Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

So let me jump right in. Go with me first of all to Psalm 65. And the Lord began really in the first

phase of the revival here, which kind of kicked off back in August, the Lord began to talk to

us really significantly. Matter of fact, at probably seven or eight tries, we still haven't

gone past point one of the message of Isaiah 61, where he gives us beauty for ashes. And one of the

things the Lord begin to show us about the idea is that the word beauty

probably should have been translated turban or headdress. It is translated in many places

garland. It is translated in some other places headdress or turban. It's literally the picture of a

crown. And what he's saying when he says, I'll give you beauty for ashes,

is I'll take the head that was covered with ash,

which was a sign of sin or failure or condemnation or just pain

concerning the situation of the nation.

And people would cover themselves with ashes and they would put on sackcloth.

He said, I'm going to bring you into a day where I take away your ashes and I crown you.

Or instead of having to wear failure on your head, you get the crown of righteous thinking concerning what I've done and who I am in you.

So we taught on that many times, never have been able to finish it, but maybe one of these days we will. Then the Lord brought me into the new year with a burning revelation of one word. That word was abundance. And the last sermon that I preached in here, people, I ran into a bunch of people in Phoenix. I said, we try to watch the live stream, but you don't ever preach. It's like God moves all the time. They said, it's awesome, but you don't ever preach. I said, well, good. That's the way we like it. But I started trying to teach on the idea of abundance. I began that on January the 4th, I think was a Sunday night, which was our first meeting here after we got back from Chattanooga for the new year. Didn't have a Saturday night, right, that week,

because we'd been with our

friends at Redemption Point. But we came back and I began to teach on abundance. And again, I got to

like point one on the teaching concerning abundance. Well, my sister, Shauna emailed me early in the

morning Friday, I mean, Monday morning.

I preached on abundance on Sunday.

Never broached the subject before.

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