Starve or Feed 

Starve or Feed 
Pastor Blake Hanson | 1.07.24 

Fasting is for .

1 Corinthians 3:1–3 (NLT)

1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. 

2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, 

3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?

If you feel stuck, it’s time to consider your diet. 

Fasting us. 

John 8:31–36 (NLT)

31Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings. 

32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 

33 “But we are descendants of Abraham,” they said. “We have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean, ‘You will be set free’?” 

34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin. 

35 A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son is part of the family forever. 

36 So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.

Romans 7:18–20 (NLT)

18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 

19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 

20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

Fasting makes life about us and more about God. 

Fasting us. 

Matthew 17:17–21 (NKJV)

17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 

18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour. 

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 

20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 

21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

Fasting helps us . 

Thrive in .

Acts 13:2–3 (NLT)

2 One day as these men were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Appoint Barnabas and Saul for the special work to which I have called them.” 

3 So after more fasting and prayer, the men laid their hands on them and sent them on their way.

Thrive in . 

2 Corinthians 11:27 (NKJV)

27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness—

1. Whatever we starve . 
2. Whatever we feed . 

Matthew 9:14–15 (NLT)

14 One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast like we do and the Pharisees do?” 

15 Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests mourn while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

What will you…

Starve 

Feed  

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