Reading a hunger for God by John Piper, so challenging for me personally but heres a paragraph from it that made me think.

'And of all the hundreds of things Jesus might have done to fight off this tremondous threat to salvation, he is led, in the spirit to fast.

If Satan had succeeded in deterring Jesus from the path of humble, sacrificial obedience, there would be no salvation. We would still be in our sins and without hope. Therefore, we owe our salvation in some measure (not to over-state it), to the fasting of Jesus. This is a remarkable tribute to fasting. Don't pass over this quickly. Think on it. Jesus began his ministry with fasting. And he triumphed over his enemy through fasting. And our salvation was accomplished through perseverance of fasting.'

JB