{"id":1864,"date":"2011-01-31T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:27:38","slug":"the-prophets-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"The Prophet&#8217;s Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0Amos 7:1-7 and <strong><em>the struggles of Amos<\/em><\/strong>. Every preacher who is worth his salt has struggled. In verses 1-3 I see the first signs of Amos struggles with God. The Lord told Amos He would send the locusts to devour the fields. Surely\u00a0Amos \u00a0being a farmer himself was struck with the burden to pray\u00a0when he heard what was coming. He began to <strong><em>struggle with God in prayer <\/em><\/strong>and God&#8217;s stayed His hand\u00a0and did not send the locusts. It is here that\u00a0Amos joined the family of the great intercessor of the Bible. Let us not think God has changed his mind. The Bible says God changes not. I believe through intercessory prayer Amos found out what God wanted to do and enter into\u00a0God&#8217;s\u00a0will in\u00a0prayer. Let us be careful in making our wants and wishes known to\u00a0God. Let us instead lift up the blank slate to find out what God wants\u00a0and what God wishes are. We can be assured when we do this the answer from God will be yes in answer to our request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse today from\u00a0Amos 7:1-7 and the struggles of Amos. Every preacher who is worth his salt has struggled. In verses 1-3 I see the first signs of Amos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}