The document discusses God's appointed times, particularly the yearly feasts and the monthly celebration of rosh chodesh, emphasizing their significance in aligning believers with God's blessings and timing. Each feast represents specific spiritual transactions, offering opportunities for redemption, provision, and experiencing God's glory. The practice of celebrating these feasts is framed as essential for fostering a rhythm of blessings in life, promoting joy, and deepening the relationship with God.

1. GOD’S CYCLE
OF BLESSING
God’s Yearly Cycle of
Life and The Monthly
Rosh Chodesh

3. God’s Yearly Cycle of Life
The appointed times or the Feasts of the Lord
are God’s yearly cycle. Each season of the
year is special to God. As we understand
God’s purposes for each season, we learn to
walk in wisdom and prosper. God uses each
time, each season, and each month to work
in our lives and help press us forward into our
call and destiny. He readily responds when
we come to Him and answers our prayers in
every season. Likewise, if we align with
God’s timing, we can walk in His blessings.

4. “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to
Me. You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened
Bread; for seven days you are to eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time
in the month Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt.
And none shall appear before Me empty-
handed. Also you shall observe the Feast of the
Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what
you sow in the field; also the Feast of the
Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather
in the fruit of your labors from the field. Three times
a year all your males shall appear before the
Lord GOD. Exodus 23:14-17

5. These feasts are literally appointments with
God, and he said, in effect, “get out your
calendar and set aside these three times. I
want to meet with you at these specific times
to accomplish some specific things in your
lives each year!”
God is observing the feasts. God chooses to
do His great works at His appointed times.
He intended these feasts for all of His people.
His “appointed times” are eternal. They are
not temporary holidays. The feasts are for all
time.

6. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your
generations in all your dwelling places. Lev 23:31
God is still waiting to keep His appointments. If we
are willing to meet with Him, we receive great
blessing.
God’s appointed times are designed to create a
rhythm in our lives. They align our lives with God’s
timing and help us to be in synch with the Spirit of
God so we are at the right place at the right time.

7. They are family celebrations designed so
that our children will grow up with the rhythm
of God’s cycle of blessing built into them.
Many don’t experience God’s blessing
because they miss their windows of
opportunity. If we align our lives with God’s
timing, we don’t miss the opportunities God
has for us.

8. What is Pictured in the Feasts?
Each of these feasts has a different focus
and is designed to accomplish some specific
“spiritual transactions” in our lives.
FIRST MONTH: Passover (Redemption
and Cleansing). Passover celebrates
redemption from sin and cleansing from
impurity. When Passover is celebrated, we
experience again the joy of being
“redeemed by the blood of the lamb!”

9. THIRD MONTH: Pentecost (Provision)
Pentecost is a celebration of God’s provision.
The physical provision of the wheat harvest,
the provision of God’s revelation in the
Torah, and the provision of the Holy Spirit.
SEVENTH MONTH: Tabernacles
(Experiencing God’s Glory)
Tabernacles celebrates God’s glory – His
Presence – dwelling with His people. At
Tabernacles, God wants to lead us afresh
into the joy of life in His Presence.

10. The Feasts and the Tabernacle:
OUTER COURT – Place of Redemption &
Cleansing. We find the altar and the laver, a
place to be delivered from the defilement of
sin.
HOLY PLACE – Celebration of God’s
Provision. The table of showbread
acknowledged God’s physical provision. The
altar of Incense pictured the provision of
access to God through Prayer.
HOLY OF HOLIES – The place God’s glory
dwelt in the midst of His people.

12. God’s appointed times were designed to put
you on an escalator going up. Every year
they take you through a set of key spiritual
transactions that draw you ever-closer into
His presence. They form a cycle designed
to break the enemy’s power and restore you
to God’s blessing.
If we celebrate these feasts, not as religious
rituals or traditional observances – but as
times to meet with God and allow Him
access to our lives, they enable us to draw
continually closer to God and set us free
from Satan’s oppression.

14. God’s monthly cycle is what the Jews call
ROSH CHODESH. This Holy Day is very
important to God, yet most believers never
talk about or honor this cycle.
Why are we not experiencing what the Bible
promises? The reason is because we are
not doing what the Bible instructs us to do.
But God is restoring them to us and one of
this is the blessing of Rosh Chodesh.

