How large is your asking capacity when it comes to prayer? When Elijah asked Elisha, \u2018\u201cWhat may I do for you, before I am taken away?\u201d\u2026Elisha said, \u201cPlease let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (2 Kings 2:9 NKJV) <\/p>\n
Some of us may have been shocked by his response, pegged him as arrogant, and said, \u2018You need to humble yourself and be grateful for the privilege of serving a great prophet like Elijah, and count yourself fortunate if God permits you to carry on his ministry.\u2019 But Elisha wasn\u2019t timid, and Elijah wasn\u2019t offended. So how did it all turn out? Elisha got his double portion and ended up performing twice as many miracles as Elijah. <\/p>\n
When you pray, God doesn\u2019t say, \u2018Make your request reasonable and practical.\u2019 He wants you to ask largely and abundantly, not sparingly (see James 1:5). How\u2019s this for a big promise: \u2018Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession\u2019<\/i> (Psalm 2:8 NLT)? Take the limits off God! Think about it: if He\u2019s willing to give you \u2018the nations as your inheritance\u2019<\/i>, He will surely save your loved ones, heal your body, give you that job, that home, or that relationship you\u2019ve been praying for. <\/p>\n
Jesus said, \u2018And I will do whatever you ask in My name.\u2019<\/i> (John 14:13 NIV) Only two times in Scripture has someone said something that caused Jesus to marvel. On both occasions it was a demonstration of audacious faith by a Gentile, and someone the religious crowd thought had no right to God\u2019s miraculous provision. So the word for you today is\u2014enlarge your asking capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How large is your asking capacity when it comes to prayer? When Elijah asked Elisha, \u2018\u201cWhat may I do for you, before I am taken away?\u201d\u2026Elisha said, \u201cPlease let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.\u201d\u2019 (2 Kings 2:9 NKJV) Some of us may have been shocked by his response, pegged him as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}