As we continue our week on Seeking God, today we're exploring what it means to seek

God through fasting.

This may be a new or even unpleasant topic for some, but my hope is that you'll be energized

and encouraged toward the act of fasting today.

There's a power in surrender and self-sacrifice for the sake of more of God, and I pray that

you experience that power as you learn more about this important tool, God's given us

to seek Him.

I'd encourage you to open your heart today in full surrender to anything that the Spirit

might speak.

Welcome to the 1st of Teen Podcast.

Our verse for today comes from Ezra 823 in Reads.

So we fasted and implored our God for this, and He listened to our Entry-D.

In His book A Hunger for God, John Piper writes,

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not

because you have drunk deeply in your satisfied.

It's because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world.

Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there's no room for the great.

Fasting is a powerful tool for placing anything that entangles us to the depravity and longings

of this world in proper perspective.

It builds for us a seat at the table of God, where we can drink deeply of the wonders

and satisfaction found and restored relationship with our Heavenly Father.

May the Lord reveal to you the places in your heart which need to be realigned as we look

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