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Greetings,

Bonnie and I have been in California with our son Aaron and his family for the entire week. Today Bonnie and I will return home to Bellingham. It will be a difficult goodbye to our grandkids, but that is the price of love. We look forward to our next time together to enjoy a deeper measure of the treasure called family.

As children of God, we are called to grow in maturity to become sons and daughters of God who are led by Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is a seven-fold Spirit and to be led by Holy Spirit is to be led by internal motivations that are divinely inspired by God. 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 Knowing (as in intimacy), and the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord (Isa. 11:1, 2). We live in a difficult world, and the difficulties of our world only serve to manifest the truth of who we are from within. This is not just automatic for children of God. It requires us to partner with Holy Spirit to manifest the testimony of overcomers by God’s grace.

Holy Spirit leads us by a different desire, a different wisdom, and a different understanding than people who live for their own way in life. In a world of difficulties, there are also many false fathers. Those false fathers are sources of control and manipulation that restrain us in our true authority. Unity is seen as sameness through conformity, not submission for oneness through diversity. We end up seeking power through self-gratifying agendas and we fail to live in the true authority of our heavenly Father who is self-giving in His heart. True authority gives life to our world. True counsel is like sunshine. It gives light and life to others. Holy Spirit desires to lead us by the Spirit of Counsel to fulfill our destiny as sons and daughters of God. He is the Father of lights, and we are His perfect gifts of light and life to our world (Jam. 1:17).

In a world of difficulties, there are many distractions and powers that control and tempt us to seek our own satisfaction in things that call for our attention. Our lives are often lived reactively and circumstantially controlled as though there are many gods above us. Man’s pride can make him captive to a world filled flesh gratifying distractions. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Might that demonstrates the testimony of the resurrection power of Christ to reveal that God’s Might is stronger than any other power in this world. It is not the strength of our own flesh but the power of the resurrection life of Christ revealing who we are in Christ to our world.

In a world of difficulties true community is often lost and there is little giving of life to others. Self-seeking motivations isolate and separate us from others, and we end up being less than the family of God in our world. Our justice is often a justice that makes judgments of others declaring that we are right and they are wrong in some way. The Spirit of Knowing is not a knowledge of right and wrong but a knowledge of intimacy with God and one another. Only the Spirit of Knowing can lead us to become the family of God with life-giving expression of God’s love through us to others in our world.

In a world of difficulties death often reigns when we become discontent in some way. We end up disconnecting from God and we wander in some direction that lacks true purpose in life. We seek to find our purpose in things that are only destined to return to dust since they are merely created things from the dust of this world. Men give their lives for their own purpose – a purpose of mortality. Only the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord can give us an awe of God that empowers us to live with a zeal for the purposes of God in our world. The Fear of the Lord is not a fear of death. It is an awe inspired zeal by a deep love and desire to see God’s will fulfilled in and through our lives.

To be led by the Spirit of God is to be led by a different Lord – a different desire in our hearts. It is to be led by a different wisdom, a different understanding, a different counsel, a different might (or strength), a different knowledge (a knowledge of love and intimacy), and a different awe (a different vision of purpose in our lives). Being led by the Spirit of God is not about right information concerning what or what not to do in life. It is about being motivated by a different Spirit than the independent spirit of man. It is a partnership of the human spirit with the Holy Spirit of God, so our souls receive life-directed and life-giving desires, reasonings, thoughts, imaginations, and emotions so the actions of our lives bring the life of God to 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.

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

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Greetings,

Today Bonnie and I are in California visiting our family that lives here. We have been enjoying time with kids and grandkids with the blessings of family. One of the riches of life in this world is surely family. We are looking forward to a great week here.

What does it mean to be led by the Spirit of God? The Scripture says that those who are led by the Spirit are sons of God (Rom. 8:14). This is a term for those who inherit the character, nature, way, power, and authority of God. It is a term for both men and women who take on the attributes of their life-giving Father in heaven. These are those who bring liberty to the world they live in.

Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. Holy Spirit is a seven-fold 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 Knowing (as in intimacy), and the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord (Isa. 11:1, 2). To be led by the Spirit of God is not a matter of being told what to do. God can surely instruct us as to what to do in a matter, but the ultimate aim is to do what we see our Father doing in all things. This requires us to be led by a different internal motivator. Holy Spirit gives us a different desire, a different wisdom, a different understanding, a different counsel, a different might (or strength), a different knowledge (as an intimacy), and a different awe (a different motivation for purpose in life). We live in a world that is filled with difficulty. The difficulties of life are not intended to destroy us. They are the true tests of life that manifest the true internal motivations of our lives.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits (to expect fully) for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

In a world of difficulties, there are many lords. The testimony of a lord is found in the desires of our hearts. Whatever we desire motivates our beliefs and actions in life. When we willingly join our spirits to the Holy Spirit of God we discover the mystery of Jesus as Lord. He gives us the desires of our hearts. Those desires are God’s desires, and they become our desires when we are led by the Spirit of God. Our spirit then empowers the thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires of our soul which is then expressed in the attitudes and actions of our lives.

In a world of difficulties, there are many faiths. Faith toward God is motived by a love for God because of an internal revelation of God’s love for us. God’s voice of love is expressed to our spirit from within. This inspires a wisdom of faith toward God from within that gives us a hope of life in all things. The opposite of faith is natural sight (2 Cor. 5:7). When we look with our natural eyes, hear with our natural ears, or are motivated by our natural senses or perceptions our actions can be influenced by a fear of death in some way. We are motivated by an attitude of self-preservation. The Spirit of Wisdom motivates our hearts by God’s love, and it inspires us to have no fear of death. It is wisdom that trusts the future to God’s love and willingly moves forward with actions of love towards God. When we are led by the Spirit of Wisdom, we willingly make sacrifices that demonstrate our love for and trust in God.

In a world of difficulties, there are many submersions. Bitter experiences in life askew our identity to be less that heavenly. Bitter roots become established in our hearts, and we exhibit attitudes and actions that defile us and others. The Spirit of Understanding motivates us through supernatural testimonies of God’s love inside and out. God’s understanding surpasses our own and is a mystery to us, but the fruit gives life to us and to others in our world. The grace of the Spirit of Understanding working in the midst of our circumstances in life gives us an identity that reveals the liberty of life in our internal character and external testimonies of God’s powerful love that reveals heavenly things through us to our world.

Holy Spirit give us the desires of our hearts. Let our Father’s desires be the desires of our hearts even as they were the desires of Jesus’ heart as a man in this world. Holy Spirit give us the wisdom of God in our hearts and minds even as Jesus chose the Father’s wisdom over the wisdom of the flesh. Holy Spirit give us a testimony inside and out that is the fruit of our Father’s understanding and not our own. Inspire us to partner with you in these things today and every day of this week for the glory of God 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 hope you are all well. We had another great weekend here at Alife in Bellingham. I was blessed to speak yesterday. The family of God was blessed by the presence of God and one another. It is good to be a part of a community that is a dwelling place of God by His Spirit.

As sons and daughters of God in the New Covenant, we live in and from the presence of God to be kings and priests to our God. We are new creations in Christ, and we have the testimony of living creations before God in Christ.

The first living creature is like a lion. In Christ, you are a lion. The devil goes around like a lion seeking whom he may devour and destroy, but you are a lion. You are a part of the lion of the tribe of Judah. The lion is who you are toward the enemy. Your attitude, your thoughts, and your actions are a testimony of praise to God. This is the weapon of life that overpowers every foe. Praise is not simply something we do with words or songs. Praise is the testimony of God’s victory working in and through our lives. This is the high praise of God. It is an attitude of victory of life even as we sleep at night.

Psalms 149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, 7 to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; 8 to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute on them the written judgment—this honor have all His saints. Praise the LORD!

Praise is a testimony of the victory of God in Christ. It is not by our strength but a testimony of God’s love for us as children of God. Our childlike expectation of God’s love gives us victory over our enemies. God silences the enemy through the mouths of little children in their praise. When we are like little children, we praise God.

