 guys good evening good afternoon hello everyone today is day 7 of our 21 day fast forward challenge and I am excited to be with each and every one of you I am sorry about that clip about grapes maybe some of you got hungry eating those grapes but the goal today of course is not to eat grapes but to be a new wine amen if you guys can hear me loud and clear with their drop number one in the chat let me know where you are tuning in from let me know also how your fast is going and as we are still waiting for people to log in go ahead and hit thumbs up to this live stream on YouTube on Facebook we haven't streamed before at this time it's probably one of the most awkward times for live streaming but nevertheless we are here and so we said that we're gonna do a 21 day and so 21 day stream and 21 day here we come and so go ahead and let me know where you are tuning in from let me actually mute this and as well as how your fast is going how your fast is going amen I'm seeing different people 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in the chat saying it's going great I think for pastor Ilya fasting 21 days is like a cake walk yes this is the longest for me the longest day I went was five days this is the day 13 for me wow feeling good I got cold yeah a lot of people get very cold during the about seventh day you start feeling a lot colder it's the longest fast I've ever did on water seven days yes it's the longest wow a lot of us fifth day good job everybody first first time fasting water fast going the longest I've done is nine days okay this is my 14th day come on come on somebody I am on my day eighth seven was my previous longest congratulations definitely my longest water fast seven days and my ears are popping day eight is the longest I've ever done the longest fast 10 days wow okay so this is that's incredible guys we're we're already breaking we're already breaking boundaries we're already breaking limits amen and so I want to encourage you not to give up during this fast guys today is day seven of the 21 day fast and I want to come alongside you today and encourage you to persevere now if you are physically not feeling good then definitely you know whatever it means that you have to do but some of us just need to kind of hang in there and things could just get better and so if you are in that place where you are determined and you feel God's leading in that and maybe you feel a little bit cold to just you know just keep warm clothes drink some hot water and just press into the Lord I feel very good physically feel very good mentally feel very refreshed spiritually and I think that this seventh day is the day where God wants to start breaking our walls down you know like the seventh day Israel walking around Jericho and he wants us to go further a lot of people sometimes you know reach the seventh day and they get discouraged and they actually stop they say well you know what I think it's enough and so you know don't stop halfway go to the end and so God will give you the strength to go to the end God will give you the grace to go to the end now today it being a Sunday I want to speak to you concerning the principle of the first which will be actually one of the reasons why we are doing a 21 day fast in January there is a principle in the Bible and I would like to call this the principle of the first this is the principle where something happens when you put God first and I want us to go to the Bible right now and in fact we are going to go to the first book in the Bible and that is Genesis chapter one and guess which verse we're going to be on we are going to be in verse one so drop that in the comments Genesis chapter one verse one now for some of you it's already Monday or maybe when you will be rewatching is already Monday or Tuesday it's okay the idea is going to be very similar that will apply across the board I want you to see in the beginning God drop that in the comments in the beginning God putting God first putting God in the beginning starts everything see this world did not get created the world you see today until there was a beginning and guess what was in the beginning in the beginning was God so that means that if you want to have the follow the creation days God's movement in your life you must have a beginning and your beginning must be God and so each day the beginning must be God I believe that as we take this year in the beginning we're putting God first as we're taking you know why we tied is we take the first you know 10 percent in the beginning and we say God it's about you it's not a law it's a principle and that's how the world was started in the beginning God in the beginning it starts with him and so the principle of the first is that when you take the first month of the year when you take the first portion of your paycheck when you take the first time of your day and you give it to God you are pretty much following the principle and the pattern God set up from the beginning that in the beginning it should be God amen not us not our priorities not whatever we want but God's priorities now drop this in the chat putting God first shows our priorities putting God first shows our priorities when you put God first every day when you right now are putting God first in this year and you're taking an extended period of time now there is really no command in the Bible to fast in January but the principle is all throughout the Bible and the principle is this that whatever you put in the beginning will affect the rest of what will follow because in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth then we see the movement of God if you in the beginning in your beginning don't have God you might not have the movement of God the power of God the grace of God the blessing on the rest of what you do might lack divine favor divine intervention and divine blessing now let's look at some examples example number one Abel brought first fruit of his flock and it was accepted so let's go to Genesis chapter 4 and verse 4 Genesis chapter 4 and verse 4 and it says the following Abel also brought the firstborn of his flock and their fat and the Lord respected Abel