See here the first 40 day fast:Btw, I just saw this (very active thread). This is interesting. I've never noticed it before. If you could, please provide me with the two passages describing each.
"When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image." Deut 9:9-12
And then here the 2nd 40 day fast:
"So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger." Deut 9:15-18
Because of my own physical health diminishing along with hers, my wife carefully watches what I do or do not eat, and therefore I have not fasted from food for a very long time other than skipping a few meals here and there. My primary activities consists of reading and studying my Bibles along with prayer and a couple of online Christian forums. This helps me to fast from a lot other available activities in the world, which while they are not sin in themselves, might cause me to cut back on my time working for God.I do wonder about fasting in latter years. I fully intend on getting into better shape than I've ever been in from here on out. When I get back to strength, I'm going back to a strong exercise routine I was developing, and I intend on eating healthy. If I go back and forth from fasting to eating like I expect, it will be more of the same; coming down in weight, and then becoming physically fit. The intention is to live as long as possible in service to the Lord.
But I will have to keep my expectations open where doing all this in my 70s and 80s is concerned. I'm not sure how that would go, and if the Lord does not ordain it then I would have no business entertaining the idea any longer.
I was quite active in a small local church group as well leading Bible studies and preaching once in a while. That has reduced a bit recently due to certain questionable events there...
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