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S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: What God says about you getting embedded in your heart, mind,
S2: soul and becoming part of the warp and woof of
S2: who you are can lighten a load from you that
S2: you underestimate how much you're carrying. And I I've experienced that.
S2: Now we're going to be talking about fasting today. Nehemiah
S2: the prophet carried a load man. And when he heard
S2: that the walls of Jerusalem had come down, broke his heart,
S2: he wept. He wasn't even in the hoop and wharf
S2: of everything going on in Jerusalem. You second generation Babylonian captivity.
S2: I mean, he was born in Susa. He wasn't exiled.
S2: A lot of people don't know that Nehemiah was second
S2: generation Susan, which is 200 miles east, due east as
S2: the bird flies from Baghdad, modern day Baghdad. And it's
S2: the modern city of shush. Susa and Shush are right there.
S2: All the ruins are right there. Fascinating stuff. I mean,
S2: this is real places, real time, guys. I mean, that's
S2: what's cool about it.
S3: Hard to remember that when you. I love when you're
S3: able to say, well, this town is near modern day
S3: this because it helps me get that little picture in
S3: my brain. It's not.
S2: It's more.
S3: Than.
S2: Me. Yeah, it helps me too. It's not like Narnia
S2: or something. Yeah. Yeah. So here's an interesting thing, and
S2: I want to give you a good word on this.
S2: There's some things that you might be carrying that God
S2: wants to lighten the load on, and some things you
S2: carry because you just feel it. And I've got some
S2: good news I want to report. I hadn't planned on
S2: sharing this, but sometimes good news is important to share.
S2: I slept better last night than I've slept in two months.
S4: Oh. that's good.
S2: And I woke up four minutes before an alarm was
S2: going to go off. I do set an alarm only
S2: for the crazy rare occasion that I might conk out.
S2: It hasn't happened, but this was four minutes from happening
S2: and I'm like, whoa, do I feel good? I slept
S2: 7.5 hours, and that's a long go for Carl. And
S2: I know what it's related to. I think I was
S2: carrying something for my bride that I didn't even know.
S2: And yesterday we had a whole bunch of scheduled tests
S2: for my bride. It was three and a half years
S2: ago that we found out that she was battling some cancer.
S2: Came out of the blue for us. Both of us
S2: were shocked. We'd been away on a trip and she
S2: was training again for another marathon, and she was finding
S2: herself with some symptoms popping up, and she's like, what
S2: in the world is going on? Hit us out of
S2: the blue, man. Like like a bolt of lightning. But
S2: yesterday to sit in that room. And as you can
S2: probably imagine, your friend Carl barely able to contain himself.
S2: That was there. The doc walks in. He says, hey,
S2: after some scans after checkup, you are cancer free still.
S4: Wow.
S3: Amazing.
S2: And we went out and we had a celebration dinner.
S2: Just me and my bride. And I kept looking at
S2: her and I said, did you hear that? Did you
S2: hear that? She goes, yeah, it's sinking in, bub. So
S2: I don't know what you're carrying today, but I want
S2: you to know that our God sees. And I'm praying
S2: that that day of rejoicing will come for you. It's
S2: not always rejoicing, but God can get us through those
S2: difficult times where it's not resolved yet. We haven't seen
S2: the hand of God, but God and He's faithful. And
S2: on occasion we get that good news that says freedom
S2: in the physical body. And that's an awesome thing. So
S2: I just wanted to share that with you. I hadn't
S2: planned on doing that, but I thought, you know what?
S2: Sometimes you got to let people rejoice with those who
S2: are rejoicing around here. And isn't it funny that it
S2: changed my sleep like that?
S4: Oh, man. That's. That's amazing. That's amazing. We praise God
S4: with you for the great report. And then to be
S4: able to sleep with that lifted off of your heart,
S4: off of your mind.
S2: I didn't know how much it was carrying it, apparently.
S2: You know, you don't know. You think, ah, it must
S2: be something else. But I was carrying that. God is good, guys.
S2: God is good. Well, coming up here in a minute, um,
S2: we're totally equal men and women. But what in the
S2: world does that mean? Ali, could you please answer that
S2: for me right now?
S4: How long do we have? I don't have an answer
S4: to that question fully, but coming up, we do have
S4: a guest who's going to give us a preview of
S4: an event that's just for women, particularly women who feel
S4: called to lead and called to ministry.
S1: You're listening to Curl and Crew on Moody Radio.
