 worked fine but the situation with the live stream kept glitching so I'm reading some of you guys's comments good morning good morning let's just take a moment and acknowledge some people that are in the stream let me know where you're watching from as well as let me know how your fast is going for those of you that are fasting and this is day two I saw somebody in the chat for you it's a day 10 already because you started in January 1st of January on water fast but let me know after you let me know where you're watching from let me know how your fast is going I see people from UK people from Netherlands people from New York, Kansas City, Canada, Romania, come on somebody Romania Vanatchee fasting is about to start Ethiopia what a good slap of an introduction word yeah I know I was listening to myself and I was like wow that's pretty bold pretty bold and so amen this morning somebody said this morning I thought I'm going to die wow yeah sometimes the second days is a little bit rough sometimes the second day is a little bit rough somebody's saying hey I'm doing a partial fast today is day two and I'm feeling okay awesome I'm hungry but waiting on the Lord yeah good posture to be in I see Pastor Ilya come on fast forward day two hunger went out of the window just now close the window quickly because those those hunger pains they could come back and forth for a few days and then afterwards they kind of subside day four here Romania is in the house the fast has been tough on my body and mind by spirit is in love with the Lord again amen Indiana Matthew saying second day fast is doing well so fasting isn't a good thing no fasting is a good thing but it's just you get a little bit hungry day two my head is fuzzy Anisha it's pretty normal Erika from Pasco I'm doing a Daniel fast so I'm doing good but hungry yeah Daniel fast is hard for me I'm sorry for those of you that are doing Daniel fast I I sympathize with you because I don't have the discipline to do a Daniel fast so much harder but it is necessary for so many people and it's it's it's hard but God will give you the grace it's my second my sixth day was the worst I started on January 1st the Lord will sustain from Saudi Arabia on day three I am blessed and enlightened day two going strong amen amen amen thank you guys for sharing your experience this is just encouraging one of the reasons I want you guys to share your experiences because other people that are watching and listening right now that they could also feel encouraged to know they're not the only ones that are going through similar experiences and they're not the only ones that are fasting this is a corporate fast as you know that a lot of Christians do it around the world in January especially in the United States and so so yes it's just really encouraging to hear your guys's responses I'm still reading the comments just for maybe a minute or less before I share the encouragement for today and for that I want to remind you again if you haven't got the fast forward book go to the website we're gonna drop the link in the chat right now and you can download it on the website or you can buy it on Amazon just download it on the website it will come in faster versus on the Amazon because it will take three four days or sometimes five days or two weeks because of the so much back back orders on Amazon right now but I do want to ask you for a favor and I asked yesterday quite few responded quite few of you responded thank you so much if you have read the book whether you downloaded a PDF or you got it on Amazon would you do me a favor and go on Amazon and leave a review take a photo with the book and just leave a review and if you have a good reads account if you can leave a review there as well it will just help other people to discover this you know fasting is not one of those things that a lot of people want to talk about and fasting is not one of those things that is pretty popular you know it's talking about denial and hunger and you know it's not necessarily one of those like hey bless me bless me or some kind of a you know a miracle that happens to you it's something that happens through you that God works through you and so this would mean a lot if you guys help me out and leave a review after you read the book so I have something amazing to share with you I just found out that in our kids ministry at hungry generation our children are taking part of a 21 day prayer and devotional so as the adults are fasting you know we don't encourage children to fast unless you're in Nineveh but other other than that we take the children through a 21 day prayer so what we're gonna do right now is we're gonna drop that in the in on the chat on YouTube and on Facebook I'm sorry Instagram and I'm sorry TikTok but you have to go to YouTube to get that and we will put that below the video in the description where you can download that and have your children print that so you have to have a printer print that and have your children actually go through a 21 day prayer devotional so it's gonna be really awesome because they get a chance to participate with you maybe not in fasting but they can participate in prayer because ultimately the focus is for the children as well to be connected to the Lord so that you can present to your children say hey mommy and daddy or daddy is you know we're fasting we're disconnecting ourselves from the things that we usually depend on and with the purpose to get to know Jesus more and then you can give them these things there are things to draw there are things to answer it's just very kid friendly for children and I believe that you will find it extremely beneficial for your children so the link is in below the video on YouTube