I hear it all the time in statements like, well, God expects us to use our common sense.

What they're saying is let's be practical.

Dr. Tony Evans says faith is tested when God's instruction clashes with human logic.

He wants to know, do you have enough confidence in his word to step out on what he says when it's not practical.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives

of Dr. Tony Evans. Do the answers to your deepest needs sometimes feel just out of reach?

Well, today, Dr. Evans offers practical

insights that can help bring them closer as he takes a look at the biblical practice of fasting.

Let's join him as he begins. One of the primary reasons that you ought to fast is that there is

a crisis need in your life or in the life of someone close to you.

Needs come in all shapes and sizes, but when I talk about a need, I'm talking about a crisis

situation where you are in desperate need for God to address an essential need of life.

It's okay to fast for a bigger house or a nicer car, but that's not what I mean when I talk about a crisis.

If you're not walking, you're not in a crisis.

But I'm talking about where you're down to your last dollar.

That's a crisis.

I'm talking about you don't know where your next meal's coming from.

That's a crisis.

I'm talking about you don't know where your next meal's coming from. That's a crisis. I'm talking about you're given a prognosis where there's no hope.

That's a crisis.

There are all kind of crises, and if you don't have one now, wait a while,

because life has its way of dishing out needs things that are the

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