“But as for me, to draw near to God is my good; I have made the Lord LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works.” Psalm 73:38.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלוהים) says:
If you receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness you will reign in life through Christ Jesus. The path of life is the place of abundant grace.
And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all. Acts 4:33.
Grace is My life in you, making you a partaker of My divine nature. Grace is a wonderful thing it makes your life fruitful and filled with divine skill and power. It keeps you as fruitful branches on the Vine of Jesus.
What is the secret of abundant grace? It is in the humility of intimacy. I resist the proud but give grace to the humble. Proud people are not intimate with Me. They are aloof and critical. They test Me and try Me and hold Me at a distance.
Some people enjoy more intimate fellowship with Me than others and get a greater part in things I am doing. It is a matter of greater grace. The twelve disciples were closer to Jesus than the crowds, but of the twelve Peter, James and John were closer to My Son than the others. And John enjoyed an even closer fellowship than the three or anyone else.
Why? How can you obtain greater grace? My grace is on and working in all who believe and receive My Son but some believers enjoy a more intimate relationship with Me than others.
Look at John. He was the one who leaned on Jesus’ chest at the Last Supper. He was the one who stood at the foot of the cross. He was the first disciple to believe Jesus had risen from the dead. He loved My Son more than the others. He who is forgiven much loves much. If you are conscious of the beauty and established in the gift of righteousness that I have given you in Christ Jesus, that combined with the abundance of grace, makes you above the oppression and evil works of the devil. It makes you unconquerable.
“In righteousness you will be established; you will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; and from terror, for it will not come near you. If anyone fiercely assails you it will not be from Me. Whoever assails you will fall because of you.” Isaiah 54:14-15.
Faith works by love. I am love. Those who love more are closer to Me than those who do not. The more you love, the more you are committed to Me, the more you draw close to Me, the more generous you are with Me, and the more humble you are, the more you come into My frequency and walk with Me.
Pride and fear are what keep you distant from Me. Only love can overcome both of them. Love will help you to set aside pride and humble yourself to the reality and totality of who you are in Me. Perfect love casts out fear. Love delivers you from fear.
You must learn how to entrust yourself into My Hands and receive My grace. There will be times, if you are not walking in faith and love, that you are ready to give up and feel pushed to the point that you cannot continue. It is then that you need to know how to draw on My grace, but you really should know how to do this at all times and not just when everything looks impossible. My grace is sufficient for you at all times and in every situation to bring you through victorious.
The Lord said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.
I tell you to come to My throne of grace with confidence for mercy and grace when you need it. When you are in a really dire situation you do have the ability, and I want you to have knowledge of this and the confidence to use it, to get abundant grace to give you ability and power so that you can do all things in Christ (the anointing) who strengthens you.
Commend yourself into My Hands as Jesus did in total faith and confidence. I will keep you and My grace will be enough—indeed more than enough—to bring you through any trial, terrorist attack, or economic downturn strong and triumphant. Challenges and trials should not put you into fear and despair—you should rejoice that you are then entitled to more grace! There is nothing too big, too hard, or too strong for My grace to overcome. My grace is enough to make you an overcomer in every situation in your life.
My grace is My divine power in you enabling you to will (desire) and to do the good plan I have for your life. Philippians 2:13. With enough grace you can do and receive what appears to be impossible. When you receive grace for a work I give you to do I can give you skills you did not know you had and were never trained in. I can give you wisdom and understanding beyond that of your elders. I can give you strength when you feel weak.
Then Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful person in whom the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to the work to perform it. Exodus 36:2.
Those who hope in Me will soar with eagles’ wings. They will walk and not grow weary, run and not grow faint.
When you feel weak turn to My strength. Put your roots deep into Christ and feed on My Word. All My treasures of wisdom and knowledge are in Him and they are there for you. I want you to live your life in and through Christ. 1 John 4:9. For in Him you are strong and in Him you are rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9; Philippians 4:13.
When people are weak, they often need nourishment. So if you feel weak in your spirit and unable to face the challenges in your life, it may be that your spirit is malnourished. It is then that you need a good dose of My Word to lift your spirit and fill you with faith. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world. And faith comes by hearing, so make sure you are hearing My anointed Word and not the words of other voices. Guard your heart, for in it are the issues that determine your life. Proverbs 4:23.
How you are feeling in the face of challenges and in the face of your daily life itself is really a matter of the heart. You probably have heard people say about someone who has given up that he or she “lost heart.” You may have heard someone explain why they stopped doing or working at something is because their heart was not in it. If you are to do something really well and with enthusiasm your heart has to be engaged. Without vision the people perish. Without vision and passion there is no fire.
