OUR FATHER WHO RESPONDS TO INTERCESSION (May 21st 2024)

The book of Amos chapter 7 verse 3 - 4  says this;

 So the Lord relented. “This will not happen,” the Lord said.

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.

This passage in an excerpt from an interaction that the prophet Amos is having with the Lord regarding the judgments that are to be brought against Israel for their pride as Amos chapter 6 verse 8 says;

The Sovereign Lord has sworn by himself—the Lord God Almighty declares:

“I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

The Lord had first shown Amos a vision of a pestilence of locusts being brought to Israel but Amos had implored the Lord not to bring that form of judgement considering how diminutive Israel was.

In response to Amos' plea on Israel's behalf, the Lord relented and the invasion of locusts was cancelled.

The next vision Amos saw was a judgement of fire that was capable of drying up the great deep as well as incinerating the land.

Responding to this vision, Amos implored the Lord to withhold that judgement and the Lord relented again.

Ironically, the political leaders of the time began to work against the prophet Amos by spreading false accusations against him to get him banished from the land but they did not know that it was Amos who was interceding on their behalf to get their judgements annulled.

Lord please give us wisdom not to undermine the very ones who are interceding to avert judgement against us.

Amen.

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