The Stewardship of Grace is the Dispensing of God into People to be their Enjoyment

The stewardship of grace has been entrusted to us for God’s dispensation into man as grace for their enjoyment to produce and build up the church as the Body of Christ.

Hallelujah, each one of us has been entrusted with the stewardship of grace, for grace was given “to me for you” so that God may dispense Himself into us and then through us into others!

On one hand, we personally come forward to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace; we enjoy the Lord as grace with our spirit, and in our personal experience we receive and enjoy sufficient grace.

On the other hand, as we enjoy God in Christ as the Spirit to be grace to us for our enjoyment, we have a stewardship; on His side, it is His economy, and on our side, when we enjoy His dispensing we’re entrusted with the stewardship of grace.

However, we may look at ourselves and we may think that we’re not that qualified or prepared to dispense God into others; we may think that someone like the apostle Paul, is qualified and skilled to minister Christ to others, but we’re not.

In his testimony concerning this matter, Paul testifies that he was shown mercy to be less than the least among all saints, and to such a one grace was given to minister Christ to others.

If Paul, less than the least among all saints, is qualified to dispense the riches of Christ into others, how much more we today, who are believers in Christ inheriting the all-inclusive and completing vision of God’s economy!

When we see a vision of God’s economy and realize that God’s eternal economy is accomplished by His divine dispensing, we will personally open to the Lord to receive and enjoy His divine dispensing, and we will cooperate with the Lord to dispense the riches of Christ into others! Amen!

The stewardship of the grace of God was given to us for others; we enjoy the dispensing of the grace of God, and we cooperate with the Lord by opening our mouths to minister the riches of Christ into others also.

Hallelujah, God has a household administration, a household law, according to which He wants to dispense all His riches, all the riches of His being, into His chosen people!

And praise the Lord that we, the many members of the Body of Christ, can enjoy the riches of Christ and can exercise to cooperate with God’s dispensation of His riches into others!

May we be like Paul, good stewards of the grace of God ministering the riches of Christ to those in the household of God and to all who are open to hear and receive!

The Stewardship of Grace is the Dispensing of God into People to be their Enjoyment

Grace is a tremendous matter in the New Testament economy of God, for grace is what God uses to accomplish His eternal economy.

And He doesn’t do it by Himself: He dispenses Himself as grace into us and gains us, the many members of the Body of Christ who are under the constant dispensing of grace to be the stewards of God’s grace.

The stewardship of the grace is for God’s dispensation. God desires to dispense His riches – which are actually Himself with all He is and has – into us, His chosen people; when we receive the dispensing of the riches of God’s being into us, there’s something rising up in us to go and minister these riches into others also.

With God, the riches of His being are His economy; with us, they are our stewardship; when we dispense these riches into others, they are God’s dispensation.

The stewardship of the grace of God has been given to us so that we may live and serve for the building up of the organic Body of Christ.

The stewardship of grace is for the dispensing of the grace of God into His chosen people for the producing and building up of the church as the Body of Christ. Amen!

The stewardship of grace is something spontaneous, for when we partake of God as our enjoyment, we can dispense Him as grace into others; this is the dispensation of grace.

There is one ministry in the New Testament, which is the stewardship, the dispensing of God into people.

There is one ministry, but there are many stewards, many ministers; we all have a portion in the ministry, for we all participate in the stewardship of the grace of God by dispensing God into people for their enjoyment and experience.

A steward is one who serves by dispensing food and the necessities of life to others. It is not only the elders or the brothers who minister with the Word of God that is qualified to and should minister Christ to others; we all have a portion in the stewardship of grace.

We shouldn’t be cheated by the traditional concept and think that we are not a minister, for we all are qualified and, through our enjoyment of God as grace, we all are equipped and “loaded” with grace to dispense God as grace into others.

We are ministers, those who serve others with God as grace; we serve people with the gospel and we minister Christ to others, for Christ has been our enjoyment and experience in His riches throughout the week.

Even the young people are ministers of Christ, for each one has a part in the stewardship of grace.

We all can enjoy the Lord in His word in the morning and, when we go to school or we’re at the office, even when we are waiting for the bus or waiting at the crossroad to cross the street, we can speak something of the Christ we have enjoyed to the others.

The young people can share with their parents about the Christ they enjoyed, and they can speak to their friends about the sweet and wonderful Christ they heard about.

There are many saints and many ministers, but there is one ministry, the dispensing of the riches of Christ into others!

We need to have a radical change in our concept.

God created the heavens and the earth for His economy, and His economy is His dispensing; therefore, God’s dispensing is the most crucial matter in the universe as it is the center of God’s economy.

Without dispensing, God cannot accomplish His economy; the ultimate purpose of God is to dispense Christ into men to make them His church, which is His Body consummating in the New Jerusalem as the ultimate expression of the union, mingling, and incorporation of God and man.

This is all based upon the dispensing of grace. We all need to pick up the burden of enjoying grace and dispensing grace; we need to daily enjoy God as grace and carry out our stewardship of grace to dispense God into others.

As stewards of grace, we are like waiters in a restaurant; we cook good food, and healthy spiritual food, and we serve this food to others.

If we do not prepare something by our enjoyment of Christ and study of the Word, it will be difficult for us to minister grace to others, but if enjoy some delicious and sweet Christ in our fellowship with Him, we will speak about HIm to others also.

We shouldn’t only receive grace, for this grace is both sufficient and abounding; we should receive grace, be filled with grace, enjoy grace upon grace, and minister this grace to others.

If we don’t know how to practically receive grace, we must enter into the Lord’s word; we must pray over the word of God and receive the Spirit and life.

We need to touch God as reality in the word of God, and we need to walk in spirit according to the Lord’s word.

