Sunday morning service from our new ministry home in Mobile, AL.  The Kinsman Redeemer

Sunday morning service from our new ministry home in Mobile, AL.

In this episode, Apostle Aaron Smith seats Damon as the senior apostolic leader of our new ministry home in Mobile, AL.

Saturday night service from our June revival gathering at our new ministry home in Mobile, AL.

Friday night service from our June revival gathering at our new ministry home in Mobile, AL.

Damon Thompson speaking at The Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Sunday, May 1st, 2022. 

Damon Thompson speaking at the church in Mobile, Alabama that our ministry is in the process of moving and transitioning to. 

Damon Thompson speaking at The Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Sunday, March 27th, 2022. 

Damon Thompson speaking at Hope Chapel in Batesburg, SC on Friday, March 25th, 2022.

Damon Thompson speaking at The Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Sunday, March 13th, 2022.

Damon Thompson speaking at the Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Friday, March 11th, 2022. 

Damon Thompson speaking at Redemption to the Nations Church in Chattanooga, TN on Sunday, March 6th, 2022.

Beloved identity comes by way of Grace. Self-effort is the offspring of the Law. You will know the Law is gone when self-effort can no longer mock or speak to you anymore. 

Damon Thompson speaking at The Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Sunday, February 27th, 2022.

Damon Thompson speaking at The Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Saturday, February 26th, 2022. 

Happy Progress. How do you get the voice of Ishmael out? Get pierced by the revelation of righteousness. Our works do not bring God's acceptance and we must stand on the faithfulness of Jesus. 

Damon Thompson speaking at Redemption to the Nations Church in Chattanooga, TN on Sunday, February 20th, 2022.

Damon Thompson speaking at The Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Saturday, February 19th, 2022.

Damon Thompson speaking at The Shepherd's Tent in Covington, GA on Friday, February 18th, 2022. 

Damon Thompson speaking at Redemption to the Nations Church in Chattanooga, TN on Tuesday, February 15th, 2022. 

Damon Thompson speaking at Redemption to the Nations Church in Chattanooga, TN on Sunday, February 13th, 2022. 

Righteousness means "to be as we ought to be." We have to get free from not knowing who we are.  Legalism rises in direct proportion to our diminished emphasis and dependence on Holy Spirit. 

Damon Thompson Ministries Pierced by the revelation of righteousness and permission to be weaned. Isaac and Ishmael represent  "Law vs. Grace" and they were not designed to coexist. Righteousness is not academic or confusing; it's an experience. 

Faith's foundation is love. Your faith never fails when it's established in love. Don't empower the enemy by coming into agreement with lies. We were born for great exploits in the Kingdom but we must first know that Jesus is the exact mirror image of the Father. 

Do not fight to hold on to what Abba is trying to unbraid you from. My perspective braided with the Father's perspective produces a light and a love like the world has not ever seen. 

We are required to know how much we are loved if we are going to demonstrate discipleship effectively. Being rooted in understanding how He loves you determines how you love others. 

You becoming convinced you are beloved is going to cause you to have an incarnational luminescence that is literally going to affect the culture around you. Instead of insulating from the outside culture we are actually going to begin to dare to believe that you can invade it with the same Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead. 

You mystically in union shared the cross and its nails. You shared the burial and its grave. You shared and share in the resurrection and its new life. Now you share the throne and its perfectly intended union with the Father, Son and Spirit. 

Luminescent Anthropology. If you had any idea about the Light that is in you it would deal with the darkness. We have to allow our perspective to be intertwined with Abba's. 

Luke 11. Don't let a dark thread inside of you keep you from the measure of light you were designed for. 

What the first phase of Carolina Revival re-gathering together corporately will look like. We are in the seventh year of this expression of revival and it is amazing how the Father will take this unique season we have been in and put His fingerprints all over it. We can let the field rest for an entire year and trust that He provides.

Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 

What is birthed on the other side of restriction? When your eye is not single you will strive to earn affection through production. Production will never bring satisfaction. Return to your original passion and allow this shutdown season to refine your focus on the One thing lifestyle. 

Lean into the grace to let go of the illusion of control. We are fathering a culture where people are given permission and grace is released to live the lifestyle of singular focus. Grace for fidelity in the quest for One thing.

