098. Prayers Of Amos That God Would Avert The Judgments Of The Fire And Grasshoppers.

Prayers Of Amos That God Would Avert The Judgments Of The Fire And Grasshoppers. The Prayers of Amos as recorded.—Amos 7:2. The Lord’s Answer.—Amos 7:3.

Second Prayer of Amos.—Amos 7:4-6. The Answer.—Amos 7:6.

Amos was a simple herdsman; his words “I am no prophet or son of a prophet,” seem to distinguish him from those who were educated in the schools of Samuel. The Lord had shown him in a vision the judgments he would bring upon Israel. His first prayer relates to the grasshoppers which should consume the beauty and verdure of the land, and the next to a desolating fire.

Both of these petitions are heard and answered. They encourage us to. regard and mention in our own prayers the evils about us. God’s arm is not shortened that it cannot save, and though our own petitions may seem but a feeble instrument in removing great calamity, yet we know that “prayer is the slender nerve that moveth the muscles of Omnipotence,” and it is grounded on the promise of the Eternal Jehovah.”