Double Portion – #28 It’s one thing to see God’s provision, it’s another thing to actually experience it. Read 2 Kings 7:1-2. Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of the Lord ; thus says the Lord , ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'” The royal officer on whose hand the king was leaning answered the man of God and said, “Behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” Then he said, “Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but you…

Double Portion – #27 It’s a really low time for Israel. Things are so bad that women are eating their own children. The king of Israel blames Elisha. Read 2 Kings 6:31-33. Then he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.” Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when…

Double Portion – #26 Sometimes people need to get lost before they can be saved. Elisha decides to show the Arameans just how lost they really are. Read 2 Kings 6:18-23. When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, “Strike this people with blindness, I pray.” So He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, nor is this the city; follow me and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he brought them to Samaria. When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “O Lord , open the…

Double Portion – #25 It’s ok, God’s got this. That’s really the message that Elisha is sharing with his servant. When we are serving God, there are always more on our side than on the other side. Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord , I pray, open his eyes that…

Double Portion – #24 God knows. It doesn’t matter how secret you think you are keeping something, God knows. Read 2 Kings 6:8-14. Now the king of Aram was warring against Israel; and he counseled with his servants saying, “In such and such a place shall be my camp.” The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there.” The king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God had told him; thus he warned him, so that he guarded himself there, more than once or twice. Now the…

Double Portion – #23 God cares about everything in our lives, even the things that we would normally think small. Read 2 Kings 6:1-7 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Behold now, the place before you where we are living is too limited for us. Please let us go to the Jordan and each of us take from there a beam, and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live.” So he said, “Go.” Then one said, “Please be willing to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I shall go.” So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan,…

Double Portion – #22 Greed. It’s such a dangerous sin that often starts small and rationalizes its way to being bigger. Read 2 Kings 5:20-27. But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.” So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all well?” He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now two young men…

Double Portion – #21 A difficult situation. Naaman has been cleansed and his whole life has been changed. He is now a believer. Yet, he has a concern. Read 2 Kings 5:15-19. When he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so please take a present from your servant now.” But he said, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will take nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused. Naaman said, “If not, please let your servant…

Double Portion – #20 What’s bigger, our ego or our desire to be obedient? For Naaman as he was seeking a cure for his leprosy, that became the question. Read 2 Kings 5:8-14. It happened when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.” So Naaman came with his horses and his chariots and stood at the doorway of the house of Elisha. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and…

Double Portion – #19 The servant loves her master. She was stolen from her people, but she has created a new life and she loves her new master. She loves this life so much that she wants to see him healed so she tells him about the prophet in Samaria. Read 2 Kings 5:1-7. Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and highly respected, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man was also a valiant warrior, but he was a leper. Now the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken captive a…