Walls Must Fall: Intro: Consecration and Dedication: The Path to Spiritual Breakthroughs

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Music.

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman podcast with your host,

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Connie Morris, where healing has a voice and truth is no longer silent.

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Father God, like Jabez, we cry out that thou would bless us indeed.

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Bless every woman listening beyond trauma, beyond limits, beyond what she thought

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was possible. Enlarge her territory.

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Expand her purpose. Let your hand be upon this moment.

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Saturate every word with oil and truth. break cycles, cancel every curse sent

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to silence her. This isn't just a podcast.

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This is holy ground. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hello, welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast, and I'm your host,

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Connie Morris, and I'm so glad to be back.

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Today, we're going to start kind of a short mini series, and it's titled The

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Walls Must Fall, and it's a 12-day Jericho fast of consecration and dedication.

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And, you know, there was a time, there was just a couple of days ago,

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the Lord began to tell me, Connie, I need you to fast. I need you to fast.

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And he said again, I need you to fast. I need you to fast.

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And then I'm listening because, you know, we hear everything that we want to

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hear from God because you just finished a series when God wants to talk.

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Welcome to the Diary of a Black Woman Podcast with your host,

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Connie Morris, where healing has a voice and truth is no longer silent.

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Father God, like your best, I was like, well, what type of fast do you want me to go on?

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And he said right away, I want a Jericho six fast.

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And I said, what dates do you want? Enlarge your territory.

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And then he said, I want it to be a fast of consecration and dedication.

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And so it wasn't really a concerning about what to eat.

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I had a lot of times we want to know if it's going to be a fast or type of fast.

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This isn't just a podcast.

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But the Lord just began to share with me a consecration and dedication.

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So for this episode, I'm going to allow you, you get to decide for the next

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12 days what type of fast that you can dedicate yourself.

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And consecrate yourself unto the Lord. So I'm going to start off with a nice

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long introduction, give you some options, and then kind of go into maybe a day one devotional.

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And then we'll pick it up again for day two.

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And this is an opportunity for you to begin to seek God for direction.

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He's given me specific dates, and I don't want to make this a cult-like thing.

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I want you to begin to say, okay, Lord, am I supposed to fast? If so, what type of fast?

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How long a fast do I need to go on? The Bible doesn't say if we fast.

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The Bible assumes that we're going to fast. It says when you fast,

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you know, so that's found in Matthew 6.

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So you go to Matthew 6, but also read the story in Joshua 6 regarding the Jericho fast.

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I never thought of a Jericho fast, you know. the Lord said, I want you to do

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a Jericho pass. What happened in Jericho?

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Joshua 6, they had specific instructions to march around the Jericho law.

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They had to do it in silence.

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They had to bring the Ark of the Covenant before them. They had the horn.

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They couldn't talk. So there was some specific instructions in those scriptures

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that God gave the Israelites through Joshua.

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And at the end of their obedience, their walls fell down and they were able

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to go in and conquer the land of Jericho.

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And I'm just wondering, what is in your life that must fall down?

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What has been holding you up? What has been keeping you from the presence of

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God? What are those distractions?

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What is it? What walls must fall down? So this is not going to be is specific.

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It's going to be very generic because I don't want to put you in,

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you know, I want you to find out what God is talking to you about.

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But I'm going to give you a lot of information like I always do and lead you

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on a nice journey through the Diary of a Black Woman devotional.

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But then you must seek God for what is he telling you.

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So this first introduction is going to give you a little introduction about

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consecration, dedication, and take you on a journey of what consecration looks

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like, what is it, and dedication.

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And then you decide what that looks like for you. So let's get going. So

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Here we go. There are moments when God doesn't explain everything. He just says, march.

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He doesn't give you the full outcome, just the command, be silent, walk, obey.

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And when he whispers those instructions, something in your spirit knows this is not just a fast.

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This is a prophetic act of war.

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Like I said before, God says, I need you to fast. I need you to fast. And it was a low whisper.

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And I was like, wow, he wants me to fast. Usually those type of whispers,

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when we don't want to do it, we can kind of push it aside.

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So I wonder how many things that have you pushed aside when you're thinking

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that, no, that can't be the Lord. I like to eat.

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How many times have we taken time out to just ask the Lord, Lord,

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what is it that you have me to do?

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What is it you have me to do? And then he gives you some instructions,

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which may require you to go into your Bible and study some more.

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So that was that moment when he says, I need you to fast.

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That was that moment when he told the Israelites, I want you just to march.

