Everything in the kingdom of God operates by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith operates by revelation, impartation and demonstration. We hear the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We receive revelation of our condition before God and what Christ has accomplished for us. We turn from our condition to embrace what Christ has done for us. We receive an impartation—peace. That peace changes our life—demonstration.
When we receive Christ as Lord, we receive Him who is the fullness of the Godhead. Everything who God is, is vested in Christ. In that sense, we “receive it all.” In Christ there is forgiveness, righteousness, sanctification, fullness of the Spirit, healing, deliverance from oppression, prosperity—all that is good and from God is in Christ Jesus the Lord. With our position in Christ, we have “received it all.”
For us to experience the things of God, we still must operate by faith in Jesus Christ. The just shall live by faith. Live faith operates by revelation, impartation and demonstration.
Take righteousness for example. We are “made righteous” in Christ (Romans 5:17-19). With this revelation, there must be an impartation of understanding “made righteous” for there to be a demonstration of living free of condemnation. If we don’t receive the understanding, we will live under constant condemnation for our faults and failures.
Now take healing. We have healing in the accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. We receive a revelation that we have healing in Christ. When there is an impartation of understanding that healing is already paid for and is mine now, then there can be a release of faith in taking action for a demonstration of actual healing.
Now take the baptism of the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is ours in Christ, the Spirit-anointed One. We hear the Word of the promise of the Father. The fullness and power of the Holy Spirit is ours now in our Lord Jesus Christ. With that revelation, we are now open, believing for and yielding to the working of the Spirit that we might actually be filled. By believing for and yielding to the Spirit with action, we have a demonstration of being filled to overflowing with tongues, prophecy, liberated praise, boldness to share Jesus, and the love of God filling our hearts. It all comes by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and by yielding to the Spirit unto action. Faith comes by hearing the Word and a demonstration comes by taking action in believing that Word.
The Body of Christ so needs to be actually filled with the Spirit just like they were actually filled in the Bible! This is where the power of God operates. Paul asked the question to the Ephesians: Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? They had not heard of the Holy Spirit. Paul baptized them in water in the name of the Lord and prayed for them and laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit with manifestations of tongue and prophecy. God’s power was manifested. Acts 19: 1-6
Being filled with the Spirit and doing miracles are all by the hearing of faith and taking action. There is a revelation of what we have in Christ. There is an impartation of power by the Spirit to perform the works of God. By this revelation and impartation, we take action for a demonstration of the Spirit in power with gifts and miracles. It all operates by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and by taking action with that faith. Galatians 3: 1-9
Yes, we “have it all” in the Lord Jesus Christ when we believe. That is our position in Christ. Our faith connects us to Him and His Spirit comes within us. But for us to experience all that He is, we still are to live and operate by faith which receives and yields to the Spirit and takes action in obedience to the Spirit. His Spirit comes upon us in power as we yield to action taken in faith. Yielding to action allows God to act in us.
In this way the believers in the Lord were filled on the day of Pentecost. They had the revelation of the promise of the Father. There was an impartation made, and they yielded unto a demonstration by all speaking in tongues, prophesying and being liberated in praises to God. The same happened with the Samaritans, with Saul (Paul), with Cornelius’ household, with the Corinthians and with the Ephesians. Acts 1: 8; Acts 2: 1-4; Acts 8: 14-17; Acts 9: 17-18 (1 Corinthians 14:18); Acts 10: 44-48; Acts 19: 1-6
If we want to have a demonstration of signs, wonders, miracles and a mighty move of God upon the lost, then we are to believe for and receive the impartation of God’s Spirit. We do this by knowing we have this in Christ, and by yielding to and moving with the Spirit of God, taking action as the Spirit gives utterance and direction.
We can have revelation, that we “have it all” in Christ, and never do anything—no power, no nothing! Faith receives the impartation by yielding to and taking action on the revelation. By acting on the revelation there is impartation, with a demonstration of the power of God. This is how we move in the gifts of the Spirit, and this is how miracles are performed, and this is how the lost get saved through the preaching of the gospel.
Before we try to do the works of God, we are to first be filled with the Spirit by taking action in faith. Then by that same action of faith, we are to do the works of God by the power of the Spirit. That way, what we have positionally in Christ is actually demonstrated experientially for all to see, all to the glory of God.