and his offering this wasn't a tithe this wasn't necessarily a law but this was a principle Abel brought first to God see in the beginning God putting God first putting God in your beginning and God accepted that now of course we know in the New Testament there was more to that Abel's Abel's attitude was there properly there was faith that he had and so and that's one of the reasons why God blessed it but I want us to go just a little bit further we're gonna look at Exodus chapter 13 right now and Exodus 13 and verse 2 so we see that God says the second example is consecrate to me all the firstborn whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel both men and beast it is mine so what God is saying is not only we see Abel giving to God the first but God is actually asking Israel commending them to give to him everyone that's firstborn now let's go just a little bit further into numbers and numbers chapter 13 excuse me numbers chapter 3 verse 13 and I want you to see this because all the firstborn are mine on the day I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them to myself all the firstborn of Israel both men and beast they are mine says the Lord you know I want you to see this that it's almost like God is saying that everything belongs to him but in here he specifically says all the firstborn I believe God deserves is worthy and should be given the beginning the first place the priority he says all the firstborn are mine meaning God is saying I need to be first I need to have a priority in your life now if we go just a little bit further in numbers chapter 8 and verse 18 it says I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn of the children of Israel so actually instead of taking all the firstborn of Israel what God did is he actually said I want the whole tribe to be dedicated to me to serve me instead of all the firstborn that's interesting now if we go to Exodus chapter 22 we see something else here in verse 29 it says this you should not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices the firstborn of your sons you shall give to me so God is also so we see Abel giving the first to God we see God is claiming that the firstborn belong to him and the firstborn of animals God is asking Israel to substitute all the firstborn with a tribe of Levite and actually for whatever was lacking between how many there were firstborn and the tribe of Levite they had to actually pay Israel had to pay to God in the sense of this deal was so big to God to claim the firstborn now of course we see why because God spared the firstborn but I think it goes deeper into seeing the priority that God wants to have over the first in our life and then now we see that God says you shall not delay to bring the first of your produce so not only bringing you know giving the firstborn to God but even giving the first fruits to God and there's so many verses Leviticus chapter 2 verse 12 and Nehemiah chapter 10 verse 35 second Chronicles chapter 31 verse 5 all deal with the first fruits of the grape and vine and all of the stuff but now let's go just a little bit further in Joshua chapter 6 you will see this incredible and this really touched me and ministered to me when I was studying that Joshua chapter 6 and verse 17 it says now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction and all who are in it only rehab the heart that shall live and she and all who are with her in her house because she hid the messages of the Lord verse 18 and you by all means abstain from a cursed place lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things tarara verse 19 but all the silver and gold be consecrated to the Lord they shall come to the treasury of God so Israel enters the promised land and I want you to see that the first city in the promised land God says must belong to him now of course portion of the tribes already conquered a portion of the promised land beyond Jordan river but the official conquest of the promised land started with the city of Jericho and God says the first city in the promised land dedicate to me the gold the good stuff in the treasury and the bad stuff be burned down the rest of the cities God didn't have the same procedure in fact he told them that they could keep the spoil and I think it's very important to to see this that God wants to be claiming the first place in our life if we go just a little bit further we see that all of the Egyptian firstborn were killed we see that people who practice idolatry actually put their firstborn through the fire is equal to chapter 20 verse 26 so the world has this weird way the way that they handle so let's let's open to Ezekiel chapter 20 and 26 and I pronounce them unclean because of the ritual gifts and that they have caused all their firstborn passed through the fire so the world the firstborn in Egypt died these people have put their firstborn through the fire it was not pleasing to God I want you to catch this is that what do you do with your first do you give it to the Lord or does it perish or do you put it through the fire if I could speak meaning you're giving it to the enemy you're you're not giving it to God who is the first in your life who is the beginning in your life for those of you that are now maybe partaking of this fast I want to provoke you today and challenge you it's not too late jump on the board let's give this month let's give this first to the Lord the bible says we are the first fruits of the Holy Spirit Romans chapter 8 verse 23 the bible says if the first fruit is holy the lump is also holy Romans chapter 11 verse 16 the bible says the Jesus resurrection has made him the first fruits of those who will rise after him the bible says that we are the first fruit of his creation of his creatures the bible says that Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren roman chapter 8 verse 29 the scripture also teaches us that Jesus wants our commitment to be for him first now let's go now to the new testament look chapter 9 and verse 59 all the way at the bottom so now let's go to the new testament because I just shared to you the Old Testament principle and some of you may be like oh