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  FEBRUARY 1, 2022 BIBLE READINGS Haggai 1:13-15 13Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with you,” declares the Lord. 14So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God, 15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius Hebrews 10:24-25 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. WORDS that MATTER Our devotions this week reflect the series THE TIME IS NOW that we have been looking at in our Sunday talks based on Haggai. As I have been reading and rereading this Old Testament prophetic book I keep asking the questi

  January 31, 2022 BIBLE READINGS Haggai 2:1-4  1   In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the  Lord  came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:  2 “Speak now to  Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to  Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,  3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house  in its former glory? How do you see it now?  Is it not as nothing in your eyes?  4 Yet now  be strong, O  Zerubbabel, declares the  Lord .  Be strong, O  Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest.  Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the  Lord .  Work, for  I am with you, declares the  Lord  of hosts. Luke 9:62  62 Jesus said to him,  “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” Colossians 3:23 23Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, STRONG IN THE LORD Have you ever started something with gre

  January 28, 2022 Psalms 63:1-6  1O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water. 2I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory. 3Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise you! 4I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer. 5You satisfy me more than the richest feast. I will praise you with songs of joy. 6I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night. Haggai 1:10-12 NLT 10 It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops.  11 I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”   12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the

January 27, 2022   Haggai 1:9  9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the  Lord  Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. John 14:15  15   “If you love me, keep my commands. Psalm 119:105  105   Your word is a lamp to my feet   and a light to my path.

January 26, 2022   Haggai 1:8   8 Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the  Lord. Philippians 1:6  6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. Isaiah 30:21   21 Your own ears will hear him.   Right behind you a voice will say,   “This is the way you should go,”   whether to the right or to the left . Micah 6:8  8 No, O people, the  Lord  has told you what is good,   and this is what he requires of you:   to do what is right, to love mercy,   and to walk humbly with your God.

January 25, 2022   Haggai 1:2-7   “Thus says the  Lord  of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the  Lord .”  3 Then the word of the  Lord  came  by the hand of Haggai the prophet,  4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while  this house lies in ruins?  5 Now, therefore, thus says the  Lord  of hosts:  Consider your ways.  6 You have sown much, and harvested little.  You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who  earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. Matthew 6:31-34  31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’   32 For  the Gentiles seek after all these things, and  your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.   33 But  seek first  the kingdom of God and his righteousness,  and all these things will be added to you.   34   “Therefore do not be anx

January 24, 2022 Haggai 1:1-6   1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 2“Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” 3Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? 5Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 6You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.   Romans 12:2   2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern wha