For some of us, God can't meet the need because we operate in fear and not in faith.

Dr. Tony Evans says we need to move on our belief in Christ.

And when you do it, because it was an act of faith, you will see the hand of God.

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.

We're introduced here to a lady who we've gotten to know over the last year a little bit

intimately, the widow of Zarifath.

Elijah the prophet has been serving God and now he's running from Jezebel.

God lets him know that he's going to take care of the prophet Elijah.

I'm going to take care of you, Elijah.

He tells him, for example, in verse four of 1st King 17, and it shall be that you shall drink on the brook and I have commanded

the ravens to provide for you there. I like that. We haven't even got to the widow of

Zarifat and God already tells you

I get a bird and the birds will cover your back if you're in my will. I have commanded the

ravens to take care of you. That's good news because you never know how God's going to come through.

You don't know through what channel. Sometimes God comes through in the weirdest ways.

You know, he is past finding out. So don't try to speculate on how God's going to do, what God's going to do.

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