WEBVTT - Fasting for Others 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.360 Coming to you from the Morning Star Mission sponsored studio. 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.160 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.560 What God says about you getting embedded in your heart, mind, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.040 soul and becoming part of the warp and woof of 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.520 who you are can lighten a load from you that 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:23.000 you underestimate how much you're carrying. And I I've experienced that. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.760 Now we're going to be talking about fasting today. Nehemiah 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:33.320 the prophet carried a load man. And when he heard 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.640 that the walls of Jerusalem had come down, broke his heart, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.920 he wept. He wasn't even in the hoop and wharf 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:48.760 of everything going on in Jerusalem. You second generation Babylonian captivity. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.120 I mean, he was born in Susa. He wasn't exiled. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.520 A lot of people don't know that Nehemiah was second 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.910 generation Susan, which is 200 miles east, due east as 0:00:59.910 --> 0:01:03.710 the bird flies from Baghdad, modern day Baghdad. And it's 0:01:03.710 --> 0:01:07.789 the modern city of shush. Susa and Shush are right there. 0:01:07.790 --> 0:01:11.030 All the ruins are right there. Fascinating stuff. I mean, 0:01:11.030 --> 0:01:13.590 this is real places, real time, guys. I mean, that's 0:01:13.590 --> 0:01:14.470 what's cool about it. 0:01:14.510 --> 0:01:16.950 Hard to remember that when you. I love when you're 0:01:16.950 --> 0:01:19.069 able to say, well, this town is near modern day 0:01:19.069 --> 0:01:21.510 this because it helps me get that little picture in 0:01:21.510 --> 0:01:22.509 my brain. It's not. 0:01:22.510 --> 0:01:22.830 It's more. 0:01:22.830 --> 0:01:22.990 Than. 0:01:22.990 --> 0:01:26.030 Me. Yeah, it helps me too. It's not like Narnia 0:01:26.030 --> 0:01:31.030 or something. Yeah. Yeah. So here's an interesting thing, and 0:01:31.030 --> 0:01:33.350 I want to give you a good word on this. 0:01:34.350 --> 0:01:37.230 There's some things that you might be carrying that God 0:01:37.230 --> 0:01:39.229 wants to lighten the load on, and some things you 0:01:39.270 --> 0:01:42.030 carry because you just feel it. And I've got some 0:01:42.030 --> 0:01:44.390 good news I want to report. I hadn't planned on 0:01:44.390 --> 0:01:49.310 sharing this, but sometimes good news is important to share. 0:01:49.950 --> 0:01:56.550 I slept better last night than I've slept in two months. 0:01:56.910 --> 0:01:57.970 Oh. that's good. 0:01:58.290 --> 0:02:01.450 And I woke up four minutes before an alarm was 0:02:01.450 --> 0:02:03.890 going to go off. I do set an alarm only 0:02:03.890 --> 0:02:08.130 for the crazy rare occasion that I might conk out. 0:02:08.130 --> 0:02:11.930 It hasn't happened, but this was four minutes from happening 0:02:12.290 --> 0:02:18.490 and I'm like, whoa, do I feel good? I slept 0:02:18.490 --> 0:02:23.810 7.5 hours, and that's a long go for Carl. And 0:02:23.810 --> 0:02:27.410 I know what it's related to. I think I was 0:02:27.410 --> 0:02:30.810 carrying something for my bride that I didn't even know. 0:02:32.250 --> 0:02:38.970 And yesterday we had a whole bunch of scheduled tests 0:02:38.970 --> 0:02:40.929 for my bride. It was three and a half years 0:02:40.930 --> 0:02:44.889 ago that we found out that she was battling some cancer. 0:02:46.210 --> 0:02:48.010 Came out of the blue for us. Both of us 0:02:48.010 --> 0:02:51.770 were shocked. We'd been away on a trip and she 0:02:51.770 --> 0:02:55.290 was training again for another marathon, and she was finding 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.079 herself with some symptoms popping up, and she's like, what 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.400 in the world is going on? Hit us out of 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:06.320 the blue, man. Like like a bolt of lightning. But 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.320 yesterday to sit in that room. And as you can 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.920 probably imagine, your friend Carl barely able to contain himself. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.600 That was there. The doc walks in. He says, hey, 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:26.600 after some scans after checkup, you are cancer free still. 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:27.720 Wow. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:29.440 Amazing. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.640 And we went out and we had a celebration dinner. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.520 Just me and my bride. And I kept looking at 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.680 her and I said, did you hear that? Did you 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:44.800 hear that? She goes, yeah, it's sinking in, bub. So 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.680 I don't know what you're carrying today, but I want 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.480 you to know that our God sees. And I'm praying 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.820 that that day of rejoicing will come for you. It's 0:03:55.820 --> 0:03:59.340 not always rejoicing, but God can get us through those 0:03:59.340 --> 0:04:02.820 difficult times where it's not resolved yet. We haven't seen 0:04:02.820 --> 0:04:08.340 the hand of God, but God and He's faithful. And 0:04:08.420 --> 0:04:11.980 on occasion we get that good news that says freedom 0:04:12.700 --> 0:04:17.540 in the physical body. And that's an awesome thing. So 0:04:17.580 --> 0:04:19.659 I just wanted to share that with you. I hadn't 0:04:19.660 --> 0:04:21.700 planned on doing that, but I thought, you know what? 0:04:21.740 --> 0:04:25.220 Sometimes you got to let people rejoice with those who 0:04:25.220 --> 0:04:29.980 are rejoicing around here. And isn't it funny that it 0:04:29.980 --> 0:04:31.380 changed my sleep like that? 0:04:31.620 --> 0:04:36.420 Oh, man. That's. That's amazing. That's amazing. We praise God 0:04:36.420 --> 0:04:38.500 with you for the great report. And then to be 0:04:38.500 --> 0:04:43.220 able to sleep with that lifted off of your heart, 0:04:43.260 --> 0:04:44.460 off of your mind. 0:04:45.220 --> 0:04:47.660 I didn't know how much it was carrying it, apparently. 0:04:47.660 --> 0:04:50.580 You know, you don't know. You think, ah, it must 0:04:50.580 --> 0:04:54.850 be something else. But I was carrying that. God is good, guys. 0:04:54.890 --> 0:04:58.210 God is good. Well, coming up here in a minute, um, 0:05:00.050 --> 0:05:02.810 we're totally equal men and women. But what in the 0:05:02.810 --> 0:05:04.850 world does that mean? Ali, could you please answer that 0:05:04.850 --> 0:05:05.650 for me right now? 0:05:06.130 --> 0:05:10.409 How long do we have? I don't have an answer 0:05:10.410 --> 0:05:12.610 to that question fully, but coming up, we do have 0:05:12.610 --> 0:05:15.410 a guest who's going to give us a preview of 0:05:15.410 --> 0:05:18.529 an event that's just for women, particularly women who feel 0:05:18.529 --> 0:05:21.850 called to lead and called to ministry. 0:05:22.810 --> 0:05:25.690 You're listening to Curl and Crew on Moody Radio. 0:05:26.290 --> 0:05:27.810 I think we've established. 0:05:28.050 --> 0:05:32.170 In the church today that men and women are totally equal, 0:05:32.170 --> 0:05:35.770 at least in theory, and yet unique and different. But 0:05:35.770 --> 0:05:37.210 the question is really. 0:05:37.210 --> 0:05:40.489 What does that mean? You could say we're totally equal, right? 0:05:40.529 --> 0:05:42.490 But what is unique and different? 0:05:42.730 --> 0:05:45.089 And it's got to be more than just the girls 0:05:45.089 --> 0:05:47.570 who like princesses and pink, and the guys who like 0:05:47.570 --> 0:05:48.850 to grunt and eat bacon. 0:05:49.089 --> 0:05:51.279 Yeah. Because I don't. I eat turkey bacon. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.159 And I don't care for pink. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.159 Well, there you go. See, we got that ironed out. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.240 We've got Doctor Sandra Glon joining us right now. She 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.640 is the keynote speaker for the opening session of the 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.880 women's called conference happening at the Moody Bible Institute campus, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:10.159 and a virtual attendance as well. Uh, Doctor Glenn, tell 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.200 us about your keynote. What's the big idea? 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:18.000 The big idea is freely you've received, freely give. And 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.280 so we will explore what is it that we have 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.080 received from God, which is a lot. And then what 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.279 is the vision for what it looks like to turn 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.560 around and distribute those goods, those benefits to share in 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.560 the assets that we've been given, not as an act 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.640 of performance or because it's required, but because we're thrilled 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.880 to be so blessed and ready to share with others 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.040 what we've been blessed with. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:47.640 Yeah. Since you're trained and worked there, I, you know, 0:06:47.740 --> 0:06:50.940 just just popped into my head. James, one first chapter 0:06:51.220 --> 0:06:54.660 there seems to be a condition about some kind of 0:06:54.660 --> 0:06:58.820 receiving from God if you're double souled or double faced. 