1 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I'm so glad you were 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: watching Real America's Voice, and I want to encourage you 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: today to know that normally, I know you're used to 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: seeing the news being broadcast twenty four hours a day 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: all over the world, but the founder of this network 6 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: wanted to take some time on this Sunday and bring 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: some good news to all the other news. What you 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: do with the next few moments can affect the years 9 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: ahead of your life. Selene in listen to this message. 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: I believe it's going to speak to you, and you're 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: going to encounter a God who loves you and cares 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: about you this very moment. If you have your Bibles, 13 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: I want you to open them with me to the 14 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: Book of Deuteronomy, chapter eighteen. Deuteronomy chapter eighteen. And as 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: you know, this is the annual fast that whereupon it 16 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: begins today. It's an amazing thing that God has done 17 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: in our lifetime to awaken many, many, many people in 18 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: the Body of Christ and many many churches to fast 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: and pray early in the new year. Seek first the Kingdom. 20 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: Make sure that you shake yourself a little bit spiritually 21 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: in the new year, that you dare not just join 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: a fast because it's the tradition of our church. It'll 23 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: do you no good. I do this because I am 24 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: desperate for God. I have done this now for thirty 25 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: plus years. And when we started, we started, Teresa and 26 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: I with nothing much of our own. But we knew 27 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: to fast and to pray and to seek God. And 28 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: as we sought him, he would guide us and he 29 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: would lead us. 30 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: This is my time not to work harder. 31 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 1: These twenty one days are me saying I am weak 32 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: and you are strong. I Without you, I can do nothing. 33 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: And it's a powerful thing when you humble yourself in 34 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: fasting in prayer. You cannot humble yourself in prayer. 35 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 2: And God not exalt you. It is impossible. 36 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: You cannot humble yourself in fasting and seeking God with 37 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: all of your heart and God not exalt you. It 38 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: would be unbiblical for that to happen if you humble yourself. 39 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: In Psalms thirty five says we humbled ourselves with fasting, 40 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: So fasting is it's a manifestation of humility that says 41 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: I desperately need you. 42 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: I dare not go into this new year thinking. 43 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: My brillands, my talent, my gifting, my career skills are enough. 44 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 2: I dare not do that. You can if you want to. 45 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: I'm terrified to try to do this without God. I 46 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: desperately need him. That's why I'm so desperate to do it. 47 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: And it is a powerful thing. When you begin to fast. 48 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: I want to challenge you to join us. If you've 49 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: never fasted, don't be intimidated, don't be afraid. If you're 50 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: an elder, or if you are physically challenged in some 51 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: areas and you're not able, you figure out your own 52 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: fast and what you're going to do, and God will 53 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: honor that. 54 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: We've got you covered. We've got you covered. 55 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: If you're going through treatments and all kinds of things 56 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: with medication, we've got you covered. You're part of this 57 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: church and we've got you covered. And if you're watching 58 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: or wherever you are, one of the things that I 59 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: want you to do is saturate yourself. And not only 60 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: are we going to be fasting, I think it's important 61 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: to have an accountability. 62 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 2: Partner on a fast. 63 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: In other words, go on and commit, go on and 64 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: say I'm going to do this, and here's what I'm 65 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: going to do, and don't make up your mind later, 66 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: because your mind will tell you this is stupid. Forget it, 67 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: don't do it, and bel out right now. It makes 68 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: no difference. He tells me that. And I've done this 69 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: for over thirty years. I know what I'm talking about. 70 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: But there is a real battle going on in the 71 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: unseen world. When you're fasting and praying, there is a 72 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: real battle going on. You get God's attention, you get 73 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: Angel's attention, and you get demon's attention. It's very real 74 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: and it's very powerful. And you will go where you 75 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: would not go without fasting and prayer when you open 76 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: your life to this message. 77 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 2: And I have a. 78 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: Pastor friend and we kind of challenge each other and 79 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: on a fast every year and by that And the 80 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: only reason we do that is it just strengthens us 81 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: to know somebody's doing what we're doing, and so we're 82 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: And I don't say this in any way to boast. 83 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: God knows my heart and motive. I say it as motivation. 84 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: I feel like, sometimes if you're not careful, you'll make 85 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: the fast about food. You'll make the fast about yourself, 86 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: your feelings, your emotions. I think I feel I won't 87 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: And you've got to get beyond that. It's possible to 88 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: fast and get and not received because you're not in 89 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: it right. 