Experience the Grace of God in the Economy of God: Speak Words of Grace for Building

As believers in Christ, we need to experience the grace of God in the economy of God in our daily Christian life and church life so that our living may be full of grace, our speaking be with grace, and we would have grace in the church life for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

Hallelujah, today we are in the age of grace, and we no longer live under the law but under grace, enjoying the grace of God in the economy of God!

The New Testament reveals the grace of God not only as a concept or as a gift but as a person, the wonderful person of Christ as the embodiment of God coming to us for our experience and enjoyment in all things.

There are many aspects of grace, and everything related to grace is for our experience today so that we may enjoy the Triune God in Christ for our Christian living of grace for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

First of all, we are saved through grace. We have faith and love through the Lord’s superabounding grace. We have obtained access into grace and we stand in God’s abounding grace. Hallelujah!

Our Christian living is a living of grace, our Christian work is the grace of God in us abounding in us and doing the work in us, and our speaking is simply the grace of God flowing in our words.

Our whole Christian living is a living of grace and an experience of grace. Day by day we are learning to come forward to the throne of grace to receive the Lord’s mercy and find His grace for timely help.

Hallelujah, the grace of the Lord Jesus is with our spirit, and we can come to Him in spirit to partake of His grace, which is for our timely need! We don’t know what our need is, we don’t realise what’s going on with us and around us, but we know that we need grace!

As we enjoy the Lord as grace, we enjoy eternal comfort and good hope. The Lord’s grace is all grace, and as we enjoy the Lord as grace, we receive God’s abounding supply of all grace.

Oh, grace is able to supply us with whatever we need all the time, in every situation, and concerning any problem or need!

May we constantly enjoy the Lord as grace, even enjoy God’s multiplying grace. Especially as we go through difficult situations, the Lord’s grace is multiplying.

He has a way to come in and make us humble, and when we’re humbled under the mighty hand of God, we enjoy God’s greater grace. Amen for the grace of God in the economy of God for our enjoyment and experience today!

Experience the Grace of God in the Economy of God – Experience the Perfecting of the Lord’s Sufficient Grace

2 Corinthians 12:9 speaks of the Lord’s sufficient grace, which is perfected in our weaknesses.

We, as believers in Christ can and should experience the grace of God in the economy of God. The experience of the grace of God is the experience of the perfecting of the Lord’s sufficient grace, Christ’s overshadowing power, in our weakness.

Paul was weak, for he had a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan in his flesh, bothering him; therefore, he prayed three times to the Lord to remove this weakness, but the Lord did not.

His answer was, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.

Grace is there for us, and His grace is sufficient; however, our sufferings are required in order for the sufficiency of the Lord’s grace to be magnified.

In order for the perfectness of the Lord’s power to be shown forth, our weakness is needed. If we realise this, we will rather boast in our weakness instead of trying to be stronger, for we know that the power of Christ will tabernacle over us in our weakness.

The supply is grace. The resurrected Christ, who is now the life-giving Spirit dwelling in us, is our enjoyment as grace today.

May we not be discouraged or disappointed when we realise how weak we are.

The Lord is faithful to give us the experiences we need to expose our weaknesses and cause us to enjoy and experience the grace of God in the economy of God.

When we’re strong, the Lord has no ground in us; He can’t do anything for us, and we enjoy no rest. But when we’re weak, the Lord has the ground and can do things for us right away.

As He does things for us and becomes our enjoyment, we enjoy Him as our rest. Thank the Lord that we can come to Him again and again to enjoy Him as the all-sufficient grace!

Lord Jesus, we want to experience the grace of God in the economy of God in our daily living today. Oh Lord, may we experience the perfecting of the Lord’s sufficient grace in our weakness. How much we need Christ’s overshadowing power in our weakness! We open to You, Lord, and we come to You! We come to You in our weakness. May we realise that it is in weakness that You can become the all-sufficient grace to us. Save us from trying to be strong and from despising our weaknesses. May we realise that, in our weakness, You have the ground to do everything for us. Oh Lord Jesus, we want to experience the perfecting of the Lord’s sufficient grace today!

