Choosing Your Measure

I was speaking with a patient in the middle of the night the other night.  Somehow we got into a conversation about a range of Christian-related things, discovered each other are believers, and all in all had a good conversation.   I honestly forget how we got onto the subject, but she began telling me about some of her past and how she had a lot of unforgiveness against her mother because of how terrible of a job her mother did in raising her. As we discussed forgiveness, I began to explain to her a few different reasons why it is so important that we forgive others.  It is one of those subjects that are somewhat foundational, but it can be important to revisit from time to time, and even to be reminded that we all have people we have failed to forgive, whether from forgetfulness or intentionality.  I want to share with you here what we discussed that night because it has implications that reach far beyond just forgiveness, into choosing how we are measured.

First of all, whether we do or don’t forgive someone else, they are usually unaware of. We are the one carrying around the anger, bitterness and other negative emotions while the other person carries on with their life. This means we are just hurting ourselves by maintaining this weight of debt on our souls. I gave her the example that Jesus gave in a parable of the two different debts in Matthew 18:21-25.  I recommend you read the passage, as it directly relates to the topic of this article, but the short version is that the larger debt was forgiven, and the smaller debt was not forgiven, and the end result is that the one who refused to forgive the smaller debt ended up in prison himself. I explained that if we consider that what Jesus did was to forgive everything, then any debts that we hold onto are small in comparison to any debts Jesus could hold over us (but chooses not to). Which means really we’re the person in the parable who didn’t forget the debt and ends up getting locked up as a result. Unforgiveness imprisons ourselves.

That brought me to the point I made to her that I really want to focus on today. In Matthew 7:2 and Luke 6:38 it tells us that with the measure we use things will be measured to us.  In John 20:23 Jesus pronounced over the disciples that if we forgive sins then they are forgiven, but if we do not forgive, or we retain those sins, then they are retained or not forgiven. But what I think people often forget, or are unaware of, is the fact that regardless of whether we forgive or retain someone sins against us, the standard we use is the one that gets applied to us. In other words, if I want to receive forgiveness from others, but I am unwilling to forgive others, then I am foolish to expect to receive forgiveness or others because I have already chosen the standard of how I want things to be measured toward me through my unforgiveness.

While focused on forgiveness, this is a broader-reaching principle with potentially significant impact. Consider the implications of us being the ones in charge of choosing how things are measured to us in life based on how we measure them out to others. In reality this is a type of manifestation of the law of sewing and a reaping, so it does make sense, but this deals more I think with treatment of others in the resulting treatment that we receive. I honor our others. I am likely to be honored. If I disparage others I will probably find myself disparage as well. If I lie, cheat, steal, and deceive others than the measure that I use toward others is likely what I will receive toward me. It may take time for some of those things to catch up to us, but the measure we use is what decides what we receive.

Something I think people may have a tough time with, especially those who tend to focus on more grace-related teachings, is this idea that we are measured at all.  After all, if Jesus did it all on the cross, shouldn’t we be measured by His accomplishments and not ours?  We could look at this a few different ways. We could argue that because Jesus said this in Luke, before he went to the cross, that none of this applies to us any longer. And that is certainly one view. Not one I maintain, but it is a view some people hold.

Another way of looking at this is that Jesus is giving us a basic understanding of spiritual laws (if you want to understand this subject better, grab a copy of my book The Power of Impartation). It is possible to function at a higher level than these laws, but this is one of the basics. This is foundational level stuff. If we don’t move beyond this, we will definitely find these things apply to us.  I am not entirely decided yet as to whether these things will always apply to us or not, but at the very least, so long as we exist in this cosmos and are still governed by its laws instead of governing over them, these things will definitely apply.  And to whatever extent they apply, it seems sensible to be aware of them, if for no other reason than because Jesus felt it significant enough to teach this fact to people.

I don’t know about you, but I really only want good things in life. I don’t want torment, problems, or pain. I don’t want unhealthy stress.  I don’t really want people to gossip about me, or insult me, or any manner of other unpleasant ways that people can treat me. I don’t want to be hated. And I think that’s true for most everyone.  We all want to be loved, honored, and respected. We want to be valued. And the good and bad news is that we get to choose the measure that we are going to receive based on the measure we used toward others. Now, this has nothing to do with how other people treat us.  The Bible doesn’t say “if you respect people after they respect you” or any number of other things that are based on the behavior and decisions of others.  What it says is that the standard we choose to apply to others is the standard that we will have applied to us.  It is a form of conditional statement, but again, the both good and bad news is that we set the conditions.  The great thing about it is that we are in a large degree of control over the standards we set.  The downside is that we have to do this thing called “taking personal responsibility,” which if we are honest, no one really likes to do.  We’ll do it, sure, but rarely does someone like doing it.  It’s what mature adults do though, and you can learn a great deal about someone’s maturity level by whether they are or aren’t willing to take responsibility for things and the extent to which they make excuses or try to pass blame to others.

Whether we consider it a good thing or not though, the fact is that God has given us a significant amount of control over our lives.  And fun fact, God is not in control.  Not how we are usually taught.  Psalm 115:16 says, “the heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to man.”  This means that what happens on the earth is really up to us, not God.  I hear many believers tossing around the “God is in control” panacea as a way of feeling better about bad things, but it’s high on my list of “unpopular spiritual truths” because God delegated authority over the earth to us.  If we want things to be different, they will be when we make them that way.  But the great new is that we have been empowered to make things become on earth as they already are in heaven, so while we have work to do, it is all do-able.  And the best first place to begin is with our own hearts, our own souls, and choosing our own measure.  Because with the measure we use it will be measured to us, so let’s choose the most life-giving Jesus-like standards we know how and then trust the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us into all truth as we walk this out.