90 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 2: Feel it, feel the hunger, get in it. 91 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 1: Quit worrying about food, Quit worrying about the next meal, 92 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: Quit worrying about all of that. Put all of that 93 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: aside and say, I, this is not about me. It's 94 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: not about food, what I can eat, I can't eat. 95 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: It's about you. I'm coming after you. I'm desperate for you. 96 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: I can't stand another year without you. I need you 97 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: in my life, I need you in my family, I 98 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: need you in my everything. I'm so desperate for you. 99 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: Now that's got to be your heart in this. It's 100 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: got to be your heart. And if you do that, 101 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 1: and it's okay, You're You're, You're, You're gonna be okay 102 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: if you fast. I remember, my sister Jill told me 103 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: the story, uh, during the fast. They've been here about 104 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: as long as we have, her and her family, and 105 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 1: she's got a bunch of kids, her and her husband Larry, 106 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: and they've been here forever, and their kids were smaller, 107 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: and the culture of this church this time of the 108 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: years talking about fasting and prayer, and so it was 109 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: going everybody was fast and praying, and so the kids, 110 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: even one of the one of the boys of my girl, 111 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: my sister Jill, she said her her son said, I'm 112 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: going to fast. My xbox is just a little kid, 113 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: and and she loved that. And so the little sister 114 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: felt a little pressure about it. 115 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 2: I think she was five years old. His the little girl. 116 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: That Jill has had, and she said, came to her 117 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: mother and she said, Mama, she said, I'm gonna I'm 118 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: going to fast. 119 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 2: And she said, well, well, what are you going to fast? 120 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: Baby, And she said, well, well, she said, I'm going 121 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: to fast. 122 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 2: I tell you what I'm going to fast. 123 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: She said, I think I'm going to asked my Barbie dolls, 124 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: because she had just got some Barbie dolls for Christmas, 125 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: and she said, I'm not gonna play with them for 126 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: twenty one days. And she sat around for about twenty 127 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: minutes and she came back. She said, this is crazy. 128 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: I'm playing with my baby doll. Now, this is what 129 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: you go through when you fast. You laugh, but you 130 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: won't be laughing six hours from now. You'll be wanting 131 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: your Barbie dolls. And so she said, baby, that's okay, 132 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: go ahead and Jill. You know, she had I think 133 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: four kids at the time, and she was and she 134 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: was fixing the meal and she was fasting, doing a 135 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: total fast, and so she was fixing chicken fingers and 136 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: all the trimmings and she fixed it and they ate 137 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: and her little daughter spoke up after she ate Nate Nate. 138 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: Jill said, it smelled so good, and she said. She said, Mama, 139 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna fast food now. 140 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: And she said, no, baby, you can't. You said, on 141 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: a full stomach, you can't, You know, Mama, she said, 142 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: She said, baby, you can't. You're too young, you a 143 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: little bit. How about this, She said, what do you 144 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: think baby, if you fasted candy and cake and cookies 145 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: and no cookies for twenty one days? And she said, 146 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: that's insane. There's no way I'm doing that. 147 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 2: No way. 148 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: So she went off and came back about thirty minutes 149 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: later and she said, Mom, I know what I'm going 150 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: to fast, dead serious, said what are you going to fast? 151 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: She said, I'm going to fast cigarettes. So determine what 152 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: you're going to fast. The Daniel Fast is a partial fast, 153 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: but I want to encourage you to just be led 154 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Some of you may want to 155 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: do a one meal so up sundown to get into 156 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: that Daniel fast. Do that for two or three days. 157 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: Some of you may want to do a total fast. 158 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: My friend and I were going seven days this is 159 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: and we're just doing water and I drink coffee in 160 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: the morning. 161 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 2: Well you say, well, I don't agree with that. 162 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: It's not your fast, and I don't fast, and you 163 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: know through legalism, I fast through grace and for me, 164 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: I need my coffee. I need something warm. And the 165 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: funny thing is, in a few days, I won't have 166 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: a I won't want it. I won't want it, but 167 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: I want it and I need it. And I don't 168 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: care what you think. I don't. I'm not fasting for you. 169 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 2: I am not. You're not worth that. No, I'm kude. 170 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: I am fastening for you actually, but not in that way, 171 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: not to be seen or impressed. It's very important that 172 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: you not get super spiritual walker like you're something special 173 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: because you're fasting. It actually ought to give you a 174 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: burden for people. And I'm going to preach in just 175 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: a minute. I'm not going to preach along. But one 176 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: of the other things that I felt led to say 177 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: to you on this fast, I felt the need to 178 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: do the seven days because I want to feel the 179 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: weightiness of it again, and you will certainly on the 180 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: twenty one day. It is the Daniel is a it's 181 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: a taxing, it's a long term thing that really wears 182 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: you down a little bit. And that's part of it. 183 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: I'm just being honest. There is nothing pleasant about it. 184 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: There's nothing enjoyable about fasting other than the great, great 185 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: presence of God that will come. I feel him here now, 186 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: I do. It's not emotions either. He is drawn to sacrifice. 