Fasting (ft. Tyler Staton) | Unforced Rhythms of Grace E6
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What does not eating have to do with following Jesus? Tyler Staton breaks down the "why" of fasting: how it can help us focus on what's most important, give us freedom from idols in our lives, and grow us in compassion for others.
Key Scripture Passages: Romans 12v1
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer |
| 0:06.1 | teachings podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman your host and part of the teaching team |
| 0:10.7 | here at practicing the way. Each week on the show we share a |
| 0:14.6 | teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space. Today we |
| 0:21.0 | continue our series in partnership with Bridgetown Church on nine practices for a rule of life |
| 0:27.0 | as Tyler explores the practice of fasting, what it is, why we do it, and how we can get started. |
| 0:35.0 | He also offers a prophetic invitation to unearth our deepest desires |
| 0:40.0 | and to live into the adventure God is setting before each one of us today. |
| 0:45.0 | As you listen, you may like to reflect on the question, |
| 0:49.0 | what is the longing beneath my living in this season of life. Here's Tyler. |
| 0:57.0 | This is Romans 12.1. |
| 1:01.0 | Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, |
| 1:09.6 | wholly and pleasing to God. |
| 1:12.0 | This is your true and proper worship. This is the word of the Lord. |
| 1:16.0 | Thanks, be to God. |
| 1:20.0 | Father, I pray that you would help us, Lord. |
| 1:29.0 | We have been welcoming your presence or maybe calling our souls to wake up to your presence that is always |
| 1:35.1 | with us. |
| 1:36.1 | And I pray now that as we open your word, God, that we would hear from you, that you would |
| 1:41.4 | come into our inner lives that whatever amount of attention span and openness to you that each one of these individuals offers, that you would take the inch we give you and take a mile |
| 1:56.0 | instead Lord. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. |
| 2:01.0 | The 17th century Swedish king Adolf Frederick stamped his name in the history books for reasons that have nothing to do with royalty or politics but food. |
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