Elisha's servant’s heart brought him the double portion of his master’s anointing. I Kings 19 says Elisha left his father and mother to minister to Elijah. And in II Kings 2, Elisha would not separate himself from his master even at his master’s request to do so. And because of it, Elijah bestowed upon Elisha the double portion of his anointing in the form of his cloak as he dropped it from his chariot of fire before being swept away into Heaven.
There are not as many miracle-workers discussed in the Bible as people tend to believe. You can certainly learn lessons from the lives of many in the Bible: David, Solomon, Esther, Mary, Matthew, John the Baptist, and others. Yet none of the aforementioned have any miracles attributed to them, of course, using the Bible as your only historical resource. Not one of them healed the sick or raised the dead or anything of the kind. Indeed the list of actual miracle-workers in the Bible is a very short list, but Elijah and Elisha are on it. And Elisha performed many more documented miracles than his master Elijah. In fact, the only person in the Bible with more documented miracles accredited to him than Elisha is Jesus.
There’s even an instance in II Kings 13 after Elisha’s death where a man, dead himself, was raised from the dead by being laid on Elisha's bones. This man's own funeral procession was cut short due to pending battle in the area. He was laid in Elisha's tomb because it was nearby. When this man's lifeless body touched Elisha's already decayed body, the man immediately came back to life.
Elisha's life demonstrates what I consider the most important prerequisite to having a successful ministry: to have served faithfully in someone else's. He experienced his name being as great in the earth as his master, Elijah. From Elisha's life, we can glean that if we do not allow our pride to get in the way of serving another, we can also reap the greatness of him/her we served.
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