well that's an Old Testament that's not in the New Testament let's go through the New Testament then Jesus then he said to one to another follow me but he said Lord let me first I want you to see this let's highlight this right now let me first go and bury my my my father so the guy says I want to follow Jesus but first let me go and pretty much wait till my father dies and then I'm going to bury my father so I will have no more responsibilities for my father and then I'll follow you and Jesus will be like oh yeah great I mean of course take care of your mother and your father that's one of the commandments Jesus doesn't say that because this deals with priority this is nothing to do with honor your father you know mother this has to do with priority Jesus says let the dead bury their own dead but you go and preach the gospel wow Jesus pretty much is saying hey if you're not gonna put me first and you put other stuff first he says that that's not gonna work see the kingdom of God valleys the priority of first the principle of first then Jesus said to him so I want you to see another guy comes in and says Lord I will follow you but let me first go and put him I'd say be well farewell to those who are in my house meaning Lord I'm gonna follow you but just I have something else to do first and so I want you to notice that Jesus is saying not really he says no one putting his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God hey guys are we back I see that it was buffering on my end right here if we are back drop number one in the chat if you are still with me right there go ahead and help me with the stream right now if we are back go ahead and drop that in the chat I saw that I lost you guys for just a second we are streaming slightly higher quality okay so we're back on number one I see number one showing up thank you guys for okay the chat is back all right so one guy says let me go first bury my father Jesus says we have a priority problem the other guy says let me go first this do this first and Jesus says not really we should not that's not how this works it's not that Jesus is ignoring the family absolutely not he just says that there are things that need to come in first I want you to let's go together to Matthew chapter 22 and in Matthew chapter 22 verse the famous verse the most of you have memorized you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and your soul and in verse 38 this is the first and the great commandment meaning not all the commandments are the same some have a priority some go before others and it's very important to recognize that so in Acts chapter now we're going to look at a little bit more practically what does that look like for Christians today and some of you might not get super comfortable with what I'm going to share with you today Acts chapter 20 verse 7 on the first day of the week disciples came together to break bread Paul ready to depart the next day spoke to them and continue this message till midnight so one of the things that we can put God first in our life is going to church on the first day of the week on Sunday now if you're not working and if you are trying to you know get those days off which I think you should you should prioritize going to the church gather with disciples break the bread on the first day of the week now how many of you have a local church drop number one in the chat how many we love your local church drop number one in the chat and if you do not have a local church and you live nearby tri cities you are welcome to come to hungry Jen so the first thing that I want you to see the first thing that we must honor God on the first day is the first day of the week to start going to church now can you go to church on Saturday yes you can go to church on Friday you can go to church any day but something happens when you go to church on the first day of the week it sets the mood for the rest of the week your first day of the week is not Monday it's Sunday and so begin to prioritize your first the priority of the first the second thing that I want to highlight after the priority of going to church on Sunday as a first day of the week is this week into daily seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you what this means is that daily not only once a week but also daily take time to seek God and His righteousness you can do that by praying you can do that by reading God's word you can do that especially now that it's you're fasting you're pressing into the Lord and you're taking this time during this year to press into God begin to take daily time at least Monday through Friday Monday through Saturday where you first put God first where you first have God in the beginning God in the beginning God that in your daily beginning you have God first so we meet at the church at the first day of the week we spend time with God in the first moments of our day and then I want us to look at one more thing and that is Proverbs chapter three and verse where is my Proverbs chapter three and verse nine honor the Lord with all your possessions and with the first fruits of all your increase the third thing that I want you to practice the first in is to first give to God that you give to God your first fruits practically how that's usually done is that you know we take 10 percent some people take 20 percent whatever that is and you give to God out of everything that you make the benefit of that is the same thing as putting God first in your day and it's the same thing as putting your God first in your week when you put God first in your finances and I know that topic of money is extremely controversial for so many people especially when preacher talks about money and so and my goal is not to get an offering from you or for you to donate to our ministry my desire is for you to learn the principle of putting God first something that me and my wife regularly practiced is actually to take our month's salary in January and to give that away and so we did the last year we did that year before that year before that and so for this year we're taking pretty much every month we're going to be giving that away my church salary to the