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Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho. 2 Kings 2:4 WEB

Elisha had worked serving the prophet Elijah for several years when he suddenly asked him to stay behind. Elisha said no, and he kept following him. Three times in a row Elijah asked him to stay behind somewhere, but Elisha refused to stay.

Elisha would not take no for an answer, he inherited a double portion anointing, and he lived the life of miracles that we read about today in our bible. There were many other Prophets too, fifty at Jericho alone. These all stayed behind and missed the anointing that Elisha received. If Elisha would have listened to those over him and stayed behind, like they asked him, he would missed the best part of his life.

There was a time in my life, when after serving faithfully at a church for years, God told us to move on. We were praying and fasting a lot, and my spirit had become restless and hungry for more. When word got out, we were told by the ones over us to wait. As I looked around us, I could see that we were not the first, for there were people twice my age still waiting for their ministry to begin.

The leaders 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. We tried to stay longer, but it became very messy and the anointing on our lives dried completely up. It would have been better for everyone if we had obeyed God and left gracefully when He had first told us to. Instead, we tried it their way, and we found that there is no drama, like church drama.

After taking a year off to heal from church abuse, God plugged us in somewhere else, and the Spirit began to flow in our lives once again. At the new church, we got drafted into the technical team and we learned many new things that we use at Refreshing Hope Ministries today. God simply wanted to teach us skills that we would need later in ministry, but the previous church leadership could not see that. All they could see at the time was that they were losing the computer guy, and if we had stayed there, we would probably not be in ministry today.

There will be times when you will have to choose between obeying God, or obeying man. When you choose to obey man instead, you will stall in your journey. This choice may involve making a very difficult decision, you have to be prayerfully careful, and some people may not like it. Yet sometimes when God calls you to do something, He only tells you about it. Be sure to keep yourself humble during this time with fasting and prayer, because pride will blind you. Sometimes to follow God, you cannot accept 'Wait Here' as the answer.

Prayer: Heavenly Father please give me a clear vision and put me where You want me to be. Speak to me in a clear, unmistakable way that I can understand. Give me grace to live this life and help me make the right decisions, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Note: Ladies, today is Thankful Thursday at the "Ladies in Distress" group (our RHM women's group)! You are welcome to join in our weekly sharing of thankfulness for the Lord's presences and any blessings you may have experienced, big or small! "Ladies in Distress" is a private group, so if you have any problems joining, just post anywhere and we will help you :). Here is the link: Ladies in Distress

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