Is your focus on the one who made you ?

 




The Daily Word of Hope Devotional



Bible Fact:
Joseph was about 17 when he received his coat of many colors (Gen 37:2-3).


† Please Stay Here †



Elijah said to him, Elisha, please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho. 2 Kings 2:4 ESV



Elisha had served Elijah for several years when he was asked to wait here. Three times in a row Elijah had asked him to stay here, but Elisha would not stay there. Elisha would not take no for an answer, and he inherited a double portion anointing and lived the life of miracles that we read about today. There were many other Prophets too, fifty at Jericho alone. These all stayed behind and missed that anointing.There was a time in my life, where after serving faithfully for years, God called us to move on. We were told by the ones over us, to wait. They meant well, and we received the usual one-on-one sermons about faithfulness, dedication, and rewards for those who wait, but God was telling us to do something else and they could not see it. There will be times when you will have choose between obeying God, or man. When you choose to obey man instead, you have reached the end of your journey. This choice may involve a very difficult decision, and you have to be prayerfully careful, but sometimes when God calls you to do something, He just tells YOU. Keep yourself humble during this time with fasting and prayer, because pride will blind you. Sometimes to follow God, you cannot accept “Please Stay Here” for an answer.