Amos 8:11 KJV
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
The worse famine the world can ever experience is a famine not of food or water but a famine of the Word of God.
Such a famine appears to be flooding over the world today. As in the day of Amos, there was no shortage of priests, prophets and ministers of the Amaziah sort, who did not know the Lord. So we have congregations large with pulpits that are filled with men whose motives have little to do with God, but are all about building their own universe, their empire, their own comfort and prosperity. That type of minister will always bring a dearth of the Word of God. They are a curse to the congregation they pretend to minister to, and am abomination to the Lord.
Amos made no pretense toward pleasing the powers that be. His only goal was to serve the One who had called him. That kind of preacher has power in prayer (Amos chapter 7) and delivers the Word of God to his land.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
The worse famine the world can ever experience is a famine not of food or water but a famine of the Word of God.
Such a famine appears to be flooding over the world today. As in the day of Amos, there was no shortage of priests, prophets and ministers of the Amaziah sort, who did not know the Lord. So we have congregations large with pulpits that are filled with men whose motives have little to do with God, but are all about building their own universe, their empire, their own comfort and prosperity. That type of minister will always bring a dearth of the Word of God. They are a curse to the congregation they pretend to minister to, and am abomination to the Lord.
Amos made no pretense toward pleasing the powers that be. His only goal was to serve the One who had called him. That kind of preacher has power in prayer (Amos chapter 7) and delivers the Word of God to his land.
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