If we daily enjoy God in His word pray-reading His word and walking in the spirit, we will be enlightened by grace, we will experience grace, and we will have grace to minister to others for the carrying out of the stewardship of grace.

Lord Jesus, we come to You in Your word to pray-read the Word of God and receive God as grace. Amen, Lord, dispense Yourself into us as grace for our enjoyment. We want to enjoy the riches of Christ as grace for our experience and supply, and we want to cooperate with You to dispense Christ into others as grace. Amen, Lord Jesus, we exercise our stewardship of grace to dispense God as grace into others for their enjoyment. Save us from not functioning by dispensing grace into others. Make us those who enter into the Lord’s word, pray with the Lord’s word, and walk in the spirit according to the Lord’s word so that we may be supplied by grace and have grace to minister to others also! Amen, Lord, we want to be good stewards carrying out our ministry of grace to dispense God into others for their enjoyment!

Carrying out our Ministry according to the Gift of the Grace of God for the Building up of the Church

Our ministry is according to the gift of the grace of God. God is in Christ to be enjoyed by us as grace; grace is God as our life and life supply (1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 12:9).

As we enjoy God as grace, the divine life supply operates within us, and by means of this operating life, we have a certain ability, which is the gift of the grace of God.

As we enjoy the grace of God, there is a certain ability, a skill, that develops within us; Eph. 3:7 says that we’re a minister according to the gift of the grace of God.

Before enjoying the grace of God, before experiencing Christ as grace, we may not have the ability to minister Christ to others, but by our enjoyment of the riches of Christ, we start to have the ability to minister Christ to others.

We all have a gift of the grace of God that makes us ministers to impart Christ to others. Our ministry is not merely to do outward things in a practical way in the church life; our ministry is to preach and impart the riches of Christ as the gospel.

To function as a steward of the grace of God is not to merely present doctrine or teach the word in letters; we impart a person with all His riches.

Paul labored more abundantly than all the others, but it was not him but the grace of God which was with him. We must enjoy the grace of God until it is not us but the grace of God with us (Gal. 2:20; 1 Cor. 15:10).

When we experience the grace of God in the economy of God, we will have a total living of experiencing the processed and consummated Triune God.

This experience will cause us to grow in life and have the manifestation of the gifts of the grace of God for our function.

Then, we can receive the stewardship of grace to overflow and dispense the unsearchable riches of Christ as grace to others.

This stewardship of grace, our ministry, is for producing and building up the church as the Body of Christ.

Paul functioned in his ministry to dispense the riches of Christ into the saints, and the result was the producing and building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

Our ministry today as stewards of God is to bring forth the church by dispensing the unsearchable riches of Christ as grace into the believers.

Our ministry, our stewardship, is not only to save sinners and bring them into the church life; we function as stewards of grace to dispense the riches of Christ into others to produce the church for the fulfilment of God’s eternal purpose.

Thank the Lord for revealing to us the mystery of God, which is Christ, and the mystery of Christ, which is the church.

When we see the mystery of God and the mystery of Christ, we have the revelation of the mystery in our spirit; in this way, we are enabled to minister Christ to others.

When every believer has such a total living of receiving grace and ministering grace, when we all exercise our stewardship of grace to enjoy and dispense the riches of Christ, we have a total living of grace, and God and us will have one corporate living.

In such a corporate living we take Him as our life and person and we move with Him as one.

We live in Him and He lives in us; we enjoy Him and He fills our being and flows through us, with the result that the church as the Body of Christ is being built up for the fulfillment of God’s eternal economy.

Hallelujah, each of the members of the Body of Christ has a part of the stewardship of grace to enjoy God as grace and minister the riches of Christ as grace into others! Amen, Lord, increase our enjoyment of Christ as grace so that we may have an increased gift of the grace of God to minister Christ to others. May we be good stewards of the grace of God to minister the unsearchable riches of Christ to others for their enjoyment! Amen, Lord, recover the function of all the members of the Body of Christ according to their measure. May all believers enjoy God as grace and minister God as grace to others for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers, and portions from, Life-study of Romans, msg. 28 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Grace of God in the Economy of God (2021 International Chinese-speaking Conference), week 3, entitled, The Believers’ Experience of the Grace of God in the Economy of God Consummating in the Church as the Organic Body of Christ.
• Further reading on this topic:
  – The stewardship of the grace of God (article by James Fite for, Affirmation and Critique).
  – The grace of God in the economy of God (article by Witness lee in, Affirmation and Critique).
  – What is the Grace of God and How Can You Enjoy It? (article at, Holding to Truth)
  – The apostles’ stewardship of God’s grace (portion from, Living in and with the Divine Trinity, book).
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Riches of Christ we should enjoy / And then His fulness we will be; / Partaking of His very self, / His testimony men will see. / Riches of Christ are what He is / To us who are His members true; / His fulness is what we become / As body doth to man accrue. (Hymns #820)
  – In the church I’m perfected by the saints with the life supply. / I am growing and building, as I learn to minister Christ! / “Till we all arrive,” yes, this is our goal! / Every member builds today! / Lord, I give myself, Your Body to build. / Lord, for this now I pray! / Lord, I’m ready and willing to be perfected by You, / Through the saints all around me, to build Your Body too! (Song on, Lord, I’m Ready and Willing to be Perfected)
  – Lord, Your Body, must become reality, / Through every member functioning to build up Your Body. / So defeat us, and subdue us, open vessels, Lord we pray, / As stewards of the grace of God, Lord build us up today. / Keep us living by the grace of God, / Make this a reality, Christ living in us. / Keep us living by the grace of God, / For the reality, of the Body of Christ. (Song on, Living by the Grace of God)