Divine Connection
Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him. 20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” 1Kings 19:19-20, NKJV
Elisha was divinely connected to Elijah by God. When Elijah left the earth Elisha asked for and received a double portion of Elijah’s spirit. We can see in scripture that Elisha did twice as much as Elijah. We have to pay careful attention to whom God has us connected to. It was a divine connection for Elisha and God does the same thing for us today. It is important that we do not jump from teacher to teacher because you will get confused and missed what God wants to give you in this season. It is so easy because of the internet to go from church to church, but everything that is being taught is not for you.
God leads, guides and directs you to the place where he wants to bring teaching, revelation and to put that anointing on your life. You must make sure you do not leave a place of teaching because you don’t like them anymore, or because someone said come over here. It is vital that you check in with God before you move, or you may miss the anointing there for you. You heard the saying, “Bloom where you are planted.” God has planted you, so don’t leave until he is finished with you there.
As a pastor’s kid most of my youth and into my adult life I grew up in my father’s church. But there came this season when I knew it was time for me to leave. I could feel God moving upon my heart. The best part of all was that I did not even go looking for a new church. God sent people through my work to invite me to their church. This one co-worker was attending a church who the pastor was someone I had known since third grade! We grew up together as family, but had not reconnected in years. I went to visit the service one Thanksgiving Eve and I felt a complete peace. I was so refreshed in a way that was not happening to me at my father’s church. Now it was not that there was something wrong with my father’s teaching, but God had something different for me at this new church. He had a different anointing that he wanted me to receive. Funny thing was that after I started going to the church, God moved my co-worker to another church. She was the instrument he used to move me.
Our family has been so blessed and has grown in ways that could have never happened at my father’s church. God divinely connected us to our current church and the teaching we are receiving is phenomenal for the season we are in. Elisha could had never received a double portion of Elijah’s spirit if he was moving from teacher to teacher. If you are not sure where God wants you to worship in this season, just ask him. Scripture says that he is our shepherd who will lead guide and direct us!
Key points:
God has divinely ordained a special place for you to be right now.
Stay focused on where God has you planted and bloom there.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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