building fund as part of our giving to the Lord that will continue throughout the year and so I want to challenge you today that even in your finances you put God first honor God with the first fruits of all your increase for that for some of you that would simply mean to start honestly tithing to your local church for some of you that will simply mean maybe taking you know one paycheck a year full paycheck and then asking God where does God want to sow and bless this to honor God we don't do that to earn a blessing even though there's a promise that's attached to it says so your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine there's definitely a promise but I believe that it's an act of honor it says honor the Lord see when you put God first it's a matter of honor not a matter of is this right or like is this sin if I don't do it I don't think it's about sin issue I think it's an issue of honor that's why Jesus says or the Bible says honor the Lord it doesn't say hey make sure that you do that so you don't get cursed that's not the motivation the motivation is honor when you spend time with the Lord in the morning there's really no explicit scripture hey spend your first 30 minutes with God no but the principle is there seek first the kingdom of God when you go to church in you know on the first day of the week it's not about oh if I don't go that means that you know if I missed one time you know something is bad it's going to happen there's nothing to do with that it has to do with the honor you have in your heart toward the Lord by prioritizing him first in your week in your day and in your finances there are four things that I know about the principle of the first four things and I'm just going to drop them quickly with number one is not all things have the same priority some things have to be first and some things cannot be first not everything can be first Jesus says this is the first commandment that means the rest of them are not first in the beginning God not in the beginning something else that means that some things don't have the same priority check in Facebook is not the same priority as reading the Bible watching a movie is not the same priority as worshiping going to church is not the same priority as watching a game and so you have to stop treating everything in your life and giving everything in your life the same priority giving is a different priority than you know let's say that you're spending money on some of your own desires or or greed and so not everything has the same priority the second principle that I've learned I want you to so drop this in the chat not everything has the same priority the second thing that I want you to drop in the chat is the most important things should be the priority now I know this seems very obvious of course the most important thing should be the priority but for many of us the most important things are not the priority the most important things should be the priority that's the second truth about priorities and principle of the first the third one follows the second one most important things are not always urgent things and many times our urgent things are not actually the most important ones they seem important because they demand our attention but at the same time our priorities should be set straight that we don't live our life always running after emergencies if your life is a constant emergency you have a problem you must not allow emergencies urgent and all of these things to always be taking place of your priorities so your time with the Lord your time giving your time spending time in the church must be a priority now does that mean that we don't have occasions like last Sunday I was sick I wasn't able to come to church that's a different story the Sunday before I was in Romania that's a different story but for me it's a priority to be a church on Sunday I grew up with that my parents taught me that that we prioritize God's house Sunday is the Lord's day and we we honor that it's not a family day it's the Lord's day and we do enjoy time with our spiritual family we have a good together get together with our family but the priority is God not us we're second not first you know my father taught me from a very young age when you make your first paycheck you take a percentage 10 percent that's what he taught me and then you give it to God not the last 10 percent why is that because you're putting honor on God if you're giving the last one you're not trusting him you're pretty much saying if I have enough then I will give but if I don't have enough I won't give so you're not really tidying your tipping and so my father taught me from a very young age when I was just a boy you always want to put God first it wasn't a matter of a law it was a matter of a principle that God goes first and yes I always had urgent needs like you know I can never afford to tide really because I have needs but those needs they become second my emergencies and urgent things always are second my first thing is my priority and my priority is God so the three lessons we've learned and I'm going to share the last one right now is that not all things have the same priority most important things should be the priority and most important things are not always urgent things sometimes we'll let the urgent things oh yeah but I need to pay the bill you know oh oh yeah but you know my kids have a soccer practice oh yeah you know like I can't really right now fast because you know it's January and my office has a lot of you know get-togethers and somebody brought donuts there's always gonna be urgency there's always gonna be emergencies and distractions but as a Christian in the beginning God meaning let your beginning let your priority always be God after that everything else will follow but if you look in the beginning we see there was water there was the chaos there was all this craziness yet in the beginning God not in the beginning all this chaos not in the beginning all these problems all these needs God in the beginning and because there was a God in the beginning all of these other things got sorted out because there was a God in the beginning all