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Greetings,

Today I am in Wisconsin. I have had a wonderful few days with a very close friend, a blessed family reunion on Saturday, and a privilege to speak to a precious community of church believers yesterday. God is truly good!

Jesus made a way for us to live in and from the manifest presence of God in our lives as a dwelling place of God’s Spirit. The throne room of God is in heaven and in our hearts. Our access to heaven is not just when we die. It is a daily access from within our hearts. Whether we are Jews or Gentiles, we have been brought near to God through the sacrificed blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus gave the full life of His flesh so that we could receive the full life of His Spirit. We are no longer bound to being individuals of the flesh. We are welcomed by our heavenly Father to be members of the body of Christ. The body of Christ is the dwelling place of God’s Spirit in heaven and upon the earth. As sons and daughters of God we are in this world, but we are no longer bound to the strongholds and limitations of this world.

Ephesians 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

The prophets in these verses are the prophets of the Old Covenant. The apostles are the firstfruit sending authority of the New Covenant. The one body of Christ made of Jews and Gentiles is the testimony of God’s plan for the generations of humanity. This is the really good news given to us by God through the sacrifice of God’s Son, Jesus the Christ.

We are a holy temple in the Lord. We are part of something that is being built by God. God is the builder and maker of a heavenly city. He is the one who builds a heavenly community in the midst of the nations of the world. As sons and daughters of God we live daily as the body of Christ by the authority of God’s eternal plan established in heaven.

Revelation 4:4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads.

The church is built on the foundation of these twenty-four elders, and they’re clothed in white robes. They’re clothed in Christ. They’re clothed in the testimony of Christ, and they have crowns on their heads.

I have a personal experience with this, because in October of 1999, I was sitting in my office, and I had a personal experience concerning my great grandfather. I didn’t really know anything about my great-grandfather. I was just sitting in my office doing some studying, and I had an open-eyed vision of my great-grandfather. I knew in my heart that I was experiencing something of him. I saw him in heaven, and he was getting credit for everything I was doing in Christ. He was crying, he was weeping, he was saying, no, no, it’s not me, it’s you, Jesus! I saw a crown on his head, and he threw it to Jesus, and he said, it’s not me, it’s You Jesus! My feeling was that my great-grandfather was receiving a gift, an offering of love to Jesus, because I just loved Jesus. One of his descendants just loved Jesus, and he got credit for it, and he was able to give the honor of that love to Jesus. I thought, oh, God, you’re kidding me! Heaven is like that! It seemed like, it gets better, because it’s not disconnected from what’s happening still. So, I had this open-eyed vision and then I received a book in the mail from my sister. The title of the book was, Fifty Years in America, Men Who Count. In the book was a story of my great-grandfather’s conversion to Christ in 1861. My great-grandfather led a movement called the Haugean movement. They were called the Praying Lutherans, the Awakened. My great grandfather was saved in a tent meeting. He went into a tent, and the women in the tent began to pray. They said, if Osten Hansen can become holy, anyone can. They began to pray. He stood up in the middle of the tent meeting. He said, I’ve been a man of wild character, but I want to become a Christian.

He came to Christ. He was 19 years old. He was a farmer. He continued to farm until he was 26. He had so many people coming to him with questions about Christ that he ended up going into full-time ministry. He started a training school that lasted 72 years, which became a seminary with the Lutheran church. He led the Haugeans, a group of Norwegian Lutherans inspired by a man known as the Martin Luther of Norway (Hans Nielsen from the village of Houge).

I have another novel that I’ve received since called, All of Julia’s Children. It’s about a Norwegian immigrant family in Minnesota, and their pastor was my great-grandfather. They said, the Hougeans were very serious people, but not so Pastor Hanson. He was always the life of the party. He was always laughing. He would be preaching, and then he’d break into song. Then he would preach, and he’d break into song. I thought, I received free stuff!

So I believe that this experience of the elders around the throne is right now. What is in heaven is not disconnected from that which is in the earth. We can expect this same testimony for our children and our children’s children because we live in and from the presence of God in the throne room of His grace.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

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www.ted4you.com or

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Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

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Greetings,

Happy Father’s day to all the dads out there. We had a good Father’s day at Alife Church yesterday. I was blessed to speak and I had a wonderful lunch with family after the morning service. God in our lives brings the blessings of God to our lives in every way.

