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Spiritual Transference

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues
of life (Proverbs 4:23).

Spiritual transference is to accept another person’s spiritual

attributes, power, glory, thoughts, emotions or status. The
source can be from God, man or the devil and/or his hosts.
This happens all the time in the realm of Spirit and/or in
the realm of the soul. You cannot observe with your
natural senses the phenomenon of spiritual transference
because it happens outside of the sphere of the natural
realm. It happens in the super natural realms of the spirit
and the soul. Because you cannot see it with the natural
eye does not mean that it is not happening. Because of sin
the physical body with its senses are dead toward the
realms of the spirit and the soul (Romans 8:10). For this
reason that which is natural can only be observed with
natural senses and that which is spirit with the senses of
the spirit (Luke 16:26).

Air is all the time in the atmosphere yet you cannot see it
with the natural eye. You can observe the activity of the
breath of air or wind by observing how nature responds
toward its force. You can feel the wind on your skin or you
can observe its force by witnessing how branches and
leaves of trees respond or how a windmill may respond to
the force of the wind. Likewise you can observe spiritual
transference through the behavior of oneself and/or other
people. Normally you need the gift of discernment of
spirits from the Holy Spirit to discern the source. Everyone
has the choice to receive or to reject things that are
transferred to him or her. The problem is that you are
ignorant about transferences or that you are not always
fully alert in the Spirit and often accept garbage from the
enemy as your own.

In the beginning God created Adam one with Him and in

total harmony with Him and with all that is His. God gave
him authority to rule over his domain or anointed area,
which was the Garden of Eden. When Adam walked with
God, He taught him all about creation and his purpose for
cultivating and maintaining the garden. God taught him in
the same way as a father would teach his son, for Adam
was His son (Luke 3:38). He also gave him freedom to be
creative as he cultivated Eden. Adam was created to bear
God’s image. God never created him as a robot but gave
him free will of choice to be creative. To bear the image of
the Creator, one has to be creative. The knowledge that
God transferred to Adam was for his own good. God never
overwhelmed him with thoughts to control and
manipulate his actions but gave him freedom of expression
as he ruled over his domain. In this they had great
fellowship. Adam and Eve were created to find joy and
fulfillment in their relationship with God (Genesis 1:26-31).
Because Adam was created a living soul he was created
with a natural ability to love the only true God with all his
heart, with all his soul and with all his strength. He was
fashioned to love God perfectly in his soul because his
whole person was alive to God. By being in the image and
likeness of God he spontaneously and effortlessly pleased
God just by being Adam.

When Christ created all things in heaven and on earth,

visible and invisible it was created in Him and one with
Him. He also upholds His creation that is in Him by the
word of His power. Thus God made man not to live by
bread alone but by every word that proceeded from His
mouth. Nothing that was created was created outside of
Him. Adam and Eve was created to find joy and fulfillment
in God and being in His image fashioned to be a source of
joy and fulfillment to God. God never intended for man to
find joy and fulfillment outside of Him. Christ is filled
with the fullness of the Godhead and all that is His. God is
total fulfillment. Adam and Eve were totally fulfilled,
lacking in nothing. In total fulfillment there is no need. In
total fulfillment there is no hope or faith because every
moment of Adam’s life was fulfillment. There were no
promises to be fulfilled; every moment was fulfillment and
perfection. Because Adam was created in the image and
likeness of God all of his other relationships was reflected
in this godly Father-son relationship. Just as God was the
Fountain of Life and Source of Fulfillment of Adam, Adam
was a source of joy and fulfillment to all that was in his
kingdom. God appointed him head over his wife and the
garden.

The serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field
and successfully got Adam and Eve to succumb to his lies.
Adam and Eve should have never paid attention to
anything outside of God. Satan transferred his rebellious
thoughts to our first parents as he sold them his poisonous
deception. Opening their hearts to Satan, in disobedience
to God, their hearts of flesh were instantly transformed
into evil unbelieving hearts of stone as they partook of the
tree of knowledge of good and evil. All of a sudden they
found themselves outside of God as they were expelled
from the garden. Their living relationship in knowing God
in His perfect love was destroyed. They were no longer lost
in God but their souls were polluted with fears, doubts
and lusts of the flesh. Where once they experienced
dazzling light, boundless love, joy and peace in oneness
with God they were now searching for fulfillment outside
of God being driven by the ceaseless misdirection and self-
absorbed preferences and compelling impulses of their
sinful natures (1 John 2:15-17). To find joy and fulfillment
outside of God man opened up to demonic stimuli in
search for it. They found it through the unwholesome
behavioral device known as transference. In search for
knowledge of good and evil, independently from God,
man sinned as he missed the mark to be an anointed
substance to do the will of God that would bring Him joy
and fulfillment. Man has chosen a foreign source of input
instead of divine blessing and fellowship in Him to find
joy and to be fulfilled.

Transference is not always negative but it also got a

positive dimension. The greatest transference that ever
took place happened when Jesus died for us on the cross.
All our iniquities, transgressions and sicknesses, since
Adam until the end of time, were transferred to Him. All of
His perfection and glory was transferred to us that we
could become in Him the righteousness of God through
faith.

Our sins with its guilt were transferred to Him. He

transferred His perfection to us in the spirit of mercy and
grace. It was made possible through an eternal covenant
that God made with the Lord Jesus Christ on our behalf.
The Lord Jesus Christ did His part by fulfilling the Law
and borne God’s wrath for our transgression of God’s law.
Forever the Father will not remember our sin against Him,
He will never be angry toward us again and He will not
cease to bless us. The Father will forever transfer only
goodness and mercy to those who are accepted in the
Beloved. In the garden Adam was in God. With the
transgression he caused God to cast man out of Himself. In
Christ (in His body) we are transferred back into God by
being born by the Spirit into the body of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
The vastness and the scope of His grace toward us that
believe are immeasurable. We the coheirs with Christ, who
is the embodiment of the fullness of the Godhead, will
share in all of His fullness. Our inheritance is far above we
can ask or think. We will even receive His omniscience,
omnipotence and omnipresence. God is the One who
established the law that everything shall bring forth after
its own kind and we are His offspring. It is not my
intention in anyway to blaspheme or to sow deception. It is
not a picture of how important we are but of how much
He loves us. Though we will be all things that the Lord
Jesus is, we will not be worshipped by any of God’s
creation for we will always be His servants (Revelation
19:10). As those who are forever accepted in the Beloved
with the rest of creation we will sing the praises of God
and the Lamb for all eternity. What a privilege! When the
perfect has come we shall know the vastness of His
goodness toward us that believed. For now we see as in a
mirror dimly, but then face to face.

When Christ ascended into heaven He send the Promise of

His Father, the Holy Spirit (Luke 24:49), and He gave gifts
unto men (Ephesians 4:7-16). So transference of God’s
promise and Christ’s gift toward us took place when Jesus
ascended into heaven.

The Father had transferred all authority that is in heaven

and on earth to Jesus. The power of the Holy Spirit was
transferred to the saints after the Holy Spirit has come
upon them so that they and we today can be His witnesses
even to the uttermost parts of the earth. The manifestation
of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. The
fruit and diversity of the gifts of the Holy Spirit reveal the
glory of God in us. You are the light of the world. A city that is
set on a hill cannot be hidden (Matthew 5:14). We transfer
light into darkness and darkness cannot overpower light.
There are differences of ministries, all by the same Lord.
The Lord transferred gifts to men to bring us to the full
stature of Christ who is the embodiment of the fullness of
the Godhead. And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for
the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the
faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to
the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians
4:11-13). These people impart or transfer to us spiritual
gifts to equip us and to labor, on our behalf, until Christ is
formed in us. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, expressed his
desire to the Roman church that he wishes to impart or
transfer to them some spiritual gift so that they may be
established in the faith (Romans 1:11).