S5: I think we've established.
S2: In the church today that men and women are totally equal,
S2: at least in theory, and yet unique and different. But
S2: the question is really.
S5: What does that mean? You could say we're totally equal, right?
S5: But what is unique and different?
S4: And it's got to be more than just the girls
S4: who like princesses and pink, and the guys who like
S4: to grunt and eat bacon.
S2: Yeah. Because I don't. I eat turkey bacon.
S4: And I don't care for pink.
S2: Well, there you go. See, we got that ironed out.
S4: We've got Doctor Sandra Glon joining us right now. She
S4: is the keynote speaker for the opening session of the
S4: women's called conference happening at the Moody Bible Institute campus,
S4: and a virtual attendance as well. Uh, Doctor Glenn, tell
S4: us about your keynote. What's the big idea?
S6: The big idea is freely you've received, freely give. And
S6: so we will explore what is it that we have
S6: received from God, which is a lot. And then what
S6: is the vision for what it looks like to turn
S6: around and distribute those goods, those benefits to share in
S6: the assets that we've been given, not as an act
S6: of performance or because it's required, but because we're thrilled
S6: to be so blessed and ready to share with others
S6: what we've been blessed with.
S2: Yeah. Since you're trained and worked there, I, you know,
S2: just just popped into my head. James, one first chapter
S2: there seems to be a condition about some kind of
S2: receiving from God if you're double souled or double faced.
S2: Where is that condition of God? Where does it come
S2: into play, and why would God have that?
S6: Well, I can certainly say that the list of things
S6: that we've received and it's a very long list and
S6: forget not all his benefits, but the list I'll be
S6: focusing on is out of Romans, which, uh, keys in,
S6: especially on our adoption. I'm an adoptive parent after years
S6: of infertility and pregnancy loss. And we'll look at how
S6: does our American adoption differ significantly from how the listeners
S6: in the first century would have thought of it? They
S6: would have connected it much more with inheritance. And you
S6: could even have a grown adult child, male, typically, uh,
S6: that you would leave everything to if you didn't have
S6: any children. And so we are not only adopted into
S6: God's family, but what do we inherit? What does Jesus
S6: say The meek will inherit the earth. So the physicality
S6: that we celebrate in that of just not just that
S6: we have spiritual blessings which we will explore, but also
S6: we have massive physical blessings. And we are we are
S6: encouraged to enjoy all things that God has given us richly.
S2: So you would say, yes, there are some blessings that
S2: God withholds until we get a line. But there are
S2: innumerable blessings by virtue of the fact that we're God's kids.
S6: Well said. I won't actually focusing much on the God
S6: withholding blessing, although that is certainly part of what the
S6: Scripture says. But I feel like especially for women, we
S6: are often so warned. Don't overstep your bounds. Be careful
S6: that we can get in our. I'll just say, as
S6: a seminary professor who deals with women in leadership, their
S6: issue is really not that they're going to become radical feminists.
S6: I've never met one. Their issue to a person, if
S6: there is one, has been. Am I really called? Do I?
S6: Do I really have a message? Is, you know, can
S6: I really share it? Can I use my gifts freely?
S6: And so we will focus on. Yes. What are the
S6: things you've been blessed with and what are some ways
S6: that you can share that freely?
S4: Doctor Sandra Glaun, our guest right now. Now you. This
S4: is a real passion for you, helping women to really
S4: identify their spiritual gift, their place in leadership. Tell me
S4: a little bit about your own journey of kind of
S4: finding your place where God has, has gifted you and
S4: equipped you.
S6: I can speak with expertise on this. What is my journey?
S6: It definitely informs all of this because I don't know
S6: if you if your listeners have seen shiny happy people,
S6: but the whole mentality of a woman was made for
S6: one thing, and that's baby making. I bought into that.
S6: I thought it was a beautiful vision, and the challenge
S6: of that came with infertility and pregnancy loss that spanned
S6: a decade, and that for me, as much as infertility
S6: is a heartbreak, it's a marital, emotional, financial, ethical crisis.
S6: For me, it was a spiritual crisis because in my
S6: paradigm of what I thought God had for women, there
S6: was nowhere, no place for a woman either who wasn't
S6: married or who didn't have children. And I had to
S6: go back to the beginning and, you know, Genesis and
S6: relook at, okay, what was woman really made for? Yes.