Prioritized Focused Affection. Revivals that have centered around the corporate gathering have been short circuited throughout history, but what if this one is centered around the "one thing" focused priority of affection. Say "yes" to a focus that lets us burn out of control again. 

All things, good or bad, work together for our good. He takes the broken pieces of our stories and forms them into something that gives us the ability to be the reflection of Jesus to the culture. I believe in an Abba who is nothing other than good. 

The Assumption of Separation: Reflecting on 2020. The assumption of separation fuels the anxiety concerning abandonment. If you are struggling with beloved identity then the first step is to learn to trust that Abba does not abandon and He does not walk out on you. 

He doesn't just sit with you in the darkness; He brings light with Him every time. Let go of doctrinal certitude and find that God is nothing other than the God revealed in Jesus. Do not fight to defend a fractured perspective because you feel unsafe with not having answers. 

Jesus at the center of it all. I have never met anyone that got anything of consequential value by way of striving. The handful of people I know who have something worth emulating got there by way of absorption. Jesus is defeating the myth that God is anything like Adam thought that God was when Adam ran away and hid.

How are the decisions that I am making and the life I am living going to impact future generations? Our field is being given a sabbath season because we are going to need the field to be here for generations. 

There are no "non-sacred" moments because He lives in me the same way the Father lived fully in Jesus. 

In the waiting and in the stillness you have the opportunity to accomplish a strengthening of union. You being obsessed with having everything just right is going to keep the children from playing the way that they were designed to. 

Damon Thompson speaks at the Women of Fire Conference at Redemption to the Nations Church in Chattanooga, TN. September 17th, 2020

Abide, Remain, Life-Union. There is nothing God will not do to get our union back. Yahweh causes our road to converge with His road. 

We are being immersed into the assurance that the love that the Father has for me is the exact same love that He has for His sinless, beloved Son. We were designed for union and our union is chasing out the last shreds of darkness that have kept us from the place of rest.

You have believed the lie that you have cost yourself your destiny. Do not look at your future through the lens of your past sins or mistakes. Abba is asking you to re-envision your future in light of beloved identity. 

Damon Thompson at the "Freedom Rally" conference at Abba's House in Hixson, Tennessee on September 16th, 2020.

Damon Thompson at the "Freedom Rally" conference at Abba's House in Hixson, Tennessee on September 15th, 2020.

I am at rest because I have been arrested and astonished by the love of God. We are being immersed in the assurance of beloved identity. The reality of the love of Abba is made manifest in the person of Jesus. Jesus is precisely what God has to say about Himself. 

The hands of Love have never been tied. He loves because He can be nothing other than Love. His unrelenting love is coming after the lie that you are alienated and the disease of displacement. 

You were born for the circle dance and to know the fellowship and love that exists between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is not your Father in an abstract or symbolic sense. You have been born of God. 

You are not loved because you are perfect. You are loved because you have been adopted by One who is perfect and He covers you with perfect love. Let the love of God come after every table that needs to be turned upside down in your world. 

You are precious to Abba and this is a necessary piece to sustaining Hephzibah. Dare to believe that He sees you as precious as He sees His Son. We are getting caught up in a perfect love that is casting out all fear of punishment. 

The love of God conquered my wanderings and changed my name. Your past does not define you and you are not the sum of your mistakes. You are beloved. The Father looks at your failures and still wants you more than you could ever possibly know.

Being impulsive is essential in the Kingdom and is actually a sign of maturity. Look back over your journey with the Lord and ask yourself how much fruit are you currently experiencing because you made a decision that made no sense in the natural.

Six years of the rain of the Spirit here in Carolina has changed how I see God. The God I worship today is passionately and furiously in love with me and His jealous eyes come after me. The gospel of the Kingdom is such good news that it is offensive. Let the love of God offend you today. 

If you keep giving up and surrendering your beloved identity every time you have a struggle then you are always going to have a struggle. Jesus dealt with the voice of the accuser. You do not earn the silencing of the voice of accusation by your own behavior. You are given the gift of the silence of the accuser because of the behavior of Jesus. 

"Beloved" is the core of all that identifies who you are. Refuse to accept the lie that you are anything other than His favorite. The grace of God is coming to heal the wounds of accusation. Jesus came to deal with the effects of the accuser. Divorce every inferior identification keeping you from beloved identity. 

