letting God do a deep work, Let him repair. 276 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,080 They didn't fix it, restore, rebuild. 277 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,320 OK. And so through this great fix 278 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,680 fast, Hosiah starts and is very early in the chapter, those 279 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,800 first few verses, he starts right off and he gives us the 280 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,560 difference between a wrong fast, because how many of you know you 281 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,120 can do it wrong here, wrong and a right fast. 282 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:55,560 And so God doesn't want us to fast and stay stuck. 283 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,120 And so he comes and he's showing us what is. 284 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:04,720 He's chosen fast for us. And he makes it so clear what 285 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,200 he's chosen fast is for us in Isaiah 58. 286 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,760 Because when the people were fasting, they were frustrated, 287 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:16,880 OK? So yeah, they were fasting. 288 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:22,800 They were skipping meals and and they were asking God, but why 289 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,160 isn't anything changing? We are fasting. 290 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,480 Why isn't anything? Because they were skipping meals 291 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:33,720 and they were fasting and God answers them, OK, the outside 292 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:38,560 looks good, religious or spiritual, but the inside's 293 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,800 still the same. And so they were fasting, but 294 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,320 while they were fasting, they were still holding grudges, 295 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:50,160 still blaming, OK, still pointing fingers, still offended 296 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,280 while they were fasting. So that's a big lesson right 297 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,760 there that you can skip meals and still feed the old habits. 298 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:05,119 So yeah, your stomach is empty, but you know, the heart is still 299 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,079 offended. It's still full and clogged up 300 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:13,680 with bits and this and offence. It's like unplugging the fridge 301 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:18,040 but plugging into frustration. So you're unplugged from food 302 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:24,839 but plugged into fear. Now unplugging food, turning 303 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:27,640 food off. Yeah, but then powered up anger 304 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,480 and offense and gossip. So yes, the fridge is off, but 305 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,800 you've still been fed. So some of us are fasting from 306 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,640 food. Yeah, fasting from food, but 307 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:44,440 feasting on frustration. Now God is showing us the right 308 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,840 way to fast. And so we're going to start this 309 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,440 off the right way. God's chosen fast. 310 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,920 And he's saying, listen, I want the way that I want you to fall 311 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:59,320 this fast, to lift you, not to weigh you down, because that's 312 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,200 the purpose of the fast, to break off the burdens, to break 313 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,280 off the chains. The great fast, this great fix 314 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:06,200 fast. OK? 315 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,720 It's not just a hungry stomach, but it's a humble heart. 316 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,680 Are you with me, somebody? Are you getting this? 317 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,080 It's a humble heart this great fast. 318 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,280 We're humbling our heart before God. 319 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,400 So it's not just a hungry star. It's a humble heart. 320 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,040 Not just less food, but the emphasis on more freedom break 321 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,600 every. So it's it's lifting burden. 322 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,520 So it's the yoke removed, chain break, burden left. 323 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:42,080 It's a hung that's restored, repaired, rebuilt, that's this 324 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,960 fast that God is saying. God is saying, listen, I am not 325 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,800 after a religious show, after a religious performance showing 326 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,240 out, wow, this is how good we get fast this and that. 327 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,960 That's not what God is after. He's after real freedom. 328 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,600 That's the purpose of the fast, bring about real and true 329 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,280 freedom in our lives. Somebody say freedom. 330 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:09,240 And so the Scripture just shows us what happens when we fast 331 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,920 this way. When we fast God's way, the 332 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,720 right way, the burdens will be removed. 333 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:20,720 OK, somebody change will break. OK, it burdens will lift. 334 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:22,960 So this isn't about skipping meals. 335 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,720 This is about God. It's not just skipping. 336 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,960 It's it's God coming in and bringing freedom, lifting off 337 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,040 something of your life. And you know, some of us are 338 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:40,720 strong, pushing through, doing your best, but it's like you 339 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:46,240 feel tired, tired, but not because you are weak. 340 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,160 It's because you have been carrying something that you are 341 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,200 never meant or never supposed to carry. 342 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,720 OK, let me give you an illustration here. 343 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,400 Because in the Bible days, they would put a yoke on an ox and 344 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,440 the yoke goes around the ox's shoulders. 345 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,040 And so that. Yoke on the ox's shoulder is 346 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:13,760 there to restrict the ox, to control the ox limit, pull back. 347 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:20,440 That ox is strong, but with that yoke around is everything feels 348 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,040 heavier than it should. That is how the enemy works 349 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,320 sometimes. If he cannot stop you or destroy 350 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:27,840 you, the enemy is trying to restrict you. 351 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,560 He's trying to limit you, restrict you. 352 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,600 Living under limitations tries to make you feel and live small 353 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:44,560 and stuck under a yoke. OK, now limitation isn't you can 354 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:51,920 be gifted, talented, cold, OK, and still feel heavy if there's 355 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:56,720 a yoke serving, loving God, still life feels, still heavy if 356 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,520 there is a yoke. Because a yoke can sound like 357 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,800 oh, I'm not good enough. I've made too many mistakes. 358 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,440 I'm never going to change. This is just who I am. 359 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:11,120 I am not good enough. And so a yoke can show up as 360 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:17,040 fear, anxiety, doubt, depression, rejection, low 361 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:21,680 confidence. And so the good news is that God 362 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:28,640 doesn't just notice the yoke. He has a plan to destroy it. 363 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,800 Come on, somebody. Yeah, that's the kind of God, 364 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,080 and it gives us the answer in his word. 365 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,880 Hallelujah. Somebody say break every chain. 