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Greetings,

I have now finished a wonderful and fruitful time in Angola, Africa. I am blessed to see how God has been working and continues to work in the family of God here. These are my friends, and they are growing in embracing God as their friend and in being friends to Him and His children. The life-giving, life-empowering, foundations of Christ are working in the lives of God’s family here. I look forward to coming again in April.

I believe that this is a year of partnership. That partnership is with God and with one another for His purpose and will in all things. To partner with one another we must first partner with God and allow Him to partner with us in all that is ours for His purpose and will in all things. Without Him we will fail to see the life that God has for us, but with Him even what every enemy intends for evil can be turned for good according to His purpose and glory. He is knocking on the door of our hearts, and He wants us to open the door and allow Him to enter our place of dwelling and to feast at our table.

Romans 5:17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the Amen, so what He says is the end. He is the Faithful, so all things work by His faithfulness and not our endurance in the flesh. He is the True Witness, so every false witness and every lie is destroyed by His presence in our lives. He is the Beginning of the creation of God, so everything that seems to have ended can be created new today for His glory. This is the testimony of the seventh letter to the churches in Revelation.

Revelation 3:14 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:”

This letter is a message from the Holy Spirit as the Fear of the Lord to the church of Laodicea. The name Laodicea means “just people”. The language of this letter relates to the time of the life of Jesus on earth, as well as the first-century church. The condition of those who were called to be the people of God was that of Pharisaic religion. They professed to be God’s chosen, but their pride was in their memorization of the Law and their pretend obedience to being people of justice. In the English language we can do a play of words with this name. A form of godliness that adheres to a system of the knowledge of right and wrong is a justice administration of death. It lacks a partnership with God and His love, and it leaves them bound to a testimony of being merely people. They are not a testimony of being the people of God, but they are just people like everyone else in the world that is bound to law or lawlessness. They have no means of prevailing in a testimony of mercy or grace. Those are bound to this administration don’t desire to partner with God because they see themselves as justified in their own ways. They don’t see their ways as needing to change but justify their convictions by their judgments of others.

Revelation 3:15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—

The people of the church of Laodicea were reprimanded for their lukewarm condition. They were neither cold as the world, nor were they hot as the living in Christ. They had adopted a form of godliness without the power or presence of God. They were not seeking a partnership with God because they had embraced a foundation in their lives of knowing the truth and being right. It was upon that foundation that they refused to see Jesus or the first-century church as a valid testimony of God’s love.

They failed to see their own need for mercy so they were bound to a condition of death that could not find grace. Mercy is a judgment that frees us from an administration of death that comes by a knowledge of good and evil. Grace is the manifest presence of God that changes everything in our lives. One has to experience mercy to be able to show mercy to others. One has to know mercy in their own hearts to be able to find a partnership with God in His grace.

Embracing an administration of law or lawlessness in a time of grace is lukewarm. To adhere to the Old Covenant in the day of the New Covenant was an act calling down all the curses of the Old Covenant upon their lives. Law in the day of GRACE is nothing less than death according to the LAW. Jesus fulfilled the law by giving His own life for us as sinners. He fulfilled the law by showing us mercy because He was a Man in partnership with His heavenly Father through the power of Holy Spirit.

Without a passion to invite God into every area and decision of our lives, we are bound to the error of our old ways. Any justice system that measures others by our own pride of being right will end in death. The law is a killer and only God’s Spirit gives life! This is a year of partnership with God. To partner with God we must acknowledge our need to let go of our justice system of law or lawlessness and invite Him into our lives to receive a passion and zeal for His purposes and will in all things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am in Angola. I have had a wonderful weekend here seeing God work in His love with some wonderful members of my Angolan family in Christ. God is great, God is good, and His love endures forever! Thank you to all who have participated in the gatherings we have had so far. Today I have begun a week of training here with leaders in the body of Christ.

I believe that this year is a year to embrace a partnership with God in a greater way to be able to enter into the new things that God is doing today. I believe that this is a year of seeing the fruit of things that we have believed for in our past. Our endurances to stand fast with the hope of God’s glory will prevail in new and unexpected ways. We will enter into things that are new that are the joy that was before. Things that we have suffered to see, things that we have believed for, will be created now in a new way because of a partnership with God. When we partner with God for His purpose and will, He partners with us to fulfill His purpose and will in our lives. This is a season of answered prayers!

