{"id":1283,"date":"2012-01-22T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2012-01-28T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T14:15:46","slug":"amos-7-professional-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1283","title":{"rendered":"(Amos 7) Professional prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Amos replied, \u201cI\u2019m not a professional prophet, and I was never trained to be one. I\u2019m just a shepherd, and I take care of sycamore-fig trees.\u00a0\u00a0But the Lord called me away from my flock and told me, \u2018Go and prophesy to my people in Israel.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The LORD does not not need (and does not use) professional prophets.\u00a0 He uses people whose hearts are right with Him to speak for Him.\u00a0 In ways He chooses.\u00a0 To His glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Amos replied, \u201cI\u2019m not a professional prophet, and I was never trained to be one. I\u2019m just a shepherd, and I take care of sycamore-fig trees.\u00a0\u00a0But the Lord called me away from my flock and told me, \u2018Go and prophesy to my people in Israel.\u2019&#8221; The LORD does not not need (and does not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Amos 7) Professional prophets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}