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

Again, Isaiah 61-1, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor.

He sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, the opening

of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day

of the vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn and sign,

to give them beauty for ashes.

Watch this again, to give them beauty for ashes. Watch this again, to give them beauty

for ashes. Say beauty for ashes. The Ola of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the Spirit

of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he may be

glorified. Here's the premise, and we're going to jump into a lot,

hopefully get a lot further in this than I have been getting,

is you glorify God when you get planted.

Hear that.

Many people try to get to a process, to a place called fruitfulness

with out going through a process called being planted.

And what will happen if you're not careful is you'll learn to manufacture short-term fruit

that really has no ability to bring any sustenance to anybody.

But you'll be able to produce just enough so that it looks like you're

being productive. See, Adam, when Adam, here we go, here's the side track. When Adam and Eve

commit sin in the garden, immediately they go to the fig tree, not to find the fruit, but to find

just enough to cover what God never intended to be covered.

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