Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.

This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the fasting practice.

Hey, my name is Jomark. Last week we kicked off a brand new practice on fasting. If you were not here, please go back and listen to the podcast.

From here on our teaching will focus on the reasons behind fasting.

And we said last week, there are three basic,

when you kind of summarize it all,

there are three basic reasons for fasting.

One is to starve the flesh and feed the spirit.

Two is to pray and three is to stand in solidarity with the poor.

We covered number one to starve the flesh and note not the body,

if you weren't here, listen to to the podcast but the flesh and feed the

spirit last week and so next up on the docket is to pray go ahead and turn to

acts chapter 13 if you're not there. Anybody ever feel stuck in prayer,

or is that just me?

Anybody ever feel like there is a wall between you and heaven,

and you're not sure if you're the one who put up the wall

or if it was on God's side, and you sit down to pray, and even if you're like far enough now into the way of Jesus that you know you know okay to turn your phone off and all of that put away distraction still there's no on-off switch for your mind and if your mind

is anything like mind either it's like revved up to a hundred miles per hour and

spending out of control like with anxiety and worry and a to-do list and squirrel or it's tired and sluggish

and there's a bit of a fog over the top of it I can't really focus on anything

but the TV screen. Or maybe the problem

you don't feel like it's on your end. Your mind is just fine, but for some reason your

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