0:06:59.180 --> 0:07:01.860 Where is that condition of God? Where does it come 0:07:01.860 --> 0:07:04.300 into play, and why would God have that? 0:07:04.339 --> 0:07:08.060 Well, I can certainly say that the list of things 0:07:08.060 --> 0:07:10.380 that we've received and it's a very long list and 0:07:10.380 --> 0:07:12.740 forget not all his benefits, but the list I'll be 0:07:12.740 --> 0:07:16.500 focusing on is out of Romans, which, uh, keys in, 0:07:16.500 --> 0:07:20.460 especially on our adoption. I'm an adoptive parent after years 0:07:20.460 --> 0:07:23.460 of infertility and pregnancy loss. And we'll look at how 0:07:23.460 --> 0:07:28.460 does our American adoption differ significantly from how the listeners 0:07:28.460 --> 0:07:30.100 in the first century would have thought of it? They 0:07:30.100 --> 0:07:33.260 would have connected it much more with inheritance. And you 0:07:33.260 --> 0:07:37.059 could even have a grown adult child, male, typically, uh, 0:07:37.060 --> 0:07:39.220 that you would leave everything to if you didn't have 0:07:39.220 --> 0:07:42.740 any children. And so we are not only adopted into 0:07:42.780 --> 0:07:45.940 God's family, but what do we inherit? What does Jesus 0:07:45.940 --> 0:07:50.250 say The meek will inherit the earth. So the physicality 0:07:50.250 --> 0:07:52.930 that we celebrate in that of just not just that 0:07:52.930 --> 0:07:56.370 we have spiritual blessings which we will explore, but also 0:07:56.410 --> 0:07:59.530 we have massive physical blessings. And we are we are 0:07:59.530 --> 0:08:03.890 encouraged to enjoy all things that God has given us richly. 0:08:04.010 --> 0:08:07.489 So you would say, yes, there are some blessings that 0:08:07.490 --> 0:08:10.130 God withholds until we get a line. But there are 0:08:10.610 --> 0:08:14.770 innumerable blessings by virtue of the fact that we're God's kids. 0:08:14.970 --> 0:08:18.850 Well said. I won't actually focusing much on the God 0:08:18.850 --> 0:08:22.090 withholding blessing, although that is certainly part of what the 0:08:22.090 --> 0:08:25.450 Scripture says. But I feel like especially for women, we 0:08:25.490 --> 0:08:29.410 are often so warned. Don't overstep your bounds. Be careful 0:08:29.690 --> 0:08:32.410 that we can get in our. I'll just say, as 0:08:32.410 --> 0:08:36.050 a seminary professor who deals with women in leadership, their 0:08:36.050 --> 0:08:38.970 issue is really not that they're going to become radical feminists. 0:08:38.970 --> 0:08:43.370 I've never met one. Their issue to a person, if 0:08:43.370 --> 0:08:46.720 there is one, has been. Am I really called? Do I? 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.240 Do I really have a message? Is, you know, can 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.679 I really share it? Can I use my gifts freely? 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.720 And so we will focus on. Yes. What are the 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.679 things you've been blessed with and what are some ways 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.240 that you can share that freely? 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.520 Doctor Sandra Glaun, our guest right now. Now you. This 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.280 is a real passion for you, helping women to really 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:10.200 identify their spiritual gift, their place in leadership. Tell me 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.320 a little bit about your own journey of kind of 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.920 finding your place where God has, has gifted you and 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:16.760 equipped you. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.520 I can speak with expertise on this. What is my journey? 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.120 It definitely informs all of this because I don't know 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.520 if you if your listeners have seen shiny happy people, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.160 but the whole mentality of a woman was made for 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.360 one thing, and that's baby making. I bought into that. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.600 I thought it was a beautiful vision, and the challenge 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.680 of that came with infertility and pregnancy loss that spanned 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.340 a decade, and that for me, as much as infertility 0:09:44.340 --> 0:09:49.020 is a heartbreak, it's a marital, emotional, financial, ethical crisis. 0:09:49.059 --> 0:09:51.740 For me, it was a spiritual crisis because in my 0:09:51.740 --> 0:09:54.820 paradigm of what I thought God had for women, there 0:09:54.820 --> 0:09:58.060 was nowhere, no place for a woman either who wasn't 0:09:58.059 --> 0:10:01.620 married or who didn't have children. And I had to 0:10:01.660 --> 0:10:05.060 go back to the beginning and, you know, Genesis and 0:10:05.059 --> 0:10:08.939 relook at, okay, what was woman really made for? Yes. 0:10:08.940 --> 0:10:11.860 Be fruitful and multiply. But that takes two. And so 0:10:11.860 --> 0:10:16.739 does rule, right? Rule. Together we have a complementary relationship 0:10:16.740 --> 0:10:19.540 with men that we are supposed to be partnering up. 0:10:19.860 --> 0:10:24.740 And so yes, it's deeply rooted in my journey to 0:10:24.780 --> 0:10:27.420 relook at where did I get this messaging. Is it 0:10:27.460 --> 0:10:30.179 was it American subculture? I'm in the South. Was it 0:10:30.220 --> 0:10:34.020 southern subculture? There's some of that. Was it Christian subculture? 0:10:34.020 --> 0:10:37.059 There's some of that. But also, you know, not only 0:10:37.059 --> 0:10:40.140 where did I get this idea, but what actually is 0:10:40.140 --> 0:10:40.969 the truth. 