Beloved identity is the hinge on which the kingdom of God swings into the culture. We are going to disciple nations and restore ruined cities when people dare to believe they are loved and delighted in by the Father. 

Hephzibah becomes an agent of maturity that will bring us into a place of union, connection and glory. Maturity is a willingness to be moved by the impulses of the Spirit. 

The answer to what we are dealing with as a nation is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by Holy Sprit and also the revelation of the long path. Hephzibah is our new name and Yahweh is wanting to make a covenant with our land. 

Hold confidently to the courageous hope of who Yahweh designed us to be. Rest gives you permission to inherit the land and rest is the graduate level of beloved identity. We are called to carry presence and leverage hope. 

Inherit a measure of rest in this season so that you come out on the other side saying that His presence is enough for you. The delight of the Lord is so extreme that you will have to be seated and wait upon the Lord to encounter it the way you were designed for. 

Hezekiah. Can I burn hotter at the age of 45 than I did at the age of 25? As leaders we must inherit a trans-generational consciousness and come out of ambition and self-promotion to live a true Kingdom lifestyle. 

Our dear friend Bryn Waddell joins us to discuss what we believe the Spirit is saying during this time of quarantine and social distancing. 

Entire regions are impacted by those willing to come out of a place of restlessness. Surrender you anxiety, stop your striving and come into a place of interior stillness. We are crossing over to the other side. 

Interior rest and trust is leveraging change concerning the storm. Speak from a place of rest and authority and leverage peace concerning what is happening in the world today. The Father is causing the ark of His covenant to come into homes for a 90 day period. The next great manifestation of revival is not going to require a church building. We are going to have home fellowship revivals. 

We are being prepared for global revival. When darkness and gloom covers the earth the light in you cannot be ignored. This is a time to sit alone and give the King your captivated heart. Joseph came out of a season of lockdown with greater authority than ever before. 

Luke 19. What you do with the weight of the glory you have been given determines if you can be given authority over cities. Do not try to hide and guard what He wants you to grow. 

The favor available within the revelation of beloved identity requires another degree of sacrifice (and there is grace for that sacrifice). Abba wants a people that will open themselves up and let His light shine through them. 

If you have an open heart there is no secret of the Kingdom that can be hidden from you. If you can dare to believe The Father is sovereignly watching over your progress it is going to change your pace. 

Become a witness that "Hephzibah " is your new name. The greatest gift we can give a fractured culture is a whole person. Mature in Hephzibah and become "Sought Out." 

Delighting yourself in the Lord comes as a consequence of realizing that He delights Himself in you. His fascination with me gives me grace to be fascinated in Him. Desire is awakened in us when we begin to see ourselves as desirable. We are being re-oriented by way of being re-identified. 

Isaiah 62. Your new name is "Hephzibah" which means "The Lord takes delight in you." The Father delights in showing mercy and His kisses will re-identify you. 

Genesis 12. Canaan was a land waiting on a covenant man convinced of his authenticity to come in and see transformation. 

We were designed to sparkle and flow together and let our unity be a witness that Jesus is who He said He is. People don't flow together because they refuse to honor one another's sparkle. 

Isaiah 60. My light is connected to His glory. Me being dim actually robs Him from glory. You leverage what is available in this new day by using your new name. The Father loves me with the same passionate love that He loved Jesus. 

What you do with the presence of Jesus determines your access to transformative glory. It's a new day and you must be willing to change your name. Jacob found a new land and he received a new name. 

John 5. Revival's essence is a manifestation of the person of Jesus. Are you convinced that you have already been made whole? Are you ready to abandon how you see yourself and become who you already are?

Honoring what the Lord is doing in another will actually expedite your own entrance into favor. If you will gaze at His goodness, you will begin to see yourself as loved. Breakthrough is supposed to come by way of fire not formula. 

John 15. Abba is giving us a new standard of beloved identity. In order to re-engage the realm of Zion we must be convinced of our beloved identity. 

Proverbs 13:12. When He becomes your focal point, He changes your desires. Allowing Him to deal with your disappointment makes you whole and causes you to begin to desire the way He designed you to desire. 