and on Facebook as well as on YouTube we will leave that video and you can go anytime even afterwards and download it and you can find it extremely beneficial I'm very grateful that our kids ministry created that and I think that I see a lot of our kids I see the pictures of our kids right now our parents actually are sharing the pictures of their kids you know participating in a prayer devotional so that's really awesome I have my my two fasting essentials right here the word and the water the word and the water so this is my water I'm not promoting this this is just the one that I have in my house and so but yeah these are the two things that I believe are essential to fasting you know the Bible and drinking water and so it's very important that you stay hydrated and that you are staying in God's word and that you are staying reading praying worshipping repenting confessing and just really filling yourself with God's word and so the common symptoms that you are feeling today especially you know are pretty common headaches and sometimes you feel a little bit fatigued or a little bit tired and so make sure that you take enough time to rest and make sure that you also take you drink a lot of water and especially if you had caffeine dependency and you stopped caffeine cold turkey that means that most likely around on a second day you start feeling the effects on your on your body and so just persevere don't give up sometimes and we will talk in one of those days about emotions how our emotions go crazy during fasting I experienced that in the first few days and so I've learned through manage my emotions and to submit them to the Lord and not to give too much attention to them but it's also very important about that so we will talk about that in next few days today what I would like to do is I want to talk about the marks of a mountain top people the two marks of the mountain top people writing off of what we talked about yesterday if you didn't admit if you didn't watch the stream yesterday please go back and rewatch the stream yesterday in yesterday's stream I talked about the fever of fasting so I came back from Romania I got sick and what happened was that I started having fever and so what I learned a little bit later nothing new I knew about this but it was just a good refresher that a fever is your body raising a temperature so that it could fight certain infections or certain enemies within your body because these infections viruses are bacterias they can't survive some of them cannot survive in a higher temperatures and so when you increase the temperature guess begin what begins to happen is that some of those sicknesses they begin to die out and some of you saw yesterday you know my lips were really swollen cuz I had some kind of an infection that even though I didn't have fever anymore but I still had an infection that my body was fighting and removing you know God designed our bodies in such a way that when you get sick your body actually goes to war and goes to fight those foreign things that are trying to attack your body and all you have to do is try to encourage the body and stay out of its way and what the doctors usually do is just they just really just give a chance for the body to do its work and what I mentioned yesterday is that when you are fasting a lot of times what happens is spiritually you're increasing heat in your life and then what begins to happen is that certain things in your life begin to be removed you know the Bible says but this kind does not leave except by prayer and fasting meaning when prayer and fasting increases the heat in your spiritual walk with Christ certain things that may be lying dormant that are maybe secretly stealing your joy stealing your walk with the Lord stealing certain things they get exposed and they get expelled and so fasting and prayer has a very powerful effect on your spiritual sanctification so today I'm gonna go a step further from the same story in Matthew chapter 17 verse 17 Jesus comes down from the mountain he just on the mountain was transfigured you know Moses Elijah showed up and he comes down from the mountain his face is not shining anymore like it was on the mountain he's coming back with his three disciples he's seeing the problem on the bottom of the mountain where the rest of his nine disciples are trying to cast out a spirit from a little boy and they're failing to do so they're not able to do that and instead of you know looking for other ways to cast out this demon or maybe praying they are debating with scribes and Jesus says the following he says then Jesus answered and said a faithless and perverse generation how long shall I be with you how long shall I bear with you bring him here to me so Jesus is confronting and really describing a generation that is weak a generation that is not walking in power a generation that is not walking in the authority and it has two words to describe this generation faithless and perverse now when it talks about when it speaks of faith we know that it's referring to our connection to God when it's speaking of perversion or perverseness it's speaking with our connection to the world so if we could in a very simple terms highlight two problems that exist in a powerless generation and that is they are disconnected from God faithless and they are connected with the world meaning they're deeply connected with the world faithless meaning the connection between them and God is broken it's not there perverse meaning the connection between them and the world is very solid it's very it's very good the reception is very good between them and the world and I think this is the dilemma that we are facing guys not only in the world it's the dilemma we