Spirit of Grace

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Grace

If the second definition of grace is that it is referring to the power and ability of God flowing and operating through us, these next two verses are going to add something very interesting to all of this.

The power of God flowing through you is really the "anointing" of God. The anointing of God is the presence and power of God flowing and operating through you to accomplish whatever the Lord wants you to accomplish for Him. However, when you cut a little further into the anointing, what it really is - is the power of the Holy Spirit Himself operating through you.

The Bible tells us that Jesus was operating under the anointing of God when He embarked on His three and a half year miracle ministry before He went to the cross to die for all of our sins. But then a little further on in the Bible it tells us that Jesus was performing all of his miracles by the power of the Holy Spirit Himself. The anointing of God is really the presence and power of the Holy Spirit Himself flowing and operating through you.

Now here is what these next two verses are going to give us. If the second definition of the word grace is referring to the power of God operating through us - and the power of God is really the power of the Holy Spirit Himself operating through us - is it possible that the Holy Spirit Himself may then be the Spirit of God's grace? I believe the answer is yes and these next two verses will prove that point to you.

Both of these verses specifically state the Holy Spirit Himself is the "Spirit of grace." In other words, the Holy Spirit may just literally be the grace of God Himself. If God's grace is God's power flowing and operating through us - and the power of God is really the power of the Holy Spirit Himself flowing through us - then it makes perfect logical sense that the Holy Spirit Himself would then be considered to be the Spirit of the grace of God.

Here are the two verses giving us this specific piece of revelation:
"Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?" (Hebrews 10:29)
"And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they have pierced; they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn." (Zechariah 12:10)

When the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is the "Spirit of Grace" in these two verses, the "S" in the word "Spirit" is with a capital "S," not with a small "s" - which means it is referring direct to the Holy Spirit Himself.

Put all of this together like pieces to a jigsaw puzzle, and I believe that the Bible may be giving us an incredible revelation in that the Holy Spirit Himself may be the actual grace of God. As such, all Christians actually have the grace of God already residing on the inside of them since we all have the Holy Spirit literally living and dwelling on the inside of us.
4. The Grace of God Was Upon Jesus Christ

If you want two great perfect role models on who has properly walked with the grace of God upon their lives and who had successfully accomplished all of their earthly missions that God wanted them to accomplish as a result of that divine grace, look no further than the apostle Paul and Jesus Christ Himself.

These first two verses will be on Jesus. These two verses specifically tell us that the grace of God was "upon" Jesus and that He was "full" of this grace. In other words, the power and favor of God was upon Jesus while He was walking down here on our earth in the flesh. Jesus performed all of His supernatural miracles by the power of the Holy Spirit operating through Him. He did not perform these miracles by His own divine power.

Just as Jesus had His Father's divine grace upon Him to help Him carry out His earthly ministry, so too can we have the same divine grace of God upon us and our lives in order to help us carry out and complete all of our divine assignments for Him.
"And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him." (Luke 2:40)
"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)

Now if God the Father was willing to have His grace rest upon His Son Jesus so that He could successfully carry out all of His earthly mission and ministry, will God the Father do the same thing for each born-again believer?

I believe He will, and the next caption will prove that to you - as it will show you that the apostle Paul ended up becoming one of the greatest, if not the greatest of all the New Testament apostles as a direct result of the divine grace that was given to him by God the Father.