Revival is granting us re-entrance into an authentic and orthodox Christianity. Divorce yourself from inferior things you have focused on and receive the grace to live distraction free. 

Your thirst doesn't lead you to a stream, it causes you to become one. Be thirsty enough that you actually become a river in the desert. 

We never see the power of faith because of beloved identity issues. If you come into beloved identity you can move a mountain with a mustard seed of faith. Faith is a witness you have been established in beloved identity. 

The purpose of revival and also the purpose of the apostolic is to send you to the feet of Jesus. In the middle of questioning and confusion open up and surrender like you never have before. 

Reconciling Revival and Rest. Being forgiven means you cease to be identified as one who had previously failed. 

Disappointment initiated the cage most people are trapped in. In revival God will make you stare at the place inside of you that hurts the most and then will deliver you by way of His kindness. The first phase of an oak of righteousness is that there is no longer a broken heart. Finishing the exchange means that there is no longer even a hairline fracture present in you heart. 

Finishing the exchange looks like surrendering the last part of me that fails to see Him as good and that fails to see myself as beloved. 

Finish the exchange. What hand have I kept hidden behind my back just in case He isn't kind? What has the Father hidden for you that you cannot access because of what you have hidden from Him? 

In His sovereignty, God has decided to reveal Himself to us as kind. The Father in His kindness wants to cause the most callous places in your heart to become the most tender. 

Can you experience renewal without first being emptied? Is it possible to renovate a house without making a mess? If He is emptying you it is because He is making room for new wine. 

Romans 2:4. Kindness could be the most important evangelistic tool the church has ever been given. His forgiveness is kind and tender hearted. Pleasing a kind God trumps trying to appease a bitter God. 

Will you ever fully give yourself to seeking someone you do not fully trust? Living in authentic trust generates diligent seeking. Trust has a significant impact on the way we seek Him.

Matthew 8. His desire is much stronger than my feelings that I am undesirable. He is giving you His perspective instead of a leper consciousness. 

Matthew 8. He finds us desirable and He chooses to love us even when we feel like everything in us is falling apart. Come out of agreement with every lie that says, "I know He can but will He?" 

What is the purpose of the wilderness? Abba ensures that what you used to be a slave to will never chase you again. There are aspects of His countenance reserved for the man that would dare to be still. Vulnerability may be more valuable to leading others into beloved identity than every other leadership quality and gifting combined. 

God wants to overwhelm you by the kindness and goodness of His love. There is an intimacy we are being invited into in the year 2020 that is going to test everything we think we know about beloved identity. He is going to put us in the oil of beloved identity and we are going to experience a renewal that never ends.

Begin to experience a lifestyle of renewal that gives you permission to never have to be resuscitated back to life again.

Learn to live in a state of renewal by continually yielding to submersion in the oil that brings tenderness.

Hebrews 4. I am resting from the futility of my own efforts. Nothing in your life can legally be called "success" if it was not accomplished through rest. Come into a degree of trust that believes He cares for you and then you will come into a place of confident rest. 

What if "caring" is as significant a part of Yahweh's nature as His omnipotence is? Few struggle with believing that He "can" do something or has the ability to accomplish something, but many struggle with believing that He actually cares. What if He cares to the same degree that He can? 

Finish the Exchange.

The vulnerability of fathers holds the key for future generations to live in liberty and exclusivity. Leaders often try to project an image rather than be a reflection of an image. Projecting an image of success is keeping us from an alignment that can actually transform the darkness of the culture around us. 

Five Year Anniversary of Carolina Revival. What I have experienced in the past is of such immense value that I am unwilling to stop with the measure I am currently in possession of. 

The principle role of fathers in our day is to create cultures and environments that permit a degree of expression that is equal to the story. 

Ezekiel 47. 

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The Altar Conference in Fresno, CA, April 2019. 

Camp Ascend, Marengo, Ohio. 

Romans 8

The Obligations of a Kinsman Redeemer.

Matthew 6. Jesus talks about money more than He talks about heaven and hell combined. All of His teaching about money is actually trying to teach us about faith. It may be that what you do with your money, how you think about your money and how you worry about money tells you a lot about where you are at with your faith.

Isaiah 35. Psalm 1. Daniel 6. If you are going to re-identify the world around you, Yahweh is going to re-identify the world within you. 

