What does Tribe teach about 21 day fast?
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At Tribe, the teaching on the 21-day fast is rooted in the idea that fasting is not an end in itself but a way of making room. Pastor Brian Schwertley opened the third week of the Pack Your Bags series by pointing out that the heart tends to follow appetite, not the other way around. Drawing from Matthew 6, he taught that whatever a person feeds is where their heart will settle, which is why self-denial matters: it creates hunger for what God wants to place inside.
Proverbs 27:7 put a sharp edge on that idea. Brian quoted it directly: "A person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry." The point was that fullness closes the heart off. If there is no hunger, there is no room. The fast beginning September 8 was framed as a practical, chosen act of creating space, each person writing on a card what they would deny themselves and laying it at the front as a public commitment.
The specific focus of this fast was developing a heart for Israel over twenty-one days. Brian taught that God's promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob hold, and that the principle of the firstborn passes through the cross unaltered. The call was not to manufacture feeling but to do the thing that opens the appetite, trusting that the heart will follow.
Taught from Proverbs 27:7 · Matthew 6:19-21 · John 8:31-43 · 1 Samuel 16:7-12 · Romans 11:29
“Jesus is always reliable, but he is always unpredictable.”
From Make Room in Your Heart
The passage taught · 1 Samuel 16:7-12
7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.”
10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen these.”
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- September 4, 2023 Make Room in Your Heart Brian Hunter walks Tribe Church through John 8 and Matthew 6 as he launches a 21-day fast for Israel, asking the congregation to make room in their hearts for what God cares about.