Life Lab:  Read Haggai 1:2-7

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS !”  Haggai 1:7

In these first few verses God was asking the people how they could live in such luxury while His temple remained in ruins.  Because the people had not given God first place in their lives their work was not fruitful or productive, and theri material possessions did not satisfy.  Moses

May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.   –A.W. Tozer

Regeneration

O God of the Highest Heaven,

Occupy the throne of my heart, take full possession and reign supreme, Lay low every rebel lust, let no vile passion resist they holy war; manifest they might power, and make me thine for ever

Thou art worthy to be praised with my every breath, loved with my every faculty of soul, served with my every act of life.

Thow hast loved me, espoused me, received me, purchased, washed, favoured, clothed, adorned me, when I was wrokthless, vile, soiled, polluted.

I was dead in iniquities, haveing no eyes to see thee, no ears to hear thee, no taste to relish thy joys, no intelligence to know thee;

But thy Spirit has quickened me, has brought me into a new world as a new creature, has given me spiritual perception, has opened to me thy Word as light, guide, solace, joy.

Thy presence is to me a treasure of unending peace.

No provocation can part e from thy sympathy, for thou has drawn me with cords of love, and dost forgive me daily, hourly.

O help me then to walk workth of they love, of my hopes, and my vocation.

Keep me, for I cannot keep myself;

Protect me that no evil befall me;

Let me lay aside every sin admired of many;

Help me to walk by thy side, lean on thy arm, hold converse with thee,

That hence forth I may be salt of the earth and a blessing to all.