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THE DOUBLE PORTION ANOINTING, Part 4
In these challenging times we are facing we need a rock-solid faith in all that God has to offer each one of us in Christ. The alternative is fear and a collapse of all we hold dear.
Just as Elisha pressed into the double portion of the anointing that was on Elijah so must we, as sons and daughters of the living God, press in to claim our double portion inheritance that God the Father has provided for us in Jesus Christ.
Paul confessed in Philippians 3:13, 14: “THIS ONE THING I DO, forgetting those things which are behind, and REACHING FORTH unto those things which are before. I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
The Apostle Paul did not sit around taking his Christian life for granted. He was not casual with his inheritance that Christ Jesus had provided for him to appropriate and experience.
The early pioneers came to America with very little means apart from a big appetite to get here, work hard, and appropriate all the good things this new land had to offer them. There were no government handouts and benefits that entitled them to be slothful and easy going.
America had a lot to offer those would roll up their sleeves, get stuck in, stake their claim, and apprehend what the country had to offer.
It was not enough to arrive in America. And it’s not enough to just arrive in Christ.
On the other hand, it is a wonderful thing to arrive in America, the land of the free. It is a far more wonderful thing to be in Christ and to be free indeed.
Through the action of faith we have come into Christ. This is the first portion of our inheritance. The second portion is being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Experiencing His gifts and His fruit in our lives is not attained by the inaction of a faith that is self-pleasing, easy going, and has no spiritual disciplines.
We’ll look at what kind of faith we need tomorrow.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