366 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,040 Yeah, come on. Heziah chapter 10, verse 27. 367 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,880 He's so clear. The Bible says that the yoke 368 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,040 shall be destroyed. It will be destroyed. 369 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:54,360 The Bible doesn't say the yoke will be managed or tolerated, 370 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,720 destroyed. That means God isn't just 371 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,280 trimming it back. He's sending it. 372 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,640 He's not just removing, he's destroying it. 373 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,680 Oh, my God, it's not coming back. 374 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,000 Jesus, that thing breaks off your life. 375 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,200 You'll never see it again. Hold up by such another slapper. 376 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,080 That addiction, that training, it breaks off. 377 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,080 My God, that thing broke off me. I remember. 378 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,280 Listen, I mean, I'm not on sugar now. 379 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,840 For how long? Since your last year's first? 380 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,480 There's some things you'll never see again. 381 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,880 You're never going to fight it. You're never going to go. 382 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,520 That pattern, that cycle, and it may be a generational curse, has 383 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,040 been passed down through three generations. 384 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,760 That thing is broken off. It snaps off your life like 385 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,880 that. This is our car. 386 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,800 This is our car. Oh, I feel it because this is 387 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,680 the time we are in. Hallelujah, my God. 388 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:55,960 Now remember the picture, the shoulder, the chick in the 389 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,960 stomach, because it starts with the shoulder. 390 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,640 For many of us, it starts with the shoulder. 391 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,840 The burdens, OK, And so money pressure, health pressure, 392 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,480 family pressure, future pressure. 393 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,640 But God says that pressure that is not yours to carry. 394 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,720 He says in first Peter 5 and 7 cast all your anxiety on him 395 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,440 because he cares for you. This means you don't have to 396 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,600 hold everything together. You do not have to hold the 397 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,800 weight of the world carried on your shoulders because Jesus 398 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,520 already carried it on the cross. So we are not we listen, we're 399 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:40,200 not going to we won't carry what Jesus already carried. 400 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:45,040 Say that with me. I won't carry what Jesus already 401 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,440 carried. Hallelujah, praise God because 402 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,760 this fast, what it is, it's a transfer. 403 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:56,080 It's a handoff from from your shoulders to his shoulders. 404 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,800 That's what happens during this time when we just cast it off. 405 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,560 We don't carry those burdens anymore. 406 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,240 And so as I 58, it doesn't just stop with what is happening in 407 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,600 US, but what is happening through US, how we treat people, 408 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:19,480 how we treat how we speak to people, OK, talking about words, 409 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,600 OK, so how we respond and how we love. 410 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,480 Because he says here in verse four, he says your fasting ends 411 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:32,120 in quarreling and strife. Because here's the thing about a 412 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,960 real fast. It doesn't just changes your 413 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:42,360 appetite a real fast, changes your attitude a real fast says 414 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,840 stop blaming and pointing fingers. 415 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,480 Stop the harsh words, OK, Stop the hurtful words, the sharp 416 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,400 talk. And so my mouth will match my 417 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,840 fast, somebody. Hallelujah. 418 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,800 Yeah, my mouth will match my fast. 419 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,160 I'm not just putting food aside, but I'm also putting hopeful 420 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,800 words aside. Right. 421 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,960 OK. It's like toothpaste. 422 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,280 That's words are like toothpaste. 423 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,320 Once you do toothpaste, once it's out, it's out. 424 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,320 Once those words are out, it's out. 425 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,840 It's like, oh, I said it, now I want to try and you know, can 426 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,640 you get that? You cannot get the toothpaste 427 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,240 back into that tube. Once the toothpaste is out of 428 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,520 the tube, it's out. The words. 429 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,640 Oh my God, I wish I never said that. 430 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,640 Please, Lord, put kindness in our tone, the way we speak. 431 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,800 Let us be gentle with one another. 432 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,040 We're not going to be slicing up and devouring one another. 433 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,400 Oh, we are God's people. We are God's people. 434 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,640 We're going to be kind. We're going to be loving. 435 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,680 So getting this fast. We are going to pray. 436 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:53,960 Lord, put kindness in my tone. Lord, help me to respond in 437 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,240 peace. The way I talk and treat people. 438 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,160 That's and please Lord, please heal my heart so I don't speak 439 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,360 out of a place of pain. Hurtful people want to hurt 440 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:12,640 others, so heal our hearts. And so my mouth will match my 441 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,280 fast. We thank God we put food aside. 442 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,960 But yes, let's put some hurtful negative words aside as well. 443 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,560 My mouth will match my fast. Come on, let's say that my mouth 444 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,120 will match my fast. Hallelujah, Isaiah 58. 445 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:31,320 Now it goes on and it says share your food. 446 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,440 And this is amazing because during a fast, I'm not at the 447 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:39,640 grocery store buying food, OK, I'm not at Tesco's because I'm 448 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,520 fasting. I'm not hanging out at LD buying 449 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,840 steaks because I'm fasting. And I thank God for the steak 450 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,200 cake, but that's maybe for someone again. 451 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,880 Hey now is a ton of fasting so there will be some extra money 452 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,640 leftover. I will not be buying food. 453 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,160 So what do we do with the money? The Bible says share the food 454 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,640 with somebody else. I go to my neighbor. 455 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,680 I say neighbor can I buy you some groceries? 456 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,040 Yeah, share. OK, so we help vulnerable. 457 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,040 We care for people. This is the Bible. 