187 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: That's it. Now. I want to challenge this church to 188 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: do something that I don't think we've ever said we 189 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:07,599 Speaker 1: were going to do. 190 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 2: Together with the twenty one. 191 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: Day fast, I want you to go back to your 192 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: Bibles and for twenty one days, if you will read 193 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: nine chapters a day, just nine chapters a day, you 194 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: can read the entire New Testament, the entire New Testament 195 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: in twenty one days. And so I want every one 196 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: of us to get on tracks starting today and read 197 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: nine chapters of the Bible to take you if you 198 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: read it slow and easy, and get you a notepad 199 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: or something and write down the verses that really speak 200 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: to you, and you will be amazed your journey, you know, 201 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: kind of journaling your fast, and God will use those 202 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: verses magnificently. He will give you things and you won't 203 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: may not even know why that verse so speaks to you, 204 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 1: but write it down and keep up that. Take your time. Everybody, 205 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: say nine chapters a day and you'll read through the 206 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: entire New Testament. And I'm gonna hold you accountable. I'm 207 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 1: your accountable buddy. Okay, I'm gonna ask you turn. How 208 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: many of you will join me on the twenty one 209 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: day fast and read your Bible every day, nine chapters 210 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: every day. 211 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: Let me see your hand. 212 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: This is powerful because when you saturate your spirit in 213 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: the word of God. Remember what Jesus said the replacement 214 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: of food was man shall not live by bread alone, 215 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: but by every word. This is so critical to the fast, 216 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 217 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: So every one of us raise your hands again. If 218 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna read, put your hand down a minute. Because 219 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: a lot of people say I'm gonna read all the 220 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: way through the Bible. You'll never read through the whole 221 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: Bible until you set a time a day, and then 222 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: you get accountable to something. 223 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 2: That's why this is so powerful. 224 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: If we do this, I know what's going to happen 225 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: in this congregation because when you read the Word, you're 226 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: saturating your spirit person with the anointing. The word is cleansing, 227 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: The Word is anointing. The Word is revelatory. The Word 228 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: will speak, it will come alive, it will talk to 229 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: you about things you are asking God's help in you 230 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: watch what I tell you, but you. 231 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 2: Got to read it. 232 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: And it's so. The devil does not want you to 233 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: read the Word while you fast. He wants you to 234 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: focus on food. And that's stupid. That does you no good. 235 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: So let's do this. Are you all ready to do this? 236 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: Are you ready to do this? 237 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 2: Deuteronomy eighteen. 238 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: The priests, the Levites, the tribe of Levi, shall have 239 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: no part nor inheritance with Israel, nor shall they eat 240 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: the offerings of the Lord made by fire in his portion. 241 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: Therefore they shall have no inheritance among the brethren. The 242 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: Lord is the inheritance. The Lord is their inheritance, as 243 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: he said to them verse three. And this shall be 244 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: the priests do from the people this is what the 245 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: people are to bring to the High Priest when they 246 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: bring their sacrifice. Sacrifice is a major part. All we 247 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: hear about is grace today, and I believe I'm a 248 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: grace preacher. I believe in grace. But there is something 249 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: that God says about sacrifice. I never outgrow it. I 250 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: never ever need to lose sacrifice in my walk with God. 251 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 2: And listen to what he says. 252 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: Tell the people to bring and offer a sacrifice, which 253 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: is a bull or a sheep, and they shall give 254 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. I 255 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: want to preach today on fasting to unburden your soul. 256 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: Fasting to unburden your soul. Jesus Christ was our High 257 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: priest under the New Covenant, that's the Old Covenant and 258 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: the Old Covenant. When the families came once a year, 259 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: they brought a bull or a lamb, whatever they could afford, 260 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: and God gave specific instructions to let the lamb be sacrificed. 261 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: But I want you to take a portion of that lamb. 262 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: Take the shoulder, take the cheek, and take the take 263 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: the stomach, and give that to the priest as his inheritance. 