Grace for a New Season

Across the earth, right now, environments are being affected by eternal realities that have broken into time. These new heavenly realities are breaking upon former seasons and activating an entire new season in the earth and with the birthing forth of a new season there comes a new measure of grace.

Let me reiterate this; every new season in God comes with a new dispensing of grace for that season. We have often thought of grace and mercy as one and the same thing. Mercy is unmerited favour, but grace is comprised of two elements; power, that ability to do a thing and authority, the legitimate right to do that thing. The question of whether or not you have the authority is directly related to the One who has authority. It can be likened to a police officer whose authority to enforce their power is directly related to the governmental source that gives him the authority to use that power. In the Kingdom of God, we must be positionally related to Christ, because it was to Christ that all authority was given. So, if grace is power and authority, we only have authority if we are positionally related to Christ.

Be correctly positioned

In every new season it is paramount that we are positioned accurately with authority or we will hinder grace from flowing. Authority and power will be blocked. In this present season God has been restoring the kingdom order of father-son relationships. One of the reasons for this is to increase the measure of grace from one age to another. The essence of what God does migrates from one season to another, building up and becoming greater in mass through the fathering order.

Unfortunately, many in the church today embrace a mentality that they only need to be positionally related to Christ and not to man. Alternatively, if they do believe in being fathered they do it from a distance, on their terms. Jesus said, "He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward." (Matthew 10:40-41). The word 'receive' means to grant full access, to not refuse intimacy, to receive into one's family. In other words, receiving God's appointed governmental office the right way positions us for the receiving of a measure of grace. There is a grace overflow effect that takes place when we are positioned accurately in a father-son relationship. We become inheritors of the 'reward' or the treasures of grace they have broken into by being positioned correctly in a right relationship.

During the previous order preachers would call people to come to the altar to receive a double portion of grace and people would ignorantly flock to the front in hope of receiving this 'double portion'. Some went as far as throwing their coats over people. This teaching was drawn from when Elijah threw his mantle on Elisha. We must understand that a double measure of grace was transferred to Elisha due to the years of him serving Elijah. Elisha was positioned correctly in relationship with his spiritual father and as a result it enabled him to have access to his mantle. Grace was transmitted from one season to another because of the covenant relationship of father and son. Elisha carried and dispensed a greater dimension of grace to do what God had called him to do. Unfortunately, Elisha went to the grave without giving away what he had and as a consequence the unique grace that Elijah and Elisha had was restrained.

Every new epoch is marked by radical change and new developments. With a new season there is a dispensation of grace. Dispensation has been wrongly used by religion. A dispensing is simply a 'handing out' or 'a giving out'. In every new season there is a dispensing of grace for the purpose of deepening, enlarging and expanding the kingdom. This requires that we change and adjust to the new measure of grace for that season. The new things that God does in that season are supported and empowered by the new measure of grace. What happens if the season changes and we don't? It means that you are still in the old season and therefore you will create your own economy in order to keep going. This is one of the major problems in the church today. Many are stuck in previous seasons expecting new results and bound by spiritual barrenness or the absence of fruit. If we are not doing what He is doing, we are not in His economy of grace. In every new season there must be a willingness to be emptied out in order to take on new measures of grace. This requires dying to some things that we have built our ministry around and migrating to a new spiritual position.

Full of grace and truth

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

'Full' means to the complete measure. God intended to measure out grace and truth in a season so that there is ample provision to sustain the 'new' that God is doing. If we keep functioning out of the last season not only will we be void of grace for the season, but also void of truth. Every new season is accompanied by grace and truth. Truth is the fresh word for the new season. That word is destined to become flesh. God releases a word from eternity into time for the purpose of creating something in the earth. In relation to Jesus, He not only spoke the truth but He became the embodiment of the truth. Jesus was an authentic representation of a word from eternity manifest into time. Evidence of a new season is that the things that are eternal become natural. Eternal truth begins to make its appearance in the natural realm, which means things that were once an eternal reality are now a reality in time for all to partake of.

It is critical in this season that we migrate to where 'grace and truth' are and allow them to shift us so that we become true representatives of heaven in this season.