Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries. Thanksgiving is a natural secondary consequence of self-examination.

Ten lepers are touched, one of them stops post-encounters and examines

himself. And when he realizes how different he is than before he had an encounter with presence,

the only right thing to do is return in Thanksgiving. So one of the things that happens is oftentimes

we've created an environment where we're hungry for more, which is really, really good.

The issue with being hungry for more is you have to make sure that honoring what you're currently in

is actually the pass code you're using to access what you've never seen.

Thanksgiving for what you have seen is how you access what you have not seen.

Thanksgiving concerning what you have heard is how you access what you have not heard.

Thanksgiving concerning what he has given you is the means whereby you get access to what you're believing for him to give you in the days to come.

And I think that in the culture of revival, we so have an ultimate goal or an ultimate end

in mind that if we're not careful we'll never appropriately honor the process

and if we don't honor the process we'll have we have no access to the ultimate goal.

I want I want the you know my goals are lofty. I have no I have no personal goals.

It's just why I'm not a goal oriented individual. I have no financial personal goals. I have to

but I have goals, but they're like the kingdoms of this world become the

kingdoms of our God and of his Christ. The knowledge of the

glory of the Lord covers the earth as the waters covered to say it's not that I

want to plant 25 churches in the next 25 years. If that happens it'd be awesome

but if we plant two in the next 25 years, that would be just as awesome for me,

as long as we've done nothing we haven't seen the Father do.

But in the process of endeavoring to get to what God has next, oftentimes we failed to appropriately

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