Good day everyone. It is Lara Gboyega Adedeji here again. In today’s piece, we will be drawing the curtain on the series on impartation with this particular teaching that the Holy Spirit has for us titled: What Happens After Impartation? In the first part of this series, we were made to understand What Impartation Is and we were told that impartation is the release of something that have been held in store. When something has been held in store and is released or let go of; communicated to someone, then there has been an impartation. Then last week, we looked at Why Impartation? Why is impartation so important? Why is God always about impartation? And we were able to see that God is the one from the beginning, the first one that actually imparted into someone. And the impartation we saw in Genesis 2 verse 7, how that God made man from the dust of the ground, breathed into His nostrils the breath of life and man became.
So, the reason for impartation is so that man can become a living being. And in this piece, we are looking at What Happens After Impartation? After man has become a living being, after what has been held in store has been released to man, what happens? What is the expectation? The Bible says; the expectation of the righteous shall not be cut short. Meaning that the righteous must always have an expectation. You cannot be a believer and be devoid of expectations. Because expectation is actually the basis on which your faith stands. If you are not expecting anything, then there is no need for you to exercise faith.
Because faith is strongly linked with expectation. The Bible makes us to understand that hope deferred makes the heart sick. Meaning that you have been having expectation and you have been having that expectation over and over again and it got to a time were you just say; you know what, what I am expecting is not coming to me, I give up, I quit. It makes the heart weary. So expectation is critical in our faith walk. If there is nothing that is in front of you that you are expecting, you have been looking forward to, then there is no need believing in God. Because God is a God that pleasure in meeting the expectations of His children. If you have walked with God to a point, you will understand that God is always declaring the end from the beginning. Why does He do that? Why does He continue to commit Himself to declaring the end from the beginning? Because He knows that you must have an expectation. God declares the end from the beginning to make sure that as you journey with Him as a believer, you have an expectation. So, when God declares the end for example, when God was going to send Moses to the children of Israel in Egypt, He declared the end.
He said see I have heard the cry of my people in Israeli, and I have come down to save them. At that time, were the children of Israeli delivered from captivity? No! But God had declared it. He said I am bringing them out to serve me in a land that is flowing with milk and honey. And you will ask, will God go into the details of what He is going to do when He has not actually started? Because God is Spirit, that’s why the Bible says those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. I am going ahead of myself, but the essence of this declaration is so that we understand that God is about your expectation.
God will not start you on a journey that He has not declared to you the end before you start it. Because He wants you to build an expectation. What is your future going to be like? He said my thoughts towards you is of good and not of evil, to give you what? A future. The future God is talking about is the expectation of tomorrow. God will always give you an expectation of tomorrow, ‘a future and a hope’ so that you can wait. If God does not do that, He does not expect us to wait. What are you waiting for? Who are you waiting on? Because God wants you to wait, God will declare the end from the beginning. So, we are going to see Isaiah 32 which is one of the statements of God when He was declaring the end from the beginning. Isaiah 32, we will read from verse 15 to 18. We are going to start with that because this is the expectation of the Lord, this is how God speaks.
Isaiah 32:15 and we will stop at verse 20.
“Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.18 My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places, 19 Though hail comes down on the forest, And the city is brought low in humiliation. 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.”
Now, looking at how God is speaking here, will you say God is declaring the past, the present or the future? Looking at how God spoke from verse 15 to verse 20, what was God declaring here? He was declaring the future. He said “My people will.”
Until the Spirit is poured out from on high the wilderness becomes; so, God was actually declaring a future experience for His people. God was creating an expectation for His people. God was declaring what will happen after an event has taken place. What was the event that God said will precede this experience? He said until the Spirit is poured out. So, the precondition to this experience is the pouring out of the Spirit upon us. So, what happens after impartation?
I want us to see Habakkuk 2 verse 14, and the Bible says; this is the declaration, “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters covers the sea.” This is a proclamation, a prophecy, this is an expectation God is building, this is something God is saying my people look at. This is what I want you to place before you. “The earth will be filled with the knowledge”, did you see it as a future sentence or something that God was declaring for the past or the present? Its future. The earth will, it’s a matter of time it will come to pass. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God as waters the sea. Isaiah 32 that we read verse 15 to 20, and Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 14 that we read are a declaration of an expectation, a declaration of a future that God is saying His children are going to step into. I want us to see Joel 2.
