Topic: Abandoning God’s Assignment? [Thursday 20,
July 2017]
Memorise: Ye 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. –
Haggai 1:9
Read: Haggai 1:5-11 (KJV)
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider
your ways.
6 Ye 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.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
8 Go 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.
9 Ye 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.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew,
and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
11 And 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.
Bible in One Year: 2 Samuel 15-16; Ezekiel 12:7-20 ,
Hymn: Sing hymn 14
MESSAGE:
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for
us, who can be against us?” - Romans 8:31
The above scripture clearly tells us that God can be for
us. It is so reassuring to know that God can stand for
you. Whenever He is for you, anyone against you is in
trouble. However, do you know that just as God can be
for you, He can also be against you? Yes, He can if you
check through the Scriptures; you will see many
instances where God stirred up the enemies of His
children to fight against them (Judges 4:1-3, Judges
6:1-10) . They remained defeated until they realised
their evil, repented and ran back to God. Judges 13:1
says,
“And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of petite mother of the bride or groom dresses short
the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand
of the Philistines forty years.”
Every time you turn away from God, violate His word or
live to gratify your fleshly lusts, you turn Him against
you.
Moreover, God can personally fight or frustrate the
efforts of His children. In our Bible reading, because
some people refused to complete the building of God’s
house, He decided to frustrate their personal efforts. It
is frightening to see the extent God can go to in fighting
His own children! In Haggai 1:6 , it is written that his
people worked like elephants but brought in the harvest
of ants. They ate but were never satisfied, and their
thirst could not be quenched no matter how much
water they drank. No matter how many clothes they
wore, they could not get warm. They worked and were
paid, but kept losing their wages. Haggai 1:9 even goes
further to say that if they managed to bring in any little
gain, God would blow it away. God also prevented the
heavens from releasing rain and the earth for releasing
its increase. He went further to declare a famine on
their land. This was God fighting His children and not
any devil Why the fight? It was because they
abandoned God’s house and focused on building their
own mansions with the resources God had given them.
If you abandon God’s assignment or project in pursuit
of yours, you are calling for God’s hammer. In any way
you have erred, repent today and turn to what you
abandoned, and the Lord will turn away from His anger.
Prayer Point: Father, prosper all Your missionaries in
mission fields across the globe. Back them up with
signs and wonders. Help them to win souls and to
disciple your end-time army.