'A Gift Of Faith!'
Esther 4:16.
a) Go.
b) Gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan.
c) Fast for me.
d) Neither eat nor drink for three days.
e) Night and day.
f) My maids and I will fast likewise.
g) And so I will go to the king.
h) (Which is against the law)
i) If I perish, I perish.
(This QT teaches me about A Gift Of Faith)
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'Not Just A Spirit.'
Luke 24:39.
a) Behold My Hands and My Feet.
b) It is I Myself.
c) Handle Me and see.
d) A spirit does not have flesh and bones.
e) You see that I have flesh and bones.
(This Second one reveals that the Risen Christ Is Not Just A Spirit)
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Chris.
The Jews in Shushan had a very special and intense call to fast. This was not a 'general' fast, it was a call to fast for the lives of God's People in the times of Esther. It was a fast that covered both eating and drinking - which was exceptional. We need to remember that there are several kinds of Biblical fast. We should not fast with an exceptional fast unless we are called to do so.