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I don't need you to say anything. I just want you to march. So for the next

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12 days, you are going to be called into a spiritual strategy that defies logic

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but aligns perfectly with heaven.

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God isn't asking you to fight with your fists. He's calling you to fast with

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your focus, to let go of noise, to release distractions,

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to circle the walls in your life that need to fall, and to do it with consecration and dedication.

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This 12-day Jericho fast is not about checking a bot or impressing others with your sacrifice.

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It's about aligning yourself with God's timing, God's voice, and God's power.

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In the story of Jericho, the people were not told to knock down the wall.

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They were told to walk, wait, and worship with obedience.

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In Joshua 3.5, it reads, Consecrate yourself, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

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I mentioned that the Lord said it's a 12-day fast.

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He gave me the dates, and I said one, two, three, I counted the days. That's 12 days.

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So here in Joshua 3, 5, it says, Consecrate yourself, for tomorrow the Lord

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will do wonders among you.

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Hebrews 11, 30 reads, it says, By faith the walls of Jericho fell,

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after the people had marched around them for seven days.

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So we see here that some supernatural things happen when we obey God.

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We can ask questions with a heart to obey.

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Before the victory came the consecration. Before the shout came the silence.

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Before the fall came faith.

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So for the next 12 days, they will challenge your appetite, your routine,

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your comfort, even your expectations, but they will also position you for divine release.

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Walls of fear, doubt, trauma, addiction, debt, delay, or spiritual stagnation

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must fall, not because you're strong, but because you're obedient.

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You were not called to this fast by accident.

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You were chosen to walk this Jericho path because something in your life is getting ready to shift.

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Spirit. So if it's going to be a spiritual move, then we have to do a spiritual thing.

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And fasting is a spiritual act, but it requires our flesh to get in line so

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that we can hear what God is doing.

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So fasting is not about starving the body?

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Because that's what I remember asking that. How long do you need me to fast?

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He said, I want consecration and dedication.

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I'm like, what does that mean? And so we're going to go through that. What does that mean?

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Fasting is not about starving the body. It's about feeding the spirit.

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It's not about what you're giving up, but to whom you're giving yourself to.

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We're giving ourselves to God. Consecration, as we get into it,

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means setting yourself apart for a holy use.

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This Jericho fast is different. It's not just about seeking a breakthrough.

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It's about becoming someone who can carry the breakthrough when it comes.

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How many breakthroughs have we had in our lives? And it's been short-lived.

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God says this shift is going to be a breakthrough.

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It's going to be a breakthrough that you can sustain. How about that?

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And how do you sustain a breakthrough if it's spiritual?

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You need to be able to sustain the spiritual side, making the spirit man very, very strong.

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So for the next 12 days, you're invited into a sacred journey of alignment,

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obedience, silence, prayer, and worship. This is not a performance.

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This is a prophetic act. Inspired by Joshua 6, this 12-day fast mirrors the

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strategy given to Israel before the walls of Jericho fell for six days.

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So remember for six days, they

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were to march in silence, circling the city once per day without a word.

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But on the seventh day, they circled it seven times, then lifted up a shout and the walls fell flat.

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But before the march, God gave Joshua a command that set the tone for that fast.

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Consecrate the people and tell them to prepare.

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That's in Joshua 3, 5. He said, get them ready. Get them ready because I'm about to do what? A new thing.

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Remember, we're not going to bulldoze this wall down.

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We're going to actually get your faith built up so that you can see God work in your life.

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Remember a time we always stir some things up and then we call it God.

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God said, no, I need you to move out the way.

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I need you to work your faith. And let me do my supernatural.

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Thing in your life. So what is this fast about?

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It's a time for consecration. It's a time to purify your heart, mind, and body.

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It's a time for dedication, committing yourself fully to God's will.

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It's a time of prophetic obedience, following spiritual instructions even when

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it doesn't make natural sense.

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And it's a time for faith and focus, believing for the fall of walls that only

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God can bring down. Isn't that powerful?

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That we have to just get so... Think about the Israelites circling the Jericho,

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waiting, waiting, and waiting.

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And when they said, I want you to shout, you know, they shouted with all their

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might because they... Think about the visual.

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They saw this wall. They said, God said, shout. And then when they shouted and

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blew the trumpets, guess what? The walls came down.

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What do you think that did for their faith? What this fast is not,

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It's not a diet. It's not a religious ritual. It's not a public display.

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It's not a wish list for material blessing.

