The function of the fast is to reveal the breaches in your own wall of protection. That wall is the greatest enemy of faith.

Bel and the Dragon

Recorded August 14, 1988 (580)

The bars of your prison are your words.
It’s never the circumstances that try the hearts and souls of men. It’s the judgments you make about those circumstances.

Revelation 7:9-8:1, 2 Chronicles 6:5, 6:40-7:16, Isaiah 61:1-62:7

Recorded July 26, 1988 (572)

Our compulsive behavior keeps us in apathy, the opposite of love.

Isaiah 30:1-3

Recorded July 21, 1988 (569)

You are a walled city. The Fast of Tammuz is a celebration of a break in that wall.

Jude 1-25, Ezekiel 8:1-9:11

Recorded July 19, 1988 (567)

The journey from bondage to nearness to God.

Recorded July 17, 1988 (565)

The Feast of Tammuz is the beginning of the destruction of the Jerusalem that now is.

Isaiah 55:6, Zechariah 8:1-19, Isaiah 55:6-13

Recorded July 12, 1988 (562)

Galatians 4:19-5:1, Romans 8:28-39

Recorded July 11, 1988 (561)

Revelation without abandonment of self is like a 4th of July sparkler.
Mammon is an a priori position of what will happen if certain actions are taken.

Recorded July 11, 1988 (560)

The purpose of the fast of Tammuz and fast of Ab is to destroy the remnants of paganism within you.
Accept the possibility that you’re lost.
There is no legitimate self interest, corporate or otherwise.
Supplication. 

Luke 9:57-62, Matthew 19:16-26, Daniel 9:3-11, 20, Philippians 4:4-6

Recorded July 10, 1988 (559)

The goal of the fast of Tammuz is to see your golden calf.
You can’t see your golden calf unless there is a hole in the wall.

Matthew 23:37-24:17, Zechariah 8:1-23, Jeremiah 3:12-19

Recorded June 29, 1988 (555)