God is knocking at the door of our hearts, and He wants us to open the door and allow Him to feast with us in every aspect of our lives. He wants to eat with us! He wans to dine with us and for us to dine with Him. When we partner with God for His will, we see His will come to pass in our lives.

Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Our ability to reign in life is the fruit of a partnership with Him and He with us. Our lives were given to us for the glory of God in all things. This is not some religious way or form of false piety. It is the fiery passion of His manifest presence in our world. His presence gives us a zeal for His house in our world. This is the testimony of a face-to-face relationship with God. It is the testimony of a face-to-face partnership with God in life. It is the testimony of fulfilled prayer that reveals the grace of an awe of God’s presence in our world. This is the testimony of a fear of the Lord – and awe of Him in the deepest expression of love. He will empower us to enter into all that is new! It is good news for us! It is good news for our marriages! It is good news for our families! It is good news for our world!

Who is He who wants to partner with us so we can partner with Him? Who is He who wants to partner with us so we can partner with one another for His glory in our world? Who is He wo wants to partner with our marriage, our family, and our home so that all that we are becomes a testimony of His house? He is the Amen, the Faithful, the True Witness, and the Beginning of the creation of God.

Revelation 3:14 “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God…”

The Amen wants to partner with us. What He says is the conclusion to every end. The Faithful One wants to partner with us, so that we can see the wonder of His faithfulness in every step and moment of our lives. The True Witness wants to partner with us so that every false witness is destroyed from our dwelling place in this world. As the Truth, He destroys every lie that seeks to feast with us at our table. The Beginning of the creation of God wants to partner with us so that we can experience whatever new beginning we need today. It is created now, and not from the beginning because He is the Beginning of the creation of God in every moment, every season, every time, and every measure of our journey in life. He wants us to open the door of our hearts to Him to drink with us and eat with us in our lives today. He wants to share His life with us in our world so that our lives become a testimony of the purpose of His world fulfilled!  When we partner with Him, what He sees becomes the reality of our lives.

I will write more on this next week, but this is a time to partner with God so that we can partner with one another to see the joy that was before. The suffering and endurance of our past will pale dim to the glory of His purpose fulfilled in our lives today. What was not, will be because of who He is in our lives. Get ready! Prayers are being answered, and the prevailing glory of God is going to be seen in our world!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am in Portugal. We had wonderful meetings over the weekend and full day of video recording today for further training in the Portuguese world. I am encouraged in this new season of God. This is a season to partner with God and to invite Him to partner with us for His-story in our world.

Our partnership with God is going to reveal His-story in our world. In the natural, this will look like a time of history being made, but the greater purpose of this season is to see His-story revealed for the fruit of His purpose and plan in our lives. This year is a furtherance of what He has said to us. Last year was a time to prevail with unexpected glory. New pathways would be revealed, but we must choose to take those new pathways. If we look in old ways, we will fail to see the new thing that God is doing.

We are not the senior partner in our relationship with God. Jesus is the head, and we are His body. We are the body of Christ and each of us are members of that body. Holy Spirit dwelling within us is our connection to Jesus as’ our head. Holy Spirit within our hearts enables us to know our heavenly Father.

In January, I released a prophetic word that I feel is for the church in this new season. Here is that prophecy:

January 10, 2025 – Ted J. Hanson

You can trust the target, for the target is God’s, and He sees you as the arrow. You can trust the arrow because the arrow is in His hand. You can trust the bow, the promise, because the bow that guides the arrow is in His hand. You can trust His hand because His hand comes from His heart. And though it seems like some promises have been broken, some promises have failed, some victories have not come through, God says this is a new season. This is a new time.

And this is a season where God is going to deal with the little foxes. He’s going to deal with the little foxes, the little things that have tried to distract us with earthly minded things. And like in the days of Samson, that fire that is in His presence is going to be a fire to the tails of the foxes. Because the foxes are going to go into the fields of the Philistines, the fields of our distraction, the fields of our uncircumcision, the fields of our individual mentality. And those fires are going to burn up those harvests so that our focus can come to the harvest that God has for us.

And then He reminded me of Shulamite woman – the little foxes spoil the vine, and the vine is in blossom. Some translations say the vine has its young sweet grapes but it’s even earlier than that, there’s blossoms, and I believe that there are blossoms in this season.