Revelation 4:3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; …

There’s a throne set in heaven, and one sat on the throne and he who sat there was like a jasper and a sardis stone. Now these words are kind of like Charlie Brown’s dog listening to Charlie Brown. The words sound something like; wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. That’s what you just heard – a jasper and a sardis stone. Now I’ve gone to Jesus, and I’ve said, tell me about this. Tell me what this is. I found that the jasper is likely the stone of the tribe of Naphtali and that the sardis is the stone of Judah. The prophetic word spoken over Naphtali in Genesis 49 was that he’ll be like a deer set loose and he would use beautiful or goodly words. Now the word Naphtali means he who wrestles. I used to wrestle. At times I still wrestle. But when I come into the presence of God, my wrestling is over and I’m like a deer set loose and He gives me goodly words. He gives me good life-giving expressions. I’m more than a conqueror because Jesus has conquered.

So He says, come in, come in, come into My presence. Meet Me in the shop. Meet Me in the garage. Meet Me in your living room. Meet Me in your dining room. Meet Me in your workplace. In My Father’s house, there’s many spacious places. Those spacious places are where we personally meet God in our lives. He says, I want you to know Me today. I want you to experience Me and I want you to experience being like a deer set loose and being able to speak goodly words. That’s Naphteli. He says, I want you to become My praise. That’s Judah. That’s good news. That’s a daily reality.

Revelation 4:3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne…

There’s a rainbow around the throne. Oh my goodness. This rainbow doesn’t have six colors. It has seven. It’s the same rainbow that was set in the clouds after Noah came out of the ark and God said, never again will I destroy all flesh with a flood. He didn’t say, never again will there be a flood. He said, never again will I destroy all flesh with a flood. He put His rainbow in the cloud as a sign of a greater promise. That promise was to transform flesh to a testimony of God by the working of Holy Spirit. The rainbow represents Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is a sevenfold spirit. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel, the Spirit of Might, the Spirit of Knowledge as an intimacy, and the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord as in awe of God (Isa. 11:1, 2). Holy Spirit is a perfecting Spirit. God says, never again will I destroy all flesh because I don’t need to. I made a means by which I’m going to transform all flesh to become a testimony of My goodness. I’m going to give you My desires. I’m going to free you from the temptation to fear death. I’m going to give you the ability to have wisdom that’s based on faith toward Me. I’m going to submerge you in My presence and make you a testimony of Me. I’m going to cause you to be My sons and daughters of light, that you shine like light in the darkness, to be a map and a highway that leads people to safety and home. I’m going to cause you to be those who are My resurrection life that can’t be distracted by things that are simply temporary and trying to destroy you. I’m going to make you a part of an intimate community to love Me and to love one another. I’m going to make you a partner with Me to reign in life.

Revelation 4:3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.

This is the experience around the throne room of God. This is an experience for all who embrace the New Covenant life of God in Christ. It is true every day. We can know what it is to be a deer set loose with goodly words. We can become the praise of God in our world. We can experience Holy Spirit working in our lives each day. The rainbow around God’s throne gives an appearance of emerald, it’s in the appearance of green – life, life, life, life, life! When you look at the walls of the of the space that you live in, you see life, life, life, life, life, life. This is the testimony we can know when we choose to embrace a life of connection to God in Christ. We can live in and from the presence of God in our journey of life.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

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Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

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Greetings,

We had a great weekend in Bellingham. The sun has been shining brightly, and it feels a bit like summer. We had a weekend of healing training at Alife and many people came eager and willing to receive and give to others the life of God’s healing love. We saw several healings and testimonies as people went out into the streets.

God wants us all to live in and from His manifest presence in our lives. We come to God through Jesus Christ the Son. This enables us to know God as our Father. The reality of knowing God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son is the testimony of eternal life. It is made possible by Holy Spirit dwelling in us in this world. There is an open door in heaven, and we must respond to the call of God to live in and from His presence in our hearts to experience the New Covenant testimony of intimacy with God in Christ. That heavenly door is found in the human heart by the grace of God made possible through the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God for our sins. Our disconnection from God is healed by our connection to God in Christ.

Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”

When we choose to come to that place made real for us in Christ we hear a voice. That voice is the voice of Jesus made known by God’s Spirit in our hearts. His voice is like a trumpet. The trumpet is a symbol for prophecy. What is prophecy? God speaks; life happens. Many times we turn prophecy into some religious sounding thing. We change our voice. We make it sound weird, but it’s simply when God speaks, life happens.

