Check Your Pockets
Haggai 1:5-9 (NIV) · September 13, 2026
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Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.” This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the Lord. “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
Haggai 1:5-9 (NIV)The Leak
The in our pockets is often a sign of distance from God.
The Lumber
Locking in with God shows up in the we carry to His house.
The Ledger
God's first entry in the was "I am with you."