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

I'm thinking that the challenge for us today may be that we would fail to go back far enough.

And as Johnson was sharing about remind being rewind, I think our, from our psychological bent that we have, we miss what really was our embryonic state. What really was our

state of what Jeremiah 1-5 says before I formed you in your mother's womb. Yotsar, that word before I

formed you, before I intimately crafted you like a potter does a precious vessel. I knew you.

I was intimate with you before you ever entered into the conceived stage inside of your mother's womb.

And I think we, you know, we say a lot of things that I disagree with.

We say life begins at conception.

I don't actually believe life begins at conception. I don't actually believe life begins that conception.

I don't think that's going back far enough.

I believe life begins within the shared union of the relationship between the father's son

and spirit that we've learned to simply call perichoresis, that circle dance, that place

of mutual indwelling.

And maybe when we think of going back to the beginning take me back back to the beginning when I was young running through the fields with you

maybe we need to go back even further beyond our natural carnal infancy and we need to find our way back into the fellowship that we

came from out of the union between Father's Son and Spirit. And as I was thinking about that,

I thought, I think that's why the presence of God, when it's genuinely experienced, when the

heart is astounded by way of an encounter with the presence of God.

Something comes alive inside of people, even if they don't have that particular religious

persuasion when they really get in the presence of God.

I think whether we recognize or know how to verbalize what's happening in that moment,

we are reminded of the true truth of our being, of really where

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