Join us as we explore the profound story of Elisha’s prayer for spiritual sight amidst adversity. Discover how his unwavering focus on Elijah allowed him to receive a double portion of spiritual power and eventually perform even greater miracles. This episode illuminates how spiritual vision, once awakened, enables us to perceive the true battles we face and conquering them with wisdom granted by divine revelation. Whether you’re seeking spiritual growth or greater clarity in your own life, this discussion provides practical guidance and inspiration.
You see, we live, beloved, in a spiritual world, and we’re not going to be able to live in victory if we don’t have spiritual sight. Jesus was able to see in the Spirit. Father God, we bless you today. And Father God, I want to thank you that Father God, even now as I speak and as they’re hearing me speak and hearing me pray, you are with them right now, right here, Jesus, in the room with them. responding to their hearts, cried to you, responding to their thoughts, responding to them because you’re God and you’re here. And you said, King Jesus, that you would never leave us or forsake us and that we should cast our care upon you because you care for us. So, Father, we thank you today that you’re with us and that this message is not just simply the words of a preacher, but that, Father, you said that through the foolishness of preaching, men are saved and that, Father God, you are working by your Holy Spirit with the preaching today to take a hold of the lives of your people that are listening and changing us from grace to grace and glory to glory. God is doing something in your life right now, beloved, if your heart is open and you’re reaching out to him in faith and love. God bless you. I want to go now to the book of 2 Kings, chapter number 6. I’m going to be looking, verses number 15 through 18, and we’re going to look at one of the simple prayers that Elisha prayed. Many of you know Elisha, the great prophet, the great mighty works that he did. Did you know that Elisha actually did more miracles than Elijah? I mean, he’s a fascinating figure. Another thing that’s interesting as we get ready to look at this example of one of Elisha’s prayers and how God answered it, one of the things that’s interesting as we just consider this man is how it was that he got the anointing. Many of us know that Elisha, this one we’re about to study, he was Elijah’s servant. And he would follow Elijah around everywhere that Elijah went. His whole life, Elisha’s whole ministry was serving Elijah. And yet at the end of Elijah’s life, the anointing came upon Elijah even stronger than it was on Elijah. This is really fascinating to me. It tells me one of the ways that we can pick up an anointing. How did Elijah, who actually did more miracles than Elijah, get the anointing that was on Elijah even double fold? How did it happen? Well, the first thing was, beloved, that Elisha recognized the anointing that was on Elijah. You see, Elisha recognized the anointing that was on him because the anointing that you respect is the anointing that you’re going to receive from. The anointing that you honor and respect is is the anointing that you’re going to receive from. So first of all, Elijah was in a place where he could receive the anointing that was on Elijah, because he recognized the anointing that was on Elijah, and he received from that anointing. But you know what? In today’s culture today, people have so much pride and they’ve been so brainwashed by the spirit of the air that comes from the devil, is they have difficulty placing themselves under anybody. And sometimes we can miss so much of what we could have absorbed from somebody else’s life, because we have too much pride to be able to submit ourselves to a person that’s walking in a higher level than we are. And this applies, beloved ones, common sense wise, not just to the spiritual realm, but this applies even to the earthly realm. In other words, if you go to work for somebody that has a great business mind, how are you going to be able to receive from that person that has a great business mind? Are you going to receive from that person by arguing with them? Are you going to receive from that person by distancing yourself from them? No, you’re going to receive from that person that knows so much more than you do by placing yourself in a position of subjection under them so you can learn from them and receive from them everything that’s in them. But so many people today, beloved, lose opportunities to glean from others and to receive from others because of a spirit of rebellion and pride, because of a spirit of lack of humility. often that comes from a spirit of inferiority and a spirit of self-defensiveness because the inferiority, and it puts them in a position that they’ll never place themselves in a posture where they could receive the anointing from the one that’s so much more advanced than they are, thus making their life more difficult than what it ever needed to be. Elisha recognized the anointing that was on Elijah, and thus he was able to receive from it. Secondly, because, listen now, Elisha recognized the anointing that was on Elijah’s life, he stuck with him and he stayed close to him. In other words, if you are involved in a ministry somewhere and you recognize that there’s an anointing on your pastor, or an anointing on somebody that you know. You know what you should do? Stay as close to that person as you can, as common sense and the Lord will allow. Because the more time you spend with that person, the more you’re going to absorb the anointing from that person. You see, you can absorb an anointing through osmosis, get it now, and through transfer. In other words, the person that you are five years from now, let me say that again, the person that you are five years from now is largely gonna be determined by the people that you’re spending your time with over the next five years. If you spend your time with people that are more advanced than you, more anointed than you, more knowledgeable than you, in five years, you’re going to be so much more