Our God is the God of all grace, Christ came in the flesh full of grace and reality, and the Spirit is the Spirit of grace; the entire Triune God is of grace, and today this grace is with our spirit (Gal. 6:18).
What is grace? Grace is not merely unmerited favor that God gives us to us when we repent and believe into Him; grace is the bountiful supply of the Triune God who is embodied in the Son and realized as the life-giving Spirit to be enjoyed by us through the exercise of our spirit.
First, Christ came as God incarnated to be a man full of grace, and when He came, grace came; now from His fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace (see John 1:1, 14, 16-17).
Christ brought the untouchable, glorious, holy, and righteous God into man so that man would receive God, possess God, and enjoy God; now in Christ God is contactable, receivable, touchable, enterable, and enjoyable. Christ’s human living was full of grace, and everything that He did was with grace to dispense God into others for their enjoyment.
Through death and resurrection, Christ became a life-giving Spirit, and now He as the Spirit of grace is with our spirit for us to enjoy all the time.
How can we enjoy grace? Simply by turning to our spirit, exercising our spirit, and giving the Lord the preeminence in our being. Today we want to see a very practical way for us as believers in Christ to enjoy God as grace and also flow out God as grace.
Just like the Apostle Paul, when we believed into the Lord and started to enjoy Him, we were given a stewardship of the grace of God: we are not only to enjoy the flow of grace but also flow out this grace to others so that God would become their enjoyment also! So we need to learn and practice being stewards of the grace of God, which was given to us for others.
God is Supplying the Spirit of Grace and we should be Receiving and Dispensing Grace
When we received the Lord as a result of the hearing of the word of the gospel, we received the Spirit out of the hearing of faith, and we were regenerated with God’s life to become children of God, members of the Body of Christ, and disciples of Christ (Gal. 3:2).
However, the receiving of the Spirit is not only initially but continually throughout our daily life, since day by day God is supplying the Spirit of grace bountifully and therefore we should be receiving and dispensing the Spirit of grace continually (John 1:16; Heb. 10:29; Gal. 3:2-5; Eph. 3:2; 4:29).
First grace was in God Himself, then God became a man to be full of grace and reality, and now the Father is embodied in the Son and realized as the Spirit to be the Spirit of grace who is with our spirit to be our enjoyment.
We shouldn’t do “works of the law”, that is, try to please God and fulfill God’s law apart from enjoying Christ, but we should simply be under the divine transmission of grace day by day!
We started by the Spirit, and now our daily life should be under the marvelous divine transmission of grace: God supplies the Spirit of grace, and we should be receiving and dispensing the Spirit of grace continually! Amen!
Lord, keep us under this marvelous divine transmission of grace in our spirit today! We want to receive the bountiful supply of the Spirit of grace and dispense the Spirit of grace to others also. Lord, keep us enjoying You through the exercise of our spirit day by day. We want to receive the divine transmission of grace today so that we may accomplish our stewardship of grace! Hallelujah, grace is with our spirit for us to enjoy God, receive His supply, and dispense grace to others!
We can Receive and Flow out Grace by Turning to the Spirit and Enthroning the Lord
How can we enjoy the marvelous divine transmission of grace taking place daily? The way for us to daily receive grace so that we may flow out grace is to turn to our spirit, exercise the spirit, and enthrone the Lord in our being. God’s grace is with our spirit, not with our mind, emotion, and will, so we need to be in spirit to receive grace.
In our daily life, however, the enemy is everywhere using every means to draw us out of our spirit; when we are out of our spirit, we are out of grace. When we leave our spirit, we fall into our fallen mind, emotion, and will, whether in our family life, at work, or at school – whenever we’re not in our spirit, we don’t enjoy grace.
When we don’t live in our spirit it is very easy to argue with others; when we argue, we fall into our emotion – we feel as if we’re wronged or blamed by someone, so our emotion is stirred up and we want to express ourselves, then we exercise our mind to think of many reasons to vindicate ourselves, and we exercise our will to insist to the end.
The more we argue, the less grace we have and the more we fall in death and darkness. At the moment we’re about to argue with someone, there’s a voice from the deepest part of our being telling us, Stop it: don’t speak anymore, there’s no need to argue! This is grace.
If we listen to the Lord within and turn to our spirit, we enjoy patience, forbearance, forgiveness, and a deep joy. Originally we wanted to insist to the end and argue, but the Lord within us asks, What’s the point? Didn’t I go through the same thing: I was led as a lamb to the cross, I didn’t reply or argue back, but died on the cross, and now I’m in you as grace! Amen!
