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Sequim Community Church, Wa 98382
"It's Time!"
Rev. Rick D.
Haggai 1:2-13,
January 1, 2012

"Give careful thought to your ways."
Haggai 1:5 & 7 (New International Version)

How do we know when it's time to step out and step up?
· when there is a God sized opportunity
· we're tempted to shrink back because of obstacles
· when we're reminded of God's promises
"Go...and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored," says
the LORD." Haggai 1:8 (NIV)
"Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the
prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. We are carefully joined
together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord."
Ephesians 2:2021
(New Living Translation)
Discerning the days before us

A. Take __inventory__.
"...first sit down and estimate the cost..." Luke 14:28 (NIV)
"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Psalm
90:12

B. Set God sized and God oriented __goals__ .
"Each of you is busy with his own house..."Haggai 1:9 (NIV)
"Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain."
Psalm 127:1 (NIV)

Rely
Resist
Restore

C. __Engage__ personally and compassionately.
"We are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will live with them and
walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.'"
2 Corinthians 6:16 (NIV)
D. Trust God to put His __gift__ to work.
"As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. For he
says, 'In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped
you.' I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation."
2 Corinthians 6:12
(NIV)

"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives
in you?" 1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)
"We are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can
do the good things he planned for us long ago."
Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

CONCLUSION

"'Be strong, all you people of the land,' declares the LORD, 'and work. For I am
with you,' declares the LORD Almighty. 'This is what I covenanted with you when
you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.' This is
what the LORD Almighty says: 'In a little while I will once more shake the
heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and the
desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the
LORD Almighty." Haggai 2:4-7 (NIV)


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