 fasting day 12. Don't settle for partial victory. Sometimes as Christians, we quit too early. We quit too soon before we get the breakthrough. Now, dishonor is when you quit. Honour is if you want to quit. There's nothing dishonoring about wanting to quit. Actually wanting to quit is a sign of success. How can you want to quit if you've never done anything? If somebody wants to quit, that means they're actually doing something. If somebody never wanted to quit, that means they're not doing anything. So there is no dishonor in wanting to quit. There's only dishonor in actually quitting. There's actually honor in wanting to quit. As long as you don't do it. You can enjoy the luxury of wanting to quit as long as you don't. You can enjoy the luxury of wanting to quit as long as you don't. But I want you to know something. Quitters don't win and winners don't quit. Now it's true. Winners quit some things. Bad things. Things they don't have fruit. Things that are not productive. But they don't quit on the things that are right. On the things that are important. On the things that are essential. You don't need persistence if you don't have resistance. If you don't have resistance to what you are doing, you will never develop persistence. You will never need persistence. In the Bible we see that Noah through his bulldog persistence build the ark. Jacob persisted in prayer. Moses persisted when Pharaoh did not want to let the Israel go. Joshua and Cable persisted on taking the land. 40 years they wandered in the wilderness but they still kept that vision and they still persisted. Persistent shepherd goes after the lost sheep until he finds it. Persistent woman searches for the lost peace until she finds it. Persistence means it's always too soon to quit. You are close to success. You're close to breakthrough. Persistence means it's too soon to quit. You're too close. Now maybe you stumbled during this fast or not only during this fast but just overall. Don't let your stumbling become your fall. You can restart. You can resume. Now the verse I want to share with you today is from 2 Kings chapter 13 verse 17. And we see the prophet puts the hand on the king as he is pretty much putting a bow and arrow and then the prophet says and he said open the east window and he opened it and Elisha said shoot and he shot and he said the arrow of the Lord's deliverance and the arrow of deliverance from Syria for you must strike the Syrians at Apneck until you have destroyed them. Now go a few verses down verse 19 of the same chapter and the prophet says I want you to hit the ground with that arrow and the man of God it says was angry and said you have you must have struck five or six times then you have then you would have struck Syria until you have destroyed it but now you will strike Syria only three times. So the king hit the ground you know with his arrows only three times and the prophet got angry and he says you didn't go all the way. You will have partial victory but you will not have a complete victory over Syria. Now I wonder sometimes if this king's problem is also our problem. I wonder how many of us settle for partial victory how many of us don't strike until we receive complete victory. We strike until we get tired. We strike until we think well that's enough. You know a friend at midnight came asking for bread. He was persistent until he got bread. You know a widow kept asking the judge until she got the breakthrough. God is not pleased with partial victory. He wants to give you a complete victory. Don't settle for sea when God has an A for you. Don't settle for something that's partial when God wants you to receive a complete victory. Sometimes during the fast we get discouraged. We want to quit and as I mentioned there is an honor in wanting to quit because it means you're doing something right. There is no honor in quitting and for some people you know maybe during the water they fast they they they just can't do it anymore so they just switch to you know to a different type of fast and that's completely acceptable but what I want to speak against is this attitude that many of us have developed that has become part of our character and that is quitting too early quitting when it gets hard. There's an example of Abraham's father Tara. He stopped short of the land Canaan and settled in Huron Genesis 1131. See Tara settled for comfort. He was going to Canaan but he settled for Huron. He did not want to keep on going to the promised land. He got tired. He had a lot of animals. The family had to keep on moving. See God had great plans for Abraham's father but Tara settled for sea. He settled for the mediocrity. He settled for what's easy, what's comfortable because it was too hard to keep striving for God for what God had in store for him and so God took Abraham and continued that promise. What Tara failed in his son Abraham continued and Abraham continued to strive for that promised land. I want you to strive for a complete breakthrough this year. I want you to not give up. Sometimes one of the most common causes of our failure even in fasting is the habit of quitting we have developed for many many years. That's why for some of you this fast is hard and you want to quit every day but remember this is not just the fast you're