Free Make Room for Your Miracle by Mahesh Chavda, Bonnie Chavda Page B

The minute it happened, Elisha got excited. He probably said something like, “Oh! I’m the chosen one! Well, thank you, sir, I had a feeling you needed a helper in your ministry. I’m ready to come alongside you; let’s go to the nations. But, hang on, I need to take care of a little business at home—tell Mom and Dad, do a few things. . . .”
    Elijah did not even break his stride. He did not go back to get his own mantle; he was on a mission from God. His reply was, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?” (verse 20).
    At that moment, Elisha got the most prophetic revelation of his life and future ministry: He found out it was not about him. It was not about his priorities. It was not about his necessities. He realized that the anointing is going to cost you.
    Elisha died that day of his calling. That is why he could get up every morning and serve a cranky old prophet. We can guarantee that Elijah never said to him, “Son, let’s sit down over breakfast and you tell me what you dreamed last night.” Elijah probably never asked Elisha’s opinion about one single thing. He never said, “Here, let me show you my notes.” No, he probably said, “Do this. Do that.”
    When Elijah was getting ready to be taken up, he and Elisha were on what we might call their last great preaching circuit (see 2 Kings 2:1–7). Elijah was going around to all the high places where Israel would gather in the regions, and at each stop the sons of the prophets would run out to Elisha and say, “Don’t you know your master is going to be taken up today?”
    And every single time Elisha would put down the luggage and look at the prophets and say, “Yeah, I know he’s being taken, and I know what I’m supposed to do—keep carrying this luggage.”
    Elijah told Elisha to join those prophets: “Stay here,” he would say. “Go join up with them. Establish your ministry center here: ‘Elisha and the sons of the prophets.’ Everyone will be coming to you.”
    And Elisha would answer him, “No, thank you. I’ve got to pack now. You’re getting ready to go on.” And he continued with him on the journey.
    That really speaks to us about the nature of moving and developing in the anointing; you will never reach the destination. Or to put it another way, we should not let the destination be to establish a ministry where we are known for hearing the voice of God. That should not be the goal. The goal should be: I am here for the long haul. I am a servant of the Lord. What does He want me to do now? Reach out to my neighbors? Serve in children’s church? Care for a widow? Paint my house? Often obedience in the mundane things is the bridge to our moment of encounter. Finally Elijah turned to Elisha and said, “Okay, what do you want?”
    Elisha said, “I want a double portion of the Spirit that is on you.”
    “If you see me taken up, it will be yours,” Elijah said.
    Elisha was going to have to stay with him, serving him until Elijah literally was not there anymore, for the double portion to be released.
    So if we want to make room for the anointing, we must never grow out of being just a simple servant of the Lord. There is no need to be in a frenzy, to feel compelled that somehow I must wake up hearing the voice of the Lord say something monumental. But maybe I got up this morning and I was thinking of that widow down the street, and how her screen door needs to be fixed, and how she needs somebody to pray that that pain of arthritis in her hands will leave her. That is servanthood that welcomes the Presence.
    We are often grateful for the eighteen years that we stood by Brother Derek Prince, a senior apostle of the Lord, and served him. We never made demands on him. We reveled in every opportunity, small or great, to ease his needs, supply his wants—to let him rest and enjoy. For many years we cleaned his house for him. It was an honor for us to serve this man of God who was touching hundreds of thousands for God’s