S6: Be fruitful and multiply. But that takes two. And so
S6: does rule, right? Rule. Together we have a complementary relationship
S6: with men that we are supposed to be partnering up.
S6: And so yes, it's deeply rooted in my journey to
S6: relook at where did I get this messaging. Is it
S6: was it American subculture? I'm in the South. Was it
S6: southern subculture? There's some of that. Was it Christian subculture?
S6: There's some of that. But also, you know, not only
S6: where did I get this idea, but what actually is
S6: the truth.
S2: You know, it's interesting because we live in a world
S2: today and I don't disagree. I think that Christian subculture
S2: can create a lot of misconceptions that God never taught
S2: in his word. And yet we've got it's almost like
S2: you fall off this high ridge. We talk about high
S2: Ridge around here. Often the high ridge is this pinnacle
S2: point of the glorification of God and the way he
S2: sees us. And then off one side, we fall off
S2: with distortions about what is woman and what is womanhood
S2: and what's it look like. And then the world has
S2: its own kind of mantra, and there's some pretty crass
S2: language used to women that are in leadership out in
S2: the marketplace that's, you know, become really kind of, you know,
S2: hip to say. But boy, there's no solutions in that either.
S2: How do you keep climbing up to the high ridge? Sandra.
S6: Yeah, one of the first things I had to discover
S6: was that God's vision for biblical manhood and womanhood is
S6: not to pick a stereotype and then try to live
S6: into it. It is the fruit of the spirit. And
S6: if I pursue Jesus Christ, rather than an ideal of
S6: what I think manhood or womanhood should look like, if
S6: I am becoming full of love, joy, peace, patience, goodness,
S6: those good qualities in a female body embodied as a
S6: woman that is biblical womanhood. And the same is true
S6: of biblical manhood. Our goal is not to pursue what
S6: it means to be a man or woman. It's to
S6: pursue Jesus Christ. And the ramification of that is I
S6: become the woman I'm supposed to be. We become the
S6: men and women we're supposed to be.
S4: Doctor Sandra Glenn is going to be one of the
S4: keynote speakers at an upcoming conference that's just for equipping
S4: women in ministry. It's called the Women's Called Conference. Saturday,
S4: April 12th. It's going to be here at the campus
S4: of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. But also you can
S4: participate online as well. If you want the details, just
S4: text called to 800 555 7898. Text called to (800) 555-7898.
S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Well, boy, have we got something for you. One of
S2: the most powerful spiritual segments of the entire week happens
S2: every Wednesday here at the bottom of the hour.
S4: How do you sell it like that?
S2: Because laughter and humor God made. And it is good.
S2: By the way, do you know that babies or children
S2: are going to get the wrong stat? Now there's a
S2: stat I ran into yesterday. Somebody's got something for me
S2: real quick. What percentage of laughter do children have that
S2: adults don't have? Higher percentage of laughter.
S4: Like there's more time spent laughing.
S2: Yeah. More time spent laughing. Yeah. It's. And I thought
S2: about this and I thought, oh, my goodness, this is crazy.
S2: As a matter of fact, you know what? Laughter. When
S2: you interact with someone, if you find them being funny
S2: about something, emote a little bit. Don't hold it in.
S2: The studies have proven that you actually connect with people
S2: more if you react to them, especially when they say
S2: something somewhat humorous if you actually chuckle.
S4: Are you listening, Jonathan?
S3: I. Okay.
S7: So actually.
S8: I didn't even think about that, but this is so good.
S2: See that? See, this is how you can love your
S2: sister in Christ a lot better, young thunder.
S3: Now I know.
S7: Laugh at my jokes.
S2: Well, what's the stats? You get it for me, stat, man?
S3: So, children studies have shown children laugh around 300 times
S3: per day on average. Adults, in contrast, typically laugh around
S3: 15 to 20 times per day. So 300 300 times
S3: a day. So if you look at that in percentages,
S3: children spend a larger time roughly around 2 to 3%
S3: of their waking hours. For adults, it's 0.1 to 0.3%
S3: of their waking hours.
S7: We need to learn a lot.
S2: That we need to.
S7: Laugh more. That's an interesting statistic.
S3: Yeah.
S7: What a gap. Yeah, man.
S2: And I'm not sure it's all good.
S7: No, no, no, it's a bad gap.
S4: This is a great setup for me. Carl.
S7: Thank you.
S2: I'm here to help you. Ali and Young Thunder. You
S2: better start laughing.
S3: I'll work on it.