 

 

There Is No Such Thing As Christian Reiki

I want to take some time today to expose and expound on something that I see pop up from time to time in Christian circles—people who practice what they are calling “Christian Reiki”.  It seems to happen most often when people either don’t understand about the gifts of the spirit and our authority in Christ or when they are legitimately hungry for more and start looking elsewhere for answers. And before going further, I believe the heart motivation of these individuals are in the right place.  They desire good things for people and they want to see them healed and restored and have everything that God plans for their life. The problem is the methodology.  There is no such thing as Christian Reiki because Christianity and Reiki are inherently in opposition to one another.

Let me clearly and unequivocally state that Reiki is demonic. I cannot tell you how many times I have made that statement to Reiki-practicing Christians and their first response is to tell me that I just don’t understand. Believe it or not, it is actually possible to call something demonic because I understand it, not because I don’t.  Sometimes when we call things demonic or evil it’s quite simply because the thing is demonic and evil, not because of ignorance and misunderstanding on our part.  And Reiki fits the bill.  So what do I mean when I say “demonic”?  What I mean is that the function of the practice of Reiki comes from demonic activity. There is no way to practice Reiki without this demonic involvement because if it didn’t include the demonic activity then it wouldn’t, by definition, be Reiki.

Let me explain. In my book The Gospel of Life and Immortality I have a chapter where I explain the difference between primary and secondary energy, what you could potentially consider to be creative light and created light. Creative light is that which comes directly from God and, as you can guess, is the power of creation. Created light is the energy that exists in all things and has already been created. Hebrews 1:3 references this when it explains that Jesus is the representation of God‘s glory who sustained all things by the emanation of his power/word/energy.  Created light is the sustenance of Jesus Christ into all creation that allows us to continue to exist. Energy work, or energy healing, is the practice of harnessing that secondary energy and applying it to people and things to heal or restore them. It’s honestly really easy to do, and you don’t need any special abilities to be able to do it. Simply being a human means you possess the bodily technology to be able to do that.

On the other hand, Reiki is a specific school/process/practice of energy medicine that teaches people how to do this. It uses a series of sounds, hand symbols, and hand positions on parts of the body to reach the desired results. There are various things I could say about all of that, but without getting into the weeds on the methodology itself (which could be an article all on its own), I want to hone in on the nature of what Reiki is so we can understand why I not only differentiate it from energy medicine practices as a whole and also why I specifically single it out as being demonic.  Keep in mind that by singling out Reiki it doesn’t mean that every other form or version or school of energy medicine practice out there is demon-free, just that Reiki itself is inextricably tainted.  And here’s why:

By definition, it is impossible for someone to be a Reiki practitioner if they have not received something called a Reiki “attunement”. If someone uses all of the hand positions and everything else but has not received a Reiki attunement from an existing practitioner, then they are not, by definition, practicing Reiki.  They’re just doing energy medicine and borrowing Reiki techniques.  For something to be Reiki, it requires a process of impartation from an existing Reiki practitioner.  This impartation, called an attunement, is supposed to open up the individual to be able to channel this universal secondary energy all around us.  The man who initially received the download about Reiki was a man named Usui who was meditating on a mountain somewhere, and had a spiritual encounter of some kind.  During this encounter he was given the basics of Reiki practice, then began to pass this down to disciples. Now, in my book The Power of Impartation I go into some depth explaining what impartation is and how it works, but quite simply impartation is the releasing a spiritual virtue from one person to another, usually through the laying on of hands. It is called impartation because there is a spiritual substance or an energy that is being passed or “imparted” from one person to the other.  And this gets to the crux of why Reiki is demonic.

As I mentioned before, it is impossible to practice Reiki if one does not receive a Reiki attunement. A Reiki attunement is a demonic impartation, or said another way, it is an impartation of demonic access to manipulate and utilize secondary energy. It is already an ability we innately possess as humans. We don’t actually need a Reiki attunement to be able to practice energy work because it’s already built into our design. This is the same lie that the serpent gave to Eve when he told her to eat the fruit.  The serpent told her that if she ate the fruit that she would be like God.  The truth was that in Genesis 1 it tells us she was already made in God’s image, which means she was already like Him. The serpent got her to try to do something extra in order for her to become who she already was.  Likewise, we don’t need Reiki attunements to work with secondary energy because it’s already part of who we are.  However, when we receive this impartation, when we come into agreement with this demonic form of energy healing, we give certain spirits access to the realm of our soul so they can do whatever they want without our knowledge.  People who do this welcome these spirits in while believing the lie that they are doing something good for themselves and for others.  The reason I am so vocal about this when I talk to people is because Reiki is a form of demonic entrapment, preying on people’s good intentions.  It is the epitome of the enemy masquerading as an angel of light to make it appear that something is good and life-giving when in fact, it is not.

Now, let’s be clear about this—I’m not saying that Reiki doesn’t work.  I’m not saying that people who have gone to Reiki practitioners will get no benefits.  That’s part of what makes the deception so effective.  When somebody receives a Reiki attunement they will be working with secondary energy and they can do stuff with it. I never said it doesn’t work. I said it’s demonic. The agreements that the practitioner has to make are inherently allowing demons access to their soul realm, and if somebody goes to that practitioner to receive treatment, I can’t guarantee that they’re not making similar agreements as well. But because all of this looks and sounds nice and because the people practicing it genuinely care and truly want people to be healed and whole, Reiki often slides under the radar. And that’s why I began my entire article by saying that I believe the heart motivation of everybody involved is really very good. I don’t believe that most people would willingly tell others about a harmful energy practice that opens you up to the demonic if they truly understood it was a harmful practice.  They do it because they are genuinely ignorant of the deeper truth about it, and because they want people to be healed and have good lives.  Their hearts are in the right place.  The problem isn’t their heart motivation, the problem is the agreements they’ve made with demonic entities.

