Pastor Jesse Lockhart preached from Haggai 1, reminding the church how Israel returned from seventy years of captivity with joy, rebuilding the temple foundation until the enemy rose up and fear stopped the work. He explained that the devil always moves when God’s people start moving, trying to rob joy, stall momentum, and quietly erode spiritual strength “little by little,” just like a sinkhole forming beneath a road. Through Haggai’s rebuke—“Consider your ways”—Pastor Jesse warned that God’s house had been neglected while everyone focused on their own, and the result was emptiness, frustration, and drought. But when Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the remnant obeyed God’s word, the Lord stirred their spirits and promised, “I am with you.” Pastor Jesse urged the church not to fold at the devil’s first “boo,” not to panic at the news, and not to abandon what they know is right, but to rise up, rebuild, and keep moving for God even when they don’t feel like it—because heaven moves when God’s people move.

Fairview Union Church — Whitwell, Tennessee