Robin Densmore Fuson

Fasting is difficult. I’ve fasted a few times in my life for various reasons and time periods. A person with a faster metabolism experiences a more difficult challenge. There is a diet that requires intermittent fasting of around fifteen hours each day. I typically go between seventeen to twenty hours from my last meal of the day and breakfast the next. Biblical fasting is associated with prayer. In a prolonged fast it’s beneficial to pray each time the hunger pangs nudge us to find food. That’s the point of fasting in the Bible. Prayer. A time of focus on the Lord. To be alone with God. No distractions. Me and God time. The prophet Moses, who led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt to the edge of the promised land, experienced fasting. There were many trips to the top of a mountain to meet the Lord. On one of the trips to the top of Mt. Sinai he spent forty days with the Lord. There, Moses pled for the lives of the people and God gave him instruction on how to build the taberna...