A Double Portion

Our deepest desires. These are the aspects of our being that define who we are. They show why we do the things we do. They point to the most important part of our existence... our heart.

I Kings2 Tells us several things about Seeking God.
1. A purposeful decision to find God grants us diligence.
Elisha purposed, in the second verse of IKings 2, to seek God; Because he purposed to find God when the time came for him to compromise he was diligent. He was given a decision to follow the man of God or to stay home with the comforts and pleasures that this life had to offer him: but He chose God. This shows us that seeking God diligently takes self denial.
2. A Diligence in seeking God grants us the ability to see miracles take place, allows us to successfully ask God for what we want most, allow us to have a promise from God, gives us the ability to see the promise, and give us the belief we need to have the promise come to pass. IKings 2:7-13Because Elisha diligently sought God, he was able to see Elijah part the Jordan river. After Elisha crossed the river with the man of God, Elijah asks him what he wants. At this point Elisha is given the choice of anything He wants or God. Elisha requested a double portion, though; because that is what he purposed in his heart to have from God. Elisha sees Elijah when he is taken up to heaven and is given belief in that promise made to him. As Elijah's mantle is pick up by Elisha, Elisha is showing us that he had taken hold of that promise through belief. Only when we are willing to diligently seek God, will we be able to pray with the passion and earnestness we should... for the right things. When we truly want God and our hearts our determined to find Him,(after we have requested that which we desire most) will we have the ability to hear God's promise. After we go through this, because we have heard the promise we will be able to see it. When we are far from God and we pray for things to happen, they normally don't; only when we hear and see God's promise, will we then be given the belief we need to take hold of that promise in our hearts.
3. Belief in God's promises will grant us the the ability to take hold of the promises of God, to step out in faith, the ability to succecfully call upon God to give us power, and see miracles performed by God through us. Once Elisha believed, he was able to take hold of the promise of God. He took up Elijah's mantle. Only when Elisha took hold of the promise, was he able to step out in faith and smite the Jordan river, calling down the power of God. Then he was able to see the miracle take place! When we have belief in God, it will allow us to take hold of the promises He grants every believer in His word. God wants us to use those promises, that is why He put them in His word; but until we can believe God, will we actually be able to take hold of those promise, giving us the ability to call upon God to perform miracles in His name.
Lastly. The ability to perform miracles in God's name will cause others to see, believe, and be saved. Elisha smites the waters and people see him do it. They see that the spirit of Elijah is upon Elisha. Because these people could see God in Elisha, they came to him for help, believing that he would help them. Elisha was able to clean the water and save the people from death and illness. The people were saved, because they first were able to see God in Elisha. When people can see God in our lives they will come to us for help... and because we have the faith we need in God, they will also. But when we look, act, and sound like the world, God is hindered from using us in the way would, then if we were fully surrendered to Him in every area of our lives. When we have the power of God in our lives, we will see the miracle of others saved and we will be the ones that God will use.
This was a very small portion of what I got out of my devotions. The Lord showed me that if I want to be used of God, I must seek God diligently. Once we have our hearts right with God, then we must determine to diligently seek Him. Only when we diligently seek God, will God be able to begin using us in the way He desires.
Do you want a double portion?