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

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you started it

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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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