Lack in testimony of fasting

I have never understood fasting. I know we do it because 1: we are commanded to. 2: fast offering to further charity work 3:.... just those two things actually. I was studying this weeks Come Follow Me lesson and was reading Matthew 4 where Christ spending 40 days and nights fasting in the wilderness and it occurred to me that even though I do fast and know the basic temporal reasons why, I have no testimony of it. I realize fasting with prayer provides a very real strength and power to t

I have a strong testimony about Fasting and its younger sister, Abstinence. I have one reason for Fasting - to strengthen my spirit by overcoming the natural man. Yes, I learned to fast because Jesus fasted (I was Catholic) but I didn't do it because the Catechism commands it or because of Fast Offerings. I did it, and continue to do it, for that one reason. Target shooters kinda go through a similar process. When focusing on a target, they focus every bit of their consciousness on