 Take out your notes and just write down six very simple tips. The first one is make it a habit. Fasting is not occasional, make it a habit. What we would encourage is once a month, take three days, first week of three days, just take the time to fast. If you're working on a heavy job and it's construction, you say I'm not able to do it, do something that is like fasting, whether you do it a little bit less or you cut something out, but make it a habit. Number two, take it slow. If you never fast it, going on a seven-day fast is not wise. If you are a young child, it's better to maybe go just 24 hours without food or go without other things, but do not throw yourself into something that you are going to get burned by because you don't have no experience in it. Number three, drink a lot of water. The more you drink, when people go into fasting and they drink coffee, this is what happens. After a few days, your stomach goes to sleep. The more you put milk and other things into your stomach, you keep waking up your stomach and then your stomach keeps throwing your fit. Your stomach will give you a fit for a few days unless you keep waking him up to the liquids that you drink. The best thing to do is you drink water, flush out, flushes out your system and it keeps your stomach asleep and your spirit awake. Number four, you feed your spirit. If you do not during fasting, listen to sermons and spend more time in God, it's actually starvation. It's a diet. My best thing to do when I fast is to listen to teachings on fasting, like Shepard Bushiri's, Jensen Franklin's, Derek Prince, and there's many, many others because when you listen to, for example, if you're fasting and you're listening on business, you're like, man, what am I doing here? That guy went in and found another guy and he got a breakthrough in the business and here I am starving. And so you're going to feel like starvation is not working. If you're going to listen on marriage, you're going to be discouraged in your fasting, but when you listen on fasting while you're fasting, it energizes you. It's like, man, what I'm doing is good. God's going to reward me. As you rewarded that man of God, he's going to bless me as well. Number five, try different fasts. In January, you know, we're hoping to do a 21 day fast as a church where a few days you will do just completely just on water and the rest of it on the Daniels fast. And so that we will present different options. Don't just think, I can't go without food. I'm not going to try this whole idea. You're still a disciple of Jesus. And Jesus says, not if you fast, but when you fast, that means it has to be part of your routine. And number six, how you enter and how you end matters. Meaning, if you decide to fast tomorrow, for example, if you didn't fast this month and you're saying, you know what, Vlad, I'm encouraged tomorrow. I'm going to start fasting. Do not eat enchiladas at 1150 PM today. You want it to end very light dinner and you want to enter in so that you don't feel yourself when I was younger and a little bit unwise. I remember we declared a 21 day fast and right at 1140, I quickly got in the car, ran to the gas station, ate the hot dog because I knew that for next 21 days, I won't see food. And so, and that was very unwise. How you exit fasting actually will reveal how much fruit of self-control you currently have. Because typically when you leave the fast, you're like, yes, I'm going to eat a little bit of soup and then you just go at it. You're like, for all those 20 days or three days I didn't eat, I'm just going to reward myself. Your immune system gets rebooted during fasting. If you start stuffing yourself with the same kind of food out of control, you will go back to the same unhealthy body that you had before. The Holy Spirit is actually, at the end of your fast, begins to speak to you. This week, I had a chance to fast and so ended it a week of fast yesterday. And my mom sent this picture of that she made the cinnamon rolls. And so my fast was already over and I kind of made a decision, I'm going to tone down on this and this and that. And I was like, that's it, you know, less this, less this, I'm going to just kind of maintain health. And so I was like, okay, I'm going to go to my mom's house, one cinnamon roll. And so, but you know, you're sitting there, you're talking, you're like, man, I didn't eat for a whole week, one cinnamon roll. I mean, two is not going to hurt. And I remember second cinnamon roll and then I hear the Holy Spirit, it's very still small. So, lad, stop. I was like, you don't care about cinnamon rolls, you only care about my righteousness and holiness. But see, he cares about self-control and self-control is developed with cinnamon rolls. And after sixth cinnamon roll, I was like, okay, this is not good. I'm driving home and I remember I'm driving home and I hear the Holy Spirit convict me. So, lad, you just lost it today. And I was like, I didn't do anything. He says the fruit of self-control was lost when the fourth cinnamon has entered your body. Be careful how you end the fast. Amen. And seven, always consult your doctor if you have illnesses or other troubles in your body.