The Lord is always at work in our lives, teaching, purging, guiding, and strengthening.

In the little book of Haggian, we learn great truth about his work in us and how we are to work with him.

Welcome to God's construction zone. Let's join Scott Pauli Man love as I study a portion of scripture is to see God's repetition,

because when God repeats himself, it's never because he forgot he said it the first time.

It's because there's something there he doesn't want us to forget.

Really, the repetitions reveal God's great emphasis. Well, I ask you the last time

we studied, to read for yourself Haggai chapter 1 and Haggai chapter 2. I don't know if you

did it or not. If you didn't, try to do your homework now, but Haggai chapter 1 and chapter 2 is

full of a repeated emphasis. Let me read a few verses to you, see if you catch it. Haggiat chapter 1, verse 5 says,

Now therefore thus saith the Lord of host, consider your ways. Haggat chapter 1, verse 7,

thus saith the Lord of host, consider your ways. Haggat chapter 2, verse 15. And now I pray you,

consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord and then again Haggad chapter 2 verse 18 consider now from this day and upward from the 4 and 20th day of the 9th month even from the that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid,

consider it. Did you hear the word? It is the little word, consider. You know, we live in such a

busy world that sometimes we're not considerate as we ought to be. Sometimes we're also distracted

just by the normal routine of life, and we have so much on our mind that we

don't pause long enough to reflect on certain things so God says let's pause just a moment

let's let's stop and I want you to consider and he says these words consider your ways

you'll remember that in our study already we've learned that basically the people of

Judah had returned to the land after the Babylonian captivity. They built their own houses, but they

didn't build God's house. By the way, that's just like most of us, isn't it, looking out for

ourselves instead of for what the Lord wants first. It's backwards, you see. And so the Lord says to

them, look, it's time for this to change. As a matter of fact, he repeats that emphasis in verse

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