How do you get into the experience of grace? First, you must acknowledge that the grace of God has come to us through Jesus' substitutionary work at Calvary. We are in the dispensation of the grace of God; We are in the New Testament. What is grace? Grace is God's mercy, love and help given to us because of what Jesus Christ did for us at Calvary when He took our place, as our substitute. To live in and by God's grace, we must live from Christ's finished works. We must live with our reference point being Christ and all He has done for us. We live from who we are in Him, and who He is in us; we live from the mercy that He has procured for us; we live from and by the power of His Spirit who lives in us. Grace can only be experienced with Jesus Christ alone being our reference point for life and living.
John 1:17
”For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
Second, we must learn to fellowship with God's grace vitally. The key word here is fellowship. For example, when it comes to the grace of God for material prosperity, we must understand the place of giving or benevolence in fellowship with grace. Someone may say, since we are in the dispensation of grace, do you have to give before you can receive? The answer is an emphatic ”Yes!” God's grace abounds towards us as we demonstrate our faith in the Word of God. In ' receiving the grace of God, it will always be unto us according to ourfaith.
Ephesians 2:8-9 tells us that salvation came to us by grace through faith, which means that faith is the medium of receiving God's grace. The grace of God answers to faith, which is an expression of confidence in the Word of God in doing what the Word says to do. How did Abraham enter into the grace of God that he found? By faith! What is faith? Hearing and doing the Word, which means that he had to do something in obedience or response to the Word of God spoken to him. Abraham didn't become blessed just because God wanted him to be blessed; it was because he obeyed God in faith (Genesis 22:1 5-18). This is known as fellowship with grace.