I have wanted to heal people for much of my life. It’s not a coincidence that I’m a nurse. I pray for the sick and expect God to heal them. I very much engage God’s divine healing power to touch others, and while I don’t do it very often, I also can do energy work on people.  As I said earlier, it’s honestly not hard. It’s just not half as beneficial as taking power authority over sickness and disease, doing some inner healing, and watching God touch someone and heal them And since doing energy work is largely more time consuming for less results, it’s simply something I rarely do any longer.   It doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it doesn’t mean I don’t know how to do it, it doesn’t mean I’m ignorant of it, it just means that I choose not to because there are faster and better ways to do it.

If anyone who is reading this has gotten caught in the trap that is Reiki, I want to encourage you to give it up.  And by “give it up” I mean stop practicing it, renounce your participation in it, get rid of your Reiki paraphernalia, and get some inner healing and deliverance to get fully free from the connection with the spirits involved.  If you honor God by choosing to walk in His truth, He will set you free and He will bring something along that is even better than what you feel like you are giving up.  I understand that it feels like a loss because again, the only people who are doing Reiki are people who want others to be healed. and I love that about you.  I love that that’s your heart.  And I want you to be free to walk in the fullness of everything that God has planned for you in that, but you will never be able to walk in the fullness of that as long as you are practicing Reiki because to be a Christian and practice Reiki is to serve two masters, and the Bible is pretty clear that doing so doesn’t end well.

If you want to learn more about what I have been saying about impartation and primary and secondary energy, as well as God’s plans for us for life and how to live it out to the fullest, I encourage you to get copies of my books The Power of Impartation and The Gospel of Life and Immortality, both of which are available in print, on Kindle, and Audible.

When We Release Power, Creation Responds!

One of the things that is easy to forget as we go through our physical-focused three-dimensional lives is that we are sons and daughters of Heaven who have been given authority to transform all creation in the cosmos.  I had a simple situation at work the other night that reminded me of this, and just how important it is that we come into a greater understanding of our true identity in Christ.  I had just started the night shift (I’m temporarily working nights after being on days for a while) with my coworker Eddie and as I bid the offgoing shift farewell I said “Have a great night!”  Eddie turned to me and said “I felt that.  It felt like you were talking to me.”  That’s because when we release power, creation responds.

Curious, isn’t it?  At face value all I did was say “goodbye,” but in truth what I did was decree well-being upon the night for those I was speaking to.  It was a simple statement too, but my coworker felt the power that was released when I said those words, and he felt that power enter him as well.  I hadn’t done some super-spiritual proclamation over the day shift to let them know that I was being spiritual and releasing virtue upon them to shift their night.  And I didn’t have to.  All I had to do was say the words and the universe around me shifted in accordance with what I spoke—enough so that someone else felt the change.

Is there something super-amazing about Michael that makes this different for him than everyone else?  No—I’m the same as you—a guy who is gradually deepening his understand of who God designed me to be long before the universe was even spoken into existence.  And yet, one thing that becomes increasingly clear to me as I go on this journey of growth and transformation is that we get to choose what kind of reality we will experience.  Not only that, but we also get to decree that reality and life to others and when we do we release power to perform our words as the sons and daughters of God.  Creation responds to our words.  Why?  Because we have become the divine offspring of the Word of God who spoke creation into both being and function.  Remember what Jesus said to the disciples before He ascended to heaven?

“Then Jesus came to them and said, “Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.  Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. . .” Matthew 28:18-20a

Did you catch that?  Jesus acknowledged that all authority in both heaven and earth had been delegated to Him, and he subsequently delegated it to the disciples.  But he didn’t stop there.  Jesus instructed them to go make more disciples and then to teach all of them to do the same things Jesus had taught the original disciples.  You and I are meant to do the same things Jesus both did and taught the early Church to do, and we have been given the same authority that Jesus gave them.

One of the biggest barriers to living in this truth is actually our thought-habits.  We get into patterns of saying and doing things that are not consistent with what Jesus taught us, and we don’t realize or remember that it all begins with what we think about—because what we think has an impact on what we speak, and what we speak has an impact on the world around us.

The more we understand and recognize that *every* word we say influences creation, the more we will choose our words carefully and wisely, and intentionally build speech habits that release life and transform creation in healthy ways.  Jesus addressed this point when speaking to the Pharisees and said some very interesting things that we’re going to take a look at:

 

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.  But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.  For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:34-38

 

Jesus castigated the group for the things they spoke, and explained something fascinating—that we will have to give an explanation for every empty word we have spoken, and that our words will either acquit or condemn us.  The phrase every “empty word” literally says every argos rhēma, which can be translated a variety of ways.  Some translations say “every idle word” but the underlying concept is that every word that is lazy, idle, or accomplishes nothing will have to be explained.  Think about that.  It isn’t just that we have to pay attention to whether we are speaking life or death with our words (which we do need to do) but that we need to make sure our words accomplish something.  That sets the bar of expectation to a whole new level.

Jesus understood that the words He spoke had power to transform reality—and He regularly performed miracles and healed the sick from that position of a son of the Most High God who walked in that revelation and authority.  He taught the disciples to do the same, and has given us this same charge—to transform all creation through the intentional (and not idle) use of our words because He has given us the authority in both heaven and earth to do so.  The encouragement in all of this though, is that when we release power, creation responds!  As I mentioned in the beginning of this article, all of this came out of a simple encounter at work where I decreed over coworkers how their night would go, and in fact I do that at work regularly.  I intentionally tell people when I am coming on and going off shift how their shift is going to become, and I have developed this habit precisely because I know that when I speak, I get to influence my workplace.  And the only difference between my workplace and my home, or my workplace and yours, or anywhere else, is simply who is transforming creation through their powerful words.  So let’s remember to be intentional with our words to manifest heaven on earth!

