Five Things that Happen when You Fast | Jentezen Franklin
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fasting is doing in your life at some
point God says to you you’ve done your
part I’ll not rest until I do my part
you started it
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me on the fast now I’m gonna fight your
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I want to give you five powerful things
in the Book of Ruth that happens when
you fast now I know that Ruth is not
fasting or the in the Book of Ruth she’s
not fasting but I want you to see in
this chapter beginning with verse one
the story and there are five things that
she does when she is about to be united
with her bridegroom and his name is Boaz
and he is a bachelor from Bethlehem he
lived in Bethlehem he’s a beautiful
picture of Jesus Christ and when you
look at this story it’s all about
getting close to the one that loves us
and that has called us his bride Paul
said oh that I might know him did you
know that you’ve know about him but not
know him you can know Greek and not know
God you can know Hebrew and not know him
and when you begin to fast and pray you
begin to know him it’s not about church
it’s not about rules it’s not about
religion it’s not about stuff it’s about
Jesus and when you get close to him and
you begin to cry Lord that I might know
you then you will begin to experience
his power and Naomi gives five wonderful
steps of advice if you want to draw near
to the bridegroom while you’re fasting
she says do five things number one she
says be freshly cleansed everybody say
that with me be freshly cleanse notice
that first verse three wash yourself
that’s what we do when we fast when we
fast were spiritually taking a bath in
second Corinthians seven in verse 1 it
says having these promises let us
therefore cleanse ourselves from all
filthiness of the flesh and the spirit
perfecting holiness under
Lord if you want to draw near to the
Redeemer number one you must be clean
cleanse yourself and I’m saying to you
that the reason that our prayers are not
answered the reason that God doesn’t
bring breakthroughs many times in our
lives is because of what isaiah chapter
1 verse 15 and 16 says he says when you
stand spreading your hands to pray I
will hide my face from you when you make
your prayers I will not hear you wash
you and make your hands clean cease to
do evil God says I will not hear your
prayers with dirty hands and double
minds and defiled hearts but if you will
wash yourself how do you do that through
the washing of the word through the
washing of the blood of Jesus Christ by
completely emptying ourselves of these
things we’re saying I’m taking a
spiritual bath on this 21-day fast and
god I want you to cleanse me in Isaiah
52 and verse 11 he said touch not the
unclean thing and be clean ye that
touched the vessels of the Lord in other
words he doesn’t want his bride to be
smelly and dirty and unkept and unclean
and we are his bride and when Ruth was
wanting to get with her bridegroom the
first advice that Naomi gave her was
listen clean yourself wash yourself be
freshly cleansed it’s not yesterday’s
cleansing it’s not yesterday’s bath it’s
not last week’s of cleansing it’s being
freshly cleansed in a new year ready to
be intimate and close with Jesus Christ
Ephesians 5:25 tells us how we get
washed he says by the washing of the
word you are cleansed by the washing of
the word that’s a powerful thing when
you understand that the Word of God is
to your spirit what water is to your
body
and when you read the Word of God it
washes you it washes your mind it washes
your soul it washes your spirit it
washes your hands it washes your heart
it cleanses you and when you’re fasting
you need to take time for the Word of
God and be freshly cleansed
Psalms 119 in verse 9 says how shall a
young man cleanse his ways by taking
heed to God’s Word you see when your
freshly cleansed by the Word of God and
then by the blood of Jesus Christ for
the Bible said that if we are faithful
and just to confess our sins he is
faithful to cleanse us of all our sins
so there is a cleansing that happens
when we are washed in the blood and when
we read the Word of God and what we’re
doing on this fast we’re not we’re not
wasting our time but we’re saying to God
I want to be freshly cleansed
come and look deep in my heart I’ve
accumulated things I picked up things
that aren’t like you so let me be
freshly cleansed by the washing of the
water of the word and by the blood of
Jesus Christ you see when your freshly
cleanse then you become a candidate for
the anointing that’s why in verse 3 Ruth
gives the second thing that happens when
you fast and you pray and you draw near
to the bridegroom she said number one be
freshly cleanse but look at the next
thing she said Anna and be anointed she
said to that girl you need to be
anointed so not only be freshly cleanse
but be fragrantly anointed she said to
her anoint yourself in other words put
perfume on that’s that’s what she was
telling her the purse that was there
perfume and he was saying she was saying
put perfume on if you’re gonna go in and
be there with the bridegroom that will
eventually be your husband then you need
to be freshly cleanse you need to be