There are also diversities of activities, but it is the same

God who works all in all (1 Corinthians 12:6). The Greek
word for activities means energies and it refers to the
powerful or explosive power of the Father. So the Spirit of
the Father is explosively powerful. But if the Spirit of Him
who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised
Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit who dwells in you (Romans 8:11). So it
must have been the Spirit of the Father that raised Christ
from the dead because the Holy Spirit was not yet poured
out. So the Spirit of the Father is the Spirit that quickens
our mortal bodies so that we will live and not die, in other
words, be immortal.

If you have received the Spirit of Christ, the body is dead

because of sin, but the Spirit is alive because of
righteousness. When the Spirit of God lives in you, you are
in the Spirit because you are alive to God, spirit, soul and
body (Romans 8:9-11). So transference of life takes place
from Him who lives forever, to you who is a mortal to
cloth you with His immortality. The last enemy that will be
destroyed is death. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption
inherit incorruption (1 Corinthians 15:50). So both Enoch
and Elijah were translated, like our Lord, before being
taken into heaven. So they must have received the Spirit of
Almighty God. It was transference from mortality into His
immortality.

So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this

mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory” (1
Corinthians 15:54). The corruptible body is a body of a
person that has died in Christ but the body has rot in the
grave. A mortal body is the body of somebody that is still
alive but is not yet clothed with God’s immortality. When
the Spirit of God is in you He will quicken your mortal
body.

The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of God is
not like three peas in a bottle. You cannot figure it out with
the carnal mind because God is one. Whether it is one
Spirit with different functions or three Spirits that are one I
cannot tell you. It is futile to speak about holy matters if
you do not have revelation about it.

We were once in darkness, but now we are in the light of

the Lord. The prince of darkness does according to his own
nature by transferring darkness into the hearts of the
children of disobedience. Whose minds the god of this age has
blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the
glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them (2
Corinthians 4:4).
Because the ungodly could observe God in His works, they
did not glorified Him as God, neither give thanks to Him,
but became unfruitful in their thoughts, and their foolish
hearts were darkened (Romans 1:21).

When either good or evil, is transferred or projected to

you, you can accept it or reject it. Jesus came to his own but
His own did not received Him but as many as received
Him He gave the right to become the children of God
(John 1:11-12).

When the Lord went into the wilderness he fasted for 40

days and was tempted by the devil. The devil tempted the
Lord in all three areas that represent the things of this
world, namely, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life (1 John 2:16). Our Savior overcomes the
evil one every time through the word of God. Then the
devil left Him. Is not My word like a fire? Says the Lord. And
like a hammer that breaks the rock in peaces (Jeremiah 23:29).

The enemy is deceitful with the imaginations and thoughts

that he dumps upon people. He is devious in his deceit,
convincing them to believe that what they think or imagine
is from their own hearts. People carry on walking under a
cloud of condemnation, because they have accepted the
thoughts, emotions and imaginations as products from
their own minds. Those are fiery darts from the enemy. It
does not imply that all thoughts are from outside sources.
Some are!

When you have fixed your heart on God to walk with Him
and you have devoted yourself to love the Lord and
emotion and attitude rise up in you that is absolutely
contrary to the course that you have chosen you must
know that something is terribly wrong. Most probably, it is
foreign thoughts and imaginations, and you must search
the source where it originates from prior to you accepting
it as a result from your own heart.

When you accept a thought or imagination that is affixed

with intense emotion for a time it will root in your heart
and become your own until it has grown very deep into
your heart. When you refuse the foreign thoughts by using
the word of God you will be amazed how you will rule
your own choice of thoughts. The enemy designed these
evil thoughts and attitudes to destroy your walk with God.
Through, the help of the Holy Spirit, you should evaluate
thoughts and attitudes that come your way.

