Damon Thompson Ministries

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.