Achieving The Double Portion

2 Kings 2:9
 Double Portion of Anointing
1. They are looking for someone to infuse the
anointing. 1 Kings 19:19-21

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1 Kings 19:19-21 (NKJV)
Elisha Follows Elijah
19 
So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat,
who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was
with the twelfth. 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.”
And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”
21 
So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and
slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s
equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose
and followed Elijah, and became his servant.
 Double Portion of Anointing
1. They are looking for someone to infuse the
anointing. 1 Kings 19:19-21,
2. Pray for me that I may receive double portion
anointing? 2 Kings 2:1-15

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 2 Kings 2:1-3 (NKJV)

2 And it came to pass, when the Lord was about to take up

Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha
from Gilgal. 2 Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, please, for
the Lord has sent me on to Bethel.”
But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will
not leave you!” So they went down to Bethel.
3 
Now the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to
Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take
away your master from over you today?”
And he said, “Yes, I know; keep silent!”
 2 Kings 2:4-6 (NKJV)

4 
Then Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me
on to Jericho.”
But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!” So
they came to Jericho.
5 
Now the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said
to him, “Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you
today?”
So he answered, “Yes, I know; keep silent!”
6 
Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to
the Jordan.”
But he said, “As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you!” So
the two of them went on.
 2 Kings 2:7-9 (NKJV)

7 
And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood
facing them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the
Jordan. 8 Now Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the
water; and it was divided this way and that, so that the two of
them crossed over on dry ground.
9 
And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to
Elisha, “Ask! What may I do for you, before I am taken away
from you?”
Elisha said, “Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon
me.”
 2 Kings 2:10-12 (NKJV)

10 
So he said, “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if
you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but
if not, it shall not be so.” 11 Then it happened, as they continued
on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with
horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went
up by a whirlwind into heaven. 12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried
out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its
horsemen!” So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his
own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
 2 Kings 2:13-15 (NKJV)

13 
He also took up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from
him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
14 
Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him,
and struck the water, and said, “Where is the Lord God of
Elijah?” And when he also had struck the water, it was
divided this way and that; and Elisha crossed over.
15 
Now when the sons of the prophets who were from Jericho
saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And
they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.
 God’s Calling
• Call of God is serious business
• John 15:16, You did not choose me, but I chose you and
appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit--fruit
that will last--and so that whatever you ask in my name
the Father will give you.
• Luke 9:62 Jesus replied, "No one who puts a hand to the
plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of
God."
4 Places to Achieved The Double Portion Of Anointing

1.Gilgal
2.Bethel
3.Jericho
4.Jordan
 Stage 1
•
Gilgal
• Gilgal is mentioned 39 times, in particular in the Book of
Joshua, as the place where the Israelites camped after
crossing the Jordan River (Joshua 4:19 - 5:12).
• means ‘Rolled Away’, Past is Rolled away
• We all start at Gilgal
• Walk the talk
 Stage 1
• Be faithful where God has placed you
• minister, secretary, usher, media , sound, lights ,
whatever…
 Stage 2
Bethel : Genesis 28:10-19
•Tiredness, rough roads , from going to Bethel.
•Abraham and Jacob met God, altars were made,
•Ark of the covenant, Bethel is mandatory
• ‘Men in crisis’ before they become ‘Men in action’
•No Jordan without Bethel
 Stage 3
Jericho is the place where he learnt
•“not by might, not by power but by the spirit of God”
Zechariah 4:6.
•Self-sufficient lost
 Stage 3
• Every Elisha must experience Jericho
• He must come to the realization that Lord’s battles are
won NOT in his own strength
• You have met God at Bethel, will you go onto Jericho?
Face your battles in the strength of the Lord and give
him all the glory for the victory?
• Will you do it your way and fall?
• Jericho offers relaxation, comfort, surrounding of
provision….man of God that seeks the double portion
must go on….
 Stage 4
Jordan : John baptized here. Jesus was baptized
with water and in the Holy Spirit.
•Holy Spirit descended upon our Lord.
•Isaiah prophecy on Ch. 61 was fulfilled here.
•Received Spirit without measure John 3:34.
•It was here that Elisha (a type of Christ) would receive a
double portion. Double portion did not start until Jordan
experience.
•Miracle ministry of Jesus did not start until His Jordan
experience. Our miracle ministry will not become reality
until we have had Bethel Jericho and Jordan
 Stage 4
• Too many have been touched by the mantle in
the field but went no further
• Unsaved loved ones have kept those who were
touched by God from making a clean break and
following the Lord
• Others want the double portion but cant pass
the test of
• Bethel, Jericho and Jordan
 Stage 4
When the waters of Jordan was parted by Elijah then
the master and the disciple went across the dry river-
bed
Mantle did not come upon Elisha until the river was
crossed
 Stage 4
• Jordan is a river of death to self.
• It is the same mantle that touched us in the field
that takes us through the Jordan
• Crossing the Jordan is not to be accomplished by
swimming, wading or boating.
• It is not the product of man’s self effort but the
work of the Holy Spirit
 Stage 4
He faces further decisions. “What shall do for thee?
Before I be taken away ?”
Solomon asked for wisdom.
Jesus asked for glory and power,
Elisha asked for double portion
What do we ask to the Father? John 16:23-24.
 Stages of Double Portion
• Disciples who saw the ascension of the master
were the ones who received Pentecostal blessing
• Elisha was to tarry with his master until he had
to believe that what his master said would
happen would really happen
 Conclusion:
Gilgal Separation Phil 3:6-7 If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put
(from the flesh, the confidence in the flesh, I have more… But whatever
past, and unto God) was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of
Christ

Bethel House of God Phil 3:8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared
(a desire to know God to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus
and be in His my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.
presence.)

Jericho Faith Phil 3:9 I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and
(Walk by faith and not be found in him, not having a righteousness of my
righteousness or own that comes from the law, but that which is
strength) through faith in Christ—the righteousness that
comes from God and is by faith.

Jordan Death & Resurrection  Phil 3:10 I want to know Christ and the power of his
(Unless a grain of resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his
wheat falls into the sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so,
ground…) somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the
dead.