Impact Of Impartation (eBook)

Dr. Kevin Drury (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
228 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
979-8-3509-8562-7 (ISBN)

'Impact of Impartation' is a must-read for those wondering what God's purpose is for them, especially after encountering His presence. This book challenges the reader to examine what they are doing with their lives and gives them a road map to fulfill their responsibilities as people who have been impacted by God.

Kevin Drury was gloriously saved in a Motel 6 second-story room in Yuma, AZ. Kevin was pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a Major League Baseball player and was at Spring Training in the San Diego Padres AA camp. Jesus walked into his life in April of 1980 and began the ongoing process of spiritual transformation that continues to this day. Kevin is a passionate disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ who is passionate about discipling others to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. He believes Christ is Heaven's model and every Christian's role model for life and ministry. Through the non-profit Revolution Movement, he leads people to follow Jesus and find His purpose for their life. Kevin is the author of nine books, including 'Welcome To The Wilderness', 'Leaving The Land Of Your Limitations', 'Christianity The Way Jesus Lived It', 'Promises And Prayers For Our Posterity', 'Sermon On The Mount', 'Devotional For Disciples [Based on SOTM]', 'Who Is The Israel Of God', and 'Jesus And Jerusalem'. Contact Kevin at gatesmasher@gmail.com for information about his books, ministry, or availability to minister to you or an event you are hosting.

A People Prepared

The most important part of an impact of impartation is not

what happens to us,

but what happens through us!

In Chapter 1 we looked at several people who were strategically positioned to have an impact of impartation and how their personal impact enabled them to impact others for impartation. We looked at Mary, the mother of Jesus and how she stopped time and started a new time. We looked at Ananias and how he is credited with impacting Saul of Tarsus who impacted the Jewish and Roman worlds even unto our day. We also looked at Mary Magdalene and the two disciples Jesus encountered on the road to Emmaus, and how their encounters changed the course of history too.

In this Chapter, we will look at John the Baptist who God used to be the forerunner of His cousin Jesus, and who Mark says launched the gospel of Jesus Christ.1

Before we dig into John’s impact of impartation, I want us to consider that sometimes when we encounter God, we have no idea what happened. Someone may ask, “What happened to you?” Your reply may be something like this, “I have no idea. I just know it was good. I do not have words to express what happened. I am just happy whatever happened did happen.”

Paul the apostle had an encounter like that. He described his visit into the third heaven, the place he called Paradise, this way:

“1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago--whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows--such a one was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man--whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows-- 4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”1

I do not think Paul was saying the law prohibited him from talking about what he experienced. I believe he had no worldly words to describe his heavenly encounter. I get my belief from the description he uses just before saying what he saw was unlawful.

The phrase “inexpressible words” means too sacred to talk about. I also believe what he saw and heard was so personal he knew he was not to flippantly talk about it. Do you remember when I mentioned this in Chapter 1? I talked about there are times when we are to treasure what we experience, not tell other people about them.

Donna and I were ministering in a small town in Southwest Georgia to a group of people in a house church. A female key leader came forward for ministry and Donna and I ministered to her. We prayed for her and prophesied to her, and she was slain in the Spirit. She lay on the floor for a while and while she was on the floor Jesus ministered something so deep, intimate, and personal she was embarrassed to even share it with the pastor and his wife. It was that personal, deep, and intimate. She did not have a grid to process what she experienced. She even thought she may have been deceived and had fallen into some sin.

But then she finally got the courage to speak to the pastor and his wife and they helped her process her experience to where she got the maximum benefit from it. She never told us what she experienced but she did tell us it radically changed her relationship to Jesus in a positive way. Her experience brought her closer to Jesus! That, my friends, is proof she experienced God with words too sacred to talk about.

Many times, when we have those kinds of moments with the Lord, the only expression that is suitable for sharing is through the life that is lived after the encounter. This may very well be how Paul “talked” about his third heaven experience. One thing for sure, whatever he experienced had a profound impact on his life.

God’s heart in impacting an individual is not simply to bless that individual. Almost always, if not always, the intent of God is for the impacted person to encounter other people who will have encounters with the God who gave the encounter. Why? So that a greater number of people will be prepared for the next things God has in His heart to do. God is never after an individual person. God is after people because He loves the world that He owns as well as all the people who are in it.1 So, when you have an impact of impartation you need to realize it is much bigger than you. It involves you! It includes you, but it is so much bigger than you.

God has families in mind! God has cities in mind! God has nations in mind! Don’t mind me! Let your sanctified imagination flow with all the possibilities the God who laughs at impossibilities desires to do. Jesus is called the Desire of all nations!2 Did you know that? That is correct and that is why Jesus said to “Disciple nations!”3 Jesus did not say find some people in the nations who want to be His disciples. His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways.4 I used to think that meant I could never reach God’s level. That is not what is meant in that scripture. That scripture is an invitation to come up to where God is and see what He sees, hear what He hears, and think like He thinks. And that is just the start of the meaning of that verse.

Do you hear the Father saying, “Come up here?”

By the way, since Jesus is the Desire of all the nations and He said to disciple whole nations then that must mean the people in those nations truly desire Him, whether they realize it or not! When people who are desperate encounter the One they desire, they will not deny Him. People usually reject religion, even the religion called Christianity because it is void of victory. Get touched! Get transformed! And then as you go into all your world do not see yourself as one who was only transformed. See yourself as one who carries transformation called to those you encounter and impart the God who transformed you.

Go and be an encounter! We owe the people in our world an encounter with the God who really does want to make them whole, in spirit, soul, and body. We owe them an encounter with the living Jesus, not the historical one. I have said many times, tongue in cheek of course, that I was going to write a book titled, Jesus Christ Is Alive and Well on Planet Earth. I just may do it one day.

God is up to all good! In fact, when Moses asked God to show him His glory God said, “I will cause all My goodness to pass before you.”1 My goodness! God believes His glory manifests in all His goodness. The devil is up to no good! So, on one hand God is good, all the time. On the other hand, the devil is never good, all the time. We should never take any of the good God always does and give it to the devil. And we should never take any of the no good the devil always does and give it to God. God is always good, and He is really good at always being really good. The devil is always bad, and he is really good at always being really bad! We need to always keep those truths straight.

If I were to do to my kids or grandkids what people accuse God of doing to His, I would be in prison for child abuse!

Now, we finally get to John the Baptist. Thank you for demonstrating great patience as I worked through what I believe is important information. In Luke chapter 1, we find this account of John the Baptist’s beginnings, his impact of impartation encounters, and how those directed his life and ministry.

“5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.

8 So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, 9 according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 10 And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense.

11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him, ‘Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. 17 He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.’

18 And Zacharias said to the angel, ‘How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.’ 19 And the angel answered and said to him, ‘I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. 20 But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in...

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.12.2024
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-13	979-8-3509-8562-7 / 9798350985627

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