doing. You're breaking a strong hold of quitting. When you're overtaken by temporary defeat, when you're overtaken by emotions that seem to take you down, maybe even physical discomfort, you have a choice. Yield to those cravings, yield to those pains, yield to those feelings or persevere. You don't need to be persistent if you don't have resistance. Resistance is natural. Anything worthwhile requires effort. If you want to climb a mountain, it's gonna take some effort. If you want to slide down and roll from the mountain, no effort is required and many of us want to climb higher. We're just not willing to pay the price because when things get hard, we settle. This is not to guilt-trip anybody. This is not to shame anybody or to make you feel bad for those of you who are, you know, maybe not wanting to persevere. I just want to provoke you and I want to tell you there is no luck. There's no easy thing. Easy way leads to destruction. Hard way leads to life. All of us are guilty of this mistake of quitting at one time or another. But I want to encourage you to develop a habit. Break down the stronghold of quitting. Don't settle for partial victory because God has a victory for you that's indeed. God has a victory for you that's a complete victory. So as we are more than halfway through this fast, this is when the quitting will become actually more persistent. The resistance will become more real. A lot of it will be in your head. A lot of it will be like, man, I already have done it. I did so good. I've never went this far. That's good. But the goal is not to go far. The goal is to go to the end. And so I want to challenge you to go to the end. I want to encourage you to whatever you do, however you are led by the Lord to fast, to do it till the end. Now if the Lord brings your end earlier, you know, that's between you and the Lord. He is our guide. But for those of you who join this fast and who are like, oh, it's 12th day already. I'm just not feeling it. I'm not, you know, I'm just gonna quit. I'm just gonna give up. You know, I've tried. I mentioned this yesterday and I want to repeat it again. You know, you will never know what God will do if you obey Him to the end. Not partial obedience, but complete obedience. And so when He leads you and you obey Him completely, you never know what's gonna be on the other side. But you already know what's going to happen if you don't. Nothing will change. Things just remain the same. We wish, we hope, but we lack faith and assurance that something is gonna change. And why we lack that? Because when there is no complete obedience, lack of complete obedience destroys our inner confidence in God's ability to do what He promised to do. You may say, no, I'm just gonna name it, claim it, blab it, grab it, confess it, possess it. That's not how that works. God is not a vending machine. If life is not backed up with obedience, inner world of faith, confidence, vision, expectation that comes from above. I'm not talking about this thing where you instill in yourself, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe. I'm talking about faith that flows from life of obedience to the Lord. Trust. We must be obedient. So if you already stumbled, don't fall. Resume the fast. If you are wanting to quit, I want to encourage that and say, it's okay. It's normal. There's honor in that. There's honor in wanting to quit. Just don't do it. Just don't quit. And don't tell anybody you want to quit. Just let those feelings be there and and just persevere. Have honor in not quitting. There's honor in not quitting. And so honor in persevering. I understand sometimes we say, oh, but I just feel very weak. I just feel very tired. Yeah. But it's okay. You know, unless you're completely very, very, very difficult and you're throwing up blood and you just can't, you know, yeah, of course, you gotta take priority of your health and all of this stuff. But if it's just minor things where just you're just a little bit tired, you're fatigued, you're sleepy, you're not feeling great. All of those for most of us, I would say majority of us in this stream right now, that is our problem. It's this emotional, mental and fatigue. And while we feel great in our mind, yet this thing kind of settles in. I've done too far. I've went too far already. I'm going to quit. And so I just want to speak against that. And I want to encourage you to develop a resilient mind by doing what is right, even when you don't feel like doing it anymore, develop persistence, develop a habit of going to the end. The Lord dealt with me because about this, I'm going to tell you where that came from for me. And this may seem like, you know, I'm stretching you, which that's exactly why you signed up for you signed up to be challenged. And, and I never promised this will be easy in stuff. So this will be challenging. And so then that's why, you know, we have each other. And you have me, you have the Lord, you have, you know, the fast forward book devotional to to strengthen you in this challenge. When 13 years ago, our church did a 21 day fast. You know, I was way skinnier at the time that I am right now was about 130 pounds. So very skinny. Same height. And we fasted, I just broke up with Lana like a week before the fast. So I've had some, you know, issues