Bible Reading Plan

Spiritual Habits

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Day 7

Jesus Models Fasting in the Wilderness

Matthew 4:1-4 (ESV)

[1] Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. [2] And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. [3] And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” [4] But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Exodus 34:28 (ESV)

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

1 Kings 19:8 (ESV)

And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.