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We pray this time in Zechariah has helped you have confidence again in the value of small steps forward. If you take away anything this week, let it be that Jesus can do so much with so little.
In today’s email…
✝️ How Jesus fulfills where we lack
📲 Something to do for the next person you talk to
🔦 Community spotlight!
MEMORIZE 🧠
____ __ ____ __ __, “____ __ ___ ____ __ ___ ____ __ _________: ___ __ _____, nor by _____, but by my _____, says the Lord of hosts.
Zechariah 4:6
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CONTEXT 📕
All week we’ve watched Zechariah speak hope to a discouraged people. Today we ask a question we often ask at Malachi Daily:
How does this verse point us to Jesus?
Zechariah 4 was first spoken to a discouraged leader, Zerubbabel, as he tried to rebuild a broken temple. But the whole book of Zechariah points beyond him.
And it didn’t seem possible that this “small beginning” could ever hold the glory Zechariah described.
Yet the prophets kept saying:
A greater temple is coming.
A greater priest is coming.
A greater King is coming.
Jesus fulfills all three.
Jesus is the true Priest.
Joshua the high priest is given clean garments in Zechariah 3. Jesus gives us clean garments by His righteousness (to be “right” by God).
Jesus is the true King.
Zerubbabel was a descendant of David. Jesus is the greater Son of David, whose kingdom has no end.
Jesus is the true Temple.
Zerubbabel rebuilt stone walls. Jesus rebuilds human hearts. And by His Spirit, He makes us the place where God dwells.
This is why Zechariah 4:6 becomes the good news:
The Spirit who empowered Zerubbabel to build a physical temple is the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead, and the same Spirit who now lives in us,
building a new kind of temple — a people filled with God’s presence.
19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
APPLY AND RESPOND 🏃♂
If the Spirit is the One who empowers us, then one of the most important habits we can form this year is the habit of sharing our faith.
Evangelism is not about having the perfect words. It’s simply opening the door and trusting God to walk through it.
Today, ask God to put one person on your heart — someone who needs hope, someone who needs Jesus.
When do you think you will talk to the person next? Next week? Later today?
Pick one of the below options and take a chance the next time you see them to:
Share something you’ve learned from Zechariah 4:6 this week OR
Ask a question like, “Do you have any kind of spiritual background?” to open up a spiritual conversation
Boldness is a habit. We pray that this year, God would empower this entire community to more boldly share our faith!
🙏 Pray
Holy Spirit, fill me with courage today. Give me eyes to see the people around me who need Your hope. Open my mouth to speak, open their heart to hear,
and let Your power do what my strength cannot. Make me bold and use my life to point someone to Jesus this week. Amen.
COMMUNITY FEEDBACK ❤
I love that I can miss a day or so of your writing and quickly pick up on the core of your message. You give me spiritual food to help me over rough spots in my days…and to share with others as I feel their need. I praise God for your ministry.
- MV
This helped me to have confidence in the future since the passing of my wife of forty eight years. Thanks for this encouragement from God’s Word to realize she is now forever with the Lord and God has a purpose in everything that he allows in our lives.
- DP
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ANSWER KEY ✅
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Zechariah 4:6
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Blessings,
The Malachi Daily team 🙏
Today’s Contributors
Payton is a husband and father in Vero Beach, FL. He serves as the Email Marketing Manager at Faith Driven Entrepreneur and helps Christians master storytelling through his newsletter, Christian Story Lab.
Kieran is a husband and father living in NJ. In addition to Malachi Daily, he writes a personal newsletter about the intersection of faith, fatherhood and entrepreneurship.
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