The devil use your imagination to fill your heart with fear
and those fears cause you to act in unbelief. Unbelief is the
doorway to things like hate, bitterness and sexual
fantasies, and so on. Sometimes you have to battle the
imagination and suggestions of other people that are
projected to you and not just our own.

Because of the transference of thoughts and suggestions

you need to build defenses. Defenses can be compared to
the defenses of ancient fortified cities. Walls provided the
primary defenses of a city or fortress, along with tower and
gate complexes. Important cities normally have large walls
while non-strategic cities have lighter or no fortifications.
Like an important ancient city you need fortification to
avert attacks from the enemy. Whoever has no rule over his
own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls (Proverbs
25:28).

Words are often used to destroy or to breakdown or to sow

unbelief. When negative speech features during a
conversation and I cannot walk away from it I build walls
to wall out negative influence. I visualize walls around me
while I closing my hands. When I close my hands, I tense
up and my spirit closes.

Warfare does not only consist of being on the defense but

also consists of an offensive part. The word of God is the
only basis where by you see true visions in your
imagination, which forms the platform of hope. Hope is a
vision with an expectation of fulfillment. The word of God
is the basis of your hope, which was laid in your hearts
through the words of the apostles and the prophets with
Jesus (the Word) the Chief Cornerstone in whom the whole
building fitted together. Hope is food for faith. Faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of unseen
realities. With the heart one believes unto righteousness
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Without faith you cannot please God. By faith the
strongholds of bondage in your heart is conquered. By
faith you build the walls of defense. Without a vision of
hope you will perish. Joshua and Caleb had a vision of
hope burning in their hearts and they entered the
Promised Land but the rest of their generation perished in
unbelief in the desert. Without a vision your murmur and
test God but hope keeps you humble before the Lord and
fill you with wisdom to do His will.

Your offensive strategy is not like that of the world that

leads to offense and strive. It is not in the will of God for
you to get angry but to rule your spirit. We must as far as
possible live in peace with all men. Never be overtaken by
fear. Never lie. If you do it long enough it will become an
evil habit. Your evil habit leaves a bad example to others,
specially your children, which you transfer to their lives.
When you speak, speak as an oracle of God, displacing the
lie with the truth. Speak the truth in love. Be as wise as
serpents and harmless as doves. A soft answer turns away
wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger (Proverbs 15:1).
You may start to work in a certain environment and in
little time you have been shaped, through transference,
into the new environment’s thinking. However, if you
determine to live by the Spirit, you will always discern the
contrast. Your discernment will become sharp and you will
easily discern that which is not of God. But if the spirit of
this world dictates your life, your ability to perceive by the
Holy Spirit will grow dim. So your ability to discern
between spiritual and carnal things diminishes. You can
maintain your focus on God while working in a secular
environment by maintaining your dedication to the Lord
through reading the Scriptures, prayer and waiting on the
Lord. Through grace the wisdom of God is made
manifested that we should walk in the Spirit.

An example of subtler occurrence of transference will be

where people follow the pastor in all his ways. If he grows
a beard all the males will do so. If he drives a certain car
everybody start driving that model of car, etc. Conformity
to natural ways is not unity. If everybody wants to be the
hand where is the body? In diversity of expression of the
anointing of each member of the body of Christ unity of
the Spirit is manifested. The anointing will make room for
your expression in your environment. Unity is not a unity
of doctrine but a unity that is expressed by faith. It is the
flow of the anointing in individual lives that gives the
body of Christ its expression. Let us make room for one
another. In this way we serve and love one another and so
fulfill the law of Christ.

Towers were also part of the walls of cities and served

among others as observation posts. Metaphorically it
means that we need to observe in the Spirit and then pray
according to the will of God. Son of man, I have made you a
watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My
mouth, and give them warning from Me (Isaiah 3: 17).

By knowing what is going on in the spirit world we can get

rid of negative spiritual transferences all the time. Positive
spiritual transference is to bless one another. Bless and
curse not. By being aware of what is going on in the spirit
world we can rule more effectively.