0:10:41.130 --> 0:10:42.890 You know, it's interesting because we live in a world 0:10:42.929 --> 0:10:47.410 today and I don't disagree. I think that Christian subculture 0:10:47.650 --> 0:10:50.850 can create a lot of misconceptions that God never taught 0:10:50.850 --> 0:10:53.610 in his word. And yet we've got it's almost like 0:10:53.650 --> 0:10:55.770 you fall off this high ridge. We talk about high 0:10:55.770 --> 0:10:58.449 Ridge around here. Often the high ridge is this pinnacle 0:10:58.450 --> 0:11:00.690 point of the glorification of God and the way he 0:11:00.690 --> 0:11:02.810 sees us. And then off one side, we fall off 0:11:02.809 --> 0:11:06.250 with distortions about what is woman and what is womanhood 0:11:06.290 --> 0:11:08.850 and what's it look like. And then the world has 0:11:08.850 --> 0:11:12.290 its own kind of mantra, and there's some pretty crass 0:11:12.290 --> 0:11:14.930 language used to women that are in leadership out in 0:11:14.929 --> 0:11:18.610 the marketplace that's, you know, become really kind of, you know, 0:11:18.650 --> 0:11:22.010 hip to say. But boy, there's no solutions in that either. 0:11:22.010 --> 0:11:24.850 How do you keep climbing up to the high ridge? Sandra. 0:11:24.890 --> 0:11:28.130 Yeah, one of the first things I had to discover 0:11:28.130 --> 0:11:32.370 was that God's vision for biblical manhood and womanhood is 0:11:32.370 --> 0:11:34.690 not to pick a stereotype and then try to live 0:11:34.690 --> 0:11:38.050 into it. It is the fruit of the spirit. And 0:11:38.050 --> 0:11:41.630 if I pursue Jesus Christ, rather than an ideal of 0:11:41.630 --> 0:11:44.550 what I think manhood or womanhood should look like, if 0:11:44.550 --> 0:11:47.630 I am becoming full of love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, 0:11:47.630 --> 0:11:51.270 those good qualities in a female body embodied as a 0:11:51.270 --> 0:11:54.230 woman that is biblical womanhood. And the same is true 0:11:54.230 --> 0:11:57.350 of biblical manhood. Our goal is not to pursue what 0:11:57.350 --> 0:11:59.310 it means to be a man or woman. It's to 0:11:59.350 --> 0:12:02.870 pursue Jesus Christ. And the ramification of that is I 0:12:02.870 --> 0:12:05.870 become the woman I'm supposed to be. We become the 0:12:05.870 --> 0:12:07.550 men and women we're supposed to be. 0:12:07.990 --> 0:12:10.110 Doctor Sandra Glenn is going to be one of the 0:12:10.150 --> 0:12:14.430 keynote speakers at an upcoming conference that's just for equipping 0:12:14.429 --> 0:12:17.429 women in ministry. It's called the Women's Called Conference. Saturday, 0:12:17.429 --> 0:12:19.510 April 12th. It's going to be here at the campus 0:12:19.510 --> 0:12:22.590 of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. But also you can 0:12:22.630 --> 0:12:25.270 participate online as well. If you want the details, just 0:12:25.270 --> 0:12:33.830 text called to 800 555 7898. Text called to (800) 555-7898. 0:12:34.429 --> 0:12:37.459 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:12:38.220 --> 0:12:40.660 Well, boy, have we got something for you. One of 0:12:40.660 --> 0:12:44.540 the most powerful spiritual segments of the entire week happens 0:12:44.540 --> 0:12:47.060 every Wednesday here at the bottom of the hour. 0:12:47.100 --> 0:12:48.380 How do you sell it like that? 0:12:48.740 --> 0:12:53.500 Because laughter and humor God made. And it is good. 0:12:53.860 --> 0:12:56.859 By the way, do you know that babies or children 0:12:57.300 --> 0:12:59.220 are going to get the wrong stat? Now there's a 0:12:59.220 --> 0:13:02.540 stat I ran into yesterday. Somebody's got something for me 0:13:02.540 --> 0:13:05.860 real quick. What percentage of laughter do children have that 0:13:05.860 --> 0:13:08.819 adults don't have? Higher percentage of laughter. 0:13:08.860 --> 0:13:10.900 Like there's more time spent laughing. 0:13:10.940 --> 0:13:14.620 Yeah. More time spent laughing. Yeah. It's. And I thought 0:13:14.620 --> 0:13:17.100 about this and I thought, oh, my goodness, this is crazy. 0:13:17.140 --> 0:13:20.300 As a matter of fact, you know what? Laughter. When 0:13:20.300 --> 0:13:23.340 you interact with someone, if you find them being funny 0:13:23.340 --> 0:13:26.500 about something, emote a little bit. Don't hold it in. 0:13:27.300 --> 0:13:31.020 The studies have proven that you actually connect with people 0:13:31.020 --> 0:13:34.660 more if you react to them, especially when they say 0:13:34.770 --> 0:13:37.490 something somewhat humorous if you actually chuckle. 0:13:37.530 --> 0:13:38.929 Are you listening, Jonathan? 0:13:38.970 --> 0:13:39.970 I. Okay. 0:13:40.890 --> 0:13:42.089 So actually. 0:13:42.290 --> 0:13:44.970 I didn't even think about that, but this is so good. 0:13:45.850 --> 0:13:49.770 See that? See, this is how you can love your 0:13:49.770 --> 0:13:52.090 sister in Christ a lot better, young thunder. 0:13:52.130 --> 0:13:52.730 Now I know. 0:13:52.770 --> 0:13:53.770 Laugh at my jokes. 0:13:53.809 --> 0:13:56.770 Well, what's the stats? You get it for me, stat, man? 0:13:57.170 --> 0:14:01.290 So, children studies have shown children laugh around 300 times 0:14:01.290 --> 0:14:05.810 per day on average. Adults, in contrast, typically laugh around 0:14:05.809 --> 0:14:11.330 15 to 20 times per day. So 300 300 times 0:14:11.330 --> 0:14:14.849 a day. So if you look at that in percentages, 0:14:14.850 --> 0:14:18.329 children spend a larger time roughly around 2 to 3% 0:14:18.330 --> 0:14:22.330 of their waking hours. For adults, it's 0.1 to 0.3% 0:14:22.330 --> 0:14:23.090 of their waking hours. 0:14:23.090 --> 0:14:24.450 We need to learn a lot. 0:14:24.850 --> 0:14:25.570 That we need to. 0:14:25.610 --> 0:14:28.490 Laugh more. That's an interesting statistic. 