Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries. The declaration and so alive in my heart this morning as you guys are singing great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.

And I think that one of the primary tensions

I'm walking in my own life right now is the lack of greatness in the

God I inherited in the Western world.

The issue is that you and I have believed

in a God who is less than the God that can be said concerning

him great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.

My prayer for everyone who's watching this today, tomorrow, a month, years and years from now,

is that we would embrace the grace, we would lean into the grace that's available to open our hearts to a God who is greater than,

greater than all of my fears, greater than all of my fears,

greater than all of my questions,

greater than the disappointment, greater than the pain.

And I think I was, I inherited a God who could walk you through.

But I believe we actually have a God

who can take you over.

And I want to find the God who can do more than stand in the corner while things are falling apart to let you know he's in the room.

I want to teach and preach and more than anything

love and believe in and worship and praise a God who enfold you into himself in the midst of whatever you may be facing today.

The midst of whatever you may be facing today that God would be more than a notion. But he would be a very present help in time of need. Whatever

you need today, his presence is real. His presence is felt. His presence is actualized in your

world and your life and in your situation. Whatever questions you're carrying to the Lord today, I'm

carrying my own questions to the Lord today. I'm feeling them be

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