17. Haggai: Rebuild My House 5:29
"Consider your ways."
A prophetic push to rebuild God's temple and prioritize His presence.
Haggai's voice challenged a people comfortable in their own homes while the house of the Lord lay in ruins.
Ref: Haggai 1:2–9, Haggai 2:6–9
By Thomas J. Allen, © 2025
INTRO
"This people says...
The time is not come...
The time that the Lord's house should be built."
VERSE 1
You live in your houses, sealed with pride,
While the house of the Lord stands cold outside.
You sow much seed, but reap in drought —
You eat and drink, yet still cry out.
You wear warm clothes but still feel flame,
You earn your wage —
And it slips away.
CHORUS
Consider your ways.
Consider your ways.
The storm has come —
You delayed.
Consider your ways.
Consider your ways.
You build for self —
But not My name.
VERSE 2
Go up to the mountain,
Bring wood, and build,
That I may take pleasure —
That I may be filled.
You looked for much...
But it came to little.
You brought it home —
And I blew it away.
BRIDGE
"For thus saith the Lord of Hosts:
Yet once more, I will shake the heavens,
And the earth,
And the sea,
And the dry land..."
VERSE 3
The silver is Mine.
The gold is Mine.
And greater shall be
This latter time.
The glory will return,
The fire will fall —
But only when you
Rebuild these walls.
FINAL CHORUS
Consider your ways.
Return to stone.
Let My house rise.
Let My name be known.
Consider your ways.
Rebuild the flame.
The shaking comes —
But so does My name.
Scripture References
Haggai 1:4-5 & 7:
"Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. ... Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways."
Haggai 1:9:
"Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house."
Haggai 2:6-9:
"For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land... The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts."