And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I so loved the world, I gave My only begotten Son to you to save you forever, and with Him came grace and truth. I seek to win the world by love, as I reveal Myself to you in My Son, for in seeing Him you are seeing Me.
Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.” John 14:8-10.
And in Him I have lavished My grace on you.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. Ephesians 1:7-8.
Grace is the way that I can draw all men into Myself.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:8-10.
You see that grace flows from Me to you in abundance. Grace on top of grace. I gave the law to Moses but grace and truth come to you in Jesus. Grace puts you at the finish line of the law and then takes you to a whole new level of life. Grace is the joy of living joined with Me, it is the preciousness of being in My presence. You have been saved by grace through faith.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10.
The surpassing riches of grace. What is grace? It is My divine life poured into you and joining with you giving you the intimate knowledge of My presence and the impartation of skill for the moment to give you success in what is at hand. It is My love giving you My life, My power, My wisdom, My peace, My comfort, My holiness, and My strength. It is favor towards you making your life amazing. GRACE MAKES YOU A PARTAKER IN MY DIVINE NATURE. It radically changes your life. It gives you the authority and the ability to release My power to change things and rearrange things, to drive out evil and establish Kingdom results on earth.
Grace supplies abundantly, love gives, and faith takes. Great faith takes a lot. Little faith takes a little. No faith takes nothing. With no faith you expect to receive nothing from Me although the supply is there for you.
When Jesus reprimanded those who believed in Him—those who followed Him—He never called them “snakes and vipers” as He did the self righteous Pharisees, but He did say “Oh, you of little faith.” If you will note when He chided them was on the occasions that they were not receiving, that is, taking, the abundant supply that was there for them in their needs, but instead cowering in worry and fear. It was when they thought they would not be able to meet their or other’s needs. It was when they were not taking the supply that I have for you by grace.
My Son called the centurion a man of great faith. If you will note he took a lot from My Son. Though he did not qualify for blessing since he was not under the Mosaic Covenant he received all he wanted. Why? He took it by faith, and that is the blessing of Abraham, righteousness by faith, that is the Abrahamic Covenant. And it was there for him. The Syrophoenician woman took the healing of her daughter though she did not qualify under the Law either. Both were not of the Jewish faith and were not under the Mosaic Covenant. But they took all they demanded by faith. The righteousness of faith. And Jesus called that great faith.
For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17.
Faith sees the abundant supply given by love and takes.
My grace supplies good things constantly, there is no shortage. Grace is all about Me giving to you. But law is all about you performing for Me to be blessed, so law demands. Grace supplies your needs not based on your performance but on that of Jesus. You access grace by faith, not by works, and faith works by love. You must come to know and believe in the love I have for you and that is the faith that overcomes the world. I win the world by love and so do you.
For love consists in this: not that you have loved Me but that I have loved you and given you My Son as propitiation for your sins. And that is the gift that wins the world with My love.
In My Kingdom the supply always exceeds the demand. Or you could say your demand is always less than the supply. It is like when My Son broke the bread and the fish, there were only five loaves and two fish to feed over five thousand people yet the people took as much as they wanted and when they were full and wanted no more, the multiplication stopped. However, there were already twelve full baskets left over. The supply exceeded the demand but it stopped when the people were full and would receive no more.
Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote “Now to Him who is able to accomplish exceedingly, abundantly more than all we ask or imagine, by the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:20-21.
Pray that I would enlarge your heart so you can receive and you can love. If Peter had known the supply I had there when My Son told him to go out and lower his nets for a catch, he would have borrowed at least three more big nets from his friends and asked them also to go and help him bring in the catch.
I tell the barren one, and that would symbolize any one of you who has a barren and empty life, to sing to Me with joy and then to enlarge the space for your tent, to spread out your tent cloths unsparingly, to lengthen your ropes and make firm your stakes for you shall spread abroad to the right and to the left! Isaiah 54:1-3. But note first you have to sing to Me with joy. Joy shows faith in My love. Faith in My supply. Faith that My grace is sufficient to abundantly meet all your needs and desires.