There are different kinds of fire and the fire that God is bringing is not a fire that consumes the things of the flesh, merely, it’s a fire that ignites the things of the Spirit. That consumes the things of the flesh, but don’t be distracted by what you’re getting rid of. Be attracted by what He’s giving you, because He’s bringing you into something new. Something you have not seen before. And that’s the target. It has a purpose. It has a destiny, but it’s connected to His love, it’s not connected to a work of purpose. It’s connected to His heart. You can trust the target because God’s eye is on the target. You can trust the arrow because you are an arrow in His hand. You can trust the bow because He is the Promiser. You can trust the bow because it’s in His hand. You can trust His hand because it comes from His heart.

So, this is a season where God is leading us forward from His heart and it’s going to take on a new dimension of, not just His blessing loving presence, but His fire igniting purpose presence.  Not a purpose of ministry, but a purpose of His passion and His compassion. A purpose of His fire, of His love, of His fruitfulness. The little foxes spoil the vine but He’s catching the little foxes. The foxes distract but He’s putting a fire, He’s tying the tails of the foxes together and He’s saying, like Samson He is the Sunlight (that’s what Samson means), He is the Sunlight and it’s a new day, it’s a new season that He’s bringing us into.

God sees the target and we must trust what He sees. We must partner with Him to see what He sees. Our fucus must be to set our eyes upon what He sees. The bow is symbolic of His promises in our lives. We can trust God’s promises because His promises guide our lives. We are arrows in His hand. We are sons and daughters of God for the His purpose and will in our world. The testimony of the arrow is that it hits the target that God is looking at. This is a partnership of the arrow with the hand of the One who holds the bow. The little things that distract us will be dealt with as we set our eyes upon what God sees.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

I have had an amazing weekend at CitiLife Church in Deming, New Mexico. God was faithful to reveal His presence and release His life-giving words in a wonderful testimony of His love. There are many things I could write on today, but I feel I must first continue with what I began last week.

Last week I did a summary of the past ten years to this new season that God has put before us. I believe that this new season is a season of greater partnership with God and with one another for His purpose and will in our world. We must first partner with Him to allow Him to partner with us. We must experience His partnership with us to be able to partner with one another.

The partnership that God is calling us into is a partnership of intimacy with Him in Christ that empowers us to manifest the character, nature, way, power, and authority of sons and daughters of God. This season is a furtherance of what has been, but it is not an independent journey.

I saw many testimonies of PREVAILING and UNEXPECTED GLORY last year in the lives of people and churches I have been holding in prayer before God. There are some I was believing for that are still facing challenges. I haven’t yet seen the PREVAILING and UNEXPECTED GLORY that I had hoped for. I like to do a bit of hunting and God uses my time in the forest as a time of personal connection and instruction. My hunting experiences are often prophetic in the sense of revealing and releasing something that is significant for the body of Christ. I believe my story this year is significant.

I had hoped to be successful this year on an elk hunt. It has been a few years since I have reaped a harvest. In the area I went to hunt there seemed to be little evidence of any glory in prevailing on the hunt. On the second day I was surprised with a huge bull plunging from an area of swamp in front of me. He was running full on, and I had to take my shot with an open-sight powder gun while this bull was charging away. As the smoke of my powder gun was clearing, it seemed that this bull had a falter in its run. I felt that I must have hit it. It turned and entered into the edge of the swamp that it had emerged from. The sun was now setting, and darkness was closing in rapidly. There was no chance of knowing the outcome at that moment. The temperature was well below freezing so I knew I could still retrieve my harvest in the morning. Had I been successful, or had I missed my shot?

I was sleeping in the back of my truck, and I decided to stay for another two days if necessary to either retrieve my harvest or get a chance at a redo if I had missed my shot. As I was going to sleep that night, I had an honest conversation with God. I said, God, I hear You very well for others. I hear You regarding Your church. I hear You in many areas, but in the area of hunting, I haven’t been successful on elk in several years. I question whether I hear You clearly or not. I then heard Him say, “you got it”.

I began to plan my strategy for the morning. I would find the trail that this bull elk had entered and follow the evidence of the shot. It would be cold, wet, with a long day for an old man like me, but it would be a great story with a PREVAILING and an UNEXPECTED GLORY. In the morning I went to find the trail that would prove I had hit this bull, but when I entered the swamp, I could find no such evidence. I decided to not put pressure on this animal and simply hope I had missed him and that I would have another opportunity that evening or the next. My posture was that God said, “I’ve got it”. I began to confess, “I got this”. No bull came from that swamp in those next two day. I thought of entering the swamp to do a search, even hearing coyotes that were obviously on something, but I chose to wait in my usual setup for a chance at a redo on the shot confessing, “I got this”.

