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The Power Of Impartation | Jay Greiner

• Jay Greiner

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This episode unpacks the power of impartation—the spiritual “giving of substance” that flows through relationships, faithfulness, and proximity (Romans 1:11–12). Through mentor stories and practical ministry moments, it shows how anointings blend like oils and why being in the room matters as much as receiving. Elisha’s pursuit of Elijah models the double portion now: stay close, refuse to quit, act on what you’ve received, and expect pure, practical miracles that meet real needs. Listeners are urged to come to church expectant and bringing a supply, recognize kairos “suddenlies,”break personal ruts (à la Hagin’s Plans, Purposes & Pursuits), and stir dormant dreams and visions—keeping a steady victory confession that puts impartation to work all week.

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And we'll just make some confessions together. Say, Heavenly Father, I'm glad to be in your presence. There's no other place I'd rather be than right here in your presence with these people on this night with my heart open, with my spiritual ears open to hear what you need me to hear, so that I can do what I need to do in order to go to the next level in you. I believe in spiritual impartation. I'm a product of spiritual impartation. And that's exciting. Jesus' name. Amen. Well, that was a little hint. That's what I'm preaching on tonight is the power of impartation. The power of impartation. And I just wanted to idle my motor for a while. It might be a while until I get to my scriptures and my notes. Oh, see, that's the Holy Spirit. I have an extra pair of glasses. Because I left mine back there. Anyways, um, but you know, Selena and I are products of spiritual impartation. And so are you. So are James and Claire. So are is uh Pastor Joseph and his wife Flora. They're products of impartation. And uh, you know, it makes me think of my dad's ship channel dream. And in a nutshell, um, he had this dream where he was on the ship channel and a smaller boat or a vessel, and he's standing on the back, and he was all interested in the motor and the sound of the motor, and he opened up this hatch, and it was this huge diesel motor, and he starts studying all the movements and how it's moving, and uh, and then he looks up, and as soon as he looked up, then he's in an 18-wheeler driving an 18-wheeler cab sitting on top of the motor of that diesel engine, and uh and and he's it later on he woke up and like what was the meaning of that? It was that he was hauling a great cargo of all the anointing, the blend of all the oils, all the anointings that he had sat under for all those years. And I just think about that's the same way for you, and that's the same way for me. I mean, you could have just walked in, that's true, but uh I'm telling you, we know some things, we have some revelation in us because we've sat under some really good preaching. You know, I I think about John Osteen, and I think about the things that that stick out in my life to this day because of sitting under John Osteen. The uh, you know, bat how big is your want to, right? He would preach that all the time for all those older Lakewood folk folks or a place called there. We use that all the time when we're ministering to people, a place called there. And I think uh in my life, one of the first people before years, decades before we ever knew Mark Henkins, we knew John Osteen and the confessions of a Baptist preacher. And you thought you got that book because you thought he was going to confess all of his bad things, but it really it was just laying out his confession, his daily confessions, right? His confession of faith. And so uh I think of all the people that came through Lakewood when I was growing up, Or Roberts and Norval Hayes and R.W. Shhambach, uh, you don't have any problems. All you need is faith in God. And I remember there was a tiny window when I was a teenager that uh I got to help produce R.W. Shambok's TV show. It was about for about a six month on and off for about a six-month period. And so I got to be around backstage, back behind the scenes with Brother RW, and he's just he's just a real guy. And I'm telling you, uh every now and then when something you know is stuck and it and it can't come out, I'll be like, be loosed, you know, and I'll put some RW Shambach in it, right? Comes right out. But uh I think you know, in in this church, I could talk about O'Roberts, I could talk, you know, I could name drop, you know, T.L. Osborne. I feel like I am name-dropping, but these are real real stories, you know. Um TL Osbourne, you know, back in 2009, I've told my TL Osborne story a whole bunch. But I got to be around him for a day. Like he came and preached here, The Wonder of Our Witness, on a Sunday morning. Then Dad uh interviewed him that night about all of his miracles and all the crusades and all of that is still available. It's on our Vimeo channel. If anybody could look that up, it's still on the internet somewhere. If you can search for it, it's there. We're trying to make that easier and make like a legacy page of all those interviews that dad has done over the years with uh Lonnie Rex and Max Manning and T.L. Osburn and Or Roberts, and and maybe I missed one or two, but anyways. Um, but there's legacy there. And so uh I'll get to like how you can plug this in for you here in a second, but God bless you. Um but you know, T. L. Osborne, of all the people I've ever been around in my whole life, he was the most Christ-like. He was Jesus the whole time. There's the way