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And then this week it became bestseller in Christian devotional, I think it's Christian devotional. And so it's really awesome guys. A lot of people, yeah Christian devotionals. So maybe you don't know, but we have a fast forward book in audio version. In fact, this morning, as I was doing my devotions, I just listened to like, maybe like two minutes or three minutes of this audio. So this is not me me reading. But this is somebody else reading Gordon reading it. So I just want you to listen just to a little bit of it sounds really good. Actually, it touched me part one introduction. Introduction fast forward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face. Matthew 6 17. Our human body was designed by God to be able to fast. Did you know that when you sleep, you are fasting? That's why the first meal of the day is called. Okay, so if you are one of those audio junkies or you just love audio instead of reading, we have an option for you. And you can actually listen to the fast forward book on audio. And it's really professionally made the sound is amazing. I was listening to it. It's like really good. I was like, man, this is amazing. Whoever wrote this book is incredible. And so you can do that. I think we're also doing a giveaway. And yeah, and if you don't have an audible account, like something that a lot of people on our team have like me and my wife has is that we just, you know, subscribe once a month and then we keep new books every month, you know, get new books every month to listen to in our car as we walk somewhere as we're cleaning the house. And so it's just an encouragement. This is not me just selling the book, but just just Bible says that the word comes from hearing, not just from reading. And so I think there's a benefit of that. I actually have all of my books on audible. My first three books, I'm actually reading them for you. Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm like super gonna recommend that, even though they have a lot of views and listens. But this one is somebody else reading it for you. And I believe it's gonna be really a blessing to you. So we're dropping the link right now. Go ahead and check it out. And so ever the problem I think is that I am switching every scene. So every scene has a different audio settings. So yeah, so go ahead and check out the book. And if you listen to the book, there's hundreds of you already that have don't forget to leave a review and something that I want to ask everyone right now. Huge thank you. So many of you went yesterday and left a review on the Amazon. Really appreciate it. I think we have like over 140 reviews right now. Me and my wife were just reading the reviews and so incredible what the Lord is doing, how the Lord is blessing a lot of people. A lot of people are finding this book really encouraging. And I was really encouraged by that. And so if you have not left the review yet, I want to ask you to just take a moment today. Even right now, just go on Amazon. And there's a link right now. We drop the link in the chat where you can just click directly screenshot that book that you've been reading and leave your honest review. This will just help other people to discover the book. That's really what this is. We don't have a publisher. So our publisher is Amazon. And so Amazon works through reviews. So if people leave reviews, if people buy it, people recommend it, it pushes it to more people to discover that. And so I'm just amazed with how many people are learning about fasting, how many people are learning about water fasting, and how many people are also just interested in this. I know a lot of churches are doing Daniel fast, but this fast is slightly different. We mainly are doing water fast, but a lot of us are doing whatever fast the Lord puts on our heart. And so but it just it encourages me encourages me to see the Lord touching people's lives in this matter. So with that said, something I want to recommend or encourage you with quite few of you reached out and you have asked about what else do do I take with my fasting? Is there anything else that, you know, people should take sometimes people like Oh, I just feel more weak. So there's two things that I will recommend. We're going to drop the links in the chat. I'm not necessarily medical. I'm not a medical doctor. And so I can't advise you on medical things, but something that I've heard from other doctors that encourage or that support water fasting is to add two things to your fasting fasting habit or fasting lifestyle of fasting or right now water fasting. And that is the fasting salts right here, fasting salts. And the other one is super B complex with electrolytes. So B vitamins. So we're going to drop the links to where you can get them. But fasting salt is one of them that you can get. And the other one is B vitamins. And so you can get them at Costco, you can get them on Amazon. And if that is beneficial, if you are on a fifth day of fasting, and, you know, you're noticing, hey, I'm kind of feeling a little bit weak and my knees have a hard time sleeping or something. So, okay, I'm going to increase the volume right now. Then what you can do is actually add, you know, one or two a day in your water, and then also add some vitamin B in your water as well, so that you can, yeah, and don't drink too much water. Like what they recommend is to drink water when you're thirsty. Because some people when you drink so much water, you actually flush out all of your vitamins. So you kind of want some vitamins to stay. It's not possible not to flush out some of the vitamins. But at the same time, you just don't want to drink water like a camel. You want to drink water, but just not too much. And so one of the things that people always say, you know, when you're fasting, drink a lot of water, and it's good, you know, keeps the hunger down. But at the same time, after a while, you don't want to drink too much water. Just want to drink normal amount of water. Okay, so people are saying that the volume was low. So I raised it just a little bit. Sorry, guys, I