anointed, so much more advanced, and so much more knowledgeable than if you would have spent your time with people that are at your same level or lower than you for the next five years. And so anointings and knowledge and spiritual power, listen now, are transferable. We pick them up by osmosis just by being in close proximity with people that are anointed. And so Elijah stayed very close to Elijah. In fact, towards the end of Elijah’s life, when Elijah announced that he was about to depart from the world, he told Elijah, I’m about to leave. And Elijah cried out to Elijah and he said, listen, he said, when you leave, he said, let me catch the anointing that’s on you. May the anointing that’s on you when you leave come upon me and even double fold. And listen to what Elijah said to him. Elijah said, if you see me when I go, it shall be as you requested. But if you do not see me when I go, Elijah said, you shall not have the anointing. What was Elijah saying? Elijah was saying, Elijah, you have to get so focused on me. You have to stay so close to me so that the anointing that’s on me can come upon you. If you take your eyes off me, If you get distracted, if you get off focus, then the anointing that’s on me won’t come upon you when I leave. You know what happened? Elisha took Elijah at his word. He stayed focused. He stayed fixed. And when Elijah was taken away, Elisha’s psalm and a double portion of Elijah’s anointing came upon Elisha. Thus, beloved ones, He did more miracles than even Elijah did. It’s a fascinating story. You see, this is why in the Hebrew Bible we learn that we should respect our elders. There’s a strong system of order and relationships in the Hebrew Bible. And the reason for this is for health, to respect our elders. So the stability and the wisdom that’s been upon them can come upon our life. It’s true in the natural world. And it’s true in the supernatural. And I want to encourage you, if you do know people that you know are anointed, I want to encourage you, listen to me, I want to encourage you to guard yourself against the law of familiarity. Some of us have heard the expression before, familiarity breeds contempt. Have you ever heard that saying before? That familiarity can breed contempt. In other words, we can become so familiar used to somebody that’s anointed, more developed, more advanced than we are, that we begin to take them for granted. And not only do we begin to take them for granted, we even begin to look at them without honor. This happened to Jesus. Jesus went into his own town. And they said to him, who are you? It says they were offended with him when he said, on the bread of life that came down from heaven. They said, who are you? Who do you think you are, they thought. We know your mom and dad. We know Joseph and Mary. Who do you think you are? And the Bible says they became offended with him. And Jesus responded in this way. He said, a prophet is not without honor. except in his own town and amongst his own people. Thus, we get the saying, familiarity breeds contempt. And so I want to admonish you, my beloved brothers and sisters, be careful that you don’t develop a contempt for your pastor or those that God has placed in your life that are your spiritual leaders, if they should be respected, be careful that you don’t begin to take them for granted, that you stop being impacted by their messages, that you stop taking advantage of the opportunities they give you for growth, whether it’s classes or other opportunities. Be careful that you don’t begin to take them for granted and thus lose the opportunity to receive more of the anointing that’s on them. Because again, anointings are made to be transferred. That’s why Paul laid his hands on Timothy and through the laying on of Paul’s hands, a spiritual gift was imparted to Timothy. And so I said all that just simply to say how Elisha, that did even more miracles than Elijah, how he was able to receive the anointing. He was able to receive the anointing by respecting, acknowledging, and honoring the anointing that was on Elijah, then staying close to him and focused on him so that the thing that was on Elijah, the holy power of God that was on Elijah, came upon Elijah even double fold. The same thing will work for you today. Many great men and women of God became great because they stayed close to a spiritual mentor, a spiritual father, or a spiritual mother. God bless you, beloved one. I hope somehow that’s helpful for you. And Father, I just pray that you’ll apply it to every life today in a way that will bring health to each one. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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Well, I’m reading now 2 Kings 6, verse 15 through 18. 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 a servant said to him, Alas, my master, what should 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 he may see. And the Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. 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. Now, the thing I want to focus on primarily at this point is how Elisha’s servants didn’t have the spiritual eyes or the spiritual capacity to see all the angelic hosts that were fighting for the armies of Israel. See, in this particular story, Israel was being attacked by the king of Aram, and it looked as though Israel was outnumbered. But what Elijah saw in the spirit realm was the supernatural hosts that were on Israel’s side. Of course, Elijah’s attendant couldn’t see it. He was scared because he was only seeing in the natural. So what was Elijah’s prayer? He said, Lord, open my servant’s eyes. that he might be able to see in the spirit world, and that he might understand that more are those that are for us than those that are against us. Elijah’s prayer, beloved one, get this now, was for spiritual sight. You see, we need to be able to see beyond the natural. We need to be able to see beyond the temporal. We need to be able to see through the circumstances. We need to be able to see through what people say. We need to be able to see with the eyes of the Spirit. We live in a