Category: Daily Devotion

  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.” Amos 7:10 – What we have here is an idolatrous priest speaking lies to a wicked king of Israel about a…

  The Lord God has sworn by himself, declares the Lord, the God of hosts: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.” Amos 6:8 – The Israel that Amos spoke to was not in an economic crisis. They weren’t in a famine and…

  Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. But let justice roll down like…

  Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! Amos 4:12 – Imagine a loved one of yours blindly walking into a busy street. You first yell at them to stop them, but they don’t listen. You tap them on…

  Thus says the Lord: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and partof a bed. Amos 3:12 – To take a spiderman quote and change it up a bit,…

  Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. Amos 2:9 – The first chapter of Amos was the Lord directing His wrath over a handful of Gentile…

  Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.” Amos 1:11 – Amos, a simple shepherd, is called out from the sheep fields…

  Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. Joel 3:14 – This final chapter of Joel speaks of the nations and peoples that had come against Israel and scattered them over the centuries. Essentially its talking to the nations that had made the decision to…

  “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Joel 2:12-13 – Joel is pleading…

  Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. Joel 1:13 – While difficult to date when the book of Joel was written for the prophet…