Now, I am taking time to show us these things so that they can be built in our heart. The reason why God decided to Chronicle His words in the Scriptures, is so that when we read them, if we see that Habakkuk 2, it says write the Vision, and make it plain upon tablets, so that those that read it, those that read these expectations, those that read this future that I am declaring, when they read it, they can do what? Run with it. Joel 2 verse 28 to 29, “And it shall come to pass afterward afterwards talks about the future, That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, this will be the experience after I have poured out my Spirit. “Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions. 29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”
So, this is the prophesy, this is future, this is the expectation, this is what God is putting before His children. So, when God was promising this, what was the promise of God? The promise of God is impartation. Before this time, the Holy Spirit has been withheld, the Holy Spirit has been kept in store, the Holy Spirit had been in reserve. But when God make this declaration, is that He is going to release a gift and you will see that every Scripture we have read from that Isaiah 32 we read and Joel 2, it’s about the release of the Spirit. Why was God emphasizing this? Why was God creating this picture, why was God emphasizing this expectation? It is because it is important. God is not a talkative, when God says something, He means it.
When God is declaring something, He is not joking. God is so purpose central, that His words are deliberate and intentional. We have seen that everything in the Scripture God will declare what will happen. Declaring the experience, we will start walking into when the Spirit is poured out. So, what happened? Acts 2, we are doing this connection deliberately because we need to come to terms with what God is doing in this season. Acts 2 we will read from verse 14 to 16 and we will read
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, this was the day of Pentecost when the Spirit was released. Standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken, this is what was declared. Now, we are living in the days of the prophecy in Joel 2, now we are living in the days of the prophecy in Isaiah chapter 32. What was spoke by the prophet Joel: and he repeated what was written in that Joel 2:28 to 29 in Acts 2:17 to 18. So, we have come to experience the release of the Holy Spirit, and it came to fulfilment in Acts chapter 2. The impartation, the life of God on; until the Spirit of God is poured out from on high, the wilderness will become a fruitful field and a fruitful field will be counted as a forest.
So, after the release of the Holy Spirit, there are expectations. These are the demands of the Spirit. These are the demands after the release. After the release, these are the things that must come to pass. After Acts chapter 2, these are things, we would be looking at them one after the other. These are the things that must happen to us. But I jumped one, and I want us to go back to it. Isaiah 44, we are going back to how God prophesied these times, so that it creates an appetite in us, it creates a longing in us, it creates a demand in our Spirit for what God said He would supply.
Isaiah 44 and we would read from verse 3 to 6. This is also an expectation that God created.
“For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring; 4 They will spring up among the grass Like willows by the watercourses.’ 5 One will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’; Another will call himself by the name of Jacob; Another will write with his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’ And name himself by the name of Israel.”
This is another expectation, another prophesy that God sent out. God does not serve a food that He does not create an appetite for you. God does not supply what He does not allow us to demand. In Acts 2, there was a supply of the Spirit, according to the demand that God created in Joel chapter 2. What happens in the spirit is that there is no excess supply or excess demand, there is always an equilibrium. And the equilibrium point is what happens when the impartation of God meets the hunger of men.
The equilibrium point every believer must get to is at the point where the supply of the Spirit meets the hunger. See what God said; I will pour water on Him who is thirsty. Meaning that I will cause you to be thirsty then I will pour water. He said and floods on the dry ground. Meaning that I will make your ground dry and flood it. Meaning that my supply will be commensurate with your demand. I will cause you to demand for an experience that only me God can supply. What happened in Acts chapter 2? Jesus said tarry here in Jerusalem until you are endued with power. Why did they have to tarry? Because their hunger, their demand must rise to heaven, because when there is a demand, there is supply. He said ask and you will receive, seek and you will find. In the kingdom of God, things are not just thrown at the feet of people, there must be a demand for there to be a supply.
So, when God creates a demand, He supplies it. When man was created on the earth, God created a need for man and created him. The Bible says; God planted a garden eastward in Eden. He created the demand for the man before He supplied the man and put Him in the garden. That’s the architecture of God. That’s how God works, there is no excess supply. God supplies to the degree of your hunger. So, when we are talking about what happens after impartation, we are talking about what happens when we get to the equilibrium point where the demand equals the supply. Our focus this morning is on the equilibrium point. We are not talking about disequilibrium here, we are talking about the equilibrium point where the demand, the hunger in the life of a man and the supply of God meets. That point is the point where the promise of God can be fulfilled.
It is the point where the things that God has said can come to pass. It is the point that the things that God has preordained can materialize. So, everything we have read from Isaiah 32, from Joel 2, from Isaiah 44; these are the demands, the things that God created to create an appetite for the Spirit. Until there is an appetite for the Spirit, it won’t come. Until there is a hunger, until there is thirst, it will not pour. So, the focus this morning is at the point where you are hungry for the Spirit, you are thirsty for the Spirit and God supplies. And when He has supplied what happens thereafter?