264 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: That's what he will live off of and what he 265 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: will have. And it's a strange test, and yet it 266 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: speaks some profound truth about what can happen when we fast, 267 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: because Jesus is our high priest, and he's saying to us, 268 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: on this fast, I want you to bring me your shoulders. 269 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 2: Shoulders speak of burdens. 270 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: I want you to bring me your cheek and I'll 271 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: explain what that represents. 272 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,360 Speaker 2: And I want you to bring me your stomach. 273 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: So the shoulder deals with the burdens of life, the 274 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 1: daily pressures, the worry, the fear. It's what we carry 275 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: the heaviness with. It's the heaviness of life, the burdens 276 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: of life, the things that are missing in our life, 277 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,959 Speaker 1: and the questions and the hardships and the trials and 278 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: the tough seasons that we walk through. He says, if 279 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: you are coming to your high Priest, Jesus Christ, which 280 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: is a type of this, bring me your burdens, bring 281 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: me your shoulders on this fast, bring me your heavy, 282 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: heavy situations. Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to 283 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: welcome you to Real America's voice. There's something that's going 284 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: to happen. 285 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: I believe. 286 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: As you watch this program, lean in, listen, and let's 287 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:35,959 Speaker 1: see what God can do in your life. The Bible 288 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: said in Matthew twenty three that they bind heavy burdens 289 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: and place them on men's shoulders. What is that talking about. 290 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: It's talking about the burdens of life that people that 291 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: they can get burdened down with things. And what fasting 292 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: is bringing your burdens to the Lord's transferring from off 293 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,479 Speaker 1: of your shoulder. All of the things that are heavy 294 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: to you, that are tough for you, that are worrisome 295 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: and fearful for you, get it off of your shoulder, 296 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: bring him your shoulder on this fast and say, Lord, 297 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to wait on you, I'm going to look 298 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: to you, I'm going to cast And this is the 299 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: great verse, this is the great promise. He said, cast 300 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 1: all your cares. 301 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 2: On him, for he loves you. 302 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: And he said, my yoke is easy and my burden 303 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: is light. So cast all cast, All come unto me, 304 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 1: All you who are weary, all of you who are heavy, 305 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: all of you who've been through stuff, and it's so heavy, 306 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: and some of you are carrying burdens. Just leave that 307 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: up a moment you're carrying burdens for your children, and 308 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: you're carrying burdens in your life, and you're caring burdens. 309 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: Can health burdens and financial burdens come unto me? This 310 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 1: is God's invitation. I don't want you to care. I 311 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: don't want you to work harder. I don't want you 312 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: to try harder to fix it. I don't want you 313 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: to do I want you to bring the heavy burdens. 314 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: Bring it to me. The stuff you cry about, the 315 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: stuff you worry about. Bring it to me, all you 316 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: who are laboring and heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. 317 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 1: Take my yoke, learn from me. I'm gentle in heart. 318 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: You will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy. 319 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: My burden is like, bring me your shoulder, Bring it 320 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: to me. I'll take the burden off of you. And yes, 321 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: you'll still have the issue, but I'm going to work 322 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 1: on it. I can fix it, I can carry it. 323 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: I can do it. You can't now. Right along with 324 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 1: this shoulder and burden process is the promise of the 325 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: fasting chapter. In Isaiah fifty eight, he says that when 326 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: you fast, is not this the fast that I've chosen? 327 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 1: And it goes on to say that you will, on 328 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: this fast loose the bonds of wickedness. You will undo 329 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: heavy burdens when you fast. I want you to come 330 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: to me and I want you to bring those heavy burdens. 331 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: And when you fast, you're gonna unload. You're gonna give 332 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: me the shoulder that's been carrying all this stuff. And 333 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna let the oppress go free, and I'm going 334 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: to break every yoke and I'm gonna lift the heaviness 335 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: off of you. 336 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 2: And you're gonna smile again, and you're gonna. 337 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: Have faith again, and you're not gonna let the trials 338 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: of life just oppress you and beat you down. But 339 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: I want you to bring the shoulder, bring the burdens, 340 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: bring the heaviness, because I can take it. I can 341 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: carry it. Sometimes we think that, you know, when we 342 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: go into a new year, we just are supposed to 343 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: bring the same old stuff. But I feel like God 344 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: is trying to say to us today, on this fast, 345 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: don't go into the new year with last year's burdens. 