The reality of being co-resurrected. When God's glory raised Jesus from the dead He raised me too.

First Wednesday at Celebration Church in Clovis, California. 

Do you feel fully accepted by Abba? We must believe we are so accepted by the Father that there are no restraints when it comes to pursuing spiritual realities. The fear of never measuring up is being swallowed up by the Abba reality. 

Yahweh will make you identify yourself based on what He says about you even if you cannot see it. Beloved identity generates impossible dreams.

We manifest a measure of light that is a witness that we have inherited an unheard of definition of life. 

Begin to live your life in light of the impact that should be had on future generations. Saul experienced authority that lasted throughout his lifetime; David established a dynasty and throne that the Christ sits upon forever. When you understand the difference between destiny and dynasty you will begin to live to leave something that lives far beyond yourself. 

We enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. 

Colossians 2. If you do not understand that you are complete in Christ you will end up striving for perfectionism and call it holiness. 

Luke 22. Right before Peter uses his sword to cut off the ear of Malchus, which was contrary to the will of Jesus, he fails in the place of devotion. When we are losing in the place of devotion we demand to use our swords and consequently cut off the ear of people who need to experience the love of God. 

The Father is calling you out of delusional thought processes and is releasing a grace for you to disagree with inferior realities that you have agreed with in the past. Refuse to be offended over the stories in your life where it looks like He wasn't just. 

2 Kings 6. Necessary transgenerational consciousness. Rather than using a single life-time as a unit of measurement for both planning and success, what if we let Yahweh teach us His plan that promotes a way of thinking where we begin to make decisions based on the impact those choices will have on future generations. 

John 9. Who you are is more important than what you are called to do. Jesus wants you to see everything through the lens of beloved identity. His name is not "Judge" and you are not in a courtroom. His name is "Abba" and you are home. The Father is calling you out of fatherlessness. 

Take heed therefore how you hear. What we do with what we hear in 2019 is going to determine what we see in 2020. When we hear a word from the Lord like this we have to be cautious because the first thing He says to you might be the last thing you wanted to hear. Often the last thing you want to hear is the very thing that is necessary for you to inherit vision. 

How many Christians in America have a consistent space of time in their day where they simply sit in the presence of the Lord? I think we would be disappointed at the percentage. Motion is easier than stillness. Many have called being still lazy but in reality it is actually far more difficult to be still and remain than to be in motion. 

The North Gate, Streetsboro, Ohio. January 13th, 2019

The North Gate, Streetsboro, Ohio. January 12th, 2019

The North Gate, Streetsboro, Ohio. January 11th, 2019.

The Triumphal Entry. Matthew 21. Jesus chooses to allow Himself to be carried by the wild and peculiar ones into unprecedented degrees of victory and triumph. Yahweh needs generations that will together allow themselves to be untied from systems by the apostolic. 

City Revival Church, Kannapolis, North Carolina. December 30th, 2018

City Revival Church, Kannapolis, North Carolina. December 29th, 2018.

City Revival Church, Kannapolis, North Carolina. December 28th, 2018.

Philippians 4. Anointing, Presence, Glory.

Luke 15. How many years have we wasted believing our job was to keep our own robe clean? You are being re-identified. You have seen yourself as failing to keep your own robe clean when the goal all along was really for you to simply say, "yes" to the Father's robe. 

Romans 14:17. For the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 

A flood of a revolution of righteousness is coming to us this fall season. Fathers are becoming conscious of generational legacy rather than personal destiny and as a result are coming into a place of rest on a mountain called "the curse reversed." 

Our issue is not storms, our issue is drought. Storms reveal the rainbow that re-roots us in the promises of God, but drought will keep you from ever being rooted. When you really begin to believe the promises of God, you begin to dance in the rain of the storm you used to be afraid of. 

Noah was a righteous man and as result he walked in close fellowship with God. He spent around 80 years building an ark that only 8 people would end up being on when the flood came, but those 8 people carried within them everything necessary to establish a new culture in the earth. 

Luke 14. The poor were invited to the great feast because they were void of an inferior definition of prosperity. The blind were invited because they were void of an inferior definition of vision. The disabled were void of an inferior definition of might and production. The lonely were void of inferior relationships and the hurting were void of an inferior definition of wholeness. To end up at Yeshua's great feast requires an admittance of the poverty we have outside of His Presence. 