of these other things they got moved they got changed they got fixed and so if you always live your life around emergencies if you always live your life around running after emergent urgent things and you you pretty much your life is always reacting to every single problem instead of living by your priorities giving because it's important to give going to church because it's important to go to church spending time with God in the morning because it's important to spend time whether in the morning or in the evening whichever that you do and stuff so make it your priority why because the fourth thing about the principle of the first and this is fire whatever is your first has the power to change the outcome to what follows drop that in the comments right now whatever is your first has the power to change the outcome of what follows seek first the kingdom of God everything else shall be added if you put right things first they have a power to change the rest of it you know you probably have seen this in school and colleges where the professor would you know put a a glass and put first sand and water and then try to fit big rocks and the big rocks would fit and then he would you know take everything out and then put the big rocks first and then he would put sand and he would put water and you know all of that would fit that's kind of how our life is the big rocks is your priorities if you don't put them first and you always put the urgent things small things but important and urgent emergencies if your life is always ran by that and you keep postponing putting God first in your week in your day and in your finances you will find yourself always not seeing the grace of God and the rest of what you could have seen the grace of God in and the second thing is that you will typically have no room for God because God doesn't fit second he's meant to be first God doesn't work second he only works first in the beginning God you can't make him last you can't make him in the middle put him first give God a priority maybe you're afraid to do that maybe you're afraid you're gonna lose opportunities oh if i get a different job or a different position that gives me more freedom to be with my family and with church and sunday you know i might not be as prosperous so what yeah if if i don't go and you know respond to all my text messages in the first 20 minutes nothing's gonna happen nobody's gonna die everything's gonna be fine you're not a god of universe and even God doesn't respond to everybody's cry instantly and so you can make time to be with God and maybe if financially you're saying i can't afford to give and it's true there's some people that honestly you're in that situation right now you can't afford to give but nor did the widow who gave her last might she couldn't afford to give but she still gave why because she didn't lean on the excuse she leaned on the principle i'm gonna honor God it's about honor it's not about legalism it's not about a law it's about a principle that i believe we can reap the benefits from so the fast thing that we are doing the benefit of that i believe is that something sets in motion for the rest of your year why seek first why give the first jericho why able giving the first fruits why honor the lord with the first fruits why meet on the first day of the week seek the lord first why the guy saying hey i'm gonna go first and do this but then i'm gonna follow you jesus and jesus is like i'm not gonna work the other guy says no i'm gonna go first and put stuff together in my family then i'm gonna come back jesus is not gonna work why because god wants to be first he deserves to be first in the beginning god meaning god wants to be in the beginning of everything that you do if you put god first you will begin to see how the rest of it god will begin to assemble and put together for his glory i'm not talking about prosperity gospel i'm not talking about you know health wealth blessed me club i'm just simply saying that there's these priorities have consequences if you put priorities right you will reap the benefits of these priorities god says quickly clearly he says put me first the rest of will be blessed honor the lord with the first fruit he says i will begin to bless your your your vats and i've seen this in my own life the day goes better the week goes better the year goes better the rest of my 90% of finances or 80% of finances seem to be having god's blessing on it versus you know everything just kind of running it in my own holding on too tight to everything and so i just want to challenge you today encourage you for those of you that are fasting you're doing a good thing you're putting god first in this year for those of you that are right now but maybe you're not praying i want to challenge you to start praying daily 10 minutes five minutes whatever it is cut that time wake up a little bit early you know maybe before you go to work just just close yourself in the car and those undisrupted uninterrupted quality time with the lord god is not gonna look at the clock it's about your heart posture to him but give him quality time not distracted not with notifications coming in and all of the stuff quality time i'm not talking about scrolling through facebook while you're praying i'm talking about just being with him being in his word and then make a priority this year that on sundays you will go to church or whenever your church meets but the first day of the week that you will take your family to church you will make it a priority when you're in town you'll go to church when you are somewhere else you visit another church why to honor god in your week and the last one is make a priority right now to honor god in your finances there are people watching right now maybe that you've never done this before you've never trusted god with your finances for you it was always like oh they're trying to take my money and yes there are pastors and there are leaders who are greedy and who are gonna manipulate this and abuse this but just like there's people who abuse everything or anything you know make fake dollars and all of this stuff don't let the abuse you know trip you