with my relationships. I was 24. I already had a house. I didn't live in that house. I rented it. I had a nice car. I had money saved for the wedding. And I attempted actually to get married. Before I met Lana, four years prior to that, I dated one person, things didn't work out. I dated the same person again, things didn't work out. And so it was my fault. And so I stopped completely the whole relationship thing I stopped and I said, man, I need to figure out what's happening with my own head. Something is not right. Why am I keep? Why do I keep doing these things? So I meet Lana, you know, I really like her. I meet with her for the first time for a date. You know, she tells me everything about, you know, that date was more of an interrogation than actual date. And so I'm not sure that was the wisest thing to do. I probably won't recommend it for other people, but she lived three and a half hours away. So I didn't want to waste any time. And so I just went straight for the kill, you know, by asking her questions that usually people don't ask, not only on the first date, sometimes they don't even ask until they get married. And so I asked her everything. And so and afterwards I just felt this thing to quit, you know, and I, you know, I stopped that relationship to that night. We go into a fast. It was a 21 day fast. And on about 17th day, I stopped the fast, you know, actually quit. Things started to get harder for me. I definitely struggled with sleeping, which was sometimes normal when you're doing a 21 day fast. But I started to faint in the shower. So I made up this excuse that you know, I'm dying. When in reality, the reason why I was fainting in the shower is because I like to take hot showers. And when you're fasting and you're taking a very hot shower, and I would, you know, take a shower for like 20 minutes. Of course, you're gonna faint. And so like, I started to, you know, faint and I'm like, Oh, that's it. You know, and then I told my parents this sad story that I'm like, not feeling good. I'm like dying. And so my parents were like, Oh my God, you know, you better eat, you better eat. And so of course, I ate, you know, three days before I should have finished it. And now God still did some work. Don't get me wrong. That year, I got married to law and the things just changed. My mind changed everything. God just was a really great blessing. During that fast, the Lord led me to give a lot of my money away because I had money saved. You know, and for me, that was a lot of money for a lot of you. Maybe that's not a lot of money, but it was enough to get married, you know, honeymoon and buy simple furniture. And so during that fast, the Lord started to challenge really, that was the first time I experienced sacrifice, where above my tithe, I looked at my account and I said, man, I need to give this money away. And so I start praying during the fast, who to give the money away, man, I died million deaths. I think, you know, it was more painful actually giving the money than fasting. Because fasting, while it was hard, it's the giving part was way harder. For me, giving was always harder than fasting. And so now it's not as hard. So but something I've noticed, ever since that fast that I didn't finish, I was never able to go to more than seven day of fasting for 12 or 11 years, seven days for the max. I, I became scared of that. You know, and in reality, I didn't faint. I just took an extra hot shower for 20 minutes, which is not a wise thing to do. You know, so I mean, yeah, I was weak, but there was nothing really wrong with me. And, you know, and I should have finished it, I could have finished it, I just didn't. And so a few years ago, in December, as we were doing our typical three day fast, the Lord brought that memory and he said, you quit at that time. He says, you didn't go to the end. And I said, Lord, but you must understand, I was not feeling good. And he said, Lord, and I felt like the Lord said, he says, you sold one, you know, one thing to your parents, but in reality, you know, you should have not been doing that in the first place. That's not your body's fault. That's your decisions fault, your fault. And so, and the Lord really dealt with me harshly, you know, so the next month, which was a few years ago, we had a 21 day fast. And, and I was going into that fast to first to break that bad experience and say, and to say, I'm gonna go to the end. God will give me the grace. And I was convicted not to be a one who stops when it's hard. Now, when it's difficult and impossible to go, of course, that makes sense. Please hear me loud and clear, not telling anybody here to die. So, but what I'm saying is that a lot of us have laziness and procrastination. And we just would to we given too much into our fleshly desires. Okay. And while this may seem hard for some of you. Okay. Imagine if you would be persecuted right now. They'll be pulling nails out of you. Imagine what would happen if you would go through actually a time where they'll be beating you physically every single day for the cause of Christ to make you deny Jesus. Would you deny Jesus? For many of us, I'll be very honest with you. We would. Because we have a hard time obeying the Lord in simple things where nobody's beating us, where nobody's