could be facing personally in our own life disconnected from the Lord and too connected deeply connected to the world and so what is the solution for that very simple Jesus actually right after that he confronts his disciples you know when they ask him about why they couldn't cast out the demon they said because of your unbelief and ta-da-da and then he says this he says but this kind shall not go out except by prayer and fasting interesting prayer reconnects you to God and fasting disconnects you from the world so Jesus is giving us two secrets to living a powerful life to living a life filled with power and this these two secrets is prayer meaning connecting to God prayer is not just for the sake of prayer prayer is is our connection to the Lord it's us talking to God worshiping God confessing our sin presenting our requests to him it's us adoring him it's giving him thanks all of that is prayer fasting is when we're disconnecting ourselves from the things that our body depends on the good things but they do come from the world the food comes from everything that we see our bodies are physical they are decaying they are dying and they are also one day will die until the Lord is gonna make them into a new bodies and so what happens with fasting is you're disconnecting yourself from the world you're disconnecting yourself from where you are most connected to the world every single day where you are most connected to the world is true food now food is not evil food is not bad food is a gift from God but may I remind you that humanity's first temptation was with food it was the forbidden fruit may I remind you that Jesus his first temptation was with food and may I remind you when Israel came out of Egypt their temptation was with food they didn't have water for three days they struggled to find food for three days and they started to grumble and complain and so if you are too deeply connected to the world this could be a sign you are not super connected to God and this could be the source of your personal defeat in order to overcome these defeats we have to get rid of unbelief and we have to get rid of perversion perverseness we have to how do we do that by understanding that unbelief is a broken connection with God and to be perverse is to have an unbroken connection to the world so as you begin to break the connection with the world and you begin to mend your connection with God spending extra time in prayer extra time in the word extra time reading or watching things that are spiritually refueling you and disconnecting you know from food or some other things then what begins to happen is that you're recharging recalibrating and you're resetting your spiritual batteries and thus God's power is gonna flow more freely through you so the source of their defeat was unbelief and then Jesus says that this generation is faithless and perverse so mountaintop people have two qualities about them they are connected and they are disconnected number one they're connected to God their connection is strong to God and number two is they are disconnected from the world that means that they have a hate relationship with the world the world has been crucified to them and they've been crucified to the world now the Bible says that we are in this world but we are not off this world that means that we we still have to live in this world we have to eat we have to take care of our bodies all of the stuff that has its place but when we begin to deepen our connection to God and we begin to take seasons in our life like we are doing right now and we disconnect from the things of this world the good things of this world the bad things of this world because some of us as you are you know putting the foot away you're realizing you know there's a lot of times maybe you've spent on entertainment or a lot of times you spend on social media and you begin to trim that you begin to cut that back and it's very healthy to take a season of your life to recalibrate and to begin to break certain habits that have become toxic or become become habits that drain your spiritual power that you have in Jesus and I'm not saying that you don't have that power anymore but you can't release that power if you are deeply connected with the world and barely connected to God so that's what prayer and fasting goes together it's not just fasting fasting without prayer is starvation but when you add fasting to prayer it just it's like atomic power it it's explosive because the source of our defeat is not only lack of connection to God it's a deep connection to the world because rarely can you stay disconnected from God and disconnected from the world how I know about myself is the moment my connection to God weakens my connection to the world gets stronger and stronger the moment my connection to the Holy Spirit gets weaker my connection to the world gets stronger and so what fasting and prayer does is that through prayer through reading of God's Word our connection to God gets stronger and you will notice right away that your connection to the world gets weaker and so when you intentionally fast then you pretty much aggressively teaching your soul say hey this is a time to disconnect this is a time to unplug this is a time to experience a spiritual detox where you take all the garbage out where you cleanse your system not only your body but even your soul from all these extra influences of the world first few days might be hard but after that you know your body kind of adjusts it begins to those of you who are doing a water fast your body begins to eat off of its backup sources which most of us not speaking for everyone but most of us have plenty of and your body begins to feast because it still eats and then