Fasting???

Yeah well just like the last blog that i posted i heard something else weird that i had never heard before...John McArthur had some kind of question and answer time which by the way was very revealing about himself and at the same time he is a very intelligent man. But the question was posed that in Matt. fasting is mentioned along with praying and giving alms so the young man in the audience asked if fasting was to be as common as praying and fasting in our lives. McArthur went on to say that fasting is not commanded anywhere in the Bible. However, fasting is supposed to be used in a time of intense prayer for a request or to be accompanied with prayer. People in the New testament were using the amount of times that they fasted to measure their dedication to God. So as a young man that has fasted over ten times in his young life. What is fasting for you i want to encourage all of you to fast but realize that its not how many times you fast or even that you do fast but that the reason you fast is to hear from God in times of desperation.