Haggai 2:23 (ESV): “On that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord of hosts.”” A recent Lifeway Research study reported that nearly sixty percent of people wonder how they can find more meaning and purpose in life. Most people are looking within themselves to answer that question. But Scripture reminds us that we must look up

Haggai 2:4-5 (ESV): “Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, 5  according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.” What God calls us to do will require His empowerment to accomplish. If you’re on God’s team, be prepared to be stretched. You can imagine how daunting it must have been to return to Judah and see the Temple in a pile of rubble

Haggai 1:14-15 (ESV): “ 14  And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, 15  on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.” The stirring of God is often the catalyst that causes the wayward to return