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offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Haggai
Chapter 1
001:001 In the second year of Darius the king, in
the sixth month, in
the first day
of the month, came the word of the LORD
by
Haggai the prophet unto
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the
high
priest, saying,
001:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This
people say, The
time is not come,
the time that the LORD's house should
be
built.
001:003 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
001:004 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your
cieled houses, and
this house lie
waste?
001:005 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Consider your
ways.
001:006 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat,
but ye have
not enough; ye drink,
but ye are not filled with drink;
ye
clothe you, but there is none
warm; and he that earneth wages
earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
001:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
001:008 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build
the house;
and I will take
pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,
saith
the LORD.
001:009 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little;
and when ye
brought it home, I did
blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD
of
hosts. Because of mine house
that is waste, and ye run every
man unto his own house.
001:010 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from
dew, and the
earth is stayed from
her fruit.
001:011 And I called for a drought upon the land, and
upon the
mountains, and upon the
corn, and upon the new wine, and
upon
the oil, and upon that which
the ground bringeth forth, and
upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of
the
hands.
001:012 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua
the son of
Josedech, the high
priest, with all the remnant of the
people,
obeyed the voice of the
LORD their God, and the words of
Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him,
and
the people did fear before the
LORD.
001:013 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the
LORD's message
unto the people,
saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
001:014 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel
the son of
Shealtiel, governor of
Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the
son
of Josedech, the high priest,
and the spirit of all the
remnant
of the people; and they came and did work in the
house
of the LORD of hosts, their
God,
001:015 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth
month, in the
second year of
Darius the king.
002:001 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth
day of the
month, came the word of
the LORD by the prophet Haggai,
saying,
002:002 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of
Judah, and to Joshua
the son of Josedech, the high priest,
and
to the residue of the people,
saying,
002:003 Who is left among you that saw this house in her
first glory?
and how do ye see it
now? is it not in your eyes in
comparison
of it as nothing?
002:004 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD;
and be
strong, O Joshua, son of
Josedech, the high priest; and be
strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and
work:
for I am with you, saith the
LORD of hosts:
002:005 According to the word that I covenanted with you
when ye came
out of Egypt, so my
spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
002:006 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it
is a little
while, and I will
shake the heavens, and the earth, and
the
sea, and the dry land;
002:007 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of
all nations
shall come: and I will
fill this house with glory, saith
the
LORD of hosts.
002:008 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith
the LORD of
hosts.
002:009 The glory of this latter house shall be greater
than of the
former, saith the LORD
of hosts: and in this place will I
give
peace, saith the LORD of
hosts.
002:010 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth
month, in the
second year of
Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai
the
prophet, saying,
002:011 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the
priests concerning
the law,
saying,
002:012 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his
garment, and with
his skirt do
touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or
any
meat, shall it be holy? And
the priests answered and said, No.
002:013 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a
dead body touch
any of these,
shall it be unclean? And the priests
answered
and said, It shall be
unclean.
002:014 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this
people, and so is
this nation
before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work
of
their hands; and that which
they offer there is unclean.
002:015 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and
upward, from
before a stone was
laid upon a stone in the temple of
the
LORD:
002:016 Since those days were, when one came to an heap
of twenty
measures, there were but
ten: when one came to the pressfat
for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were
but
twenty.
002:017 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and
with hail in all
the labours of
your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith
the
LORD.
002:018 Consider now from this day and upward, from the
four and
twentieth day of the
ninth month, even from the day that
the
foundation of the LORD's
temple was laid, consider it.
002:019 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the
vine, and the fig
tree, and the
pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath
not
brought forth: from this day
will I bless you.
002:020 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai
in the four
and twentieth day of
the month, saying,
002:021 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying,
I will shake
the heavens and the
earth;
002:022 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and
I will
destroy the strength of the
kingdoms of the heathen; and I
will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them;
and
the horses and their riders
shall come down, every one by the
sword of his brother.
002:023 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I
take thee, O
Zerubbabel, my
servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the
LORD,
and will make thee as a
signet: for I have chosen thee,
saith
the LORD of hosts.