Series: Haggai: Overcoming a Moral
Paralysis
How to Rekindle the Flame of Our
Commitment
Memory Verse: Matthew 6:33 (NKJV) — 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Text: Haggai 1:1-15
Introduction: Haggai
1:1; Psalm 137:1–6
1. Stop
Offering Excuses. 1:1-2
Haggai 1:1–2;2 Chronicles 7:14
“Don’t do today what you can equally do
tomorrow.”--Procrastinator
2. Reappraise your Priorities. 1:3-6, 9-11
Haggai 1:3–6, 9–11; Deuteronomy 29:29; Job
34:21; Daniel 2:22; Jeremiah 16:17;17:10; Matthew 6:33;16:26
“I know
your activities.”
“The cost of disobedience is high. People
generally experience shortages of raw materials, manufactured goods, food, and
wages. Disobedience is never a profitable shortcut to success; on the contrary,
it is ultimately a very costly way to go.” -- Walter C. Kaiser and
Lloyd J. Ogilvie
3.
Get in the
game. 1:78,12
Haggai 1:7–8, 12
“Everything rise and falls on leadership”.
–John Maxwell.
4.
Rely on God’s
Strength.
Haggai 1:13–15; Zechariah 4:6
“Let us stop giving God the scraps of our time and energy. Let us start
obeying God and doing His will. For if we will honor our Lord, He will stir us
up by His Holy Spirit and enable us to do His will by working in us that which
is well pleasing in His sight.” -- Walter C. Kaiser and Lloyd J.
Ogilvie
CONCLUSION: Philippians
3:13–14
“To think that any time will do to become serious about His
cause is to fail him completely.” -- Joyce
Baldwin
“Forward ever; backward never”—a
Nigerian School motto