Psalms 8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

The second living creature is like a calf or an ox, particularly a young male ox that has never been put in a yoke. A calf speaks of worship and service. We may be bold as a lion and victorious over the enemy, but we never go to God as a lion. We go to God as a calf. We go to God as a new creation no longer living by a dependency upon the strength of the flesh but upon the love of God. We, the creation, worship and serve God the Creator as a response to His love. The life that we now live, we live by faith in God. I don’t need to be a lion to God. No, I’m an ox. I may have angels that follow me around. I may glow in the dark, but to God, I’m a creature. He’s the Creator, and my life is for Him.

The third living creature has a face like a man. The lion has the likeness of a lion, the ox has a likeness of an ox, the eagle has the likeness of an eagle, but this creature has a face that is like a man. Why? You used to be a man, but now you’re a new creation in Christ. But you still have a face like that of a man, which means when it comes to mankind, when it comes to sinners or believers, when it comes to expressing our lives towards one another, we make ourselves the size of the other. We make ourselves of no reputation. We take on the attitude and action of Jesus, who didn’t consider it robbery to be equal with God, yet He humbled Himself, and He made Himself a servant, and He washed feet (Phil. 2:5-8).

So when we come before people, we never allow people to worship us. We never go before people to be a lion. We go before people to be like them. We have a face like their face. That’s how we say, holy, holy, holy. We love people because He loves us. We have a face like that of a man. I’ve known Jesus for 52 years, but I’m just as much a man as someone who doesn’t know Jesus at all. So I’m going to treat all people as though they know Jesus, and then I’m going to invite them to know Him. I’m going to talk to my neighbors as though they hear God, because they do. They just might not know it is God they are hearing. So I always have a face like that of a man when I go before a man. I don’t have a face of an ox to man. I don’t worship people. I don’t have a face of a lion toward people.

The fourth creature is like an eagle. The whole creature is like an eagle. We are strong in God’s word. We are strong in the Spirit, and others can follow us as we follow Christ. Like an eagle, we have two wings that make us heavenly beings in Christ. Our access to heaven gives us the wings of the Spirit and the Word. We’re strong in the word and we manifest the testimony of Christ to our world. We’re strong in faith. Others can follow us as we follow Christ. We are led by the Spirit and not by our own carnal desires. We live from a divine connection to God in the realm of the spirit of life and peace in Christ Jesus.

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,

What a blessed day we had yesterday in church. Pastor Jonathan gave a great word on identity. Holy Spirit was present in the house, and we were blessed to be together as a family of God. I hope you had a great weekend as well.

As believers in Christ in the New Covenant, we live in and from the presence of God in our lives. We are a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. We have a revelation of Jesus Christ in our hearts. God’s mercy has triumphed in our lives, and His grace empowers us to overcome all things and to reign in life.

Revelation 4:6 Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

In the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures. If your Bible says beasts, that’s a terrible translation. They’re not beasts. They are you and I in Christ! They’re living creatures.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

These creatures are full of eyes all in front and back. That means their whole existence is based on revelation. They are expressions of a revelation of Jesus Christ; thus, they are full of eyes. Every part of their life is based on a revelation of intimacy with God through Jesus Christ. A revelation of a personal relationship with God is what empowers these living creatures, these forever living creatures.

Revelation 4:8 The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!”

These living creatures, each have six wings. In the Scripture, the number six is significant of man. Man was created on the sixth day. These mystery beings are the heavenly testimony of who we are in Christ. We’re living creatures. Revelation 4 and 5 describes these as angels, but they’re not just heavenly angels. These are the ones that sing the song of the redeemed.

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.”

Jesus, the Lamb of God, has redeemed us. If you have another translation, it may say; He’s redeemed people or He’s redeemed men. The word people or men is not in the Greek text, not in any Greek text. The translators added the word men and the word people because the text says that angels are singing the song. The translators can’t get around their head, how can angels be singing this? Because the angels are not the redeemed. So the angels must be simply singing, He has redeemed people, He’s redeemed men. But the Textus Receptus Greek used by the New King James, the King James and some other translations, does have a word in there and the word is us. It could be us or me. He’s redeemed me by His blood. He’s redeemed us by His blood. We are from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. In other words, we are sent ones because we’ve been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb to be a testimony of God to our world. We are messengers of God’s love and life to our world.

