TAKE SIDES! Obadiah 1:11 (NLT) ‘When they were invaded, you stood aloof, refusing to help them. Foreign invaders carried off their wealth and cast lots to divide up Jerusalem, but you acted like one of Israel’s enemies.’ LESSONS 1- I am unashamedly loyal to Israel. Even when Israel was under God’s judgement, God still kept a special place in His heart for them. And He rebuked Edom (Israel’s relative) for standing aloof and refusing to help Israel in her time
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TREACHERY Obadiah 1:7 (NLT) ‘All your allies will turn against you. They will help to chase you from your land. They will promise you peace while plotting to deceive and destroy you. Your trusted friends will set traps for you, and you won’t even know about it.’ LESSONS 1- Treachery is when your trusted allies turn against you. When you needed him the most, that’s when he joined forces with your enemies and worked to uproot you from your inheritance.
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BOASTFUL PRIDE Obadiah 1:3 (NLT) ‘You have been deceived by your own pride because you live in a rock fortress and make your home high in the mountains. ‘Who can ever reach us way up here?’ you ask boastfully.’ LESSONS 1- Pride is the greatest deceiver, and what makes pride the most subtle is because it’s a work from the inside. Pride is proud because most times, pride is legitimate. When you have a reason to legitimately boast, that’s the
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FAST & POWERFUL Amos 5:9 (NLT) ‘With blinding speed and power he destroys the strong, crushing all their defenses.’ LESSONS 1- Continuing on the discourse on the grandeur of God, is the power of God. We have too often measured God’s power by His ability to do miracles. But that’s so limiting to the Almightiness of God. God can best be described as the ‘One who crushes all existing strength’. 2- If God seems slow to solve a problem, it
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THE INTERCESSOR Amos 7:2-3 (NLT) ‘In my vision the locusts ate every green plant in sight. Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, please forgive us or we will not survive, for Israel is so small.” So the Lord relented from this plan. “I will not do it,” he said.’ LESSONS 1- Intercessors are some of the most powerful ministers in the Body of Christ. Because true Intercessors do not practice their ministries in public, their critical value are often overlooked
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ESCAPING THE LOCUSTS 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
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NATION BUILDING Amos 6:6 (NLT) ‘You drink wine by the bowlful and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions. You care nothing about the ruin of your nation.’ LESSONS 1- There’s nothing wrong in experiencing personal prosperity, but do we care about our nation’s prosperity? Does our prosperity lead to the prosperity of the nation? As corruption and decadence ruins our nations, should we not respond? 2- Our calling must go beyond ministering to the saved or preaching to the lost. The
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