pulling our nails, where nobody's scorching us, where nobody is ripping our beard, where nobody's starving us. And so where nobody puts us in a frozen outside in the middle of snow for six hours naked, where we died of, you know, frostbites. And so so as I kind of was meditating, this was just my I'm just sharing my personal journey. As I was meditating and I said, man, if I quit, when this is hard, am I going to be ready if the Antichrist comes and the cost for preaching Jesus is my head cut off? You know, well, what would I do then? I'll definitely be preserving my head because I'll say, well, I can't. I can't go through this pain. I can't go through this suffering. God wouldn't want me to. Interesting. All 12 disciples with the exception of John got murdered, you know, Christians for hundreds of years. I mean, stuff that was done to them. If you read the Fox's book on martyrs, it's insane. It's stuff like you just can't read it again makes you sick in your stomach. And I'm looking at my life and I said, Lord, the least I can do is prepare myself for doing what is right when I don't feel like doing it and to put your first above my desires, appetites, or a little funk that's going on in my own head sometimes. And so this is kind of my motivation is it's not only, hey, I want to be a finisher. Hey, I don't want to miss out on the breakthrough. But I also want to be a person that is prepared when the persecution comes that I can endure it. And one of the reasons I can endure it is because I've developed a muscle of doing things that not are always easy, but they're right for what the Lord wants me to do right now. I'm not saying self inflict yourself with some pain and purpose. I'm saying obey God and if it costs you pain, so what? Be like Moses. He chose to suffer with God's people. Did it cause him pain? The Bible says he had to embrace suffering. So what? As a good soldier, endure suffering. The fruit of this period is long suffering. And so a lot of us in our western culture, I'm just going to be very honest with you guys. Don't take this the wrong way. We are snowflakes. We melt too fast. We wither too fast. That's why the idea that Christians will not go through tribulation is only believed in the western world and in any other countries where American preachers or western preachers brought it to. Nobody outside of this believes in that stuff. Why? Because for everyone around the world suffering, enduring is part of living a Christian life. They really believe that Jesus said if you follow me, pick up the cross and deny yourself with us as westerns. We don't focus on suffering. All of our sermons are about how to be successful. This is how you become successful in your family. This is how you become successful in your marriage. This is how you become successful. This is how you avoid trouble. This is how you avoid stress. This is not that has its place. Don't get me wrong. I'm a pastor. Okay, so that has its place and I don't have a modern complex. But if I don't learn how to suffer, not just how to be successful, what kind of a Christian am I? And so, because I'm not being persecuted right now, I'm not being attacked right now, you know, but I can choose to deny myself of the things that the Lord wants me to deny for a season for His glory. So, don't quit. Don't give up. Persevere. Continue. God got you. Amen. Let's pray together. Let's ask the Holy Spirit right now to produce within us long suffering. Let's ask the Holy Spirit to help us go to the end, be a finisher. Drop it in the chat. I will be a finisher, not a quitter. I will not settle for partial victory. Lord, I stand in agreement with every person that is watching us right now. Every person that is going to be later on rewatching this. I stand in agreement with every person that will be listening this to this on the podcast. Dear Holy Spirit, many of us are too emotional. Lord, we quit too soon. We give up too early. We choose the easy instead of the right. We seek comfort instead of your calling. We settle for partial instead of going to the end. May this year be different. As we still have nine days to go, may you strengthen us. Lord, we want to quit. Our flesh wants to quit every single day. And there's an honor in that. But we refuse to let our flesh make the decisions. I pray for those that are physically maybe struggling right now and maybe they're feeling down emotionally. May you resurrect those the joy of the Lord. May you strengthen their resolve. I pray for those God that are genuinely right now. They just can't do it anymore because things in their health got so so much worse. Lord, as they change to a different fast, may you still meet them at the point of their need. May you still bring breakthrough in their life. Lord, in Jesus' name, I bless them right now. Release your anointing. Release your favor. Release the strength and the peace of God. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Drop that amen in the chat. Drop that drop that prayer emoji in the chat. Something that I wanted to ask you right now, if this was a word for you or this has been blessing to you, this stream, these these content, I want to ask you to to give today to partner with our ministry. There are different ways you can do that through cash app. You can give one time through Venmo. You can give through PayPal. We have other options on our website but I want to invite you to become a partner. Go to pastovlad.org forward slash partner. Partner with our ministry. We release content in video format, written content, reading plans, courses, books. We translate all of that as well to many languages and we also offer different video in different languages and so we support other ministries as well as we are able to and we have other plans to do great things for God. 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All right now let's if you have a question you can drop that in the chat we're gonna take some time right now to answer some of those questions will you be coming to the UK so I don't have any plans to go to the UK what if I am called to go to fast longer go longer as the Lord gives you that strength can a Christian be possessed by a demon and how can you prove this biblical the word possess does not exist actually in the original language when you say or I say possessed we always mean owned in the scripture every reference that deals with demonization has no reference to own being owned it has more reference of being inhabited controlled and influenced but it does not have the reference of ownership the bible does not separate possessed and oppressed it only really has one main word for all of the demonization it's demonized it's being under control of a demon it's not being influenced it's more controlled when a person has a demon now it doesn't mean that they're owned by a demon anymore than if you get a mouse in your house it doesn't mean that the mouse owns your house so that's what the that's what the difference is and so in the bible I don't have to prove that a Christian can have a demon you have to prove that a Christian cannot have a demon and so the burden of proof is on your end and you absolutely have now one shred of evidence in the scripture nor by church history where once a person gets saved that automatically all the demons they had before are gone for example if a person christian cannot have a demon because they have the holy spirit in them how come person has a flesh it's as evil as wicked and as nasty as any demon so a person can still have evil desires because the holy spirit lives in their spirit and the flesh is a war with the spirit you know and demons are not flesh demons are spiritual beings who have desires appetites who love to inhabit a body and when you become a Christian their legal right needs to be revoked and they need to be cast out Jesus only had one solution for demonization and that is expelling them it wasn't a sinner's prayer or even a water baptism or joining a church it was expelling those demons so demons need to be cast out and majority of deliverances that you see from any deliverance minister biblical christian deliverance minister they will tell you they do majority of deliverances on christians not on on christians so yeah i am on a fruit fast and there is a lot of disturbance from my kids my three-year-old daughter can't let me focus in my prayers what should i do should i stop the fast um no just fight those distractions not your daughter your daughter's problem not the problem but just fight those distractions and persevere you know you're also a mother so there's also a responsibility that you carry anastasia thank you so much for your donation dora thank you for your generous donation and through the vinmo or kasha one of those are you ever coming to new york yes i am coming to new york actually let me give you i've mentioned um earlier today that i'm coming to marriage conference on february 17th and so that's what i'm coming to new york now are you coming to california i do not have plans right now to come to california my 12th day of fasting going good but prayer times are less i don't know i'm getting busy with a lot of things i'm trying to keep myself with praying in tongues please advise me how i overcome this so when it comes to prayer during fasting there are there are times even when you're fasting where you're you're busy with other things and you might not be able to devote yourself to more prayer and so don't feel guilty about that do try to give as much time as you can to your prayer and if you're praying and your mind is filled with distractions on your duties and responsibilities my approach usually is this instead of trying to fight off those distractions i actually pray for those distractions for example i was praying today you know and i was thinking about this meeting that i have this opportunity that i have and so instead of saying i rebuke this i rebuke this i just simply start praying for it i said lord would you give me wisdom on this lord i i give you this problem right now lord i ask you for this meeting that i'm going to have lord would you guide me in this area so i pray for the things that my mind is concerned about and then as i turn them into prayer my worries into prayer they subside and god in return gives me his peace that passes understanding this is my day one can i proceed even after the challenge is over of course you can you can proceed if the if the challenge is over but honestly you can just you know go go for nine days if you've never done a fast and you're starting with a nine you