spiritual world. The Bible tells us that the things that are real are not the things that are seen, because the things that are seen, Scripture tells us, are passing away. But the things that are real are the things that are unseen. Don’t you have a desire to see in the spirit world? I know I do. One of my daily prayers, one of my common prayers, one of my prayer themes, beloved, is the same thing that Elisha prayed. Open my eyes that I can see. Lord, I want to be able to see in the Spirit, because the Bible says in Ephesians 6 that our fight is not against flesh and blood, but it’s against principalities and forces of spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. You see, we live, beloved, in a spiritual world, and we’re not going to be able to live in victory if we don’t have spiritual sight. Jesus was able to see in the spirit. The Bible says he knew what was in all men. He had wisdom and understanding. He was able to see what was going on. If you and I don’t have spiritual sight, which is a supernatural gift given to us by the spirit of Elohim, by the spirit of God, we are going to walk floundering and fumbling our whole life. We’re going to live at an earthly realm. We’re never going to soar on the heights and we’re never going to live in spiritual victory. To live in victory, beloved ones, we must see spiritually. What does it mean to see spiritually? First of all, seeing with the eyes of the Spirit involves having spiritual discernment. Do you know that Paul prayed in the book of Ephesians that God would open the eyes of our heart? Think about that. Paul prayed that God would open the eyes of our heart that it would open our eyes of understanding. So to see in the spirit is to be able to see and perceive what cannot be seen and perceived simply in the natural. It’s supernatural. It’s the ability to understand people to understand your circumstances, and to understand the spirit world in which you live in supernaturally. Now, this may sound way out there for some of us. Beloved, I’m here to proclaim to you, this is not way out there. This is walking in a supernatural wisdom. It’s walking in supernatural revelation, and we should be asking for it, just like Elijah prayed, Lord, let me see. Let me have revelation. Revelation gives sight. Jesus said to Peter, who do you say that I am? Peter said, you’re the Messiah, the son of the living God. Jesus said, Peter, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven. And he said, and upon this rock, I will build my church. What rock is that? Part of the rock, beloved, is having revelation. The revelation that Peter had allowed Peter to see that Jesus was the Son of God when others couldn’t see it. Peter had spiritual sight. I’m going to pray for you right now. Father God, I pray that everyone that is looking at me in the eyes of the Spirit through this broadcast, I ask you right now, Father, I declare and decree that you’re opening their eyes and you’re opening their heart and that you’re giving them spiritual sight. Father, open the eyes of our heart. and give us the ability to see in the Spirit, to perceive what cannot be perceived in the natural, that we can walk in a spirit of wisdom and of revelation according to Your Word. Father, Your Word says that Jesus has been made unto us wisdom and that in the Holy Spirit, we’ve been given a spirit of revelation. So, Father, right now, I just release revelation and spiritual sight over Your people. Father, right now, I just declare in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of King Yeshua HaMashiach, that you are opening hearts right now and allowing people through supernatural discernment to see what they couldn’t see before and to perceive what they couldn’t perceive before, that they would no longer, Father God, stumble in the natural, but that seeing in the spirit, they’d be able to walk in the supernatural, to walk in victory with a firm foundation under their feet. Father, you declared that you have given us spiritual victory because we’ve been raised in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. I ask you to open the eyes of your people right now, that they would understand that they’ve been raised up with you, Lord Jesus Christ, according to your word, and are now seated with you, King Jesus Messiah, in the heavenly places. Open the eyes of our heart, Lord, I pray, in Jesus’ name. Father, we love you today. And I speak blessing and release sight over your people today. Father, open our hearts in the love of God and cleanse our eyes and minds to see by the Ruach HaKadosh, by the Holy Spirit, that we might see your face, Lord, more clearly. We love you, Abba. In Jesus’ name, amen. Beloved, it took a lot of time, resources, and being educated to be able to dig deep into the Word of God in order to bring you these teachings. And I want to thank those of you that are supporting this ministry that have created a situation where I’m able to invest myself in the Word of God the way that I do. Because of you that are partnering with this ministry, we’re able to bring teachings like these to God’s people all over the world. And as a result, the church is being built and people are coming to faith. 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In the Old Testament book of Numbers, we find a blessing God speaks over his children through Moses and Aaron. It carries the idea of favor and expression. Open your heart to the Spirit and the Word today and receive Father’s goodness into your life with confidence.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shalom.
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The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with his countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, his peace. God bless you and shalom.
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This program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. And I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. Come back next week when Rabbi Schneider reveals how to live life in the spirit. That’s coming up Monday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
