Y'all doing all right? This past week I had a thought about you that I wanted to tell you.

I had this thought while I was starving to death. And the thought is how proud I am of you for pressing in the God.

And how many pastors would be timid about asking their congregation just to have a day of prayer,

not even a day of fasting, just one day of fasting fasting and I've asked you to do 21 days and

and I'm proud of you I am just very very proud of your hunger for God, your pressing into God, your commitment to the kingdom, your love for

people, you are just a great, great congregation. And I just, I want to tell you that as a representative of the father I think I think God's proud of you too for pressing in the God and and I appreciate Are you enjoying the devotional?

That good? And the worship today was even stronger because we're pressing the God.

All of us so when we gather together, this is what we have to look forward to,

just more wonderful times in the presence of God.

All right, turn to Daniel Chapter 10 and Matthew Chapter 6 6 and we're going to continue our series called the battle and

the subtitle is the rules of engagement and there are four rules of engagement we're talking about last week we talked about the principle of the first

about putting God first in every area of your life.

This week we're going to talk about the principle of the fast.

Since we're talking about fasting and we're seven days into it,

and we've got 14 more, we're going to talk about the principle of the fast.

Daniel chapter 10

verse 2. In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks now you know after

a week why he used the word morning.

I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth,

nor did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

I do want to remind you though that we are bathing during these three weeks.

So we're doing the no pleasant food, no meats and no sweets, and I'm going to settle an argument that has been going through the church and as the pastor I feel like I should settle this argument

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