346 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: Let it go, leave it there, lay it down. On 347 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: this fast, say I'm just not gonna go around like 348 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: this the rest of my life. How many of your 349 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: burden for your children? How many of your burden for 350 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: your grandchildren? Let me see your hand, how many of 351 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: your burden about situations? 352 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 2: And you think about them all the time? 353 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: Could we give him our shoulder? And he just gave 354 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: you the promise that if you do it in fasting, 355 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: I will break the oppression. I will lift and undo 356 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: the heavy burdens that's been on you. Hallelujah. Galatians six 357 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: and two said bear one another's burdens. And if you're 358 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: carrying a heavy burden, I want you to know Jesus 359 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: carried the cross, and the scripture said when the burden 360 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: got so heavy of the cross that he broke and 361 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: he fell under the weight, Simon Sirene was there to 362 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: help him pick up his cross. And on this fast 363 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: we are joining our fast us in our faith with 364 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 1: you to say you don't have to bear your burden alone, 365 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna help you carry it. And we are 366 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: all do this together, and together we will see our 367 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: High Priest King Jesus defeate. 368 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 2: It all at the Cross of Calvary. 369 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: If you believe it's say a man somebody, I need 370 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: you to praise him just a minute that burdens, that 371 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: burdens are going to lift. I want somebody to praise 372 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: God that heavy burdens of oppression, of mental oppression can 373 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: come off of you in Jesus, somebody name Honelujah. And 374 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:55,360 Speaker 1: then he said, you know, just give me the shoulder, 375 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 1: the burden of guilt, the burden of shame and of condemnation. 376 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: Just let me carry give me your heavy burdens as 377 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: you fast. 378 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 2: Secondly, bring the cheek. Well, what is that about? 379 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: That speaks of offense, that speaks of being offended? Because 380 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: the Bible said in Luke, chapter six and verse twenty nine, 381 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: if someone slaps you on the cheek, offer the other one. 382 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: And from him who takes away your cloak, do not 383 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: withhold your tunic either. But he said to him who 384 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: strikes you on the cheek, offer the other. Also turn 385 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 1: the other cheek. And so what that's speaking of. If 386 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: somebody strikes you, they hurt you, they hit you, they 387 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 1: offend you, and it makes your face turn in the 388 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: opposite direction that you were folk in going. And the 389 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: attempt of offense when it strikes is to turn you 390 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,679 Speaker 1: in another direction, in a direction of bitterness, in a 391 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 1: direction of unforgiveness. In a direction of filthiness of the spirit, 392 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: where you become an angry, bitter person. And God says, 393 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: I want you to bring me your offenses on this fast. 394 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: I want you to bring me the wounds and the 395 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: hurts and the hits that people have done to you, 396 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: the injustices. I want you to quit trying to fight it. 397 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: And all you're doing in being ugly about it is 398 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 1: being more bitter yourself. You're getting more bitter yourself. The 399 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: only answer is to get somewhere with God and pray 400 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: and read your Bible and be cleanse and be freed 401 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: from all of that, and say, I am not too proud, 402 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: Oh God, to say, turn me back in the right direction. 403 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: I was offended and I don't want to go down 404 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 1: that road. 405 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 2: I want to go. 406 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: More toward forgiveness. And you and your promise, that's the 407 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: power of fasting. You say, well, I'm just not there yet. 408 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: Gone this fast. God'll get you there. God will break 409 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: you up. God will get you. 410 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 2: His presence will mean more to you than your offense. 411 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: His presence You'll hear a song or something, something will happen, 412 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: and suddenly you'll forget about You feel like you've gone 413 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: a million miles away from all that stuff that was 414 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: occupying your mind. Just remember Isaiah fifty and verse six. 415 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 1: Make the decision to forgive your last year slap. If 416 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: you got slapped last year, emotionally, let it go. Let 417 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: it go on this fast. Refuse to hate and be 418 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: embittered against anyone in the name of Jesus Church. This 419 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: is the gospel. This is what holds us up. This 420 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: is what spoils the harvest. This is what destroys the 421 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: souls of people. You cannot let that stuff accumulate and 422 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: build inside of you if you don't empty it out, 423 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: if you don't come all along. That's why this is 424 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: so powerful, Because if you've drifted off in your attitude 425 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: and in your actions and in your soul, this fast 426 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: will bring you back to the point that, Hey, I've 427 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: forgiven you of millions of things in your word. About 428 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: that one little fence that they did, You forget about them, 429 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: and you get your eyes back on the cross and 430 00:27:48,440 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: the blood. Oh. I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to 431 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: welcome you to real America's voice. If you'll give me 432 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: the next few moments and listen, you're going to have 433 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: the opportunity. 