THE IMPARTATION

Impartation is a very important concept for The Church to understand in order to exercise the power that God has given to us. God used impartation to form character and goals in the lives of different key people to bring about a continuation of his work of restoration. That work is still going on and we need the full possession of that power from God.

To impart means to give or grant from one’s store or abundance. It means to give of a possession and to transmit that possession of the inner man to another person.

The inner man is the one who lives in God’s kingdom in the realms of revelation where God’s divine light gives truth. When we walk in the truth of Christ’s revelation, we become a vessel to impart life through speaking a word or laying on of hands. There seems to be an actual, definite moment and experience of the impartation of life through an instrument of God to another. A definite charge, release or appointment is made by the transmitter to the receiver.

A touch by one human being that is filled with God’s glory, will transmit His anointing. It is based on the principles that we have already examined from scripture, where the touch of an anointed man of God actually transmits something of his sprit and life to another person. That touch usually brought forth a desire in the receiver, to follow a new and previously unknown realm for God. A mistake The Church makes today is that she misunderstands the actual nature of impartation and has used other concepts to mean impartation. What the church will readily call impartation is actually intercession.

Intercession is the act of interceding, mediating, a prayer, petition or entreaty in favor of another. It is not transmitting to another of what you possess but is an act of asking God to give to another something you do not possess or do not have the authority to give. One who imparts, on the other hand, has the authority and possession of God’s life in a particular way that allows him to be a transmitter for God.

For instance, in the life of Moses, he did both. He imparted life and was an intercessor. In (Exodus 17:11) we read that Moses lifted up his arms in surrender to God at that moment so that the battle could be won. “And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed...” Moses was called here to be an intercessor. He did not possess the authority from God to impart life in this situation, but he was called upon by God to lift his hands and surrender before Him. Moses stood as an intercessor for the nation of Israel and a warrior for God because intercession is SPIRITUAL WARFARE.

“Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: ‘LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?’ ” (Exodus 32:11) This cry came from the heart of Moses as he interceded before God because of the sins of idolatry which the nation of Israel committed towards God. Moses was a pure intercessor and because of his intercession and humility it says in (Exodus 32:14) “So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would to His people.”

Now in (Numbers 27:22-23) we see Moses as one who imparts and transmits God’s calling from his life to another. “And the LORD said to Moses; ‘Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;” (Numbers 27:18)

Joshua was called by God to come into a new position of authority. He was chosen to become the leader after Moses. Joshua was not Moses and God did not want him to be another Moses. God had formed him for another time and another leadership. Joshua could not and did not have the same experience and walk with God as Moses, yet God chose him to receive the impartation of Moses’ honor in order to carry on the leadership over the children of Israel.

Honor means to live up to or to fulfill the terms, and in the lives of Moses and Joshua they were fulfilling the terms of the covenant which God made with the children of Israel. God commanded Moses to give a charge to Joshua in (Numbers 27:19) “Set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight.”

Moses was imparting of what he possessed. A CHARGE means to give an infusion of power. Therefore Moses released upon Joshua the power he possessed in God and because of that definite action by Moses with the laying on of hands, there was a dividing without a lessening of honor, as Moses gave some of his honor to Joshua. “And you shall give some of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.” (Numbers 27:20)

It was an establishment of Joshua’s leadership and the fulfillment of Moses’ leadership. This following together of the old and new is an overlapping period in God’s divine government.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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