Put on the full armor of God. I do not want any armor on me that isn't on Him. He is giving you grace to let the old armor melt off and to quit seeing yourself as susceptible and to surrender to being vulnerable. 

What if the great feast Jesus spoke of in Luke 14 is actually an invitation into a currently accessible and intended Biblical Christianity rather than a teaser for a far off and futuristic heaven? What if joy unspeakable and full of glory is available in the King's presence RIGHT NOW? 

The earth was designed to shift by people encountering the Christ, not by people encountering your church. The disastrous result of the franchise-based current church growth model is that there is no where for people to go when they need a Bible-sized encounter. I believe God is raising up small companies that are by way of honor being permitted to steward an atmosphere that embraces a degree of presence ideally suited for the poor, outcast, handicapped and blind. Our children are beginning to be exposed to Bible-sized encounters and are growing up realizing that nothing is impossible. 

A revelation of righteousness carries within itself the ability for us to live as the antithesis of who we were before being planted as an oak of righteousness by the Lord. Righteousness essentially means "poor no more." We are no longer broken hearted and we have been liberated from every prison. Righteousness is an official end to a life of mourning and despair. Your ashes do not glorify God and they insult your crown. 

Part Two. We have spent four years saying, "yes" and we are going to spend the next ten years watching what it looks like when Yahweh says, "yes" to us. The Lord spoke to me on 8/8/18 and said, "Today it begins." Between 8/8/18 and 8/8/28 will be the greatest ten years for the advance of the gospel of the Kingdom in the Americas that we have ever seen in history. A decade of outpouring has begun. 

Part One. We are stewarding an atmosphere that releases an encounter that permits an authority for reclamation. When you have a significant enough encounter with His presence, it answers your questions concerning His nature. His nature is the guarantee that your future is secure. 

The glory has overwhelmingly convinced us of His goodness. For 4 years now He has been teaching us in revival about His goodness. He has been hiding us in the cleft of the rock and letting new dimensions of His goodness pass us by. Are you asking Him for a goodness that veils you from people in order that you may get as fully connected to Him as you were designed to be? 

Isaiah 35. This past week I surprised my wife with a trip to the Magnolia Market at the Silos in Waco, TX. For those of you that do not know, there is a couple named Chip and Joanna Gaines that have a popular TV show about flipping houses in Waco, TX. While on this trip I had no idea the Holy Spirit was going to show me some significant things about the culture of the Kingdom we are cultivating here in Carolina. 

In Acts 3 Peter and John went up together to the Beautiful Gate and encountered a man crippled from birth. This story is a prophetic picture of a what happens when people have a collision with a revelation of beloved identity. When a revelation of who Jesus is comes together with a revelation of beloved identity disabilities become abilities. 

Religion creates a culture of methods and as a result we have exchanged manifestations for these methods. Genuine transformation must be authenticated by way of having at its foundation a devotional ascent. Behavior modification is an inheritance of permission to ascend in devotion and devotion will modify behavior 100% of the time. If modified behavior comes as a consequence of methods or strategies you will live the rest of your life trying to maintain your modified behavior. Jesus never came to simply modify your behavior; He came to give you permission to murder the person that used to behave that way.

What if every moment is sacred? What if just me breathing is holy? I am so exclusively His that everything I do and everywhere I go is holy, holy, holy. Me laughing is worship. When I used to think of honoring my Presence encounter, I thought that it meant don't lose it. But remember the parable of the talents? Steward the One you have encountered to such a degree that you now actually generate encounters. 

The encounter created a perspective. The perspective shaped a value system and that value system generated both its own sound and language. Language creates culture and the culture of the Kingdom has its own language. The more we surrender to exclusivity the more we inherit the language that creates a culture.

Has loss caused you to settle for an inferior mountain? Never let what you lost keep you from what you were designed to redeem. Instead of weeping over what we lost, rejoice over what still remains and receive the grace to believe again. 