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This fast is about obedience and transformation. Just like the Israelites didn't

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fight Jericho with weapons.

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So you don't fight this battle with flesh. You fight with faith.

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And every day you will take one step closer to the breakthrough.

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So how do you use this devotional? How do we walk this thing out?

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We're going to just have a theme. We're going to have scripture,

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devotional reflection, prayer focus, and always a daily decree.

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And then a prayer prompt where you can decide, like, what is it that I'm doing?

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Why am I doing it? Something to think about, something to meditate on.

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And just to make it simple, you can customize your fasting type based on your

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health, your spiritual condition, your spiritual leader, or any prior commitment. So don't get stuck.

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On what you have to eat. I want you to get stuck on consecration and dedication

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and then watch God lead you into what he have for you to do that day.

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So there's different ways we know how to fast. We can do a full fast,

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full fast, water or clear liquids only, partial fast, one meal per day,

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sunset, eat it at sunset,

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a Daniel fast with just fruits, vegetables, and whole grain,

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a soul fast, eliminating distractions like social media, entertainment, or toxic conversation.

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Whatever fast you choose, commit to it fully and reverently.

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This is not about legalism.

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It's about intentional intimacy with God.

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And so when you're doing this fast, remember, you don't go make an announcement.

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It's between you and God, right?

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Whatever you decide to do. And then when we pray afterwards.

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God would give you the strength to do what he'd ask you to do.

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And each day, you know, you ask him, like, what is this type of fast?

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What type of fast am I doing today? And what should I focus on?

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So I want you to make it an individual focus. Because as I'm doing this,

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I wake up and I'm like, oh, what's today's focus?

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Because each of us has our own individual needs that God wants to.

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To do in our own lives. And I was going to list what he told me to do,

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but I think it's better if you concentrate and dedicate according to what your needs.

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And later on, maybe in the year, I will probably put another devotion together

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with what God had me to do.

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The first thing you have to do is you have to prepare your heart.

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Ask God to reveal what wall he wants to tear down in your life.

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Each of us have a different wall. What is that wall he wants to tear down in your life.

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Ask God what He wants from you during this time. What do you want me to release?

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What do you need me to obey?

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Because many times in the last series, we talked about when God wants to talk.

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And I really want to know how that went for you.

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Did you have a good conversation with God? Did you move some things or did you not listen?

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And maybe you need to go back there and get started from that point that God

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asked you to do something and maybe you didn't do it.

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Another one, as you prepare your heart, don't rush. It's not about speed.

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It's about submission. Remember, we get 24 hours in a day. A lot of us sleep maybe for eight hours.

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You have the remainder of that time to kind of hang out with God,

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develop a relationship with Him, and see what He wants.

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It's all about submission and giving away, letting go of some things that's

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holding you back from a relationship with God.

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First of all, let's understand what God's of dedication and consecration is.

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Consecration is a call to set yourself apart. Once again, we read in Joshua

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3, 5, it says, consecrate yourself for tomorrow.

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The Lord will do amazing things among you.

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So as you consecrate yourself, have an expectation that God will do amazing things.

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Consecrate in the Hebrew means to set apart, to sanctify, to prepare or make holy.

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Before the Israelites could experience a miracle, such as the Jordan River crossing

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or the fall of Jericho, God required consecration, a spiritual cleansing and preparation.

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God is holy and he wants us holy. So he'll say, I need you to consecrate, consecrate yourself.

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Let's focus only on me during this time. God's expectation is that you enter

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his presence clean, focused, and submitted.

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Consecration during a fast involves releasing distractions such as TV,

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social media, and food indulgence, repenting of sins, and spiritually positioning

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yourself to hear from God.

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So consecration is setting yourself apart to hear from God.

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And many times, it's just sometimes TV can be a distraction.

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Sometimes social media can be a distraction and food and diligence can be a distraction, right?

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And when Lord gave me a date to start, I was like, wow, that's good because

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I usually watch the bike racing shows up until this, like it's ended on Sunday.

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And I was like, wow, I'm glad you gave me that date.

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So he let me finish what I like to do. But then he said, I'm calling you closer. What is that?

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Excuse me. What is dedication? Dedication is a lifestyle of loyalty and intentional worship.

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And you should love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your

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soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6, 5.

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Romans 12.1 tells us that we should present your bodies as a living sacrifice,

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holy and acceptable to God.

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So we see here dedication is about full allegiance, heart, mind, body, and spirit.

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In Joshua 6, the Israelites walk in obedient dedication.

