Luke 15:14

Luke 15:14. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land;

There generally does arise" a mighty famine" in such cases. Famines and other miseries are God’s messengers, which he sends after his wandering children.

Luke 15:14. And he began to be in want.

This was a new sensation to him; he had never known it when he was at home. He did not know it in his first boisterous days away from his father’s house, but now "he began to be in want."