Forty Days and Forty Nights

By Heather A. Goodman
 
As we move through the story of Christ and his body, we come to the forty-day season of Lent. It is a time of fasting and prayer to prepare for Easter, the most joyous and victorious day of the Christian year.
 
Lent represents the forty days Christ withdrew and fasted as he prepared for his earthly ministry. During this time, waiting for that point when Christ would be his weakest, Satan threw his full forces at Christ: you don’t have to do this, Satan said. There’s an easier way …
 
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255th Christian Carnival

The 255th Christian Carnival went up yesterday at Parableman, but I’m told it’s still up today. (Be sure to use chains if you drive … there will be snow. Parking is around the back, next to Woolworths.)

Some of the posts featured:

• Save Your Christmas
• Fasting: Keeping It Secret In Our Culture of Food in America
• Stewardship 101
• 5 Inspirational Bible Quotes To Enhance Your Day

Christians fasting and praying for an end to gay marriage in CA

… according to a recent L. A. Times story (HT: Mollie Ziegler):

“For more than two weeks, Missy Huff has spent her days in a darkened church classroom, praying all day and into the night and subsisting on a pastel-colored regimen of VitaminWater and Jamba Juice smoothies. But she does not yearn for food. She is too committed, she says, to the cause of traditional marriage. …”

Fasting and prayer

Writing from personal experience, Carolyn McCulley underscores their significance in the Christian life:

“Though my fasting does not force God’s hand on anything, it does empower prayer in a particular way.”