Living Grace

Grace is the fragrance of love. It is the aroma of all the Christ is. The sweet sacrifice that is pleasing to God. In all Christ did it was the delightful aroma that filled the magnificence of heaven.

Grace given to you is the ability and power of love. Grace, being love, means you will be rooted and grounded in Him when you are rooted and grounded in love. Grace out of God’s very heart comes pouring into you and through you the very graciousness, beauty, and riches of the Father’s heart.

Grace reaches down and takes us by the hand and lifts us up into the Spirit realm of His fullness. We are unconscious of ourselves, filled unto all the fullness of God. His very nature is love. We have partaken of that nature.

God is our storehouse of grace. He is the provider all we need.

He demonstrated this in Creation, in every detail He provided for mankind. God stored creation with minerals, metals, gasses, and oil for His man to enjoy. He didn’t create it void, He created it full. In Creation, God filled the world with His fullness. Creation was a storehouse of climatic fullness.

In Creation God declared what a Father hearted God He is. Earth was his lover’s Palace for His family.

In Christ we have entered into the Storehouse of God, for In Christ every spiritual blessing has been given to us, we now have the fullness of Christ living in us. God alive in us, by the Holy Spirit has made us his Storehouse. We are the answer to the world’s famine, we are the residence of all God’s goodness.

Righteousness – By receiving grace we have become the Righteousness of God in Christ. This Righteousness is not an experience, although it gives birth to many marvelous experiences. It is the nature of the Father imparted to us. It is that nature gaining the ascendency in us until we know that we are what God says we are masters, conquerors!

Righteousness means the ability to be in the presence of the Father God without the sense of guilt or inferiority. God has dealt with the sin in His Son. He has put sin away by the sacrifice of that Son. He has made it possible for man who is spiritually dead, in union with Adam, to become a New Creation by receiving the very nature and life of God. This life and nature of God is Righteousness. Consequently, the man who has received the nature of God has automatically become the Righteousness of God in Christ.

He may not know it, he may not take advantage of it, but it is true.

Presence – By receiving grace we enter permanently into the presence of God. The presence of God lives within every believer, and we are never separated from God’s presence. This means we are now the permanent home or temple of the Almighty, living God. God’s presence is our constant companion.

In the Old Covenant it was all about ascending and descending of the mountain or going into the temple to experience the divine presence, but now in the New Covenant God has taken up residence with his people permanently. The means by which this will take place is a building of a living, breathing, walking temple. The purpose of this new structure is impossible to miss, because it is not built and constructed in stone, but in living human flesh.

This is an astonishing statement. It means that “God with Us” is now a reality, the full presence of God lives in us. By grace we now live in the presence of God.

A New Spirit – Your new creation spirit has been made perfect in Christ. You have the fullness of Christ living inside of you. You’ve been made perfect and complete in Christ (Colossians 2:9,10). Inside of your spirit, you have the love of God. Inside of your new creation spirit, that is seated in heavenly places in Christ, you have the very joy of God, the peace of God, his patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control

Grace awakens your spirit to all the goodness that God put in there at the point of salvation and draws those things out!

“Because my spirit is being made perfect in Christ”- Ephesians 4:23 – says we have been created after the very nature of God. My spirit has got the nature of God in it! So many people preach that we still have got a sinful nature and that is a load of rubbish! My spirit is part of the new creation order and that means nothing from the old man got put back into my spirit.

Love – By receiving grace the unconditional, limitless love of God has been birthed into your heart. For this love that has been planted in your heart is an intimacy beyond your wildest imagination. It is a reflection of the love that upholds the universe, it is a love birthed in infinite desire and consumed in intimate delight. It is the perfect love in the perfect relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

It is a love that longs to be shared and enjoyed. Boundless in its nature, relentless in its giving, fathomless in its appreciation, and bottomless in its dedication.

It is a love that bears all things, believes all things, endures all thing,s and is totally and utterly faithful.

It is a love that goes beyond doubt and failure and is captured in tiny glimpses in times of uttermost despair and disappointment.

It is God’s overwhelming love, his overflowing compassion that works through his grace.

And this love unites us into a romance of discovery, a love so immense, so intense, so fierce that it refuses to let failure, doubt, and fear stand in its way.

A New Heart – By receiving grace God has totally re-created your heart in Christ. You are a New Creation in Christ and you have been given a new heart with new creation soil and new creation God birthed faith and beliefs. The tree of righteousness and the fruit of the Spirit have been planted and grow inside you.

As Max Lucado writes in his book “Grace” –“Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change.”

Your relationship with God is birthed in your spirit and He has already transformed your heart. God now speaks directly into your heart which is your “core belief system” and how you look after your heart is now up to you. Nourish, nurture, and protect your heart and you will experience and enjoy greater depths of God’s love and his voice in your life.

In order to let the Holy Spirit work in us it is important that we tend our hearts as a gardener would tend a garden. It is a work of effortless grace, a work of rest, a work that flows from the Holy Spirit. It is a work that encourages us to be led by the Spirit He exchanged the old heart for a new heart and Christ dwells in our hearts by faith A new heart, a new spirit, and God’s Spirit – that’s what we get in the new covenant.

Adoption – by receiving grace God has adopted me into His family. Adoption is an amazing thing. It is even amazing in human terms. When a couple chooses to adopt a child, that child becomes theirs and they become the parents in every sense of the word. Birth certificates can be changed so that the birth parents are replaced by the adoptive parents. Names are changed to reflect the new parentage.

Our adoption in Christ means that we have been accepted into the family of Jesus, the Beloved, and that His family lasts forever. A miracle takes place and our very nature is changed, our DNA is recreated in our spirit so we now have the life of our adopted family living inside of us.

The Creator God of the universe is my Daddy. The Holy One is my Father. The eternal majestic, magnificent King is my Dad. Through adoption I now have had all ties severed from my old father I inherited in Adam and have now become the property of my heavenly Father as an heir and joint heir with Jesus. I have His authority; I have his Royal blood in me. All His riches are mine, all his inheritance I now share, I wear the Gold Royal ring on my finger, and I am clothed in the Royal robes of righteousness.

My Father is always there for me. When I am afraid He will hold me close and walk through the darkness he is there with me. When I hurt I can sit up onto His lap for comfort and protection. I do have a Dad who can sort it all out. What a joy to be able to call on Him and know His loving embrace inside me.

Union – By receiving grace our New Creation spirit has been fully united with Christ so that means that you are united with Christ in His death, in His burial, in His resurrection, His ascension, and in His seating on the throne.

Everything that happened to Jesus also happened to you! The good thing about it is that when He hung on the Cross, you were united with Him in that – but you didn’t have to go through it! He hung there for us – He took all our sins and sickness for us and the full weight of the wrath of God, the full fire of the judgment and punishment and wrath of God was poured out fully upon Jesus and He died for your sins! Thank God we didn’t have to face that judgment! Jesus faced that for us so we will never have to face that.

True Christianity is a union of Christ with the life of a believer, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn and planted in us, it is Christ formed in us. Christ has become our life, our very existence, the presence of the life-giving Son of God in union with us. This union is genuine and living.