he treated me, our conversation, what we talked about, um, his attitude towards life. He was so calm. He was so, he was just not a stressed-out person at all. There was not that bone in his body. And the way he approached missions work and being overseas and and the way he talked about being in these countries was so, he never thought about security. He never thought of, we always went like with security first, like, oh my God, who's who's out to harm us? And uh, and he would be like Jesus and go, you know, buy some bread and some fruit or whatever, and go sit under a tree a tree and talk to people. And so he was never concerned about his safety because he knew who he was in Christ. And he knew that greater is he that is in him than he that is in the world. Anyways, and so I could go on and on. Billy Brim, uh, I think about her deeper levels of prayer that she brought to this church and the authority of the believer. I think of uh Dr. Edwin and and uh cut the fluff, and uh he was a really good person to really cut the he really we we were we had such long-winded stuff, and then he came and he was able to to uh cut the fluff. It was good, but uh you know he also spoke over our land that the land was smiling on the buyer, and that was a word that we grabbed a hold of all the way until this thing sold. And so um, and then I do think about the Hankinses, and I I think of that double portion anointing that they have. And uh how many of you realize, you know, Pastor just spoke, uh just preached about a month ago, who was here for his double portion service? Anybody? Roughly, I think it was the 28th of September, see, like most of you in the room were here, and and you heard that message, and it was really good. Selena and I went back and we listened to it, and uh, but I'm just so I I can't do a better job. Any, any basically, I can't even add to that message. That was so good. We're gonna go over a couple of scriptures, but if you missed that one, that would be one of the ones that you want to go back and listen to. But I think about how Selena and I have gotten the opportunity to serve Pastor Mark occasionally, and how that service of gratitude always leads to God opening the door. Um how many of you really enjoy Dr. Avery Jackson's ministry when he was here? That came from me driving him to the airport and Celine and I picking them up and and driving them all the way back to Louisiana together and spending some time. That was a that was a divine connection and a godly relationship, and I've leaned on him and called on called him a few times, and he's just an amazing, amazing guy, but it came out of serving. And so God opens doors that no man can shut when you are faithful to step into service, when nothing is too uh too small for you to do. And so, you know, that's really the point of this message. The point of this message is in case any any of you lack the discipline to take what you hear and put it into action, which I can raise my hand. I'm I can raise both hands and both feet. I think that's everybody in the room, right? You there are times there are messages, you came to church, you got weary, you got tired, it's the night after hallelujah day, and you just want to go home and everything hurts, and and but somehow you made it here. Selena and I call the snap crackle on pop. I'll get out of bed and it'll say pop, pop, pop, pop. And she's like, You okay over there? And uh, anyways, and so um, but you know, like I just wanted to point out uh my parents, and so my parents are going through a tr a time right now, and and I will just be honest and uh and transparent. I'm always honest, but you know what I mean, uh, that it's it's been a difficult road. And Thursday night prayers have kept them going. What you all do on Thursday night, it really does. We we feel it, we know it. And uh and occasionally we'll sneak a recording of just y'all praying over my mom to them and so and let her hear it, and it encourages her. And so thank you. But uh, but it hadn't been easy. Um, but God, is God done yet? No, and so uh, but to use them as an example, he, you know, my dad is my parent, both of my parents are both are the my greatest example of impartation. And so when we talk about the double portion, though, uh, you know, you have the prodigal son that that ran off and spent his inheritance. He got his inheritance early and he spent it all, but when he got back home, there was mercy and there was still inheritance left. And the other son that didn't go anywhere, he's like, What do you what why are we killing the fatted calf? What are we doing? And the and the dad said, Hey, all I have is yours. You could have been, you know, you could have had it all this whole time. You you didn't have to act like you're a servant. And so that means we can have the double portion now. We don't have to, we're not wait, I'm not waiting on hands and feet for my dad to pass so I can get a double portion. There's a portion right now that I can step into, into the anointing, and you you are the same way. And so all of us, but at the same time, to have the double portion means that we got to be faithful. And we can't let go. And I'm telling you, we see it all the time. This isn't about, this message is about you. It's not about me, it's not about this ministry, it's not about uh, but I'm just using it, it's easier to use myself as an example and then start preaching about y'all and using each of y'all as an example. It's kind of difficult and maybe embarrassing, but I have a story to tell. So, so Celine and I do, and so we're I'm telling that story tonight, mainly. And uh, but you know, growing up, watching my parents rely on God, you