Amos 7:1 (NLT) ‘The Sovereign Lord showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king’s share had been harvested from the fields and as the main crop was coming up.’ LESSONS 1- God will bring His consuming judgments upon sections of society and this ‘vast swarm of locusts’ will be intentional in destroying at God’s commands. However the Goodnews is that, for those that God has
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Amos 4:6 (NLT) ‘“I brought hunger to every city and famine to every town. But still you would not return to me, says the Lord.’ LESSONS 1- God is desperate to get our attention. He will use all and every means possible to draw our attention back to Himself. God’s people are busy about so many things, but God wants us to ‘return to Him’. We were there once, but we may have become too busy to ‘abide with Him’.
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Amos 2:12 (NLT) “But you caused the Nazirites to sin by making them drink wine, and you commanded the prophets, Shut up!’ LESSONS 1- God has given specific instructions to specific peoples and groups of peoples, like the Nazirites. Although we may not adhere to some of the unique (& strange) instructions given to such persons, may we find grace to allow them operate under the convictions they have received. Once it’s not against scriptures, may we not fight those
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Amos 3:5 ‘Does a bird ever get caught in a trap that has no bait? Does a trap spring shut when there’s nothing to catch?’ LESSONS 1- There’s always a bait before a catch and this age-old principle seems to have always worked to seduce God’s people away from their inheritance and destinies. Is there an issue that seems to trip you up, again and again? Don’t fight the trap, discovered the hidden bait and your problem is half solved.
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ESCAPING JUDGEMENT Amos 2:4 (NLT) ‘This is what the Lord says: “The people of Judah have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They have rejected the instruction of the Lord, refusing to obey his decrees. They have been led astray by the same lies that deceived their ancestors.’ LESSONS 1- Thank God for the blood of Jesus that pleads mercy and makes room for repentance from God’s judgement. But we must be
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Amos 1:3 (NLT) ‘This is what the Lord says: “The people of Damascus have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They beat down my people in Gilead as grain is threshed with iron sledges.’ LESSONS 1- A reality of these last days is that the nations will heighten their persecution of the Church. They will ‘beat down’ the people of God with such ferocity, that it may seem as though the Church will never
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Amos 1:1-2 ​’This message was given to Amos, a shepherd from the town of Tekoa in Judah. He received this message in visions two years before the earthquake…This is what he saw and heard…’ LESSONS 1- God has messages to ‘give’ every generation but He’s looking for those who can ‘receive’ them. Technically speaking, Amos was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; he was simply a shepherd. But he had an active antenna that could pick up
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