Have you ever wanted to try fasting but weren’t sure how to do it the biblical way? Many Christians know fasting is important, yet few understand how to approach this spiritual discipline with wisdom and purpose.

In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, Ted Ross provides clear, practical instruction on biblical fasting and how it prepares the heart for real spiritual change. Building on the previous teaching about why fasting leads to breakthrough, this episode explains how fasting works in practice and why it has been a powerful discipline throughout Scripture.

You’ll discover how fasting helps humble the soul, quiet distractions, and position believers to seek God more clearly. Through examples from Joel, Acts, Ezra, and the teachings of Jesus, this episode shows how fasting has historically been used for repentance, direction, and spiritual breakthrough.

Key teaching points in this episode:

• Why Christians fast for repentance, direction, or breakthrough
• The different types of biblical fasts, including absolute, water, partial, & group fasts
• Why some spiritual obstacles require prayer and fasting
• What fasting is not, including common misunderstandings about the discipline
• Practical guidance for beginning a fast with humility and wisdom

If you want to grow in your relationship with God and learn how fasting can strengthen your faith and spiritual sensitivity, this episode offers a clear and practical guide grounded in biblical teaching. Listen now and begin applying this powerful discipline in your own walk with God.

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Are you praying, reading the Bible, and seeking God… yet still feeling spiritually stuck? Many Christians long for breakthrough but struggle to overcome habits, distractions, or spiritual resistance. In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, Ted Ross explores why biblical fasting is a powerful discipline that prepares the heart for spiritual breakthrough.

Fasting is more than simply abstaining from food—it is a spiritual practice designed to humble the soul, quiet the flesh, and increase sensitivity to God’s voice. Through Jesus’ Parable of the Sower (Mark 4), this episode explains how the condition of our heart determines whether God’s Word produces transformation in our lives. When our hearts are hardened, shallow, or distracted, spiritual growth is limited. But fasting helps cultivate the “good soil” that allows God’s Word to take root and bear lasting fruit.

You’ll also discover how Jesus practiced fasting, why it was a normal discipline for believers in the New Testament, and how true fasting—done with humility and sincerity—can break spiritual strongholds and release God’s power in your life.

Key Teaching Points
• Why fasting prepares your heart for spiritual breakthrough
• The four heart conditions in the Parable of the Sower
• What biblical fasting really is and why Christians should practice it
• How fasting weakens the flesh and strengthens spiritual focus
• How God uses fasting to break chains and bring freedom

Listen now to discover how fasting can help you draw closer to God and experience the spiritual breakthrough you’ve been seeking.

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Are you reading the Bible — but not absorbing or understanding it?

In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, we explore how meditating on God’s Word moves truth from your head to your heart and produces real, lasting transformation. The Bible doesn’t just call us to read — it calls us to meditate day and night.

As the second discipline in our Five Disciplines for Christian Growth, this episode explains what biblical meditation is (and what it is not), how it guards your heart, renews your mind, and reshapes your inner life.

Includes a practical 7-Day Meditation Challenge to help you slow down, reflect deeply, and experience real spiritual growth.

Season 03 – How Christians Grow
Episode 03 – How Meditating on God’s Word Transforms Your Life

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Are you reading the Bible — but not seeing real change?

In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, we examine how reading the Bible out loud strengthens your faith, increases clarity of purpose, and accelerate your spiritual growth. Scripture teaches that faith comes by hearing — and when God’s Word moves from your eyes to your voice to your ears, something shifts inside of you.

As the first of our Five Disciplines for Christian Growth, this episode shows why reading God’s Word is foundational — and how to engage it in a way that produces lasting transformation in your life.

Includes a practical 7-day challenge to help you apply it immediately.

Season 03 – How Christians Grow
Episode 02 – Why Reading the Bible Out Loud Changes Everything

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What does real Christian success actually look like — and how do you build it?

In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, we define Christian success and reveal five essential disciplines (habits) that God uses to grow strong, mature, and successful believers. The Bible show us that success doesn't come from better circumstances or good luck — it comes from a deeper relationship with God. This episode shows you how.

If you want peace, clarity of purpose, strength, or spiritual growth, this episode is for you.

Season 03 – How Christians Grow
Episode 01 – 5 Disciplines Every Christian Needs for SUCCESS

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The wilderness is not your final destination—it’s your training ground for God's power. God doesn't bring His people into the wilderness to leave them weak and wandering, He wants you to come out of the wilderness in power to fulfill your purpose.

In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, we explore how Christians come out of the wilderness with power—spiritually strengthened and ready to walk boldly in what God has prepared for them. If you are being tested, pressed, or refined, this episode will show you what God is producing—and how to step forward in the power He intends every Christian to walk in.

Season 02 - What is a Christian?
Episode 06 - How to Come Out of the Wilderness With Power

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What is your purpose in life and how do you find it? Seasons of hardship, testing, and uncertainty can leave many Christians feeling lost or stuck. But the Bible shows that purpose isn’t discovered after the wilderness. It’s formed during the hardship of the wilderness.

In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, we explore how God uses the wilderness experience to shape your character, refine your faith, and reveal your purpose in life. If you’re in a season of waiting, testing, or uncertainty, this episode will help you understand how God is working behind the scenes to prepare you for what’s next.

Season 02 – What Is a Christian?
Episode 05 – How to Find Your Purpose in the Wilderness

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How does God get you through the wilderness? Seasons of hardship, testing, and discomfort can feel overwhelming—leaving many Christians wondering if they’ll even make it through. But the Bible reveals something powerful: the wilderness isn’t meant to break you. It’s meant to build you. God uses these difficult seasons to break old habits, convert your soul, and strengthen your faith.

In this episode of the Simple Truth Podcast, we explore what it means to be sustained by God in the wilderness. Through Scripture and the analogy of a marathon runner, we explain how God supplies strength, encouragement, and core support—not by removing the wilderness, but by empowering you to endure it.

Season 02 – What Is a Christian?
Episode 04 – How God Sustains You Through the Wilderness

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