There’s two ways He speaks to us in the sound of the trumpet. One is as the shofar. The shofar is a horn from a dead animal. That means it died, but when the wind of the Spirit blows through it there is a testimony of being born as something new by God’s Spirit. I’m back! I live! I cannot die! The wind of God’s Spirit gives us new life, eternal life, resurrection life in every moment of our journey in this world.

Before I was diagnosed with my recent cancer situation, God spoke to me on my morning run one day, because there’s an open door to Jesus in my heart. He said, Son, there’s nothing in your life that can end in death because you have eternal life. It’s not simply one day that you have eternal life. You have eternal life now! Eternal life is knowing Me as your Father, and knowing Jesus, the Son. That’s eternal life. So you don’t just have life, you have life that cannot die.

That’s a pretty good deal for anyone. That means on bad days, it’s going to end up in life. That means on the day you die; you’re going to end up in life. There’s no situation that can end up in death in your life because you’ve embraced a personal relationship with eternal life. That’s great. This is the testimony of eternal life.

There is a second testimony seen in the prophetic symbolism of the trumpet. The trumpet is also something that changes your character. The silver hammered trumpet was a trumpet that you fashion and shape. You don’t weld it, you hammer it and shape it from one piece of silver. This is a testimony to Christ being formed in you. Christ is being formed in us by the work of Holy Spirit in our lives. Love is being formed in you and me. Forgiveness is being formed in us. We are not just receiving life; we’re becoming life givers. Someone who has been forgiven can be hammered and shaped by forgiveness to give the life of forgiveness to others. We’re being shaped, we’re being hammered by love. He’s fashioning and forming us with love and mercy. Our character is changing.

The silver trumpet is what they used to bring the sound of direction in battle. This trumpet sounded to turn to the right, to the left, go straight forward, or retreat. It was something that could give directions. The change of the character of your life into the character of Christ makes you able to be someone that we can follow. Others can hear the sound that signals to go to the right, go to the left, go straight forward, or retreat. The sound of the presence of Christ in your life is like a trumpet and the Spirit of God is saying, come up here, I’ll show you things.

Revelation 4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

The qualifier for our coming is Jesus. It is not by our works that we qualify. It is by His love. Romans chapter eight says, there is now therefore no more condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Some translations add the statement, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. The Textus Receptus Greek added that phrase, but some of the older Greek texts don’t even have that phrase. Now it is true that when we don’t walk according to the Spirit, we can feel disconnected and we can begin to experience some condemnation, but we don’t even need to add that part. Let’s just keep it simple. There is now therefore no more condemnation to those who are in Christ. So we have immediate access to God in the Spirit whenever we choose to come to Him and live in and from His presence. This a New Covenant testimony for all who come to Him in Christ.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

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Greetings,

I have had another blessed week in Bellingham. I am home for a while, since I am undergoing some treatment for prostate cancer. This has been for a bit, but we are getting closer to our full victory. God is good and my time at home is a fresh time of focus on God and enjoying His blessings in the midst of what could be a difficult time. As children of God we have a Father who loves us and knows our every need. His goodness reveals His glory in our lives.

We’re blessed in heavenly places with an administration of grace in the calling, the inheritance, and the purpose of Christ. Beneath our feet are principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, and every name that is named. Jesus is Lord of every circumstance and situation in our lives. As the body of Christ, we have the authority of the life of Christ in every aspect of our lives. We’re blessed with God to reign in this world with a power of heaven that’s stronger than all the powers that we face in this world.

We’re alive in Christ in heavenly places to walk in the works of Christ, which means we walk in the ability to bring life to our world as the body of Christ built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. We are a furtherance of that which was the first fruits of the New Covenant and the ceiling of the Old Covenant in order to be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. It is an increasing testimony of inheritance and purpose. We live in the authority of Christ to teach the manifold wisdom of God to principalities and powers in heavenly places. Our lifestyle and the fruit of God’s direction in our lives teaches principalities and powers the manifold wisdom of God. Our lives demonstrate the grace of God at work that testifies of how to get from impossible situations to tomorrow.

We are testimonies of God’s love to the realm of the heavens. The power of Christ works in us to do the ministry of Christ. We’re children of light filled with the Spirit, with the testimony of the church, the co-reigning partner with Jesus, our head.