know from now till the end of course go for it and you can go further and so and just rewatch the previous videos is it okay to give money to a sadhu and blessings from a sadhu sadhus are hindu spiritual leaders i wouldn't give money unless you're required by the law to pay taxes to the government but i would not give money to spiritual leaders who are not born again i wouldn't support ministries unless it's like you know maybe red cross or some kind of a charity organization but i would not put my money in that to advance those agendas that's why i always tell people you know support support god's kingdom support ministries like ours you know don't support garbage and then we complain sometimes oh why is this you know demonic agenda is advancing well it's advancing because somebody's paying for it and a lot of times guess who's paying for it we're paying for it so um metodi thank you for becoming a partner Tina god bless you for becoming a partner melissa god bless you for becoming a partner ramy and rebeca and jeffery god bless you for giving one time today and then the Rachel guy god bless you for becoming a partner um my arani lopez and marcia god bless you for becoming a partner today we appreciate so much for the Lord speaking to your hearts and you're responding to that. Can I trust the book of Enoch? I think you can read it for encouragement or inspiration, excuse me, not necessarily inspiration for education, but the book of Enoch has not been included in the canon and so I would discourage you from reading it as a Bible, but you can definitely read it. There's a lot of very interesting stuff in the book of Enoch and so read it as you would read, you know, fight back or fast forward, you know, it's not a Bible, but you can read it as a book and you compare everything with the Scripture. Water fast while you're sick depends on what you're sick with. In some actually sicknesses, it's helpful to fast, it helps you to recover faster, but again, it depends, it's depending on what you're sick. Can the devil give us dreams? 100%. The Bible says as they slept, the enemy planted sowed tears so he sowed certain things in the field. I believe the enemy can give us dreams, God can give us dreams and dreams can also come from pizza and so the cares of life and so if I would encourage you if you're getting demonic dreams, I would just double check on what you're watching, what you're listening, what you're putting yourself into. Also begin to examine is there other evidences that maybe you are under demonic oppression and you need deliverance and so if there's such, make sure that you, you know, seek deliverance. There's many ways you can, there's many places and many ways you can experience deliverance. You can come to Hungry Gen as I have mentioned already and I'm going to highlight it again that you can come to Hungry Gen's end of the fast. We have our deliverance service and as we're ending the fast, the last day of the fast, we're going to have our deliverance service, a sacrifice service. I mean it's going to be a party and crazy, crazy Holy Ghost party. So buy your ticket, fly to Hungry Gen. I'm going to be preaching. I would love to see you. Is it normal to feel spiritually dry? So I have videos on dealing with spiritual dryness. When you're fasting and you're feeling spiritual dry, watch my video yesterday what I dealt with how God rewards the fast. Is there a negative reaction to drinking cold water while fasting? Well typically during fasting you're already very cold so I would encourage to drink warmer water or room temperature or hot water. Are you coming to Wisconsin? No, I don't have any trips to Wisconsin. Are you coming to Germany? So I have an invitation to Germany right now that I am prayerfully considering but most likely not yet. Are you coming to Texas? Yes, I am coming to Texas. So I'm going to share this again. I'm coming to San Antonio on February 25th through 26th. Amy speaks. Thank you for your donation. Dora, God bless you for your giving on the cash up. Yes, on the cash up. And Hope Baker, thank you for becoming a partner on the website. We're very much appreciated. I am on day 12 of 21 water full fast. I really want to complete it but I woke up in the middle of the night to vomit and I feel sometimes sick. Is it normal or should I change my fast? So if you're already on the day 12 and you're vomiting and you're feeling sick, you know, I would just give maybe a day and then see if it doesn't improve then I might switch to just, you know, one meal a day or maybe a Daniel's fast and so but if within a day it improves, you know, add some salt fasting salt and complex be a vitamin, maybe take a complex be vitamin. Maybe that could help with that. You know, I slept really bad last night, had such a sharp knee pain. It's almost like, you know, like this like aching knee pain. So I tossed and churned, tossed, I woke up like maybe like five times. And so, you know, but I haven't drinking been drinking vitamins. And so, so my wife is like, you know, you need to start drinking those vitamins. So maybe that's because of that. So but you know, and it's harder to walk. I feel like even though my body is very light. And so but the knees were kind of hurting. And so but I'm going to persevere just just drink those