The Rules of Speaking With God

Like the ideas for many of my blog posts, this one began with a conversation with a friend—in this case my buddy Steve. I was sharing with him that I was having a really hard time with the fact that another dear friend of mine not only didn’t get raised from the dead, but that I had a dream the morning of his funeral where he did​ get raised and when I woke up it took me a minute to realize I had been dreaming. A total mood killer. for the happiness I was waking up with. Anyway, I was telling Steve what God had shared with me about the situation, and how it was the first time in a long time that God told me something different than He normally does in dead raising situations (God always tells me the same thing—what a great job I’m doing, whether they return or not). Steve reminded me of something I knew but had forgotten, and something we have talked about on other occasions—that there are rules in play that may have permitted God to tell me something different this time than He normally does. I get this is an odd concept for most people, so let’s talk about the rules of speaking with God.

Whenever I talk about spiritual rules and laws, most people get offended. I wish it wasn’t true, but they do. Often, people seem to equate the existence of spiritual rules as being the same as living under Old Testament Law, the law of Sin and Death that Jesus came to set us free from. And maybe to some degree they are either the same or related. Its possible. But more to the point, when Jesus died and rose again, physical laws like gravity and rules of Newtonian Physics didn’t cease to exist—so why do we think spiritual ones would just vanish? For those interested in a deeper discussion of spiritual mechanics and how they influence our lives (and how we can use them for spiritual growth), pick up a copy of my book The Power of Impartation—I go fairly in depth on the subject there. For now, however, I want us to focus on one specific area, the rules that govern our interactions with God.

It sounds weird to think there are rules that govern how we interact with God, but there are. For example, Number 12:6-8A says, “he said, “Listen to my words: ‘When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord.'” God clearly explains how with most people​ God communicates in certain ways—riddles, visions, and dreams. However, because Moses sees God’s form, there is something different about how God can communicate with the man, so God does it face to face with him. Why does that matter? It isn’t because God isn’t interested in talking clearly to us—it’s because there are rules that dictate how the interactions can occur. Why else would there be prophecies about how one day in the future we would all​ be taught by God directly instead of through prophets and teachers (Isaiah 54:13; Jeremiah 31:33–34; Hebrews 8:10–11 and mentioned by Jesus in John 6:45)? It is because God wants​ to talk to us this way but can’t​. At least not yet, not fully how He would like to, but we’re headed in the right direction.

Where else do we see this? All over the Bible. God has very specific things He wants to accomplish, but because there are rules that I don’t even entirely understand, He has to have angels give messages, sometimes cryptically, to have people do things they don’t entirely understand—things that probably would go more smoothly if God would just speak more directly and clearly. And many of us have had similar situations, right? Where God tells us something vaguely, or gives us a cryptic warning dream that we only manage to interpret with the benefit of hindsight, rendering the warning entirely useless. I mean, if God really cared, wouldn’t He give us a warning we can understand easily? He would love to​ because God is kind and loving and good. But He can’t, because of the rules.

God is limited by a combination of things. Often there are limits to what we are able to hear based on our current capacity and ability. Jesus mentioned this in John 16:12-13 saying, “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.” Jesus had more He wanted to tell them, but was limited by their​ capacity to bear, handle, or manage what He wanted to tell them. The same is true with you and me, and it limits what God can tell us. That is why God takes us from one level of truth to another. He might tell one person something that is true to a certain degree, and then years later as they grow in things spiritual God then says something else that might seem contradictory at first to the previous thing God had said—but God was not lying to the person. Rather, he was sharing one level of truth and when the person grew and was able to handle more, God could share a deeper truth. We see the same thing often with denominations. God will move people from one denomination to another as He is growing them because of the truths that they carry and the depths God wants them to grow into.

God is limited in some ways by the level of demonic resistance. Or maybe, instead of saying God is limited, it might be more accurate to say that our receiving capacity is limited in what messages do and don’t arrive to us successfully. Daniel is a great example of this. In Daniel 10, the man Daniel received a very troubling revelation, and then received an interpretation in a vision, and then he began to fast and pray because of how troubling it was. An angel shows up 21 days later but explains that he was sent the same day​ Daniel began to pray and seek an answer, but that a demonic prince, a fallen Beni-elohim, the prince of Persia, opposed him as he traveled in the spirit to bring the message, and Michael the Archangel, another Beni-elohim prince had to come and fight on his behalf so he could get the message to Daniel. The spiritual battle over revelation is actually pretty intense at times, and those who do inner healing and deliverance know this to be true. Sometimes during a session all spiritual communication simply shuts down as the enemy tries to prevent all revelation from coming through, and if persistent enough, usually the believers praying will break through and the revelation that brings freedom will begin again. It isn’t that God is unwilling to release freedom, but that the battle is real and the enemy sometimes go into overdrive to stop the communication.

I don’t claim to understand all of the reasons why these things are this way, but I do understand they are this way. There is something really good that knowing this does for us though. Because we now understand the underlying problem, we can do something about it. In the case of demonic interference, we can continue to pray, fast as necessary, and break through the demonic blockades. We can do things to enhance our own weight-carrying capacity in the spirit so that God can release more to us. Fasting and praying in tongues consistently are two good ways to do this, but not the only ones. We can also make sure to not just ask questions of God, but change​ the questions and change the way we word them and ask them. There is something about how we ask questions that sometimes frees God up to answer them differently. Maybe it’s that asking different questions bypasses ways the demonic were blocking them. Maybe it’s that asking different questions lets God answer them in a way we are already prepared to handle them. I don’t know why it works—I just know that it does. Sometimes there isn’t anything different we can do and we simply have to grow into a new place before we can get different communication from God. Whatever the reason, there is a reason, but as we remain steadfast and persistent in drawing near to God, we can trust that He will draw near to us and that our communication will grow deeper, clearer, and better over time.

 

 

Revelation: The Power of Inspired Knowledge

Revelation is the supernatural release of wisdom, knowledge, or understanding about something—divine inspiration. It isn’t just a new idea that helps us think about something differently—it causes literal change in our beliefs and understanding and may alter how we approach and respond to situations. When we receive revelation, there is an inner expansion that takes place—a quickening of our spirit. It is usually accompanied by a mental moment where an idea clicks into place. Oftentimes after receiving it, the revelation seems so obvious that we don’t know why we didn’t understand or realize that particular concept before.