As everyday people in an everyday world, we’re clothed in the Holy Spirit with the armor of life for the victory of life in all things. That’s Ephesians chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”

There is an open door right now for everyone. Even if you don’t believe in Jesus, there’s an open door and He’s saying, come on in, come on up, come to Me! Jesus is standing so that we can stand in Him. He’s an open door to the love and blessing of our Father in heaven. He is the way, the truth, and the life for us all in every situation. He says to each of us, I want you to come on up here. I want you partner with Me and for you to know Me partnering with you.

In Christ we face things we’re going through. I’m going through some things right now. I’m going through some cancer treatment. I’ve canceled my travels and I’m having to deal with some things. My daily routine begins by running six miles in the morning. So I still run my six miles in the morning before I go in for my cancer treatment. While I’m running my six miles, I communicate with God, and I choose to begin my day to understand there’s an open door for me to experience Him.

As it says in Hebrews 4.16, I can boldly come to the throne of grace where I can receive God’s mercy and find His grace to help me in my time of need. I find His manifest presence to help me in my time of need. This is a revelation of Jesus Christ.

Our partnership is with God through Jesus as the body of Christ. Jesus is the Amen, so He declares the end from the beginning. He is the Faithful One, so we depend upon His faithfulness in all things. He is the True Witness and thus every false witness and lie is removed from our lives in the process of our relationship with Him in our everyday world. Jesus is the Beginning of the Creation of God so anything that needs to be created today can be made new by Him and in Him for the glory of God in our world.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today is Memorial Day. I pray a special peace and blessing to all of you who have suffered loss at the sacrifice made for our nation by someone you know. May those who have experienced that kind of pain be comforted by God’s presence. I thank and honor all who have given such a sacrifice.

Last week I presented that God’s presence in our lives is more important than the fulfillment of His promises in our lives. Moses understood that the presence of God would grant him a knowledge of the ways of God. Knowing God’s works will not necessarily enable us to know God’s ways, but knowing God’s ways will also give us access to the authority and power of God’s works. The glory of God is revealed in His ways not merely the power of His works.

When Moses asked for God to see His glory, God put Moses in a rock to keep Him safe for the ways of men cannot comprehend the ways of God in His glory. God’s presence kept Moses safe as Moses found a place by God where he could stand.

Exodus 33:21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”

We cannot see the glory of God from a distance. We must find our place by God where He empowers us to stand in the rock of Christ as a member of the body of Christ. God’s glory will change us to become a testimony of God’s character, nature, way, power, and authority. It was in the glory of God that God wrote upon the tables of stone the values of a love for God and a love for others. It was in the manifest presence of God that the glory of God came as a mystery to change the way of Moses.

Exodus 34:5-7 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Here we find the introduction to the name of God is “the Lord, the Lord God”. In the Stone’s edition of the Hebrew Torah, the rabbinical commentators address this double “Lord” as implying to the love and goodness of God. They state that when the Lord is put in this double context it implies two things. It means that God is the one who forgives us before we sin knowing the full extent of everything we are ever going to do, and He forgives us after we sin knowing the full extent of everything we have ever done. The very first experience, atmosphere, ambiance, and reality received when we experience God’s presence in our lives is one of forgiveness. What a wonderful thing! The verses go on to read that God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abounding in goodness, and abounding in truth. These are all wonderful experiences that flood our lives when God comes to us. These things are the essence of God’s glory. Jesus made a way for us to come near to God and experience these things! We have been reconciled to God in Him. The final verse of this passage reads that God keeps His mercy for thousands. The term “thousands” is an interesting symbolic and prophetic number in Scripture. It implies an aspect of eternity. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Ps. 50:10), meaning He owns all the cattle. God is God to a thousand generations (1 Chr. 16:15; Ps. 105:8), meaning He is God forever. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, meaning His day has no end. Here we see that God wants to show mercy for thousands. He wants to show mercy to everyone, and He wants to show mercy forever!

God forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. These three things are often confused, but they are different. They are progressively linked, but it is the testimony of sin that leads to death. Iniquity is the weakness that leads to transgression. Transgression is a rebellion in the human heart that leads to sin. The wage of sin is death. God does not kill sinners; sin kills them. Being disconnected from life results in the consequence of death. Where there is iniquity there will be transgression, and where there is transgression there will be sin. God in His amazing character, nature, way, power, and authority comes to forgive us fully. This is even to the root of our sin, the weakness of our hearts.