434 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 2: I believe to. 435 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 3: Have a moment that can change your life. 436 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: Isaiah fifty and six said, thousands of years before Christ 437 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: would go to the cross, the prophet saw the Messiah, 438 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: and he said, he will give his back to plowing, 439 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: and his cheeks will be spit upon, and the hair 440 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: plucked from his cheeks. 441 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 2: My cheeks to those. 442 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: He gave. In other words, he's saying, I paid the 443 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 1: price for when someone stripes you and offends you, and 444 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: I want you to bring that to me on this fast, 445 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: bring your heavy burdens. 446 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 2: And lastly, and you know when. 447 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: They did that to Jesus, when they plowed his back, 448 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: and when they nailed him to the cross, and when 449 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: they pulled his beard, he didn't get offended at him. 450 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: That's when he prayed, Father, forgive them. They know not 451 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: what they do, and that's what tore the veil down. Hallelujah. 452 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: When you release forgiveness, it'll tear the veil between earth 453 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: and heaven. And suddenly you'll feel God's presence and you'll 454 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: feel joy, and you'll feel faith for that situation. Hallelujah. 455 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 1: And lastly, give him your stomach. What is that about 456 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: when you come to the high Priest. Give him your shoulder, 457 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: your burdens, give him your cheek, your offenses, your hurts, 458 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: your wounds, your pains. Give it to him. But then 459 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: give him your stomach. Give him those wrong appetites, give 460 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: him your appetites. 461 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 2: He speaks of our appetites. 462 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: It speaks of giving on these twenty one days to 463 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: God everything in us that is that we've just picked up. 464 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you this is why it's so necessary 465 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: to go on a fast, because you don't realize how 466 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: far you can. I promise you, if you go on 467 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: this fast, that you will look back in a few 468 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: days and you will say, I can't. 469 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 2: Believe how far I drifted. 470 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: Your stomach speaks of your appetites, and you have to 471 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: It speaks of your flesh. It speaks of. 472 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 2: The human part of you. 473 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: That are you going to be dominated by the flesh 474 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: or are you going to be walking in the spirit. 475 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: And that's why we come and we say, on these 476 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: twenty one days, God, I give you my stomach. I 477 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: give you this hunger. I have this hunger for you. 478 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: I am not satisfied with other things. I hunger for you. 479 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: I thirst for you. And blessed are they that hunger 480 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: and thirst for they shall be filled. 481 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 2: I give you my stomach. 482 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: I don't want anything in my life to keep me 483 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: from the call of God. I don't want to pick 484 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: up anything now in my life that is not from you. 485 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: I want you to empty out my stomach so that 486 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: out of my belly will float rivers of living water. 487 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: In this spakey of the Holy Spirit. You need to 488 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: be clean, You need to take the trash out. You 489 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: need to get renewed in your stomach for the appetites 490 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: that are not pleasing to the Lord. Man shall not 491 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: live by bread alone. But I need God to fill 492 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: me up with his word, and fill me up with 493 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: his calling, and fill. 494 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 2: Me up with his purpose. 495 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: I'm telling you today that there is a powerful scripture 496 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: that says in Psalms one O six that He gave 497 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: them their request, but sent them leanness of soul. And 498 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: what happens is we get so into stuff. Don't hunger 499 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: for a bigger house. Seek first the Kingdom, and He'll 500 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: add everything to you that you need, and many times 501 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 1: even that you won't. He is a good God. He'll 502 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: withhold no good thing from them who walk up rightly. 503 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: But you have to have seasons, and a lot of 504 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: people they get more, and they get more. Throw that 505 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: verse up, and he gave them their request. This is 506 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: what happens. We get more, we get more, we get more, 507 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: but we don't hunger for him anymore. Our contentment is 508 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,719 Speaker 1: in things, and it's temporal and it will not last. 509 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: And if you don't feed that spiritual hunger with something 510 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: that is spiritual, you'll try to replace it with more stuff, 511 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 1: and ultimately it will lead you to leanness of soul. 512 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: That's why I'm bringing him my stomach. 513 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 2: On this fast. 514 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying, I don't want any appetites in my life. 515 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 2: That you can't satis spy in your word. 516 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:09,160 Speaker 1: I want it your way, I want your plan, I 517 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 1: want your will. As we for these twenty one days 518 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: read nine chapters a day of this book, we're giving 519 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: in our stomach. We're replacing our hunger for things, and 520 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: we're saying, I am early in the new year. 521 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 2: I'm turning back to you. 522 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,839 Speaker 1: I'm taking all the burdens and I'm putting them on you. 523 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: I'm taking all of the offenses and the hurts, and 524 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm asking you to rip them out of me and 525 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: give me joy. Unspeakable and full of glory. 