know, that all the stories my dad tells about uh all those lean years, those were real. And uh, you know, we we came back from corpus and lived in in Houston in my aunt's house. And that was very humbling for my dad, but just to watch him go through that and how he handled that. And uh and we went from there, we were still uh homeless, if you will, and we lived in his business partner's house. But he doesn't tell this part uh uh in case it leads to somebody knowing who he is, but he it was a 40-room, 40-some odd room mansion with 13 bathrooms. If you count the uh I was in the sixth grade, so I remember this. Somebody had given me like a remote control Lamborghini and they left for Christmas. It's some somebody for Christmas gave me a remote control Lamborghini. I just remember their furniture didn't like, you know, I was I was having so much fun with that thing inside. And then, anyways, on the wood floors. Bad idea. I think I was like a little bit of a toot, maybe, in uh in those days, but uh maybe I still am, I don't know. Um but I'm talking about impartation, I'm just talking about going through the lean years and and watching their faith kick in. And I told that story. Uh I think somebody had given me like$20 or$30 or something, and I was I was saving up, I was believing God for some new clothes. And and uh and so I was outgrowing my clothes, I needed some new jeans and whatever, and I remember uh going and giving that money to my parents and just saying, you know what, we need you, y'all need this, we need this more than I need this, and just spend this as the family needs. And I but I did I didn't just say that, I wrote it in a letter. And so a couple years ago, my mom pulled that letter out, and she still holds on to that letter from when I was in the sixth grade, giving the money back. Anyways, just um, but I watched their faith kick in, and and I had I've always had a really good example, we all have, right? Because they've lived this real life in front of everybody, transparently, on display, and uh, and I think of like um, you know, uh um we were listening to a message by uh Nancy Dufrane recently on legacy. I think it was called Legacy of Faith, and she was talking about how they just handed uh the pastoral ship to their younger son, and uh so he's now the pastor of the church, and how he's inheriting a church that's paid for, and so and she just listed all of the things, and you know, because somebody went ahead of him and did all the hard work, and I feel the same way, we feel the same way. You know, my parents have gone ahead of all of us and they've done the hard work, and so if you find yourself struggling, or maybe you're facing a situation of fate, maybe you're fit facing lack tonight, um, that's the reason why my dad preaches out of his mistakes so much. And each one of us, James will do the same thing, Claire will do the same thing. We preach, all of us preach out of our mistakes so that you don't have to make the same mistakes that we've made, so that so that you can live up here, right? And so um so it received that. That's just something to recognize and receive. So, so that's what I really what I want to talk about tonight. And um, so we're sitting in a paid-off church, and we're able, I was just thinking about during COVID, you know, all the things, all the freedom we had because we didn't have a mortgage company to answer to. You know, there was another uh church that that we know that they lot they were meeting in a school and the school district shut down, so they had to shut down. So we called and said, hey, use our youth room. Come on, rent-free. Just don't don't disband, come on. You know, I think they came on Saturday nights for a while and it kept their church together. And so, you know, we were able to sow good seed because we had freedom. And they they they didn't, they were in a school system. So uh I was just sitting the other night with some pastors, encouraging them. Uh one one was in a in a building that's barely open, you know, like uh the city could come in and close them down at any moment because of a code violations and and all of that. And I was just encouraging them, don't go to the landlord, you know, fix that yourself. Get that done as cheaply as possible. So just put a band-aid on it. But the more you go to your landlord, they're gonna want that money back. Your rent is gonna go up. And uh, you know, just and just the the relationship that my dad had with our landlord that turned into the miracle that we're sitting in, you know. And so he just told that story, I think, the Sunday before last. So I won't go through that. But just that is practical for you guys. If you're if you have a landlord, if you're in an apartment, be nice to your landlord. Don't be picky, don't be, you know, know what your rights are, but don't be, you know, be nice, be courteous, be full of love, be a witness. And uh, and because you don't own the roof over your head, right? If you have a mortgage company, the same thing. Amen. Anyways, um, so realize who you're connected to, right? Um, you know, sometimes, and and I'm I'm not just talking about your pastor and and and I'm talking about each one of us. You know, we're all connected arm in arm, doing this life together, ministry together. We have divine connections. I just um one of us in here owns their own business and and another one was was having issues and didn't want to hire that person to do the work, but was able to come to them and say, hey, um, we need your advice. What does this look like to you? This looks like fraud to us. This looks like we don't we don't we hadn't really ever dealt with this before. And that person