The next phrase in this verse is not out of context with the preceding descriptions. It says that God does not clear but rather visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and fourth generation. The words “the guilty” are not in the original but are meant to clarify what He does not clear. It is somewhat accurate, but it must be taken into consideration in the context of the previous descriptions. It can only be understood in the context of forgiveness, mercy, grace, longsuffering, abundant goodness, abundant truth, and eternal pardon. It is not a judgment to destroy the person, but a judgment to destroy the root of iniquity that leads to sin. It is simply what happens to the iniquity when God visits it. God’s presence eradicates the flaws and heals the heart and mind.

If your Bible translation uses the word “sin” for “iniquity” here it is in error to the original. It is the Hebrew word “avon” (iniquity) and not the word “chattaah” (sin). It is the flaw within us that causes us to come to sin. It is the weakness, or the propensity to transgress that leads to sin. Think of it as a characteristic that has the potential of becoming your character. You may have inherited a negative characteristic, but it doesn’t have to become your character. God wants to visit the place of weakness and transform it to become a place of His strength and testimony. The weakness is your place of dependency upon God that can lead to greater life when you depend upon Him. It doesn’t have to become your character. You can be a scribe in the kingdom of God that unlocks the door to new things in your family line that have never been seen, heard, or thought before. You can restore things antique and lost before your time in your family destiny (Mt. 13:52). Experiencing the presence of God will change our character. This is the glory of God!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

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3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

We had a great day yesterday at Alife. Pastor Jonathan released some powerful prophetic words and gave a great message concerning being hungry for God. We must stir up our hunger for Him. God desires to do amazing things. We must be hungry for Him to know Him the way He desires to reveal Himself to us in lives.

God Himself is more valuable than all of His promises. God Himself is more important than all of our victories. If God is for us, who can be against us but Him being for us is a testimony of His love and not merely His power! We have a New Covenant in Christ. In Christ, we are a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. Being the place that God lives is the place of His favor. It is a place of grace.

The Old Covenant was a covenant of law and human conscience. The New Covenant is a covenant of grace and truth. Grace is the manifest presence of God in our lives that changes us and changes the world in which we live. Truth is the testimony that we become because God’s presence abides in us and with us. God’s grace will empower us to subdue in life. To subdue is to destroy all manner of death by the authority and power of God’s life. Truth crumbles every lie, and truth is the force of dominion in all things. Grace and truth are a testimony of God’s love at work in our lives. They are not merely a testimony of God’s power.

These things were a promise given in the Old Covenant, but a reality discovered in that which is new. Although these things were not common in the Old Covenant, some who sought the presence of God discovered them in their time. They tasted of the good thing to come before that good thing had fully come to our world. Moses was such a man. The scripture says that Moses was a friend of God and that He knew not just the works of God, but the ways of God. Moses desired grace in a day of law.

Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”

Moses new that the grace of God would be to have God’s presence with him and the people at all times. God had said He would send His Angel before Moses and drive out all of the enemies of the land, but He would not go with Moses and the people because the people were stiff-necked before Him (Ex. 33:1-5). Moses wasn’t interested in just the promises of God. He wasn’t looking for deliverance from all his enemies. He was longing for and looking for the presence of God in all things. Moses appealed to God and God said that He would grant Moses his wish.

Exodus 33:14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.” 17 So the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

The character of Moses appealed to the character of God and thus the name of Moses was the name of a friend to God. Grace is the manifest presence of God in or lives that transforms us from what was, into something new in Christ. Grace changes our lives! Mercy is a judgment that frees us from the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death is the reality of death that happens when we live our lives separate from the presence of God. Grace comes to us because of the law of life and peace in Christ Jesus. There is no gap between us and God. He is our loving Father and our connection to Him reveals us to be His family. We are sons and daughters of God for His glory that comes by the power of His grace. Grace is the power of God’s presence in our lives that gives us life and liberty in Christ. God’s grace will perfect our lives. God’s grace can be multiplied in our lives. Grace is the testimony of God’s glory. Grace is the working of God’s love made known in our lives!

Moses appealed to God that he might see His glory. The glory of God is seen as the goodness of God in our lives. When we see God’s goodness, we become a testimony of God’s goodness in and to our world.

