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See here the first 40 day fast: "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...

Without having done a lot of active searching for them I have come across many types and shadows in the OT with regard to the NT and in particular to Jesus... who is the real thing. I wonder if the double fasting by Moses is somehow related to the double blessings of the first born as we see in...

This is more of the explanation I was looking for in this. Fasting for long periods of time with no intake of food or water is a physical impossibility for man alone beyond a certain definitely limited amount of time. The food can be skipped for a very long time as long as the water is not...

Thanks for mentioning the post numbers. I scanned #22 but I had missed #31 altogether. Sounds like we're not that far apart on this. God does know what He is doing even when and if we do not.

Moses actually fasted 40 days twice. He did it the first time before breaking the stone tablets, but then a second time when he returned to get the second set of tablets engraved. This would have been 80 days total. I am not sure if he broke his fast between the two 40 day periods. I have...

Whether or not we are sharper when we are fasting is not necessarily our answer, is it? When I have fasted I have become as you have, but this may have little or nothing to do with what God is doing for us or what we are doing for Him. I am not certain we can earn our way to a closer walk with...

@Grams Also joining in prayer here!

It is possible that a man who really could be a good called pastor has gotten himself into a financial bind by living beyond his means and now he is unable to easily back out of it. With less than so many $$$ per month he cannot make ends meet or satisfy a demanding spouse. Either way he not...

No, God has no secrets with regard to what we need. This is why we have the written scriptures and the Holy Spirit. Either one alone is insufficient, but together in proper balance all things indeed are possible along His highway of holiness.

@JesusIsFaithful Sorry you went to all the trouble of answering me without understanding what I wrote. You have missed the point and did exactly what I asked you not to do. I pray that God may open your heart to hear and to see the truth no matter what it is. I also pray that both of us move...

Give God the glory my friend! I only wish everyone could or would understand what God wants to say to everyone. But unfortunately sometimes people are more interested in winning a debate than in understanding God. Recall what the apostle Paul wrote: "For while one saith, I am of Paul; and...

@JesusIsFaithful You are speaking from your own studies and convictions rather than from what God has written on your heart. You speak to me of this verse this verse: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." II...

Yes, I noticed that you had said some, but your emphasis was not there. Thank you for at least admitting that not every person is in that boat you described. The whole Body of Christ has all of the gifts or will have all of the gifts God has for it, but not every part is whole Body. Some parts...

Where I have attended no one ever preaches 'canned' messages or any messages prepared ahead of time. It sounds good and it has been, but... I used stand and talk at nearly every meeting until April of this year. Now mostly I "talk" on the Internet on forums like this one. My pastor is on his...

@JesusIsFaithful If you want to respond to my response, please do so, but don't add me to pre-labeled people you continue to mention in your conclusions drawn here about other people as if we were all the same: There are lots of people in the world we call planet Earth and everyone of them has...

But, which "many people" is it that decide whether or not we are saved? I would say, none of them.

You seem to want a definite, yes or no, answer, but does God? Can a person miss on one or more of those because of where is at the moment in his walk with God and still be immersed in the two great commandments as per Jesus? If he can will he then be able to please God and always be with Him...

You have two different cases: the believer who is trusting in God and the unbeliever who trusts in his own conclusions. The problem of course is that some believers choose to trust in themselves for some things. This is not saying that no believer can own a physical weapon, but the question of...

We should not be coming to God or to men with our own finalized conclusions. That is not humility. We come to Him with nothing and then we ask, seek and knock. He will then not leave us empty but fill us with good things. If we are too full of our own things [even scripturally based conclusions]...

It is supposed to come from what God has written in our hearts. If it does not, then we really do have a problem, don't we? Are we really sheep who always recognize the Master's voice, or have we drawn conclusions of our own and presume that they are the Lord's> A lot of delusions being walked...