TOPIC: STEPS TO DOUBLE PORTION 8:
Mobile Daily Devotional with Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 30, Day 1:
Sunday, 17 July, 2022.
TOPIC: STEPS TO DOUBLE PORTION 8: Complete Elijah’s Assignment
MEMORY VERSE:
Is. 61:7
“7 Instead Of Your Shame You Shall Have Double Honor, and instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.”
BIBLE READING:
2 Kings 9:1-3.
1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Get yourself ready, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2 Now when you arrive at that place, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his associates, and take him to an inner room.
3 Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I have anointed you king over Israel.” ’ Then open the door and flee, and do not delay.”
Why Double Portion? It’s for the completion of what your Elijah couldn’t finish. Double portion is not for fame, fashion or gathering wealth, (although it attract wealth), it’s to start from where your Elijah stopped, to complete God’s given vision or assignment. God told Elijah in 1 Kings 19,
“15 Then the LORD said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazael as king over Syria.
16 Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.
17 It shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.”
Elijah anointed Elisha but not Jehu and Hazael, (although Hazael wasn’t anointed because of the pain he will cause his people). With the Double Portion on Elisha, he continued his Elijah’s assignment. He went on to anoint Jehu in order to fulfill the promises of God. You are not empowered to stand against your Elijah or work against his calling, you are to complete his God given assignment. Elijah was a Prophet to the nation, Elisha entered into it as well. Kings called Elijah father likewise Elisha all because He continued Elijah’s works after him.
Are you doing away with your Elijah’s vision? Are you seeking to destroy his lay downed vision? It’s not too late to have a rethink, seek out his uncompleted works and perfect it to the Glory of God.
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