Hey, Upper Room. It's Emily Langford. I'm our marketing manager here and this week, you're going to get to hear a podcast from our founder, senior leader, Michael Miller.

And it's January, no surprise. Everyone is fasting. And I love this message specifically because while Michael is going to call our community

into a fast between now and the rest of January, he also sets us up not just for moments

or seasons of hunger, but actually goes through practicals on living a life of spiritual hunger and really

emphasizing the way to steward ourselves, body, soul, and spirit in such a way that allows

our hunger to be directed toward God and ultimately satisfied by the Lord.

So highly encourage you just to open your heart to receive fresh hunger,

to join us in fasting the rest of January, and then to join us in our NT25 Bible plan,

reading through the New Testament together as a local and global community.

We're on Zoom every Wednesday in January 12 to 1 p.m.

On Wednesdays in English and then Spanish on Thursdays at 6 p.m.

We got fun guests.

They're going to join us as we just dive deeper into what the Lord has for us as a community, 2025.

We invite you to be a part of it. We love you.

If you have your Bibles, Isaiah 58 is where we'll be.

If you know anything about Isaiah 58, it's the most comprehensive chapter on fasting so we're going to talk

about fasting tonight I am calling the upper room community to a fast from January 12th through

January 31st I'll give you more details on that here in just a second. There's

there's actually a QR code. Is it working tonight? There's a QR code behind me.

And this is a fasting resource for you. If you've never fasted before, which again,

I'll give you some just instructions on it. But this is a practical one-sheater on how to fast. I didn't know much

about fasting for about 10 years into my faith. My tradition, we just didn't talk a lot about it.

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