526 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 2: I lay it down on the. 527 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: Altar and God, here's my stomach. Here it is. I 528 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: empty myself out so you can fill me up. 529 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 2: On one of the. 530 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:11,720 Speaker 1: Fast, Courtney had invited her husband, Tyler's cousin to come 531 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: and back then we had Wednesday night services and it 532 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,319 Speaker 1: was on a Wednesday night and he came in and 533 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: he set up in one of these sections in the 534 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: balcony up there on a Wednesday night and kind of 535 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: snuck in and just set up there, and he was 536 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,440 Speaker 1: sitting there in the spirit of God. It was during 537 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: the twenty one day Fast, and it's one of those 538 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,720 Speaker 1: Wednesday nights when the presence of God just filled this place. 539 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,360 Speaker 2: It's his strong move of God. 540 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: And he text her in the middle of the service 541 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: at the end of it, actually in the middle of 542 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: the worship time, and he said, something has happened to me. 543 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 2: God, I feel God moving in my life. And then 544 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 2: he said these words to her. 545 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 1: He said, I've got to get back into the Bible. 546 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:12,840 Speaker 1: I've got to start reading my Bible. And he had 547 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: taken two thousand dollars cash that he had made six 548 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,760 Speaker 1: months before, and I don't know what kind of characters 549 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,319 Speaker 1: he had hanging around his house, but he didn't trust them, 550 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 1: and he thought to himself he had to do it quick. 551 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna hide this money somewhere where nobody will find 552 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: my cash and steal it. And he had hid it 553 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: in his bible. And then he got busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, 554 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 1: and forgot about it completely, forgot about two thousand dollars cash. 555 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 1: And he even called Courtney and her husband and said, 556 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,480 Speaker 1: y'all got to help me search this house. And they 557 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 1: searched this house and they looked, and she helped them, 558 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 1: and he and then Tyler helped. They look. They could 559 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 1: not find it anywhere for months and months and months. 560 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: He went home that Wednesday night after being in a service, 561 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:14,240 Speaker 1: and he. 562 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,760 Speaker 2: Said, I got to get back to read my bible. 563 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: Open the Bible, and there was the two thousand dollars. 564 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Speaker 2: Wonder what treasures a waiting. 565 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: When you go back and open the Bible and empty 566 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:43,640 Speaker 1: your stomach and say, Bread of Heaven, feed me till. 567 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 2: I want no more. 568 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:51,879 Speaker 1: Wonder what blessings and open doors that are on the way. 569 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,560 Speaker 2: If God's people. 570 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: Will humble themselves, he will hear us, He will heal us. 571 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 1: He will help us. Shout Amen, somebody, say on this fast, 572 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna receive God's help. God's gonna hear me when 573 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: I pray, and God's gonna. 574 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 2: Heal every wound, every disease, every hurt. Throw your hands 575 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,399 Speaker 2: up a moment and lift up. 576 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,960 Speaker 1: A worship to God all over this building. Praise in 577 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: just a moment, just a moment, open your mouth and 578 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: thank Him and say, here I am, here, I am Lord, 579 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: Here I am. Here's my body, here's my shoulder, here's 580 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,000 Speaker 1: all the burdens of stuff that I really feel. Look 581 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: up here at a minute. I didn't make that point 582 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,520 Speaker 1: like I really feel it. Because every time at a 583 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 1: new year, I feel this thing of can I do 584 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,239 Speaker 1: this again? Can I do another year? Can we have 585 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 1: another glorious year? And every year this is the honest 586 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,279 Speaker 1: to God truth. God takes it to another level and 587 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,760 Speaker 1: another level and another level. It never has to stop. 588 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,839 Speaker 1: It never has to stop. It's up to us do 589 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:19,279 Speaker 1: we hunger for it? Hello, I'm Jenson Franklin, and I 590 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 1: want to welcome you to Real America's Voice. And maybe 591 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,160 Speaker 1: you've been going through some things and you've had moments 592 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: that have discouraged you, or maybe you just feel like 593 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 1: you've messed up and you can't recover. This message is 594 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: for you. I believe it's going to speak to you 595 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: this very moment. Give him the burdens. I don't want 596 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,040 Speaker 1: none of you to leave here worried about your children 597 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,879 Speaker 1: and your family. Let's give him on this fast. I'm 598 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: giving you Courtney and Carissa and Caroline and Connor and Drake. 599 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,759 Speaker 1: I'm giving you Amelia and Elliott and Luca and Leo 600 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,760 Speaker 1: and Vivian. I'm giving you Jamie. I'm giving you Tyler. 601 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: I've given you Cherise, I've given you Mom. I'm giving 602 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,080 Speaker 1: you my family. I'm unburnt. 