{"id":13379,"date":"2025-06-22T11:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=13379"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:24:06","slug":"the-currency-of-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/the-currency-of-the-kingdom","title":{"rendered":"The Currency of the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world says, \u201cYou get what you earn.\u201d The world\u2019s currency is merit\u2014performance, success, hard work, self-reliance. But the currency of the kingdom is asking. It\u2019s coming to God not trying to earn His blessing, but as children depending on a generous Father.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that goes against everything we\u2019re taught from an early age, doesn\u2019t it? Many of us were raised to be self-sufficient, to never ask for help, to earn our way forward. And that\u2019s why we need this message today. Some of us have grown weary in prayer. Others have stopped asking because we think God isn\u2019t listening, or that we don\u2019t deserve an answer. Some of us have tried to live the Christian life in our own strength and we&#8217;re running on empty. Today\u2019s message is a gracious reminder from Jesus: You don\u2019t earn God\u2019s favor\u2014you ask for it.<\/p>\n<p>In Matthew 7, Jesus continued His Sermon on the Mount by teaching kingdom citizens how to experience the generous provision of their heavenly Father. We can experience the generous provision of our heavenly Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13380,"template":"","tags":[2019],"series":[2968],"scripture-book":[1307],"scripture-chapter":[1340],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-13379","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exposition","series-kingdom-living","scripture-book-matthew","scripture-chapter-1340","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13381,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/13379\/revisions\/13381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}