I Am With You

HAGGAI 1:12-15

Key Verse 13 Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord's message, “I am with you, declares the Lord.”

1. Summarize the previous passage: What is the current situation? What did God say to the people and what did he call them to do? (Haggai 1:1-11)
2. Look at v.12. What did the people do?
   1. What words of the Lord did the people obey? (Haggai 1:5,7-8)
   2. What does it mean that they feared the Lord?
   3. Personal reflection: How might what happened in these verses be applicable to your personal walk with the Lord?
3. Look at v 13-14. What message did the Lord give to the people?
   1. What effect did the Lord telling the people “I am with you” have on them?
   2. What happened after the peoples’ spirits were stirred?
   3. Personal reflection: How might what happened in these verses be applicable to your personal walk with the Lord and/or to LAUBF?
4. Look at v1 and v15. How much time passed between the word of the Lord coming to Haggai and the people being stirred to work on the house of the Lord? Why might this be important?
   1. What are all the elements that came together during this time frame to make everything happen?