<TITLE>07. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 On to the Jordan they went. They crossed over and Elijah said, "Now, what will you that I do for you?"
He said, "A double portion of your spirit to come upon me." He knowed he had a work to do. He said, "A double portion," not just a good warm experience, not just a good handshake, or a good fellowship with the rest of the church; but what I want is a double portion of what's the best now.
I tell you when God sets a man for a world task, he's got to have something better than the world's got. He's got to have something better than the church has got. He's got to go for a double portion. And if there ever was a time that a double portion is needed, it's today in the realms of the people. Something better, something higher... I...?... I think beans and corn bread is very good, but sometimes I have to reach up a little higher. And we do that. We've got to. We got to keep climbing. Israel was backsliding if they kept staying on the same grounds. He's got to be moving on or moving back. That's the way the church is.

L-21 So as they went along, it wasn't but a few minutes until he said, "You've asked a great thing; but nevertheless, if you see me when I go, you can have what you ask for."
Now, that has to be singleness of motive, singleness of heart, singleness of eye, keeping your eye on the promise. If you're sick this morning, if you're afflicted, there's one great promise, not by Elisha, but by God Himself. "If thou canst believe... When you pray, believe that you get what you ask for and you shall receive it." No matter what the doctor says, how much this goes or that goes, keep single on the promise.
Elijah give him a condition. "If you see me when I go, it'll come on you." There's a promise. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe."

L-22 Sometimes I look at myself and think I've been such a jellyfish in my life. I have waited and missed many thousands of souls into the Kingdom, because I've waited and said, "God..." depending too much on a spiritual gift, and said, "Lord, if You'll just show me, and if You'll give me a vision what to do." And God give the vision, then I'll turn around let somebody talk me into something else. And, oh, I have never come to the spot yet, until I--like I have at this time, that I feel it's a faith, that we must step out there, because it's a promise. And the things that He has done, and the healings that He has performed, and the miracles, even so much as come down and have His picture taken by the side of us, and so forth, which has never been known since the world began. And then stand around like a jellyfish, it even makes me discouraged with myself. It's time to keep your eye on the promise. And that's what, by God's grace, I aim to do. And I realize that every devil of hell will shoot at it. But by God's grace, I aim to keep my eye on the promise.


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