0:14:28.530 --> 0:14:28.810 Yeah. 0:14:28.850 --> 0:14:31.930 What a gap. Yeah, man. 0:14:32.170 --> 0:14:33.870 And I'm not sure it's all good. 0:14:33.910 --> 0:14:35.950 No, no, no, it's a bad gap. 0:14:35.990 --> 0:14:37.910 This is a great setup for me. Carl. 0:14:37.950 --> 0:14:38.790 Thank you. 0:14:38.830 --> 0:14:41.350 I'm here to help you. Ali and Young Thunder. You 0:14:41.350 --> 0:14:42.270 better start laughing. 0:14:42.310 --> 0:14:43.150 I'll work on it. 0:14:44.550 --> 0:14:44.910 Well. 0:14:45.350 --> 0:14:47.710 Okay. Go ahead. Oh, no. No, we got to set 0:14:47.710 --> 0:14:48.030 this up. 0:14:48.070 --> 0:14:48.430 Yeah. 0:14:49.070 --> 0:14:52.630 Making herself laugh no matter who joins her. It's time 0:14:52.630 --> 0:14:54.670 for Ali thinks it's funny. 0:14:55.030 --> 0:14:55.550 So let's. 0:14:55.550 --> 0:14:58.230 Increase that. What was it? 0.1%? 0:14:58.270 --> 0:14:59.350 Yeah, point one to point three. 0:14:59.390 --> 0:15:01.670 Let's bring that up to like 0.5. 0:15:01.990 --> 0:15:02.470 Okay. 0:15:03.670 --> 0:15:06.310 Got a couple dad jokes for you. What do you 0:15:06.310 --> 0:15:10.070 call a bicycle that can't stand up on its own? 0:15:10.830 --> 0:15:12.910 You ever tried to stand a bicycle up? 0:15:12.950 --> 0:15:15.030 Yeah, they all fall over. Unless you got a kickstand. 0:15:15.390 --> 0:15:18.110 Yeah. No kickstand, but a bicycle that cannot stand up 0:15:18.110 --> 0:15:20.910 on its own is called too Tired. 0:15:25.310 --> 0:15:26.950 Jonathan, that is outstanding. 0:15:26.990 --> 0:15:27.510 I'm trying. 0:15:27.550 --> 0:15:31.740 Do you care about your health? Laugh. There you go. Okay, 0:15:31.780 --> 0:15:35.140 that was funny. I got him another help. Okay. 0:15:35.580 --> 0:15:36.820 He guilted him into it. 0:15:36.860 --> 0:15:37.860 She said, do you wanna die? 0:15:38.420 --> 0:15:39.780 I wanna die. 0:15:40.300 --> 0:15:42.700 I feel like I saved the best for last on 0:15:42.700 --> 0:15:45.260 this one, and I don't want to oversell it, but 0:15:45.260 --> 0:15:48.060 this one. I laughed, reading, crying. So I read this 0:15:48.060 --> 0:15:51.940 joke and I laughed out loud. We've lost her already. Okay, 0:15:52.180 --> 0:15:56.140 so deer have hooves. Is that hooves? Hooves? 0:15:56.180 --> 0:15:59.100 Yes. Yeah. Whoof whoof whoof whoof whoof whoof! Hooves. 0:15:59.140 --> 0:15:59.660 Hooves. How would. 0:15:59.660 --> 0:16:00.060 You say. 0:16:00.380 --> 0:16:01.660 I say it? Hooves. 0:16:01.700 --> 0:16:04.260 Hooves. Okay, so what do you call a deer that 0:16:04.260 --> 0:16:05.860 can use both hooves? 0:16:06.820 --> 0:16:08.540 Well, there's four, but anyway. 0:16:08.580 --> 0:16:10.980 Both. Both. Okay, let's say they can use all four. 0:16:11.140 --> 0:16:11.620 Okay. 0:16:11.660 --> 0:16:13.180 They're Bambi dexterous. 0:16:16.500 --> 0:16:17.340 What? 0:16:17.460 --> 0:16:18.020 What? 0:16:18.700 --> 0:16:20.500 Okay, that is outstanding. 0:16:20.540 --> 0:16:21.020 That's funny. 0:16:21.380 --> 0:16:24.180 If you don't think that one's funny, you got wet wood. 0:16:24.220 --> 0:16:25.020 That was my best. 0:16:25.020 --> 0:16:26.060 One of the day. 0:16:26.100 --> 0:16:26.460 I like. 0:16:26.460 --> 0:16:27.300 It. Bambi. 0:16:27.340 --> 0:16:28.700 Dexterous. I mean. 0:16:28.780 --> 0:16:28.940 That. 0:16:28.940 --> 0:16:30.450 Was good. That was good. I liked that. 0:16:30.450 --> 0:16:30.730 One. 0:16:30.730 --> 0:16:32.530 Wow, that one made me cry. 0:16:32.970 --> 0:16:33.970 Oh, yeah. Come on. 0:16:34.010 --> 0:16:34.690 You two can. 0:16:34.730 --> 0:16:35.490 Torment. 0:16:35.490 --> 0:16:38.090 Or bring health and vitality to your friends. 0:16:38.130 --> 0:16:39.730 By texting jokes. 0:16:39.770 --> 0:16:46.810 805, 55, 7898. Jokes to 800 555 7898. 0:16:48.090 --> 0:16:52.330 Our dear friend Catherine just texted me Greek proverb super. 0:16:52.330 --> 0:16:53.250 Now are you ready for this? 0:16:53.250 --> 0:16:53.730 Okay. 0:16:53.770 --> 0:16:55.170 Greek proverb. 0:16:55.410 --> 0:16:55.690 Okay. 0:16:55.730 --> 0:16:59.610 Laughter. Laughter. Oh, it went away. Hold on. Greek proverb. 0:16:59.770 --> 0:17:03.330 Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. 0:17:03.370 --> 0:17:04.850 Ooh, I like that. Nice. 0:17:04.850 --> 0:17:05.730 I 100%. 0:17:05.730 --> 0:17:06.050 Agree with. 0:17:06.050 --> 0:17:07.050 That. That's great. 0:17:08.170 --> 0:17:08.450 Oh. 0:17:09.010 --> 0:17:09.369 Yes. 0:17:10.210 --> 0:17:11.450 Ambidextrous. 0:17:11.490 --> 0:17:18.010 Ambidextrous. Oh, ambidextrous. Okay. 0:17:18.050 --> 0:17:18.570 Come on. 0:17:18.570 --> 0:17:21.770 Man, super die. Still quietly doesn't laugh. 0:17:23.609 --> 0:17:27.010 Come on. You gotta admit. Dexterous. 0:17:27.050 --> 0:17:27.489 That was good. 0:17:27.550 --> 0:17:28.470 We've lost Carl. 0:17:28.510 --> 0:17:28.830 That was. 0:17:28.830 --> 0:17:29.670 Good. Oh, I went. 0:17:29.670 --> 0:17:31.709 On a deer hunt with my son way back in 0:17:31.710 --> 0:17:34.190 the day. We took my buddy, Phil Fogle. He's got 0:17:34.190 --> 0:17:37.830 a crab boat called the invincible. Was it the invincible? 0:17:37.830 --> 0:17:40.629 He's got two crab boats that were on Deadliest Catch 0:17:40.630 --> 0:17:41.989 back in the day. Oh, cool. I don't think they're 0:17:42.030 --> 0:17:44.790 on there anymore. Uh, but we took one from Kodiak 0:17:44.790 --> 0:17:47.510 Island over to another nearby island of Fog Neck, and 0:17:47.510 --> 0:17:50.030 we went deer hunting. I wish I had had that joke. 0:17:50.630 --> 0:17:52.070 They're ambidextrous. 