On the last day of the year, I was in another territory on a final hunt, and I was questioning God about my unsuccessful venture with the huge bull earlier in the season. The greater burden on my heart was concerning some individuals that I have been praying for that had not yet seen a PREVAILING with an UNEXPECTED GLORY. I felt my hunt was prophetically connected to these. As I questioned God, His response to me was to ask me what He had said to me regarding the bull I had hoped to harvest. I had to answer that He had said, “you got it”. God then said to me, “What makes you think you didn’t get it? You didn’t go down the new path. How many things are there that you are praying about that did PREVAIL with an UNEXPECTED GLORY, but you didn’t choose to take the path to see it.” I realized that my word at the beginning of the year was. PREVAIL – UNEXPECTED GLORY – new pathways – CHOOSE THE PATH. I had missed that last phrase of His words to me at the beginning of the year – CHOOSE THE PATH.

If we are looking in old ways with old expectations, we will miss the present PREVAILING and GLORY. There are new pathways, but we must CHOOSE to enter them to see the glory we haven’t seen before. This is a new season of PARTNERSHIP with God, and we must choose to partner with Him to enter into the prevailing testimony that leads to His-story in our lives. This new season is connected to His words and promises to us in the past.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

I hope you are all well. Bonnie and I were blessed to be a part of dedicating our granddaughter and grandson to God at Alife yesterday. God spoke good words over them. I was also privileged to speak yesterday. It was a wonderful day, and I am stepping forward into this new year.

God is doing something new in the earth. This is a new season, and we must choose to enter into it. We must embrace new ways to enter what God is doing now. God is writing His-story and as sons and daughters of God we are being invited to enter into what He is doing for His glory. We must choose His presence over our own performance. When we do, we will be seen as a community of God’s love and grace. We will be the family of God revealing His manifest presence as a light to our world. We will be a city on a hill.

A couple of weeks ago God spoke the word PARTNERSHIP to me. He followed that word with the phrase, ‘Enter the New’. He then spoke the phrase, “For the joy that was before.” In these first days of 2025, God has been explaining this partnership and its connection to Gods’ words to us in the past and His call to enter into the new. He challenged me to look at the words that He has spoken to me for the body of Christ in the last ten years. This is a summary of those words:

In 2015 God gave me a word to be EXPECTANT.  He said that we must be Expectant for Greater Expectations, Unexpected Expectations, and New Expectations. We were to be careful not to let our preconceived ideas and personal expectations rob us of our expectancy of what He will do. There is a difference between being expectant and having expectations. God’s direction in our lives takes us into things we cannot think of without Him.

The word for 2016 was to Embrace a JUSTICE OF LOVE. Can we make decisions for others based upon who we are and not upon what they deserve, or we think they deserve? We weren’t born to be right; we were born to be loved. This is the testimony of the kingdom of God within us. This is the Justice of God’s love, and it is greater than a justice system of law. It is more powerful than simply seeking to be right.

The word for 2017 was to Invite God to visit the ROOTS. God’s character is to be forgiving, merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abounding in goodness, abounding in truth, and one of keeping mercy for anyone, and everyone, forever. He doesn’t merely sweep our flaws under the rug; He visits our family line and heals our flaws. He forgives us of our iniquities, transgressions, and sin. Iniquity is our character flaw that makes us vulnerable to transgression in our hearts, resulting in sin – a disconnection from God who is our life. God is healing the flaws of our hearts.

In 2018 we were to expect new Shoots and Fruits. These shoots and fruits were a testimony made possible because we have allowed God to deal with roots of our hearts. God wants us to: Receive Life – Be Life – and Give Life to our world. These are not the fruit of our way but the fruit that comes because we have allowed God to be our Father to us in the soil of our hearts.

The year of 2019 was a year to NAVIGATE the path of God by a revelation of God’s Love. We were to embrace the path of Sons and Daughters of God. This included receiving the instruction of God in our lives. It included a willingness to receive His correction and direction in our lives. This was a furtherance of knowing God as our Father. To live as His sons and daughters we must embrace His discipline (Pr. 23:12-25) and we must find the path that leads to our destiny in Christ. This means to be taught His ways, to walk in His paths, to become a place of His presence in our world, and to become a place of His life-giving community in our world (Isa. 2:2-3).

At the beginning of 2020 God told me that it would be a time of knowing God resting in our lives. We must be a place where God RESTS so we can REST in Him. God doesn’t rest because He is tired. He rests because He is very pleased. Though 2020 seemed like a time where the world stopped, it was really a time to find God’s presence resting in our lives because He is pleased with who we are.

