during fasting I believe our hunger is restored we are a hungry generation
blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be
filled Jesus says if anyone who believes in Me
let him come to me and he says in those who thirst let him
drink from me in Isaiah it says that why do you spend money on things don't
satisfy why do you waste your Bread on things that don't nourish you he says
come to me and buy water from me buy it get it get it for free if you don't have
the money and this is this water that will come out of you it says it will
quench your thirst see one of the things that could happen with us when we
experience small blessings of God is he can quench our thirst but fasting resets
our hunger fasting resets our passion for God fasting puts us back in the same
place when we were nothing when we had nothing when we knew nothing but we only
only knew one thing God saved me God loves me God is for me
God will never abandon me God will never forsake me though my mother forsake me
he will not though my father leave me he will not he is the father to the fourth
for the orphans he is the shield and a shelter in the Sun he's my refuge he is
my my strength he will fill my horn with oil
he's my lord my life and my salvation and there you are driving a Mercedes but
hungry as though you're just taking a bus there you are blessed with the best
job but you are thirsty for God people talk to you they feel that hunger from
you why and it's not because something is missing it's because you denied yourself
on purpose of essentials so you can be filled with what is needed and that is
Jesus I don't want us to lose our hunger I don't want us to lose our hunger when
we get a new facility when we will have conferences in the largest stadiums of
our state when we will be invited all over as a ministry when you will go
higher in your career when you will have the respect of your community I want you
to be as hungry for God as you were when you were 16
as hungry for God as you were when you were 19 and to do that you have to
physically go hungry so you go spiritually hungry
somebody shout hungry somebody say hungry generation hungry generation
hunger physically restores hunger spiritually secondly when we fast it
gets mastery over our appetites all of us have appetites cravings urges desires
passions and a lot of them are fleshly a lot of those urges get us in trouble
some people develop lung cancer from because of their appetite for smoking
some people lose their job because of their appetite for drinking some people
lose their spouse because of their appetite for anything and everybody that
moves except their spouse your appetite can get you into jail your appetite can
get you fired your appetite can cause a delay in your promotion your appetite
they are not to be trusted they are unbridled they are uncontrolled when you
fast you train your appetites not to dictate your life so when you get
into the moment of temptation your appetites are under control because
they've been trained in that season of fasting it's too late to try to control
your appetites when you're in temptation it's like a box or going into a boxing
ring doing weights right before that you don't see a boxer going in and doing
push-ups or pull-ups in a boxing ring it's too late if you partied it for three
months and you get into a boxing ring and you're overweight you're out of
shape it's too late my friend a lot of us when we get into temptation our
appetites are unprepared and untrained because there is never anything we don't
give it to them whatever our flesh wants our flesh gets but when you fast you're
saying holy spirit I surrender to you I give you up control and the precious
Holy Spirit he in return gives you that control that's why the fruit of the
Spirit is not God control the fruit of the Spirit is
self-control that means as I fast I say Holy Spirit have control
I finished the fast and the Spirit says Vlad I give you the control Holy Spirit
doesn't control me he leaves me fills me touches me he guides me he prays through
me but he never controls me who controls me
Vlad controls me when God is in control of my life I have control over my mouth
I have control over my feelings I have control over my mood swings I have
control over my urges I have control over my lust I have control over my
cravings I have control over my passes see what you yield control God gives it
back to you and say have self-control control yourself control your feelings
control your emotion pull yourself up and tell your soul you will praise God I
know you feel discouraged but you will once everyone I am in control my
feelings are not in control my urges are not in control my flesh is not in control why
because I gave it up to the Holy Ghost and he gave it back to me
and he gave it back to me, and he gave it back to me
and that's why I want to take a moment
and give God some praise, give God some praise
he restored my dignity he restored my dignity he pulled me out of the miry
clay and gave me authority and gave me power gave me dominion and gave me
control I saw this work when you fast and pray things you don't think about
God increases your sensitivity and you start hearing God now I'm not a prophet
I don't come every day and say God told me God told me a lot of times I see
people walk around God told me God told me God told me everyday God told them
something their life never changes there is difference when when the Spirit says
and it changes everything about your life
and you don't have to be a prophet for those of you could say but I don't hear
God's voice start fasting and you will have an increased sensitivity to the
Spirit of God you will have increased sensitivity to the voice of God and God
will change the temperature and the climate of your life
even if you like Samuel and God speaks oh you'll miss it he will speak again he
will speak again he will speak again until you hear it with your ears with
your spirit and with your life God will change your life because when you fast
you humble yourself and God loves when people humble themselves and he will
take nobody and make him into somebody he will take his zero and turn it into a
hero he will take your trial and turn it into a triumph because God is in a
business of transformation