Fruitlessness to Fruitfulness - Fall to Restoration

Meditation from Amos Chapter 8&9

3 words from 8th chapter explain clearly.

1. Fruit - God gives enough chances for us to become fruitful. When we don't commit our life it will soon become fruitless & spoilt.

2. Famine - When we don't feed & heed to God’s word we will experience famine of God's word at the time of need in our life.

3. Fall - When we continue to rebel by not walking according to God’s word, we will fall, a great fall from which coming back will be nearly impossible.

9th chapter talks about Restoration. Amos sees God standing on the altar; God Himself at the place of sacrifice! His Only sacrifice redeems & restores us.

5 words are used to explain clearly.

1. Raise up

2. Repair

3. Rebuild

4. Restore

God does all this in our life to make us fruitful and restores us so that we may Rebuild the lives of people who are Ruined.

The one who was fruitless made fruitful. The one who was falling, restored. The one who was damaged, rebuilt to rebuild the ruined lives. This is our calling!

Today's Intercession:

# Pray for the Missionaries & Believers who are reprimanded, arrested and charged with false cases of conversion.

# Pray for their protection and release.

# Pray for the States in India where anti-conversion law is enforced.

Have a blessed day!

Fruitful to Fruitless

Meditation from Amos Chapter 2

God wants our life to be fruitful and He does everything so that we may bear fruit. But Bible also warns against being continously fruitless.

In this chapter Amos warns and gives the reasons why our life becomes fruitless, why we are prone to fall and why we lose our strength.

1. When we reject God's word which is the truth and follow the lies of the world and Satan.

2. When we reject the godly counsel of people.

3. When we lead others to ungodliness.

Such a life will not only be fruitless, but rootless too! That is, we will not have the strong foundation to stand during strong winds of tests, temptation & trouble.

Building a strong foundation on God's word and heeding to godly counsel is the sure way to a fruitful life.

Today's Intercession: Pray for Media. It is the fourth pillar of democracy and it influences people's opinions & decisions. Unfortunately, largely media presents lie and promotes ungodliness. Pray for a transformation in Media and for believers to be in the Media as transformers.

Have a blessed day!

Ineffective?

Meditation from Hosea Chapter 7

God strengthens us to be effective and useful. We become ineffective & useless when,

#  We allow God given strength to go waste because of bad or ungodly company (friendship, etc)

#  We trust people & our background more than God. When God is not our backup rather we have our own backups.

# When our prayers, cries & unending desires are only for physical needs and not about fulfilling God's will.

When we completely surrender ourselves to God & Him alone, He will restore & heal us to be fruitful for the appointed harvest.

Have a blessed day!