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

My heart was to take the first half of last year and deal with identity quite a bit and how identity inappropriate or

misidentification leads to restlessness and then again how appropriate identification leads to rest

to try to get you in the right posture to really receive some things that are going to help you determine

what the next phase of this is going to look like.

And one of the things that happens is whenever we talk about the ontological and the

teleological ontology being the way that you are or who that you are. And the teleology is kind of what reaches out

from that. So we would deal with ontology. It would be in the beginning, God. That's his ontological

existence created. That's his teleological form. So he is God, but he creates, ontology and

teleology. One of the problems is we'll go forward,

especially in settings like this,

to what you're called to do.

And if we don't start with who you are,

then you don't have the right foundation

for what it is that God called you to do.

What will happen in that is then you'll begin

to be identified by what you're called to do,

and what you're called to do is never who you are.

And it will create torment in you

to try to receive fulfillment from what you're called to do

when you were designed to receive fulfillment

for who you're called to be.

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