up the devil use abuse the scripture against jesus and took it out of context jesus didn't say oh yeah now i'm not gonna be using the scripture anymore why because the devil just use the scripture out of context no jesus still continued to use the scripture and so just because somebody abused the principle it doesn't mean that this principle is invalid make a decision to put god first in your finances whether it's 10 percent or 15 percent take that first portion and give it to god watch let's see what the lord's gonna do this year as we're doing that with the fast i'm also feeling led by the lord that in the future even in starting march to start doing few days every week every excuse me every month first few days of every month to fast and we're gonna probably even do a stream so it's something that we're gonna continue as a principle of the first for the remaining of the year why because i don't want you to do it one time and kind of get get get lose the the the passion for it lose the the understanding for it so so we're gonna do that together with you in jesus name amen so i believe that a lot of you got encouraged i believe that a lot of you got motivated and i believe that a lot of you also got convicted to start doing that this year amen so let me pray for you right now and then we're going to read some of our we're gonna also read some of our health tip but for right now just let me pray for you let this be the year where in the beginning god in the beginning god god becomes your beginning god becomes your your first in your day in your week and in your finances lord i pray for every person that is watching this broadcast right now lord i pray in the mighty name of jesus the mighty grace will fall upon their life lord i ask you in jesus mighty name would you bless them would you give them a revelation of the principle of the first or some who maybe are coming up from a legalism or coming out from a place where they got church hurt they got burned with people taking this to to the extremes lord let us put you first in our day let us put you first in our week let us put you first in the finances lord let you be the first in our life holy spirit i ask you that we will offer what abel offered the first fruits that we will offer with israel did the jericho that we will offer in our finances they will offer in our year and in our week lord in our day it's hard lord sometimes we get distracted sometimes it's easier to just be on our phone and sometimes it's easier to just spend sunday watching football instead of spending time in your house lord but you didn't call us to an easy life you call us to a holy life and so i ask you for that grace to fall upon every person that is watching rewatching listening and relistening in the future in jesus mighty name may god bless us in the mighty name of the lord come on somebody drop that number one in the chat if you receive this prayer let's go to day seven for our health tip day six and day seven is the bowl for blessing um devotional i hope that you were blessed by today's devotional today's devotional was fire about isa and um i believe that it was a great blessing to you guys but um let me just read the health tip there's a prayer there there's scripture there everything so make sure you guys kind of read through this this was written for your help the health tip is glucose is the temporary source of energy for the body however when you when you fast or you go into ketosis glucose becomes limited and your body must turn to fat stores for the energy it requires additionally getting rid of that extra fat has a detoxifying effect on the body come on somebody so um very encouraging tip pretty much that um glucose is your primary source for your body for your energy but when you fast you know your body goes into ketosis and so glucose becomes limited and your body starts to turn to the fat stored in your body for the energy and as it's getting rid of this extra fat it's also detoxifying your body through that and so it's very very good and i am glad that um for those of you that are fasting i believe the lord is going to be blessing us in the name of jesus christ okay we're gonna take some time to answer some questions for those of you that got them so play a little music if the lord puts on your heart to give today or maybe to give even first fruits you can do that here is the links god bless you i don't want to emphasize the giving where to give today because that was not the point of the message the point of the message to bring just the revelation and then let let god kind of bring that application as he um as he guides each one of us amen so it's saturday the sabbath yes saturday is the sabbath but saturday is not the first day of the week saturday is the last day of the week does the book cost money so um if you buy it on amazon yes if you go on my website you can get it for free what if you eat something on the fast that you shouldn't do you need to start over from day one no i don't think so i think that you can just resume the fast and um yeah you can just resume the fast lad have you experienced ear popping as if climbing a mountain no not during the fast i've never really experienced um an ear popping what do i do about the weird taste in my mouth brush your teeth drink water so um yeah sometimes normal a lot of that stuff comes out through the mouth can i drink coffee while fasting at work you can do whatever you want but yeah you can you can drink tea or if you want to drink coffee you can drink coffee you just don't drink normal milk because you will um it will upset your stomach and so i know oat milk or coconut milk is a great substitute you don't want to drink too much coffee um i mean the idea is not to do any caffeine when you're fasting and so but if you feel weak and you you need to get a little bit more of that energy and that's your way of doing that you know drinking a cup of coffee or a cup of tea that's fine um if you don't do a lot of it it won't upset your stomach or it will not take you out of the ketosis is it okay to do a liquid fast yeah i mean ultimately biblical fast is a liquid fast it's going without food