“For seven days celebrate the Feast to the Lord Your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord Your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all your work of your hands, and your joy will be complete”
Deuteronomy 16: 15

On the first day of the Feast, we gathered leafy branches and Palm fronds to rejoice before the Lord and also to decorate the Prayer Room in keeping with the Feast. We also prepared on our outside balcony of the Prayer Room, a Booth (Succa) as commanded in Leviticus 23 :24 where we could eat and share fellowship during these seven days.  These temporary Booths, dwellings appeared all over the roof tops and balconies of Jerusalem. An air of joy and excitement filled the air in all the preparations and  an expectation of His presence coming afresh amongst us.  This is the Feast of the Word being made flesh and dwelling amongst. God coming to Tabernacle amongst us.

As we eat and sometimes sleep in these  temporary Booths we recall with Jewish people the journey of  their forefathers out of Egypt, through the wilderness, with the faithfulness and supernatural provision of the Lord.

It is a time of joy and celebration. In keeping with this Feast our Prayer Room has been filled with the Nations of the earth coming up to Jerusalem to celebrate this time of  joy, this time of expectancy for His Glory to return to Jerusalem. Poland is one of the primary nations that have been carrying day and night and night and day worship. While they have been flowing in the Prayer Room our experience has been to have other nations  in our prayer corridors and also in our Succa worshiping simultaneously.

This Feast has been a little taste of heaven on earth. One day every tribe and tongue and nation will be around the Throne of the Lord in worship. Jerusalem is the Throne of the Lord. The Lord has installed His Son on Zion’s Holy Hill, that’s why so many nations have come up to Jerusalem at this time to worship the King.

The joy of this Feast has filled out hearts and brought a refreshing strength to all our staff. Yeshua “for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross.”  His joy will be our strength for every challenge we will have to face in the days ahead.

May His joy be your strength for this next season.

Blessings from the Prayer Tower
Hilda