Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him.

Favorites, my name is Hank Smith. I'm here with my favorite friend, John, by the way.

Hello, John, by the way.

Thank. Is that like a BFF or just a FF favorite friend?

Yeah, you're my favorite friends.

Well, today, John, we are doing follow him favorites.

And you know how this works.

We take a question from this week's lesson and we answer that question.

This comes from the book of Esther.

When she is in real trouble, she calls on the Jews to fast for her.

And I think a common question we might get from students or our own children is dad.

Why do I fast? So, John, when your kids come to you and they say, Dad, why do we fast?

What do you say? What do you tell them?

You know, fasting is one of those things where it's a good opportunity to teach.

We have a body and we have a spirit.

And that one of the purposes of life is to get our spirit to be in charge of our body.

So Jesus said things like this spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Which one is stronger? The appetites that come with having a body or is our spirit able to govern our body?

And I feel like that's one of the reasons that we have a life.

So usually I try to explain it that way.

Let's see if we can have our spirit be in charge of our body for a while.

That will teach us something about making our spirit stronger.

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