fragrantly
anointed
anoint yourself you see that’s what we
do when we fast and pray you cannot fast
and pray and God not freshly anoint you
he’s going on oint you during this fast
to do what you do and you’re going to
have a special grace to do it and you’re
going to do it better than other people
can do it and it’s gonna be because
you’re anointed and the anointing makes
the difference he said uh Ninoy yourself
she said in other words I want you to be
nice to be near and so if you would like
to be near to Jesus our bridegroom you
cleanse yourself and then secondly you
not only cleanse yourself but you come
and after you’ve been freshly cleanse
you need to say during this fast
fragrantly anoint me Holy Spirit anoint
me with the power of your anointing your
anointing is the Holy Spirit everybody
say my anointing is the Holy Spirit
first John 2:27 the anointing that you
receive of him abides in you and you
need no man to teach you for he will
show you and he will guide you the
anointing we have is the Spirit of God
the Holy Spirit gives us the fragrance
of Christ your life will be an incense
before him and he says when you fast and
you pray your freshly cleanse iniquity
and sin and and the dirty hands and the
defiled hearts and the double minds are
washed away by the washing of the water
of the word and by the blood of Jesus
Christ and then I bring my anointing
because wherever the blood has washed
then the anointing can be applied they
would first wash the priest and then
after he washed the anointing would be
put on him and you see wherever the
blood has been applied the anointing is
drawn there hallelujah
when the anointing comes on you God’s
grace will find you in unusual places
and raise you up you can’t keep someone
anointed down they will always go up
because the anointing promotes you in
the loin and raises you hallelujah then
thirdly I really felt this point so so
there it is wash yourself anoint
yourself put on your best garment so
you’re not only being freshly cleansed
and you’re not only being fragrantly
anointed you’re being fit ly clothes be
fit Li clothes put on your best clothes
girl get you get something get something
you look good in that’s bow ass bow has
this he owns everything look right
what’s that about well she had been a
widow I really feel this now listen to
me
she had been a widow and she had been
wearing mourning clothes she had lost
her husband she was sad she was
depressed she was discouraged she was
defeated she’d come out of a horrible
famine got back to Bethlehem but still
had her old clothes on a morning of
sorrow of discouragement of defeat and
God through this woman said if you want
to get near the king you need to change
what you’re wearing because he doesn’t
respond he understands your pain but
that doesn’t necessarily make God come
to you he inhabits the praises of his
people he inhabits the faith of his
people not the gloom in the doom one of
the greatest things you could do in your
prayer life is pull some of the moans
and groans out and shove some hallelujah
Zin
it makes you very attractive to God when
you when you stop moaning and groaning
and you could own the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness matter of
fact I want you to see Isaiah 61 it says
to console those who mourn in Zion this
is what I felt really heavy to say to
people that would be listening to me in
this message on this fast God is about
to change your wardrobe and and he’s
going to give them beauty for Ashes I
need some joy just to start bubbling up
in your soul
beauty for Ashes the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness Ruth you’re
gonna put off those ashes of sorrow I’m
gonna bring some beautiful things into
your life
some beautiful days some beautiful
people hallelujah well I’m doing more
than preaching I’m prophesying right now
I really
I feel like I’ve got my foot on the neck
of a demon right now a demon of mourning
a demon of sorrow a demon of gloominess
a demon of of discouragement
I just feel my foot on his neck and I
just want to stand here and proclaim
it’s the year of the Lord to comfort
those who have been mourning
I’m telling you I’m preaching more than
a message I’m prophesying to you your
house is gonna be freshly cleansed to
your business is gonna be freshly
anointed and and you’re gonna put on the
the garments of praise you’re gonna be
fittingly clothed for success that’s why
he goes on to say in that same chapter I
will greatly rejoice in the Lord my soul
will be joyful in my god while I’m
fasting this is my Proclamation for he
has clothed me with the garments of
salvation he has covered me with the
robe of righteousness as a bridegroom
decks himself with ornaments as a bride
adorns herself with jewels he has
clothed us church we can be fitly
clothed in his righteousness you don’t
have to go around condemned and hating
yourself and despising yourself and
feeling like you’re nothing nobody going
nowhere put on his righteous robe put on
his garment of salvation put on his
garment of praise and be fitly clothed
and then he said in verse 3 and verse 4
look at it then it shall be when he lies
down notice this that you shall notice
the place where he lies and you shall go
in and uncover his feet and lie down