The following year, 2021, was a time to know God as the ROCK and Be RENEWED in the courage of the Lord, the holiness of the Lord, and your faith in God. This was a season to personally know the unshakeable love of God. It was not a season of fruit, but a season of leaves. Leaves are for the healing of the nations (Ezek. 47:12; Rev. 22:1, 2). They are medicine to the world. Leaves are the individual testimonies of our lives. Leaves are a testimony of a new beginning – new life – a new thing – and a new season.

In 2022 God spoke to me that it would be a year of PEACE. This is not the peace of the word, but the celebration of being one with God on good days and on bad. It was a time to experience His multiplied PEACE and a celebration of communion with God and one another. The high point of this year was to know God as your Friend. He had been revealing to us that He is our Father and not merely a powerful God, but His way was that of a friend in our lives. He invites us to be His friend as He is ours. 

In 2023 God said to light the lamps of the Holy Spirit in our lives and experience NEW STRENGTH. The fire of God would give us fresh appointments. It was a year of Hurdles to reveal God’s strength in our lives in new ways. It was filled with unexpected turns that were opportunities to see the goodness of God’s love in our lives. The sound of God is that He is great, He is good, and His mercy endures forever. His love in our lives empowers us to act in faith when faced with the hurdles of life. We can act and not react. The fire of the Holy spirit in our lives empowers us to know God’s love, to love God, to respond to God with heavenly testimonies, to give life to others, to be life for others so we can grow in knowing who we are in Him. His fire enables us to know and be a part of His family. and to live for His purpose and destiny in partnership with Him in all things. 

This past year of 2024 was a year to prevail. It was a time to choose new pathways to experience His unexpected Glory and PREVAIL. I will address this further in my next blog. God is speaking things for this new year, but our present year of 2025 is connected to some unknown victories of where we have been. It is time to enter the new, but the new is a furtherance of what has been.

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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Greetings,

I hope your new year is off to a good start. I was blessed over the weekend with a prophetic worship night on Friday at Alife and a great service yesterday in Mt. Vernon, with Everyone’s church. I am expectant of God doing good things in this new year.

Last week I wrote concerning finding the desirable place in our lives. I presented that in the creation of mankind, God put man in a garden named Eden – meaning desirable place. That desirable place was a garden in the east. The east is the place of new days and new beginnings. It is a birthing place for new sunrises. What made Eden a desirable place? There were limitless options of life and direction in Eden, but the source of life for all of those options was a personal relationship with God, who gives life.

While on my morning run, one day this past week, God presented to me a concept of eternal life. We know that Jesus said that eternal life is to know God our Father and Jesus Christ His son (Jn. 17:3). This is not merely knowing that they are but knowing who they are. That knowledge is not informational, it is transformational. Knowing God transforms our world in a life-giving way. This is through the fellowship of Holy Spirit in our hearts. Our spirit-to-Spirit connection to God gives us life. We can always find that life because it is eternal. It is true in every season of our lives, even in the day that we finally physically sleep from this world. God gives life, breath, and all things. He is life and He is a giver of that life to all who join themselves to Him. No matter what the circumstance is in our lives, when we join our inner being to the manifest presence of God, we discover life. This is true even on difficult days and in difficult situations. Our perspective must always be to choose life and to find life in all things and at all times. That life is not separate from God but is the testimony of being joined to Him. When we choose to take steps to find Him, we find Eden – the desirable place.

Sometimes God uses practical things in my life to manifest spiritual realities as a prophetic influence for the sake of the body of Christ. Time brings about natural changes. Natural conditions in our lives change, but what do we do when the natural conditions of our lives change? I have lived in my present house for twenty years. When I purchased this house, I enjoyed a spacious yard with an open view of trees and a connection to nature in a wonderful way. Even though my house is in the city limits, the feeling has been one of living close to the city but a part of the country. My house in the natural has proven to be a desirable place for me. Over the years there have been changes that are now affecting my property in a big way. My backyard is filled with fruit trees, berry bushes, grapes, garden spaces, a pond with a waterfall, and a place where I have experienced God in a wonderful way. This past year, the neighbor behind me built a large Additional Dwelling Unity just a few feet from my backyard fence. This dwelling has windows and a second story deck that looks directly into my backyard and to my house. At the front of my house, a new development of town houses is projected to be built in the next year. The circumstance of my dwelling place is being affected radically.