We’re being Perfected, Established, Strengthened, and Grounded by God’s All Grace after having Suffered

1 Peter 5:10 says that the God of all grace, who has called us into His glory in Christ Jesus, after we have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground us. In our weaknesses, we enjoy the Lord’s sufficient grace.

In our sufferings, we enjoy God’s all grace. This really shows us that tribulation is the incarnation of grace, even the sweet visitation of grace.

Many times we have this experience. We may not like tribulation and suffering, but we experience grace; grace visits us in the form of tribulation.

By means of tribulation, God causes all things, all persons, all matters, all situations, all circumstances, and all environments to work together for good.

This means that, as we go through suffering and open to the Lord to enjoy His grace, God causes all things to work together for good, that is, for us to gain more of God and have Him wrought into our being.

The good that God wants to work out is that we may be transformed metabolically and conformed to Christ’s image so that we may be brought into the full sonship.

Especially these days, as we draw closer to the Lord’s return, difficult days are coming. Things get more difficult.

But we need to see that tribulation is the visitation of grace, and through our sufferings the Lord perfects us, establishes us, strengthens us, and grounds us as the God of all grace.

As we are being attacked from without and from within, as the world situation gets worse and persecution will become more and more intense, we need to enjoy the grace of God in the economy of God.

Persecution and evil speaking come, some believers may be put into jail, things are being said about us on the internet and via social media, for persecution increases; we are in the end days, and Satan knows his time is short.

If we are frustrated, upset, troubled, and unsettled by these things, the Lord will be prevented from having His way.

But if we realise that our tribulation, persecution, trials, and sufferings are opportunities for us to enjoy the sweet visitation of grace, we will open to the Lord and enjoy Him as the God of all grace.

May we learn to open to the Lord in all our sufferings and allow Him as grace to fill us and saturate us so that our living may be full of grace and even our speaking will give grace to others.

Lord Jesus, we open to You today to enjoy and experience You as the God of all grace. Hallelujah, the God of all grace will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground us, after we have suffered a little while! Amen, Lord, we want to enjoy the grace of God in the economy of God. May we realise that grace visits us mainly in the form of tribulation. Oh Lord, may we not despise or refuse the tribulation, suffering, and persecution, but we may learn to turn to our spirit to enjoy You as grace! Amen, Lord Jesus, keep us turning to You in all things. Even as we are being persecuted, reviled, and in much suffering and pain, may we turn to our spirit to enjoy the God of all grace! Oh, Lord, visit us as grace again and again. May we enjoy the sweet visitation of grace in the midst of our sufferings today.

We Carry out the Stewardship of the Grace of God Entrusted by Him

Another aspect of our experience of the grace of God in the economy of God is carrying out the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted by Him – dispensing to people the riches of Christ as the grace of God (Eph. 3:2, 8).

In Ephesians 3:2, Paul said, If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you. Wow, we were given a stewardship – the stewardship of the grace of God, which is to us for others!

The Greek word for stewardship is the same as for economy in v. 9 and Eph. 1:10.

On God’s side, He has an economy, an administration, according to which He wants to dispense all His riches into His people so that He may obtain the church as the Body of Christ, the corporate expression of Himself, consummating in the New Jerusalem.

On our side, when we see God’s economy, we are entrusted with a stewardship, which is the stewardship of the grace of God.

The stewardship of the grace is for the dispensing of the grace of God into His chosen people for the producing and building up of the church. Such a stewardship was entrusted not only to the apostle Paul but to all of us; we all who have seen something of God’s economy are now entrusted with the stewardship of grace!

First, we need to enjoy and experience the grace of God in the economy of God; then, we dispense this grace to others as our stewardship of the grace of God.

We enjoy the riches of Christ, for God has given us the all-inclusive Christ for us to gain and enjoy.

