Abundant Grace, Intimate Connection

UV 3750/10000 Abundant Grace, Intimate Connection For out of His fullness ( the superabundance of His grace and truth) we have all received grace upon grace ( spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favour upon favour and gift heaped upon gift). Grace and truth came through Jesus to satisfy the requirements of the law in full. Jesus being full of grace and truth is able to make all spiritual and other blessings to abound in our lives. Jesus has revealed to mankind the wonderful truth regarding the Father in heaven and of the Holy Spirit, God now on earth. He has released His abundant grace and mercy on all of us though according to law we deserve punishment and not reward or blessings. Jesus being greater than all who preceded Him including His forerunner, John the Baptist laid that foundation of truth in our lives that no storm can shake, no earthquake can disrupt or disturb. He has given us grace to build on that rock-like foundation. Jesus gave us the right, the authority, the privilege to be called children of God. If we rely on His name, He will not belie us. We are born again in Him by the will of God, through His abundant mercy, grace and wonderful, amazing truth. As the prophet Isaiah wrote, “ We are a planting of the Lord to reveal His splendour.” He waters us so that we are well nourished and we grow to be strong and fruitful for His glory. When Jesus ascended to heaven to take His rightful place at the right hand of the Father, He distributed gifts to the children of mankind. He gave us the gift of eternal life when we deserved punishment of death, He gave us abundance of grace in place of scarcity or shortcoming or ‘hamartia’. He gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit to lead, guide and chide us. He gave us the gifts of the Spirit that includes word of knowledge, wisdom, prophetic utterance, discernment, healing, deliverance. The Father and the Son desires that we display or manifest supernatural fruit of character in accordance with repentance. We need to change for the better in every aspect of our lives, in every type of effort, in every relationship. In order to change, we need to avail His abundant grace, His abundant wisdom, His clear truth hidden in His word but revealed by the Spirit through diligent study. We need to be intimately connected to the Lord in our families like the wheels of a vehicle are connected to the axle and the power of the torque engine ( equivalent to the grace of God) is conveyed without loss to each part of our being. Before grace came to earth through Jesus, Moses had to cleanse himself and climb the mountain to meet God and talk to Him. Today, Jesus comes to us and talks to us since the requirements of law were more than met by grace.