am using today a new system. So thank you for giving me the heads up. And somebody is saying, is it okay if it's flavored? I don't have a problem with that. I don't think God pays much attention to that. Sparkling water is fine too, as long as you try to avoid a lot of gases. So I'm going to be talking about just some of the practical stuff at the end of the stream. But for right now, let's dive into this portion of the, let's dive into this portion of today's stream. So today is day five, day five of the fast. I'm assuming most of you are doing water fast. So I'm going to speak more into that. But if you're doing a Daniel fast, or if you're doing other fast, God bless you as well. Day five, I want to speak to you about how fasting restores hunger. See, when you are fasting, you're hungry in the flesh, but you are also getting hungry in the spirit. Somebody dropped it in the chat. Hungry in the flesh and hungry in the spirit. You're not just hungry in the flesh, you're also hungry in the spirit. And so hunger spiritually and sometimes is connected to your hunger physically. As you're going through the hunger physically, what begins to happen for the purpose of seeking God, you are beginning to experience the spiritual hunger as well. One of the ways to increase or to get your spiritual hunger back is through fasting. Fasting, what it does is that it strengthens your spiritual hunger. That's what a lot of people say and a lot of people experience and I've seen it in my own life. If you want to last in hunger for God, you have to learn to fast. Dropped it in the comments right now that if you want to last in your hunger for God, you have to fast. To last, you have to fast. Hunger for God is something that you get and you can lose over time. It can decrease and it can die down and you can become familiar with God instead of being hungry for him. And so in order to stay hungry for God, I believe that one of the secrets is fasting. Get your hunger back. Now the scripture that I want to share with you today concerning this is in Acts chapter 13 verse 2. It says, as they minister to the Lord and fast it, the Holy Spirit said, now separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them. I want you to see this as they minister to the Lord and fast it. Something happens when fasting is coupled with ministering to the Lord. It restores, I believe. The first thing that it does is it restores my hunger. As you minister to the Lord, during this fasting time I want you to begin to find more and more time and I believe that as you go into day five, as you go into day six, as you go into day seven, it will become easier to minister to the Lord. The hunger pains will die down and your clarity will be a lot more sharper. Your spiritual senses will become a lot more stronger because fasting will increase your sensitivity to the Lord and so what I would encourage is to begin to minister to the Lord. Something happens in that ministry to the Lord. It happens usually through worship. It happens through consuming God's word. You begin to get your hunger back. By the time you get even through the middle of this fast, you will notice your hunger for the things of God way stronger. You will notice your desire for the things of God way, way stronger and so fasting, it restores my hunger. Fasting increases sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Drop that in the chat. Fasting increases sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and then number three is fasting doesn't make God talk. It just makes me hear better. So drop number three is the fasting. It doesn't make God talk more. It just makes me hear better. A lot of us, God speaks to us all the time but we're not hearing because it's so much noise. There's so much spiritual toxins exist in our soul and because of that we are not able to hear and what fasting allows us is that the noise goes down and then we're able to hear better. We're able to be sensitive more to the Holy Spirit and our hunger is restored. So fasting restores my hunger. Fasting increases sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and fasting doesn't make God talk more. It makes me hear better. So something I would encourage you is to take time during this time of fasting and listen to the Holy Spirit. One of my favorite things to do as I minister to the Lord is worship. I would turn on, we have a Hungry Jen just released a whole track of like nine songs or ten songs and we're going to drop that in the chat right now as well and I love to just kind of turn that on and as I just worship and I just honor the Lord, let those songs, they were recorded in like time of worship in the time of the conference and then I would just listen. One of my ways of listening is journaling. I know that some guys maybe think that journaling is for girls and I used to think that I looked at people who journaled and I you know made fun of them. Lord forgive me. And so and then about a year ago myself I went and bought a journal and so I don't have one with me right now. I have it upstairs in my prayer room and so how I hear is I journal. I just write things down that the Lord is prompting. I love to take notes on my on my iPad of like the insights I'm reading but journaling is more of like listening to what he says to me. The Bible says to position yourself on the wall and write the vision down. You know God told even John when he met him in the book of Revelation he says write what you see write it down and so journaling helps you to hear better because you're not focused on speaking. You're focused on hearing and so I want to encourage you if you have not practiced the art of listening begin to listen more and part of that is to quiet your mind. Your soul is already going to be a lot more quiet now that you're fasting but now your mind is going to be even more quiet and so and then just as the spirit puts prompts things on your heart whether it's words of encouragement whether it's words of things for you to pray for just just write them down write them down in your journal have this journey with God through journaling. So fasting