A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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A Compe l l i ng Tes t imony

(3) Another forty afterwards?, Deut. 9.18 – Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger.

c. Elijah on mount Horeb, 1 Kings 19.8 – And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

d. What do we make of this? Coincidence? Spiritual sign?

4. Examples of personal fasting in the Scripture

a. David’s fast following the deaths of Saul, Jonathan, and Abner, 2 Sam 1.12; 3.36; see also Ps. 109.24

b. Nehemiah, Neh. 1.4

c. Esther, Esther 4.16

d. Daniel, Dan. 9.3

e. The disciples of John the Baptist, Matt. 9.14

f. Anna, Luke 2.37

g. Cornelius, Acts 10.30