S7: Well.
S2: Okay. Go ahead. Oh, no. No, we got to set
S2: this up.
S7: Yeah.
S1: Making herself laugh no matter who joins her. It's time
S1: for Ali thinks it's funny.
S7: So let's.
S4: Increase that. What was it? 0.1%?
S3: Yeah, point one to point three.
S4: Let's bring that up to like 0.5.
S7: Okay.
S4: Got a couple dad jokes for you. What do you
S4: call a bicycle that can't stand up on its own?
S4: You ever tried to stand a bicycle up?
S3: Yeah, they all fall over. Unless you got a kickstand.
S4: Yeah. No kickstand, but a bicycle that cannot stand up
S4: on its own is called too Tired.
S8: Jonathan, that is outstanding.
S3: I'm trying.
S4: Do you care about your health? Laugh. There you go. Okay,
S4: that was funny. I got him another help. Okay.
S8: He guilted him into it.
S4: She said, do you wanna die?
S8: I wanna die.
S4: I feel like I saved the best for last on
S4: this one, and I don't want to oversell it, but
S4: this one. I laughed, reading, crying. So I read this
S4: joke and I laughed out loud. We've lost her already. Okay,
S4: so deer have hooves. Is that hooves? Hooves?
S8: Yes. Yeah. Whoof whoof whoof whoof whoof whoof! Hooves.
S4: Hooves. How would.
S8: You say.
S2: I say it? Hooves.
S4: Hooves. Okay, so what do you call a deer that
S4: can use both hooves?
S2: Well, there's four, but anyway.
S4: Both. Both. Okay, let's say they can use all four.
S8: Okay.
S4: They're Bambi dexterous.
S3: What?
S4: What?
S8: Okay, that is outstanding.
S3: That's funny.
S8: If you don't think that one's funny, you got wet wood.
S8: That was my best.
S4: One of the day.
S3: I like.
S8: It. Bambi.
S4: Dexterous. I mean.
S8: That.
S3: Was good. That was good. I liked that.
S8: One.
S4: Wow, that one made me cry.
S8: Oh, yeah. Come on.
S2: You two can.
S8: Torment.
S2: Or bring health and vitality to your friends.
S8: By texting jokes.
S4: 805, 55, 7898. Jokes to 800 555 7898.
S2: Our dear friend Catherine just texted me Greek proverb super.
S2: Now are you ready for this?
S4: Okay.
S2: Greek proverb.
S4: Okay.
S2: Laughter. Laughter. Oh, it went away. Hold on. Greek proverb.
S2: Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
S4: Ooh, I like that. Nice.
S3: I 100%.
S4: Agree with.
S3: That. That's great.
S2: Oh.
S8: Yes.
S2: Ambidextrous.
S8: Ambidextrous. Oh, ambidextrous. Okay.
S9: Come on.
S4: Man, super die. Still quietly doesn't laugh.
S8: Come on. You gotta admit. Dexterous.
S3: That was good.
S4: We've lost Carl.
S3: That was.
S8: Good. Oh, I went.
S2: On a deer hunt with my son way back in
S2: the day. We took my buddy, Phil Fogle. He's got
S2: a crab boat called the invincible. Was it the invincible?
S2: He's got two crab boats that were on Deadliest Catch
S2: back in the day. Oh, cool. I don't think they're
S2: on there anymore. Uh, but we took one from Kodiak
S2: Island over to another nearby island of Fog Neck, and
S2: we went deer hunting. I wish I had had that joke.
S2: They're ambidextrous.
S8: Man.
S4: That's why they can move away from you so quickly.
S8: Yeah.
S4: Bambi. Dexterity trip. A little Bambi dexterity. Alrighty.
S2: Oh, that's so good. Oh.
S8: All right.
S4: Carl, Carl's still laughing.
S8: I know. Well, you gotta know, man.
S2: Especially for Alaskan men that grunt and spit and say
S2: few words. You pop that one on them.
S4: You're going to get a laugh.
S2: You're going to get a laugh.
S4: Improve your health.
S2: And improve your.
S8: Health.
S2: And others around you see young Thunder. If you don't laugh,
S2: your muscles are just going to atrophy, dude. And we're
S2: going to be in here propping you up on a
S2: stretcher to get you in front of the microphone one day.
S3: I don't know why we're not talking to Super Di
S3: more about this than me.
S8: I laugh.
S4: We give her a pass.
S8: We give her a pass because we like her more. What?
