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Amos chapter 7 verses 4 through 6. This is what the Lord God showed me. Behold, the Lord God was calling

for a judgment by fire and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. Then I said,

oh Lord God, please cease. How can Jacob stand? He is so small, the Lord relented concerning this.

This also shall not be said the Lord God. Did you catch that? God just gave Amos a picture of

judgment coming by fire upon his people and Amos just stood in the gap and said, oh Lord God,

please cease. And verse 6 and Amos chapter 7 said the Lord relented and said this shall not be

the Lord withheld the judgment his people deserved in that moment because Amos

interceded in that moment. What a picture of the power of prayer, the potential of prayer,

the opportunity you and I have that God has invited us into to stand in the gap on behalf of

others and to ask for his help and his provision and his salvation and his deliverance.

Oh, we must be faithful to pray for others to intercede for people in need. I would just

encourage you as soon as this podcast is over. Just spend time interceding. Think about people in

need that you know in your life and your family and your work and your church. Think about people

in your community who are in need and then just broaden all the way out. There's so much.

Think about nations. Think about leaders of nations. Think about major issues. Look at the headlines

in the news. Pray for people and realize that God will use our prayers as a means by which his

grace and his mercy are poured out in the world. Realize that our prayers matter that when we pray,

not only does God listen, but God acts according to what we say, according to what we ask. It's the

whole basis for this podcast when you remain in me. My words remain in you. Jesus says, ask whatever

it will be given. You pray according to my word and it will be given to you. So God, we pray right

now. There's so many things coming to my mind. I trust all of our minds. We pray for people around

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