Releasing the Grace God Already Put Inside You

“Open the treasury.”

That was the phrase the Lord dropped into the speaker’s spirit and it wasn’t about money. It was about something far bigger: the treasure God has already deposited inside His people, and our responsibility to release it.

Many believers spend their lives waiting for God to “move,” while heaven is waiting for them to open what’s already been placed within. Scripture makes this clear: the treasure isn’t far away, it isn’t external, and it isn’t coming someday.

It’s inside the earthen vessels — inside us (2 Corinthians 4:7).

The Treasury Is Within You

When Jesus described the scribe who brings out “things new and old” from his treasury (Matthew 13:52), He showed us a principle: the treasure is stored within the house, and the steward brings it out.

You are that house. You are that steward. The divine deposit is already in you.

Ephesians 2:7 calls it “the exceeding riches of His grace.” That means your life carries different expressions of the grace of God. Not only spiritual gifts, but wisdom, revelation, understanding, encouragement, generosity, and even the material blessings you’ve received. Grace is not one-dimensional. Peter calls it the “manifold” (multi-colored, multi-layered) grace of God.

The point? You carry more than you think, and it wasn’t given to be stored. It was given to be poured out.

Grace Has Different Expressions, So Give Accordingly

The church often limits grace to prayer, prophecy, or preaching. But in Scripture, grace also includes the natural, the practical, the material. When the early church took offerings to send to Jerusalem, Paul literally used the Greek word charis - the same word used for “grace.” Their giving was grace.

Grace is whatever God has given you that you release freely for the benefit of others.

That includes:

• A prayer

• A prophetic word

• Encouragement

• Giving financially

• Meeting a need

• Serving faithfully

• Using your abilities for the Kingdom

  
  

If it is freely given, undeserved, and offered from gratitude, it’s an expression of grace.

Cain vs. Abel: The Spirit Behind Your Giving Matters

Sunday's message highlights a tough but honest truth: not all giving is acceptable to God. 

That’s the hard reality shown in Cain and Abel.

Both worked. Both produced something. Both brought an offering.

But God accepted one, and rejected the other.

Cain worked with the mindset “I earned this. This is the work of my hands.” His giving reflected self-worship, not gratitude.

Abel worked hard too, but he saw God as the source. His offering was not payment, not obligation, not a donation. It was worship. He brought the first and the best because he recognized that everything he had came from God.

This is why two people can give the same amount, serve in the same ministry, work the same hours and experience totally different outcomes. The heart posture matters.

New Testament giving is not about money first. It’s about worship expressed through generosity.

Your Work Is Worship, If Your Heart Is Right

This is where many believers disconnect. They assume worship happens on Sunday during the singing. But God makes something very clear throughout Scripture: whom you serve is whom you worship.

Your job can be worship or it can be secular, depending entirely on the heart behind it.

If you work with gratitude, excellence, and an awareness of God as your source, your work becomes an act of worship. If you work with entitlement, ego, or self-dependence, you’re worshiping yourself.

That’s why losing a job feels like losing everything for many people - because, without realizing it, the job became the “source.” When God is your source, you may lose a job but not your confidence, because the real Provider remains the same.

Opening the Treasury Requires a Shift in Mentality

The message is simple but demanding:

• Stop living like you lack what God already placed inside you.

• Stop giving like Cain - from duty, frustration, or self-dependence.

• Start giving like Abel - from revelation, gratitude, and faith.

• Treat your work, your skills, your service, and your giving as worship.

• Recognize that every good thing in your life - spiritual or material, is grace.

• Release the grace you carry.

  
  

Grace grows when it flows.

Grace multiplies when it’s given.

Grace stagnates when it’s hoarded.

The New Testament Pattern: Freely You Received, Freely Give

The early church didn’t operate on pressure, manipulation, or price tags. They didn’t sell prophecy or spiritual access. They gave freely, because grace is incompatible with transaction.

When grace is released:

• Needs are met

• Lives change

• The church grows

• Faith rises

• Worship deepens

• God is glorified

  
  

You have far more to give than you realize. A word, a prayer, a gift, a sacrifice, an act of service, these are the treasures heaven placed within you.

God’s call is simple:

Open the treasury.

Let the grace flow.

Release what God has deposited.

And watch Him multiply it.