your soul your spirit begins to eat and feast because you're feeding it with God's Word your clarity is gonna be your mind is gonna be so much clearer your sensitivity to the Holy Spirit is gonna be way stronger and so just want to encourage you to not give up during the first few days where it's slightly difficult it's more challenging but to persevere to not give up and remember that God is restoring your spiritual sources your God is renewing that power that He has given you and you'll be able to release it because you're connected and disconnected people who are not on the mountain top they are usually deeply connected with the world and loosely connected to God and we have to do it the opposite amen so I hope this was an encouragement to you if this was drop number one in the chat now I'm going to read for our each day that we have in our book we share concerning the tips of fasting the physical tip of fasting and also and also share our prayers for that day for fasting and I'm going to be also giving you the scriptures that are recommended to read during the fast so the health tip or the fasting tip on the page 13 this stage is when your body transitions into a fasting mode and for many people it's the most challenging did you guys hear me for many people this is the most challenging part of their fast this stage is where you start to feel the hunger pangs as you skip your regular mealtime routine and so you just don't want to give up unless of course you're unbearably sick the scriptures that I'm going to drop for you guys you can get them from the book if you download the book on the website or if you already got it from Amazon the scriptures are Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 24 Hebrews chapter 12 verse 29 Luke chapter 3 verse 16 Psalm 104 verse 4 Romans 12 verse 11 Leviticus 6 12 Revelation 3 15 through 20 and make sure that you take time to read the devotional part about going far to get the fire it will really inspire you in each day of the book the devotional part I share also some of the practical examples of fasting and just to kind of encourage your faith it's very personal a lot of that stuff is very like very private stuff that I usually don't share on the pulpit and so but you will really feel encouraged I really believe as you read through that and now I'm going to read this prayer that I believe the Lord wants us to have today for this day you don't have to follow this prayer you can make your own prayer but I'm just gonna read it Heavenly Father thank you for your call on our life help us to surrender to you every fear and limitation that prevents us from walking closer to you we're making a decision today to seek you we surrender we will allow you to take us where we're not comfortable going in order to know you and to bring others to you to be saved amen Lord I pray right now for every person that is fasting that is right now Lord standing in the gap Lord as I prayed even this morning and I pray right now in this live may you strengthen the feet the knees the hands the hearts of people that have chosen to pursue you Lord our desire is not to be like Pharisees who blow a trumpet about our fasting Lord we want to be disconnected from the world and we want to be connected to your word we want to be connected to you Jesus we want our connection to you to get stronger and better Lord we want a sensitivity to your voice that we did not have before Lord we want a leading of your spirit that maybe we didn't feel before we want you to have more of us and Lord we want to have less of us we want to decrease so you can increase and Lord I pray that as we take time to pray and worship even when it's hard and we have a headache and or maybe we have just this hunger pains Lord I pray that we will not focus too much on the food we will not focus too much on our stomach we will focus on your spirit that we will remember God that we are not bodies but we are spirits living in the body and there are bodies shouldn't dictate what we do it shouldn't dictate our decisions Lord I pray for those that are right now watching and rewatching this Lord who are believing for their families who are believing for their healing who are believing for breakthrough in their ministry and in their finances Lord God I pray would you give breakthrough in their personal life first would you bring a shift would you bring a deeper connection and a deeper disconnection with things that they should be disconnected from and connect them to things they should be connected to I bless them God in the name of Jesus Christ may us may we be mountain top people may we deal in the valleys with the wisdom and the anointing we received on the mountain top in Jesus name amen amen if you receive that prayer come on drop number one in the chat there's about 1400 people watching right now together on Facebook and YouTube as well as an Instagram some of you folks and on tiktok I'm going to take just a few minutes because I know that some of you already were waiting because our livestream glitch I really appreciate you guys his patience and the fact that you stuck around and stayed our stream was fixed and it's better now so I'm gonna go through about five six questions and answer them if you have not got the book check out get the book on the website or an Amazon and I asked you for a big favor make sure that you drop the review on Amazon or on Goodreads and we also gave you a link to download a study guide for your children to participate in a 21-day prayer so we don't encourage children to fast but for the children to take a 21-day fasting excuse me prayer devotional it's just designed for children and so the link is below the video make sure you check it out if