 we fast to establish connection or renew connection with God with our connection with God it's like a it's like your your TV receiver you know if the football is going on and you have a bad receiver sometimes the TV starts flickering how many of you you just enjoy watching the last two minutes of the game with the TV flickering you're like just get a kick out of it amazing i'm just glory no you get mad you get upset and you know the problem is not with the football the problem is with your TV the problem is not with with with the team that is playing right now the problem is with the receiver with time our heart gets corroded with times our hearts get dull our passion for the Lord just kind of dines our passion for netflix awakens with time you know our zeal for macchiato gets strong and our passion for the holy ghost just kind of gets weak and sometimes it's reflected by how we attend church it's reflected how we pick our nose during the worship we look for the flies there's none of them here but you're still looking for them somewhere it's noticeable and it's not to judge you it happens by default we all by default get complacent in our relationship with God when you fast this is what happens your passion for the Lord your hunger awakens when they came to Jesus they said Jesus your disciples are not fasting John's disciples are fasting we are fasting the Pharisees and your disciples aren't fasting and Jesus said this and I love this thing Jesus says when I am gone they will fast you know what that means when you feel that Jesus's presence is withdrawn start fasting to always stay close to him you gotta maintain not just once in a while not just when you have problems but for your relationship with Jesus to be close you gotta continue fasting Jesus says when I am gone they will fast and so the idea that Jesus paid for everything on the cross I no longer need to pray I no longer need to fast I no longer need to live holy guys that is not biblical positionally we have everything in Christ but Christ tells us as his disciples we are to embrace a lifestyle of fasting amen you know prophet Shepard Bashiri this year went for 90 day fasting just on water now don't try that at home that's a very long time and that's not good if God doesn't lead you we might have a you might go see Jesus very fast and he said this about his fast he fasts very regularly as a prophet as a man of God he said I have all the money that I ever need he says my church has more people in two years than ever dreamed of God's gifts are flowing strongly through my life he says people ask me why do you fast and he reveals a secret he says I have never in my life fasted for the problems in my life never fasted for my healing I've never fasted for the breakthrough and I've never even fasted for God's gifts he says I fast for one reason for my relationship with God and I'm thinking I'm like 90 days I mean a three maybe perhaps four I mean if you really want to have a strong close in authentic real genuine five I see there are people who reached everything and who are as hungry having a million dollars as most of us were hungry when we were broke I don't want to be most passionate for God when I had nothing I want God to trust me to be passionate for him when I can drive a Mercedes live in a nice house and still burn for the cause of Christ can somebody say amen because if some of us we were passionate for God when we were nothing we had nothing going on but now you have something God healed you or God blessed you God gave you a car and a house you walk with this I don't need this even the way sometimes we have this kind of attitude well I'm good with my relationship with God you know you can be great you know you can grow you know you can deepen that relationship with God and that happens through fasting