Category: Elijah and Elisha

One of the most important things the Lord has ever spoken to me is taken from a passage of Scripture involving Elijah the prophet. Once I saw what it was really saying, it linked many other truths together and made a big impact on my life. This is so simple that once you see it,… Continue reading Lessons from Elijah

“Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are” (James 5:17). Yet he was mightily used of God. This reference is talking about the time Elijah became so despondent that he asked God to kill him (1 Kin. 19:4). Elijah wasn’t perfect; yet he called fire down from heaven three times; he was… Continue reading A Place called There

Elijah was the prophet of fire and rain. He brought fire from heaven on the sacrifices and rain to end the drought (I Kings 18:30–46). Elisha was the prophet of the double portion. Elijah’s and Elisha’s ministry had much in common. They were able to smite waters and part them; they brought water in times… Continue reading I’ll take twice as much

Elisha ministered mostly to the ten northern tribes of Israel, who shortly after his ministry were taken into captivity by Syria. Many of the people were destroyed because of their idolatry, for the judgments of God were upon them. Both Elisha and Elijah were a counteracting force in stopping the apostasy in Israel for a… Continue reading The chariots of Israel

In the days of Elijah and Elisha life was rather cheap. Countries which were not very productive preyed on their neighbors. They would raid a neighboring country and steal people to make them their slaves. One little girl who had been kidnapped this way played a significant part in a deliverance God wished to bring.… Continue reading Why have you torn your clothes?

The underlying theme in the stories of Elisha is the priority and superiority of the spiritual over the natural. This is emphasized in the story of the chariots of fire. To understand life in that day, we must realize that the productivity was not very high. People preyed upon one another in a manner that… Continue reading Chariots of fire all around

The stories of Elijah and Elisha give us a picture of what it will be like in the days to come. Elijah and Elisha lived in days of famine, days when people had problems surviving. Elisha dealt more with kings than did Elijah: the king of Syria, the king of Israel, and the king of… Continue reading Don’t get trampled to death

In the fourth and the sixth chapters of II Kings are three brief stories of miracles—three problems of the sons of the prophets. The first story is found in II Kings 4:38–41. When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he… Continue reading The problems of prophets

In I Kings 19, we read how the anointing came upon Elisha. Learning this is basic to the walk that God is bringing to His people in the earth. Elijah found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed… Continue reading The prophets mantel

The ministry of Elijah seems to fall into two categories. One ends under a juniper tree (or broom-tree), and the other begins there. The story of this change in Elijah’s ministry is recorded in I Kings 19. Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with… Continue reading What are you doing here?

Today there is much fear in the hearts of people, and they wonder what will happen in the world. The righteous know that the world situation will become much worse before it gets better because God is dealing in the earth. We are about to see the greatest visitation of the Lord that has ever… Continue reading Give me you son

God has been speaking a great deal about the ministry that is to come forth in the earth. There is much we can learn from the Scriptures which tell us about the ministry of Elijah. First, in Matthew 17:1–13, we read about Elijah’s appearance on the Mount of Transfiguration. And six days later Jesus took… Continue reading The day of fire and rain

In II Kings 2, we find a miracle of Elisha which can show us how to position ourselves for the next miracle of the Kingdom. We are going to learn to open our awareness to the next step in our progressive walk with God. If Elijah was a prophet of fire, Elisha was a prophet… Continue reading A jar of salt