S3: Because we like her more. You know what? Fair.
S8: I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I love all my kids. Equal.
S8: I don't have any.
S2: Favorite.
S8: Kids. You kids are all.
S2: My kids.
S8: Love.
S2: You.
S8: All the same. Thanks. That's pretty good.
S2: All right.
S8: That was funny.
S2: Takes jokes to 855, five, 78, 98. And, uh, whip
S2: that by someone in Wisconsin.
S4: Yep.
S2: It's going out there hunting. Okay. Uh, coming up here
S2: in a moment. Boy, have we got some encouragement for you.
S2: If you feel like somebody has sent you some news
S2: and it's like, oh, no, I got some bad news today,
S2: there's something you can do with that coming right from
S2: the pages of Scripture. Nehemiah specifically, hang on.
S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
S1: This is Carl and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: Sometimes when you're reading the word, you can make observations
S2: that aren't normally kind of highlighted as exegetical points. Okay.
S2: So if you're exegeting, let's just say the book of Philippians, uh,
S2: we're going to do a nine part series in the
S2: book of Philippians. And it's joy in so many different aspects. Oh,
S2: it's so beautiful. Book of Philippians. Oh my.
S8: Goodness. Come on.
S2: Prison epistle. I mean, I think the underlying observation is
S2: if Paul can write to the Philippian church while he's
S2: in chains, witnessing to the guards, that's motivation enough. Hey,
S2: maybe I can have joy in this too. But that's
S2: all he talks about the book of Philippians. Consider it joy.
S2: So here's a really cool discipline as you go to
S2: the word.
S8: Look for things.
S10: As you're in the word go, oh, I got one
S10: for you because some of you need this one. You
S10: got some word from someone, and it's often linked to
S10: someone that's already got our heart rate. It's got our heart.
S10: Could be a church. It could be an organization of
S10: the season. It could be a kid that you have
S10: this way where need is a word can tear my robes. God,
S10: I'm dying over here.
S2: The question is, what do.
S10: You do with that?
S2: Well, in Nehemiah chapter.
S10: One.
S2: The context.
S10: Here.
S2: Is Nehemiah is the cupbearer for.
S10: Artaxerxes.
S2: Now he's won a lot.
S10: Of favor with Artaxerxes. Artaxerxes also gave him the privilege
S10: to go back and rebuild the walls, which, by the way,
S10: was a miracle of God. Don't think that he can't
S10: get favor from lost people, because this proves we can.
S2: So what we've got going on here.
S10: And we're going to get this coming up in a moment,
S10: we're going to break it down for you, is We've
S10: got you. That is so profound. It's words about the
S10: walls of Jerusalem coming down. Now he's a second generation
S10: kid in Susa, ancient city of Susa. Now that's the
S10: modern day city of shush. And it's 200 miles east of.
S2: Baghdad, modern day.
S10: Baghdad.
S2: As the crow.
S10: Flies, which is super cool. So he gets this word
S10: that it's breaking down and look at what he does.
S10: This is a great, great force.
S2: As soon as he heard these words about Jerusalem, he
S2: sat down and wept and mourned for days. And I
S2: continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. And
S2: he went on to get a download in this fasting
S2: and praying of what he's to do. So oftentimes we
S2: rush into situations. But what if you just pause and
S2: hold for a second and just say, God, what? What
S2: is it you want me to do coming up here
S2: in a moment? We're going to break this down a
S2: little bit further. But I want you to bring to
S2: mind right now something in your life that you've gotten
S2: some news recently, or maybe yesterday, or maybe this morning.
S2: News from a a sister, a brother, spiritually, biologically, a
S2: wayward kid. You got something just break in your heart.
S2: And the question is, how do you process that? How
S2: do you gain wisdom for knowing what to do? We're
S2: going to break that down in three minutes.
S1: He was sharing the gospel on the radio and then
S1: he got saved. Young thunders in the crew. It's Carl
S1: and crew on Moody Radio.
S2: So Nehemiah gets words about the walls that have come
S2: down in Jerusalem, and he's absolutely heartsick. Interestingly enough, he
S2: hadn't seen those walls. He'd never seen them erected. He's
S2: second generation Susa born Jewish kid. Isn't this fascinating?
