During Israel’s Spiritual famine did Elisha change his message, manner, or focus on the Word of God? No. He went about doing what God called Him to do. He taught the sons of the prophets the Word of God. He revealed the Word of God to the King of Israel. He ministered to the family of Shunem. He went about the work of the Lord knowing that God’s Word would not return to Him void, but it would accomplish everything God pleased and it would prosper in the mission for which God sent it (Isaiah 55:11).

So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

II Kings 5:14

Is the call of the gospel successful? During periods like the Apostolic age, the Reformation, and Great Awakening when many thousands were coming from darkness to light the answer would be a resounding “yes.” During periods like our present day when people seem more interested in hearing about the latest social gospel trend than the proclamation of the unadulterated Word of God, the answer may seem less certain. The present famine of the Word of God [1] tempts some churches to change the message of God, modify the worship to the sensitivities of seekers, focus on experience to the neglect of substance, all in an attempt to attract the world to the church. [2]

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