The Kingdom is Real!
- Ainsley Shepherd
- May 10, 2021
- 7 min read

Imagine a vault that is wide open in front of you. Inside that vault is everything you could ever need for your life on earth... not only finances to pay for every single thing you or your family could require, and funding for any vision you carry in your hearts, but also healing from every sickness, peace for every relationship, protection from every threat, wisdom to solve every problem, strength to do all things, and eternal salvation. What if that vault was unlocked and open, and was right in front of you... yet you couldn't see it, you didn't know it was there, or (worse still), you knew it was there and the door was open but somehow didn't think you had the right to walk into it?
The way that the body of Christ lives is baffling! When we received Christ as our Lord, the door of that vault was opened up to us. It's called the Kingdom of God, and it came into our hearts when Christ did. Somehow we managed to go into that vault and pick up eternal salvation, yet the way most Christians live demonstrates that the rest of this vault is not really being lived out of.
How many Christians do you know who live in divine health, always have more than enough financially, can fund any vision and give to any cause at any time, have peaceful and rich relationships, walk in generational legacy, carry the wisdom to know what God is saying and what to do at any time, and live without fear, in safety and security? In other words, how many Christians do you know who live in victory on every side?
How else do we explain why God's children do not live in consistent victory other than we actually don't think the Kingdom is real! We actually don't think the vault even exists in the first place, let alone know how to access it. We think it must be hard and difficult and that we don't have the right to step into that vault, yet it's standing right there with the door wide open to us!
The Kingdom of God IS real! But unless you go into that vault and get something out of it that manifests in the natural realm, it will never be seen, known or believed. Victory is actually the Kingdom in manifested form, and He wants us to be not-negotiable about living in victory becuase it is the only way for the King and His Kingdom to be displayed.
From Spiritual Reality to Natural Reality
The very nature of the Kingdom of God is that everything already exists in spiritual reality. It is a spiritual vault, containing everything we could ever need, and when we go into that vault and get something out of it, we are literally bringing it from spiritual reality to natural reality.
Whether it be healing, finances, wisdom, or something else, if it does not become seen, it is not the Kingdom. The Kingdom is not about talk or theory, but it is about reality.
Think about Jesus. He came to the earth to show the world who the Father really is, and He continually manifested the Kingdom of God by ministering healing, finances and strategies to those around Him. The bread and the fish were real! The sight which came to the blind was real! The fish which were caught in the net after Jesus gave the strategy was real! You are to do the same, and bring the Kingdom into reality. The Kingdom of God has to be experienced, lived in and seen by you, your family and those around you.

How to Access the Kingdom
So of course, the next question is how to actually access the Kingdom of God? If it is already in your heart right now, how do you draw this spiritual reality into your natural reality? How do you actually go into that vault and get what you need out of it? Surely it must be complicated and difficult to do?
Not at all! In actual fact, you already know how to do this! When you received Jesus into your heart, you believed in your heart and you confessed with your mouth, and an eternal change took place in your spirit... something you won't see manifest until the day your physical body dies, yet no one can tell you it's not true! You walk in fully persuaded faith regarding your salvation.
In the same way, if we walk in the rest of the Kingdom with that level of fully persuaded faith, we'll see the manifestation of everything else! Yet for many people, that often does not tend to happen. For example, if we say we believe God will take care of us financially, but when a lifetime of financial lack (often due to not obeying God's financial principles in the first place) is not turned around overnight, we think God doesn't care about us and that it doesn't work, and start speaking lack and unbelief again. Not fully persuaded.
Fully persuaded faith is the key to accessing the Kingdom of God in our lives.
How do we walk in it? We already have the faith of the Son of God inside of us. Developing fully persuaded faith is more about coming OUT of agreement with doubt and unbelief. We do that by pressing into the heart and the Word of God about the Kingdom of God and its provision for us, until it becomes so real to our hearts that we can't see anything else. This is faith that only believes (Mark 5:36).
Jesus brought the Kingdom of God with Him when He came to the earth. He said we would no longer worship God on a mountain (John 4:21 - 23), but in our hearts. When He described how we were to function in that Kingdom, it was always about our mouth, it was about our heart, and it was about our believing.
We can't walk in something that we think is not real. If we still have a fantasy kind of idea or unreachable idea of what the Kingdom of God is... that it's something 'mystical' or only spiritual, we're never going to be able to access it or walk in it.
If we're going to access the Kingdom of God in our lives, we're going to have to settle in our hearts that the Kingdom of God is real, that it's for us, and the door of that vault is right now open, and that He has said we are worthy to enter in. Our heart, our mouth and our actions need to line up with that. It may take time to manifest and overtake everything else we've been living in up until now, but we must know that nobody can keep us out of that Kingdom but us!