gets my hunger back. Now I want you to notice that as they were ministering to the Lord as they were fasting the Bible says the Holy Spirit said so this is this is why I said you become more sensitive to the Holy Spirit because as you're ministering and as you are fasting you have to now take time to listen listen to the encouragement listen to the rebukes listen to the corrections listen to the blessings that God begins to speak Holy Spirit said and they were listening and he said now separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them. I believe that fasting helps me to minister to the Lord and as I do that I hear from him my hunger is restored but fasting also helps me to be separated to the Lord because the Bible says the Holy Spirit said separate to me now Paul and Barnabas now how is this connected to being separated separation to the Lord is your consecration write this down or drop this in the chat your calling is something you discover your consecration is something you decide calling you discover your calling whether through a prophecy whether through a dream whether through um you kind of you know start growing into a design start showing up there that you're called in this but your consecration is different your consecration fuels your calling if you have a calling but you don't have a consecration your calling is going to be hindered and so part of what fasting helps is to really reset our consecration thus fueling our calling with a spiritual power many people are called very few are chosen very few are consecrated very few are committed very few people see the results of those callings and see the power of that calling in reaching masses or reaching effectiveness now Paul says in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 20 and 21 it says but in the great house not only there are vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay some for honor and some for dishonor and then he says this so pretty much he says there's vessels of gold and silver wood and clay meaning that's your calling you are a vessel and some of us have a calling of a gold some of us have a calling of wood some of us have a calling of silver okay so the kind of a calling each one of us has it's really discovered you discover that I have other videos where I deal with how to discover your calling but now you can be a vessel of gold and silver wood and clay but the question is are you a vessel of honor or are you a vessel of dishonor meaning does your life bring honor to God or does your life dishonors God that my friend is determined not by your calling but by your consecration and so that's where the whole separation the consecration is really what fasting helps to kind of review our life and say how am I consecrated fasting helps to consecrate during the seasons of fasting you're being consecrated you are being separated specifically to the will and the purposes of God and then Paul says the following therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the ladder he will be a vessel for honor so the vessel of wood clay silver and gold I don't decide that I discover that God decides whether I'm a vessel of gold God decides if I'm a vessel of wood he gives me those gifts I am born with them I am born again with them but whether I am a vessel of honor is completely up to me in fact I choose Paul says if anyone he doesn't say if God chooses this for you he says if anyone cleanses himself from the ladder he will be a vessel of honor he doesn't say you will be a vessel of gold you don't become a vessel of wood you don't go from gold to silver or wood because you got sanctified meaning God doesn't necessarily always add you know change your calling but he purifies your calling and he empowers your calling and he makes you a vessel of honor see fasting restores my hunger because it's one as I serve the Lord my hunger is restored my sensitivity is restored and I hear better the Spirit says the Bible says separate to me so part of that fasting is also separations it's not only serving but it's also separation it's consecration why is it important to be consecrated because you can have a great calling if you have a weak consecration your calling is limited let me say that again somebody dropped it in the comments you can have a great calling but if you have a weak consecration your calling is limited your calling decides if you're a vessel of gold silver wooden clay but your consecration decides if you're a vessel of honor or dishonor come on drop that in the comments right now you're calling the sides if you are a vessel of gold and silver wood or clay but your consecration decides if you are a vessel of honor or if you are a vessel of dishonor and you choose consecration calling is discovered consecration is chosen it's something that you decide it's something that is not discovered it's decided Paul says if anyone cleanses himself from the latter he will be a vessel for honor not only you will be a vessel for honor so God is not going to change your makeup in the sense you won't go from a gold to wood or from wood to silver you will just go from dishonor to honor a vessel for honor sanctified useful for the master prepared for every good work see this is what consecration unlocks it unlocks you being a vessel of honor it unlocks you being a vessel that is set apart sanctified consecrated and it unlocks you being a vessel that is useful and a vessel that is prepared for every good work and so Paul is ministering to the Lord Paul is fasting and we're saying as we minister to God during fasting our hunger is restored God restores our sensitivity and we need to hear better not just pray better during fasting we also see that the Holy Spirit says separate to me Paul and Barnabas and then we see that actually part of their separation is they started their ministry or separation with fasting after being fasted and prayed then they were released and so as we fast something happens is we become consecrated and so and as I mentioned calling is discovered consecration is decided calling decides if you are calling discovers if you're a gold silver wood