Every day we need to receive grace and flow out grace in this way by turning to our spirit, exercising our spirit, and enthroning the Lord.
Whenever we approach the throne of grace [Heb. 4:16] by turning to our spirit and calling on the name of the Lord, we should enthrone the Lord. We must give Him the headship, kingship, and lordship in us. What a tremendous difference this makes! Sometimes as we are praying we sense that the Lord is within us, but we are not willing to give Him the throne. Instead of recognizing His kingship, we exalt ourselves above Him and put ourselves on the throne. In a very practical way, we dethrone the Lord. Whenever we fail to enthrone the Lord, the flow of grace stops. At the very time we are praying, we need to allow the Lord to be on the throne within us, honoring Him as the Head, the Lord, and the King. Then grace will flow within us as a river. (Witness Lee, Life-study of Galatians)
The throne of grace is in our spirit; we need to come forward to the throne of grace daily to receive the abundance of grace into our inward parts so that grace may reign within us for us to reign in life over Satan, sin, and death (see Heb. 4:16; Rom. 5:17, 21; Rev. 4:2).
Whenever we turn to the Lord by calling on His name and exercising our spirit, we should also enthrone the Lord by giving Him the Headship, the kingship, and the lordship within us (see Col. 1:18; Rev. 2:4-5; Eph. 6:24). Just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness whenever we enthrone the Lord in our being.
When the Lord is on the throne in our being, there’s a river of grace flowing out to supply us and to flow through us into others. We cannot reign over ourselves: we are terrible kings, not able to control our life, our time, our thoughts, what we see, and what we say. But the Lord lives in us as grace to reign in us: He’s the best to rule over Himself, over us, over meeting people, shepherding others, bearing the cross, and living a proper human life.
When we enthrone the Lord in our being by calling on His name and giving Him the lordship within us, we enjoy a river of grace flowing from the throne. God’s throne is the source of the flowing grace; whenever we fail to enthrone the Lord, the flow of grace stops.
When we are still on the throne and decide things, give solutions, and do things in ourselves, we have no flow of grace; but when we exalt the Lord, enthrone Him, and honor Him as our Head, our Lord, and our King, grace flows in us as a river!
We need to turn to the spirit, stay in the spirit, and enthrone the Lord by respecting His position, honoring His authority,a nd confessing that we have no right to say or do anything on our own; then, there will be a river of water of life flowing as grace into our being to supply us, water us, and flow out of us to others also.
If we want to experience more grace we simply need to call more on the name of the Lord, exercise our spirit more, turn back to our spirit more, come to the throne of grace more, and let the Lord flow as grace into us and out of us into others.
Lord Jesus, we want to turn to the spirit, exercise the spirit, and enthrone You in our being so that we may receive grace and flow out grace to others. Oh Lord, we just want to call on Your name, exercise our spirit, and give You the lordship and the kingship in us so that we may receive, enjoy, and flow out grace! May grace reign in us so that we may reign in life over Satan, sin and death. Lord, we take You as our Lord, we enthrone You, and we want to receive grace, enjoy grace, and flow out grace to others!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the sharing in the message for this week, and Life-study of Galatians, msgs. 11, 37 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Gospel (2016 International Chinese-speaking Conference), week 2 / msg. 2, The Gospel of Grace.
- All Bible verses are taken from, Holy Bible Recovery Version.
- Hymns on this topic:
# God’s Spirit His transmission is, / In Him God enters into us; / It is in Him that God in Christ / May be experienced by us. / May God the Father’s love to us / In God the Son as grace be known, / Thru God the Spirit’s fellowship, / That God our portion we may own. (Hymns #610)
# Pray to touch the throne of God, / Touch the throne of grace divine, / Grace to find and mercy too / Which will meet the need of thine. (Hymns #783)
# In the holiest place, touch the throne of grace, / Grace as a river shall flow; / In the holiest place, touch the throne of grace, / Grace as a river shall flow. (Hymns #770)
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When we turn to the spirit and stay there, we need to recognize the Lord as the Head and the King and enthrone Him. We need to respect His position, honor His authority, and confess that we have no right to say or do anything on our own. All the ground within us must be given over to the King. If we enthrone the Lord within us, the river of water of life will flow out from the throne to supply us. In this way we shall receive grace and enjoy grace.
Grace is nothing less than the Triune God becoming our enjoyment. The Father is embodied in the Son, and the Son is realized as the Spirit. This Spirit, the ultimate consummation of the Triune God, now dwells in our spirit. Our need today is to turn to this spirit and remain there, enthroning the Lord. Then in a very practical way our spirit will be joined to the third heaven. (Witness Lee, Life-study of Galatians, pp. 327-330)