Daniel Feast

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Welcome to the Daniel FEAST! *

For the past six years, Houston’s First has participated in a church wide Daniel Fast in early January to deepen our relationship with God and to consecrate the new year. January 2023 would be the seventh year of this annual focus. In keeping with biblical examples of releasing debts or allowing land to lie fallow every seven years, Houston’s First will FEAST instead of fast in this seventh year. We will explore the Festivals of God found in Leviticus 23 and celebrate all that God has done — and will continue to do — in us and through us.

Nothing in this life is by accident nor chance. All throughout the scriptures we can see that there are seasons for everything.

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." — Ecclesiastes 3:1

During the week of January 8-14, we will look at one of the Seven Festivals each day and celebrate each one through prayer and feasting. In the Old Testament, there are seven feasts found in Leviticus 23. The Hebrew word for “feasts” (moadim) literally means "appointed times." God has carefully planned and orchestrated the timing and sequence of each of these seven feasts to reveal to us a special story. The seven annual feasts of Israel were spread over seven months of the Jewish calendar, at set times appointed by God.

"These are the LORD’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times." — Leviticus 23:4

"Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is Christ." — Colossians 2:16-17

The Festivals of God serve as a remembrance and a memorial to honor all that God has done for His people. Each of the Old Testament Jewish Festivals teaches us and reveals to us our relationship with God. The story of redemption is being told throughout the Festivals of God!

Spring Feasts were fulfilled with Christ’s first coming

Feast of Passover (Pesach)

Feast of Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah)

Feast of FirstFruits (Yom HaBikkurim)

Feast of Weeks (Shavuor a.k.a. Pentacost)

Fall Feasts will be fulfilled at Christ’s second coming

Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)

Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)