Jim Bakker Show - Learning to Say No through Fasting | Tammy Hotsenpiller
Aired: 2023-04-06
Duration: 04:14


=== Fasting Coach Journey (02:21) ===

[00:00:00]  My doctor believes in fasting for hell.
[00:00:04]  You believe that.
[00:00:05]  And you talk about that.
[00:00:06]  And actually, Tammy talks about it.
[00:00:08]  And she had, you even talked about intermittent fasting.
[00:00:10]  Great questions that you asked and answered for us to help us understand.
[00:00:15]  And answer.
[00:00:16]  Yeah, and to answer your question, it is it's a 21-day journey.
[00:00:18]  And as a life coach, I thought, what's the best way to work with people and be your coach?
[00:00:22]  I want to be your fasting coach.
[00:00:24]  So there are daily videos, Jim, every day.
[00:00:27]  I do videos on my website.
[00:00:28]  I want to coach you just for those 24 hours.
[00:00:30]  But you said something really good, Jim.
[00:00:32]  And I want to touch on this because intermittent fasting is so popular right now.
[00:00:35]  If you're on Instagram or you're on Facebook, you scroll and you see all these intermittent fastings.
[00:00:40]  So listen to me.
[00:00:41]  Yes, we're supposed to fast for our health.
[00:00:44]  I believe that you need to abstain from food for healthy reasons.
[00:00:47]  So your doctor may say you need to fast, but an intermittent fast for your flesh is not the same as a fast for your faith.
[00:00:55]  They're two different fasts.
[00:00:57]  And I also want to say as a coach, I really believe that fasting is a food fast.
[00:01:02]  A lot of people today are fasting from social media or from Netflix or from shopping.
[00:01:06]  But do you realize in the Hebrew, the word fast means no food.
[00:01:11]  In the Greek, it means shut your mouth.
[00:01:13]  I don't think God could be more clear in telling us that fasting is for food.
[00:01:18]  Do you know why?
[00:01:19]  Because he doesn't want us to gratify the desires of our flesh.
[00:01:22]  There's no other way that you're going to contend with your flesh like we saw Jesus in Matthew 4, except with food.
[00:01:30]  And every time you want to eat something, you say, no, I'm going to pray.
[00:01:33]  Every time you want that, flesh is rising up in you.
[00:01:36]  And here's what I coach people.
[00:01:38]  Jim, if I can learn to say no through a food fast, I can learn to say no in other areas of my life.
[00:01:44]  That's true.
[00:01:44]  Temptations with pornography, temptations with lust or lying or alcohol or jealousy or fear or wherever the enemy is trying to cripple you.
[00:01:53]  You have to learn to battle your flesh.
[00:01:56]  And when you win that war, you will win other wars.
[00:01:59]  Right.
[00:02:00]  So you believe in miracles?
[00:02:02]  I believe in miracles.
[00:02:03]  I don't believe they've ceased.
[00:02:04]  I don't believe that they were.

=== Encounters with the Holy Spirit (02:08) ===

[00:02:06]  Now, you said you were a Baptist.
[00:02:07]  Well, I was.
[00:02:09]  You sound like a charismatic.
[00:02:11]  A grace bestowed on all of us.
[00:02:14]  I am a, you know, my husband says I'm a recovering Baptist.
[00:02:17]  How about that?
[00:02:18]  Now, I don't want to diss on the Baptist.
[00:02:20]  No, no, because you know why.
[00:02:22]  When you met your husband, what was he?
[00:02:24]  Well, he was Baptist because he gotten saved in a Baptist church, but just during the Jesus movement.
[00:02:29]  So they, all the churches were filled with the Spirit back then.
[00:02:31]  Yeah.
[00:02:32]  But you know, Jim, what the Baptists did for me, and I don't even like to talk about denominations.
[00:02:37]  No, I know, I don't.
[00:02:38]  But they taught me the word of God.
[00:02:39]  Yes.
[00:02:40]  I mean, I grew up with the word of God.
[00:02:42]  I went on my first mission trip at 13.
[00:02:44]  I was called to the ministry at 15.
[00:02:46]  I have straight faithful in my walk and praise God for the teaching.
[00:02:50]  Now, what happened was I began to have encounters with the Holy Spirit.
[00:02:55]  And he met me.
[00:02:56]  I had encounters, Tammy, when I was in South Africa on a mountain and Holy Spirit filled me.
[00:03:00]  And I'm teaching right now on the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
[00:03:03]  So you don't ever stop growing.
[00:03:05]  Don't ever, don't, don't label yourself any denomination.
[00:03:09]  You know, and I love what SM Lockridge said.
[00:03:12]  He said, I don't trust the right wing or the left wing because they're both flopping off the same bird.
[00:03:18]  And so, you know, let's don't have that division.
[00:03:20]  Don't go in that arrow that the enemy wants to bring of division.
[00:03:24]  Don't talk about churches.
[00:03:25]  Do you know, Jim, during the pandemic, I literally, every single time I passed a church, I raised my hand and I blessed that church through those two years.
[00:03:36]  It's incumbent upon me to bless God's church.
[00:03:39]  That's his bride.
[00:03:41]  Who am I to talk about a church that's shut down?
[00:03:44]  I'm not going to play the games of the enemy.
[00:03:46]  I just don't have time for that.
[00:03:49]  I want to be his bride.
[00:03:51]  I want to be ready.
[00:03:52]  Let's work together.
[00:03:53]  Let's stand together.
[00:03:54]  If you don't like what a church is doing, then find another church.
[00:03:58]  But don't curse them.
[00:03:59]  That's your heart.
[00:03:59]  Don't talk about it.
[00:04:00]  Let's try that.
[00:04:01]  We can agree on Jesus.
[00:04:04]  Let's stop the fighting in the church and between churches.
[00:04:10]  You know, we're in churches.
[00:04:11]  I mean, you know, the devil is a divider.
[00:04:14]  Yes.