As we enjoy the riches of Christ as grace day by day, we are filled with His riches and we dispense these riches to others as grace for their enjoyment.

This is our stewardship today. We minister the riches of Christ as the gospel to others for their enjoyment.

We may think we are a small brother or sister, for we don’t have a large portion, and we may not have that big a capacity to remember things or be eloquent in speaking.

However, even as to Paul as less than the least of all saints, the grace was given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel, so also to us was this grace given today!

All the saints can receive the same grace that Paul received; we may not receive the same measure of grace, but according to our capacity and opening, each member of the Body can function to minister the grace of God to others.

All the members of the Body of Christ can have the same grace of life that Paul had, but on a smaller scale. May we open to the Lord about this and tell Him,

Lord Jesus, thank You for entrusting us with the stewardship of the grace of God to dispense to people the riches of Christ as the grace of God! Hallelujah, we all have seen something of God’s economy, His dispensing, and we are now entrusted with dispensing the riches of Christ into others. Amen, Lord, may we not despise our portion; may we realise that we have been given this grace to minister Christ as grace to others. We give ourselves to You, dear Lord, to experience the grace of God in the economy of God. May we receive grace, enjoy grace, and dispense the grace of God to those around us for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ! Hallelujah, all the members of the Body of Christ can have the same grace of life as Paul had, on a smaller scale, to minister the riches of Christ to others!

In our Living, We Speak Words for Building up to Give Grace to Others

Ephesians 4:28-29 gives us both practical advice on not stealing but rather labouring with our own hands so that we may share with others also, and a spiritual encouragement to speak that which is good for building up to give grace to those who hear.

As those who enjoy and experience the grace of God in the economy of God, we need to speak words for building up and thus give grace to people.

How do we carry out our stewardship of grace? It is by our speaking.

May we enjoy Christ as grace and let no corrupt word proceed out of our mouth, but only that which is good for building up, according to the need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

It is easy to gossip and just pass on information, and it is natural for us to just catch up with others and see how they are doing and what their situation is. However, we need to realise that gossip spreads death and merely catching up with others without the dispensing of grace through our words does not amount to much.

Our conversation with others should not corrupt them but should build them up. May no rotten or noxious words come out of our mouth.

May we speak words that are full of grace for building up, and may no offensive or worthless words proceed from our mouth. Oh Lord!

As we enjoy the grace of God in the economy of God, Christ is our enjoyment and supply, and our word will convey such grace to others.

The word that builds up others always ministers Christ as grace to the hearer.

In Luke 4, the Lord Jesus went into a synagogue, read a portion from Isaiah concerning the jubilee, and sat down. Everyone was watching Him, and He said, Today this word is fulfilled in your ears.

They marvelled at the words of grace that came out of His mouth (Luke 4:21-22). When we daily turn to our spirit to enjoy the Lord as grace with our spirit, we will be filled with words of grace to speak to others.

On the practical side, we will work with our own hands in that which is respectable so that we may have something to share with him who has need.

On the spiritual side, we partake of the Lord’s rich grace and speak words of grace to others to build them up.

As Christians, we need to have something in our living, both materially and spiritually, to minister to others. Oh, how much we need to return to our spirit, where grace is, and be filled with grace!

How much we need to not argue or murmur but rather, return to our spirit!

Regardless of how much others may judge us, criticise us, or try to dispute with us, may we never open our mouth to reason, but may we turn to our spirit to enjoy the Lord’s grace with our spirit.

When we’re filled with grace, when the enjoyment of God fills us, we will have words of grace to speak to others.

Lord Jesus, we return to our spirit. We turn to our spirit again and again. Fill us with the enjoyment of Christ as grace. Oh Lord, may we speak words for building up and thus give grace to others. Save us from speaking noxious or corrupt words. Save us from gossip. May we learn to exercise our spirit to speak and minister grace to others through our words. May we speak that which is good for building up, not speaking things that damage or corrupt others. May words of grace come out of our mouth. Oh Lord Jesus, we come to You in our spirit to enjoy You as grace with our spirit. May we experience the grace of God in the economy of God today so that we may have some words of grace to minister to others also. Hallelujah, we can stand in grace today, we can be filled with the enjoyment of Christ as grace, and we can minister words of grace to others for their building up!

