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Then, she froze. “Something significant happened in your life in 1971. Did your father die?” “No,” I answered. “Something,” she said, “something very dramatic happened.” I knew she had been consulting with demons as we were talking, but I wasn’t afraid. “I know exactly what you’re talking about,” I said after a few moments. “There is a ‘pure, white energy’ inside of me. It’s like nothing you have ever seen.” Then I took the opportunity to introduce her to the real energy source. She eventually admitted that she prayed to God, but she never knew exactly to whom she was talking. “Well, I know who you want to talk to,” I said. “I’ve been talking to Him for many years. And you’re right, in 1971, something very significant happened. It was the day I made Jesus Christ the Lord of my life.” And then I said, “This is who you’ve been looking for all your life. He is the answer and the ‘pure, white energy’ that you see. There’s no other way to receive this kind of life but through Jesus Christ.” In that moment, life was confronting death and, praise God, I got to be part of it! I got to show this very lost woman the gift of grace, and I’m not alone. The Holy Spirit wants every believer to become a life-giving spirit who reaches into the supernatural and imparts the gifts of grace. It doesn’t matter if we are pastors, ministers or laypersons; we are the army of the kingdom of God. That’s our privilege and our job. When David Reached Into Eternity Let me show you an example of this impartation from the Bible. In 2 Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan came to David and confronted him about his sin with Bathsheba. Based on the Old Testament system, there should have been no forgiveness (Deuteronomy 22:22). Law dictated that David be taken outside the city by the leaders of Israel and stoned to death, but David cried out to God and received forgiveness (Psalm 51). David saw something in God that the people of his day had never seen. He discovered that God was more interested in forgiveness than punishment, more interested in deliverance than destruction. Nathan was the catalyst that helped him reach into the supernatural and find grace. Then David went into the presence of God and discovered it for himself. He learned that if he would lay his sin out before God—put it on the altar, no games about it—then freedom was accessible. Instead of dying, he became the greatest king Israel had ever known until Jesus came as the King of kings. He saw something that was outside of the age he lived in. He literally reached into the New Covenant—the Covenant afforded us by Jesus—for grace and forgiveness, and supernaturally pulled it into his life. In 1 Chronicles 17, David experienced another supernatural impartation. Again, Nathan was the instrument God used. He came to David regarding David’s desire to build God a house. David had seen the temples of the nearby nations that were built to demon gods, and wanted to build a house for God that would put those to shame. It sounded like a good idea, but God had never asked for a house. And He didn’t want one. He sent the prophet Nathan to set David straight and revealed His plan for another, better house—Jesus. BVOV : 25

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