Exodus 33:18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.” 19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

We want Your presence more than anything God! Show us Your glory that we might know Your ways, walk in your paths with You, live with hearts that are for Your will, and influence our world with the testimony of Your grace. We were born to be loved by You that we might be transformed by Your love to love You and to love others as ourselves.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I hope you find yourself in a great day today. I was blessed this past weekend to perform a wedding for a dear friend who has waited patiently for God’s redemptive plan in his life. It was a wonderful day and God’s presence brought an atmosphere of celebration that was pure, holy, and full of life. God is a redemptive Father and Friend.

When we look to the Light, we live in the light! We are children of the Day, and not the night. We can, therefore, have an expectation of new things and new measures of life for a time called TODAY! We must turn towards the day and away from what was in the past to discover the radiance of what is NEW and NOW for TODAY! God’s story in our lives always ends in light.

Our relationship with God as our Father is a story of redemption. It is not merely a story of how things always go right in life. It is a story of how our loving Father works all things for good in our lives. This is a testimony of redemption. Not all things are good. Many things are bad, but God’s promise as our creative Father is to work things out for good according to His purpose in our lives. What was not the purpose of God in our lives ends up revealing a greater glory of God’s purpose because of God’s great love.

Jesus paid a price for the redemptive will of our heavenly Father in our lives. He paid the price as the Son of Man/Son of God to enable us to experience the redemptive purpose of God our Father in our lives. As children of God, we can expect to be a part of Christ’s inheritance for the glory of God in all things. Holy Spirit is the presence of God with us, in us, and even clothing us as a garment of life upon us to reveal God’s true story of redemptive love in our lives.

Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10 and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.”

Those who sing the song of the redeemed are the twenty-four elders and the living creatures around the throne of God. These are not merely angels in heaven, but the testimony of us as sent ones through God’s grace by the authority of the resurrection life of Christ made known to us from God’s throne of grace. These are the foundation of the church (Eph. 2:19-21), and the continuing body of Christ in heaven and on earth. They are the testimony of the redemption of God. These are kings and priests to their God for the testimony of God’s glory in all things. These are those who live in a continual partnership with God in all things. God’s promise is not that we will one day be kings and priests to our God, but kings and priests today and into eternity.

This is a season of partnership with God. Our partnership with God will reveal His redemption in surprising ways of testimony because God’s story in our lives is always one of redemption. God allows the circumstances of our lives to be less than perfect so that His perfect love can be revealed to and through us in an imperfect world.

Revelation 1:4 Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Our partnership with Jesus is a partnership with Holy Spirit who comes to us and abides in us in Jesus’ name. He is revealed as the Lord, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Might, Intimate Knowledge, and an Awe of God in all things. That partnership will empower us to see God’s redemptive testimonies and purposes by the grace of His sevenfold Spirit at all times and in every season of our lives. We live as priests in our ability to receive His heavenly presence that empowers us to be a dwelling place of His Spirit in our world. We live as kings in our influence to our world through our partnership with God as a dwelling place of His Spirit. By these things, God’s redemptive will and plan is made known in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I am home for a while in Bellingham. We were blessed at Alife to have our dear friend Andrew Shearman and his wife Mo with us. I have knowing Andrew and Mo for 34 years. Andrew’s message in life is one of being born to be loved by God. Andrew challenged us with a word on Jabez. We cannot let the pain in our lives deter us from being a blessing to our world. It was a blessed weekend here in Bellingham.

Our relationship with God is not merely about knowing what to do in life. If the main point of knowing God is knowing what to do in life, our goal is human pride and independence. Knowing what to do is not the most important thing in life. Knowing God as a being and knowing His love is! Our connection to God is about knowing Him. Knowing God will give us a wisdom for life. Knowing God will give us a knowledge of Him, and it is a knowledge of God that gives us true understanding. These things are discovered in His presence and His presence grants us an awe of knowing His greatness. An awe of God is the fruit of being loved by Him that gives us a revelation of His love in our hearts and minds.

Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

The fear of the Lord is not the fear of circumstances. It’s not a fear of being in trouble with Him. The fear of the Lord is an experience that comes by being captured by His love. It is through an experience with God in our lives that we walk in the benefits of knowing Him.

