Prospering in Pandemonium
Prospering in Pandemonium || Day 5
I Kings 17:1-24 NKJV
And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except at my word.” Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.” And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ ” So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah. Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. So she said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?” And he said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him out of her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. Then he cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?” And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, I pray, let this child’s soul come back to him.” Then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived. And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives!” Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is the truth.”
The Double-Portion Dimension
As we conclude this plan, the final concept we need to understand to prosper in the midst of pandemonium is the double portion dimension. This is the dimension God wants us to operate in. Many Christians today limit their thinking by what they have seen. They no longer operate in total faith in the Most-High God. They are stuck in seasonal thinking.
We all may be guilty of this at some point or another, but I want to challenge you to start thinking "unlimited"—to start thinking in the double-portion dimension.
In 1 Kings 17, Elijah displays this perfectly. He went from being fed by ravens next to a brook that dried up to being fed from an unlimited supply of meal and oil in a poor foreign widow’s house. The impossible became possible through faith in God.
In 2 Kings 4, Elisha helped a widow go from being a borrower to being a lender when she received as much oil as her vessels could hold. This miracle was made possible by having faith in the Most High.
Finally, in Matthew 14, we see Jesus’ famous miracle of multiplying the five loaves and two fishes to feed a crowd of 5,000 men (and there were probably women and children, too!). Jesus, better than anyone, knew what God the Father is capable of and set an amazing example for us in how we should be thinking, operating, and living.
Jesus, Elisha, Elijah, and many more over history, received a revelation that there was access available to a dimension of heaven attainable on the earth. This revelation became permission to lay aside seasonal and level thinking to walk in dimensional believing.
This is the type of thinking God wants His children to have now and in the last days on earth. He wants us to have total faith in Him and stop limiting our thinking and confining it to what we believe is possible. He wants us to access the double portion dimension of thinking for His glory.
Further reading: 2 Kings 4:1-7; Matthew 14:13-21