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1. Fasting might make you look better, but God desires a deeper change than our looks.

2. Fasting deprives us on the outside, in order to receive more of God on the inside.

1. We can have peace without answers.

2. Never put a period where God puts a comma.

3. Grieving our losses is healthy.

4. God leverages our losses.

Recipe For Failure

1. You believe you are stronger than you are.

2. You believe you can follow Jesus at a distance.

3. You believe your failure defines you.



Recipe For Restoration

1. Embrace Conviction.

2. Embrace Confession.

3. Embrace Christ.

We don't do anything to earn our salvation, so we can't do anything to lose it.

We can't lose our salvation, but we can reject it.

Judas didn't lose his belief in Jesus, he faked it.

Signs of a fake belief in Jesus:

1. If Jesus is only an accessory to your life.

2. If Jesus is anything less than Lord.

3. If you reject the love and grace of Jesus.

Faith will make you feel crazy sometimes.

Faith involves unanswered questions.

How do I overcome doubt?

1. Stick with other believers.

2. Trust what you know is true.

3. Do the next thing He tells you to do.