Acts 2:47 describes a situation in which the early believers in Jerusalem were contacting God and experiencing God. Everyone was full of God. That was a situation of grace which could be seen by others. That grace was the visitation of God. A group of believers were growing to express God’s attributes in their virtues. They were humble, loving, and full of light. All these were human virtues, but these virtues were the expression of God’s attributes. That was the issue of their experience of God as grace.
When the apostles gave the believers testimony concerning the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, great grace was upon them (Acts 4:33). When we are under the proper ministry of the word, grace is also upon us. There is an atmosphere and situation of God’s presence with us. The presence of God is the grace.
When Stephen was full of grace and full of power, he did great wonders and signs among the people (Acts 6:8). In Pentecostalism many of the so-called miracles and healings are false. But what Stephen did was the genuine manifestation of grace. That was God’s visitation. God was there.
When Barnabas went to Antioch, he saw God’s grace which the believers there enjoyed (Acts 11:23). That means that they were all continually enjoying God’s visitation.
The apostles Paul and Barnabas urged the new believers to continue in the grace (Acts 13:43). That means to continue in advancing and growing in grace, which is the visitation of God.
The word of God is called the word of grace. This word of grace was ministered to the new believers by Paul and Barnabas (Acts 14:3). The word of grace is the word of God Himself, the word of God’s visitation.
When Paul and Barnabas were going out, the saints commended them to the grace of God (Acts 14:26). That means when they went out, they would always be under God’s visitation, God’s grace. The saints commended them to God’s visitation.