Whenever you doubt My love your supply is affected. You cut off the flow because you will not take. Like the invited guests who refused to come to the feast prepared by the generous host. It was all there for them to take but they never tasted one morsel of it. The supply was there but it did not benefit their lives. They tried to meet their own needs and were therefore too busy to come and receive the abundance they were working so hard to take and never did.
Addition by division, and multiplication by subtraction. That is grace. I give to you and you give to others and the more you give the more you have.
My Word tells you that a man named Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother, however, had named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.” But Jabez called on Me, the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep from harm and evil, that may not pain me!” And I granted him what he requested. 1 Chronicles 4:9-10.
Pray that I enlarge your heart, that I enlarge the borders you place in your life that keep you from taking all that is there for you in My abundant supply of grace so that you can reign in life through My Son who is full of grace and truth.
Know that grace supplies, love gives and faith takes. Keep it simple. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that he feared that as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness that they too might have their minds corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:2-4. Grace is supply and law is demand.
When I look at you I see you in Jesus. And He deserves My favor and My abundant supply. But He became poor so that by His poverty you could be made rich with His very own richness and abundance, for the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him bodily and He has given all He is and has to you. The divine exchange—He took all that was the evil in your life and gave you all the good He had in His life. He makes you partakers of the divine nature. And a partaker should partake. Take the banquet that is spread out before you by My loving kindness so that I may show through all the ages to come the immeasurable riches of My grace in My kindness to you in Christ. Ephesians 2:7.
I love to give. Learn to receive, which means learn to come to the feast and take. Remember, grace supplies, love gives and faith takes. I am love and I am always giving. Great faith takes a lot and little faith takes a little and no faith takes nothing. And remember it disappointed My Son more than anything else when people would not take all He had to give. That was why He became angry at the Pharisees, they would not take what He was trying to give them. They were too busy earning their own righteousness to come and receive at the feast to which he invited them. Like the elder son in the parable of the prodigal son. Everything the father had was his but he never took it. He refused to come to the feast but stayed toiling in the field. If I am giving to you but you are busy trying to give to Me, who receives anything? Who is taking? The supply is just sitting there with no one coming to take it. What a waste of grace. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, do not receive My grace in vain.
And that was what irritated Jesus in His disciples and the people who came to Him—when they would not take what I had to give them. When they would not receive that abundant life He came to give them. He came to give you life but many of you refused to take it. And many people still refuse to partake of what He has won for you, even believers.
Oh, you of little faith! Enlarge your tents, enlarge your hearts! Your lack is not from Me. Do not let the devil blind your eyes to the simplicity and glory of the Gospel, the good news, that is in Jesus Christ your Lord.
When you pray, My Son tells you, believe that you receive (lambano in Greek which means to actively take) what you are asking for and it shall be yours. Mark 11:24. When you pray take what you pray for. The prayer of a righteous man is effective indeed. And you are righteous in Christ. When you pray, take it by thanking Me before you see it and it will come to you. The supply always exceeds your demand in grace.
I love you. And do you know how you spell the verb “to love” in Hebrew letters? It is the Hebrew word “ahav,” it has an aleph, a hei, and a beth (אהב). Now, the letter “aleph (א)” is the number one in Hebrew and it symbolizes the leader, the strong one, and it represents Me the one God. The hei (ה) is the number five and it represents grace. The beth (ב) is the number two and it is represented by a house (a home). But if you put the aleph and the beth together it spells “Ab” אב or Father (the strong one, the leader, of the home). Do you see? I am your Abba, Father, and in My heart there is grace, the hei is in the middle of the aleph and the beth in the word “to love” in Hebrew. And I tell you that Jesus is in the Bosom of the Father, in My Bosom. And He is grace. In My heart there is grace for you. That is My heart for you– to supply all your needs according to My riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19.
Abundance of grace is filling this place, working in love from Heaven above, opening doors of new life to me, breaking the chains and setting me free.