Revelation typically comes to us in one of four ways:

  1. Directly by download from the Holy Spirit without prompting stimuli.
  2. Download from the Holy Spirit during a prompting stimuli such as reading, meditation, worship, etc.
  3. Through listening to teachings by others (a very specific prompting stimulus).
  4. Given to us by angelic messenger.

In reality, the Holy Spirit is the one who quickens all revelation within us, so regardless of the delivery method all of them are ultimately His work. Jesus spoke of the Holy Spirit’s revelation-giving power in John 16:14 saying, “He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.” The exact manner in which we receive divine inspiration is not always that important. In other words, it doesn’t matter if an angelic messenger delivers a missive or if we realize that same something while reading our Bible. What is most important is the internal transformation that occurs.

To be clear, information and revelation are not the same thing. I can listen to people talk about things I have never heard before, and as a result I will gain knowledge—new information. But something must take place on a spiritual level within me for that information to become revelation, and that is the key we are looking for. Why does it matter if something is inspired as opposed to learned? It comes down to impartation.

When we learn an idea, we have head knowledge. It is a mental construct that has no further ability or power beyond how we apply it with our minds and actions. With any form of divine inspiration, however, it carries virtue with it and creates inner transformation. In other words, when we receive revelation from heaven, we have in that moment received an impartation of something that makes changes in our soul and spirit. And, as we have discussed previously, once we receive something, we can give it away. Yet again, this is also a means by which we can receive impartation even if we are alone—as we engage the Holy Spirit He will reveal things to us, and as He reveals things to us they become implanted within our spirits and we can nurture that inspiration and let it grow and bear fruit.

In order to take advantage of this, it helps to understand how we can position ourselves to receive. Theoretically, receiving new revelation is not something we can make happen at will. By that I mean that if we were to decide right this moment that we wanted new revelation, it doesn’t mean we will suddenly be struck with a heavenly download. All wisdom and knowledge is there for the taking, and desiring new revelation can certainly influence the speed at which we receive it—it’s just not generally as fast as flipping a switch and turning a light on. Matthew 7:7-8 tells us, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” If we desire inspiration, we can look at that verse and trust that God will give us what we ask, but we must learn to be patient and go through the process.

 

This is an excerpt from my book “The Power of Impartation.”  If you have found this informative or interesting, then consider picking up a copy of the book, available on Amazon (click here) in both print and e-book, and soon to be on audiobook.

 

 

The Power of Impartation—Now In Print and Ebook!

Hey there Friends of Eden!

I am excited to announce that my new book “The Power of Impartation” is available for purchase on Amazon in both print and Kindle, and for you book-listeners, the audiobook will be ready soon! Stay tuned for more details as we get closer to the audiobook launch.  I have been working with Steve Bremner, a fellow author, writing coach, and who also does podcasting and audibooks and I’m looking forward to the audio version we are putting together.

 This book started out as a two-part blog post here on the website (part 1 is here), which turned into a four-part blog post, and the revelation just kept coming, so a book seemed like the best way to communicate the information. While the subject itself isn’t necessarily new (there are a few other books with the same title), the information within definitely is! Most of the chapter on Mantles is information I have never heard anyone else teach before, and much of the rest of the book is the same—new revelation for a new season.

Impartation in this context is the transferring of spiritual substance from one person to another, and we see it throughout the Bible—Moses, Elijah, Jesus, and Paul all have done this for those around them, and Paul even wrote in a letter to Timothy about when this happened to Timothy. Impartation is a method by which we can share the grace of the Holy Spirit that is on our lives with friends and family and help them to walk in a greater level of supernatural power, releasing the signs, wonders, miracles, healing, and deliverance that Jesus demonstrated and commanded all future disciples to do—and that includes you and me! By understanding what impartation is and what it can do both for and through us, together we can help change the world around us for Jesus.

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 My website’s tag-line is “an out of the box take on health and spiritual life” because that’s the perspective I tend to write from. I find new ways of looking at and understanding the same scriptures and ideas, and not just “different” for the sake of being different. My goal is always to help people access the promises of God in a greater manner than before through effective teaching that works! This is why I wrote this book, and I am confident that by putting the principles within into action, you will notice the results.

In the book I cover:

  • What impartation is and how it works
  • How to accelerate the growth process
  • The power of revelation knowledge
  • How mantles and lampstands operate and how to use them
  • How to steward the gifts of the Spirit
  • And much more!

 

Whether you are a new believer wanting to learn and grow or a mature believer who wants to take your spiritual growth to the next level, this book will help supercharge your journey. I am excited about this book, and I hope you are too. You can follow the link below to get a copy today!

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Blessings!

 -Michael C King-

 

Did God Allow Job To Be Attacked By Satan?

There is a common view in the Body of Christ that while God didn’t cause Job’s afflictions directly, He allowed them by not stepping in and stopping the attacks. While the little we see of the heavenly meeting-room scene in Job 1 might suggest that God did exactly that, there is a LOT more to the whole Job situation than meets the eye.

Job 1:1 starts off with “In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.”  This suggests that there was nothing the enemy should be able to do to afflict him. After all, it goes on to explain how he would make daily sacrifices for his family. Super upright for his day, right?

Try again.

