Even so, people may continue to struggle with sleep, lack of energy, or loss of appetite.
+ Haggai 2:1-3 1On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: 2“Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people.By the end of your first week, most of the physical symptoms of withdrawal will have begun to show signs of improvement-for some, these will go away completely. When we are discouraged it’s easy to want to quit–to stop doing the very things God told us to do.ĭiscouragement says, “What’s the use of trying anymore? Isn’t it time to just give up and make the best of it?” The nation of Israel faced that kind of discouragement. GOD KNOWS WE CAN BE EASILY DISCOURAGED.ĭiscouragement is to lose courage or hope it is to become overwhelmed or lose heart. Haggai brought the people building the temple a third message it’s a message that you and I need to hear as well: “DON’T QUIT THE BEST IS YET TO COME!”ġ. Well folks getting started with God’s work isn’t enough. Until we come into agreement nothing can be done remember the African proverb, “The man who tries to walk two roads, splits his pants.” As we join together in unity we are then able to move forward and do the work God has call us to that’s action that will accomplish His purposes. Last week we looked at “GETTING GOD’S WORK DONE!” We’ll do nothing for God unless we follow His plan for action: Assessment ð Agreement ð Action–Getting God’s Work Done! When we make an accurate assessment of our priorities we will come into agreement with God and with one another. In order to fulfill God’s purpose we must keep God in His rightful place as our #1 priority as we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.
The devil can keep us from doing God’s work as our priorities get out of balance through just being comfortable. Satan cannot destroy the church, but he would like to see it’s work slowed down. Putting it simply, just as God called the nation of Israel to complete the work of building the temple, God is likewise telling us to complete the work He has called us to do.
Well you week dont quit. series#
Two weeks ago we began a series of messages drawn from the prophet Haggai, A WORD TO THE CHURCH. As you and I cooperate with God, we are a part of the miracle that is Praise A/G. God has called you and I to do a great work in His Church the greatest days for our church truly are ahead of us as collectively we do that which God is calling us to do. (Craig Brian Larson, Pastoral Grit: The Strength to Stand and to Stay Bethany House, 1998) God cannot work, however, through someone who gives up and quits. God can work even through someone with only eight-watt abilities. So it is when we offer ourselves to serve the Lord. By simple longevity, its tiny eight-watt transmitter radio accomplished more than anyone thought possible.
But it has kept going and going and going. Engineers designed Pioneer 10 with a useful life of only three years. "The Little Satellite That Could" was not qualified to do what it did. Commenting on the Pioneer 10 in Time magazine Leon Jaroff says, “Perhaps most remarkable, is the fact that those signals emanate from an eight-watt transmitter, which radiates about as much power as a bedroom night-light, and take more than nine hours to reach Earth.” And despite that immense distance, Pioneer 10 continues to beam back radio signals to scientists on Earth. Though now nearly 8 billion miles from the sun, the satellite keeps sending signals some were received as recently as April 27, 2002. By 1997, 25 years after its launch, Pioneer 10 was more than six billion miles from the sun.Īnd it’s still going. At some two billion miles, it hurtled past the planet Uranus, then past Neptune, at nearly three billion miles, and Pluto, at almost four billion miles. At one billion miles from the sun, Pioneer 10 passed Saturn.
Flying past Jupiter in November 1973, the space probe continued its incredible journey toward the edge of our solar system. Scientists regarded this as a bold plan, because up until then no satellites had gone beyond Mars, and they feared the asteroid belt would destroy the satellite before it would ever get to Jupiter.īut Pioneer 10 accomplished its mission and much, much more. The satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph it and its moons, and beam data it collected about this giant planet back to earth. In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10.
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