or clay but consecration is whether you're a vessel of honor or vessel of dishonor honor and dishonor it's it's not about how honored you will be it's that how much honor you bring to God and then God in returns bring honor to your life now you may say God honors us actually there is a verse in first time in first Samuel chapter 2 verse 30 it says therefore the Lord God of Israel says I indeed said that your house and the house of your father would walk before me forever but now the Lord says far it be from me and this is what God says for those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed this is first Samuel chapter 2 verse 30 what does that mean this simply means a vessel that honors the Holy Spirit will be a vessel that the Holy Spirit will honor come on I'm giving a lot of golden nuggets here drop that in the chat right now a vessel that honors the Holy Spirit will be the vessel that the Holy Spirit will honor how does Holy Spirit honor us well in Timothy it tells us that we will be sanctified useful and prepared for every good work meaning there is a sense of God's mark there's a sense of God's grace that doesn't come any other way except by honoring being a vessel of honor a vessel that honors the Holy Spirit will be a vessel that the Holy Spirit will honor consecration makes you a vessel of honor a calling makes you a vessel of gold silver wood or clay consecration makes you a vessel of honor and as you become a vessel that honors God is hungry for God humble before God God says those who honor me I will honor and those who despise me meaning they dishonor me will be lightly esteemed there's an honor that comes from God there is a reward that comes from God that no man can give and no man can take and the Bible says as you cleanse yourself from the ladder you will become a vessel for honor I'm not saying you'll be popular I'm not saying you'll be successful in the eyes of the world but something about your life becomes a mark from God you become marked by God as 1 Samuel chapter 2 verse 30 it says that I will honor those who are vessels of honor meaning he will make us useful he will use us he will pour his precious anointing into our vessels he will pour his wisdom he will pour his grace so fasting restores my hunger as I serve the Lord in fasting as I minister to the Lord it also helps to sharpen my sensitivity it helps me to hear more from the Lord fasting is part of my consecration it's part of my separation because my calling is discovered my consecration is decided consecration decides whether I'm a vessel of honor or honor and the calling decides whether I'm a vessel of gold silver clay or wood so one more thing I want to mention about consecration there is no formula about consecration let me say like this it's not about the formula of what you should separate from it's about the focus on what you separate to come on drop that in the comments right now drop that in the chat it's not about formula of what to separate from but it's about focus on what we're separating to this fast is less about what I'm not eating but what I am eating the word of God it's less about I am not eating food but it's more about I am focused on God consecration has two parts it's what I am being separated from and it's what I am being separated to so consecration is what I'm being separated from so that I can be separated to and so that's where the consecration really where the rubber meets the road it's not just about I am cutting away from food it's it's that I am connecting to the Lord I am connecting to the scriptures I'm connecting to him I'm giving extra time to read extra time to pray extra time to meditate extra time to to journal to connect to God I'm disconnecting from movies tv shows and you know newspapers and leisure reading and you know maybe sports or other stuff and the purpose is not that I am sitting over there high and dry and just I'm just like that's not the purpose of consecration consecration is I'm cutting this away so that I can connect to this I'm getting separating from this so I can separate to this so that's the purpose of the consecration now the end what I want to complete with is Paul is ministering to the Lord and then Paul is hearing from the Holy Spirit to be separated and then the Bible says that being sent out by the Holy Spirit so now Paul is being sent by the Holy Spirit he was serving the Lord he was separated to the Lord and now he got sent by the Lord by the Holy Spirit Paul was sent by the Holy Spirit but first he was separated to the Holy Spirit and first he served the Lord the Holy Spirit through fasting so what I am believing for us it's my prayer today I prayed for us and I'm praying that for us right now is that during this fasting God restores your hunger he restores your sensitivity to him some of us are way too sensitive to people we're emotionally unstable I pray that God will stabilize you emotionally and that he will make you very sensitive to him and less sensitive to people where you constantly get offended you think every everybody's post is about you everybody's talking about you like constantly easily offended and super sensitive it's better to be sensitive to the Lord like that but not to people my prayer is that we will begin to hear God more that God will begin to speak to us more because that's all results of serving ministering to the Lord all results of spiritual hunger being restored and as we are pressing in more to the Lord that there is a consecration that takes place that there is a our calling will be backed up with level of separation that we have not experienced before remember you choose consecration but the calling is God's choosing you for a particular task and while I don't decide you know God didn't make me a vessel of music he made me you know more of a vessel of preaching and uh pasturing uh while God you know gave me limits to that calling I I don't have certain abilities or gifts or skills that other people have and I can't choose that I can pray in fast I don't necessarily I'm not necessarily going to get them even if I try hard there's certain things that I'm graced