It Takes Training
If you want to know what the Kingdom of God looks like in a manifested way, see how Matthew 13:52 describes it:

It says that you can put your hands on anything you need, when you need it! And not only the things you need, but that others around you need. If you, your family or someone around you needs healing, you can access it. When you or they need a word of knowledge, a strategy or financial provision, it is there. You are able to draw from the spiritual realm into the natural at any time it is needed. What a picture of the Kingdom of God!
Note that this scripture says, though, that this is the reality of every student who is WELL-TRAINED in God's Kingdom. If there are students that are well-trained in the Kingdom of God, could it be that there are people who are NOT well trained in the Kingdom of God?
A student is someone who is seeking to learn in a certain area, and is willing to apply what they have learned until they master it. Could it be that we are not experiencing living and seeing the Kingdom of God simply because we've either not become students in the first place in our hearts, had poor training, or have given up before manifestation came?
To start with, there's very little practical teaching available about accessing the Kingdom of God, and even when that teaching has existed, many have not applied it (or for long enough). What God wants is for us to be be not-negotiable about doing what He has said to, UNTIL we see manifestation.
To access the Kingdom of God, it's time to set yourself to be a student, find the right training, and apply it UNTIL you see the promised reesults. This is how you will experience the Kingdom of God in your life.
Excuses Will Keep You Out of It

The most beautiful part if this scripture is that the invitation is clearly given to ALL. Every single one of us has been given a Royal invitation to feast with Him... to live in that place where we can put our hands on what we need to, when we need it… and to interact with Him continually in His Kingdom.
Yet if we make excuses as to why things are not manifesting or whether the Kingdom of God works, we'll never experience and enjoy His banquet.
Sure, we have our own experiences as 'evidence'. We've watched others believe for healing or financial provision and not see it manifest - more 'evidence'. Yet the banquet is there. We do not put the experiences of other people or even our own experiences above the Word of God, or we will nullify it with our own 'traditions' (Mark 7:13).
Your believing is between you and God, and everybody else's is between them and God. Our own hearts are all we can be responsible for, and when our hearts are immovable because of the truth of the Word, we cannot be shifted and moved by what we see.
So this is a time to go to Holy Spirit and say, 'Show me what I need to know. Show me where I have excuses in my heart which cause me to feel that the Kingdom of God is not real for me. Show me where I'm allowing my experiences or those of other people to keep me out of Your banquet.'
If we’re not feasting at the banquet table, we don’t need to be blaming God for it. We just need to ask Him for the key we've missed then apply it. Humility brings wisdom, which brings victory.
Obedience is the Door
So we've seen what happens if we make excuses - our reasoning keeps us out of our royal banquet! Yet what happens when we instead willingly obey?

Wow! To those who obey, there is only one destination. The Kingdom. Feasting at the royal banquet where there is everything we and others need, when it is needed. Shalom. Nothing missing, nothing broken. Peace and victory on every side.

It’s here, and it’s now. It’s His promises... His Kingdom... to be experienced, lived and seen on the earth. The invitation to feast is yours, the banquet is open and Father is simply waiting for you to say 'Yes!'

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