Haggai 1:11

"I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”

From Background Notes [BN] for September 15^th & 16^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Work is frustrated by the drought in much the same way that labor in Genesis 3 was cursed by the thorns and the thistles after the Fall. Without the gracious outpouring of God’s blessing, all human work is futile, and…

 
 …the blessing is withheld because God’s presence among His people, in His temple, is not properly celebrated. Creation itself appears in Genesis 1 as the great house of God, His temple, apportioned for His glory and His fullness. The Creation temple and the Jerusalem temple lead parallel lives. When the one lies in ruins, so does the other. Ironically, God’s temple lies in ruins, the Cosmos temple is in drought, yet each Jew is “busy with his own house.” What’s wrong with this picture?! [BN, 8]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am, 5:30pm