This is the greatest hour to follow Jesus.

Okay, we're going to continue in the teaching that is called Friends of the Bridegroom.

Friends of the Bridegroom.

I don't have time to review this morning.

You'll be able to go back soon and watch the teaching from last week.

But let me just give you a very general overview. Salvation is a free

gift, friendship is not. Friendship requires trust and friendship is costly. Salvation is free.

But learning to walk with the Lord will cost you something, I promise you. It just will.

And once you discover friendship in the Lord, you realize that any price you pay pales in

comparison to the beauty of his touch. I remember going on a 40-day fast. I used to do maybe two or three a year at one point until I couldn't think.

And that wasn't probably the most present husband because I couldn't even hear what Jess

would say on day 30s.

She'd be like, can you grab that?

Huh? Can you go do that what so it's just so weak in me

it became hard to travel but it was glorious and what I've discovered that typically come like

day 35 or 40 or maybe like day 41 when I just come off the fast, the Lord would do something glorious,

whether in prayer or worship or the scriptures or I'd have a dream or something beautiful that changed my life.

And to be honest, I remember most of those experiences with the Lord 15 years later that would happen on those fast. They were really

marking. But one of the things I learned was that the moment you're in that experience with the

Lord, you actually forget about your fast. And you forget about the hours in prayer. And I think

what I would love to see change is that we stop looking at prayer as the price

for something better.

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