603 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,400 Speaker 2: I worry about all of them. If I were to 604 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,719 Speaker 2: be truth, I worry all the time about all of them. 605 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: And the Lord spoke to me and said, you carry 606 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:29,360 Speaker 1: too much. Give be your shoulder, Hai Delujah. 607 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,319 Speaker 2: Do you believe that? 608 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: Do you believe he can help you with that kind 609 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,440 Speaker 1: of stuff that really torments your mind if you let it, 610 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: throw your hands up worshiping with me. Stir it up 611 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,600 Speaker 1: in your heart right now. Give him your belly, Hallelujah. 612 00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,200 Speaker 1: Give him your shoulder, give him your cheek, give him 613 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 1: that offense. Just turn your direction back in the right direction. 614 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,880 Speaker 1: Don't be better, get better, and just say God, I'm 615 00:40:54,920 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 1: gonna do right whether they do or not. Honeylujah, honeylujah. 616 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: Let's stand up on our feet. Can we throw our 617 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,200 Speaker 1: hands up? And can we worship just a few moments? 618 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,960 Speaker 1: Worship goes with fasting. Come on, lift your hands all 619 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,360 Speaker 1: over this room and begin to magnify wherever you're watching this, 620 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,759 Speaker 1: at every campus in Orange County, wherever you are, just 621 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,880 Speaker 1: lift those hands up. Come on, we've got time to 622 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:30,239 Speaker 1: do it. Magnify, Magnify the Lord. Magnify the Lord. Magnify 623 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: the Lord. We bless you, Jesus. 624 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,240 Speaker 2: Everybody's singing. 625 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:55,919 Speaker 1: Come on, let him be lifted up on the spots here. 626 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,920 Speaker 4: I come, Lord, I'm coming after. 627 00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:04,000 Speaker 1: You again, you again. I can't go into another year 628 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,239 Speaker 1: without you, Jesus, I have met I'm weak and you 629 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,840 Speaker 1: are strong, and I need you. 630 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,160 Speaker 4: I want to write spirit, I want to write out 631 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:14,360 Speaker 4: of you. 632 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 1: I'll give you the cheek it's been offended. I give 633 00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:19,960 Speaker 1: you the hurt. 634 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 4: I give you the stomach, the. 635 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:30,360 Speaker 1: Appetites, all of them, lends me, burns me, gift to 636 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,600 Speaker 1: me him. Come on, saying. 637 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:42,960 Speaker 2: We lend you Hi, Jesus. 638 00:42:43,000 --> 00:43:20,520 Speaker 4: You me and said Hi Jesus, Jesus, answer. 639 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,840 Speaker 1: Me, sing Holy, you are. 640 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,000 Speaker 3: You God? 641 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:45,720 Speaker 1: Home work is a lad present your bodies. Isn't living 642 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:52,200 Speaker 1: sacrifice holy and acceptable under God? Which is your reasonable? 643 00:43:52,840 --> 00:44:16,160 Speaker 1: Your sacrifice? Give us your whole body well, with every 644 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:21,720 Speaker 1: hip bowed and every eye closed. If you would say, pastor, 645 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,440 Speaker 1: I just can't. I just can't live another year like 646 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: last year. I need a change. I'm hungry. I'm hungry 647 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,720 Speaker 1: to move forward in my life, and I need some breakthroughs. 648 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,200 Speaker 1: If you would say I'm not living right and I 649 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,799 Speaker 1: know Jesus is not lord of my life, and I 650 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,120 Speaker 1: need to be forgiven and cleansed. On this first Sunday 651 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,360 Speaker 1: of the new year, I want to get right with God. 652 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:55,840 Speaker 2: Twenty five is my year to surrender to Jesus Christ. 653 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,960 Speaker 1: If that's you, If that's you, right where you're standing, 654 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,200 Speaker 1: slip your hand up and say, I need that salvation 655 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:08,240 Speaker 1: from Jesus this year, beautiful, beautiful, raise them high and unashamed, powerful, 656 00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:13,440 Speaker 1: powerful hands all over this building, wonderful at every campus. 657 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,440 Speaker 2: Just raise your hand. The pastors are coming. 658 00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,120 Speaker 1: If you see someone around you with their hand raised 659 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,400 Speaker 1: just keep your hand raised up in the balcony. 660 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:22,840 Speaker 2: Wherever you are. Look around. 661 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,680 Speaker 1: If you see someone with their hand raised, gently put 662 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,240 Speaker 1: your hand. Say I'm gonna help you bear your burden. 663 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you carry I'm gonna get up, I'm 664 00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,239 Speaker 1: gonna give my shoulder to you, and just reach over 665 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,960 Speaker 1: and touch them and pray, and everybody pray this prayer. 666 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:42,120 Speaker 1: Say Jesus, Jesus, I love you, and I surrender my 667 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:42,759 Speaker 1: life to you. 668 00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,040 Speaker 2: I give you all my burdens. 669 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,880 Speaker 1: I give you the burden of shame and sin and condemnation. 670 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,200 Speaker 1: I give it all to you. I cast it all 671 00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:55,400 Speaker 1: on you. And Lord, here is the offenses, and here's 672 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,839 Speaker 1: the hurts. I let it go. And I choose you, 673 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,320 Speaker 1: and I choose love, and I choose forgiveness not hatred. 674 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,759 Speaker 1: And Lord, in the name of Jesus, I give you 675 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,799 Speaker 1: my stomach. I give you my appetites, I give you 676 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:12,520 Speaker 1: my desires. Turn me to you, renew me, restore me, 677 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:17,040 Speaker 1: revive me, save me. Just say it. Jesus washed me, 678 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:26,719 Speaker 1: cleanse me in your blood in Jesus' mighty name. In Jesus' 679 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:31,880 Speaker 1: mighty name, you started the year off with the mightiest 680 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,200 Speaker 1: miracle that can happen. It's called eternal Life and Salvation 681 00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,120 Speaker 1: and it is an absolute miracle.