Starting Friday (01-11-13) at sundown...

NewLIFEstyle4ME

Thank you so much for doing this and sharing your journey by starting a group...that's just anointed

I hadn't consider doing such a fast, until I saw you form this group--I want to participate as well. I'm led to begin this Friday evening at sundown. I'm going to be observing the Sabbath/Shabbat for the next three weeks (21 days) as well. I haven't shared this with my family, but will--they are very supportive.

I'm also excited about the huge lists of foods available during this time--all of the things I love and am drawn to.

Wow...All glory, honor and praise to God for putting it in your heart to do this and start this group
:smooched: :flowerforyou:

tiffanygaskin

Hi there, i too am amazed and excited about such a group with such an assignment. To GOD be the glory. Having just became a member today I would like to join you and begin the daniel fast. I'm not exactly sure what time you will begin but I plan to begin at 12 midnight. NO MEAT! I feel like that won't be too hard I've done this once before but only for a week at a time. Three weeks wil be a challenge but I'm all for it.

NewLIFEstyle4ME

Hi there, i too am amazed and excited about such a group with such an assignment. To GOD be the glory. Having just became a member today I would like to join you and begin the Daniel fast. I'm not exactly sure what time you will begin but I plan to begin at 12 midnight. NO MEAT! I feel like that won't be too hard I've done this once before but only for a week at a time. Three weeks will be a challenge but I'm all for it.

I'm going to officially start the Fast on Friday at sundown--for the next 3 weeks/21 days. I will be incorporating The Daniel Fast requirements as well as the Shabbat --when I say observing the Shabbat/Sabbath--fmeaning, from Friday sundown until Saturday sundown--I'll put ALL of my focus and time on The Lord and Resting. No radio, no internet, no shopping--no working...just listening to glorious Hebraic Messianic music, singing and dancing in The Lord, sleeping, eating things on the Fast list and most important studying and eating The Word of God exclusively for a solid 24 hours--minus ANY worldly/secular distractions/affections/desires. For the next three weeks, I'll live 6 days per week handling my business and such and will dedicate 1 day/24 hours to Lord. YES, everyday is dedicated to The Lord Most High--but I am so Led to sanctify this one special day for Him as well as me:smooched: during this Daniel's Fast. Mark 2:27 Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!” As a family, we've tried in the past to observe the Shabbat--but I turned into a pharisee about it and it was just as ugly as when the pharisees were fighting with Jesus about the Sabbath--ugh!

I will humble myself and allow The Holy Spirit to Led the next three weeks in this Fast & observing the Shabbat this time. I asked my hubby permission and he said it sounds wonderful and gave me his full blessings and encouragement The Lord was speaking to my spirit yesterday as I was exercising and struggling with that and the mental thoughts of my failures in this battle and my lack of fellow shipping with The Lord like I used to. He told me He has NEVER left me and never will, that I've left Him and that He wants me to TRUST HIM. I will be diligently seeking His Face on what He means by "Trust Him"--because that obviously a serious and main issue and key to ALL of my struggles, woes and failures in this battle and in my personal relationship with Father God. Then I find this group after my outside walking--WOW. This group and anointed adventure is far more deeper than I think any of us know/realize....HALLELU-et-Adonai--Praise God Forever and THANK YOU OP once again for your faith in starting this journey and group :flowerforyou:

My oldest dd wants to do this with me (the Sabbath part) and our whole family will be joining in the Daniel Fast--but I will be holding myself strictly accountable with this fast and sabbath--so as NOT to be a pharisee, as I so easily am tempted to be with such things:

I'm meditating on this Word I found this morning:
Mark 2
New Living Translation

A Discussion about Fasting

18 Once when John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, some people came to Jesus and asked, “Why don’t your disciples fast like John’s disciples and the Pharisees do?”

19Jesus replied, “Do wedding guests fast while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. They can’t fast while the groom is with them. :drinker: 20 But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.:smooched:

21“Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before.

22“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins.”

A Discussion about the Sabbath

23One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of grain to eat. 24But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look, why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?”

25Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 26He went into the house of God (during the days when Abiathar was high priest) and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests are allowed to eat. He also gave some to his companions.”

:drinker: 27 Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!” :smooched:

EstiloPanama

I am so excited for all of you. Thank you for sharing that. The Daniel Fast will bring blessings and bring our spirits closer to God..I know it : )

Thanks for all the scriptures quotes...very awesome!

And yes, red meat is a HUGE challenge for me. Any meat really, because I just love it..but the sacrifice is giving up temptation to yield to the spirit. It is completely worth it...and a few weeks is a small chunk compared to the blessings we will receive for life and eternity..

God bless.

NewLIFEstyle4ME

Here's a really terrific message I'm listening to of youtube that may bless your spirit and help us in this Awesome feat as well it's called:

THE DANIEL DIET & DANIEL FAST IN BIBLE HEALING LECTURE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy5RJOP3yzk

DANIEL FAST: DETAILED!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTRiTXNyrqw

The DANIEL FAST: EXPLAINED!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61f6JXhQCXw


I was searching on youtube last night for/on the Daniel Fast and found these...I find the very encouraging and enlightening too--I don't know this brother, and just found him on the internet--but the things he talks about and the Scriptures he uses are super edifying for me and I thought I'd share them here with you all too--there are more of his lectures on youtube as well, these are the ones I've listened to thus far. How excited and hopeful I am to begin this fast....Wow

EstiloPanama

Thank you for sharing that !