Why not prayer and fasting?
published: Monday | January 23, 2006

THE EDITOR, Sir:

AS A CHRISTIAN, it's funny that I never stopped to think about the National Prayer Breakfast. However, while having my yogurt over my Gleaner on Friday, January 20, and reading the article on the front page "G-G, PM say farewell at prayer breakfast", it struck me. Of all the times in the Bible that a country or a person was in difficulty and sought divine intervention, they never went eating and praying, but rather they were fasting and praying.

EXAMPLE FROM THE BIBLE

Here are just a few examples that came readily to mind - Jesus, just before he went into his challenging ministry, the kings and people of Nineveh following Jonah's prophecy of the destruction of that city, and there was this time when Jesus' disciples tried to perform a miracle and failed, and he informed them that this required prayer and fasting.

As my yogurt came to an end, I just thought it was interesting that the Bible showed that prayer and fasting was what was done to address difficulties, while we continue to eat and pray.

As Orville Higgins would say, these are my views, what say you?

I am, etc.,

NADINE LARGIE

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