11/16/07  parable:  SMILE, GOD CALLING

Today I had a spirit of intercession sweep over me while I was driving in the car.  I was thinking about the vision I saw of the army of cankerworms.  And I prayed earnestly over the Lord helping us rebuild what we have lost to them.  I asked Him to raise up a holy standard of leaders, and that He would help the seeds that I plant in my children be a good crop.  I was feeling overwhelmed at the need to rebuild.  When I got home, there was a message on our phone recorder for someone trying to reach Alexander Construction.  I laughed and laughed!  My name comes from Alexander.
 

Amos 9:9-15 NKJV

For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. 10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.'  "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old; 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name, "Says the LORD who does this thing.  13 "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it.  14 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. 15 I will plant them in their land, And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them, "Says the LORD your God.