Any other analogies that you can think of that people, you could give people of why it's so important to fast?

You know, I'll go back to Daniel again, and that's kind of, when a good foundational book is Arthur C. Wallace, is God's chosen fast, which comes from Isaiah 58. Is this the fast that I've chosen?

And the Lord begins to describe the fast that he's chosen is not religion.

It's not for people to brag or boast.

It's so that burdens can be lifted and chains can be broken and light comes and people hear from God.

So one of the things that Wallace discusses in God's Chosen Fast,

with these three areas, the partial, the normal, and the absolute fast.

Right.

So the partial fast is what we think Daniel was on, was a partial fast.

We think Jesus was on a normal fast because he ate, but it doesn't appear that he drank

water.

Right. Because he was tempted to appear that he drank water. Right.

Because he was tempted to make bread, not water.

And if you hadn't had anything to drink for 40 days, food would not be your issue.

Right.

That's true.

That's a good point.

I haven't thought about that.

So in this partial fast, Daniel, when he's before the Lord, then Gabriel appears to him and says,

we heard you the first day that you prayed.

It says 21 days have passed.

He says, we've heard you the first day that you pray.

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