vitamins and drink water and stay hydrated. And you know, it is what it is, you know, that's just kind of my resolution is that I'm not doing this fast to expect everything to be, you know, Rosie supposed to be a challenge. And so I'm like, bring it on. Can God make anything possible? Do you think that he can make a real relationship happen where I live on the opposite side of the country as my potential future spouse? Yes, I believe that I believe God can make a relationship possible on the opposite side. My wife lived in three and a half hours away. Long distance relationships aren't more challenging. Sometimes you don't really get a chance to get to know the person better. But honestly, none of us really know the person that we're getting married to until we get married to them. So yeah, there's pros and cons to long distance relationships, but they're possible. Is there a negative effect of drinking cold water while fasting? I think I already mentioned that to try to drink warmer water. Marie, thank you for becoming a partner on the website. Very much appreciated. Can you differentiate overcoming flesh or a demon? So a flesh is crucified. A demon is cast out. The difference between the flesh and the demon is this is that the demon speaks. It has a voice. When it's inside of you, it starts to push you and it has a voice. And a demon does not get removed by crucifixion. It only gets removed by being expelled and a flesh has to be crucified. And so a flesh doesn't have a voice like a demon. And so those are the two main differences. So demons we cast out and the flesh we crucified. Can the demonic spirits bother me at night? I have terrible nightmares. Yes, demons can bother you at night and nightmares consistent, terrible nightmares are one of the signs that a person is demonized. And so just probably it means that you need to be seeking deliverance. You can watch my self-deliverance videos. You can take a deliverance prayer course on Vlad school and that could also begin that deliverance process. Join our monthly digital deliverance services online or you can make your way to Hungry Gen. We would love to pray for you. Can demons go away slowly through fasting? I've been fasting some days, not every day, but I feel like I'm getting better and I still feel that it's there. So fasting again does not remove demons. Fasting defeats the flesh. Deliverance removes demons. Fasting can weaken the demons and better prepare you for deliverance. But it's not a cure for demons. The only cure for demons is deliverance. It's driving them out by the power of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. Therefore, I want to invite you to our end of the fast deliverance service where we are going to be doing exactly that. Because fasting, as I mentioned, defeats the flesh, but deliverance drives out demons. So at the end of the fast, not this Sunday, but next Sunday, we're having our deliverance Sunday, our sacrifice Sunday, and you are welcome to come for that deliverance. We would love to see you here. My bones hurt. Is there anything I can do to help? Add a little bit of sea salt into your water. Fasting salt or sea salt, hamaiamans, whatever the name for the salt, but fasting salt or also during complex B, compound B, or we have it in the comments below. I'm mixing my words now. And so that could help. Will we get delivered even online? 100%. I think that you can be delivered online as well. This is not a barrier. Pastor Vlad, can you kindly do a live with Pastor Lana sometime later about praying for the future spouse? Pastor Lana, who is in the chat? Would you be willing to do a live stream with me about praying for the future spouse? If Pastor Lana says yes, then yes. Yes. She said L-O-L. I don't know what that means. L-O-L. Does that mean yes or L-O-L means no? If you ask me very nicely, oh guys, this might be a challenge. So somebody is saying, hey, what is a sacrifice Sunday? So at the end of the fast, we usually bring God a sacrifice. We give something to God that hurts. And yeah, so that happens on the last day of the fast. And in our case, we're believing for $3 million for a building because we can fit all the people that God is bringing. And so that sacrifice will go for that. So and yeah, that's going to be the sacrifice Sunday, but it's also delivered on Sunday. It's going to be so many things happening on that Sunday. We're also anointing a pastor from Canada who was part of our internship. Pretty excited for that. So yeah, how is the flesh crucified when we deny ourselves? Fasting is one of the tools for that. Vera, thank you for your, I know this is a reoccurring donation. Okay, Miss Aguirre, thank you also for your donation and cash up. All right, guys. So this is, this has been an hour and 10 minutes. We are checking out for today. I will see you again tomorrow is Saturday. I know that a lot of you guys, well, if you're fasting, you are not going to be doing too many things. So I'm going to see you live and the wrecked tomorrow at the same time nine o'clock. Cannot wait to be with you guys tomorrow. And we're going to share tomorrow about day 13, how fasting unlocks closed doors. So it's going to be fire tomorrow. Come on. It's going to be fire. Pretty excited for that. So see you tomorrow. God bless you guys.