was able to help. And so that's like there's divine connections right here in this room. And so don't underestimate that. Be quick to recognize that, be quick to know that we're all in this together to uh to love one another, right? So let's let's talk about this, let's dig in a little bit, and um, I just want to talk, start in Romans chapter one. And uh, I know that was kind of a long intro. It doesn't mean my message will be long, but starting in verse eight, it says, Um, first, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Is your faith spoken of throughout the whole world? I'm telling you, we're working on it, right? And so, uh, for God is my witness, this is Paul uh uh speaking, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, making requests, if by some means, now as I as last I may find a way in the will of God to come to you. And so uh how many of you realize right there that he is, that Paul is desiring to see them? We'll get there at that in the next verse, but um, that he's wanting to have it be inside the will of God. He misses these people, he wants to go see them, but he wants it to be in the will of God. Right, verse 11 for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established. That is, that I may be encouraged together with you by the mutual faith, both of you, both of you and me. So things to notice. I picked out four or five here. Um number one, Paul longed to see them in person. So your thank God for technology, thank God for live stream, but it means a lot to your pastor. It means a lot to us tonight that you came out tonight with your shining, happy uh smiling faces with joy that you want to be here, right? And uh, and so that's the number one thing. So, so um impartation requires being there in person, right? And it's a two-way thing, it's not just one way, it's not just the pastor pouring, it's you pouring back. You have a supply. Amen. Do you see that? And then uh it says that in verse 12. Uh, by the mutual faith, both of you and me. So we have mutual faith when we put it together. We have impartation, and and Paul is wanting to impart spiritual gifts. So it's spiritual, it's supernatural. Um and that word impart, uh it comes by relationship. Um, but the word impart means to give of substance. And so uh Paul couldn't give them what they wanted, he can only give them who he what he has and who he is. He could only he could only pour out what he had and who he was. And that's your the same thing with every minister in this room, and everybody's a minister, by the way. When you go to impart knowledge to your kids, when you go to impart supernatural things, um, you can all you can't give them what they want. You can only give them what you have and and who you are, and who you are is who God is, right? It's God's nature, it's God's character on the inside of you. Amen. And so, um, and then number three, I already said it, it's supernatural, it's spiritual, and it's to be a precious prized gift. And so that in the same way, your pastor and this staff long to see you. We get excited when you're here. We're we're looking after you, we're looking out for you. Um, we're called to give an account of uh to watch after your soul. That means that we are we're watching after your mind, your soul, your your will, your intellect, your emotions, how you think. We're we're here to shape how you think. We're here to um speak a word that grabs a hold of the supernatural, but it but it penetrates into your mind and it changes the way you think. It transformed your think, transforms your thinking by the power of the word of God. Amen. And so that's what's happening. Every time we show up, there's impartation, and you're leaning on the anointing. You didn't just come to check a box, you're not just sitting there uh just to say you did it and you have this frown, and you're you're thinking the whole time, oh my God, I gotta get back home and I gotta do this and I gotta do that, and oh my god, it tomorrow's Monday, and and I got that meeting first thing in the morning. How on who schedules Monday morning meetings and what in the world, and how do I, how am I gonna handle that? And that situation is good, and I got to meet with so-and-so, and then I gotta do this, and I and it goes on and on and on, but instead you're here ready to pour out instead of just receive, right? You're not selfish, you're looking for opportunities, right? Because you're you're there for impartation, both to give and to receive. You're not just focused on the receiving. God, I gotta have a miracle. God, I have, you know, in that desperation, and then what happens? God meets your miracle, and you're not desperate anymore, so you're not really listening, and you're not really, you're you're not really plugged in, and you kind of take everything for granted, and then oh my God, you have another emergency, and we've got to pray in emergency tongues. You hadn't prayed in tongues since the last time you had an emergency, and then you show up at church and you're crying and you have tears, and this is the first time in three months that you've raised your hand in church, and and it's all because you need something? No, you don't have to be that way, and so instead of feeling guilty and ashamed by what I'm saying, we've all been there, right? Haven't we all been there to some level, to some degree? And does it matter the degree? No, just have a genuine, grateful, thankful heart, and be, you know, just when before you get in your car or as you're getting in your car on the way here, begin to pray. Begin to to pour your heart out to the Lord and know that you have a supply and that you're not just coming here for