Well, we’re closing in on the end of our 21 days of prayer and fasting. I know many of you are grieving that because you just enjoy not eating food or whatever you’re fasting. But I do hope that you’ve gotten a lot out of this. And I want to take a look at a passage of Scripture where Jesus was actually talking about food.

The context of this is right after He was ministering to the woman at the well, and He was giving her great ministry. Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.” Here’s what He said. But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.” And then someone said, “Did someone bring Him some food while we were gone?” The disciples asked each other. And here’s what Jesus said: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God who sent Me and from finishing His work.”

What a statement by Jesus. His nourishment came from doing the will of God and finishing His work. And so I hope during these 21 days of prayer and fasting that you’ve discovered a satisfaction, a nourishment of the soul, that only comes from the presence of God and doing the will of God. That’s my huge hope for all of us. I hope that during this time you’ve discovered a different level in your walk with God that you’re capable of seeing and discovering.

And oddly enough, hopefully you’ve discovered this, but by saying no to food or whatever you said no to, hopefully you’ve discovered that in the process of doing that, you’ve discovered a deeper level of satisfaction in Him. Only Jesus can satisfy our souls. And I want you guys to discover that, to know that, because you can spend a lifetime searching for stuff in the world to satisfy you, but only He satisfies your soul. And we can rejoice in the fact that by discovering Him, it reaches a need in our hearts in the deepest of ways.

So my hope is that you discover that. My hope is that you don’t go on a lifetime search of some things that will never satisfy you, and that you discover that the deepest needs that you can have in your heart can only be satisfied with Christ.

Let’s pray.

Father, I thank You. I pray that as these 21 days of prayer and fasting come to a close, Lord, that we will discover something that will actually last. We will discover that we can actually live a life in such a way where we are able to say no to the junk food of the world so that we can accept the true nourishment that comes from You. I give You praise for that, Lord, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

God bless.