One day, long ago, as I entered a room, a man jumped from behind the door, grabbed my hand and started professing, “I receive the anointing, double portion of the anointing is mine!” I shook him off. You get the anointing by sacrifice, not by professing it. You spend hours, if not days, on your knees. You fast for weeks, spend hours studying the word to know this God, you leave your comfort zone and go out to preach the gospel, you serve God with all your might. You sow seeds, seeds so great as to make you cry while sowing them. You have to be ready to make sacrifices to get power. The anointing will not come automatically by only following a man or woman of God.

When Jesus was on earth, hundreds of people were following Him, but only about 120 tarried at the upper room as He instructed and those were the ones who were filled with the Holy Ghost in Acts 2:1-4. Elijah had a servant before he had Elisha. In 1 Kings 19:1-3 , when Jezebel was after Elijah’s life and he told his servant to stay somewhere, the boy did not hesitate, hence, he did not get a double portion of the spirit. However, when it was Elisha’s turn, Elijah did everything to get rid of the young man but he stayed with Elijah to the end, then he got the mantle. Just following the man or woman of God is not enough to get the mantle, you must serve with all your heart and with all your might. You must follow him or her to the end.

“And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.”
2 Kings 2:10

By telling Elisha that if he saw him when he was going, he would get the mantle, Elijah was saying “If we see eye to eye, if you love what I love and hate what I hate, if you follow me with all your heart, then you will get my mantle”. If you want the anointing upon someone, then you must see eye to eye with the anointed. If your heart is not truly connected with the man or woman of God you are following, you cannot get his or her anointing. Finally, if you are not committed to serving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, you cannot get His anointing.
Written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

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1. One day, long ago, as I entered a room, a man jumped from behind the door, grabbed my hand and started professing, “I receive the anointing, double portion of the anointing is mine!” I shook him off. You get the anointing by sacrifice, not by professing it. You spend hours, if not days, on your knees. You fast for weeks, spend hours studying the word to know this God, you leave your comfort zone and go out to preach the gospel, you serve God with all your might. You sow seeds, seeds so great as to make you cry while sowing them. You have to be ready to make sacrifices to get power. The anointing will not come automatically by only following a man or woman of God.

2. When Jesus was on earth, hundreds of people were following Him, but only about 120 tarried at the upper room as He instructed and those were the ones who were filled with the Holy Ghost in Acts 2:1-4. Elijah had a servant before he had Elisha. In 1 Kings 19:1-3 , when Jezebel was after Elijah’s life and he told his servant to stay somewhere, the boy did not hesitate, hence, he did not get a double portion of the spirit. However, when it was Elisha’s turn, Elijah did everything to get rid of the young man but he stayed with Elijah to the end, then he got the mantle. Just following the man or woman of God is not enough to get the mantle, you must serve with all your heart and with all your might. You must follow him or her to the end.

“And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.”
2 Kings 2:10

3. By telling Elisha that if he saw him when he was going, he would get the mantle, Elijah was saying “If we see eye to eye, if you love what I love and hate what I hate, if you follow me with all your heart, then you will get my mantle”. If you want the anointing upon someone, then you must see eye to eye with the anointed. If your heart is not truly connected with the man or woman of God you are following, you cannot get his or her anointing.

4. Finally, if you are not committed to serving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, you cannot get His anointing.
Written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

1. Anointing?

2. Serve whom with all your heart and might? follow whom?

In the Gospels, Jesus Christ explained that it is those who continue to obey His teachings and commandments, God's Truth, that will be imbued with the Spirit of Truth and transformed by The Truth into Sons of God. So, by anointing, I hope you do not speak of what happened to Elisha since the promise of Sonship—the "anointing" that awaits those who follow Jesus Christ— with God came to us through Jesus Christ,— and not through Elijah.

3. Again, Jesus Christ NEVER promised anyone of His followers that which existed or took place between Elijah and Elisha. Jesus Christ never asked any of His followers to serve under any men as He instead instructed them to trust and obey only Him. God made it clear in Jeremiah 17 vs 5 - 11 that cursed in any man who puts his trust in another man and makes flesh and blood his strength, so any man who looks up to another man in hopes of receiving from that man that which he has in spirit only brings God's curse upon himself by his refusal to heed God's warning.

You cannot commit to serving man and then serving God as an afterthought. Nor can you serve God and man at the same time. As Jesus Christ assured you, you cannot two masters in the Kingdom of God - Matthew 6 vs 24.