Life Lesson (verse Amos 1:1)
God does not call the equipped, but equips the called.
Life Lesson (verse Amos 2:1)
No sin goes unpunished.
Life Lesson (verse Amos 2:6)
God's heart is for the poor and marginalized.
Life Lesson (verse Amos 2:12)
Listen to God's Word, and live a life that is set apart.
Amos 7:13-15 NKJV
"13 But never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal residence." 14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah: "I was no prophet, nor was I a son of a prophet, but I was a sheepbreeder and a tender of sycamore fruit. 15 Then the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'"
Zechariah 14:5 NKJV
“As you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah.”
2 Kings 13:3 NKJV
Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
2 Kings 13:7 NKJV
For He left of the army of Jehoahaz only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
2 Kings 16:9 NKJV
So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
2 Kings 14:25 NKJV
He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah
2 Kings 14:28 NKJV
Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did—his might, how he made war, and how he recaptured for Israel, from Damascus and Hamath
Luke 3:11 NKJV
He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.
Proverbs 14:31 NKJV
He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, But he who honors Him has mercy on the needy.
James 1:27 NKJV
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
1 Timothy 6:10 NKJV
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness
Numbers 6:1-2 NKJV
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord,
Ephesians 2:10 NKJV
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Proverbs 19:17 NKJV
He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will pay back what he has given.
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