458 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,240 Let me show it to you. This is verse 7. 459 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:18,240 It says there is it not to share your food with a hungry to 460 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,320 provide the poor wanderer or shelter when we see the naked 461 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,320 and clove there. So in other words, the fast 462 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:29,760 becomes a public love. So you are becoming a miracle to 463 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,960 someone else. I heard about a story about a 464 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:39,840 Doctor Who's doing surgery on people in remote areas in 465 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,680 Africa. And so very limited electric, 466 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,640 limited supplies, limited tools, hard work in a remote village in 467 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,480 Africa. They're just doing a lot of 468 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,160 surgeries operating and on people. 469 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,240 They limited tools, long hours. And this one day this young man 470 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,560 comes in and he's a life threatening injury, urgently 471 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,680 need blood. They don't have a supply of 472 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,600 blood. Now the doctor could have 473 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,600 prayed, oh Lord, send a miracle and that's good and that's great 474 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,640 to play all that. But in that moment, he realized 475 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,240 he's the miracle. And so he donated his own blood. 476 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,920 And so when he donated, after he gave his blood, then he did the 477 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:25,920 operation surgery and he saved the man's, that young man's 478 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,560 life. Hallelujah. 479 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:34,240 Now, what I want you to understand is we know that God 480 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:39,360 can do miracles, but understand that God puts miracles in you. 481 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,440 Come on, somebody. Yes. 482 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,520 And so you may not give blood like that, but you can give your 483 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,280 time. You can give your kindness, a 484 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,920 listening ear, a meal, a bride and encouraging text, a phone 485 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,600 conversation to encourage someone, a prayer. 486 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,560 And So what feels small to you can feel like a miracle to 487 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,480 somebody else. Just a small text can feel like 488 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,840 a miracle for somebody else. Encouraging somebody else with 489 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,720 your words. Hallelujah. 490 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,800 And so you can be the answer to somebody's prayer, yes, you can 491 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,880 be the help that they have been longing for. 492 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,480 You can be that one now. I mean, if you know that we, we 493 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,400 are the body of Christ, we are his body on the planet now in 494 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,000 many ways. God has no arms to hug but 495 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,080 through your arms except for your arms, No voice to encourage 496 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:36,680 except for your voice. God has no hands to help except 497 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,200 for your hands. That's why the evangelism of 498 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,760 people said they so vital. We are his hands, His feet, his 499 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,640 mouth in this place. This is where we are 500 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,160 representing God, the body of Christ. 501 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,480 We are his hands, His voice. Come on, somebody. 502 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,920 You could be an answer to someone's prayer. 503 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,960 You can become the miracle that they have been asking for. 504 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,040 There is so many people, they pray, Oh God, how powerful. 505 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:06,360 I'm struggling. Depression. 506 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,600 We are the answer, the choice. We have got the cure. 507 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,240 We have got the answer to this world. 508 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,120 We are the answer. God has said now as unity as the 509 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:22,960 body of Christ on this planet, and life is almost exciting and 510 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,680 so happy and blessed when we realize that I can become a 511 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,040 miracle today. You know, Jesus told the story 512 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,240 about the man that was beaten down, left for dead and people 513 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,720 passed by. Yeah. 514 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,200 Yeah. You know, it's dying, people 515 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,560 walking, religious people pass by, read the Bible. 516 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,080 Who's the one that stopped and helped him when he was young? 517 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,000 He was bruised. He was beaten by robbers, 518 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,400 basically dying. Who stopped? 519 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,480 Not the religious funk. Foreigner. 520 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:05,560 Samaritan stopped, helped him bandage his wounds. 521 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,560 Paying the ball. Come on, somebody, let's get. 522 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,880 Let's make this really practical now, OK? 523 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:14,560 Yeah. That's what the Bible say he 524 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,200 paid for is your accommodation. I will pay for your 525 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,160 accommodation. I will, I will pay the ball for 526 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,200 the hotel for you to stay in to the get better. 527 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,600 Stay involved. It's like, listen, when I'm back 528 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,040 late, I'll take care of business. 529 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,400 Don't worry about it. Pay the ball, pay the groceries, 530 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,600 help. That is love gets practical, 531 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,440 real love. What love does. 532 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,200 Love doesn't just say from a distance, I'll pray for you. 533 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,120 Love gets involved. Love is like, listen, can I pay 534 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,960 your rent? Can I pay your groceries? 535 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,240 Can I pay your mortgage? How can I help you? 536 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,040 That's real love involved. How can I help? 537 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:59,960 That was the Bible says there's a beautiful story in 1995 that 538 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:08,440 that premature twins. Oh, and so the one baby fighting 539 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,080 very weak, struggling with a severe heart problem. 540 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,360 I mean, the baby was, they did not expect one of the twins to 541 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,600 live to make it very premature, very small, very tiny. 542 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,880 And the babies were placed in the separate incubators. 543 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,880 And so several days the baby, the little one just kept on 544 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:39,040 continuing, going downhill. She's very, she's very close to 545 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,600 death. And this nurse, oh, I love us. 546 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,120 This nurse had this bright idea. She's like, why don't we put the 547 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,160 two babies, the two twins says why don't we put them together? 