with certain things I'm not graced with but what I can choose is my consecration I can choose to be a vessel of honor that is up to me completely and Paul says he says you can be a vessel of honor vessel of hunger vessel of humility a vessel that God marks and makes use of you in this generation if you consecrate yourself from the latter from the fleshly things from the worldly things and fasting is one of the best way to do that because it really takes a consecration to another level and then once you begin to consecrate the Lord begins to unlock different facets of your calling write this down or drop this in the comments consecration unlocks different facets of your calling the same calling just different facets for example you know when I wrote books it's still part of my calling to communicate to preach but it's like the the books while it's part of my calling it wasn't unlocked actually until a level of consecration happened even with the whole ministry of youtube you know I'm ministering to you guys now but I gotta tell you that it was actually after a 40 day fast that I was kind of uploading videos to youtube I was not really interested in that kind of stuff and my friend Isaiah came and had a conversation with me which I'm pretty sure he had conversation with every pastor he met because Isaiah is like an apostle of youtube now and so and something just sparked now other people do youtube but I've seen gods God unlocked that facet of that calling to minister to people on a global scale so I do believe I'm not saying that you will be a youtuber or an author I'm not saying you will have a large church or you will become a pastor or you will be you know invited to speak out or you become known that that has nothing to do with that it has to do with your calling your calling being unlocked with different facets going further and going deeper you know Paul and Barnabas were serving God already by acts 13 Paul was preaching Paul was delivering you know a news to is to Jerusalem they had a little conflict over there with where does the Old Testament play with the New Testament believers Paul was arguing with some believers who were preaching weird gospel but Paul wasn't at the level that we know Paul today but after this consecration after this prayer and fasting the Lord just kind of unlocked that you know yesterday I talked about how prayer and fasting helped him to kind of get to the right place meet the right people and then get the right plan but today I'm talking about how consecration helps to unlock different facets of your calling you can be just kind of stuck in your calling do the same thing all the time and try to push it hard to try to promote yourself trying to open doors for yourself and trying to like really really you know kind of pull yourself by your bootstraps but it's different when you take a season of your life and you consecrate yourself and then the Lord begins to send you out open doors send you contacts I mean it's a completely different game and so that's what I want to encourage you with I think we have too much people today they have too many you know marketing agents and too too too much of worldliness worldliness has gotten into the ministry I'm not saying certain principles that the world uses we cannot use but at the same time when the whole thing is you know about promotion and about getting ahead is just borrowing world's principles only and we're not built on consecration then our calling really just becomes more of like a career advancement instead of actually anointing of the Holy Spirit that pushes our calling further so so that is kind of my encouragement to you today is that you build your life on your calling built on the consecration amen I know that this has been a mouthful and a lot of things that I've shared with you and some of you will need to listen to this like 10 times to really understand in the capsule form what I just released to you because this has this has a powerful powerful liberating truth and so I pray that God will give you understanding and if you're a pastor special listen to this with your team because there's there's some a lot of golden nuggets about God getting us to the next season and so right now what I want us to do is pray pray for our consecration pray for our calling if you have an opportunity place your hand on your heart right now we're there you are watching and let's ask the Holy Spirit to just minister to us right now precious Holy Spirit I thank you for this opportunity I thank you that you have chosen us I thank you that you have called some of us are vessels of wood some of us are very naturally gifted we're vessels of silver vessels of clay some of us are vessels of gold we are naturally wired with a lot of spiritual and natural gifts and Lord while we don't choose what kind of vessel we are we choose what type of vessel we can become we choose to be a vessel for honor Lord we choose to get our hunger back by humbling ourselves by pursuing you by consecrating ourselves to you from the world Lord I ask you right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ may your precious anointing fall on everyone watching and those that will be rewatching later or listening even Lord I pray that a hunger to honor God a hunger to be honored by God not just to have a reward from men not just to have men always open doors God but where we push our way through but what there is a there is a leading there is a grace there is an anointing there is favor that there is just this enabling from God that you can't buy you can manipulate your way through it you can't beg your way for it that is just God it's just God Lord we need that more and more in our ministries Lord that you will just blow that the wind will shift from when hitting our face to when hitting our backs in the mighty name of Jesus as we peel as you peel the layers of ungodliness worldiness and pride and ego being too sensitive to people being too offended Lord as you peel those layers as we cleanse ourselves from the ladder may we be the vessels of honor may our hunger for you come back may our passion for you God