Day 263 of Hard Dive 365. I'm your Bible study friend Kanoi. Welcome to the Heart Dive podcast.

Well, we started and finished the book of Haggai yesterday. Today we are starting the book of

Zechariah, who is the contemporary prophet with Haggai. We were introduced to him in the book of

Ezra right along with Haggai. And these are the two post-exilic prophets, minor prophets,

who were sent to encourage the people while the temple was lying in ruins for a good 14 years,

like basically to tell them to give back to work. That's what Haggai did. Zechariah is the other half of the equation who comes to tell the people, hey, let's get our hearts right first and then let's get to work. So we're going to see what he says to them in the first four chapters of this book, reading from the ESV by Crossway Translation. But before we get started, if you're part of the heart dive family, if you're a Bible study friend, a BSF, could you hit the roll call button? That's our thumbs up button. If you're just kind of getting your feet wet around here, if you're new here, we welcome you to Bible study. We are so glad that you're here. We encourage you to take a look at the show notes, the description box, our website, heartdive.org, for all the info that you need

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Of course, preparing our hearts, as always, before we get into God's words. Heavenly Father,

we're excited for today's word. We are ready for you to do a work within us. We invite you here,

Holy Spirit, into this place, and we just honor you. We humble our hearts before you. You are worthy

to be praised today, and we give all of that glory and honor to you. We thank you. We humble our hearts before you. You are worthy to be praised today, and we give all of that

glory and honor to you. We thank you for being our God Almighty, our healer, our healer, our

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