548 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:58,600 When they put them together, the stronger one managed to wrap her 549 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:04,560 arms over her sister. And much to everyone surprised, 550 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:10,080 the weaker 1 started improved, she improved, started getting 551 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,400 stronger, strength returned, Hallelujah. 552 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,120 And she made it alive and wow, come on, somebody. 553 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,800 I love that. I love that, you know, they 554 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,360 called it and it's how cute. I'm just like, I just, they 555 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:31,920 called it the, the, the rescuing hug, that hug, the rescuing hug 556 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,720 saved her life. I just love that. 557 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,680 Hallelujah. So don't underestimate what's in 558 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,760 you. Yeah, there's miracles in you 559 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,400 waiting to happen. Don't underestimate you. 560 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,360 Your hug can heal. Jesus. 561 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,840 I feel the anointed. Your words can lift up. 562 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,480 Your words can lift up. Your words can encourage 563 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,400 somebody. Your words, Your kind words. 564 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,080 Your words. Your hug, oh, it can lift 565 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,120 somebody. Your presence can bring peace. 566 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,719 It can bring hope. It can restore. 567 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,679 It can help somebody. Your life, you're a miracle. 568 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,719 You are somebody's miracle. You are somebody. 569 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,080 Listen, and I want you to get this. 570 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,920 I want you to speak it over somebody. 571 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,840 Say some. You are someone's miracle. 572 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,040 Come outside. You are someone's miracle. 573 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,120 You are someone's miracle. You are someone's miracle. 574 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,520 I feel that's so strong. You are someone's miracle. 575 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,480 Someone's waiting for you. And here's the principle. 576 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,159 Serving is a switch, serving, serving others. 577 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:48,840 When you serve. Serving is switching your lights 578 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,120 on. When you serve, you switch your 579 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,440 lights on. That's right, when you serve 580 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,840 other, when you lift others up, when you lift others up, God 581 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:03,200 turns your lights on. When you lift others up through 582 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,760 your words, through your heart, through reaching out, buying 583 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,200 groceries, looking, buying coffee, talking to somebody, 584 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,160 reaching out to others, you left somebody. 585 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,560 God turns your lights on. Listen, let me when you serve, 586 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,920 let me give you this Isaiah 58 verse 10. 587 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,640 If you spend yourself on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the 588 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,040 needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the 589 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,680 darkness. What you do for others, God will 590 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,400 do for you. Come on, somebody. 591 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,960 What you do for others, God will do for you. 592 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,280 OK, You want to bless business? You to help somebody else's 593 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:38,040 business? God. 594 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,320 God bless your business. You help somebody else in that 595 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,760 marriage. God will help your marriage. 596 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:43,680 You help somebody else with their children. 597 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,040 God will help your children. Yeah, it's so simple, Church. 598 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,880 What you do for others, God will do for you. 599 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,720 You pay somebody's mortgage. Somebody's help. 600 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:57,200 God will pay your mortgage. What you do for others, God will 601 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,040 do for you. You help them. 602 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:01,280 God helps you. You live them. 603 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,280 God lifts you. It's a principle throughout the 604 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,160 Bible. What you do for others, God will 605 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,880 do for you. When you smile at that, God will 606 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,160 smile on you. Simple. 607 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,440 It's very practical. We don't have to make this all 608 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,880 spiritual. This is very practical. 609 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,720 And so serving is a switch. The Bible says when you serve, 610 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:23,760 when you lift others up, God switches on your eyes, OK, Your 611 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,520 light will rise in darkness. That means you're not staying in 612 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,840 the dark. You're not staying confused. 613 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,720 You're not staying stunk. Can you say, man, somebody? 614 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:36,200 No, Haziah goes deeper and it brings it home. 615 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,120 Can we go? Can can we bring this home? 616 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,200 OK, yeah. And so he's I just love this 617 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,480 verse because he makes it real principal personal. 618 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,800 And it just says, listen, do not turn away from your own. 619 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,920 Do not turn away from your spouse. 620 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,600 Do not turn away from your children. 621 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,560 Do not turn away from your own. Listen, just let me just show 622 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,760 you Isaiah 58 verse 7. We go through these verses and 623 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,960 he says, and do not turn away from your own flesh of blood. 624 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,640 Then your lie will break forth like that. 625 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,960 So don't be kind to everybody everywhere. 626 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,080 Come to everybody at work, everybody in public and come 627 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,440 home cold and harsh and hard in private, but in public kind to 628 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,840 everybody, but at home cold and hard and harsh. 629 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,320 OK, so we got to restore the home. 630 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,960 OK, Because revival starts at Hump. 631 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,960 The great fix fast. Let's restore our homes. 632 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,560 OK? The home with simple steps. 633 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:38,920 One meal together. OK, one apology at the table 10. 634 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,560 I love you, my sweetheart. I love you, my darling. 635 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,200 I love you, my son Peter. Paul, Josh, your daddy loves 636 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,120 you. What about we as a family pray 637 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,680 together? Yes. 638 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,680 And we sit around the table. And that's a personal testament 639 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,280 in our lives. We've not just been placed with 640 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,560 one kitchen type. Because The thing is, here's the 641 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,880 thing, the miracle is not always out there somewhere. 