Fasting > Feasting

Matthew 4:2

"And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungred."

Jesus came to us as a baby. A baby who cried. A baby who needed His diaper changed. A baby that needed to be fed! This BABY is both human and GOD! He was there when the universe was created and He comes to live with us in a poor town in the middle of nowhere as the child of a unlikely and unassuming couple unknown to the world. 

It's REALLY incredible. 

Do you need to eat? How many times a day? Even if we do NOT "fast" for forty days we get hungry. We need to eat to be healthy and to be strong. Sometimes we eat BIG meals an other times little snacks. Jesus would have had many meals before He came here to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

In our instance gratification culture it is very hard for us to understand why Jesus retreated in solitude to abstain from eating for SO LONG. We don't understand what practitioners of fasting KNOW; it really isn’t about not eating food. It’s about FEASTING on the fullness of every divine blessing secured for us in Christ. Fasting opens our hearts to experience the presence of God. It attunes our souls to hear His voice. It helps practitioners experience His love and the fullness of His joy. So, it should be seen that Jesus's time here did not make Him more venerable. No, it made Him stronger and prepared Him for what the devil is about to tempt Him with!

Please watch this video link below... (Hank speaks more about fasting than anyone, he has excellent insights.) Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯 broadcast and the 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘜𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 podcast, focuses on fasting as taught by our Lord in Matthew 6. Fasting is the third strand of the triple-braided cord—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. 

https://youtu.be/URPRJ_mjj4I