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Greetings,

Bonnie and I just finished several days with gathering in Trail, Slocan Valley, Tarry, and Nelson, BC, Canada. It was a wonderfully blessed time of God’s presence and word in community settings of the family of God. Thank you to all the hungry people who came and participated in a time of blessing with Holy Spirit. God is in the Kootenay area of Canada. I look forward to coming here again.

As sons and daughters of God, we are expressions of our heavenly Father. Very often we think that our need in life is to receive life from God, but our true need is to be givers of life to our world as our heavenly Father is a giver of life to us. We are meant to be like our Father in our character, nature, way, power, and authority. We are earthly expressions of all that is of God in heaven. This is the testimony of His kingdom come and His will being done in our world.

The true thirst of our lives is to fulfill the purpose and destiny of being a child of God. We often confuse our thirst as a need for something that serves us in some way, but God knows better.

John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Jesus defined the need of the thirsty as one of giving life to others. The rivers of living water that flow from us can be understood as rivers of life-giving water. Each of us are uniquely created to give life to our world. Our true need is to receive the substance of life from God that enables us to fulfill this God-ordained purpose in our lives. This is the fruit of a partnership with Holy Spirit in and through our lives. The power is of the Spirit, but the expression is also fully us.

We were created in the likeness and image of our heavenly Father. He gives life, breath, and all things. He defines our identify, testimony, and purpose in life.  Our identity is found in who we are. We are alive; therefore, we give life to our world. God is the source of life and that life is eternal life. It is greater and stronger than every force of death. It is life; therefore, it brings a testimony of life in us and through us to our world. This is the source of our purpose. Our purpose is for the kingdom of God and for His will to come in all things. This changes our world. We are to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in life. To subdue is to destroy death with life and to exercise dominion is to destroy every lie with truth. The lie is a matter of death, and the truth is always a matter of life. To subdue is not a conquering through control or some measure of death. To subdue is to bring life and thus death is destroyed. To have dominion is not a domination to some knowledge of control. It is to be a truth that gives life and thus death and the control of death is conquered in some way. God made us to have dominion over the works of His hands for this reality.

Psalms 8:4 What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.

God doesn’t do anything in the earth without human voice, because dominion in the earth was given as a purpose and responsibility of mankind. We are to be expressions of God’s word to our world. The word of God is not just the verbal expressions of God. It is by no means merely the written expressions of Scripture. The word of God is His touch, His voice, and His expressed atmosphere that brings life to all that is around Him. When God expresses who He is, who He is brings life to all that experiences Him.

Isaiah 51:16 And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens, lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

God’s words in our mouths bring God’s life to our world. His words come from His presence and His presence plants heaven in our world. This is the foundation of the life-giving community of God in the earth. The former strongholds of our enemies become the places of God’s purpose and will. They become the source of the direction of our world as Zion, a former stronghold of the Jebusites, that became a headquarters for the influence of God’s life to the 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,

I hope you had a great week. We had another great time together yesterday as a church family. God’s presence was in the house and Pastor Jonathan gave another great word concerning the process of finding our true identities. God is surely good.

God’s presence in our lives is not for the sake of right information to us. God’s presence in our lives sets the boundaries of our lives. Those boundaries are not measures of control. They are measures of inspiration from within our hearts. We must live in and from God’s presence and allow Him to saturate the substance of who we are as sons and daughters of God. His presence will give us His desires, His wisdom, His understanding, His counsel, His might, His knowledge, and His awesome purpose in life. This is the testimony of the sevenfold Holy Spirit working in us. This is the testimony of the kingdom of God working in our hearts and minds.

The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. These are internal realities that affect the external expressions of our lives. The kingdom of God within us empowers our external kingdoms to be kingdoms of our Lord and Christ, Jesus the Savior of our world.

The law was and is an external control, but Holy Spirit working in us is as internal inspiration. If we seek the knowledge of good and evil by some external measure, we can only apply a law that blinds us from finding the liberty of true love. The liberty that comes by a revelation of God’s love is the testimony of a new covenant. This is the testimony of a new and living way in Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 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.

