Shift Your Hunger

Your heart changes as your hunger changes. 

Your habits change as your hunger changes.

 

Strength happens as you shift your hunger. 

 

“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.” -Matthew‬ ‭4:1-2‬ ‭NIV‬‬

 

Favor happens as you shift your hunger.

 

“If you keep quiet at this time, someone else will help and save the Jewish people, but you and your father’s family will all die. And who knows, you may have been chosen queen for just such a time as this.” Then Esther sent this answer to Mordecai: “Go and get all the Jewish people in Susa together. For my sake, fast; do not eat or drink for three days, night and day. I and my servant girls will also fast. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I die, I die.” ‭‭-Esther‬ ‭4:14-16‬ ‭NCV‬‬

 

Redemption/Restoration happens as you shift your hunger.

 

“The Lord says, “Even now, come back to me with all your heart. Fast, cry, and be sad.” Tearing your clothes is not enough to show you are sad; let your heart be broken. Come back to the Lord your God, because he is kind and shows mercy. He doesn’t become angry quickly, and he has great love. He can change his mind about doing harm.” ‭‭-Joel‬ ‭2:12-13‬ ‭NCV

 

Clarity happens as you shift your hunger. 

 

“When I heard these things, I sat down and cried for several days. I was sad and fasted. I prayed to the God of heaven,” -Nehemiah‬ ‭1:4‬ ‭NCV‬‬ 

 

“They chose elders for each church, by praying and fasting for a certain time. These elders had trusted the Lord, so Paul and Barnabas put them in the Lord’s care.” ‭‭-Acts‬ ‭14:23‬ ‭NCV 

 

Chains break as you shift your hunger. 

 

And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” ‭‭-Mark‬ ‭9:28-29‬ ‭NKJV

 

“In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” -‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