Amos 8 - Praying God's Word

Please read Amos 8.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/amo/8/1/s_887001

Meditate on verse 11.

 

"Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD

GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land,

not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but

 rather for hearing the Words of the LORD.”

 

The Israelites experienced this famine of God’s Word when some of them were scattered and destroyed by the Assyrians in 722 BC and more of them exiled by the Babylonians beginning in 605 BC.  God’s last recorded words in the Old Testament came through the prophet Malachi around 433 BC.  It would be 400 years before the LORD spoke again through John the Baptist: “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29).  “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). 

 

Miraculously we have Jesus, the Word of God in the flesh.  And, at the time of writing this devotional, we have God’s written Word translated in its entirety into nearly 700 languages; almost 3,400 of the world’s 7,353 languages have some portion of the Bible in their language.¹   We have the privilege of living in a time when access to God’s Word is easier than it has ever been.  Take advantage of this gift God has graciously afforded us, being careful not to create a famine of the Word in your own life.

 

Use the words from Amos 8:11-12 to pray for those who need God’s Word, as their faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, please stop the famine in ______________ life

 for hearing Your Words.  They are staggering. 

Please let them seek You and Your Word. 

Please let them find You in Your Word before it is too late.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

 

1.      Retrieved from Wycliffe Global Alliance: www.wycliffe.net/resources/scripture-access-statistics/

 

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell