BE UNCONVENTIONAL

“. . . I pray you, let a double portion of your spirit be on me.”

                2 KINGS 2:9(KJV)

Our opening scripture is the account prior to Elijah’s transit to heaven. Elijah had asked Elisha to request a thing that he would want him to do for him. And it is amazing that of all that Elisha could have asked for, he asked for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit. He sure did get what he asked for despite the fact that it was a hard thing he asked for – with God all things are possible.

The interesting thing about this account is that Elisha was unconventional in his request. No time in bible history have we heard of an event where a person got twice the spirit of another person. The closest we can come by was when God took the spirit on Moses and put it on seventy men: it was not even Moses’ spirit that was put on them, it was the spirit on him.

Elisha’s story challenges us to be unconventional in our requests. Do not let the fact that no one has ever received a blessing as the one you desire stop you from requesting it from God. I tell you, if that blessing does not exist in heaven, for your sake it will be fabricated.

God wants us to ask of him big and audacious things – he likes to get involved in things as that. Do not allow your present experiences or that of your background shrink your expectations of heaven.

Solomon was unconventional in his request for understanding, and scripture says that the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing. God awaits your unconventional desires: he wants to begin a new thing with you.