Don't ask God one more question until you have asked Him about your devotional inconsistency. Do not ask Him about your ministry or your future. Do not ask Him about your health, finances, your destiny or your dreams until you have dealt with this one underlying issue that absolutely uproots everything else: devotional inconsistency. It is time for you to finally say "yes" to the death that generates the resurrection life that takes you into a degree of devotion like you have not ever known before. 

Father's Day 2018. Matthew 9. 

There is no tribe of "Joseph" although he was possibly the most significant son of Jacob. However, two tribes of Israel are named after Joseph's sons. A man that has walked the way of the wilderness and is sufficiently conquered in beloved identity has no interest in naming anything after himself. I refuse to allow my own name to become a brand in ministry. Only slaves have brands. Rather than becoming a brand, I would rather become a father. I would rather have double and it show up in the next generation and be named after my sons. 

"As Pharaoh approached, the people of Israel looked up and panicked when they saw the Egyptians overtaking them. They cried out to the Lord, and they said to Moses, 'Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness?'"  Grace does not create distance between you and your slavery, grace comes to annihilate anything that would dare to hold the child of  the Most High God captive. 

If you cannot simplify your life, your focus will never be single. When we give ourselves to a simple lifestyle it begins to give us grace for singleness of focus. Go back to the real, basic, simple and singular obsession with tending the fire and see if God won't cause everything else to fall into place. 

John 9. A significant encounter births a supernatural transformation. As a result of an unexplainable change in us, religion rejects people who don't see things their way. If we do not find fathers during this rejection, it most often generates bitterness when the rejection was actually intended to permit in us an uncommon longing. The journey into wholeness will not go as it is intended to until the seeker has received the invaluable grace to throw himself at the feet of Jesus. 

Re-gripped. I've done submission but I've yet to do surrender and I am ready to go from submission to surrender. Do you want a covering? Do you just want protection? Do you just want health and prosperity? Or do you want to be gripped to a degree that nothing else matters anymore but to do everything I can to make sure I never escape His grip. As a friend of God, I want to be gripped in a way I have not ever been gripped before. 

"So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed only a few days to him because of the love he had for her." What have we settled for as leaders because our impoverished longings would not enable us to linger? What we have settled for is not what we started out longing for. 

All of them were united in prayer, gripped with one passion, interceding night and day.

If only. If only. If only. It is time to drag our "if only" into the presence of the Lord. If only I had been born into a different family. If only my parent had not died prematurely. If only I didn't struggle with my image. If only my husband had not left me. If only Jesus had intervened. He is saying to you, "If you can dare to stare at Me in the middle of your 'if only' you will see that this story isn't over yet." The goal is not to have an easy life, but to have a trust in the middle of a life filled with "if only." 

Scientists are now learning how to "re-wild" our ecosystems. Ecosystems are now being re-wilded and it is being referred to as "Project Lazarus." We re-wild ecosystems by "re-homing" the native, undomesticated, displaced inhabitants. Many of our ecosystems that were in a massive state of decline are now experiencing what scientists are calling a "revival." A revival is coming to the ecosystems by way of re-homing the undomesticated original inhabitants back to where they were designed to be. Whenever we attempt to domesticate things that God intended to be wild, we begin to have a negative impact on the culture around us. 

Am I navigating by the formula or am I navigating by the Presence. Could this be the most significant question a leader ever asks? We have such a propensity as leaders to grab for a formula working well for someone else rather than staying committed to navigating by a Presence that causes us often to be judged and misunderstood within the very company of people we are called to lead. He doesn't want us consumed with ministry, the growth of the church or success. He wants us consumed with face-to-face communion. 

We are going to keep it about face-to-face. We aren't going to try to figure out how to exploit what has happened here into some type of selfish agenda. I send you into the hidden, secret place of face-to-face communion and may you be satisfied there, not with the measure of production, but with the greatness of the measure of Presence. May we know Him in April like we have never known Him before. 

The Road to Emmaus. Yeshua manifests Himself at least eleven different times to His followers after the Resurrection. We have been taught the extremely necessary revelation of the crucified life within our revival family over the past several years. As essential the revelation of the crucified life is in the journey of the seeker, we must recognize that it is imperative we understand that the crucified life is an access point and not a stopping point. The end goal of Yahweh for the kingdom man is not you crucified, but you resurrected.

