It calls you to dedicate your body to God so that your life may be a living and holy sacrifice ( Romans 12:1-2). It involves the five essential elements of Food, Fitness, Focus, Faith, and Friends. But the Daniel Plan is more than just a diet. Being a poor steward of our health and well-being doesn’t honor God. The discipline that Daniel and his friends showed has been modernized to teach modern-day disciples of Christ about eating healthy so that they are strong for their service of the Lord. The chief of staff at first said no because he was afraid that the king would be angry if his subjects were to eat the wrong things and become pale and thin and therefore lose their strength.Īt the end of the three-year training period, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah impressed the king more than any of the other young men and they were able to enter the royal service where they excelled in the king’s work. Four of these men were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah whom the chief of staff would rename with the Babylonian names, Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, respectively.ĭaniel was worried that the king’s food and wine might not be acceptable to God, so he asked for permission to have something else to eat while he was there. They would be served a daily ration of food and wine from the king’s kitchens. The men would be trained for three years in the Babylonian language and literature. King Nebuchadnezzar wanted strong and healthy young men that were also learned and gifted with knowledge and good judgment to serve in his palace. King Nebuchadnezzar ordered his chief of staff to bring in some of the young men of Judah’s royal family that had been captured and brought to Babylon. The Daniel Fast in the Bible is based on Daniel 1. Fasting is a way of adding self-control to our lives whether we need to lose weight, gain health, or fill our soul with God’s Spirit. It will produce in us the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. When we live by the Spirit, we won’t let the sinful nature influence us. Like Daniel, we can let the Holy Spirit guide our lives. He lived by the Spirit of Christ which set him free, no matter what external worldly events were taking place. Daniel took care of his body, mind, and soul and God was pleased with him. He lived his life praying regularly and giving thanks to God.

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