Impartation.
Sometimes the impact of a person’s life is not properly understood or fully appreciated until generations after that person is gone. On rare occasions, one generation is not enough to contain the unique measure of the Spirit that some have inherited in God. Those who break into the full grace of the powers of the age to come are tasting, seeing, hearing and experiencing things totally foreign to the affairs, concerns and dilemmas of our current time and worldly system. That's a frustrating and difficult place to be for a person who is overwhelmed by the vision and passion of the heart of God for humanity.
The phenomenon and miracle of impartation resolves this problem of discontinuity within the kingdom by preserving, maximizing and multiplying all that God has revealed, birthed and invested in a person’s life beyond their own time even if they were not well received, accepted or understood in their own particular days on earth. God's solution for Elijah after his depression was simply to pass on the mantle. Many generations later, that measure of grace in the power of the Spirit was fully expressed and appropriately incorporated by the life of John the Baptist to prepare the way for Christ.
In a more modern and contemporary example, Smith Wigglesworth poured tears into the forehead of Lester Sumrall until they mixed in with Lester's own tears and he prayed, "Let all the faith and grace that is over my life come into this young man," and then he said, "I see it!! I see it!! I see it!! The greatest revival in the history of the world is coming!! I will not see it but you will." And that he did. Lester Sumrall saw it at least in part because let me tell you something my friend, that legacy of grace and impartation is still on the earth today waiting to be apprehended, assimilated and understood by those who are hungry for it. It's time to receive an impartation. The mantle of many generations is falling upon the earth today!!
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