The Cross Paid, Grace Delivers #apostlesmeditation

One of the most significant shifts that can happen in a believer’s life is the shift from praying to receive what they need to living in the awareness of what they already own. The cross did not create the possibility of blessing — it completed the transfer. Everything that belongs to God was placed into the hands of His children through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Grace is the delivery system through which all of that inheritance reaches your daily life.

Understanding grace requires submitting to the full scope of what Christ accomplished. It is not enough to acknowledge the cross alone. Grace flows from the cross, through the resurrection, through the ascension, through the seated position of Christ at the right hand of the Father, through the sending of the Holy Spirit, and all the way into this present moment of your life.

Each of those events represents a dimension of grace that is available to you right now. The cross paid for it. The resurrection proved the payment was accepted. The ascension established the authority behind it. The seated position of Christ declares that the work is finished — nothing is left undone. And the Holy Spirit is the One who makes all of it personally real and operative in your experience.

Second Peter 1:3-4 describes the scope of what has been made available: “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” All things. Exceeding great and precious promises. Partakers of the divine nature. This is the inheritance that grace delivers. And the same passage goes on to instruct believers to add to their faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity — because these qualities keep the channel of grace open and the flow of blessing unobstructed.

Isaiah 53:5 remains the bedrock: “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Present tense. We are healed. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives on the inside of every born-again believer — Romans 8:11. The same grace that brought Him out of the grave is the grace that is carrying you right now. Just as the grave could not hold Jesus, nothing can permanently hold you down when you are operating in the awareness of your grace covering. You are not a person struggling to receive. You are a grace wearer — and grace is a revelation of divine ownership.

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