Many believers today often confuse having faith in God with having trust in God. Faith in God is the confident belief that He is the sovereign Creator of all things and can and will do what He says. Trust is a willful choice and a deliberate action that can only grow out of your faith. 

Grace for Honor. Evaluate where your heart is as it relates to honor. What adjustments need to be made in the deepest parts of who you are? Do not allow this holy moment of revival we are in to pass you by and learn to honor it the way it deserves to be honored. Let Holy Spirit take you by the hand and walk you into a higher degree of honor. 

Carolina Revival - 2/3/18. The woman in Mark 5 was considered unclean and soiled by the religious crowd around her. She had been conditioned by her issue to hide and not touch anything, but Jesus invited her to the center of His attention and affection. When you go through extreme disappointment, extreme private issues and extreme pain He doesn't want you coping on the fringes. He wants you transformed, made whole, reproducing and He wants your identity restored that your issue stole from you. Jesus called her, "My Beloved Daughter."

Am I as full of faith and expectation as I was the very first time I ever stepped into the Carolina Revival? If revival is not as big of a deal to you as it once was, it is time to make a correction. Yahweh make us hungry. You do not have to be in lack to be hungry. In the middle of abundance, choose hunger again. Grace to get your tears back, get your hunger back and get your awareness of His presence back.

Unknowing and Undoing in the Wilderness

Do you feel like you continually fail to measure up? If you attempt to go into devotion with doubts or questions of how He feels about you, you are setting yourself up for an unending cycle of disappointment. You have a God who is slow to anger, rich in love and good to all. When you fail don't run and hide from Him, run to Him as fast as you can. 

John 12:25. Whenever I thought of God calling me to lose my life I always thought of this in terms of discipline and sacrifice. A tremendous shift has occurred in my heart and now I am beginning to see the invitation to lose my life through the lens of beloved identity. Lose the narcissistic version of life that I have settled for and find the life Yahweh created me for.

Too often we have had illegitimate fathers, ministries or spiritual leadership put their fingerprints on us. As a result all we know how to do is obey the rules and how to color inside the lines and to make sure we don't rock the boat. But God designed you to be wild, undomesticated and authentic. Yahweh is bringing us back to a place of innocence, recovered trust and a clean slate so that He can then put His fingerprints all over us.

How Jesus conscious can we become? Christ centered worship generates expressions of affection greater than anything you have ever experienced. It is time to surrender our entitlement that tries to make ourselves the center of attention and make Jesus the focal point of our affection.

Luther's message was never "reformation." Reformation was a consequence of Luther's message. Initially, Luther had no idea what he was birthing but he knew he was exiting a system. Reformation started with an admittance that the current form was illegitimate. The Reformation was not exclusively a transformation of theological paradigms but it gave permission for men to re-think anything by way of the Spirit.

Religion caused us to stay away from one of Yahweh's favorite things: impossibilities. Could it be that we have missed opportunity after opportunity because we have avoided something that Yahweh specializes in? We have approached impossibilities with gifting rather than with Presence. Gifts never function appropriately without being mixed with Presence.

What are you holding on to? I have withheld from the Father because of fear I would be betrayed, abandoned, let down or rejected again. God is releasing grace to surrender 100%. There is no part of me that I am unwilling to trust Him with and nothing I am holding back and keeping to myself. 

"Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But ONE THING is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her."

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life." This message begins with a spontaneous song from our Sunday morning worship at Hope Chapel. Damon Thompson speaks about getting your expectation back and daring to dream again.

Authentic praise comes out of a people with thanksgiving continually in their mouth. Grumbling and complaining is a sign of entitlement. Choose to come out of isolation and independence and choose to live a life of extraordinary thanksgiving.

Damon and Matt Pettry compare the Garden of Eden and the Garden of Gethsemane. Eden is just on the other side of Gethsemane. Your highest degree of pleasure and delight is just on the other side of your greatest press. In Gethsemane, Jesus sacrificed his personal ministry and destiny for the sake of generational legacy. 

The Mystery of the Gate of Thanksgiving. Although my "Thank You" can never really be enough it can absolutely be my best. What is a moment like the one we are living in really worth and more importantly what are you and I doing to communicate in our day-to-day present realities that Him here with us is the most extraordinary treasure we have ever inherited?

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