Calvary Chapel Lubbock

Continuing with our Wednesday series entitled "Minor Prophets," a verse by verse overview of the Old Testaments Major and Minor Prophets. In today's study we cover the old testament book of Haggai Chapters 1 and 2. With the Babylonian exile in the past, and a newly returned group of Jews back in the land, the work of rebuilding the temple can begin. However, sixteen years after the process is begun, the people have yet to finish the project, for their personal affairs have interfered with God's business. Haggai preaches a fiery series of sermons designed to stir up the nation to finish the temple. He calls the builders to renewed courage in the Lord, renewed holiness of life, and renewed faith in God who controls the future. As we grow in our walks with God, opposition will begin to grow in our lives as well. Lets take time a refocus on God, do a heart check. -1 Examine your priorities, to see if we are more interested in our own pleasures than doing the work of God. -2 Reject the defeated attitude wh