Job was incredibly bound by fear, and fear is one of the biggest enemy strongholds there is.  Job 1:5 explains that every single time Job’s adult children would have a party (which seemed like it was regularly), he would then make them go through ritual cleansing and he would perform a series of sacrifices on their behalf. Why? On the off chance they might have cursed God silently in their hearts sometime during their revels. If that wasn’t sufficient, it seems Job had a lot more fear too. Job 3:25 says, “What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.” He apparently feared losing his family, his belongings, and his health because all of that already happened in Chapters 1 and 2, and in Chapter 3 he makes that statement. And while that sounds kind of mundane, I suggest that Job had a high level of ongoing anxiety about his family on a daily basis that stemmed from a deep fear that he fed daily

People like to frequently make the argument that “God didn’t stop Satan” or “God allowed it”, but they seem to ignore two key points. The first is that the ancient Jewish belief is that Satan worked for God, so that in afflicting Job they believed Satan was actually performing God’s will. Jesus clarified for the Jewish people that Satan was an enemy of God and not working for him, but Job didn’t have that revelation. The second is that Job created tons of openings in his life for demonic affliction due to an easily-identified stronghold of fear. Job invited the affliction due to legal access via sowing and reaping of fear, and the enemy capitalized on that and wreaked havoc in his life.

We like to think that God is somehow supposed to wave His cosmic arm and make all bad things go away when it conveniences us, and the rest of the time our choices somehow don’t matter. In reality, our choices, beliefs, and emotions are what dictate to the greatest degree the things that happen in our lives. Certainly there are a number of factors that influence life events, but our choices, thoughts, and emotions are by and large the biggest contributors. When people get up in arms about why God “allowed” Job’s affliction, I suppose one could make the argument that God allowed it by setting up spiritual laws that govern the cosmos that in any way at all made it so Satan could afflict the man, but that is a gross oversimplification of a LOT of things and ignores a number of other highly important issues, free will being one of them. God didn’t make robots, so He also didn’t take total control over the lives and choices of angels, humans, or any other created beings, and neither we nor He would want it any other way anyway—except when it inconveniences us, that is. So if God giving us free will means he “allowed” Satan to attack Job then sure, that would be accurate. Otherwise it’s untrue.

The thing is, God doesn’t change cosmic laws willy-nilly based on our opinion that morning or based on whatever unfortunate thing happened that day. Some people get offended over that fact, but it’s a fact. God cares incredibly much about each one of us, to the point that Jesus willing laid His life down to purchase total freedom from all demonic oppression for us. God cares far more than we will ever realize. Do we really understand that Jesus literally walked headlong into situations that he knew were going to cause him intense trauma and pain, and then continued to walk through those situations when at any second he could have said a single word and stopped the whole thing? He underwent possibly the worst torture a human can undergo, and to make it worse he knew that if he failed, then all of humanity for all time and eternity would be eternally lost. He had the biggest gun in all creation pointed at his family’s head and knew that if He didn’t go through abject torture then every single one of us would die eternally. Can you imagine how hard that was for Him? I can only barely begin to touch on how He must have felt. But Hebrews 12 tells us that He did it because He knew it would be worth it eventually.

God didn’t afflict Job. He didn’t “allow” it. He didn’t “permit” it. Job and Satan worked together to bring calamity upon him, and when all is said and done, Jesus is the one who stepped out of heaven to fix things. He did it with Job, restoring double all he lost, and He continues to bring restoration in our lives as well because God is always, only, and ever good and about abundant life.

Impartation and the Human Spirit – The Power of Impartation Part 4

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In Part 1 we discussed the mechanism of impartation and how we can influence its effectiveness in our lives. In Part 2 we discussed what I call Impartation Math—understanding both how we can give to others without loss on our end, as well as how the seed of impartation can help us grow in spiritual power. In Part 3 we saw how the power of impartation can be used to pursue exponential growth in spiritual power. In this fourth and final installment of The Power of Impartation series we are going to look at the influence and interaction between the human spirit, the holy spirit, and how they are related to impartation—as well as how we can benefit from that understanding.

In Numbers 11 we see an interesting interaction between Moses and God. Moses is complaining that running the nation is too much work, so God gives him a very intriguing instruction. The passage says:

“The Lord said to Moses: ‘Bring me seventy of Israel’s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone” . . . . So Moses went out and told the people what the Lord had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again. However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.” (Numbers 11:16-17, 24-26)

The fascinating thing about this scripture, to me, is that God recognized that something He had placed upon Moses had a few different qualities.
1) It helped Moses accomplish something (which in this instance was governing)
2) It could be shared and/or given to others
3) It is possible to share it with someone who isn’t physically present
4) The “it” being shared is actually part of the nature of God, not just an object

It is also of note that because the process of impartation is sharing an aspect or quality of the Holy Spirit, it means that the qualities of God can be split up. What I mean by that is that having the Holy Spirit means we have access to all aspects of His being, but it doesn’t mean that all aspects of His being are actively resident or at work within us. Furthermore, something about impartation causes those qualities to be shared, revealed, or otherwise manifested when they previously were not. The main difference between the Old and New Testament regarding this is that the Holy Spirit is now resident in all believers, but all of His qualities are still not made manifest, hence the value and benefit of impartation from one to another.

We see this again in another Old Testament passage, between Elijah and Elisha, except there is something unique about what that passage shows us that is relevant to understanding how impartation functions and how our human spirit is involved in the process. 2 Kings 2:9-10 says:

“When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?’
‘Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,’ Elisha replied.
‘You have asked a difficult thing,’ Elijah said, ‘yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.’”

Note here that Elisha didn’t ask for a double portion of the Holy Spirit that was upon Elijah, but a double portion of his spirit. Furthermore, Elijah didn’t tell him that was impossible, but outlined conditions under which Elisha’s request would be granted. Elisha seemed aware that what he was going to receive had a connection not just to the Spirit of God, but to Elijah’s spirit. In fact, we see Jesus reference this as well in Luke 1:17a, saying “he will go on before the LORD, in the spirit and power of Elijah . . .” Even Jesus recognized that it is possible to inherit something from another *person’s* spirit and not just from the Holy Spirit.

