Forty days of nothing? Not hardly. Even though Jesus fasted for forty days, He clearly came out stronger than ever based on the events following it. 

Emerging from the wildreness, Jesus chose 12 unlikely and vastly different personalities along with others and started  to reach, teach, heal and love humanity in a way never experienced.

Ask yourself this: Is your praying and fasting strengthening you or do you feel like you're floundering? Maybe you're not experiencing the outcome that you expected.

Today, God will lead you into and through the same kind of difficult preparation, building in you a power and purpose that Jesus gained from His time of prayer and fasting in the wilderness. Be strong, be bold, be courageous, after all you were not given a timid spirit or one of fear. Bold prayers can equal bold outcomes, that's how the Spirit works.   

Read: Luke 4