How do we sing holy, holy, holy? A new song is not merely music. It is a covenant term for a new and NOW testimony of God in our lives. The new song is a testimony of our personal relationship with God every day, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. This testimony is found where we find God in our everyday places, our ordinary situations, our backyards, our place of high worship, our place of music, our place of reading, our place in the workplace. We experience God as sons and daughters of God and we say what only sons and daughters can say, holy, holy, holy. It is the expression of our spirit, soul, and body that glorifies God.

Revelation 4:8 The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!”

As the redeemed of the Lord we are a lion to our enemy, an ox to our Creator, we have a face like that of a man to our fellow man, and we are an eagle in our walk of faith in Christ. We are the praise of God that silences every enemy. We are new creations in Christ that worship God in all things. We make ourselves of no reputation to love our fellow man. We are overcomers who are strong in God’s word and strong in His Spirit that others can follow as we follow Christ. This is the foundation of our lives in and from the throne room of God’s grace. We live in and from the presence of God to be kings and priests to our God in all things. This is not a someday to come reality. It is a testimony of the grace of God at work in and through our lives in every circumstance and situation of lives that reveals the glory of God in all things.

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,

My week has been busy filled with many practical duties at home and assisting my daughter and her family in a move. It was good to partner with many of my local church family in doing the practical duties of life. I also enjoyed a great time over our holiday weekend here in America.

In the description of the throne room in Revelation chapter 4, there is a sea of glass like crystal. The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel had an experience that saw the throne room from the vantage point of earth (Ezek. 1). There was yet to be an open heaven and access to God by all, as was now revealed to John in the New Covenant experience of Revelation. Ezekiel saw this crystal sea as a cloud above his head, but John saw a sea of glass like crystal beneath his feat.

Revelation 4:6 Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

What is that crystal sea? In Solomon’s temple, they called the lavers that wash the blood and filth of the sacrifice off the priest before he went into the holy place, seas (1 Kings 7:23). The term sea was indication of a mirror. They called the lavers mirrors. That’s what the laver was. It was a mirror, or a sea. It is a testimony that it is God’s word that cleanses us and changes us to become what we could not be without Him. When we look into the Word of God, we see the change that comes to our hearts from within. In Christ there is a crystal sea beneath the feet of those in Christ, something you can see yourself in.

Revelation chapter 5 reveals that no one could step onto that sea because in Ezekiel’s day, it was a cloud above man’s head. But now we live in the day of a Revelation of Jesus Christ. This was the day that John had this revelation, and that day is also now. Anyone can have a revelation of Jesus Christ today. What used to be a cloud is a sea, and there are blessings that come if you could go in past this sea into this reality of the holy and holy of holies. In the Old Covenant, no one could go onto the sea until the Lamb, Jesus, the Word, stepped onto the sea.

If you stepped onto that sea, it would make you translucent. So no one could step onto the Word of God because the Word of God would make them translucent, and it would show every flaw within them. Only a man with a pure testimony of the Word of God could open the door to the New Covenant testimony of intimacy with God in Christ. Then the Man, Jesus, the Lamb of God, who had no flaws, stepped onto the sea, and it made Him translucent, and there was nothing in Him that could stop Him from opening the seal. The opening of that seal was the opening of the New Covenant for all who believe. We are brought near to God through the sacrifice of the once for all Lamb of God. Jesus Christ is the righteousness of all mankind and in Christ we are given a place of personal, intimate relationship with God as farmers, husbands, wives, truck drivers, teachers, nurses, doctors, and everyday people in an everyday world.

So before this throne, there’s a sea of glass-like crystal. We can stand on the expressions of God in Christ, and we can become expressions of His name. In Christ we can be changed in our character, nature, and way as sons and daughters of God. The Word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood so that all flesh in any and every neighborhood could become expressions of God’s word. When God speaks to our hearts, we are changed, and we become expressions of God’s word to our world.