15. Rosh Chodesh is Hebrew for “head of the
month,” which is a joyful celebration
to the Lord held on the first day of every
month. Rosh Chodesh is a time to gather
together and seek God. The Bible call this
celebration a “new moon” festival.

16. O LORD, our Lord, how
majestic and glorious and excellent is
Your name in all the earth!
You have displayed Your splendor
above the heavens.
When I see and consider Your
heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You
have established,
O LORD, our Lord, how
majestic and glorious and excellent
is Your name in all the earth!
Psalm 8: 1, 3, 9

17. Who alone stretches out the heavens
And tramples down the waves of the sea;
Who made [the constellations] the Bear, Orion, and
the Pleiades,
And the [vast starry] spaces of the south; Job 9:7-9
Clearly, the Scriptures validate there is nothing evil
or occult about the sun, moon, or the
constellations. They are part of God’s creation.
The enemy has simply tried to pervert what God
has made. The heavens were designed to point
us to God, but Satan has enticed mankind to use
Who commands the sun, and it does not shine;
Who seals up the stars [from view];

18. The heavens for an ungodly purpose. His
strategy for this is called astrology. The
science of astrology is man’s attempt to
discern the future from the stars and gain
revelation without having to seek God or
hear His voice. Astrology is a form of
divination, which is a sin. If you dabble in
horoscopes, you are disobeying God’s Word
and opening the door to demonic
oppression in your life.
God gave us the heavens as one of His
good gifts to provide us with revelation of
who He is and to remind us of the times

19. God has established for us to seek Him.
Then God said, “Let there be light-bearers (sun,
moon, stars) in the expanse of the heavens to
separate the day from the night, and let them
be useful for signs (tokens) [of God’s provident
care], and for marking seasons, days, and years;
Genesis 1:14
Two significant words to describe the heavens:
1.God says the heavens are there to provide
SIGNS. Oth – Heb word meaning “a signal, omen,
or warning.” So we know that God gives warnings
and signals in the heavens.

20. I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the
LORD. Acts 2:19-20
Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will
be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars
will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will
be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in
heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and
they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory. Matthew 24:29-30

21. 2. Seasons – Heb word mo’ed, meaning an
“appointed time, an appointment, a fixed
time or season.” Mo’ed is the same word
used for a biblical feast. God tells us that
the stars are there to mark our seasons,
and to remind us of the “appointed times”
to meet with Him.
The heavens are a revelation of God’s times.
God arranged the sun, moon, and stars
in the heavens to establish His times in
our lives.

22. Rosh Chodesh is an expression of the firstfruits
principle.
Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the
LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and you take
possession of it and live in it,
that you shall take some of the
first of all the produce of the ground which you harvest from
the land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall
put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your
God chooses to establish His Name (Presence). Deut 26: 1-
2

23. He will set you high above all the nations which He
has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that
you shall be a holy people [set apart and
consecrated] to the LORD your God, just as He
has spoken. Deut 26:19
From this we recognize that firstfruits truly is
a major key to living in the favor and
prosperity of God.

24. Firstfruits is honoring God by giving back to
Him the first and best of all He has given us.
To comprehend the significance of the
firstfruits, we must understand that in all of
life, there’s something very special about the
first.
On that day men were appointed over the
chambers for the stores, the contributions,
the first fruits, and the tithes. Neh 12:44

25. The Bible describes three categories of
giving:
And [we obligate ourselves] to bring the first fruits
of our ground and the first fruits of all the fruit of
every tree to the house of the LORD annually,
Nehemiah 10:35
1. Firstfruits Giving – is a special way to
honor God. By giving God the first of what
you receive, you acknowledge that He is
truly first in your life, and is honored above
everything else you hold special.

26.
We will bring the first [and best] of our dough, our
contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine
and the [olive] oil to the priests, to the chambers of
the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to
the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who
receive the tithes in all the rural towns. Neh 10:37
2. Tithes – is 10% of your income given in
obedience to God. God has claimed the
tithe as His own. We don’t give a tithe, we
pay a tithe. The tithe is like a tax you pay as
a citizen of the Kingdom.

