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 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

that? And I was like, like, 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, 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 going what is fasting and what is well yeah fasting I feel like

has become kind of pop culture as far as like rate loss yes or even just like a help thing you know 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 and 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 know, some of the biblical origins of this.

And there's, so there's a 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.

And tithing, as we define it, is one-tenth of your increase.

So whatever you are earning, you know, and so not just, I had to learn this when I was kind

of a baby brand new business owner, not just the money that's

coming into the business that then you use to pay for business expenses, but whatever we're

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