0:17:52.109 --> 0:17:52.510 Man. 0:17:53.150 --> 0:17:55.310 That's why they can move away from you so quickly. 0:17:55.350 --> 0:17:55.869 Yeah. 0:17:57.350 --> 0:18:01.590 Bambi. Dexterity trip. A little Bambi dexterity. Alrighty. 0:18:02.070 --> 0:18:03.990 Oh, that's so good. Oh. 0:18:06.070 --> 0:18:06.350 All right. 0:18:06.350 --> 0:18:07.910 Carl, Carl's still laughing. 0:18:07.950 --> 0:18:10.430 I know. Well, you gotta know, man. 0:18:10.430 --> 0:18:13.990 Especially for Alaskan men that grunt and spit and say 0:18:14.030 --> 0:18:15.910 few words. You pop that one on them. 0:18:16.070 --> 0:18:17.230 You're going to get a laugh. 0:18:17.230 --> 0:18:18.310 You're going to get a laugh. 0:18:18.350 --> 0:18:19.310 Improve your health. 0:18:19.630 --> 0:18:20.510 And improve your. 0:18:20.510 --> 0:18:20.990 Health. 0:18:21.030 --> 0:18:25.669 And others around you see young Thunder. If you don't laugh, 0:18:25.780 --> 0:18:28.100 your muscles are just going to atrophy, dude. And we're 0:18:28.100 --> 0:18:29.939 going to be in here propping you up on a 0:18:29.940 --> 0:18:32.100 stretcher to get you in front of the microphone one day. 0:18:32.140 --> 0:18:35.100 I don't know why we're not talking to Super Di 0:18:35.140 --> 0:18:36.340 more about this than me. 0:18:36.580 --> 0:18:37.380 I laugh. 0:18:37.580 --> 0:18:38.740 We give her a pass. 0:18:38.859 --> 0:18:41.660 We give her a pass because we like her more. What? 0:18:42.340 --> 0:18:45.419 Because we like her more. You know what? Fair. 0:18:45.940 --> 0:18:50.219 I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I love all my kids. Equal. 0:18:50.260 --> 0:18:50.900 I don't have any. 0:18:50.900 --> 0:18:51.300 Favorite. 0:18:51.300 --> 0:18:52.500 Kids. You kids are all. 0:18:52.500 --> 0:18:53.379 My kids. 0:18:53.780 --> 0:18:54.020 Love. 0:18:54.020 --> 0:18:54.139 You. 0:18:54.140 --> 0:18:56.500 All the same. Thanks. That's pretty good. 0:18:56.740 --> 0:18:57.379 All right. 0:18:58.420 --> 0:18:59.260 That was funny. 0:18:59.859 --> 0:19:06.740 Takes jokes to 855, five, 78, 98. And, uh, whip 0:19:06.740 --> 0:19:08.780 that by someone in Wisconsin. 0:19:09.100 --> 0:19:09.619 Yep. 0:19:09.660 --> 0:19:12.940 It's going out there hunting. Okay. Uh, coming up here 0:19:12.940 --> 0:19:15.140 in a moment. Boy, have we got some encouragement for you. 0:19:15.140 --> 0:19:18.780 If you feel like somebody has sent you some news 0:19:18.780 --> 0:19:22.260 and it's like, oh, no, I got some bad news today, 0:19:22.260 --> 0:19:25.160 there's something you can do with that coming right from 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.159 the pages of Scripture. Nehemiah specifically, hang on. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.760 Your shot of hope to help you through the day. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.120 This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.840 Sometimes when you're reading the word, you can make observations 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:43.119 that aren't normally kind of highlighted as exegetical points. Okay. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.400 So if you're exegeting, let's just say the book of Philippians, uh, 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.199 we're going to do a nine part series in the 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:54.480 book of Philippians. And it's joy in so many different aspects. Oh, 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.560 it's so beautiful. Book of Philippians. Oh my. 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:57.400 Goodness. Come on. 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.840 Prison epistle. I mean, I think the underlying observation is 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.080 if Paul can write to the Philippian church while he's 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:10.360 in chains, witnessing to the guards, that's motivation enough. Hey, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.200 maybe I can have joy in this too. But that's 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.640 all he talks about the book of Philippians. Consider it joy. 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.960 So here's a really cool discipline as you go to 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:22.470 the word. 0:20:22.630 --> 0:20:24.030 Look for things. 0:20:24.070 --> 0:20:26.950 As you're in the word go, oh, I got one 0:20:26.950 --> 0:20:30.109 for you because some of you need this one. You 0:20:30.150 --> 0:20:33.469 got some word from someone, and it's often linked to 0:20:33.470 --> 0:20:36.869 someone that's already got our heart rate. It's got our heart. 0:20:36.910 --> 0:20:40.230 Could be a church. It could be an organization of 0:20:40.230 --> 0:20:42.550 the season. It could be a kid that you have 0:20:42.550 --> 0:20:47.830 this way where need is a word can tear my robes. God, 0:20:47.830 --> 0:20:49.270 I'm dying over here. 0:20:49.590 --> 0:20:50.469 The question is, what do. 0:20:50.470 --> 0:20:51.270 You do with that? 0:20:51.670 --> 0:20:53.110 Well, in Nehemiah chapter. 0:20:53.109 --> 0:20:53.510 One. 0:20:53.710 --> 0:20:54.510 The context. 0:20:54.510 --> 0:20:54.869 Here. 0:20:54.990 --> 0:20:57.070 Is Nehemiah is the cupbearer for. 0:20:57.070 --> 0:20:58.109 Artaxerxes. 