“The time is surely coming,” says the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or water but of hearing the words of the LORD.

Amos 8:11

The Lord says people will

• Stagger
• Wander
• Search
• Grow faint
• But they will not find it

It’s not that they wouldn’t have access to the Word, but that they wouldn’t be able to hear it.

Can you imagine?!

The problem would be with the hearer, not with the preacher. The preacher may have his own problems and the hearer as well may have his.

“The condition described is that of being deaf to the words of Jehovah, not able to hear them. It is not a case of God withholding His revelation; but of people being in such a state that they do not see it, do not hear the words.” - G Campbell Morgan

Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Matthew 4:4 (NKJV)

• We need God’s Word to live.
• We can’t have life without God’s Word.

What am I feeding on?

• Unbiased News
• Social Media reels - though they may be inspirational?
• Christian Podcasts?
• YouTube sermons?
• Bible Studies and Christian books?

“If we would grow strong, we must feed, not on condiments and sweetmeats, not on tit-bits and scraps, not on versicles and pious sentences; but on the strong meat of the Word, on the doctrines, histories, types of Scripture. Oh, for more hunger and thirst for these!” - F.B. Meyer

Indeed, oh, for more hunger and thirst for these.

If I’m having a problem hearing:

• Evaluate what I’m digesting.
• Examine my heart for disobedience.
• Enter my threshing room and humbly confess sin in my life.

Follow the example of Amos. Approach the Lord, and ask for national forgiveness.

In my vision the locusts ate every green plant in sight. Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, please forgive us or we will not survive, for Israel is so small.”
Amos 7:2

Am I having any hearing problems?