In Front | Workbook: Doomed to Fail

Grab your Workbook Journal!

[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

You don’t have to be Mother Teresa or a church planter for Haggai’s message to hit home. Anytime you pour your resources or energy into a seemingly doomed project or one likely to fail, you’re in a similar situation to this prophet’s audience. Maybe it’s a community project or someone you’re mentoring—any situation where you feel called to invest in a situation that seems overwhelming, where you’re unable to imagine a positive outcome or making a real dent in the problem.

Part of Haggai’s message is for all of us who are called by God to step into something that seems hopeless. He’s asking us to step out in faith. He may be asking us to build a community, a relationship or an organization. 

This type of calling by God can be daunting. But He reminds us through Haggai: 

2. Has God put you in this kind of situation? Has He asked you to build something, maybe even a relationship, which seemed doomed to fail? Describe this situation in your workbook.

3. How does the message of Haggai change the way you might approach this situation, or others like it, in the future?