Welcome to Vlad's Subject podcast.

Our mission at Vladimir Subject Ministries is to reach the world globally and disciple them digitally.

Let's dive into this episode.

First of all, thank you for having me on your stream. Thank you for honoring me as a friend. You know, I honor you as my friend, as my pastor.

And I love doing God's work together, always striving to be as close as possible to Jesus

and doing the best we can in the ministry.

And so pardon me for my voice, still recovering a little bit

from the conference and caught something a little bit. But God is good. Thank you for having me again.

For me, fasting was always a, it was always a tool to get, to get closer to

get closer to God. Every time I felt disconnected from God or I felt like there was an obstacle or I felt like I couldn't

break through spiritually or I couldn't connect with God.

It was almost kind of like a, the only thing that I would know how to get back that, clear

that channel and get back to, to that intimacy with God was too fast after trying a few

few other things maybe changing the routine or you know trying to persevere push through a little

bit more in pray and when I would have a hard time getting through or breaking through,

I was kind of always revert to fast. And my fasts were always, okay, always is a, is a strong statement.

Most of my fasts were focused on my relationship with God.

Not really going after a certain thing or an answer or seeking breakthrough in specific

area of my life, even though breakthroughs and answers followed that. But that was, most of my

fast, that was motivating factor was my, my relationship with God. And a lot of times I felt stuck

or I felt depressed or oppressed or I felt like there was a link that was broken or I felt like the

Lord had more for me in my relationship with God and the desperation and a desire to

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