We discover the wisdom of God through an awe of God in our lives. Wisdom and knowledge will give us understanding. Understanding is a path to our feet, but it is all dependent upon finding God in our minds. Whatever is in the center of our world will determine what our world becomes. Man does not have the answers for the hope and life that humanity needs. These things come by the inspiration of God in our lives. The answers that we need are not the goal. The goal is knowing God and knowing God will give us whatever answers we need for the challenges of each day in our path of life. Every season of our lives is dependent upon finding God in that season.

Proverbs 2:10 When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, 11 discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, 13 from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked; 15 whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths; 16 to deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, 17 who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

The immoral woman is not an individual person. She is a way of life. The seductress is not some person that leads us astray. She is a temptation to the perceived needs of our hearts and minds. She is the way of distraction that can never satisfy. She is a deceiving spirit that seeks to draw us away from knowing the love of God. The true lover of our souls is God! He is the One who will lead us in the path of life, and this is the day to find Him in the center of all that we are and do. By this, and only by this, can we find the path to life!

When we make the needs of our life the goal of our life, we fall into a trap of missing the treasures that we have never seen, heard of, or thought of before. An experience with God will give us the grace of knowing Him in a way that invites us into a partnership with Him for His way and will in our lives. Jesus is knocking on the door of our hearts that we might know a partnership with God as our Father, our Lord, our Savior, our Helper, and our Friend. When we know the awe of His presence, we become impassioned with a zeal for His house. We become impassioned to live to be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit in our world. It is not merely about going to heaven when we die. It is about becoming a heavenly place of God purpose and will while we live!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today I am home in Bellingham. It has been a wonderfully sunny week. I have done my spring work, and the garden will soon be growing. It is the season of new life. The natural world is a good reminder of God’s plan for new seasons of life in the world in which we live.

I have been addressing the need to partner with God in all things. I believe this is a season to partner with God in a deeper way. Partnership with God is not a matter of partnership for works. It is a partnership of intimacy with Him. Friendship with God will surely empower us to do works that testify of Him but knowing Him is the goal. Knowing Him will empower us to live for Him, for His purpose, and for His will in all things.

The church of Laodicea was said to be lukewarm in their relationship with God. Their works were not a substitute for an intimate relationship with Him.

Revelation 3:15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.”

The testimony of this church was seen in their works. Their works were a manifestation of their motive for doing them. They were not motivated by love but by a self-righteousness exhibited through half-hearted ceremonial works of mere religion. Their works were not works of faith but works of the flesh. Faith is the testimony of a personal relationship with God whereby we hear Him in our hearts. Faith is the testimony of being a son or daughter of God. It is by being God’s sons and daughters that we are able to find our true identity, testimony, and purpose. It is through a personal relationship of faith towards God that we find the works that God has prepared for us. These are works empowered by a personal relationship with God in Christ.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

God wants us to seek Him in all things, because He wants us to find Him in all things. He wants us to come alive in Him and to be transformed by Him in all things. He wants us to move forward in our lives from every today into every new tomorrow. This process involves finding God’s presence in our lives every day. God’s presence will give us God’s wisdom for each day. God’s wisdom in our lives is empowered by the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of wisdom in our lives. The Spirit of wisdom is testified through the faith that rises in our hearts when we hear His voice internally. We may not even be able to articulate what He has said, but something of a new desire and vision begins to rise from within. These things happen when we find the place of seeing God in the reality of His greatness. An awe of God is the beginning of knowledge, and that knowledge is the ability to be aware, and even wittingly aware, of the greatness of God’s thoughts present in our hearts and minds.

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The fear of the Lord is an awe of His presence in our lives. It is an awe for His glory and a zealous willingness to fulfill His will in all things. An awe of God is the beginning of wisdom. That wisdom is an internal substance of things hoped for with thoughts, strategies, desires, imaginations, and emotions of faith that can’t be denied. This kind of wisdom doesn’t come from being smart, it comes from the greatness of God’s presence in our lives. We need God’s presence in our world in order for us to find the path of life that God has for us in this world. This is a time to find God’s presence and allow Him to inspire us with knowledge and wisdom that brings about His future and hope.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Yesterday was Easter, and I hope you had a blessed weekend celebrating Jesus in His resurrection and the life we have in Him. Pastor Jonathan gave an awesome word regarding the purpose of the death of Jesus and His covenant of life with us for eternity. It was a blessed day at Alife in Bellingham.

