Hello Brave Hearted Steppers, One day, I saw a person using a cellphone with earbuds (like the woman in the picture above). The person left the cellphone on the counter and walked away, talking via the earbuds. The person was losing the strength of the signal and couldn’t hear the person on the earbuds and lost the connection. I thought this is what happens to us with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We use our prayers and fasting (cellphone) with the scripture (earbuds). Jesus (on the other line) is listening to the conversation on the “cellphone”; you leave the “cellphone” on the counter and walk away talking via the “earbuds.” We are losing the strength of the signal (our direct communication with Jesus), relying on just the “earbuds,” and we are losing our connection because we are putting the “cellphone” by the wayside. We need to stay connected with the Lord at all times through prayer and fasting, scripture (word of God/The Bible), silence and being still, obedience, praise, a...