2 Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Every member of the Church can be transformed by Christ’s living word and thus become a testimony of flesh made into the word of God. Members of Christ’s Body have been given the ability to know the word of God in their hearts and in their minds (Jer. 31:33; Heb. 8:10; 10:16). We have eyes in front and back, for each of us has a personal relationship with God in Christ. We know God with our hearts and that knowing of Him becomes a testimony of His grace working in and through us to our world.  A revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives transforms us to become who we are meant to be as expressions of God’s word as His sons and daughters in our world. Grace comes to us all at a revelation of Jesus in our lives (1 Pet. 1:13). Every part of our being is made alive in Christ. We know God and need not be taught from an external source (Jer. 31:34; Jn. 14:26; 16:13; Heb. 8:11; 1 Jn. 2:27). Being transformed from within is a testimony of being sons and daughters of God in the New Covenant of life 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

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 had a great week. I am home now and looking forward to my extended season here. I am recovering well and believe for the full testimony of God in my healing. God is good.

The book of Revelation is a revelation of Jesus Christ in the reality of the New Covenant. The testimony reveals the power of God’s grace found in Christ. That grace brings the blessings of God to those who believe by the manifest presence of Christ in their lives. It also proves to remove those things that are death and control in our lives. In Revelation chapter four we find a condition for living in the experience of New Covenant life in Christ. We must live in and from the presence of God in our lives. We have been brought near to God by the blood of the Lamb – Jesus Christ. In that place our lives are built upon the foundation of twenty-four elders to be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. That foundation is in the throne room of grace.

Revelation 4:5 And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices…

I believe that lightning is a symbol for revelation. The natural reality of lightning reveals a spiritual mystery of God in our lives. It is an enlightenment of Christ in our lives. Lightning can come from heaven to earth, or it can go from earth to heaven, depending on the negative charge. If there is a negative charge on earth, it attracts a positive charge from heaven. If we are hungry for God, we act like a negative charge to the positive willingness of God’s grace given to us by God’s love. When we desperately want God, we pull on God’s willingness to give and we receive a revelation of God and His love in our hearts. When a revelation comes to our hearts it is like a strike of lightning to the atmosphere of our lives. This results in a testimony of thunder.

When we receive a revelation of God in our hearts a change takes place that is seen and heard as a testimony of life in us. Lightning strikes and thunder rolls. The evidence of revelation from God to us is the sound of God in our lives. We receive a testimony of change that empowers us to boldly proclaim a testimony of His love. A sound can be heard from our soul because our spirit has come alive in Christ. This brings about a permanent change in our lives that is a voice to our world.

I experienced this fifty-two years ago. My life was changed by an internal revelation of Jesus Christ in my life. This resulted in a testimony in my life that has since caused me to be a voice of life to the world around me. This same pattern has proven to be true many times in my life. God’s manifest presence in our lives will change us and our world.

When your life is forever changed, you become someone who brings change to your world. This is a growing pattern in our lives as we grow in knowing Christ to us and in us. This week, God wants lightning to strike, and He wants thunder to roll. God wants to be voice in our lives that enables us to be a voice to our world. He wants something of our lives to change forever in a life-giving way.

Revelation 4:5 And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

In the midst of the throne and around the throne are the seven Spirits of God. This is Holy Spirit as the One who perfects our lives by the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel, the Spirit of Might, the Spirit of Knowing as in Intimacy, and the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord (the Awe of God in all things). This is the working of Holy Spirit in our lives that enables us to overcome every wicked thing and become a testimony of sons and daughters of God to our world.

Every revelation of Jesus Christ is meant to change our lives. I find this true in every season of my life. The older I am in Christ the more tender in Christ I become. I pray that we will have an encounter with Jesus this week that activates the working of Holy Spirit in our lives. May God’s presence in our lives be like lightning to our spirits and may it inspire out souls to be a testimony of being loved by God. It is not about information. It is about intimacy with God in Christ. He abides in us, and we abide in Him. Our partnership with Him and His partnership with us is a matter of love. It is a testimony of relationship. May the testimony of Christ in us be like thunder in our thoughts, reasoning, imagination, emotions, and desires. May there be a change in the attitudes, actions, and atmosphere of our lives that brings the life of God to the world around us.

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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House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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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:

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,

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

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,

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

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 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.

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