642 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,440 The miracle many times just sitting right there at the 643 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,360 kitchen table. And this, we've just been placed 644 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,160 not just with one kitchen table, more like 2. 645 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,480 And it's what a turn around in our family, in our home, sitting 646 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,640 at the table, not just playing struggle, but having a meal, 647 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,680 talking, praying. Oh, I love you, my darling. 648 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,600 Oh my God. We've seen a tenant up in our 649 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,760 lives, and it's not just fasting. 650 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,720 Weeks and weeks of PlayStation and Xbox. 651 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:28,200 Thank God for that, but it's family being restoration. 652 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,800 Hallelujah. Revival starts at home. 653 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,800 And so here's the key. When my fast moves my feet, God 654 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,960 turns my lights on. When my fast moves my feet, God 655 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,880 turns my lights on. Say that when my fast moves my 656 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,800 feet, God turns my lights on. Hallelujah. 657 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:52,680 And so Isaiah 58 verse 8, it goes on another powerful promise 658 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,360 of healing. Your healing will quickly 659 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,680 appear. And so Scripture is giving us 660 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,320 hope, oh, that God will speed it up. 661 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,160 He will accelerate healing, heal your body, heal your mind, 662 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,360 emotions, family. Amen. 663 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:14,400 And so God can do in a moment what we cannot do in years. 664 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,560 God can speed up in a moment, and he can heal. 665 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,760 And an emotion. He can heal a son and a 666 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,200 daughter, a family member. He can heal, He can speed it up. 667 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,080 He can do it in a moment what we cannot do in years. 668 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,120 Next one, Heziah 58 verse 8. Then your righteousness will go 669 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,360 before you and the glory of the Lord will be your real God. 670 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,600 So God is saying, listen, I've already gone before you and I 671 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,960 love that that God is going before us. 672 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,520 He's right there before you, Hallelujah. 673 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,640 And then he says behind you, I'm your real God, the glory of God. 674 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:55,160 Because some of us are being tackled and hitting from behind 675 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,840 a past mistake, something that happened I regret or something 676 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,560 keeps on a shame or so, keeps on tackling it to appear. 677 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,480 But God says, listen, I've got your back. 678 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,640 Oh, I love that. I've got your back. 679 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,640 Somebody said that. God's got my back. 680 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,800 God's got my back. Oh, come on. 681 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,120 God's got my back. Come on. 682 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,520 Say that. Declare that. 683 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,680 Say God's got my back. God's got my back. 684 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,760 Yeah. And when God's got your back, 685 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,120 you can finally move forward. Yeah. 686 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,400 Those policy issues, God's got that. 687 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,800 The glory of God's cover your real God. 688 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,880 Hallelujah. And then he goes on into the 689 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,520 next verse. I just love his eye for that. 690 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,920 He's so full of promises. We're just gonna go through this 691 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,240 quickly. Stacia, when you will call and 692 00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:42,120 the Lord will answer, you will cry for help and he will say, 693 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,080 yeah, I am and I just love them because God's not distant, God's 694 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:50,160 not far away. Some God is not fasting is not 695 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:54,120 twisting God's home. It is aligning our hearts, 696 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,560 tuning our hearts to God's voice. 697 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:01,160 OK, and so if you have been praying for a long time, as I 698 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,040 got, why is this taking so long? I've been praying about this. 699 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,120 I've been praying. Remember Daniel chapter 10 and 700 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,200 this was after Daniel fasted for for those of you that's going on 701 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,880 a Daniel fast 21 days, OK, fruits, vegetables. 702 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,520 So he so he said specifically there no sweets, no choice for 703 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:22,920 another 21 days after 21 days. Now listen because he's been 704 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,440 really going for it. Then the Angel said this to it 705 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,720 because like, OK, why has it been taking so long? 706 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,800 The Angel said the very first moment you spoke the words, the 707 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,600 very first it was heard, your words were, that's what the 708 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,200 Bible says, the very first moment. 709 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,800 This is the first day of his fast. 710 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,920 Today we're starting today. The praise we are praying today 711 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,080 the Bible says is heard in heaven immediately. 712 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,480 Now, yes, there was resistance. So then they resist, but it was 713 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:54,200 heard immediately. So delay is not denial. 714 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,040 So I'm praying this, pray, Lord bless this, this, this, this, 715 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,560 and we're praying the prayer. It seems like nothing has 716 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,520 happened, but no, the Bible says it's already immediately heard 717 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,640 in heaven. So the lady is not the nail. 718 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,760 Don't quit after a couple of days. 719 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,680 Oh, I don't see an answer yet. OK many times we see the results 720 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,280 breakthrough after the first. OK. 721 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,960 And then he's like, Oh my goodness, how did this How how's 722 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,600 this in February March. I brought some things are just 723 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,320 breaking loose happening big time. 724 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,960 Yeah, and God's reminding us. So don't quit, don't stop 725 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,880 praying, don't stop believing, OK? 726 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:38,440 Because there comes a moment and a time where all of a sudden you 727 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,280 like you call and God answers this. 728 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,880 Here I am, my son, my daughter. Yeah. 729 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,480 How amazing is that? What a promise. 730 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:52,080 And then the the last verse, now this is last week's message. 731 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,880 It says then you will be known as rebuilders of walls and the 732 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,880 restorer of homes. OK, now I don't have time to go 733 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,400 through all of that again, but God gives us our identity. 