These leaders at the church were so hungry for leadership from God and from the Holy Spirit,

so hungry for a breakthrough and an opening of the door and a knocking down of obstacles

to ministry that they didn't want to express their desire only with

their lips and with their mouth and with their heart but with their stomachs that's what

fasting is fasting is an expression of longing to god with your hunger hi i'm your host, Dan Kroover.

How does God lead his people when the path forward isn't clear?

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper opens Acts 13, verses 1 to 4 to show how prayer, worship, and fasting opened the door to spirit-led guidance the early church could have never foreseen.

This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on January 1st, 1995.

Saul and Barnabas and the other teachers and prophets are gathered there, and it says in verse 2,

they were ministering to the Lord, or you could say, worshipping and fasting.

Verse two, they're fasting.

Now, judging by what the Holy Spirit does at that moment, that morning or afternoon or whenever it was,

judging by what he does, I think we can infer that the burden that drove them to fast were questions like

this.

What's the next move at Antioch, God?

What's the next step in the ministry at Antioch?

What should we do?

What's the meaning of this church?

What's the strategic role of antioch in the kingdom lord

i think that's what they were saying in this fast because of what the holy spirit then broke in

and did and said these leaders at the church were so hungry for leadership from God and from the Holy Spirit,

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