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

Colossians chapter 3.

How many of you are endeavoring to stay in Thanksgiving?

If you make all of the rest of this year about Thanksgiving, I'll make all of next year like Christmas.

And we're continuing to believe that, and one of the signs I believe we're on the right

path is many have been challenged in their ability to stay in Thanksgiving based on circumstances.

And when that comes, this is what I say. I say time favor and opposition are both indicators of the right position.

And we went through a faith movement that told us if we were in opposition, we must be in error.

Right?

But I learned that the enemy never brings conflict into a situation that's void of spoils

if the if the adversary shows up in opposition and you see it correctly opposition is a prophetic

indicator of potential the enemy never goes to battle where there are no spoils. Opposition is a prophetic

indicator of potential. And when you stay rooted in Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving gives you the

grace to receive a lens to see opposition as it's intended to be seen, which is an announcement

that we're on the verge of breakthrough. That all preaches really good, but it's a little bit more difficult to live than it is to preach.

But I have found the truth of being rooted in Thanksgiving actually causes the opposition to become a fuel source to move us into higher dimensions of proximity,

which always yield greater grace for favor. Amen?

All right, because favor for me is always defined as nearness, never things. I never want to

cheapen the favor of God to the money that came, the check that came in the mail. Those, listen,

those may be advertisers that you're moving into favor,

but the evidence that you've moved into favor is always proximity, never things. Why? Because

other people have things and it's not favor. Because if the things were not trying to announce to you

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