come back may the ears of our spirit be open to you God may we be more sensitive to you God more and more may you speak like you spoke to Paul and Barnabas separate to me now Paul may you guide us in the specifics of which turns we should take right or left in the area of our calling I pray for the ministers I pray for the those that carry a calling of discipleship and and pastors I pray right now God for ministers at home who are ministering to their children I pray for ministers who are ministering online those that you have called to to step into a new season this year Lord and though this will require a price a stretching of their comfort zone but God there's something that the consecration can pave the way a fuller expression of your calling may we step into that calling even if it's not comfortable even if we're not used to it even if there is a price we must pay may we step into that calling this year in Jesus mighty name hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Lord amen if this prayer was a blessing to you drop a prayer emoji in the chat right now if this this whole stream was a blessing bra drop a prayer emoji also hit thumbs up to this to the service where you're watching if you're watching on hungry gen youtube or you're watching on my youtube just hit thumbs up right now if you're on facebook just share the broadcast i'm going to read the health tip for today so today is day five day five of the health tip now if you guys are not receiving my emails yet so we suspended sending emails to everyone for the remaining of this month but we are right now sending emails daily to people who are fasting so all you have to do is go to pastorvlad.org forward slash challenge and then you sign up there and you'll get emails every day now if you don't want to receive those emails just unsubscribe don't report me please as like a scammer or something because i'm not scamming you you know you're asking to be reminded about that so okay fasting tip for day five bowel movements and bad breath are two subjects that most people usually avoid discussing but when fasting you need to be aware of both bad breath will be a concern throughout every stage of the fast slightly offensive breath is completely natural and part of the detoxing process so the tip is brush your teeth every single day probably few times so that is our encouragement for today the other part that i want to encourage you right now is that if this was a blessing to you i would like you to take time right now and to give you can give into this ministry the bible says to share with those who share God's word with us and as you are praying as you are fasting it's also good to grow in the area of giving these funds will go to help us release more content free of charge as we do that with our books with our courses we translate a lot of books over and send them overseas we send books to prisons as well and we are able to do that because of your help we release reading plans so there's a lot of stuff that we do for the glory of God and your help will 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personally support few other ministers that the lord has put on my heart to help him kind of get up um and to grow in ministry and so we do a lot of things with this ministry so your help is much appreciated thank you and then we're going to answer some questions but before i answer the questions i want to ask you once again if um this uh book if you haven't got this book i want to ask you to um check it out on amazon or on my website and as i mentioned earlier those of you who've just joining the audio book is also available in fact um audio just one second bestseller category first was in prayer now it's in daily devotionals and so um you can download that and um if you don't have an audible account just create an audible account and the first month is free so you can actually use the this book as your free monthly once you know your first month thing an audible i'm a big fan of audible i have you know subscription there so i can kind of me and my wife we share the account so my wife 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version bible is an app that i have reading plans on and so um that's where the u version bible app is um all right is it normal for faults to come to surface while fasting oh yes very normal um um tiyer thank you for your donation uh my god multiply victoria thank you for donation and thank you everybody that's giving also so i'm gonna um let go of the chat on instagram so as well as um every person that's giving on cash app and vin mo uh we're seeing your donations coming in we really really appreciate that um what is the gold calling so this is just my personal interpretation i could be wrong in that but i think that not every calling in the area of exposure in the area of the the impact is the same some callings you know um you know some vessels are a lot more naturally gifted some vessels are a lot more even spiritually gifted than others and so and i think we shouldn't just focus a lot on that as much as we should focus on the cleanliness and purity of our vessels instead of trying to focus a lot on um focus a lot on what kind of gifts we have or gifts we don't have and just focus on what kind of consecration we have another question is since i started too fast i have a problem of dreaming seeing myself eating just the other day i dreamt having ordered food um i would just check make sure that you are not thinking about that beforehand if you are constantly thinking about food throughout the day then it's very high chance you will be dreaming of food sometimes it's also natural um you know for your body to um send those signals in your sleep um because of your hunger and so um and other than i would i wouldn't just give it too much attention that's that's what i would and i wouldn't focus on food especially if you're doing a daniel's fast and you may be thinking more about food but if you are doing a water fast and once in a while you have um you know dreams of eating food you didn't break the fast because you you had a dream of eating food and so