Good morning everyone and welcome back to picking up with the Masters.

We're going to devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, indeed. We're picking up with day three of our Start Your Fast,

well-devotional in the Bible

and there's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow

along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture

then towards gonna pick with the devo.

Let's do it.

Also if you miss day one day two go back and listen to those because they're really good but the

scripture is Ezra chapter 8 verses 21 through 23 and they say this and there by

the a-hava canal I gave orders for us all to go fast and humble ourselves before our God.

We pray that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as

we traveled.

For I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to accompany us and protect us from the enemies along the way.

After all, we had told the king, our God's hand of protection is on all who worship him, but his

fierce anger rages against those who abandon him.

So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God will take care of us and he heard our prayer.

The Devotional is titled fasting for more than a day.

And it says this, when we fast and redirect our minds toward God we are given clarity by the

Holy Spirit to recognize our need for God. It is easy to think of fasting as a time when the body is weaker from lack of food.

The truth is that extended periods of fasting make you stronger.

As your body adjusts, you become more spiritually focused. When we focus on God, the battle between your

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