Summer
2006
Impartation
Wade E. Taylor
“In those day came John the Baptist, preaching in the
wilderness … The voice of one crying in the wilderness
… Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and
all the region round about Jordan.” Matthew 3:1-5
The place of worship was in Jerusalem, yet all of Israel
went out into the desert to John the Baptist. There was a
“substance” within him that so attracted people
that they were willing to go to where he was. Many years ago,
while at Pinecrest, which is located in a very remote area,
I determined to seek the abiding presence of the Lord to rest
upon Pinecrest. I often heard people say that they came because
of the open heaven over Pinecrest.
“It came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon
Him to hear the word of God, He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,
And saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen
were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he
entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and
prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land.
And He sat down and taught the people out of the ship.”
Luke 5:1-3
Jesus was standing on the shore, and He stepped into a boat
because the people were “pressing upon Him to hear.”
There were two boats, representing the realm of the natural,
and the realm of the Spirit. We chose which one we will abide
in, either in an earthly dominated world, or in the place
of seeking the presence of the Lord in a heavenly atmosphere.
To experience the manifest presence of the Lord, there is
a price that must be paid.
“And seeing the multitudes (those pressing to hear),
He went up into a mountain (the place of revelation in the
realm of the Spirit): and when He was set (a teaching atmosphere),
His disciples came to Him (our response to His presence):
And He opened His mouth, and taught them (a release of Spirit).
Matthew 5:1
“He opened His mouth.” This tells us that this
is far more than just speaking words. A spiritual atmosphere
had been created, and now there is a release of Spirit. We
can have profound truth, and yet accomplish very little if
that truth is spoken out of the intellect, as we have only
exercised our mind with intellectual truth. The “anointed
word” goes into our spirit.
Whenever we enter the presence of the Lord, His presence
is felt and there is an impartation into our spirit. This
results in a deep inner satisfaction that cannot be described,
but draws people to seek this presence. Multitudes will travel
long distances to be in the Lord’s manifested presence.
We were created for this and cannot find a lasting satisfaction
in any other way.
In Romans 1:11, Paul said, “For I long to see you,
that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you
may be established.”
The important word in this verse is “impart.”
This is far more than simply teaching the word, it is believing
for the spirit of impartation to be active through the anointed
word that is ministered. Paul is saying, “That I might
be a channel to release (transmit) the presence of the Lord
into those who are pressing to hear.”
“It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual
body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul: the last Adam was made a living (quickening) Spirit.”
I Corinthians 15:44-45
“It is sown a natural body” (I submit the totality
of my being unconditionally to the Lord) and as a result,
“it is raised a spiritual body” (the ability to
be anointed with impartation). This quickening (anointing)
speaks of impartation. That which relates to the Lord, comes
from the Tree of Life, and is life-giving. Adam was made a
living soul, which relates to the tree of knowledge, and relates
to our intellect.
The Tree of Life does not relate to right or wrong, but to
life and death. I die to my way, as I submit to His way. I
give up my thought, that which I feel is right or wrong, and
allow the Lord to come and release Spirit and life within
and through me.
Due to Adam’s transgression, we begin in the natural.
If we are to move into a spiritual atmosphere, it must be
carefully cultivated. While I was at Pinecrest, I was committed
to cultivating this spiritual atmosphere; that there would
be an abiding spirit of impartation present. I knew that we
were in an isolated area and if the school was to succeed,
there would have to be something beyond natural abilities
or intellect that would attract people.
I always rejoiced when someone came and said, “We came
because we felt an unusual presence of the Lord here.”
This was because I had invested in cultivating a spiritual
atmosphere that would produce this response.
“My speech and my preaching was not with the enticing
words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power.” I Corinthians 2:4
This “demonstration of the Spirit” is my becoming
a “conduit,” through which the Lord can move to
accomplish His purpose. It is not in the “enticing words
of man’s wisdom,” but the demonstration, or outworking
of the personalized presence of the Lord in Spirit and power.
Some time ago, I spoke at a meeting with about five hundred
people in attendance. When I finished, the meeting was dismissed,
but no one moved. The majority sat there for over an hour
because they were receiving Spirit and life – the very
substance of the life of God was being imparted into them.
If I am anointed, I will say better all that is to be spoken.
But “impartation” is far more than this. Spirit
and life is being released into the spirit of all those who
are responding.
“God has revealed them to us by His Spirit: for the
Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. …
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that
are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak,
not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches; but which
the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”
I Corinthians 2:10-13
“Comparing spiritual things with spiritual” can
be more accurately translated “teaching spiritual things
to the spiritually minded.” This is the release through
impartation of the quickened word of the Lord.
Proverbs chapter 8, verses 17 and 21 give the key to becoming
a mature Christian and having a successful ministry.
“I love them that love Me and those that seek Me early
shall find Me … that I may cause those that love Me
to inherit substance.”
“I love them that love Me.” This is a conditional
love, a love in which I express my love to the Lord, as being
His Bride. The Lord will respond and impart divine favor upon
my life experience and ministry, and His life will flow through
my life into others.
“That I may cause them to inherit substance.”
This substance is not money; rather, it is the substance of
the life of God, finding its expression through my life and
ministry. The Lord breathed into us the breath of lives. We
were made for Him. Therefore, there is no satisfaction apart
from our relationship to Him - His life flowing into my life
and being released through my life.
The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that
I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: He wakens morning by morning (this is how I receive
it), He wakens my ear to hear as the learned (awakening the
inner capacity within me to hear in the realm of the Spirit).”
Isaiah 50:4
As I wait in His presence, I am lifted from the realm of
the natural, up into the realm of the Spirit. I am being lifted
(wakened) from my dependence on the intellect, and I am coming
into the place that I was created for – where I receive
Spirit and life.
“He awakens, morning by morning, my ear to hear.”
This hearing will continue to increase as I come into His
presence, the first thing each morning. Eventually I will
come to the hundred fold where literally I can say, “I
am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I –
the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
of the Son of God” (Galatians 2:20).
My life is now giving expression to His life and I can say
with John the Baptist, “I am the voice of another. My
life has become so yielded, that the Lord is able to express
His life through my life.”