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November 25
A FAMINE OF HEARING THE WORD OF GOD

Scripture: Amos 8:11 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.”

     The prophet Amos prophesied during the last days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. It was a time of great military power and of great economic prosperity. A time of peace, joy and happiness for most of the people. Yet, Amos, comes to them with a message of judgment and condemnation. He exposes the true spiritual condition of the nation. The picture here reminds me so much of our nation. In the midst of our peace, our prosperity and our pursuit of happiness, we are in the midst of a spiritual drought and the sad thing is we don’t even recognize it.
     God said that there would be a famine in the land. It was not a famine of food and water, but rather “of hearing the Words of the Lord”. They had food and they had water, but they did not have the blessing that come from reading and heeding the Word of God. They were in a critical situation in their lives.
     Paul warns Timothy that there would come a time when the people would refuse to hear the Word of God. In Second Timothy 4:3, 4 it says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” Friend, we are living in those days right now!
     We are living in an hour when old-fashioned churches that preach the Word of God are dying. Churches that stand for the truth of the Word of God today are seen as dinosaurs by the world. They won’t have the truth that God gives them, so God sends them exactly what they want a famine of being able to hear the Word of God. Truly we need to get back to hearing and heeding the Word of God!