In Joel chapter 2 verse 28 to 29 that we read, the Bible says; I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. That’s what God said; your sons and daughters will do what? Prophesy. Can you prophesy in the flesh? It says your old men; they will dream dreams. Dreaming is spiritual, you can’t be dreaming and you are awake. It said your young men will see visions. You can’t see visions in the flesh. So, God promised a supernatural experience after His Spirit has been poured out. So what is your expectation as one that has been imparted? One that has been hungry for the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit has been supplied; what is your expectation? Supernatural experience. The release of the supernatural. I want to read a Scripture in John 3 verse 6, the statement of Jesus, I will read it in God’s Word and the Passion Translation. Because I love the way it was scripted down in those translations.
John 3 verse 6 in the passion Translation; It says; “For the natural realm only gives birth to things that are natural, (the physical begets the physical), but the spiritual realm gives birth to supernatural life!” I love that! The spiritual real; how do you connect to the spiritual realm? By the supply of the Spirit. The spiritual realm gives birth to the supernatural life. In God’s Word; it says; “flesh and blood gives birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual.” It takes the Spirit to give birth to the things that are spiritual. Meaning that you cannot do any spiritual thing until there is a supply of the Spirit. This is what happens after impartation. There is the release of the Supernatural, because it is the Spirit that begets Spirit. It is the Spirit that gives birth; meaning that you will start producing from the womb of the Holy Spirit. The things that you are producing are no longer natural in order, but they are spiritual in order.
I want us to see Luke chapter 1 and verse 35 so that we can see a classic example there. “And the angel answered when Mary asked; how can these things be? And the Angel answered and said to her; please I want you to see, the letter kills but the Spirit gives life. Let the Holy Spirit open your eyes. It says; “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, as a result of this experience, as a result of this impartation; because He said He will come upon you-impartation! See what will happen as a result of impartation. Therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.” When the Spirit comes on you and the power of the highest over shadows you, what will come out of you will be called a product of God. Supernatural!
Spirits give birth to the things that are spiritual. The Holy Spirit can’t over shadow you and you will be bringing forth flesh and blood, no! spirit. What happens after impartation is that the Holy Spirit quickens your mortal body. It says the same spirit that rose Jesus Christ from the dead will quicken. To be quicken means to make alive your mortal body. So, what happened to Mary was that when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her, when the Holy Spirit came upon her, her mortal body was quickened by a spiritual life. So, when you receive the impartation of the Holy Spirit, your mortal body becomes quickened with a spiritual life. So, what you birth is called supernatural. It’s purely spiritual.
Number two; what happens after impartation? From Isaiah 44 verse 3 to 5. Change of Identity. It says; and one will say I am the Lords; another one will call himself by the name of the God of Jacob. When you receive the impartation of the Holy Spirit there is a change if identity. You have the boldness to declare the Lord. The Bible says; no one says Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit, no one says Jesus is accursed when he has the Holy Spirit. So, the impartation of the Holy Spirit makes you aware of your origin. It changes your identity from flesh and blood to spirit. You now know that you are the son of God. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Their identity changes, as many as are led, as many as are imparted, as, many as the Spirit of God has been supplied and poured upon, “they are” not “they will be.”
That’s your identity, you are the son of God, because of the impartation of the Spirit. Peter stood up with the 11 and they declared boldly. The same Peter that denied Jesus three times before the cock crew. He declared boldly; I am the Lords. So, when there is an impartation of the Spirit, there is boldness to declare who you are, your identity, you are not ashamed. The reason why so many people are ashamed of who they are in God is because they have not been imparted. What happens after impartation is that you are bold about your identity in God. You declare boldly, I am the Lords.
Number three; Isaiah 32 from verse 15 to 20. What happens after impartation is that there is a release of the blessing. Acts 9 verse 31. “31 Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.” The first encounter was that they were added. Added to the church were 3000 souls of men. Here when the Spirit was poured out, when there was a supply of the Spirit, the Bible says they were multiplied. That’s the blessing of God. And God blessed them and said; be fruitful, multiply. The blessing of God is activated by the Spirit. What is the blessing of God? Every other blessing God declared on man was an offshoot of that blessing in Genesis chapter 1. And God blessed them and said; be fruitful, multiply, replenish it and have dominion.
That blessing is activated by the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit is released, that blessing is activated. Until the spirit is poured out from on high, the wilderness will not become a fruitful field. But when the Spirit is poured out, the wilderness will become a fruitful field and a fruitful field will be counted as a forest. There would be multiplication and increase. You can subdue and have dominion. Sin no longer have dominion over you, sin no longer have authority over you, you are no longer a slave to fear, the Bible says; God has not given us the Spirit of fear but of power, of love and of a sound mind. That’s what happens to you when you receive the Holy Spirit, the impartation, what happens is that the blessing of God will be activated in your life. You become a true living being, the son of God. So, there is an activation of the blessing.