0:20:58.150 --> 0:20:58.870 Now he's won a lot. 0:20:58.910 --> 0:21:03.070 Of favor with Artaxerxes. Artaxerxes also gave him the privilege 0:21:03.070 --> 0:21:05.750 to go back and rebuild the walls, which, by the way, 0:21:05.750 --> 0:21:08.830 was a miracle of God. Don't think that he can't 0:21:08.830 --> 0:21:13.110 get favor from lost people, because this proves we can. 0:21:13.910 --> 0:21:15.750 So what we've got going on here. 0:21:15.750 --> 0:21:17.629 And we're going to get this coming up in a moment, 0:21:17.630 --> 0:21:20.419 we're going to break it down for you, is We've 0:21:20.420 --> 0:21:24.780 got you. That is so profound. It's words about the 0:21:24.820 --> 0:21:27.899 walls of Jerusalem coming down. Now he's a second generation 0:21:27.900 --> 0:21:33.859 kid in Susa, ancient city of Susa. Now that's the 0:21:33.859 --> 0:21:38.700 modern day city of shush. And it's 200 miles east of. 0:21:38.740 --> 0:21:39.980 Baghdad, modern day. 0:21:40.020 --> 0:21:40.940 Baghdad. 0:21:40.980 --> 0:21:41.740 As the crow. 0:21:41.740 --> 0:21:46.540 Flies, which is super cool. So he gets this word 0:21:46.540 --> 0:21:49.020 that it's breaking down and look at what he does. 0:21:49.820 --> 0:21:52.020 This is a great, great force. 0:21:52.020 --> 0:21:54.300 As soon as he heard these words about Jerusalem, he 0:21:54.340 --> 0:21:58.180 sat down and wept and mourned for days. And I 0:21:58.220 --> 0:22:03.780 continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. And 0:22:03.780 --> 0:22:06.820 he went on to get a download in this fasting 0:22:06.820 --> 0:22:10.820 and praying of what he's to do. So oftentimes we 0:22:10.820 --> 0:22:13.580 rush into situations. But what if you just pause and 0:22:13.580 --> 0:22:17.460 hold for a second and just say, God, what? What 0:22:17.460 --> 0:22:21.120 is it you want me to do coming up here 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:22.520 in a moment? We're going to break this down a 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.199 little bit further. But I want you to bring to 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:26.919 mind right now something in your life that you've gotten 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.880 some news recently, or maybe yesterday, or maybe this morning. 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:37.960 News from a a sister, a brother, spiritually, biologically, a 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.200 wayward kid. You got something just break in your heart. 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:42.520 And the question is, how do you process that? How 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.760 do you gain wisdom for knowing what to do? We're 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:47.680 going to break that down in three minutes. 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.920 He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:56.240 he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.000 and crew on Moody Radio. 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:03.040 So Nehemiah gets words about the walls that have come 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:07.760 down in Jerusalem, and he's absolutely heartsick. Interestingly enough, he 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:11.560 hadn't seen those walls. He'd never seen them erected. He's 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:16.750 second generation Susa born Jewish kid. Isn't this fascinating? 0:23:17.030 --> 0:23:21.429 It is fascinating because, you know, I think especially here 0:23:21.430 --> 0:23:24.510 in like America, here we have some ties to kind 0:23:24.510 --> 0:23:26.830 of where we're from. But after the generations go by, 0:23:26.830 --> 0:23:30.510 it's like, yeah, I know my, my great great grandparents 0:23:30.510 --> 0:23:33.470 were from Germany and Russia, but I don't I don't 0:23:33.470 --> 0:23:35.790 have any ties to Germany or Russia. So I don't 0:23:35.790 --> 0:23:38.869 have a lot of a specific emotion directly towards Germany 0:23:38.869 --> 0:23:43.550 or Russia. It's surprising how tied in Nehemiah is to 0:23:43.590 --> 0:23:45.630 his people back home, even though he wasn't there. 0:23:45.670 --> 0:23:47.270 Yeah. He wasn't there wasn't born there. 0:23:47.310 --> 0:23:47.870 He wasn't born. 0:23:47.869 --> 0:23:48.149 There. 0:23:48.190 --> 0:23:52.590 So it's fascinating. It's I probably akin to what my 0:23:52.590 --> 0:23:57.070 grandpa Axel Johnson would have felt before he came stateside, 0:23:57.070 --> 0:24:00.710 when he got word from Sweden about relatives. 0:24:00.710 --> 0:24:01.110 Here. 0:24:01.150 --> 0:24:01.270 You. 0:24:01.270 --> 0:24:01.670 Know. 0:24:01.910 --> 0:24:04.830 You know, he had never been here, but he could. 0:24:04.869 --> 0:24:05.350 Emote. 0:24:05.390 --> 0:24:07.510 You know, and feel things for people that were. 0:24:07.510 --> 0:24:07.869 Here. 0:24:08.390 --> 0:24:12.429 And both heartache and joy. So Nehemiah gets this word. 0:24:12.430 --> 0:24:15.340 He goes into a time of fasting. Now, why do 0:24:15.340 --> 0:24:18.540 I mention this? Because fasting has great rewards. Now, what 0:24:18.540 --> 0:24:23.340 did Nehemiah get? He got to go talk to Artaxerxes. 0:24:23.380 --> 0:24:25.300 It didn't just come to him out of the blue. 0:24:25.340 --> 0:24:27.060 It came to him through fasting. 