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They march without speaking, following divine strategies, and honor God's instruction

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completely, even when it didn't make logical sense. So think about it.

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You are a military army and the Lord tells you to don't say a word.

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Don't pull out any weapons.

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Just want you to walk around Jericho once a day for six days.

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On the seventh day, walk around seven times.

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And on the seventh time, I want you to blow the trumpet and I want you to yell as loud as you can.

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That did not make logical sense for a military army to do that, but they did it.

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So when we think about fasting, it means obeying God's prompting during the fast.

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So whatever fast you decide to do, He's going to still be talking to you about it.

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So dedication isn't about what you're giving up. It's about who you're offering yourself to.

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So we're talking about consecration, setting apart, right? Setting ourselves apart.

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The dedication is giving ourselves to God.

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And that's why God said, I want you to think about consecration,

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dedication. Because if you do one without the other, we can get kind of,

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you get it twisted, I think. I'm consecrating.

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And then you turn up. That's my time of consecration. It's over.

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I'm going to go watch a little TV or I'm going to do something else.

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But God says consecration and dedication.

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Giving that time up to worship Him.

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Setting yourself apart, but also giving grace.

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That set apart time to him. So number three, God requires purity before power.

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We see in 1 Peter 1.16, be holy because I am holy.

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God wants us to be more like him. And 2 Timothy 2.21 says, for man therefore

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purge himself, he should be a vessel unto honor, sanctify, and meet for the master's use.

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Consecration is the purging. Dedication is a continual offering.

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God does not pour out power on polluted altars. He desires clean hands and a pure heart.

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Repentance, renewal of mind, and spiritual alignment makes you a vessel that

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God can feel used and position you for a breakthrough.

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Your wall of Jericho falls when you align with heaven.

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We see here again in Hebrews 11.30, it says, by faith, the walls of Jericho fell.

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After the army had marched around them for seven days, they fell.

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The fast that God is calling you to is not for performance, it's for positioning.

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Walls of doubt, discouragement, debt, fear, and spiritual warfare fall when

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you when your obedience is married to worship and faith.

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We see here that the focus is not about the wall, right? It's not about the wall.

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It's about the heart of consecration and dedication.

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And when we take, not about even what you eat, it's about your heart towards God.

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And when you focus your heart towards God, then he can do that and make it obedience.

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So we're fasting, we're praying, we worship, we're doing whatever he wants us to do.

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And that's when we have our breakthrough, right?

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That's when we're aligning our hearts with God. And he's asking us to do it

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for 12 days. Can you do it for 12 days?

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Not thinking in advance, doing it one day at a time.

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So today I want to just give you a day one on how to consecrate yourself.

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It's still that theme verse. The theme verse, it says, set apart for the supernatural.

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I don't know about you, but I do want to see God do something supernatural in my life.

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Supernatural is God putting his super on my natural or his super on your natural.

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But we need to have an expectation that he would do that.

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And once again, Joshua 3, 5 says, Consecrate yourself for tomorrow.

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The Lord will do amazing things among you. So have an expectation.

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Because this is what Joshua told the Israelites. And that's probably what they

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were meditating on as they were marching around the wall. God's going to do something amazing.

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Watch it. He's going to do something amazing. And they're looking like,

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what is he getting ready to do? He's going to do something amazing.

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He's already fed us manna. He's provided us clothing. He gave us silver and gold.

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There's not one feeble among us. He's already done some amazing things already.

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I wonder what God is up to. Before the Israelites could even march around Jericho,

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God required them to be consecrated.

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Strategy, not shouting, not strength, just a heart that was set apart.

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God wanted them to be focused.

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We know the Israelite story. If you get a chance, you can read it through Genesis.

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They were easily distracted. They were easily to complain when things got uncomfortable.

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But he said, I don't want all that noise. I want you to be focused.

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Consecrate it and dedicate it to me. Can you do that? Like, you know,

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people always say, you got one job. Can you just do this one thing?

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I want to do something amazing among you, but I need you to do this one thing.

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Can we do this one thing? Can we consecrate and dedicate ourselves to God for the next 12 days?

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To consecrate yourself means to make yourself wholly available to God,

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mind, body, and spirit. It's a posture of surrender that says.

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God, remove anything in me that's not like you.

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Clean me up, burn away distractions, and align me with your will. Let's repeat that.

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God, remove anything in me that's not like you.

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Clean me up, burn away distractions, and align me with your will.

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This is not a one-time act. It's a preparation for transformation.