you, but you're coming here to be a supply. And you have a supply to pour out. Amen. And then when first time guests come, when when when it's somebody's first time, there you are to love them, to greet them, and to and to be their first uh the first responder to them and their needs, and then they get touched, and then they come back and their lives are transformed. It's not about church growth, it's about transforming lives. Amen. It's about making heaven crowded, amen. And so um, let's see. Uh, you know, our staff longs to have a relationship with you. It encourages us when you're here. I said that, but it also fuels us, similar to John 4. You know, Jesus, uh, the woman at the well. Everybody knows the story. I've used it many, many times, so I won't, I'll just kind of quote it. But uh, you know, the dis they were hungry, they had to go get something to eat. So the disciples leave Jesus at the well and they go get him something to eat. He ministers to the woman at the well, they come back, they have food, they're here, Master, here's the food. He's like, I don't need food. This was my food, this is my food. The ministry is your food, it fuels you to change people's lives. Amen. Amen. And so um, in that same way, that's what's happening. So I have a few steps, just a few, um, on the power of impartation. So, number one, we've talked about it, come to church expecting, come hungry for impartation, with that in mind, right? And come with a supply and come not just to listen uh and receive, but also to pour out, to be someone else's supply, amen. To be your pastor's supply. Your your pastor is excited when you have joy, right? And then number two, recognize fresh opportunities for divine and double portion connections, right? Amen. In other words, something good is about to happen. And that was the Noral Roberts thing, right? Something good is gonna happen to you today, right? Uh, God is setting up a divine Kairos moment. Uh the kairos is opposed or opposite of the Kronos. The Kronos is on time, you know, timed every second, and the Kairos moments come in and interrupt all of that. And I'm telling you, some of you are believing God for a Kairos moment. Don't give up. That's that divine moment when when it hits, it changes everything, it produces momentum, and it it's the year of milestones, and that is what leads to milestones, amen. Are these kairos divine moments? And so um so it disrupts the chronos, it disrupts everything else in your life and brings the blessing, brings the breakthrough, changes the traject trajectory that you're on, amen. And really changes the whole game plan. Um, and it's and people get mixed up, they think it's like they're believing God for something that's way out over here, maybe, maybe next year, maybe this. No, it's for this moment in your life, amen. Is the suddenys, right? And so, um, in fact, um, you know, I think about some suddenlies. Uh Acts chapter 2 was a suddenly, right? And suddenly uh they were in one accord and the Holy Spirit showed up. That was a suddenly that that that was a kairos that totally changed everything forever. It gave us the Holy Spirit, and it kind of caught them off guard. Have you ever noticed how many people, including myself on certain things, you're believing God for something? Um maybe I'll say that again on Wednesday, but like I just regret we were we were believing God for uh President Trump to become president, and there are some lots of things financially that I should have set up because I knew what was going to happen if if he got into office. And sure enough, he got into office, but I wasn't in position, and it took us a little while to get in position. Praise God, we've we've our investments have made quite a bit since then. But just man, can you imagine if if I had like a week or two weeks before that, you know, if we're believing God for something, let's put some money in it, right? And so um so God can bless you, but just where is your faith? And so you're you're believing God for something, but you're not really prepared for it to happen. And when it happens, you know, uh I heard this example used one time. It was like uh, you know, video games. Have you ever done that? Like when you were playing video games, we didn't have two nickels to rub together. So if I was gonna play a video game, I'd go over to my friend Frank's house or Chris's house or somebody else's house and be like, you know, is it my turn yet? Do I get a turn? When do I get a turn? I want to turn. And you sit down like, and then how do you do it? What buttons do you hit? How, what, I can't, I'm lost. And that's it. Like you're believing God for something, but you're not prepared at all. It happens and you don't know, have any idea what you're doing because you hadn't prayed the how, you hadn't prayed the how to. You just you're praying for a moment, you're praying on for God to change something, or you're still praying and believing God, but your head is still in the sand and you don't recognize that as God. And it here he is. He's, you know, we I preach about that a lot, just recognizing God moving in your life. And so if you if you feel bad, if you feel guilty, no, the Bible's full of it, right? My dad just just uh preached on that this morning in the last three weeks, four weeks. Um, you know, Peter walking on the water, they they they didn't recognize Jesus walking to the boat. They in fact they were they were more sure it was a ghost than Jesus. They were it was easier for them to believe it was a ghost than Jesus than the man they've spent every waking moment with for two years or whatever at that point, however many years that was into his ministry. Can