In considering my circumstances, I have considered selling my property and moving to a more suitable environment outside of the city. This option would require a lot of money and a lot of change that is not what I feel God is saying to me at this time. So, what do I do? God told be to “up the Eden factor”. In other words, take your present circumstances and do practical things that will transform it into a desirable place today. You see, we can’t return to a past circumstance in a present time of our world. Whatever the present circumstance of our lives is, we must look for ways to return to our first love. This is ultimately our love for God, but it includes our love for one another and even our love for our present world. We cannot return to a past circumstance. We cannot return to a first experience. We can return to our first love and find new first experiences in our lives today.

As a prophetic statement to my present world, I am planting a couple of trees to change my view of my back yard and my front. I am taking practical steps to change how I see my yard to inspire the attitude of my heart to find God in the garden of my today. I am looking to make positive changes for my world today and choosing to look for the positives of my now situation. The time is NOW, and the day is TODAY. I cannot live in yesterday, nor can I waste time longing for a tomorrow. Today is the day to find the desirable place of life. This is true in our relationships with one another and our practical roles in life. We cannot return to the past or even escape our present, but we can find God in our world today. We must never see the garden as more important than finding God in our garden. When we find God in the garden of today, we find new vision for our dwelling place in life. This will empower our steps for tomorrow.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

We have entered a new year, and God is calling us into another measure of His story. We had a wonderful time at Alife yesterday in Bellingham. Pastor Jonathan challenged us all to hear God for the new year; a word, a phrase, some specific direction for our lives for 2025 that we can set as a base as we move forward in this new season.

As we have closed 2024 and entered into 2025, I have been contemplating the past season and considering what is in store for us in this new year. I believe that this new year is not disconnected from where we have come from but is a furtherance into another measure of God’s story in and through our lives. This year I will enter into my 70^th year and a new decade will be given to me. I consider my 50^th decade to have been a blessed season in my life. My 60^th decade was a greater measure of who I am in Christ and a time of challenges but also great victories. As I enter this 70^th decade of my life I have a great expectation for what God is going to do.

In the decades of my life I have learned that everything in life is a matter of relationship. It is a matter relationship with God and with one another. What is it that makes our world a place of blessing. It is a personal relationship with God and a relationship with others in the context of being family – a family of God. The highest call of God in our lives is to be sons and daughters of God who grow to know the joy of also becoming dads and moms for the purpose of God’s family in this world. Great joy is not merely found in the place of being blessed, it is found in the place of being a blessing. This is the place of God’s purpose in our lives.

I believe that God is extending His hand to us to partner with us for a new adventure into the writing of His story in our world. We must celebrate the blessings and joys that we have known in the past, but to experience what is new we must enter into it. To move forward we must find the desirable place of knowing God in the testimonies of faith, hope, and love. These things are found in the place of knowing God’s manifest presence in our lives today. We cannot find it in the memories of our past. We must return to our first love. Our first love for God is not found in any circumstance of our lives. It is found is the place of love. It is a place of knowing that today is the first day of entering into all that is new through a relationship with God whereby we know we are loved by God.

The first letter in the Revelation of Jesus Christ was to the Church of Ephesus. The word Ephesus means, pleasure or delight. This letter depicts the language of God in the beginning of Adam and God in the Garden of Eden. The word Eden means desirable, in synonymous terms to the meaning of Ephesus. In this letter Jesus is seen as “the one who holds the seven stars in His right hand”. He is seen as Lord, because He is the one who loves us. His love holds us in all things!

The language of this letter to the Church of Ephesus is that of the Garden of Eden with terms like “works”, “labor”, “patience”, and the knowledge of hating “evil”. These are garden tending terms. In this letter Jesus comes as the one “who walks in the midst”, as He walked in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:8). Those in Ephesus had done well at knowing who true apostles were and who were false. They had the knowledge of good and evil, but they had left their first love. They sought the labor of the garden, but they had lost the testimony of the ‘desirable place’. They were missing the purpose of the garden as a place of knowing an intimate walk of love with God whereby they could be empowered to live for His purpose in their world. Knowing God’s presence of love in our lives empowers us to love Him and to love one another.

Whatever the present circumstances are in your life, only a partnership with God and His love will bring about the testimony of Eden, the desirable place of knowing the newness of God and the newness of His purpose every day. I believe we are entering into a productive season of life, but the secret to that place is returning to Eden in our hearts. We must look to our life today and not the life we had yesterday. We must look to find Eden in our present circumstances.