0:24:27.100 --> 0:24:30.020 Ali, there are so many times that we're confronted with 0:24:30.020 --> 0:24:34.300 something even second hand. You hear from a loved one 0:24:34.300 --> 0:24:37.420 about something that they're going through, and we feel so 0:24:37.420 --> 0:24:41.580 powerless to. What do I do? How do I help them? 0:24:41.619 --> 0:24:44.900 And I don't know that we think of fasting as 0:24:44.900 --> 0:24:47.060 something that we can do to help them. 0:24:47.180 --> 0:24:50.859 Why is it that. Why do you believe it's the case? 0:24:50.859 --> 0:24:52.820 I got my own opinion, but I want to hear 0:24:52.820 --> 0:24:55.139 from you. Why? And the rest of you chime in. 0:24:55.180 --> 0:24:58.179 Why is that the case? That we don't go to fasting? 0:24:58.180 --> 0:25:00.140 Yeah, I don't, I just don't know that we have 0:25:00.140 --> 0:25:03.380 the framework for thinking about it being utilized that way, 0:25:03.420 --> 0:25:06.100 that that when I don't know what else to do, 0:25:06.100 --> 0:25:09.260 I think people will will quickly go to to thinking, 0:25:09.260 --> 0:25:11.540 I'm going to pray, right. I don't know what else 0:25:11.540 --> 0:25:13.440 to do here. I'm going to pray. But I don't 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:16.720 know that we think about prayer and fasting as a response. 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:22.440 What does fasting do that sometimes prayer alone can't do. 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:24.399 Let's just get real practical here. 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:30.160 I think fasting can can do something very specific, which 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:34.840 is to say you're withholding something to not prove something 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:39.320 to God, but to symbolize your utter dependence on him. 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.120 I can pray and I can thank God for the 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:45.359 amazing blessings, but I can. Sometimes I can say a 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:49.440 prayer without symbolizing my utter dependence on him, even though 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:50.240 I should. 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:50.879 Yeah, it's. 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:52.280 The old shoot one up prayer. 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:56.040 Yeah, absolutely. But with fasting, it's saying I'm withholding this 0:25:56.040 --> 0:26:00.639 because I know that all of my sustenance, my help, 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:04.280 my everything comes from God, not from anything on this earth. 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:07.040 And so when we seek God in that way. Yeah, 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:08.359 it's a whole different thing. 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.720 Yeah. My bride says it this way. She thinks that 0:26:10.830 --> 0:26:15.790 prayer and fasting is prayer does one thing. You combine 0:26:15.790 --> 0:26:18.710 fasting with it, she says. It's like a laser beam 0:26:18.710 --> 0:26:20.190 focused on that issue. 0:26:20.230 --> 0:26:20.670 Absolutely. 0:26:20.710 --> 0:26:23.910 And then that laser beam communication comes back. There's a 0:26:23.910 --> 0:26:28.430 level of intent that goes there that's really beautiful. And 0:26:28.470 --> 0:26:31.030 the evidence is replete. I don't care if we're in 0:26:31.030 --> 0:26:33.670 Joel two. I don't care if we're in Nehemiah one 0:26:33.710 --> 0:26:37.030 as we're going to see tomorrow. Nehemiah nine, you you've 0:26:37.070 --> 0:26:40.590 got this. Let's just take it for what it is. 0:26:40.950 --> 0:26:47.350 The greats of faith, including Jesus, prayed and fasted when 0:26:47.350 --> 0:26:48.950 they were up against stuff. 0:26:49.150 --> 0:26:52.270 And you mentioned that your wife talked about the intent, 0:26:52.310 --> 0:26:55.750 the focused intent, and I think also the intensity. I mean, 0:26:56.109 --> 0:26:57.990 part of the call, I never thought about it until 0:26:57.990 --> 0:27:00.270 you just were talking about it right now. But our 0:27:00.270 --> 0:27:03.870 call to help bear one another's burdens. Maybe fasting is 0:27:03.869 --> 0:27:06.389 part of the way we help bear the burdens of 0:27:06.390 --> 0:27:07.270 other people. 0:27:07.310 --> 0:27:07.909 Boom! 0:27:08.310 --> 0:27:12.409 And there's something beautiful about this, because in In Prayer 0:27:12.410 --> 0:27:15.210 at the end of the day is not so much 0:27:15.250 --> 0:27:19.730 about what it does in the spiritual realm as much 0:27:19.730 --> 0:27:23.530 as what it does in the spiritual realm inside of me. 0:27:23.570 --> 0:27:26.250 And it tunes our hearts and ears to things that 0:27:26.250 --> 0:27:30.410 we otherwise might not hear. So just a quick word 0:27:30.410 --> 0:27:33.490 here today. One of the huge rewards of fasting is 0:27:33.490 --> 0:27:38.290 we hear from God. Counsel from him about what to 0:27:38.330 --> 0:27:41.810 go do. And the beautiful thing with that is that 0:27:41.810 --> 0:27:44.410 I don't know if anyone's like me, but we sometimes 0:27:44.410 --> 0:27:47.050 head out doing a lot of stuff, looking back, going, 0:27:47.090 --> 0:27:50.729 that wasn't the doing that God had me do. Yeah, 0:27:50.770 --> 0:27:53.649 that was the doing that I had me do. And 0:27:53.650 --> 0:27:57.810 fasting can be that you're right. Laser intensity with God 0:27:57.970 --> 0:28:00.810 that allows us to hear his voice. So I don't 0:28:00.810 --> 0:28:03.570 know where your heart is broken for someone else, but 0:28:03.609 --> 0:28:05.530 skip a meal and pray today.