you may be just joining live right now and you missed it it will be really beneficial for your children to be introduced to a season of prayer and the season of fasting so they don't have to fast of course but but you can give them an explanation and guide them through their own pursuit of Jesus them connecting with Jesus and disconnecting from I don't know maybe watching videos or something so question one is are you all fasting for 21 days without without one time meal so whoever asked the question all of us are fasting differently some people are fasting non-stop water 21 days some people are doing it every other day you know full day then take eat one day then full day again some people are doing it where they just eat one time some people are abstaining from certain types of foods especially those that are pregnant nursing or on medication and in some people they are just you know drinking juices but they're not eating so we outlined five different types of fast you can choose from on our website you can go on the website and check it out but we would encourage you to prayer fully consider what kind of a fast you should do for 21 days I am not suggesting under no circumstances that every person should be doing what I'm doing or what other people are doing or that every person should be doing a 21-day water fast but if the Lord has placed on your heart to do a water fast take courage be strong you're not gonna die you're gonna be fine if I am doing a Daniel's fast can I eat cereal that says it has vitamin E with mixed toco their roles I don't know honestly I have very little knowledge about Daniel's fast which is my fault I will improve on that that's something that's my goal is to also study this little bit more my issue with done Daniel's fastest it's not really in the Bible it's like Daniel's morning he was mourning for 21 days he wasn't really fasting for 21 days and so he didn't eat sweets and he didn't eat meats and he didn't you know put oil on his face and so that's really all that the Bible tells us there's it's very very little information about that kind of a fast and so so that I don't really have an answer for that I would just discourage you know eating anything that's bread or dairy meats definitely you know alcohol shouldn't be drinking alcohol at all but I know some people actually who had no issue with alcohol you know like they just drink once in a while and but they would take a fast and it would stop drinking for 21 days all the alcohol you know and then after 21 days it became their lifestyle so that's something that maybe you can consider as well for those of you who are doing a 21-day fast and Daniel would really encourage you to stay away from all kinds of sugary drinks caffeine alcohol and stay away from meats sweets dairy and bread that's from my understanding what Daniel fast entails pretty much all that is left to eat is stuff that doesn't taste very good all the vegetables and fruits taste really good especially right now unsweetened peppermint tea okay yeah I don't see a problem with drinking hot hot water or adding a little tea for just the flavor of it when you're fasting on water I'm not having issues with the food it's smoking cigarettes for me now I am trying to quit smoking while on this fast is this a smart move yeah that's definitely gonna be hard and so sometimes what I found out is when people do a biblical fast and they add to that biblical fast their desire to be free from smoking they see a greater breakthrough versus people who would say hey I'm not gonna fast but I'm just gonna fast cigarettes for 21 days you have to understand one thing about smoking is that smoking is not something good for your health every doctor will tell you that every smoking package will tell you that it produces cancer it hurts you and it will hurt you so quitting smoking is not necessarily a sacrifice I'm sorry to put a point blank for you you're not sacrificing anything you're actually preserving and protecting and helping yourself and and you can and I know that it's there's an addiction and component in involved in it sometimes it's actually spiritual and I would encourage you to actually take a fast you know maybe not all 21 day water fast but take some kind of a fast to help you quit that and to humble yourself before God and of course you know renowned smoking remove smoking get rid of smoking choose not to smoke you will have withdrawals probably but if you're fasting as well the Holy Spirit can give you the grace and the straight I've known few people who struggled smoking for a long long time and they took a fast not just fast from smoking because that's not really a fast fast biblical fast is fasting from food not fast from smoking but they took a fast from food believing in God to set them free from smoking and they've experienced that deliverance I really believe that during this fast it's one of my prayers a lot of deliverance will take place a lot of deliverance will take place of habits that are connected to your flesh like drinking like smoking like addiction to pornography those who are maybe just consumed with media and you're just numbing yourself all the time with entertainment and you don't find any desire to read the word I believe God is gonna spiritually to reset you you might go through a little tribulation during this fast during a little temptation but God's gonna break something off I really believe in that God gave me that word last year one of the reasons to lead people into a fast is there will be a release of freedom there's so many people have not received because not everything is a demon some things require our flesh and the flesh need to be subdued flesh needs to be crucified and so yeah can