but um it's not going without water there are examples in the bible of people who didn't eat and did not drink what do you do if you vomit um um cleanse your like clean your mouth maybe brush your teeth and um i hope you feel better after that and so um yeah but sometimes you know it could happen first few days especially where a person can vomit especially things that they ate before um but um you shouldn't be technically vomiting during fasting that's not normal if you're on the water fast and you're seven day or eight day and you're vomiting that's that's not normal probably you should either go to the doctor or stop fasting but if it's first day or something then or if you ate something during the water fast or drink something sometimes like you go and drink you know coffee with regular milk then yeah you you're going to get sick so you want to you want to honor the fast by you know doing the fast without putting anything into your body unless you choose to come out of the fast then you come out very slowly if you stuff yourself and and then you're gonna experience consequences of the area even vomiting and it's it's not healthy lad what if i messed up and i ate should i just start over over no just resume so if you have um guys for those of you that are during the fast you ate something for god that it was in your mouth go ahead and just resume the fast you don't have to stop the fast just resume the fast get yourself back up and resume the fast can i have soup so when you start having soups already you are gonna be taking your body out of that you know ketosis in the beginning maybe smaller ones are gonna be fine so i don't when i when i do a um a water fast i don't have soups i don't on my 40 day fast i think i had a little bit of bone broth but honestly it was like water so i just drink um it was just pretty much water it wasn't a soup so if you start doing a soup then you know you just decide what kind of a fast you're doing are you doing a fast that's partial you're just doing a soup and at the end of the day or if you're doing a um a water or a liquid fast so but you can have whatever you want i mean some people fast just eat one meal a day some people that's that's between you and the lord um and so but if you're doing a biblical fast then yeah soup is not necessarily on the menu because you're already putting food this is not just liquids i haven't had that experience that i have heard so many people have this is a seven-day water fast i want to hear something what do you think i'm not sure what you're referring to coconut water has glucose does that mean that having coconut water blocks ketosis so i think if you have just a little bit not like drink like water i actually have coconut water here uh no sugar added and concentrate concentrate uh yeah so if you have just a little bit i don't think it's a it's a problem but if you kind of you know drink a lot of it um then um then yeah it would be um so i see that you guys are not the music is too loud on your end okay can you fast on your periods um probably not let my wife answer that in the chat i don't think you should be probably doing that but i am not a woman so i have no idea should people fast on their periods babe answer that question in the chat is that okay to give your tithes to a different church sometimes uh my personal um my personal stance on this is that i tie to the local church where i serve and attend i don't tie to ministries online i don't tie to ministry somewhere else that's always been my thing i've always given to the to my local church now i do understand during pandemic i started to meet a lot of people who actually said that hey uh you know my church doesn't have anything going on it's like there's they have no services and they start tithing to different ministries like i mean it ultimately goes to the kingdom of god and so uh but my personal preference is to tie to a local church and then i do give above that to to particular you know ministries and stuff so but if you don't have a local church you know hey you can give to the church that god gives into your hands but if you do go to a local church and you you don't tie to your local church you know then you know i don't think that you should be complaining if things are not happening there because you're not you're not invested there so you're probably not only not tithing you're probably not attending small groups and other stuff so you want to be invested in your local church how many days will we be fasting after january so i think we'll start in march and then we're probably going to be doing two and a half or three days so mostly about three days how do you deal with an unanswered prayer so it is probably answered maybe just the answer is no it's still answered you know not all answers are yes some answers are yes some answers are no some answers are wait so how do you deal with an unanswered prayer is that a lot of times god actually does answer your prayer is just he answers with a no or he answers with the wait and so you just discern whether it's yes whether it's wait or whether it's no and even if it's a no you should still continue to press into the lord continue to serve him and continue to trust him you know when you cannot somebody said when you cannot trace god you know still trust god when you cannot feel like hey i'm not sure what he's doing in my life right now state yourself because a lot of times we don't know exactly what is happening in our life and what is happening behind the scenes i think i just lost my chat okay chat just got reconnected thank you music is good right now all right i tied my local church and online and yours passed a lot well thank you gym in my gyms appreciate it's it was buffering huh but is it good now where do you get bone broth i don't know honestly i think my mom got somewhere or my my wife yeah i when it comes to shopping and all of this stuff i'm completely clueless i feel like if i wouldn't have women a god in my life i would go i would die because i am i am very dependent on on other people especially women so and i'm grateful for my mom i'm great for my wife great for those precious people i