The early church fasted. Jesus said that all who follow Him must take up their cross and deny themselves. Paul tells us repeatedly in the books of Galatians and Romans that we're called to be crucified with Christ. Fasting weakens you physically, and opens you proportionally to the things of the spiritual realm. In fact, fasting actually sharpens your senses.
Nothing clears the hazy clouds of the flesh better than fasting.
Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of the others before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the same sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him. Needless to say, Ahab was one bad king.