you explain what kind of a fast I can do how many dames with no food and what kind of a food or drink I can eat and drink so I am not your Holy Spirit so I cannot tell you what kind of a fast you should do I can tell you what kind of a fast is in the Bible what kind of a fast you can do and I ask you that you talk to the Lord and then you choose that it is not my place first of all I'm not a medical professional secondly I am not your I'm not your Holy Spirit Holy Spirit has to be the one to guide you and so this is not something where you know one shoe that fits all some people are in the different places in their health and some people are in different places in their walk with God and so I would just encourage that you take 21 days to do some kind of a fast to draw closer to God and that whatever fast that you do that you don't just choose what's easiest but you ask the Lord what is he leading you to do and that you practice wisdom that's all and so and then whatever you do remember it's not gonna be easy but God will help you how many times a day should we pray and how long the Bible says to pray all the time my personal preference is to set a particular time I like to do it early in the morning so today around five o'clock that you know I woke up and I went for two hours just to kind of I read takes me longer to read now because I sometimes say I enjoy it and save with it more when I'm fasting and then just worshiping God pray praising just loving and Jesus ministering to the Lord and then I finish my prayer time with praying for I have about five six needs that I'm believing for most of them are with church with the ministry and few personal ones and so and then if I have time during the day I could do exactly the same and so there is no formula you just want to spend as much time with the Lord as your time allows it especially now that you're not eating you have a little bit more time a lot of people mistaken they're fasting time to say oh now that I'm not eating I can do more work that's not the purpose of fasting so you can get more work done I'm not saying you shouldn't work at all I work even during fasting but you should focus more on prayer and on the Bible or reading of God's word instead of just trying to catch up with more work I am purpose actually during this time you know took only one class in the university instead of three so instead of doing a full-time school I took only one for few reasons one of them is that I want to give some time adequate time emotionally spiritually mentally to the time of fasting I was scheduled to speak at one of the speaking engagements and I canceled it that's not a formula for everybody to do that but I'm like I just want to be available for this time and plus I'm also streaming so I am working to some degree when I'm sharing with you but I also want to take as much time as possible to read the word I read some other devotional books and to spend time in prayer I pastor what is the easiest way to transition from a 21 day fast into a 40 day fast what do I need to do to prepare for extension so how I actually transition I was I started to do my 21 day fast I think was a two years ago or a year ago and that fast on the sixth day I transitioned to a 40 day fast so really what I did is I just continued past 21 days to 40 days and so that's really what I did but you really really really want to see God's leadership and guidance on that if you started the fast and you sense the Lord leading you to a 40 day fast I pray that God will guide you but lean on the leadership of the Holy Spirit make sure that you consult with your your spouse don't just or if you live under your parents care or that you consult with your parents as well let them be aware so that you're not just because some people can become very nervous for you when they notice that you constantly losing weight and you're not eating and so just the people that need to know just make them aware and God bless you good luck it's a it's a long journey then the 21 day fast seems like a piece of cake honestly when you set your mind on 40 21 days seems nothing but when you set your mind on 21 days then three days seem nothing seven days seems nothing everything just seems so quick so it's just all about perspective eating once the day after 6 p.m. should I eat carefully for my health care so if you are eating once a day yeah you should eat very lightly you should not like stuff yourself and try to eat three meals in one because you you pretty much destroying the very effect of fasting you know and you're following in the gluttony the desire for food so I would just highly encourage just to eat light some people just eat a little bit of rice and and some other vegetables but you know don't stuff yourself that the goal is not to stuff yourself the goal is to stay hungry amen alright so I think we've spent quality time answering these questions guys I'll be back tomorrow and we'll answer more questions we will talk more tomorrow about other things and so thank you so much for being here thank you so much for agreeing to do this and thank you for saying yes to the Lord and saying no to the world I believe the great results will happen in our spiritual walk and they will happen in my life I believe they will happen in your life if you haven't joined the fast yet hey it's not too late jump on the wagon right now jump on the train right now let's do it and you can still reap the benefits of this fast I'm gonna be with Isaiah Saldovar tonight on his podcast and so for those of you guys I think we're gonna be streaming on my YouTube as well so if you are doing nothing just join in and watch and be blessed in Jesus name God bless you guys until next time till tomorrow