734 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,840 That's your identity. He calls you a restorer, A 735 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,360 repairer, A rebuilder. That's how the restoration takes 736 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,640 place, not just in and through it, but through us. 737 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,120 God calls us the restorer, the repairer, the rebuilder. 738 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,880 You are the repaired, the rebuilder. 739 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:25,240 OK? And so when God repairs your 740 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:30,440 life, you don't just stay in survival mode, but you start 741 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,960 rebuilding again because repaired people, and this is so 742 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,520 important, that God fixes us. He restores us. 743 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:44,640 But repaired people rebuild, right? 744 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:50,440 Praise God because this is the year of the great restoration of 745 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:54,000 the church. God is restoring his church. 746 00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:58,760 Hallelujah. And I just love that because 747 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,160 that's last week's message. Please get that because that is 748 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,840 so powerful because that is our 2026 is the year of the great 749 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,440 fix. That is our assignment. 750 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:12,200 Restore, repair, rebuild. This is the time of the great 751 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:13,960 harvest. One souls, we are reaching 752 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,120 others. So God's not only just fixing 753 00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,760 things in our lives, but he's fixing things through our lives. 754 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,120 He's fixing through your life. Now let's just make this 755 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,960 practical because this goal, OK, we want to draw closer to God. 756 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,160 We want to see freedom come to our lives. 757 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,080 And so this is the key. It's a humble heart, but it's 758 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,960 got to be genuine and sincere, OK, we are not in for a 759 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,240 religious performance and see this or the we are genuine with 760 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:43,800 God. We meaning business with God, 761 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,280 Lord. OK, yes, this is now maybe for 762 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:52,120 you it's a 21 day war Tony fast. Maybe it's a Daniel fast OK with 763 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,960 no cops, no bread, OK, it's all there in the Bible as the Holy 764 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,160 Spirit leads you. Maybe just skip one meal a day, 765 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,760 maybe sunrise to sunset. What about it? 766 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,640 God leads you and he says right, be Nesta fast. 767 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:09,240 OK, so as the Holy Spirit leads you, Jesus said specifically not 768 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:14,320 if you fast but when you fast. So what you can do as the Holy 769 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,720 Spirit leads you during this fast? 770 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,920 OK. And please also what's very 771 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:25,680 powerful is when it comes to social media, sometimes the Holy 772 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,600 Spirit's like I want you to fast social media, Netflix, 773 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:37,600 entertainment, gaming, OK, scrolling right? 774 00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,760 And so God can work with anything that you give him. 775 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,560 We just sincere, we say, Lord, this is what we can give you. 776 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,000 This is what we're going to do. And so some people, you know, 777 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,760 they fast sugars and sweets, but that's good and that's great. 778 00:45:53,760 --> 00:46:02,760 But also for sometimes fasting and attitude, a complaining 779 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:09,120 fast, fast negative words, fast blame a blaming fast. 780 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,520 OK, So yes, the Bible talks about fasting food, but 781 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,040 sometimes the only spurs are like, OK, I want you to fast 782 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:20,480 negative, hurtful words. And so this isn't just about 783 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,680 what's on your plate, but this is what's on your heart. 784 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,680 And so remember, this isn't a diet, OK? 785 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,240 This is devotion, OK? This is what we're doing. 786 00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:35,480 We're consecrating this. We are focusing on God. 787 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,640 We're not. It's not going in a diet for 788 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,640 some some weight loss. This is for consecrating between 789 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,520 you and God. Devotion, connection. 790 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,480 It's not perfection, OK? It's connection, right? 791 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,960 And here's the key, what makes fasting work? 792 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,320 Don't just remove something, but replace it. 793 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,760 Because if you are just going to remove food and don't replace it 794 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,200 with God, you're going to be hungry. 795 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:03,160 You're just hungry at heart hungry. 796 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:07,800 So replace it. OK, So if you remove social 797 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,440 media, scrolling Netflix, if you remove the entertainment, 798 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,800 replace it with time in the word of God. 799 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:15,840 Otherwise you're just going to get bored. 800 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,480 You just be bored. Replace it. 801 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:23,680 So think, remove the food and then replace it with time in the 802 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,640 word. Read the word, prayer, worship, 803 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,840 time in God's presence. That's the beauty of when we go 804 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,280 to fast. It's like, Oh my goodness, it 805 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,000 feels so slow. Got so much time because I don't 806 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,440 spend all of that time in the kitchen preparing and cooking 807 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,160 food. Now I've got time to spend in 808 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,120 the word of God. So we're just making more room 809 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,080 for God. And then what you do is you add 810 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:51,080 one desire 58 action, take somebody, pray for somebody, 811 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:56,960 give something, share something, OK, help somebody, check on 812 00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,440 somebody because the great fix fast. 813 00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,000 Yes, the fast is spiritual, of course, but it's also practical 814 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,880 and just be wise and be healthy, OK? 815 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,720 Please, if you have medical concerns, right? 816 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,280 If you have special circumstances, OK, go and seek 817 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,240 medical guidance, right? We are not there to hurt or harm 818 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:18,040 our bodies. We are there to give God the 819 00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:23,600 glory, OK, So just be wise. And so it's about inviting is 820 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,160 coming to God is a God. I'm coming with a humble heart. 