just just wake up and if it bothers you just just renounce it and keep going um mariz thank you for your donation uh landi thank you for your donation um on youtube and cash up nae and gold's child jessica wonder elizabeth kathy um thank you for your donations there as well how do you know my calling is great i think everyone's calling will be great if we greatly follow god i think that everyone's calling is great as long as we don't compare it with other callings i think everyone's calling is great if the motive is great how can you tell if you're listening to the holy spirit or if it's your own personal thoughts so my personal recommendation in discerning god's voice and your voice is this is that you the neater you get to god the clearer you will hear god that's one thing the other one as you lower the noise you will be able to hear his voice and um and number three is that god's voice does not contradict god's scriptures and so you can always compare it if it's something that is in line with god's scriptures leads you to holiness leads you closer to the lord than um it's most likely you know god's voice and and we can learn to discern god's voice and stuff so um but that's kind of for my guide concerning the difference between the god's voice and our personal thoughts is danie wow thank you for your extravagant donation that's very very generous of you really appreciate that so next question can we do communion on a 40 day fast so i would discourage putting wine or putting um bread on the 40 days that's just personal personal recommendation and so i think that you can do communion after the 40 day fast but when you're fasting for 40 days like i would discourage eating you know heavy foods or even even slight carbs like bread um during communion so during fasting so that that's just my recommendation you mentioned that at the end of fasting you've prepared bone broth do you also add vegetables or just bones um what should it or shouldn't contain so um a chicken broth soup can also be good sometimes i cook a tomato and drink the water from the cooked tomato and then you know the tomato will dissolve in the water and just drink that so that's really my favorite one or my number one thing is the cooked tomato and then i would add some vegetables you know maybe like four hours later cook some vegetables um like broccoli and some other things and with tomato and so there has a little bit more of that and then i would just eat that bone broth um and um yeah first few days pretty much that's all you want to do you don't want to go anything heavy you want to avoid eating um you know processed foods you want to avoid eating junk food you want to avoid eating all of that if you eat a normal meal after a 21 day water fast um you're going to hurt yourself and it's not going to be fasting it's not going to be god it's going to be your own impatience um foolishness and honestly gluttony and so i would highly highly encourage you not to hurt yourself are you going to be live saturday and sunday yes i am going to live stream tomorrow at nine o'clock on sunday i will live stream after noon so we will schedule the stream tomorrow but i will live stream after noon because i'll be preaching so um so you can watch the live stream um of hungry gen service and uh so i will be preaching but after the services i am going to do a um a very interesting word god gave me for sunday that i'm going to share with you guys on sunday can you giving can you explain giving by star so yeah you can actually give by stars on facebook i think facebook connects um stars to your account to your bank account or something and then each star means a few cents or something like that that's from my understanding and then at the end of the month facebook sends um like a pay to the to us pastor lauded moses and jesus fasted a dry fasting for 40 days so we see that moses did not eat and drink it says that jesus did not eat um it does not mention that jesus did not drink i don't believe jesus's 40 days was a dry fast i believe that it was a normal fast but moses was on a dry fast for 40 days and water but that was a supernatural fast angel be thank you for becoming a member of um hungry of hungry of my youtube channel i'm like already because i'm seeing hungry gen youtube channel i'm seeing my youtube channel so um how does one hunger and fasting if i can only fast possibly six to twelve hours without having flare-ups in my intestines i want to do a biblical fast as i've been taught i want to get closer to god um i think you can start with what you can so if you can do 12 day 12 hours you know you can do that you know maybe not as frequently every other day and then after that you can build up from 14 hours to you know maybe 16 hours and then kind of slowly gradually build that up from 12 hours to your goal is to get to maybe 24 hours and then just kind of see how your health feels but don't try to go radical right away if you have issues with your stomach are you available for online deliverance so we do have online deliverance and i would encourage you to go to hungrygen.com forward slash deliverance and um we have a team that ministers that you first have to watch my videos of deliverance where i pray with you and then we bring you on zoom where we pray for you individually what university are you attending so i am part of a faith university seminary right now it's based out of Tacoma Washington so i'm only taking one class class this semester because of the amount of live streams i'm doing right now i'm also writing a book and fasting and there's just so much other stuff so i'm taking a little break instead of being full full time in a class what do you mean when you say um that you minister to the lord so um when i say i minister to the lord i mean that i minister so when we minister to people by preaching by praying for them minister to the lord is you actually bringing god pleasure you're waiting upon god and then you are worshiping typically it's done through worship and things that please the lord and so when you sit at his feet the bible says that mary sat at the feet of jesus and she