We are Led to Fast and Pray by the Help of the Holy Spirit!
Jesus, immediately He was filled with the Holy Spirit, He was led to the wilderness where He prayed and fasted. “After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry” (Matt. 4:2). Jesus’ ability to pray was because He was enabled by the Holy Spirit. Consider that Jesus’ fast, like Moses, was a supernatural one, where He ate nothing. Only the Holy Spirit could enable Him to do that.
How easy is it to pray? I do not think it is naturally easy. Prayer, especially with fasting, is an impossible feat without the help of the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ observation about prayer was, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!” (Matt. 26:41). This is where the Holy Spirit takes over: “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will” (Rom 8:26-27).
The Holy Spirit burdens your heart to pray, and then empowers you through that prayer. “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly” (Acts 4:30).
We soak in the Holy Spirit because He gives us the burden for extraordinary prayer, and anoints us through prayer.