KNOW IT
Haggai 2

Do you know that He is with you? Do you know it clearly that He is always with you and He will never forsake you? When you lack the understanding that God is with you, the power of Him being there for you will not be activated. There has to be a conscious and deliberate tapping into what He has available for you. It is written in Hosea 4:6 that the lack of knowledge is what destroyed the people of God. It is important to constantly keep in mind that He is with us just as we walk in line with His word. Do you know that He can always be with His children?  The completion of the latter temple was nothing to be compared with the one that was built by Solomon. For those who lived to witness both temples that could be enough to create in them a sense of discouragement. There was a need for them to be encouraged and move forward and not dwell on the past but to continue in their work for the Lord. God spoke the word of encouragement through Haggai in Haggai 2:4, “Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel, says the LORD; and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the LORD, and work; for I am with you, says the LORD of hosts”. Are you experiencing any form of slowing down or discouragement? Take to the living Word of God that was and that will always be. The Word is speaking encouragement and power to you. Disallow the past from counting you out but continue to count on Him that is abundantly able to accept you from where you stand in Him. God’s words, “I am with you” (Exodus 3:12) was the same that was spoken to encourage Moses in the assignment for bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt. God has not ceased from being in the position of backing His children up with His word. Above all, are you living the word of God? This is what it takes to have the word answer on our behalf, “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”(Hebrews 13:5) To be living according to His command and to know that He is true to His word is encouraging. With our knowing, “…we can boldly say: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” (Hebrews 13:6) Know that the Lord is with you. Live with this understanding and you shall have the edge over the challenges in your way. Be encouraged by the Word of God today and He will see you through in all your confrontations.

Prayer for today: Ask Him to help and keep you not to depart from all His ways in every step of life.