821 00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,520 I'm putting this food aside because I want to seek you God 822 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,200 on. Is that so just keep it real. 823 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,720 But then at the same time do something that actually 824 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:37,440 stretches you. Yeah. 825 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,560 Come on. We got to go from glory to 826 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:41,560 glory. OK. 827 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,200 Yeah, I did the first laws. But this year we're going 828 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,160 deeper. Yeah. 829 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,040 That makes me think of the little girl that says to her 830 00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,760 parents, she told the parents, she's like, I want to go on a 831 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,040 fast, but but I choose to fast broccoli. 832 00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:01,560 And the parents love because she's she never she's never had 833 00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:03,520 broccoli. She doesn't eat broccoli anyway. 834 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:13,280 I'm fasting broccoli like, oh, sweetie, OK, she didn't eat 835 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,960 broccoli anyway. So that's a lot of people fast. 836 00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,240 They give God something that they don't want anyway. 837 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,120 OK, I'll fast broccoli. I'll fast. 838 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,520 You don't even eat broccoli, my goodness. 839 00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:30,840 And so for me, fasting sugar and sweets is no big deal because 840 00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:36,040 generally I don't eat sugar. I'm of sugar now, so I don't. 841 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,000 So for me, that's not going to stretch me to fast, to quit 842 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,920 sugar. I'm not on sugar, even living 843 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,120 amongst my boys, and I have sweets all the time. 844 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,200 I asked my wife, I've got you and I just don't. 845 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:52,640 And I don't miss sugar. And that broke last year, my 846 00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,720 post. So I'm a yeah, like now I can go 847 00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:57,840 deeper. So I'm not just giving up sugar 848 00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,600 because that's not going to be a stretch for me. 849 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,520 It's not going to be a big deal for me. 850 00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,840 God already knows. OK, I'm off sugar now. 851 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:09,200 I don't consume sugar, so for me now I can go step further. 852 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,680 So please start where you at. Start with that and then you go 853 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,720 further, then you go deeper, OK? We don't start with a 40 day 854 00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:20,440 fast, just warped only, OK. We don't see I'm not Jesus, OK? 855 00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,600 Like Jesus in the desert, Moses on the mountain, 40 days. 856 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:28,320 I'm like, my God, these prophets that you know, but you can see 857 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,040 you fasting you, you grow into that, OK, as the Lord leads you, 858 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,160 but God make it real because God sees the sacrifice. 859 00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,800 It's like, wow, my son, my daughter, wow, you gave that up. 860 00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:42,280 Wow, God sees the sacrifice. Now listen, if you mess up one 861 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:46,760 day, don't quit, OK? Don't throw in the whole towel, 862 00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,960 the whole fast, OK? The gym members, you don't give 863 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,840 up your gym membership because you just missed one gym workout. 864 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:54,880 You don't just give up the whole job, OK? 865 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,320 You just match 1. You just get back up again. 866 00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:01,680 OK. So if you accidentally OK by 867 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,400 mistake, eat the biscuit, then you slip in a biscuit, you know, 868 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,360 like, OK, that's the a little McDonald's, you're there. 869 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:11,320 But if something happens, OK, listen, you don't lose your 870 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:18,120 salvation if you mess up, slip in a little, you know, sweetie, 871 00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,960 you know there OK, But that's that's not going to tell me. 872 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,920 But for in my case, there's certain things that you that 873 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,120 each and everyone of you don't lose your salvation. 874 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,680 We're all different. We're all unique. 875 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,560 Everyone runs and there's no competition competing or 876 00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:35,400 comparing in God's Kingdom. Everyone runs your own unique 877 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:36,800 place. You stand before God. 878 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,480 God sees your sacrifice. God sees wow, that was a 879 00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,760 sacrifice. I know God knows you better than 880 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:44,880 anyone. So I'm not performing. 881 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,920 I'm positioning. I love this one illustration. 882 00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:53,680 A man he once hit £1000 cash in his Bible and so he forgot about 883 00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,760 it because life got busy and he was just, you know, busy and he 884 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,440 stopped opening up and stopped reading his Bible. 885 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,840 And so later on he then he started his fast and during the 886 00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,400 fast gods he felt the pull of God. 887 00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:11,800 Something's like pulling his like read the Bible and so he's 888 00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:15,440 like OK, so he opens up the Bible and so when he opened the 889 00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,280 Bible being wow, £1000 cash is all there. 890 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:23,720 OK, now there was treasure the whole time. 891 00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:25,240 That's the point. It's not about the kind, it's 892 00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:27,880 about there was treasure the whole time. 893 00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,680 It was there. The forgotten promises, the 894 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,680 forgotten wisdom, the strength, the peace, the direction for our 895 00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,520 lives. It's there the whole time. 896 00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:41,080 So there is spiritual treasures during this time that is waiting 897 00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,800 for us. It is waiting. 898 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,000 God is ready, it's there. The promises are there. 899 00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:49,680 That is what God is saying. All He's saying just align your 900 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,280 hearts. Just come to me and did you make 901 00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:57,080 room for me? I am going to give you what you 902 00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,880 really need. It's when we make room for God 903 00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,800 because life gets busy and God's like, it's right, Yeah, what you 904 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,320 are looking for in your marriage, in your family, in 905 00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,480 your life, you are looking for this. 906 00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:17,000 But we are like in this rat race, distracted, and God is 907 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,560 calling us to come and align with him. 908 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,520 And he says, there it is my son. There it is, my daughter. 909 00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,960 It's always been there. It's been waiting for you. 910 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,600 Just open the Bible, read the Bible. 911 00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:32,360 It's there and God will fool you with what you really need and 912 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,120 that is this great fix fast. We're not trying to impress God, 913 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,400 but we are making room for God. And when you make room, he will 914 00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,800 fool you. So in closing, this leads us to 915 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:47,280 as I as power word, which is then everybody say then then 916 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:48,960 because here comes all the promises. 