Reign in Life by Receiving the Abundance of Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness

Romans 5:17 and 21 are two wonderful verses showing us that we can reign in life through Christ as grace reigning in us. Hallelujah, grace is not only for our enjoyment and experience but also for our reigning!

There are so many things around us that overpower us, overcome us, and put us down.

Many times we are under pressure from things, situations, and persons, and we feel we are overcome by what’s going on.

But praise the Lord, we can enjoy and experience the grace of God in the economy of God today, and grace can reign in us! As grace reigns in us, as the enjoyment of Christ reigns in us, we can reign in life!

We reign in life by the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness; this is grace reigning in life unto eternal life.

We have received the divine life, which saves us not only from a few things but rather, it enthrones us as kings to reign over all things!

And the way we do this is not by trying to reign over our temper or the circumstantial problems but by receiving and enjoying grace! We need to receive and enjoy the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness!

We have received righteousness objectively, but we still need to receive the abundance of grace so that we can reign in life subjectively!

The Lord wants us to reign with Him as kings, and for this, grace needs to reign in us by our receiving the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness.

Grace reigning in us will enable us to reign over all sorts of negative things, and it will eventually usher us into the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah!

May we be those who receive the abundant grace so that we may reign in life, for life issues out of the abundance of grace! Amen!

On the one hand, we need to be saved in life; on the other hand, as we receive the abundance of grace, we can reign in life subjectively. This is not a result of our endeavouring and trying to overcome, but of our receiving the abundance of grace.

Lord Jesus, we open to enjoy and receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness so that we may reign in life! Amen, Lord, may we reign in life today by allowing grace to reign in us! Make us those who receive the abundant grace today. Hallelujah, we have received the abundance of righteousness objectively, and we can receive the abundance of grace to reign in life subjectively! Oh Lord, make us those who reign in life today! We want to not only be saved in Your life from a few things but even more, be enthroned as kings to reign over all things! Hallelujah, the reigning grace in us can enable us to reign over all sorts of negative things and it will eventually usher us into the New Jerusalem!

All Believers have Grace upon them and the Church is Built Up – Grace becomes Visible!

One aspect of our experience of the grace of God in the economy of God is that we as believers in Christ have grace upon us and the church is built up (Acts 4:33).

Furthermore, as we enjoy the grace of God and experience Christ as grace, the grace received by us will become visible (11:23).

As we enjoy the Lord’s grace with our spirit by returning to our spirit to partake of what the Lord is to us as grace, we have great grace upon us, and others will see the grace of God visible among us. Grace is the Triune God becoming everything to us.

By grace we are saved, by grace and in grace we stand, and we enjoy the abundance of grace day by day. As we do this, we have grace upon us, and the church is built up.

When others come among us, they see not only Christians who get together to sing and praise the Lord, and also how much we love the Lord and the Word.

Rather, they see the grace of God among us.

They see the Triune God received and enjoyed by us, being expressed in our salvation, our change in life, our holy living, and the gifts we exercise in our meetings. May this be our reality today in the church life!

Lord Jesus, we give ourselves to You to enjoy the grace of God in the economy of God! May we all enjoy grace in our daily life so that together we may have grace upon us as we are built up as the church. Amen, Lord, keep us in the enjoyment of Christ as grace. Fill us with Your grace! May grace be visible in us and among us! May the Triune God received and enjoyed by us be expressed in our salvation, change in life, holy living, and the gifts we exercise in our meetings! Amen, Lord, keep us in the enjoyment and experience of Christ as grace!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Law and Grace of God in His Economy,” pp. 313-316, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, One Accord and Crucial Aspects of the Book of Acts (2025 April ITERO), week 6, Grace in Acts – day 2.
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