While I get that concept opens up a large can of worms (too large to cover here, and which I will be covering in the book I am now working on that will share the same title as this series—The Power of Impartation), it is important to understand there is a significant interchange between our human spirits and the Holy Spirit in impartation. There is an important principle that I see displayed in 1 Corinthians 14 that I think reveals the connection between the Holy Spirit and our human spirit. The passage is talking about tongues and prophecy, but pay attention to what it says about the human spirit:

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding. Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer, say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified. . . . Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. (2 Corinthians 14:14-17, 29-32)

In this passage speaks about gifts of the Holy Spirit, but he keeps referring to people praying with their own spirits. How does that work? He explains in 1 Corinthians 14, “For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.” In other words, the Holy Spirit and the human spirit work together when one is praying in tongues. This is a perfect example of a situation where the Spirit of God comes upon our spirits and the connection of the two influences what happens next. We also see that Paul tells us the spirits of the prophets are subject to their own control, which means that our human spirits are not simply passively receiving whatever God is doing, but that we have the ability to control what our spirits are doing. Why is this important?

If we want to understand how impartation works, we have to grasp the concept that our human spirit is involved in a partnership with the Holy Spirit, but also that some aspects of the flavor of our own spirit get passed on when we impart to others—largely because our spirit is the vessel. If you will recall in Part 1 (https://www.thekingsofeden.com/2020/05/growing-in-spiritual-power-the-power-of-impartation-part-1/) I shared a story about a time I received prayer from Prophet Larry Randolph, and I could actually observe the “flavor” of the impartation in how I was prophesying over others shortly afterwards. In some way, impartation is not just a gift where we are giving an aspect of the Holy Spirit as a gift, but we are giving the gift of ourselves as well—and yet, because the Holy Spirit flows like a river through us, we don’t experience loss even as we give freely of Him and of ourselves to others. And isn’t pouring out our lives for others part of the example Jesus gave us? With impartation, we just give of ourselves in a different sort of way.

I am excited about the gift that impartation is to the Church, and while I understand I have shared just a few aspects of a larger subject, my hope is that it has given you, the reader, a greater understanding of the impact it can have in your own life, how it functions, why it even matters, and the connection both our spirits and the Holy Spirit have in this process. If you are interested in more on this subject, as I mentioned earlier I am now working on a more comprehensive book on the subject which will also share the name The Power of Impartation (the book is now finished–get it here!). If you want to be notified about it when it is in print, make sure to sign up for my email list below (if you haven’t already), and you will also receive a free e-book on how to engage the angelic realms as a thank you. Stay in touch and God bless you!

 

The Power of Impartation Series:

Part 1:  Growing in Spiritual Power

Part 2:  Impartation Math

Part 3:  Pursuing Exponential Growth

Part 4:  Impartation and the Human Spirit

 

The book The Power of Impartation is now available.  Get your copy today!

 

 

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Pursuing Exponential Growth – The Power of Impartation Part 3

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In Part 1 we discussed the mechanism of impartation and how we can influence its effectiveness in our lives. In Part 2 we discussed what I call Impartation Math—understanding both how we can give to others without loss on our end, as well as how the seed of impartation can help us grow in spiritual power. Now we are going to look at how the power of impartation can be used to pursue exponential growth in spiritual power, which ultimately looks like more effective prayers and better results. While intentional impartation may not exactly mirror exponential growth, it can help us to move in that direction at growing rate.

 

Exponential growth is growth that increases in the growth speed over time, essentially gaining speed as time passes. A good example is that of a farmer and his crops. When a farmer plants a single plant, it produces seeds—not one, but many seeds per plant. For simplicity let us say one plant produces 20 seeds. If a farmer plants those seeds and they all bear fruit, he will harvest 400 seeds. If he plants those seeds and they all bear fruit at the next harvest, he will harvest 8,000 seeds. Repeated continuously it will then be 160,000 seeds, then 3.2 million, then 64 million, and so on. At some point he will be unable to plant all of the seeds he would theoretically obtain, all due to exponential growth over time. What we are going to do is apply the concept of exponential growth and look at what could happen if we turned it toward intentional use of the principles behind impartation.

 

Before going further, I just want to point out that growing in spiritual power has to do with our own effectiveness in manifesting and releasing the Kingdom in the earth. It is not the same as having an actual relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, nor is it a substitute for developing a lifestyle of intimacy with the Godhead. Nothing in this series should be understood to be or taken as a substitute for a relationship with God, but instead is meant to show some ways we can shortcut the process of growing in spiritual power to influence our world.

 

As we discussed in Part 2, Impartation Math shows us how we can impart a small portion of our spiritual ability to others as a seed that can be cultivated and grown. But what if we didn’t just do this at random, or only do it occasionally? What if instead, a group of people caught the vision for how to grow intentionally and put these principles into practice? Let’s look at that now.

 

Imagine that a group of five people all met together weekly for prayer and/or ministry of some kind. Then imagine that each time they met, they prayed for one another to receive impartation from the measure of the Holy Spirit on their lives. To explain this, I am going with the following rules, which, while the numbers are a little arbitrary, the numbers are chosen to represent a concept:

1) Something imparted is in seed form

2) When one prays for another, roughly 1% of their total spiritual force is given away (with 1% representing a small amount, in seed form)

3) When that impartation is assimilated, the total spiritual power increases to make a new total.

4) Everyone in the group starts at 100 sp (SP = spiritual power, representing the power, force, God-points, or whatever one wants to title this)

 

If on meeting 1 everyone gives 1% to everyone else (1 sp), at the end of the meeting everyone is now at 104 points. At the next gathering, everyone gives 1.04 sp away so each person goes away with 108.16 sp. If we continue this ten times in total (rounding to 3 decimals or less), then by the end of 10 meetings (chart at the bottom) each person would be at approximately 148 sp, nearly 1.5 times what they began with, and if this continued weekly for six months, he or she would have at least 277 sp, almost 3 times the starting point.  Now, while these numbers are only a rough representation of how this works, there is a sort of spiritual mathematics that occurs when we engage in spiritual transactions of any kind, and if we are aware of this, we can make purposeful use of this in our lives.