Jesus came to free us from the power of selfish desires, self-preserving actions, bitter responses, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways. These things are a testimony of a life in the flesh. Jesus came to free us from the life of the flesh and grant us the power of His grace to give us lives empowered by God’s Spirit. God wants us to be led by His Spirit with life-giving desires, actions of faith, responses to God’s transforming presence, life-giving connections, identity in Christ, community inspired by a communion of love, and a partnership in humility with God in all things to reign in all matters of our lives. For this to happen, Jesus gave the life of His flesh. He shed blood in seven ways to give us the power of Holy Spirit in seven manifestations of God’s grace.

1. JESUS SWEAT DROPS OF BLOOD – He was wounded for our transgressions. Jesus shed great drops of blood like sweat in the garden of Gethsemane (Lk. 22:39). In Gethsemane Jesus won back our will power; the Spirit of the Lord and a grant of repentance from dead works was given to us. His gift to us is a desire from within through a revelation of His love for us.
2. JESUS SHED BLOOD INTERNALLY (Lk. 22:63) – He was bruised for our iniquity. They beat Him. They blindfolded Him so that He couldn’t see with His natural eyes, because humanity was bound to the fear that comes from what we see. Jesus’ bruises won our deliverance from inner hurts, iniquities, our propensities to fail, and our source of human wisdom in order to give us God’s wisdom of faith toward God. The Spirit of Wisdom in Christ gives faith to overcome the fear of death. Our faith is empowered by a revelation of His love that gives us love for Him in our hearts.
3. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM SCOURGING (Jn. 19:1) – the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we were healed. He was fully submerged in human blood so we could be fully submerged in His Spirit of life. The stripes on Jesus’ body won back our health and a testimony of a holy body transformed by God’s submerging grace. The Spirit of Understanding in Christ transforms our lives with many testimonies through the submerging of the Holy Spirit.
4. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM HIS HEAD (Jn. 19:2) – Jesus shed blood to break the curse of human control and liberate our lives to His headship of life. He gave us back the power of light to darkness and the testimony of lives submitted to the headship of the Father. His crown of thorns won back our prosperity, our ability to be givers of life as those submitted to His headship of Life in all things. The Spirit of Counsel in Christ empowers our hands with life-giving authority to our world.
5. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM HIS HANDS (Jn. 19:17)! With a crown of thorns and a robe of purple He was presented to the world. ‘The Resurrection’ faced the death of the cross. The hands that give life overpowered the curse of thorns and thistles that day. Jesus shed blood from the hands of resurrection life to redeem us from the curse of death, fleshly distractions, circumstantial rule, and crisis management. Jesus’ pierced hands won back dominion over the things we touch and secured our ability to know the power of His resurrection Might in all that we are and do.
6. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM HIS FEET – for the standing of all men. He shed blood from His feet so all men could stand in a relationship of intimacy with God and intimacy with each other. Living Bread stood on the nails of sweat and human will. He stood as the judgment of love upon the nail of the judgment of right and wrong. His pierced feet won back dominion over the places we walk, that we might freely give the Bread of Life to all we meet. We stand in the eternal judgment of eternal life for all men.
7. JESUS SHED BLOOD (AND WATER) FROM HIS SIDE (Jn. 19:34). Just as the Adam of dust was put to sleep and out of his side came the rib of flesh – from the side of Jesus came the living water of the Church. Jesus’ pierced side won back our joy and the testimony of a face-to-face relationship with Him in life. We are being perfected in Him to rule now and into eternity. The bride of Christ is the body of Christ, and we are co-heirs with Him in the destiny of the family name!

Jesus went down to the grave. They put Him in a tomb. But on the third day, He walked into a room where there were many fearful friends (Jn. 20:19). He walked into His family’s house, and He came to announce to them, “I shed blood for you. I’ve broken the curse in your life. I’ve bought back your will, and it is yours to love me. I’ve bought back your acts and now you can live from your heart with acts of love. I’ve bought back your testimony so you can be supernatural in a natural world. I bought back your inheritance to give the life of your Father to others in this world. I’ve come to tell you that I’ve bought back the power over apathy so you can be empowered from within with an awareness of my presence in your life. I bought back the intimacy of life and communion of the Spirit with me and with My family in this world. I bought back your ability to reign in life so your children and your children’s children can know My increasing glory in their lives. I’ve come to make you of One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father, One God Above All, One God Through All, and One God in All.”

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728