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Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "A Double Portion" 2 Kings 2:1-15

• God chose Elisha to be trained by Elijah to continue on. 
• Jesus had the 12 disciples He trained to take over His work.
• God prepares the next leader for His work when it's time to transfer leadership.
• Elisha asked Elijah for a double anointing of what Elijah had.
• The reason someone has an anointing on their life is because they have been through the fire and the trials. They've been through great trials and tribulations. They've been purged of the impurities of their flesh. 
• You don't know what people had to go through in order to get to that great anointing.
• When you're asking to have a great anointing on your life, you're asking to go through the fire, a hard valley. That anointing doesn't just happen by someone placing it on you, you have to go through those struggles and trials. 
• Elijah told Elisha it was a hard thing he was asking, not because of the fact that it was hard for God to do, but because of the fact that Elisha would have to go through the fire.
• Elisha not only wanted to be a prophet like Elijah, he wanted to have more of an impact on lives.
• In order for the double portion to be on Elisha, he had to yield himself twice as much as Elijah did.
• If you measure yourself by the person who went ahead of you or you served beside and that's all you aspire to you're going to miss a lot of blessings.
• What could God do in us if we just let our faith go and let God take full control?
• What could He do through us?
• Elijah performed 16 recorded miracles. Elisha did 31 recorded miracles. Elisha met the double portion in his death in 2 Kings 13:21, when they buried a dead man on top of Elisha.
• God always keeps His word.