For those of you that don’t know, I write a lot of prayers based on scripture. I believe that the coming outpouring of the Holy Spirit will only be sustained if it’s rooted in the Bible.  I understand that most people don’t get goose bumps reading prayers.  It can feel a little high church.  One thing I believe about prayer is that it’s more caught than taught. As I write these prayers, and hopefully people read them, my goal is to model how to engage the Holy Spirit within the scriptures. I wish to demonstrate how to respond when we hear God’s voice within the Bible. It’s this continual responding to God within scripture that sensitizes our conscience, grounds us to truth, keeps us humble and forms Christ within us.  Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.  To mature in Christ is hard, it requires investment, but the dividends are well worth the reward.  As we start the book of Amos, join with me on this process of discipleship.

A Few Thoughts From This Passage

There are times that God gives us a word, but what we really need to find is our life message. Our life message is the compass for the rest of our life.  Amos found his message and it directed his life and his book.

Prayer

Lord, give me a message.  Give me a message that You have called me to speak.  Just like Amos had a word from You for his generation; give me a word to speak to my generation.  Give me a voice that is heard loud and clear!  Lord, You thunder when You speak.  Lord, thunder in me!  Thunder through me!  Thunder through me so loud that we only see You as our source and not our pasture land or natural resources.  Lord, let Your beauty shine through me so powerfully that the most beautiful places in our nation are just a dim reflection of who You are. Lord, let my message display Your bone rattling thunder and Your majestic beauty.

Amos 1:1-2

The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam, son of Jehoash was king of Israel.  He said: “The Lord roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.”

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Finally

I have a book called Crazy Kingdom.  Some people say it is “Crazy Good.” If you’re in the US, then you can get the book from my website. If you’re outside the US or you prefer digital, then I would go with Amazon. Still not sold on the idea of getting my books?!  You can read the Introduction and chapter 1 by clicking on the links within this sentence.