Now Is The Time – Week 2 – Be Encouraged – Pastor Mo Huggins
November 10, 2024

Now Is The Time – Week 2 – Be Encouraged

Pastor Mo Huggins

Haggai 2:1-9 ESV
1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:

2 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,

3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?

4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. 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.

6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.

7 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts.

8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.

9 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”
Haggai 2:1-9 ESV

  • It’s so much easier to
    Reveal Answer
    , it is much harder to
    Reveal Answer
    .

  • Reveal Answer
    will always rob you of real joy.
  • “But many of the older priests, Levites, and other leaders who had seen the first Temple wept aloud when they saw the new Temple’s foundation. The others, however, were shouting for joy.” Ezra 3:12 NLT

  • God’s work requires grit and
    Reveal Answer
    .

  • When you do
    Reveal Answer
    , you don’t do it
    Reveal Answer
    .

    • Four ways you can stay encouraged God’s way:
    1. Don’t be
    Reveal Answer
    of things that start
    Reveal Answer
    .
  • “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin…” Zechariah 4:10a NLT
  • If it starts small, you have an opportunity to
    Reveal Answer
    to increase it.
  • “And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.” Job 8:7 ESV

    • 2. Choose to accept the
    Reveal Answer
    from God.
  • God’s
    Reveal Answer
    to be strong is an invitation to be
    Reveal Answer
    by him.
  • “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Psalms 42:5 NIV
  • Getting
    Reveal Answer
    happens, staying discouraged is a
    Reveal Answer
    .
  • “And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.” 1 Samuel 30:6 ESV

    • 3. Focus on
    Reveal Answer
    you work for, rather than the
    Reveal Answer
    you do.
  • “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23-24 ESV

    • When Christ is your ultimate boss, you can consistently:
    i. Stay the

    Reveal Answer

    ii. Give your
    Reveal Answer

    iii.
    Reveal Answer
    your earthly leaders
    iv. Focus on
    Reveal Answer


    4. Remember if it’s not
    Reveal Answer
    it’s not
    Reveal Answer
    .

  • “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 ESV
  • You can be encouraged because
    Reveal Answer
    will make it
    Reveal Answer
    .
  • “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1:6 NIV