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You're not fasting just to get something from God. You're fasting to become

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someone God can use to feel and to fight for.

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Before Jericho fell, Israel had to remember to whom they belong.

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The first day of the fast is your moment to do the same.

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God doesn't require perfection, but he does require access.

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If we get so busy, we don't realize that when we got our face buried into our

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phones, buried into TV, buried into whatever that's taken us, whatever.

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It should be a video, whatever it is that we don't take time out to look up

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and say, hey, Lord, what's going on? You want to talk?

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Or maybe we're ignoring his voice because we want to watch this video.

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We want to talk on the phone, whatever that is.

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God doesn't require perfection. He just wants access.

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Isn't that something? And God

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is such a gentleman that he's not going to knock the phone out your hand.

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He's not going to cause a disruption on your screen.

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He's going to want you to want him.

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So if you want walls to fall, consecration is a starting point.

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It invites God into your space, your appetite, your thoughts, and your future.

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And when you consecrate yourself, you're saying, Lord, you can have it all. So lift your hands up.

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And say, Lord, you can have it all. Let's pray.

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Father, come before you to be set apart for your purpose.

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Remove anything from my life, my habits, thoughts, relationships,

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or distractions that are not aligned with your will.

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Purify my heart, cleanse my motives, and prepare me for the breakthrough you've

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already declared. This fast is yours.

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I am yours. Have your way in me. In Jesus' name, amen. Let's do this decree.

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I decree that I am set apart for God's use. I break agreement with every distraction,

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every impurity, and every unholy pattern in my life.

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I am a vessel of honor, consecrated and made ready for the Lord's work.

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2 Timothy 2.21 says, He cleanses himself. He will be a vessel of honor,

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sanctified and useful to the Master.

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I like this part, but he wants us to be the initiator of the cleansing,

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right? How powerful is that?

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Then he said that he will be a vessel of honor, sanctified for the useful use of the master.

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So he wants us to be the initiator.

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You know, so he wants, he can say, hey, look at my daughter,

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look at my son. Hey, they're cleaning themselves up. They're getting ready for me.

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Now I can do some amazing things in their life. They're making space for me.

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Right? They're making space for me.

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So today's fasting focus, whatever you decide to do, is you want to start with

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intentional surrender.

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God is intentional, and so we should be intentional.

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Choose one thing to lay down, and I kept it simple.

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It could be sugar, caffeine, social media, entertainment, or any unnecessary conversation.

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And focus not just on food, but on the posture of your heart.

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And then ask yourself these questions.

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What is God asking you to lay down during this fact? And where in your life do you feel the need.

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For cleansing, rededication, or spiritual alignment.

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Remember, every time when God asks you to do something, you pretty much know

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that you maybe got too far out.

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Just like if you go for a walk and it's hot and sweaty, no one needs to tell

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you you have to take a shower before you go to bed, right?

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Or before you go to your next part. Taking a shower and freshen up is pretty much part of a routine.

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At least it should be, right? And so now he's asking us to get close to him.

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And if God is holy and he's telling us to get ready because he wants to do something

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amazing in our lives, I mean, he wants to get close to us, right?

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So he's asking us to get ready, cleanse ourselves, rededicate.

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Clean out our heart, rededication.

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Lord, if there's any sin in me, cleanse me from that unrighteousness.

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And then get in spiritual alignment.

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And just like anything else, if we don't stay physically fit,

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right, if we don't watch what we eat, if we don't pay attention to our Bible

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study, if we allow the world to get in the way,

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we can slip into kind of complacency in our relationship with God.

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But here for this topic, complacency, I'm sorry, consecration and dedication,

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He wants us to be aware that maybe we need to get a little bit closer.

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And so God is calling us closer to Him during this 12-day series.

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And so if you really enjoyed that episode, make sure you subscribe.

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Like, and share, and leave a note on what type of fast that you have decided to partake in.

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Would it be a full, a partial, water, a Daniel fast?

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I'd love to hear about it. But until next time, I'll talk to you soon.

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Bye-bye. Thank you for listening to this episode.

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And before we close out, I want to speak a word of promise over you from Jeremiah 29, 11 through 14.

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Father God, you declared, I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper

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you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

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So today we receive that truth. You said when we call on you,

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you will listen. So we pray. You said that when we seek you with our hearts,

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you will be found, so we pursue.

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You said you will restore us from captivity, so we declare freedom over every

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place where our listeners feel stuck, silenced, or small.

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Thank you for always drawing near when we show up in faith. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Music.