literally feel like i am on my first try men's try master tiredness nauseous vomit out of breath it's hilarious and painful but the lord is giving this strength what is what is that about though i'm assuming that you are fasting and you're feeling all of that i wonder how many days are you on the fast right now and you know is you have some maybe underlying health problems and to start with or is this an attack or is this something that you should persevere so like i i can't necessarily give you i'm not a doctor number one plus i don't know your full story but it could be either just an attack or or honestly maybe you you need to stop so fasting if you keep having this thing some people cannot fast on water for very long time some people can only fast for a day some people can do it for two days and that's it and so then they just stop and just fast you know one meal a day so just discern your body discern your season and don't push yourself harder than you are able to okay so if you're noticing that you're vomiting nauseous and you know falling asleep and tired and all of that craziness then um you know especially if you're the woman typically like women or like men who have smaller bodies um you know just just be be careful be careful and uh yeah so you encourage early prayers during fasting sometimes the enemy attacks sometimes i think the enemy attacks early morning it's hard yeah i would encourage to pray whenever you can find time to pray you can pray in the morning you can pray in the evening um mornings work typically better i feel like because um you know you're fresh in the morning i have a whole video about morning prayer secrets so check it out check that video out i think it will be over blessing um to you i have lost 10 pounds and i am on day seven i am small to begin with when should i be concerned please advise um just just pay attention to your body pay attention to how you feel pay attention to what's happening to you and um and you'll know the lord will give you that you know whether you need to transition to something like daniel's fast or maybe um transition to every you know other day or something so just kind of pay attention to um to your body but if the lord gives you strength just just go just keep going till the end and so um if you don't sense his grace and his his strength you know just just be flexible don't for some people they need to make up their mind like i'm one of those people i need to make up my mind if i don't make up my mind uh i'm gonna quit um i know but some people they work better by actually just kind of i'm gonna go and see how i feel and i'm gonna go as long as the lord gives me grace and that's still good approach the fasting time including the time that we sleep in the night or just the time that our eyes open in the morning um so for those people who are doing non-stop you know like 21 days or seven day water fast then yeah this includes night and day but for those of us that are fasting only during the day then yeah typically your night is also included as part of that and so in the bible your day begins with the night so the bible says the evening and the morning and stuff so when we say you know you're fasting from six to six it doesn't mean that you eat you know till six like crazy and then you eat again after six it's kind of like how a lot of muslims do it you know they're fastest from morning from morning to sun sun sundown and some christians do the same thing as they just stuff themselves you know after after that um you know after six or something and that's not the purpose of fasting is to you know um stuff yourself uh even if you're doing one meal a day the point is to eat something light um nothing super heavy um not to just kind of like put three meals into one i keep missing this detail but the water fast you're doing is it the water only for 21 days water only for certain hours each day um so the water fast that um quite few of us are doing is it's it's for 21 days yeah so it's not just for certain hours it's for 21 days no food just water just water or sometimes we supplement with a little bit of coconut water or add a little bit of sea salt or um add um be complex i think be complex uh vitamin not be vitamins but be complex vitamins and i have it in a link in below um if you're interested in that should i be concerned about stopping pooping after extended fast i don't think so i think after a while you're not gonna have anything to release what do you think about chewing gum for a bad breath yeah uh could be an option as the heartburn go away when the ingestion shuts down causing me not to be able to sleep yeah some people i know that um i've known to people who had a heartburn even yesterday and so but it went away today so we just kind of encourage people say hey just kind of wait it out for a little bit if it doesn't go away then you know go to the doctor or just or just start eating uh but um for this person i know that the heartburn went away today so um everything was fine all right how many days to break the fast at the end erin so we we've talked about it that if it's a 21 days it takes three days to break the fast and if it's a 40 day fast on water it takes seven days to break the fast so yeah all righty guys um this has been an hour already um thank you all tomorrow i'm going to see you at 9 a.m it's going to be um a great time i have a very great word that i want to share with you and um yeah just mark the mark the reminder and we will see you tomorrow today was a little bit way less people i know it's kind of an awkward time but hey we still we still got here and we still um we're still here amen and so just just keep on persevering the lord is the lord is on our side everything's going to be good and for those of you who are feeling good just keep going just keep going you know don't don't think about food think about the lord and go forward and for those of you who can't you know doing a daniel fast whatever that the lord leads you you know just just just be attentive to your body and um and follow the leading of the lord and common sense that's what we would encourage adios amigos see you again tomorrow