you imagine? They just they missed it. Oh man, it's a ghost. And then, like, how about when Peter was in jail in the book of Acts, right? And uh and they're they're all at Peter's house believing God for Peter to get out of jail, and he gets out of jail and comes and knocks on the door. And um, I forgot her name, but she she wrote, huh? Rhoda. Rhoda thought it was his angel. She had more belief that it was his angel than him. Comes back. I think it's him. It might be him. I don't know. And they thought, no, it couldn't be him. And there God was answering their prayer, right? And so what are we believing God for? And are we ready? Are we ready? And can we recognize him moving? Amen. And so uh so some people pray more for the opportunity and less for the direction for when it comes. And so, and then we're so tired that we miss, um, we're so weary, we're so worn out, and we miss miss it when God's moving. Amen. So at this point, I just kind of want to uh rewind and and talk a little bit about the double portion anointing in 2 Kings 2. I know my dad really, again, he covered all these scriptures, but I just wanted to point out some different things, maybe, possibly, if that's if that's humanly possible. I'm not sure. He did a really good job. So in 2 Kings chapter 2, uh starting verse 1, um, and it came to pass when the Lord was about to take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind that Elijah Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. Then Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to Bethel. But Elisha said, As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So he went down to Bethel. And so basically, that's the first time that Elijah tried to sell him off of going with them, right? So it's time number one. But let's let's see, did did he did he give up? Did he say, Oh no, I'll just stay behind. You're right, you go, you go on ahead without me. No. Verse three, now the sons of the prophets were at Bethel, came out to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today? And he said, Yeah, I know. Keep silent.

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I know what I'm doing, right? And and some some people mean mean well, uh, but they're always they're they're trying to tell you how to do it. They're trying to be ahead, one step ahead of you, and they're and they're not always helping. But he's like, Shh, you're gonna ruin the whole thing. Just calm down. And then Elijah said to him one more time, Elisha, stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me onto Jericho. But he said, As the Lord lives and as as my your soul lives, I will not leave you. And so they came to Jericho, and the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today? So he answered, Yes, I know. Keep silent. So he silenced those two, right? And then Elijah said to him, Stay here. Let's see. Um, I just want to skip down here. And Elijah, uh, verse 8. So Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the water, and the uh the the Jordan was uh divided that this way and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground. And so it was verse 9 when they crossed over that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what you may, but what may I do for you before I am taken away from you? And Elisha said, Please let a double portion of your spirit be upon me. And so Elijah said back, uh, you've asked a hard thing, nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if not, it shall not be so. And so the bottom line is Elisha stayed close. Right there, never left him, and he witnessed him going up. But let's get to that right real quick. And then it happened as they continued on talking that suddenly, everybody say suddenly a chariot of fire uh appeared with horses of fire and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven, and Elisha saw it, and he cried out, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen, so he shall uh so he shall so he saw him, sorry, so more no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces, and also took up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. I'm gonna get to verse 14 in just a second. I wanted to point up, point out something that my dad pointed out is that Elisha never took his eyes off of Elijah. As he was going up, that was his focus. And he said, My father, my father. And so all this stuff was going, this this miraculous thing was happening in this whirlwind. He wasn't afraid. He what he just kept his eye on Elijah. And and um, and that was significant. And then I think it's pretty significant in 14 that he says, uh that it says, Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water, and he said, Where is the God of Elijah? And when he had also had struck the water, it was divided this way and that, and Elisha crossed over. And so I think you can believe what you want to think, but obviously he had to get back across, right? But this was his first miracle that that Elisha performed with the double portion. And um, but he was a little bit unsure, right? Because he was like, Where is the God of Elijah? And so uh so boom, God showed up and split the water. And um I just I think that's significant, but I think um I think it's significant, more significant, that all of the works that that God was doing through Elijah didn't die when Elijah went up. It continued in a double portion through Elisha because he was there to witness it, and he was faithful to the bitter end, and he was bound and determined to receive that double portion. And I think in this day and age, there's so many people that faint and they and they they fall away and they get tired and they and they uh and