All right, today's episode is inspired by a conversation that I have with my friend Nicole.

At the beginning of the week I was talking to her about some things that she was

you know following up with me and saying like how's this going? How's that going?

And I was like oh you know what

like Neil fasted for us last week and we got the answer that we needed and she

was like have you ever talked about what and I was like she

said you know fasting and tithing and we were talking about these tools that you can

use like literal action items that you can use

to strengthen your faith and your connection with God and I was like, I don't know that we ever have so that is today's topic.

Sure there's somebody that's listening to this calling what is fasting and what is

well yeah fasting I feel like has become kind of pop culture as far as like

Great loss. Yes or even just like a help thing, you know, a fast for, you know, a health purpose or whatever, but, which I think there are health benefits, but the way that we're talking about it is in a spiritual sense in a biblical sense

you know how God uses fasting and tithing to work with his people to accomplish

certain things so this is something that's taught in the Old

Testament and the New Testament. It's not just something particular to our faith, which I

think is cool. We're always really looking for ways that we can unite believers instead of you know have

differences or focus on differences and this friend Nicole that I was talking to is

not a member of our church but she's a Christian and so she knew

that that was a you know staple foundation of our faith and it is of hers too and so

anyway we talked about you, some of the biblical origins of this and it there's so there's an

scripture in Genesis. Blessed be the most high God which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand and he gave him tithes of all.

So in Genesis, you know, very beginning of the Bible, it talks about tithing.

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