Thank you for joining us today.

We're going to get right down to business, Greg.

All right.

And this first question comes from Arian.

Is it biblical to abstain from something like social media as a form of fasting to pray for a specific thing?

Is fasting food specific?

Would it be right to abstain from social media, for example, for a year and accompany that with prayer for a friend's salvation?

Well, it wouldn't be wrong.

The question is, is it biblical? And when the Bible

refers to fasting, it's talking about food and water. And I don't understand the whole thing about

fasting, frankly. I know that it's a biblical discipline. People in the Bible did it. Moses did it,

Jesus did it, others, and there's a

presumption that Christians will have seasons of fasting, and we see references to that. Jesus said,

when you fast, for example, then behave this way, and that when the bridegroom's gone, then they will fast.

There's a comment, I think, at 1st Corinthians 7, where Paul says,

don't separate yourself sexually, men, husbands from your wives,

except for a period of fasting in prayer and then come

back because of temptations, et cetera. So there is this presumption of fasting, but the fasting

that we have in scripture is always related to food and liquids and water, whatever. And

there are books you can get on fasting.

A God's chosen fast, I think, is a standard.

I remember saying it many, many years ago.

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