where at his feet you have to understand
Jewish tradition and culture meant that
if someone did that if they uncovered
their feet and laid down at their feet
it was an act of submission so the
fourth thing that fasting does is it
says Lord I commit my life to you again
I’m being freshly cleansed I’m being I’m
being fragrantly anointed I’m being
fitly clothed on this fast
but I’m being fully committed to you now
I’m withholding nothing my will
surrenders to your will my dream submits
to your dream my desire I fully commit
to you and I love the fact that Ruth
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Naomi said place yourself at his feet
that’s what we’re doing we’re humbling
ourselves and we’re going down low at
his feet you know the the most sacred
place on earth is not the pulpit the
Church Jerusalem the Holy Land the most
sacred place on earth is at the feet of
Jesus and when you fast you’re fully
committing your life and you’re bowing
down at the feet of Jesus I don’t want
anything that’s not your wheel I don’t
care how bad I think I want it I fully
commit to you not my will but thine be
done and I’m at your feet Lord not in
your face I’m at your feet not at your
hand give me give me
I’m at your feet you will withhold no
good thing from them who walk uprightly
and if I am worshiping you and fully
committed to you at your feet as a
humble servant my God will supply all of
my needs he’ll open up the windows of
heaven this year and pour you out a
blessing and brother if you if you don’t
ever believe a preacher again you need
to believe this one they’re coming that
you won’t have room enough
room enough to receive I’ve never told
people this before ever I don’t think
ever in my life there are times when
when I’m going to preach somewhere that
and sometimes here that the Holy Spirit
will speak to me very strongly and I’m
usually by myself in an office or in
some backroom somewhere before I’m about
to go out and he’ll say bow before me
and I could I could stand up here and
start listing times it’s not all the
time it’s just certain times but the
point is to be sensitive enough I don’t
know what it is about bowing but there’s
something about when nobody’s looking
and God says do it and you get down on
your face at his feet I’m telling you
you’re fully committed and God will
bless you at his feet
same answer Mother
lastly in verse 4 verse 5 you getting
something out of this said all that you
say to me I will do so we are we’re
being now faithfully compliant that we
don’t go on a fast and try to demand God
and you do this and you do that no no no
no no we’re saying on this fast just
show me your wheel well there’s sunshine
of rain weather is mountaintop or Valley
weather is increase or it may even cost
me right now but you see what I do in
secret in obedience to you and you’re no
man’s dead or ever but I will be
faithfully compliant that whatever you
this is what you’ve got to pray on this
fast
you ought to pray these five things Lord
I want to be freshly cleanse don’t want
to be fragrantly anointed I want to be
fit ly clothed with a new spirit of
praise o God I won’t I want to be fully
committed at your feet and I want to be
faithfully compliant to your word to
your wheel I don’t want to hear the word
only I want to be a doer of the word I
won’t I want convictions about the word
I want to be faithfully compliant Ruth
chapter 3 verse 9 notice this he said
who are you and she answered I am Ruth
your maidservant take your maidservant
under your wing for you are a close
relative then he blessed her blessed are
you of the Lord what’s gonna happen when
you do these five things for 21 days
you’re gonna get blessed how many of you
want to be blessed
the Bible said that he gave her 60
pounds of barley and said take this back
to your mother-in-law and when she saw
her coming she said who are you
in other words she was asking are you
miss Ruth are you miss Boaz yes because
I like this you got 60 pounds of grain
from that boy
but then she gives her the strangest
command I think it’s over the last part
of the verse she said to her sit steal
my daughter until you know how the
matter will turn out for this man will
not rest until he concludes this matter
today alright now here’s what that means
when you submit to God in the five areas
that we’ve talked about that fasting is
doing in your life at some point God
says to you you’ve done your part
now I’ll not rest I’ll not rest until I
do my part you started it
but I’m gonna finish it you you got out
there and you you washed yourself and
anointed yourself and change your
clothing and change your language and
you’re praising me and I see you now
fully compliant and and committed I see
it I see it and you started it but there
comes a time when God says now you sit
down because you gave it to me on the
fast now I’m gonna fight your battle now
I’m gonna be your Jehovah Jireh now I’m
gonna open the windows of heaven and
pour you out a blessing you won’t have
room enough receive you started it on
the fast Sunday but God’s gonna finish
it and you’re gonna see his blessings
unprecedented in your life if you
believe it get up on your feet and shout
and praise God just a little bit
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