The testimony of Moses was the control of law. It was an external influence to mankind. The law cannot transform us; it can only restrain us. Only the Spirit of the Lord can transform our hearts from within. The Spirit of the Lord brings true liberty. Liberty is not a measure of freedom that we simply receive. It is a transformation that happens in us that empowers us to give life to others. We are changed to be sons and daughters of God who give life to our world even as our heavenly Father gives life, breath, and all things. We are able to live for the wellbeing of others by the Spirit of the Lord working in us. Liberty is not about what we can get but rather what we can give to others.

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.

Sons and daughters of God live to give life to others in their world. Even as Holy Spirit is the helper in our lives, we become able to help others by the power Christ within us. We are being perfected from the inside out to bring life to others. The light of Christ is within us and is shining from the inside out to transform every area of darkness to light. This is the hope of glory – Christ within us!

2 Corinthians 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

The excellence of the power is of God and not of us. Christ in us gives us the desires, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and purpose (as in awe of God) by which we live for the wellbeing of others in all things. By this we do the works of our heavenly Father and we destroy the works of the devil in the kingdoms of 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,

Bonnie and I are back in Bellingham. We had a wonderful day yesterday at Alife. Pastor Jonathan gave a great message on finding our identity. God’s presence in our lives is the key to knowing who He is and who we are. We must keep our eyes on Jesus to walk in the blessings of the kingdom of heaven. Our identity doesn’t come from the outside in. It is found within when we keep looking to Jesus.

There is an environment where life happens. That environment is determined by the Creator of all things. Our world was created by God to be a place of fruitfulness and life. When the world was formless, void, and dark, God’s ability to give life, breath, and all things put the imprint of life that brings form, fullness, and light into all things. When God speaks, life happens! God spoke, and life happened.

Whatever God speaks to, becomes the soil by which what He speaks continues to spring forth into life. When God spoke to the earth, the grass, herbs, and trees sprang forth. They are therefore bound to the soil of the earth and when the sun shines and the rain comes the plants of the earth propagate and grow. When God spoke to the heavens, the stars and the planets came to be. The realm of the heaven’s is the soil by which the stars shine, and planets maintain their orbits of destiny. When God spoke to the waters, living creatures came forth and in the soil of the waters those creatures continue to emerge with life. He spoke to the air and birds came about according to their kind and continue to live from the environment of the air. God spoke to the soil of the natural earth, and the living creatures of cattle, creeping things, and other beasts of flesh came to be. From the natural earth that life continues to abound. Whatever God spoke to, is the soil by which all life continues. Abiding in the soil of what God spoke to is the source of life for every created thing.

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

When God made mankind, He spoke to Himself. The plurality of God as One God spoke to Himself in the creation of man, male and female. He gave man dominion over the works of His hands, male and female. The us of God was the Father, the Word, and the Spirit as the triune God of life. It was from the Spirit of God that the inner substance of man, male and female, was created. The true soil of life for mankind, is the Spirit of God. The human spirit is the connecting portal for a relationship with God in the Spirit. It is through our spirit that we maintain an intimate relationship with the giver of life, the expresser of life, and the worker of life in all things.

The Spirit of God is the soil for the life of humanity. Our spirit within us must abide in the Spirit of God for us to abound in the life that God intends for each of us. The environment where life happens is found in a personal relationship with God. God’s presence is our sunlight and our water. It is from the environment of God’s presence within us that we live and bring life to our world.

The boundaries of creation fight for life, even in the adversity of futility brought into the earth by man’s own disconnection from the way of life set for him by the Father’s love in the beginning. God, the Word, became flesh that we might find our place of abiding in God as a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. Life isn’t about knowing what to do or being powerful in some way. Life is what happens when we abide in a relationship with God in the Spirit.

Let God love you today, and life will happen. Loving Him is not a work on our part, it is a response from our hearts to His love in our lives. His love is not merely a message to us; it is the environment of His manifest presence in us. We need to look for Him in our lives each day. Eternal life is knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son. This is made known by Holy Spirit dwelling within 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.

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

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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

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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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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.

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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.

Our Ministry Information Is:
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