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Tony Evans - Isaiah 58 The Fast God Chooses
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I pulled over to the side to try to figure out what in the world is going on here. Everything looked fine to me and my gas tank was full of fuel, but it was obvious something was still not working. So I pulled over to the mechanic at the local station to ask them to please help me figure out why things were not working as they ought to be working. He examined it and he said, "Sir, I think I've found your problem. I've checked your fuel and what you have in your tank is not what the car requires. You've given it something. You've given it a type of fuel that it is not designed to use. And that is causing all of your problems. In Isaiah 58, God's people were concerned that their Christian life was not working, that their spiritual relationship with God was not producing anything. In fact, they say, "Why have we fasted and you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and you do not notice? Behold on the day of your fast, you find your desire and drive hard all your workers. They wanted to know why heaven wasn't coming down and intervening in their circumstance, even though they were fasting. Their fasting is giving up a craving of the physical to gain assistance from the spiritual. And they were doing that. They were having this prayer fasting meeting and nothing was changing." Well, that's when God comes in and he throws a blockbuster curve. A curve we all need to hear and learn if we're going to take seriously getting God into our circumstance personally as families in our churches and most certainly in our nation. If you're going to have a success- Come on over for some supersonic healing where I discuss mental health topics, help support advice and solutions on generations of trauma. That's supersonic healing. Okay, you can do this. I know, I know. Karvana makes it so convenient to sell your car. It's just hard to let go. My car and I have been through so much together. But look, you already have a great offer from Karvana. That was fast. Well, I know my lessons played in my heart and those questions were easy. You're almost there. Now to just accept the offer and schedule a pickup or drop off. How'd you do it? How were you so strong in letting go of your car? Well, I already made up my mind and Karvana is so easy. Yeah, true. And sold. Go to Karvana.com to sell your car the convenient way. It's time for today's Lucky Land Horoscope with Victoria Cash. Life's gotten mundane, so shake up the daily routine and be adventurous with a trip to Lucky Land. You know what they say. Your chance to win starts with a spin. So go to luckylandslots.com to play over 100 social casino-style games for free for your chance to redeem some serious prizes. Get lucky today at luckylandslots.com. No purchase necessary. VGW Group void were prohibited by law. 18 plus terms of condition supply. It's full sacred time with God. Whether individually or a gathering. You need to learn this truth from Isaiah 58. As to why all of our spiritual efforts, including fasting and prayer, many times are not working out at all. Listen to what God says. He says, "It is a fast like the fast which I choose. I don't want the one you're giving me. I want the one that my engine requires. It must be acceptable to me, not just likable to you." He says, "This is the fast which I choose. A day for a man to humble himself. It is the bowing of one's head like a reed and for the spreading out of sackcloth and ashes as a bed." Will you call this a fast, even the acceptable day of the Lord? Is this not the fast which I choose? To loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and to break every yoke. Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house when you see the naked to cover him and not to hide yourself from your old flesh? He tells them something was missing. They wanted a vertical experience with God without a horizontal touch in the lives of others. They wanted God to do something for them while they did nothing for others. They wanted heaven to visit them while there was no touch on earth to improve the lives of others. This is a great truth that you and I need to know. Whenever you go up to bring heaven down, heaven wants to see how you went out to deliver help to others. Over and over and over again in the scriptures, God connects the vertical with the horizontal. That's why Jesus said, "By this shall all men know that you are my disciples." Not that you praise and you pray and you go to church, but that you love one another. There is an impact beyond yourself. You and I get God's attention when we give to others what we ourselves are asking from God. That's why Luke 638 says, "Give and it," that is the thing you give, "will be given back to you." 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Because if you're willing to work to you, but it can also flow through you, that is less interested in working to you because you become a cul-de-sac, you don't become a conduit, you don't become a means through which he can flow through. You just want him to flow too. If you want to get God's attention when you go to God, let me make a recommendation. Tell him what you're going to do for somebody else if he comes through for you. Because now you've got his undivided attention because that's the fast he chooses. That's the gasoline that will make him roll in your life and in your spiritual experience. What will God do when he sees that you've attached the vertical to the horizontal and the horizontal to the vertical? Well, you've touched heaven while wanting to benefit Earth. Listen to what he says in closing. He says, "Then your light will break out like the dawn, and your recovery speedily will spring forth. Your righteousness will go before you and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guide. Then you will call and the Lord will answer. You will cry and he will say, "Here I am." If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will shine in the darkness and your gloom will become midday. And the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places and give strength to your bones. And you will be like a watered garden like a spring of water whose water does not fail. Those from whom it will rebuild the ancient ruins. You will raise up the old foundations. You will be called repairs of the breach, the restores of the streets in which you dwell. Did you get that? If he sees you calling on him while reaching... 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And I want to be a blessing for the blessing that I'm requesting. I want you to flow through and not just flow too, because I want to be a benefit to not just a beneficiary. I want to be a helper and not only one who's home. When that kind of calling on God takes place with fasting and praying, when that kind of sacred gathering occurs, now heaven is now giving you its undivided attention. Over and over and over again. God says, when you reach out to others, I'll reach out to you. When I see that you are a helper to others, I'm going to be a helper to you. Now, why is God this way? Well, there's a statement made about God that sums it all up. It says, God is love. It doesn't just say God loves. People love because God is a Trinitarian being, Father, Son, Spirit. One God composed the three equal persons who was the same person who had one in essence. It's like a pretzel with three holes. The first hole is not the second hole, the second hole is not the third hole, but they're all tied together by the same doubt because they all bear the divine nature. So God has never known what it's like to be alone. He's always dwelt in community. So he's always dwelt in love. So he is loved. So he is comfortable when he's... Come on over for some supersonic healing where I discuss mental health topics, help support advice and solutions on generations of trauma. That's supersonic healing. It is Ryan Seacrest here. Everybody needs some variety in life. That's what I love about Chumba Casino. They know how to keep things fresh and exciting. All their games are free to play. Like spin slots, bingo and solitaire. You can claim free daily login bonuses too. And they release new games every week. So spice things up with Chumba Casino.com now for your chance to redeem some serious prizes. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Void where prohibited by law. 18 plus terms and conditions apply. He's us being what he is. And when he sees us being what he is, he can be who he is to us as we're being who he is. And that is operating in a context of love. So if you need something supernatural from heaven in history, if you need God to break through and bring light to your gloom, joy to your despair, peace to your purposelessness. If you want to see that, give away what you're asking for. And then watch God press down, shake it together, run it over, give you the very same thing that you have been requesting. He's waiting to hear from you. He's waiting to see you give up the physical for the spiritual. And then he's waiting to see how his answered prayer in your life is going to touch somebody else. Isaiah 58 wants you to fast, wants you to pray. But not the one that you put in the tank, but the one that he can roll on, because it's fuel from heaven that benefits earth. 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