27. For the Israelites and the sons of Levi shall bring
the offering of the grain, the new wine, and the oil
to the chambers; the utensils of the sanctuary, the
priests who are ministering, the gatekeepers, and
the singers are there. In this manner, we will not
neglect the house of our God. Neh 10:39
3. Contributions/Offerings – voluntary
expressions of thanksgiving to God as an
act of worship in acknowledgement of God’s
blessing.
Specific blessings are promised for all 3
kinds of giving, but the fullness of blessing
is released when we worship Him with all 3.

28. Significance of Firstfruits
Firstfruits giving accomplishes 3 things:
1.It honors God as your source, which is a
declaration that God has blessed you.
2.It sanctifies (makes holy) the rest of your
income.
If the first portion [of dough offered as the first
fruits] is holy, so is the whole batch; and if the root
(Abraham, the patriarchs) is holy, so are the
branches (the Israelites). Romans 11:16
3. It releases the fullness of God’s blessing.

29. The first of all the first fruits of every kind, and
every contribution and offering of every kind, from
all your contributions and offerings, shall belong to
the priests. You shall also give to the priest the
first of your coarse meal and bread dough, so that
a blessing may rest on your house. Ezek 44:30
Honor the LORD with your wealth
And with the first fruits of all your crops (income);
Then your barns will be abundantly filled
And your vats will overflow with new wine.
Proverbs 3: 9 - 10

30. God wants us to develop a mentality of
firstfruits in every area of life. Part of that
involves giving God the firstfruits of our time.
Just as giving God the firstfruits of our money
releases His blessing on our finances, so
giving God the firstfruits of our time releases
His blessing on our time.
The Jews celebrated this special feasts at the
start of the month. They sought God’s favor
by dedicating the firstfruits of the month to
Him. They would gather in the temple to
watch for the new moon, and when it
appeared, they would hold a special praise

31. Celebration.
In holding their “new month” celebration,
they were declaring, “the very first thing we
will do with our time this month is to joyfully
celebrate to the Lord.”
People who celebrated Rosh Chodesh:
1 Sam 20:5 – David
2Chron 2:4 - Solomon
Neh 10:32 - Nehemiah
2Kings 4:23 - Shunamite woman

32. Rosh Chodesh celebration
was characterized by specific
things:
Hosea 2:11, Ps 81:3-7 – AQ
joyful celebration
Amos 8:5 – A day of rest from
ordinary work.
Num 28: 11 – 15 – A day to
give special offerings to God.
Isa 66:23, Num 10:10 – A day
of worship.
1Sam 20:5 – A day of
celebration and feasting.

33. Col 2: 16 “Let no one sit in judgment on you
with regard to a New Moon or a Sabbath.”
Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food
and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a
festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. Such
things are only a shadow of what is to
come and they have only symbolic value; but the
substance [the reality of what is foreshadowed]
belongs to Christ. AMP 16-17
So don’t let anyone criticize you for what you eat or drink,
or for not celebrating Jewish holidays and feasts or new
moon ceremonies or Sabbaths. 17
For these were only
temporary rules that ended when Christ came. They were
only shadows of the real thing—of Christ himself. (TLB)

34. The monthly firstfruits celebration is to be a
joyful time to experience the Lord and gives
us a picture of a wonderful spiritual reality. It
is designed to teach us about Yeshua, the
new beginning to bring us life everlasting.
The reality of the blessings released by
Rosh Chodesh is a powerful testimony.
When all generations experience what it is
like to live in the continual release of
blessing, God is seen as a good Father who
loves and blesses all of His children.

35. “And it shall be that
from New Moon to
New Moon
And from Sabbath to
Sabbath,
All mankind will come
to bow
down and worship
before Me,” says
the LORD. Isa 66:23

36. The Heb word God uses to describe His
feasts/appointed times:
HAG – the verb “to dance”. A celebration
filled with joy and gladness.
HAGAG – rejoicing, describes the festive
attitudes and actions of celebrating a feast.
God wants us to enjoy Him and experience
His goodness as we celebrate the cycle of
His blessing each week, month, and year.
They are times of joy and fellowship. If we
miss the feasts, we won’t have what we
need to prosper.