MINI STUDY: HAGGAI (part 3 of 3)
Is holiness contagious? Can we ‘catch it’ through contact with holy things? Such questions may seem odd to us as believers today. Yet these are the types of questions the LORD directs the prophet Haggai to ask - to expose a specific sin infecting the community of God’s people in his day, who were placing their confidence in rebuilding the temple, and association with holy things, to be clean and acceptable in God’s sight.
ABUNDANT GRACE
Is holiness contagious? Can we ‘catch it’ through contact with holy things? Such questions may seem odd to us as believers today. Yet these are the types of questions the LORD directs the prophet Haggai to ask - to expose a specific sin infecting the community of God’s people in his day, who were placing their confidence in rebuilding the temple, and association with holy things, to be clean and acceptable in God’s sight.
Join us as we explore further what the Lord had to say through His prophet to His people then, and to us now, and seek to live in the light of the truth we discover.
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MINI STUDY: HAGGAI (part 2 of 3)
KEEP GOING. That is the message of the prophet Haggai to a people who had become disheartened in their labour for the LORD and doubtful of His presence with them. And the word of the LORD to them has much to say to encourage any of us who also have become discouraged in the work of God’s Kingdom and are tempted to just give up.
KEEP GOING
KEEP GOING. That is the message of the prophet Haggai to a people who had become disheartened in their labour for the LORD and doubtful of His presence with them. And the word of the LORD to them has much to say to encourage any of us who also have become discouraged in the work of God’s Kingdom and are tempted to just give up.
Join us as we continue our three-part mini-study series on the book of Haggai, exploring further what the Lord had to say through His prophet to His people then, and to us now, and seek to live in the light of the truth we discover.
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DEVOTIONAL: KEEP GOING
Ever feel your labour for the LORD is in vain? Or tempted to look around at the gifts and ministry of others and see yours as insignificant or pointless by comparison?
KEEP GOING
READ: Haggai 2:1-9
Ever feel your labour for the LORD is in vain? Or tempted to look around at the gifts and ministry of others and see yours as insignificant or pointless by comparison?
If so, then you’re not alone. These verses from Haggai 2 tells us of a people similarly discouraged in their service for the LORD, struggling to rebuild His temple, seeing their work as irrelevant and filled with doubt as to whether God was even with them in their endeavours.
And it is in their despair that the LORD calls them to be strong, to work, to not be afraid, because He is with them, His Spirit in their midst. And encourages their hearts in their service for Him with a renewed vision of the great work He has called them to do, and of Him the sovereign God who rules over all things and brings what He wills to pass.
And of course, we see the greater fulfilment of these promises in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the true temple, and those who are now in Him - the Church, the temple of the living God, living stones being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
And so, in our weariness the LORD calls us to be strong, to work, to not be afraid. That no labour for Him is ever in vain, however insignificant, or impossible it may seem to us to be, for He is with us in it all, indwelling and empowering us by the Spirit to live and work for Him, and who will one day complete the work He has begun in us, to the praise of His glory and grace. Oh, what a day!!
MINI STUDY: HAGGAI (part 1 of 3)
Life is full of competing priorities - but which one captures our heart? What is the thing that we love to spend our time, energy, and attention on? And what about the LORD – what place does to know and live for Him have in our life?
CONSIDER YOUR WAYS
Life is full of competing priorities - but which one captures our heart? What is the thing that we love to spend our time, energy, and attention on? And what about the LORD – what place does to know and live for Him have in our life?
The prophet Haggai spoke to a people for whom their relationship with God and obedience to Him was no longer their top priority, displaced by their own wants and concerns. Join us as we begin a new three-part mini-study series on the book of Haggai, exploring further what the Lord had to say through His prophet to His people then, and to us now, and to consider our own ways in the light of the truth we discover.
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