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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Christ's kingdom people are not to reflect the world but they are to influence the world; they are to be in it but not of it.
John MacArthur

I want to insist that, contrary to popular opinion, fasting is not the suppression of desire but the intense pursuit of it. We fast because we want something more than food. We say No to food for a season only to fill ourselves with something far more tasty, far more filling, far more satisfying. That is to say, if one suppresses the desire for food it is only because he or she has a greater and more intense desire for something more precious – something of eternal value.
Sam Storms