they quit early and they don't see it and they don't obtain it. And I'm telling you, we're looking at a at a full church full of faithful people that will receive and stay uh with their hand on the plow doing the work of the mirror of the of the ministry, and um, and it really blesses me the way that you see Elisha use his anointing. So, like for just just not reading it, just right off the bat, he he he strikes the ground and splits the Jordan back and walks back across, but then he walks to the next village and they're having a whole lot of trouble with stillborn babies. They have something wrong with their water supply. It's poisoned, and he anoints the water and the and purifies the water, and they they have life again. So this this this village, this town was dying because of their water supply. That was his second miracle. And I think just think of the purity of his ministry at that point, right? And then um uh then he's leaving that village and he's walking down the road and he's bald and a bunch of young people come out, right? And they start making fun of him for being being bald, and so then bears come out and eat the young people. We always use that story. That's a good youth story, you know, to preach to the young people about uh respecting their elders and the bald. Anyways, uh, but then what in like chapter 13, 14, somewhere around around in there, but uh Pastor Hagen just preached this. We were at a conference the week before last, and uh he preached about the uh the iron head did float. That was that was Pastor Osteen used to always yeah, the axe head, sorry, the axe head. Um but I think in the in the uh in the King James it might say iron, but um because the iron did swim, I think that's what it says in the in the King James. And so Pastor John Osteen, he used to preach that and dance all around the the stage, right? So nobody tried to like swim in the water when the axe head fell on the water and find it, it just floated to the top because of his anointing, right? And so um I just look at the simplicity that Elisha moved and the faith that he had and um and the purity of his of his ministry. And um and it blesses me to read that. Just a kind of a side note there. But uh the power of impartation, and so number three, that brings me to number three. The power of impartation brings manifested dreams and visions. And so I just encourage you tonight to stir up those dormant dreams and desires from the Lord that have been placed in your heart. You know, um, you know, life happens and circumstances happen, and uh and things, and and kind of things could take longer than than we anticipate them to and you know, maybe you have you find yourself getting weary, but I'm telling you, each one of us have dreams and desires. And um and I I think back to uh Brother Wiseman dream. It's been a while since we've had Brother Wiseman here, but he he had a dream years ago that involved uh you know my I think of my mom as like a birthing, it had to do with like birthing those dreams and desires. Loretta's shaking her head, she remembers. Um what's the what's the word that I'm looking for? Like a uh midwife. Thank you, Derek. Like she was the midwife. And uh, and I'm telling you, we've been able to see God do some amazing things by renewing our dreams and our desires placed there. You know, some sometimes the birthing process gets delayed. Uh just totally not in my notes, but I just in in real life when when it was time for Ethan to be born, he got he got stuck in the birthing canal, and it was very, a very difficult birth. It wasn't your fault. You don't have to say, like, oh my god, you're gonna tell that story again. I got in trouble the last time I but uh but it was. Um, but seriously, it was a very serious time uh in our lives. So so that can happen in re in in regarding our dreams, regarding our desires. Uh, you know, certain things happen and you you find yourself breathing life to that old dream that God gave you that you haven't done anything with to birth, and you hadn't prayed it out, and you know, it's it's it's it's still lying dormant. Speak life to that, give birth to that. And so now is the time, now is the season, amen. And so uh Joel chapter 2, uh it says that our our um our old man shall dream dreams and our young man shall run young young men shall uh have visions. And so um, you know, open eye visions, uh just just saying that kind of reminded me of of being visionary. You know, you can receive fresh vision. I said that in the during when I was receiving the offering this morning because that's another thing that happens through impartation is receiving fresh vision. And maybe you're confused about a um you know a direction to go in. You're gonna receive fresh vision because our pastor is very visionary, and so he just need the fact that he describes things in visions, so when he has words over people, it usually involves like pictures, and then he describes what he sees. You know what I'm talking about? We've all been here. When I when the Spirit of God moves through him, it's visionary, and he'll see something in the spirit, and so we need to pick up on that and recognize that as that's an impartation. I can receive that right there. That's for me, and so that's for you, and you can and you can receive that. And so um, you know, we were in that conference uh the week before last. It was it was uh it was called Ignite Conference, it was a church conference by Pastor Joel uh and Peppy Sims in Jackson, Mississippi area. And so they're old school Rhema people. And uh so Pastor Joseph and Selena and I were able to go, and it was really life-changing and just just eye-opening on certain