The desirable place is a place of eating from the tree of life. It is not a place of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It is a place of being loved by God to find love for the day at hand. It is there that graves can turn to gardens. It is there that impossible things become possible. It is time to enter the new but to enter the new we must find the place of Eden today in our everyday world.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

We have come the end of 2024 and are about to enter into a new year. I have expectation stirring in my heart for this new season. I believe that God is going to be revealed in His powerful love.

I have been writing in regard to bearing the mark of God. As sons and daughters of God we are changed in our thinking and changed in our way of doing things. God is our God, and we are His children. We live in Him, and we are expressions of Him to our world. I have presented that the kingdom of God is a kingdom within us that transforms our external kingdoms to be kingdoms of our Lord and Christ. We used to bear the mark of our own carnality. We were self-seeking and self-motivated, but now the focus of our hearts and minds is to live for the will and kingdom of our heavenly Father.

True righteousness is a right relationship with God in our hearts. God is our God! Jesus is our redemption and salvation in all things. We have righteousness in the Holy Spirit, and we have peace in the Holy Spirit. We also have joy in the Holy Spirit. Joy is not dependent upon happiness. Joy is deeper and stronger. In the presence of the Lord there is the fullness of joy (Ps. 16:11). Joy is connected to purpose and our true purpose is found when we partner with God and He partners with us in all things.

Our future is in God. We live for His purpose and will in all things. The Old Covenant feast of Tabernacles was a partnership acknowledging that every aspect of man’s harvest is for the glory of His name.  God is the one who gives us all things. In Him we have our being for His kingdom and His will to be done in our world.

The children of Israel were to keep the feast of Tabernacles as a testimony of God’s partnership with them in every season of their lives. Every season of life is a season of harvest. That harvest brings bread to the world today and seed for the world of tomorrow. This was to be a mark on the forehead and a mark on the back of the hand. It was to be in the thinking of God’s people and in their way of doing things.

Deuteronomy 11:18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

As sons and daughters of God, we are new creations in Christ to be givers of life to our world. It is in our way of doing things and in our way of thinking. We live, move, and have our beings in God for the glory of His name in all things! By this, we will give life to our world.

God gives us all things and all things are for His purpose and glory. Our lives are filled with many seasons of harvest and each harvest is purposed to give the food of life to our world and plant the seeds of life for a generation to come. This is to live our lives as sons and daughters of God who is our Father. We are givers of life as He is a giver of life to us. This is the testimony of the kingdom of God within us. We must seek the purpose of the kingdom of God in our lives. It is in Him that we have our beings.

Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Our barns are the supply houses of God’s heavenly bread to feed the nations and the generations. Our vats are the reservoirs of life filled with life-giving power for the testimony of heaven’s grace to others in our world. As sons and daughters of God we should make it our aim to live for the kingdom of our Lord and Christ. The kingdom of God is what should consume our attention. His justice system of life to the world should be the focus of our hearts. We have a great heritage and a great destiny. We live for the joy of the Lord. This is our strength! A zeal for God’s house should consume us in all things. It is in our thinking and in our way of doing things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Merry Christmas to you all! I hope you have a blessed week with a time of God’s presence this Christmas season. We were blessed to have all of our family with us this past weekend for a wonderful time together. This year we are up to the number 14 and our time together is precious.

Today I am going to continue to address the subject of the mark of God in our lives. I have presented that the feast of Passover was only a shadow of the internal reality in our hearts of righteousness in the Holy Spirit. Today I am addressing the testimony of internal peace in the Holy Spirit that was foreshadowed in the Old Covenant feast of Pentecost.

The Old Covenant Pentecost was given as a feast to Israel as a testimony of being empowered by God’s Word and Spirit to be the people of God. The Torah law and tabernacle systems were given to mark God’s people to be a testimony of His word and Spirit to the world. The fulfillment of this is seen in the Holy Spirit in and upon our lives. We have peace with God in the Holy Spirit that gives us a testimony in our world that reveals we are expressions of heavenly testimonies in Christ. Our connection to God’s presence in and upon our lives empowers us to move in Him. We are strong in God’s Word and strong in His Spirit. We overcome every wicked thing as sons and daughters of God. The feast of Pentecost was to be a feast in Israel that was to be kept as a mark of God in their lives.

Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.”

Our internal relationship with God gives us the power of His word that transforms our character, nature, and way in life. His manifest presence in our lives empowers us to be a testimony of His power and authority enabling us to be expressions of His life in and to our world. God is the word, but we are expressions of His word in human form. We live our lives to be a testimony of His eternal life because there is no separation between us and Him. We have peace with God and that peace is the fullness of His presence made known in our lives.

The Hebrew word for peace is the HSRN 7965. שָׁלוֹם šâlôm; or שָׁלֹם shalom; from 7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace. The Greek word for peace is the GSRN 1515. εἰρήνη eirēnē; probably from a primary verb εἴρω eirō (to join); peace (literally or figuratively); by implication, prosperity. Peace is not merely an emotional feeling or a confirmation of God’s forgiveness in our lives. I believe that God’s peace is the substance of the life of God that exists in His house. When our house becomes His house, His house becomes the available substance of life to our house. It includes the safety, wellness, happiness, friendship, welfare, health, and all manner of prosperity that exists in His house in heaven.

Nothing can separate us from the love of God. He is the source of our testimony in life. He is the giver, but we are each an expression of all that He gives. He delights in loving us and we delight in loving Him. There is no gap between our world and His and His world and ours. All that He is and all that He has is changing the expression of who we are in life. Being joined to Him fills us up to overflowing and what He is doing on the inside of us becomes an expression that others can see. This is the testimony of our peace with God. It is in our thinking and in our way of doing things. It is a mark on or foreheads and a mark on the back of our hands.

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

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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I hope you are all well and that your week and weekend were blessed. I have been blessed to be home for a bit and sense God stirring for the new year that is ahead. We had a good day together yesterday at Alife as we are preparing to end a year in God’s presence and enter into a new one for a further step in our destiny in Christ.

As sons and daughters of God, we know the treasure of the kingdom of God within us. It is the kingdom of God within us that empowers the expressions of our own kingdoms in this natural world to be true to the character of God’s purpose and will in heaven. That internal kingdom is manifested in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. These internal realities mark our lives to think differently than we did in the world and to express our lives to our world as givers of life as our Father in heaven is a giver of life in all things. The Old Covenant feast of Passover was a shadow of our internal knowing the righteousness of God by the power of His Holy Spirit. This feast in the Old Covenant was only a shadow of the good thing that has now come to us in Christ.

Galatians 3:19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Faith has come to us by an ability to hear God’s voice to our hearts from within. This is a part of the testimony of being a member of the body of Christ. Our righteousness is not given to us by an obedience to the law. Our righteousness is given to us by an internal inspiration of faith. We hear God and we respond to Him in our hearts. The actions of our lives are a witness to our relationship with God in our hearts. We bear this mark in our thinking and in our way of doing things. The law could only restrain the actions of our flesh, but God’s manifest presence in our hearts inspires us to demonstrate actions led by God’s Spirit. This is grace. God is our God, and we are empowered to live our lives by His powerful love working within us. We have life and we are givers of life to our world.

God desires all of us to be kings and priests to Him. We are priests in our connection to God in heaven with increasing revelations of His wonderful love. We respond to His love in our worship, and we become a testimony of His praise to our world. Our influence in our world is that of kings. We influence our earthly realities with an authority and an anointing given to us by heaven’s grace. It is not that some are priests and others are kings. We are all meant to be priest before our God and kings in our influence in and to our world.

Revelation 1:5b …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.

We are each to be a part of Christ’s calling in who we are. Our relationship with God in our hearts will reveal His love through us to our world. We are marked in our thinking and in our way of doing things that demonstrates our righteousness with God that comes by faith. It comes by a relationship of love by and for God. The mark of God is not some physical mark upon our hands or our foreheads. It is a way of thinking and a way of doing things. This was foreseen in the shadow of the Old Covenant feast of Passover. The Passover feast signified a way of life that knows it is in God that we live. We have righteousness by the Holy Spirit within us. We know that our sins are forgiven because we know we have a Father who loves us. The Old Covenant shadow was prophesying of what has now come to us in our thinking and way of doing things in Christ.

Exodus 13:8  “And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the LORD did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ 9 It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.”

Wherever the mark of God is revealed, it is a testimony of living to know the life that God gives us so that we can give His life to our world. Our thoughts are for God’s will to be done, and His kingdom to come in all that we are and do. Our hands become instruments of blessing and not instruments that take things from others for our own purposes. We are givers of life to our world. We know the liberty of life that God gives to us and we are inspired to give that life to and for others in our world.

1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being. 

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728