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Haggai 1:1–6 – Consider your ways

What happens: In the second year of Darius, God speaks through Haggai. The people say it is not time to rebuild the temple while they live in paneled houses. They sow much and harvest little; their efforts leak away.

What it means: God comes first. Misplaced priorities drain life. God’s covenant discipline aims to call His people back to worship-centered obedience.

Haggai 1:7–11 – Go up, bring wood, build the house

What happens: God commands them to gather materials and rebuild so He may be honored. Because they neglected His house, the heavens withheld dew and the land produced drought.

What it means: God ties blessing to faithful obedience. Worship shapes daily life, and creation itself responds to God’s covenant dealings.

Haggai 1:12–15 – The people obey and God is with them

What happens: Zerubbabel, Joshua the high priest, and the people fear the LORD and obey. God says, “I am with you,” and stirs their spirits. They begin work on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.

What it means: God’s word both commands and empowers. When leaders and people respond, God’s presence strengthens them. Obedience restores fellowship and mission.

Application

  • Put God’s worship first; order your plans around His presence.
  • Act on God’s word today; trust Him to supply strength.
  • Expect God to turn scarcity into sufficiency as you obey.

Bible

1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

2Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.

3Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

12Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

13Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.

14And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

15In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

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