Your Favor Connection

Elijah was a mighty prophet who performed amazing miracles. He called down fire from heaven and raised a little girl from the dead and out ran a chariot. One day, while walking by a field, he saw a young man named Elisha plowing. He told him to leave his animals and come with him. Elisha, who was from a wealthy family, likely had dreams and goals of his own. Elijah wanted him to be his assistant, bringing him food, setting up his tent, and feeding his animals. Elisha could have thought, No thanks, I’m going to stay here and work on my farm. He could have been too proud, but he recognized the favor on Elijah’s life and respected his anointing.

Elisha wasn’t jealous. He didn’t get offended at being offered what seemed like a lowlevel position. For years, he served Elijah with honor, making him comfortable and waiting on him. When you honor those whom God has given influence and esteem, that honor and influence will come back to you.

I’m sure Elisha’s friends came around, saying, “Why are you still serving this old man? You have your own dreams. He’s holding you back.” He could have let them talk him out of it, thinking he was wasting his time. Instead, he kept on serving, honoring, and respecting the ‘favor connection.’ Elijah was miraculously taken to Heaven in a whirlwind. But there is another miracle here. Elisha, the assistant who served faithfully all those years, received a double portion of Elijah’s anointing.

These ‘favor connections’ you’re sowing into, honoring, and serving are not a waste of time. It is a biblical principle: What you sow into, you’re going to reap. When you sow into someone with great favor, you’re going to reap some of that favor. Like Elisha, you’ll see double the influence, double the favor, double the anointing.

It’s very freeing when you can celebrate people ahead of you, knowing that the seeds you have sown into them—the honor, the respect, the resources—will bring a harvest for you. If you only sow into horizontal relationships, people at your same level, then you’ll see horizontal favor. But when you’re secure enough in who you are to recognize the favor on people’s lives and sow into vertical relationships, people who are ahead of you, then you’ll reap some of that vertical favor.

God has brought people into your life not to compete with but to connect with. They’re a key to you rising higher. This is not about playing up to people and trying to win them over; it’s about recognizing and respecting the favor God has placed on people.