Number Four. What happens after impartation? Ephesians 4 verse 3 to 5. Then we will go to verse 11 to 16. “3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism” The baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is not just baptism of water, baptism of the Spirit.
“One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” “11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
Now, what happens after impartation? When the Spirit is poured out from on-high, there is a supernatural placement. There was nothing called, or nobody called the church, established, until the spirit was poured out. So, the supernatural placement of sons of God is activated by the Spirit. And how can we boldly say that we are the church of God, the body of Christ? It is because we have been filled by His Spirit. And I want to take some time to explain this to us. When the Spirit is poured out from on-high, there is supernatural placement. The Bible says from verse 11, and He Himself gave some to Apostles; we did not hear about the Apostles, the prophets, the evangelist, the pastors, the teachers; until the Spirit was poured out.
Saul of Tarsus who became Apostle Paul was not supernatural placed an Apostle until he was baptized in the Spirit. You don’t have your supernatural placement in the body of Christ until there is an impartation. He gave some to be Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers, so that they can do a work. You cannot do that work in the flesh. Supernatural placement in the church, in the kingdom of God is done by the impartation of the Holy Spirit. And when they prayed, the Holy Spirit said; separate unto Me Paul and Barnabas for the work. There was no supernatural placement until the Spirit was poured out. So, for you to understand your place in the agenda of God, for you to understand your place in the blue prints of God for such a time as this, there must be the impartation of the Spirit. You don’t know who you are until the Spirit is poured out.
The Bible says; who knows the mind of God, saves the Spirit of God, so, you don’t even know the mind of God for you until the Spirit of God is activated on your inside, until it is poured out. So, what is your role in the agenda of God? What is your role in the kingdom of God? You don’t have an incline about it until the Spirit of God, the impartation of God comes on you. The Apostles were just disciples of Jesus, they were following Jesus, they knew this guy was a great guy, He was teaching them, He was leading them, they felt secured, at peace around Him. But they never knew that their place was beyond that until the Holy Spirit came. Until the Spirit was poured out, Peter did not know that He was central to the move that God was going to do to start the early church. Paul did not know that he was central in the agenda of God to taking the gospel to the gentiles until he received the Holy Spirit. Until Philip received the Holy Spirit, he could not do the works of God, he could not perform his work effectively as an evangelist, he was so effective as an evangelist that he was transported in the Spirit to go and join up with a eunuch and explained the Scriptures and got the eunuch born again. He didn’t know until the Spirit was poured out. We are on earth
You and I cannot step into the fullness of the reason why we are on earth until the Spirit is poured out. You and I cannot step into the fullness of the agenda of God for our lives. Until the Spirit is poured out, we will just keep doing our things waking up sleeping and waking up every day not knowing that our lives are bigger than that. Supernatural placement comes after impartation. Mary before the impartation of the Spirit just felt she was just a young virgin that was just in that land and she was just trying as much as possible to just honor God, and do the little she could do until the Spirit was poured; she got baptized and started prophesying. And rejoicing and singing in the Spirit. So much happens after impartation.
Impartation is the key that opens the supernatural. We cannot step into all that God has for us until the Spirit is poured. So, the whole counsel of God is fulfilled as a result of impartation. Many things that the disciples had forgotten, when the Spirit was poured out then they remembered that He said. Do you know there were things that Peter still did not remember until there was a quickening of the Spirit? All along they had been preaching to the Jews and they felt this is what God wants them to do, this is the whole counsel of God. But when he had the encounter with the Holy Spirit when he went to Cornelius house, and while he was yet speaking because God knows that Peter would not lay hands on Cornelius. While he was yet speaking, the Holy Spirit. When Peter was giving a reported speech about what happened in the house of Cornelius, he said now when it happened, then he remembered that Jesus had said that this gospel is not only to the Jews but also to the gentiles. These things can’t happen if there is no impartation.
Healing the sick and raising the dead, these are common place in the supernatural, but the Spirit has to be poured out. Are you hungry? These are the things that God has created and made available for us in the kingdom, but how many of us, but how hungry and how thirsty are you for the pouring out of the Spirit? How hungry and how thirsty are we for the impartation of God. Until there is a demand, you may want to ask; but the Holy Spirit should know that the disciples need boldness. But until they demanded it there was no supply of boldness. The Holy Spirit should know that the work of God requires these things, until there is a demand, there is no supply. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened unto you. Whosoever seek; finds, whosoever knocks the door shall be opened, whosoever seeks will find. So, are you asking? What are you asking? What are you seeking? What doors are we knocking on? God is not a respecter of persons, whosoever ask; receives, whosoever seeks; will find, whosoever knocks; the door shall be opened.
