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

All right. Thank you. Let me read something to you that hangs on my wall, has been hanging on my wall for a number of years, not just since I've lived here, but anywhere I've ever had an office, this has been hanging on my wall.

And it was written in 1998 by apostle f nolan ball panama

city florida who's a spiritual father of my apostle in the faith Aaron smith and i'm just going to read

it to you he just said this he actually said it in wilmington north carolina and uh he just said this

and somebody had the foresight to put pen to paper and

and many of my sons have one of these hanging in their offices how many of y'all have

one of these you got one brand's got it tattooed on his left arm so he's he's he's

in that what you in my what's on what's on your arm true success is not achieved true

success is received worldly men have faith in their work kingdom men work out

their faith worldly men cause others to know their methods kingdom men cause others to know their

god the success of worldly men can be defined in certain observable methods methods that that can be cataloged, emulated, and sold

for profit. The success of kingdom men is attributed to only one thing. That one thing is obedience

to the spoken word of Yahweh. And while that obedience may be manifested in observable acts,

emulation of those acts by others will never bring the hoped for success.

Therefore, the kingdom man's success does not produce much in the way of a product that can be

marketed at great prices, bringing great wealth to the man. But the kingdom man's success does cause

glory to be given to Yahweh.

Worldly men base their success upon information, information that can be cleverly edited

to smooth away the rough edges, cleverly packaged, advertised, and marketed in order to bring

great wealth to its author. Kingdom men know that their success is based upon uncompromising

obedience to a revelation from Yahweh. True revelation is biting, sharp, provocative, challenging,

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