Famines have a way of paralyzing us from moving. Famines stop us dead in our tracks and tell us we are stuck with no way out. Financial famine, physical famine, emotional famine, mental famine, nothing about a famine is fun. It makes us feel like we do not have access to the resources we need to do what we are called to do. There has been a famine in the lives of people for many years and most would not tell you they are in a famine. They smile in church, they work a job, they go to school, they are married, they have children, they live in a nice house, drive a decent car, but a famine is happening and has been happening for years. Does anybody know what I am talking about?

2 Kings 7 tells us about four leperous men who were sitting at the gate of Samaria because the Arameans had besieged them and the whole city was in a famine. The king of Israel blamed Elisha for the famine and sent to have him decapitated, but the word of Lord came to Elisha and he said, “Tomorrow everything is changing!” This word cut through the famine that was so severe women were eating their children. The four leperous men did not hear the word of the Lord through Elisha, but they did have a thought that came to them as they sat at the gate. “Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, Why do we sit here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.”

I know there has been a famine, but the word of the Lord has gone forth through the mouths of His prophets, “Tomorrow….Everything is about to change”. The four leperous men entered the camp of their enemy and thought they would die but found plunder instead. It is time for people to get up from the gate and go into the camp of the enemy for there is spoil, plunder, booty waiting for you, but you must get up and go in. This is the time of good news, the famine has been declared over, now you must get up and go in. Stop sitting at the gate, get up and go in to the enemies camp and take back what he stole from you. It is time to plunder, for the famine is over!!!!!