This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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	A Corporate Word, given on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2002


The Lord says that today is a day that He is releasing anointings to those 
who are seeking Him for them... as Matt 7:7-11 says, ask and you shall 
receive.  And of course there is the caviot in James 4 that we must not ask 
amis (wrong motives), such as desiring a healing anointing so everyone will 
look up to us and seek us out.  Rather we need to have His motivation for 
doing kingdom work.  And God does know and examine the motives of our 
hearts :)  

That caviot aside, the Lord says that there was great power in the blood 
of Jesus when He shed it freely for us on the cross.  And because of His 
obedience, all authority in heaven and earth was given to Him. (Of course,
He uses that authority only to do what His Father is doing.) And there was 
great power in the ressurrection ... not only power over sin and death.. 
though it is true that death could not hold Him.  But there was also great 
power that Jesus was given to impart into the church.  And He had to ascend 
up into heaven that this power might be released in the church.   He told 
the disciples, You are sad that I said I am going away but I say to you it 
is for your own good because I must go away for you to receive the Holy 
Spirit.  And that same Holy Spirit, that Jesus sent when He ascended into 
Heaven, He empowers us from Jesus' authority to do the works that Jesus did.  
(And of course, Jesus only did what the Father was doing.)

So likewise, the Lord is releasing anointings and impartations this very 
day, this anniversary where we remember the ressurrection into His people 
who are commited to serving Him. 

So if you ask, you will receive.. for God is indeed imparting.  But do 
understand that impartations come as a seed.  When it is planted, there is 
not always evidence at first of it's existance, because the seed is burring
deep into the gound, planting it's roots, becoming established.  Then when 
the evidences do begin to appaer, they are small and modest at first.  The 
early growth may seem slow.. it takes years before a seedling looks like a 
tree.  But the tree is planted when the seed is planted and in due time the 
full evidence of it comes forth.  Likewise, some of you, though you recieve 
an impartion this very day, will not see the immediate evidences of it.
Because, as the seed is planted underground and is invisible at first,
sometimes the anointings and impartations are planted deep within and must 
grow and mature over time before the evidences of what God put there fully 
manifest.

Some of you will sprout quickly, like the mustard seed, and the anointings 
will spring up rapidly.  Others will be more like the mighty oak tree,
where the evidences of the impartation take longer.  But the impartation is 
just as real.

So what is it that you desire of the Lord this day?  What anointing do you 
desire?  What impartation do you request from Him?

The Lord says, Ask, child, and it shall be given to you, providing you do 
not ask amis.   So ask Him and trust that He will do it, because it is His 
desire to plant many seeds of impartation and anointing this very evening.
Again I say unto you, "Ask and you shall recieve.. for it is the Father's 
good will to give good gifts to His children when they ask Him." (Matt 7:7,11)