The Kingdom's Currency (How to Purchase Your Blessing)

By William T. Sheppard

People are often frustrated with trying to figure out how to receive God's best for their life. But God has created a system of which we can tap into in our time of need of any sort. Just as the world has a system that uses currency as a means of exchange, the Kingdom of God also has a certain currency that is used to obtain blessings in our good or otherwise difficult moments.

In this book, we're using the natural things that parallel to everyday human experiences to explain the supernatural, in order to help you discover how to operate in the principles of God to unlock Kingdom increase in your life, how not to ever again forfeit your increase in the midst of trials or temptation, but how to walk obediently into the essence of what it means to be a Kingdom citizen.

I want to contribute 7% of my earnings to saint jude's children hospital because I appreciate the compassion that they are showing towards children who are in need of urgent medical attention. I realize that we all play a part in giving, and I'm just doing my part. Kingdom Blessings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781644680889

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Introduction

Chapter One: Parables

Chapter Two: The Principle

Chapter Three: How Do I Make Faith Deposits?

Chapter Four: The Battle for Increase

Chapter Five: Do Business Until I Come!

Chapter Six: Forfeited Increase (Part 1)

Chapter Seven: Forfeited Increase (Part 2: The Bank Book)

Chapter Eight: Government Assistance

Chapter Nine: The Interview

Chapter Ten: Orientation

Chapter Eleven: The Principle of Spending

Chapter Twelve: Appraisal

Chapter Thirteen: The Exchange

Notes

About the Author

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The Kingdom's Currency (How to Purchase Your Blessing)

William T. Sheppard

ISBN 978-1-64468-087-2 (Paperback)

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I dedicate this book to: My mentor Bishop Bernard Hill, my Paul, to me being his Timothy, who without his mentorship I could've never grown beyond myself.

Introduction

The Bible says in Matthew 6:33 (Amp), But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. It said first of all to seek, to aim at, and to strive after His (God's) Kingdom.

The word kingdom itself denotes the fact that God is King and He has a dom or a place of dominion. Within that place, He has a certain way of governing His royal subjects. Not only that, He also has a certain tender or money that is in fact circulating throughout His domain to make legal exchanges. But what is the Kingdom's currency, the type of money that allows exchanges to be made?

The word currency is defined as follows: Money in circulation as a medium of exchange. Or a general use or acceptance. Money is defined as something, as paper or metal currency, that is officially issued by a government. Or wealth considered in terms of monetary value.

What is this Kingdom currency that will allow me to purchase or receive that healing, that wisdom, that deliverance, or that breakthrough I'm so desperately seeking not just for myself but those that the Lord leads me to? Nothing in this world is free, my dear reader, and I can assure you neither is anything within the Kingdom of God freely and casually taken—there's a price. Salvation cost God the Father His only begotten son, His very unique and one of a kind Son, His very life. And it didn't just cost Jesus His life but so much more.

When you understand the way He died upon the cross, separated from the Father because of the filthiness of our sins, the horror, the pain of it, a new word had to be created to describe it, and that word was excruciating! Meaning out of the cross! Even if you really thought about it, the word God uses in exchange with salvation is a financial term—redeemed, which means to regain possession of by paying a specified term. To rescue or ransom. To save from sin, or to make up for (our missing the mark). Therefore, I would certainly not want you to be ignorant to the fact that it should cost you something to obtain the very promises and the blessings the Lord Jesus sacrificed Himself to give us rights unto.

The saints of God have a rite of passage into the storehouse of God. Yet you will be only a mere window shopper if you do not render to the Lord what He demands of you rather politely, aggressively, frustratingly, or disappointingly. Hand it over or you will walk away empty-handed. If my memory serves me correctly, didn't He say in three of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, perspicuously when they (scribes and chief priests) asked Him:

Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you show no partiality to anyone but teach the way of God truly: Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no? But He perceived their craftiness, and said unto them why tempt ye me? Shew me a penny. Whose image and subscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's. And He said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's and unto God the things which be God's. And they could not take hold of His words before the people: and they marveled at his answer, and held their peace. (Luke 20:21–26)

The Lord wants us to seek after His Kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. This book is written to inform the people of God what the

Kingdom currency is, what the means of exchange are, and the tender of God's system of supply and demand. The goal is to instruct the children of God on how to purchase the blessings and the promises of God and appropriate them in their lives.

Howbeit, let's not waste another minute because I know you're tired of fabricating the blessings of God and talking about walking in the favor and the promises of God when it can be and should be an actuality.

My desire with this book is to make weak believers strong and strong believers stronger to the glory of God. It's time to make your deposits so you can get a blessed withdrawal in your time of need. With true regards, I am William . Sheppard, The Modern Day Moses, leading people through the Red Sea of their emotions into the victorious mind state and lifestyle of Christ Jesus. Enjoy your breakthrough.

Kingdom business as usual.

Chapter One

Parables

Using the natural things to explain the supernatural! When I say the natural explains the supernatural, it shouldn't come as any surprise to you. If you noticed, the Lord often spoke to the people in parables, which are defined as earthly stories with heavenly meanings, to help the spiritually dense or the carnally blind grasp the supernatural by using examples of natural occurrences in everyday life.

The Bible is filled with parables from the Old Testament to the New. The Old Testament has twenty-six parables scattered across its pages, and in the New Testament is a resounding seventy parables expressed throughout the Gospels into the epistles.

Therefore, what Jesus is doing isn't anything new; it's a subtle and strategic way of allowing God's illuminating thoughts to be impressed upon our otherwise darkened hearts if received by faith. Reason being by nature, fallen man isn't a state of darkness with respect unto God. But he, being ever so wise, learned, and skillful in natural things, is blind unto spiritual things. For the flesh is never a willing participant in the things of God. This is why I believe God has chosen to use spiritual terminology that is parallel in the human experience. The scripture clearly states that:

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:14)

Not until we are renewed in the spirit of our minds by the Holy Spirit through a true regenerating saving faith can we see things in God's Kingdom or make any sense of the way it works. Hence, the reason Jesus tells Nicodemus rigidly with unflinching eye is that:

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God. (John 3:5, Amp)

The parallels Jesus uses throughout scripture to express the operation of the Kingdom of God reminds me of my days in elementary school. When the teacher introduced me to the alphabet, she'd start me off with what I already understood in order to make me feel like a success, then she'd lead me into the alphabets that I didn't know yet. She'd also use everyday things in picture form, which began with the particular alphabet mentioned.

Well, God does the same thing. He meets us where we are and takes us to where He is—in faith. Yahweh is a God of faith. Through it, we don't just understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, we can also conclude that faith was released when God said, Let there be. Because even though faith cometh by hearing, it goes into action by saying.

I can hear you saying now, Brother Sheppard, you mean to tell me I can have the God kind of faith that created the world? As a Church, emphatically, yes! But as an individual, only in measure (Romans 12:3). You can