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Lent is a season for all of us where we can reflect, re-choose, and re-shape ourselves and our futures.

Fasting has a preeminent place throughout Scripture, yet scores of people ignore or avoid it. It does bring discomfort, yet we desperately need it.

Fasting has a preeminent place throughout Scripture, yet scores of people ignore or avoid it. It does bring discomfort, yet we desperately need it.

Voluntary fasting, for example interval fasting, is beneficial to health for many people, depending on their individual condition. For example, controlled periods of starvation can prevent and improve diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

God answers and empowers those seeking Him in prayer and fasting.

"For strength in the new year, wisdom, clarity, success."

A rigorous three-month study found that people lost little weight, and much of that may have been from muscle.

The benefits of fasting

But evil, so evil, that they want to cancel christmas. but the ultimate irony is that if you go far back enough, the real war on christmas was started by puritan christians. they decided to literally ban christmas celebrations by an order of parliament in 1647. it was considered too indulgent, not focused enough on the bible. so they made that time of, get this, fasting and humiliation. seriously, it is a reminder that fundamentalists are just no fun. even after the english overturned that unpop...

Of this country. can you out organize their legislative that ill years? >> absolutely not. we have been saying since day one, we cant out organize, we can do what we can in the streets. people are frustrated. we started at the beginning of the year. there was a lot of momentum on the side of the democrats. fundamentally, you had a base of people that showed up, got the results they wanted. what we saw were voters actually put people in power pause they expected that those people would protect th...