heard his words and so as you sit at the feet of jesus even though you really are being ministered by the lord but it's also an act of ministering to the lord you are not necessarily asking for anything for yourself you're not necessarily asking for your needs you are mainly praying and worshiping god for his goodness for his glory so worship is one of the main ways we minister to the lord and that empowers us to be a minister of the lord is fasting the same for men and women um for some yes um i do know for some women it's harder especially like definitely fasting is not going to work for women that are pregnant or that are nursing or are on anorexia and so that's just not going to work or even men who maybe have which usually haven't met too many men who have anorexia it's usually women um and so so for men i feel like it's a little bit easier to fast um in some way i think their bodies are built slightly maybe stronger or maybe bigger i don't know but i know a lot of women who do um regular you know 21 day fast i mean even when we did a 40 day fast it was about four of us as guys and we had a a lady a woman who did the same thing right with us 40 day fast and so um i'm not saying that it's possible um the same thing but also my wife is telling me that it's different for women because of their menstrual circle cycle um so it's different women because of their menstrual cycle so yeah so for women it's slightly different so if you i'm not saying that everybody you know that if you're a woman you should have an excuse but i'm saying that you should you should consider your needs as well you should consider your health and you should consider um the challenges that you are facing and not every man can also fast for very long time and please understand fasting is a volunteer it's a voluntary it's a um it's not a required in the sense of like it's it's not forced nor is it required the bible says when you fast not if you fast but the bible doesn't instruct us hey go 21 days go 40 days you know that's why we have the holy spirit the bible also doesn't like tell you who to marry you know the bible gives you principles of marriage but it doesn't tell you who to marry why is that because you have the holy spirit you also have your brain um and so a lot of things the bible like does not specifically say how to and so many of you like you reach out to me and you're like hey so should i do this fast should i do this fast like i am not your holy spirit like you have to use common sense and you have to also rely on the holy spirit and because that's why we have the holy spirit we have the basic guidelines and i come here to provide those basic guidelines as well as the motivation but the rest of it really lies with you and the lord and so um yeah what should i do if i am losing too much weight um it depends some of us have a lot of weight to lose and if you of course don't have a lot of weight to lose and you're losing too much weight then yeah you might need to maybe tweak something about your fasting it all depends on how much weight you're losing it depends on how long you're fasting and how long you're planning to fast and it is normal to lose a lot of weight a lot of the weight that you lose during fasting it's actually water weight um in the beginning and so um don't get discouraged by that you get most of it back within the first few days um if somebody can block on hungry jen spam there's like a lot of spam um coming out so whoever has access to hungry jen chat if you guys can uh spam block the the pornography stuff that keeps showing up there um so yeah when i was fasting the 40 day fast i lost 40 pounds but i got honestly like i'm pretty sure i got 30 pack 30 35 pounds back and so you'll get most of that back um so i i am not super concerned um when i lose weight during fasting i'm not doing fasting to lose weight because i'll get it back i think to lose weight properly you have to change your eating not just uh start fasting but fasting can help you to reset your metabolism help to reset your system and fasting can actually help you to break free from spiritual bondages that keep pushing you to gain weight and so uh being overweight is not healthy um and so um that could help to kind of break that grip over your life and then you can go now and maintain that by eating uh healthy what is the difference between your channel and hungry jen chan hungry jen uh nothing the same the same thing um so we're just streaming because i am a pastor of a local church and so um and our church is involved in this fasting so that a lot of people in our church are are watching hungry jen some people are on my channel it makes no difference it's i belong to hungry jen and stuff and so um i actually spent first 15 years or 13 years really strengthening and building building the hungry jen channel and uh the last year started to build my own but i still contribute to hungry jen so um that pretty much brings me to the end of this stream it's already been an hour so we're going to trim some of this stuff and then you guys can rewatch it those of you who are joining later um if you're leaving don't forget to hit thumbs up don't forget to leave a review and um the two supplements that i've shared um this is just my recommendation nothing you have to do it is the fasting salts and the b vitamins for those of you who are doing water fast it could help um with your joints and with some other stuff and um other than that i will see you again tomorrow at nine o'clock keep on keeping on don't give up uh persevere uh you got it the lord is on your side we can do this amen you're not alone and um and so read today's reading from the email that you received or the bible reading plan or from the fast forward book and may god bless you as you pray as you seek and as you spend time with the lord so jose actually asked about what can i do about leg pain jose on hungry jen youtube so jose i would encourage you to um just add a little bit more of water salt it's fasting salts into your water and then um and then be my be vitamins and so that could help with your joints or with your leg leg pain