S3: It is fascinating because, you know, I think especially here
S3: in like America, here we have some ties to kind
S3: of where we're from. But after the generations go by,
S3: it's like, yeah, I know my, my great great grandparents
S3: were from Germany and Russia, but I don't I don't
S3: have any ties to Germany or Russia. So I don't
S3: have a lot of a specific emotion directly towards Germany
S3: or Russia. It's surprising how tied in Nehemiah is to
S3: his people back home, even though he wasn't there.
S2: Yeah. He wasn't there wasn't born there.
S3: He wasn't born.
S10: There.
S2: So it's fascinating. It's I probably akin to what my
S2: grandpa Axel Johnson would have felt before he came stateside,
S2: when he got word from Sweden about relatives.
S10: Here.
S2: You.
S10: Know.
S2: You know, he had never been here, but he could.
S10: Emote.
S2: You know, and feel things for people that were.
S10: Here.
S2: And both heartache and joy. So Nehemiah gets this word.
S2: He goes into a time of fasting. Now, why do
S2: I mention this? Because fasting has great rewards. Now, what
S2: did Nehemiah get? He got to go talk to Artaxerxes.
S2: It didn't just come to him out of the blue.
S2: It came to him through fasting.
S4: Ali, there are so many times that we're confronted with
S4: something even second hand. You hear from a loved one
S4: about something that they're going through, and we feel so
S4: powerless to. What do I do? How do I help them?
S4: And I don't know that we think of fasting as
S4: something that we can do to help them.
S2: Why is it that. Why do you believe it's the case?
S2: I got my own opinion, but I want to hear
S2: from you. Why? And the rest of you chime in.
S2: Why is that the case? That we don't go to fasting?
S4: Yeah, I don't, I just don't know that we have
S4: the framework for thinking about it being utilized that way,
S4: that that when I don't know what else to do,
S4: I think people will will quickly go to to thinking,
S4: I'm going to pray, right. I don't know what else
S4: to do here. I'm going to pray. But I don't
S4: know that we think about prayer and fasting as a response.
S2: What does fasting do that sometimes prayer alone can't do.
S2: Let's just get real practical here.
S3: I think fasting can can do something very specific, which
S3: is to say you're withholding something to not prove something
S3: to God, but to symbolize your utter dependence on him.
S3: I can pray and I can thank God for the
S3: amazing blessings, but I can. Sometimes I can say a
S3: prayer without symbolizing my utter dependence on him, even though
S3: I should.
S8: Yeah, it's.
S2: The old shoot one up prayer.
S3: Yeah, absolutely. But with fasting, it's saying I'm withholding this
S3: because I know that all of my sustenance, my help,
S3: my everything comes from God, not from anything on this earth.
S3: And so when we seek God in that way. Yeah,
S3: it's a whole different thing.
S2: Yeah. My bride says it this way. She thinks that
S2: prayer and fasting is prayer does one thing. You combine
S2: fasting with it, she says. It's like a laser beam
S2: focused on that issue.
S3: Absolutely.
S2: And then that laser beam communication comes back. There's a
S2: level of intent that goes there that's really beautiful. And
S2: the evidence is replete. I don't care if we're in
S2: Joel two. I don't care if we're in Nehemiah one
S2: as we're going to see tomorrow. Nehemiah nine, you you've
S2: got this. Let's just take it for what it is.
S2: The greats of faith, including Jesus, prayed and fasted when
S2: they were up against stuff.
S4: And you mentioned that your wife talked about the intent,
S4: the focused intent, and I think also the intensity. I mean,
S4: part of the call, I never thought about it until
S4: you just were talking about it right now. But our
S4: call to help bear one another's burdens. Maybe fasting is
S4: part of the way we help bear the burdens of
S4: other people.
S8: Boom!
S2: And there's something beautiful about this, because in In Prayer
S2: at the end of the day is not so much
S2: about what it does in the spiritual realm as much
S2: as what it does in the spiritual realm inside of me.
S2: And it tunes our hearts and ears to things that
S2: we otherwise might not hear. So just a quick word
S2: here today. One of the huge rewards of fasting is
S2: we hear from God. Counsel from him about what to
S2: go do. And the beautiful thing with that is that
S2: I don't know if anyone's like me, but we sometimes
S2: head out doing a lot of stuff, looking back, going,
S2: that wasn't the doing that God had me do. Yeah,
S2: that was the doing that I had me do. And
S2: fasting can be that you're right. Laser intensity with God
S2: that allows us to hear his voice. So I don't
S2: know where your heart is broken for someone else, but
S2: skip a meal and pray today.