917 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:55,200 It's like the chosen fast during this when you step into that, 918 00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,040 then your light will breakthrough, then healing will 919 00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,640 spring forth. Then I will be go before you 920 00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:05,040 behind you then and he goes on. He goes let me read that. 921 00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:08,440 He says to you, then your light breaks for flight on then 922 00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,680 healing springs up quickly then righteousness supposed to be 923 00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,960 then the glory of the Lord is your real God then call and God 924 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,680 answers you right and then you rebuilt and should rose. 925 00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,120 Then you are called repair and restore. 926 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,560 Hallelujah, God is stacking up his promises one after the 927 00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,800 other. This is the great big fast fix. 928 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:29,280 Hallelujah, God is showing us this pattern. 929 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:34,920 He's saying in his word, if you go, you step into this great fix 930 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:40,320 fast, this fast that fixes, that repairs, OK, God will release 931 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:46,680 his results, his promises, and I believe this is a turning point. 932 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,000 Church, this is a new season. It's a brand new start. 933 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,520 It's a turning point and I believe some of you, you will 934 00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,760 notice this week you'll already start feeling lighter. 935 00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,560 This week you'll start feeling lighter. 936 00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:00,800 You'll already start feeling burdens come off shoulders. 937 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,960 You'll just like this week. Watch this week. 938 00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,760 You are already going to sleep better. 939 00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:12,320 Watch this. Watch this word, you're going to 940 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:13,720 feel better. You're going to sleep better. 941 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,960 Watch marriages, families turn around. 942 00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,920 Watch your light breakthrough this week already starting into 943 00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:23,120 this fast. Watch things turn around in your 944 00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:24,640 life. Hallelujah. 945 00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:29,240 So walk in this fast, expect good things because God is a 946 00:55:29,240 --> 00:55:31,600 restorer. That is what he he's a repairer, 947 00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,440 He rebels, He finishes. And if there's one thing that 948 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,640 you remember, come today, remember this, God's not 949 00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,840 finished with you. He's fixing it. 950 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:45,520 Amen. Let's all start Highland Bay. 951 00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,680 I praise God, let's all stand. I believe God's moving in this 952 00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,120 place. This is a new season. 953 00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,640 The great fix has begun. It has started in our lives. 954 00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,240 So if you did today and you say, pastor, I want to go deep. 955 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:03,280 I want to go in this devotion with a fast mentality, with 956 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,480 going deep, with this freedom, with breaking chains. 957 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,520 I'm in business with God. If that is you, I'm going to 958 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,040 pray because there's a grace corporately on us for this 959 00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,640 season to fast. And so if you want to step into 960 00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:21,440 this fast with devotion and you need pray for this grace moment 961 00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:25,960 of fresh start, Maybe you need repaired in a relationship, 962 00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:27,960 restoration in a family relationship. 963 00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:29,680 If that is you, we are going to pray. 964 00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,880 Maybe you need to rebuild purpose, passion in your heart. 965 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,280 So if that is you, just put your hand on your heart. 966 00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,880 As I pray for us. Father, we thank you right now 967 00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,920 every person in this place. Lord, we thank you Lord that you 968 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,200 are here and that you release every burden. 969 00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,040 Lord, we cause every anxiety on you, and we lay down pressure 970 00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:53,200 and heaviness and fear, and we declare every yoke destroyed now 971 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,320 in Jesus name. Every chain is broken, every 972 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:01,040 weightlifting. Lord, let your peace flood every 973 00:57:01,240 --> 00:57:03,640 mind in this place. Strength return. 974 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,440 Lord, we pray and we say right now we choose to forgive. 975 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,760 We let go of what's been hurting us. 976 00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:16,040 We forgive. Restore trust in families. 977 00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:22,320 Father, retrain our appetites, break cravings. 978 00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,680 Lord, break distractions. Give us a fresh hunger for you, 979 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,360 Lord. Yes, Lord. 980 00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,880 Oh Lord, a hunger for your word, a hunger for prayer, a hunger 981 00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,120 for your Kingdom, for your ways. Restore, Lord. 982 00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,360 Bring unity back, Lord, Restore purpose. 983 00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:44,800 Raise up rebuilders. Rise up, repairers, rise up. 984 00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,360 Restore us in this house. And Lord, every person who feels 985 00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:52,320 stuck, ashamed of far from you, wrap them in your grace right 986 00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:52,960 now. Lord. 987 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:58,240 Lord, I pray wrap them and your love, let them feel your love. 988 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:01,040 Let them know that you are not finished with them. 989 00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:05,400 Jesus, we receive your great fix right now. 990 00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:11,600 Repair what's heavy, restore what's broken, rebuild what's 991 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,720 been damaged. Lord, we thank you, Lord, for 992 00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:17,800 new beginnings. And we thank you, Lord, for your 993 00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:23,920 grace upon this great fix. Fast, God, that chains break. 994 00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,080 Now church, say these with faith, say it out loud. 995 00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,400 Say God's not finished. He's fixing it. 996 00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:36,040 This is God's chosen fast. Every yoke breaks. 997 00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,480 The yoke is breaking. Chain is stopping. 998 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:43,680 The burden is lifting. My light is breaking forth. 999 00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:50,520 Healing is springing up quickly. The Lord goes before me and 1000 00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:56,680 God's my back. When I call God answers here I 1001 00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,640 am. My home will be restored and 1002 00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:04,800 filled with peace. I am a repairer, I am a 1003 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:09,360 restorer. God will fix it through me. 1004 00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:14,000 How come as somebody give God some praise. 1005 00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:16,200 Hallelujah.