 

Imagine what could happen if this group continued to do their weekly meetings regularly for years, with people coming and going, picking up the benefits of both giving and receiving in impartation culture, carrying it with them to other places, and with the initial group continuing to grow both in in spiritual power over time. Imagine if instead of five people it had ten or fifteen, and that in addition to regular impartation they spent time in corporate worship and intercession for their group, the region, and more. What if this was a God-designed way that we could help one another make leaps and bounds forward in our ability to see our prayers answered, miracles released, our communities transformed, and experience the manifestation of the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven?

 

Personally, I have seen the benefits of acceleration in spiritual growth, and this has been in part through intentional focus on my part. I think that sometimes people can confuse the idea that we get everything in the Kingdom as a free inheritance with the idea that we get it for free in seed form. Jesus told a parable about the mustard seed of faith in Mark 4:30-32, saying “Again he said, ‘What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.’” The point of this parable wasn’t about just needing to have a seed—it was that as the seed grew, the increasing benefits would be revealed. I believe that impartation is essentially a means of both planting new seeds and watering those seeds we have already received from Heaven. The more intentional we are about it, the more watering the plants get, and with better nurture comes better and faster growth. Jesus wasn’t teaching his disciples to rest and do nothing. I believe he was trying to explain how growth over time would release increasing benefits, and that as we do, other people will be able to benefit from the power of God working through our lives. Intentional impartation is one way we can help maximize this growth with one another.

 

In the fourth and final installment of The Power of Impartation series we are going to look at the influence and interaction between the human spirit, the holy spirit, and how they are related to impartation—as well as how we can benefit from that understanding. Stay tuned!

 

Meeting #: Start + Add = End Total*

1: 100 + 4 = 104
2: 104 + 4.16 = 108.16
3: 108.16 + 4.326 = 112.486
4: 112.486 + 4.5 = 117
5: 117 + 4.68 = 121.68
6: 121.68 + 4.868 = 126.548
7: 126.548 + 5.06 = 131.6
8: 131.6 + 5.264 = 136.864
9: 136.864 + 5.476 = 142.34
10: 142.34 + 5.69 = 148.03

*For everyone checking my math, please note that for simplicity’s sake, I have intentionally rounded to 1 or 2 decimals in certain places when the numbers were extremely close to the next decimal, which since the numbers are all made-up to begin with doesn’t influence the point one way or the other.

 

The Power of Impartation Series:

Part 1: Growing in Spiritual Power

Part 2: Impartation Math

Part 3 – Pursuing Exponential Growth

Part 4 – Impartation and the Human Spirit

 

The book The Power of Impartation is now available.  Get your copy today!

 

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Impartation Math – The Power of Impartation Part 2

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In Part 1 we discussed the mechanism of impartation and how we can influence its effectiveness in our lives. In this segment we are going to look at what I call “Impartation Math”, or ultimately the rules behind how it functions, so that we can look in a future segment on how to make use of these principles to enhance our own spiritual advancement.  Impartation prayer is a great way to accelerate spiritual growth in the individual, but from what I have observed there is a sort of spiritual mathematics behind how it tends to function. Keep in mind this is how impartation tends to function in most cases, and is not a rule for all circumstances, as there are always outliers. However, I am confident that the concepts we will discuss are fairly reliable. Some of the information below is also discussed in my book The Gamer’s Guide to the Kingdom of God.

Impartation is a useful method to grow in spiritual power, but when receiving it from others, it seems that we typically only receive a small portion of whatever the other person carries. Thus, it often takes a moderate amount of impartation over time before we notice significant changes. Impartation is much like planting a spiritual seed, but it is also a renewable resource. When imparting to others, we don’t lose spiritual virtue, but rather pass on a seed of what we have received to the other person.

To explain the concept, we are going to look at math using arbitrary percentages I have assigned for simplicity’s sake. While the numbers are kept simple for easy math, we have to keep in mind that impartation is typically passing on virtue in seed form, requiring further growth and development to become powerful and effective. Spiritual virtue flows through us much like a river that collects in a reservoir. When we impart to someone else our reservoir level drops slightly, but is entirely temporary as it is soon refilled by the river of God still feeding it—so we are able to give freely without experiencing any personal loss. Practically speaking this means there is a limitless supply of God-energy available to us in any and every situation. Ultimately, it is the speed of the flow of one’s “spiritual river” that influences how quickly this occurs, but when we give to one another we help increase their ability to be a conduit of the Holy Spirit.

Consider that when praying, we give someone 1% of the spiritual power (or a spiritual gift) we possess. If 100 people gave 1% (or fewer people but a total of 100 separate instances), then that individual’s spiritual capacity would essentially double. There is no limit to the amount of virtue we can impart to others, but if we can only give 1% at a time it will take a while to notice the effects. Ultimately, the goal is to enlarge our reservoir so more can flow through us in any moment. This means that the speed at which we see divine healing, deliverance, and much more should see an increase over time, and really the same will occur for answered prayer as a whole. Additionally, as our reservoir enlarges, we are able to impart more virtue to others when we pray as well. For example, even if the percentage we impart remains the same, as we enlarge our reservoir, we become able to release a greater amount to others. In human terms, 1% of 100 gallons is far less than 1% of 100,000 gallons and our spirits work similarly. As we grow in spiritual power, we have more ability to release a greater measure upon those around us.

Now, if we want to see this occur on a wider scale, we would have to become more intentional about it. And as we discussed in the previous article, we have to not just receive impartation, but do something to assimilate it to truly become part of us. Furthermore, hopefully we aren’t solely relying on this to grow, and are also doing things with what we receive to minister to those around us. In Part 3, we are going to look at how we can use these principles to pursue exponential growth in spiritual power.

The Power of Impartation Series:

Part 1: Growing in Spiritual Power

Part 2: Impartation Math

Part 3 – Pursuing Exponential Growth

Part 4 – Impartation and the Human Spirit

 

The book The Power of Impartation is now available.  Get your copy today!

 

 

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