things, uh, how to run run a church. They had uh Keith Moore was there and and Pastor Hagan and then um Nancy Dufresne spoke the last the last evening. And so seeing all them in person, but I I don't think Selena and I had ever been into into in a Keith Moore service before. And so God lined it all up on the on the uh it sounds like I'm name dropping again. Oh the uh on the on the on the first day we go to lunch and we're just wrapping up our lunch, and and brother Keith walks in the restaurant, and and I was like, hey, that's brother Keith. And so, hey Pastor Keith, how are you? We act like we're old friends, right? And um, and they the the hostess sat him right next to us, and then he he turns over and just starts talking to us, and he's such a real down-to-earth, he ended up buying our lunch, but it was what we talked about. And again, with the impartation, I was grateful for the lunch and I was thanking him, but I was thanking him for all the years of ministry. And not just that, I think he was a catalyst, he was uh he was a psalmist. I'm not saying was because I'm sure he still is, but but he has written some of those spiritual songs that we still sing up here to this day. It was because he yielded to the anointing decades ago, and he would write, he would just be a psalmist, he would just sit down and it would just flow out of him. Uh you he used to travel with Brother Hagin back in the day, and those those songs would come out, and so I had an opportunity, a short opportunity to thank him for those. And uh and so that just it meant a lot to me, but but he's just such a real just I couldn't get over how he wanted to get to know us, and it wasn't like hurry up about it so we can leave, like so I can eat. Um but yeah, and so just God lining that up, all the things. But anyways, uh Joel Sims, I was getting back to my Joel Sims story. He was he was talking about vision and pastures and how that's one thing you can't delegate is vision, and how um your sight is you know, is your sight is what you see, but your vision is what could be. Your visionary things are what could be, but what fuels what could be is what should be. So it's it's your vision is fueled by what it should be, because you know what it should be, and so it's fueling you with everything inside of you to push to for it to come to fruition and to give birth to that vision. And and um, and so that's what we're doing with with, you know, so uh so he just began to encourage us in our own life. He was preaching out of plans, purposes, and pursuits, but I think it's on page uh 44. It tells a story of Brother Hagin. You can go back and read this. We have some for sale out there on the table, Plans, Purposes, and Pursuits by Kenneth E. Hagin. And uh and Brother Hagin was telling this story how he had a vision from the Lord and how the Lord was showing them that, hey, you're stuck in a rut, and you're doing the same thing over and over and over again. You're going to these church same churches and these same groups over and over and over again, and you need to make a change. And if you'll change these three things, I'll take you to the next level. Number one uh was to uh stop going to those churches and go to neutral locations, and so he started doing that, and then number two was get on radio, and I think number three was uh to start writing more books, right? And so that catapulted his ministry to the next level, and that's why we've heard of Rhema, you know, like that's what put him on the map with those three changes. And so uh Pastor Joel Sims was encouraging us to find three things that you know recognize the ruts in person in our personal lives and then in our churches. Because churches, like everything, you know, there's there's ruts. We, you know, we're in our 31st year and we find ourselves doing the same thing because we've always done it and it works. And sometimes, you know, so we're being quicker to pray about things and get everything dialed in in prayer before we ever move. And we're about to have a meeting uh before the end of the year, we're gonna start uh planning next year's calendar with no in mind on everything. And so, because we said yes to everything this year, and so we had some really crazy months like February and May and uh I think last month was one of those months, it seems like. But uh, and so just something to do in your own life. I'm I'm being I'm being an open book because maybe, you know, not about church things. Maybe you're listening to this for yourself, you know. You can make some changes, maybe you can identify some ruts, maybe you can find, go home and you can pray, because I wasn't going to cover any of this, but go home and pray about three things that you see in your life that are a rut. And allow the Holy Spirit to take over and identify that just from the spirit of impartation, right? I received that from Pastor Joel Sims, and now you're receiving it. And so, but where did he receive it from a Kennedy Hagen book, Plans, Purposes, and Pursuits? And so um, so yeah, the power of impartation. So uh, number one, come to church expecting, come hungry for impartations. Number two, uh recognize fresh opportunities for divine and double portion connections. And then number three, um, you know, the power of impartation brings divine uh dreams and visions to manifestation. Amen. Amen. And so um I just encourage y'all to get the defeat off of your faces and victory in your voices, amen. Defeat has a look, but victory has a voice, and that voice is in our mouths, and it's coming out in everything that we say and everything that we do. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's receive the word tonight.