But My Son came to cast fire on the earth! How He longed to enkindle it! A move of the heart. I tell you to love Me with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. That is passion! When you feel like that about Me no challenge is too great to take on. That is the way David felt about Me and you remember how he ran to meet Goliath in battle whereas all the Israelite warriors had lost heart in the face of his great size and expertise in battle.
And when My Spirit returned to dwell in the hearts of people again on Pentecost Sunday two thousand years ago do you remember how He came? As tongues of fire descending into each believer’s heart!
My Son baptizes you in the Holy Spirit and fire! Catch the fire! Get your vision and run with it with passion!
Stop trying to seek conventional ways to glorify yourself. Stop looking so hard to profit yourself and instead find your Kingdom assignment. Then your life will take off. It is then that all the limits are off and My grace can take you to levels you never even dreamed of reaching. My grace is not just a fountain but a gusher! Get in its flow.
And My grace can do immeasurably more than all you ask or imagine, according to My power that is at work within you. Ephesians 3:20-21.
Grace is power. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. And the power you are clothed in from on High is My Holy Spirit dwelling in you, pouring My love into your heart. Acts 1:8; Romans 5:5. For the power is Love. I am Love and I am the most powerful One there is. I have no problem with doing the impossible. There is no lack with Me but infinite abundance and wealth. All power resides in Me. I move the universe. I created all things.
My life in you is love. This is grace. Love can do anything for I can do anything and I am love. That is why love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:8. Your answer to every problem is really very simple: it is love. Your assignment is to love. And I will give you enormous projects to do for love because love has no limits. It is higher than the sky and deeper than the ocean. It towers above the heavens and the earth. Psalm 103:11. Every good and perfect gift comes from Love. And when you give love, you receive love back, which is grace and power and every good thing. You will not know lack no matter what the state of the economy for there is no lack in My Kingdom and you will be accessing a different system than that of the world.
I long to give you grace in time of need. I love to see you victorious and strong. I have lavished My grace on you in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 1:7 8. I put in you the power that raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him at My right hand. Ephesians 1:19-20. Let Me strengthen you with power through My Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And then you, being rooted and established in love, may have power to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all My fullness. Ephesians 3:16-19.
Grace is My love poured out in your heart and that is power! And how do I pour My love into your heart? By the gift of the Holy Spirit. Grace is My life in you by My indwelling Holy Spirit. Power to do and to will My good plan for your life and to overcome any trial, attack, or financial collapse. Love never fails. Grace never fails. The law came through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. John 1:17. It is Jesus who gives you the gift of the Holy Spirit and baptizes you into Him. And that pours My life, which is grace, into you. And My grace is sufficient for you. In other words, My life is sufficient in you to make like Me.
But not all people receive the same level of grace, though all could as it is there in overflowing measure for everyone. All who are thirsty are invited to come and drink the life giving water. I give grace to the humble. I give grace to those who love. For what you give is given unto you and the measure by which you measure is measured back to you and more besides till it overflows. So if you want abundant grace lavished on you so that you can do and see the impossible come to pass in your life, then love Me with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbor as you love yourself. It is all based on love. Be rooted and grounded in it and never waver.
Grace increases where generosity flows. Grace comes from giving. I have shown you this in tithes and offerings. I tell you to try it and I will open the floodgates of heaven for you and pour out a blessing you cannot contain but must share. And I will rebuke the destroyer off you and your families lives and goods.
Grace is a wonderful thing, it is My life pouring into you, and I am generous. When you give to the poor, you lend to Me and I will reward you. And when you give to the poor, I deliver you off your sickbed. And I also tell you I give you strong bones when you give to the poor. But some of you find it hard to give and that may be why you are finding it so hard to live. Think about that.
I want great grace to be on you all.
And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them. And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all. For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales and lay them at the apostles’ feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need. Acts 4:32-35.
The early believers upon whom all this grace was pouring from My throne of grace were of one mind and one heart, they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread (communion), and to prayer, Acts 2:42, but there was one thing more they were all doing that made the grace flow in ever increasing measure: they were generous givers. They sold their possessions, laid the proceeds at the disciples’ feet, with one purpose—that there would not be one needy person among them. Those who had land and houses were selling their property and possessions and sharing them with all, as anyone might have need. Acts 2:45. They shared with others in the household of faith. Sow something, if you want to grow something.
I love you. Remember grace is generous, I gave you My Son, filled with grace and truth and He gave His life for you and then poured out the promise of My Spirit, My eternal life, on you. Will I not give you all things besides? Have no fear giving will increase My grace towards you. It will never lessen you to love others and serve them.
Abundance of grace is filling this place, working in love from Heaven above, opening doors of freedom to you, breaking your chains and making all things new!