Honor is the Currency of the Kingdom

What if I told you that the key to your breakthrough isn't more faith, harder prayer, or perfect theology—but honor?

I know that sounds almost too simple. We're used to complicated formulas, special prayers, and jumping through spiritual hoops. But what I've discovered is that honor is the currency of God's Kingdom—and it's the key that unlocks the door to healing, deliverance, and every promise God has for you.

What Honor Really Means

Let me be honest with you: many of us don't even understand what honor is. We throw the word around, but do we really get it?

Honor is where we value something. Honor is where we esteem something. Honor means that we put faith in it, that we put trust in it. Honor actually even opens the door to faith because we wouldn't have faith in something that we didn't feel was valuable or worthy.

Think about it this way: Honor is our estimation of something as being important and worthy of our time, of our attention, of our heart, of our faith.

And here's the problem: Many folks today do not honor healing as important. They do not honor it as something that Jesus bought and paid for. They don't honor Him as Healer.

The Problem With Modern Christianity

In fact, many Christians, many churches teach that the power gifts aren't for today. They actually rewrite the gospel, if you will. They take out verses, so to speak—meaning they say that certain scriptures don't apply today.

For example, Jesus said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father" (John 14:12, NKJV).

Jesus was doing all these great miracles, healing people individually and in mass healings, and He's saying that we'll do even greater works. But we're like, "No, no, those great works were only for the original church for the first few centuries while God was establishing His church."

As if God only healed for His own purposes. As if He was using these people to establish His church, but wasn't healing them because He had love and compassion on them. That violates the very nature of what Jesus Himself demonstrated.

He'd always say He had compassion on the people and couldn't help but reach out and heal them. He had compassion on the people and He would feed them.

What Are You Honoring?

Here's the real question: What are you honoring more than the Healer?

Some people honor their tradition more than the written Word of God. The Word says, "And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover" (Mark 16:17-18, NKJV).

It says these signs will follow those who believe, and we believe, right?

But if we go out and step out and pray and nobody gets healed, we'll just kind of back off and say, "Well, it must be right. It's not for today because I tried and that didn't work for me."

You're honoring your experience over the Word of God.

Honor matters. Honor opens the door for you, and dishonor, offense, disbelief closes the door. We need to make sure that we're honoring not only the written Word, but honoring its Author—the Healer Himself.

Show Up With Your Loaves and Fishes

I love the story that Dallas Jenkins shared a few years ago. He's the creator of The Chosen, that incredible series about the life of Christ. If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it.

Before he started The Chosen, Dallas had just come off a total failure in his filmmaking career. His last film had been a total flop. He was devastated. His wife was devastated. They were together in their living room crying and praying, not knowing if he even had a career after this.

As they were praying, his wife kept seeing the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 from Matthew 14. She would hear the phrase, "I do impossible math."

They weren't necessarily schooled in knowing how to honor the Lord's voice and how to partner with it, but they just had a strong sense that this was the Lord communicating to them. Feeding of the 5,000. I do impossible math.

Later that night, Dallas couldn't sleep. Still upset about the failure, he went to his computer and started making a list of everything he had done wrong in the making of that movie. While he was on the computer, a Facebook message popped up from somebody he was Facebook friends with but didn't know personally.

The message said: "Remember, your job is not to feed the 5,000. Your job is to show up with the loaves and the fishes."

At first, Dallas was freaked out. Like, is my computer listening to me? Was this guy listening to the conversation with his wife that day? So he asked the gentleman, "Why did you say that to me?"

The response: "I felt like the Lord told me to tell you. You're not responsible to feed the 5,000. You're just responsible to show up with the loaves and the fishes."

And it marked Dallas because he knew that was a confirmation from the Lord, and he honored that as coming from the Lord.

Taking the Pressure Off

Here's what's beautiful about Dallas's story—and about how God's Kingdom operates: It takes the pressure off.

We just show up in faith, believing God, and God does the impossible. God feeds the 5,000. God creates a series that's never been done before and touches millions through it.

We don't have to convert the hearts. We don't have to produce the miracle. But we have to partner with Him.

It's a true partnership, and He's usually never going to do it without us. You know how many times He said, "I stand in the gap and I'm looking for somebody to stand in the gap and I find none. And I can't bring the mercy that I want to bring. I can't do the miracles that I want to bring because I couldn't find somebody to stand in the gap with Him."

We play an important role.

If you sit back and say, "Well, if it's the Lord's will to heal, He's going to heal," you're worshiping the wrong God. You're not worshiping the God of the Bible, because that's not what it says and that's not what Jesus demonstrated.

Even Jesus Himself said He could do nothing except for what He heard the Father say or what He saw the Father do (John 5:19). He was dependent on that partnership when He was walking on the earth as a man. How much more do we have to be as well?

Honor Is the Point of Contact

In healing—whether it's spirit, soul, body, money, relationships, you name it—there's no pressure for us to produce the results. Our role is just to show up and to honor, to show up and to believe.

Honor is a predecessor of faith. You're not going to have faith in something that you don't think is worthy. Once you think something is worthy, once you think something is valuable, you'll have faith in it.

Once you know the Lord really is Healer—not that He used to be Healer, but that He is Healer now, that He's your ever present help in time of need—and when you honor that, you're actually going to tap into that anointing, into that flow.

Honor is that point of contact.

The Question You Need to Answer

So here's what it comes down to: What are you honoring more?

Are you honoring your experience over the Word of God? Are you honoring your church's teaching over what Scripture actually says? Are you honoring your tradition more than the Healer Himself?

Honor is the currency that lets you access what Jesus already bought and paid for. By His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). That's not past tense. That's not maybe. That's covenant reality.

The word salvation—sozo in Greek—actually includes healing. It means deliverance. It means rescue. It means physical healing. It means complete wholeness. It means nothing missing and nothing broken.

That's the children's bread. That's our promises. That's available for us.

And the key to accessing it? Honor.

Honor Him as Healer. Honor His Word as true. Honor His voice when He speaks. Honor His nature as compassionate and loving. Honor the partnership He's inviting you into.

You don't have to produce the miracle. You just have to show up with your loaves and fishes. He'll do the impossible math.

That's the currency of God's Kingdom. And you've got it in your pocket if you're willing to use it.

Blessings,
Susan 😊