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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Today I am in Angola, Africa. I have had a wonderful weekend in Huambo. I was blessed to bring training to two different groups. One group was a new connection, and I was blessed to share with many hungry pastors, leaders, and students regarding Generational Leadership. On Saturday and Sunday I taught a group of wonderful hungry believers concerning Foundations of the Church. God is doing good things here and it was a great blessing to be with friends and new connections with my African family. Thank you to all to participated.

In our journey of life, we are often faced with difficult and challenging situations. Those challenges present a wrestle that can appear to thwart our purpose and plans for life. When our spirit is joined to God’s Spirit within our hearts, we can overcome those challenges, and we even find that those times of difficulty present an opportunity for us to be freed from any selfish desires, self-preserving actions, bitter testimonies, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways. These are fleshly enemies that are only overcome by the power of God’s Spirit and His love within our hearts. It is in the challenges of life that we become desperate for a partnership with God by His Spirit. It is in that place we manifest as sons and daughters of God that remain true to be givers of life in our world. What we become in the difficult times will be who we are in the good times of our lives.

Like the inhabitants left in the land of promise, we are to conquer every fleshly enemy in our lives and utterly destroy them. We are not to be intimate with them. We must not have a relationship with them. Whatever we are intimate with, gives us our identity, testimony, and purpose. Only intimacy with God by His Spirit can give us our true identity, testimony, and purpose.

Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

We must destroy the place where these things rest in our lives. We must destroy our value for them in our hearts. This is the power of a new and living covenant with God whereby His nature is written upon our hearts and minds. We cannot destroy these things merely by the power of our own will. We must find the manifest presence of God in our hearts that destroys the will of self through an empowerment of our spirit by God’s Spirit within us. Only Holy Spirit within us can give us life-giving desires that come by a receiving of God’s love. Only Holy Spirit can empower faith within us that is empowered by a love for God. Only Holy Spirit within us can inspire our hearts to respond to God’s transforming presence whereby everything that is bitter becomes submerged in a testimony of transformation that comes by an understanding of God’s love. Only Holy Spirit within us can cause us to be givers of life to others in our world. Only Holy Spirit within us gives us an identity in Christ that is stronger than any worldly distraction. Only Holy Spirit within us can give us a true communion of love that creates a community with others through a life-giving attitude of love. Only Holy Spirit within us gives us can inspire a partnership of humility with God and one another.

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

Our identity, testimony, and purpose are only found in God, our Creator. Sons and daughters of God find these things through a partnership with God at all times. That partnership is especially proven in the difficult times of testing.

Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.”

When we partner with God, we discover the mystery of being holy. We cannot be holy to come to God. Joining ourselves to God is what makes us holy. What makes us God’s treasure is a partnership with Him in His manifest presence. Knowing God is what makes us special. Knowing we are known by God causes our hearts to realize how special it is to be loved by Him.

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 Portugal. I have had a great weekend in Lisbon and God’s presence has been wonderful and life is happening. This is a year of partnership with God for the glory of His-story in all things.

We all face difficult situations in life. Those difficult situations are not meant to be the determining factor in the story of our lives. They are merely circumstances whereby we invite God’s presence to determine the story of our lives. What is the purpose of the difficult situations in our lives? What is God’s solution to our oppression? What is God’s solution for our bondage? We all face various taskmasters and sorrows, but God hears us, and He answers our cries. 

Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

In this account of God and the children of Israel, God revealed that His desire for all His sons and daughters was to bring them liberty. Like the children of Israel, God delivers us out of the hand of the oppressor. He desires to brings us all into a good and large land of milk and honey. Milk symbolizes what makes our bones strong and honey symbolizes what gives us renewed the energy of life. These things are not merely given to us. These things are found in the place of enemies that are bigger than us.

Deuteronomy 7:1 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you…

These nations represent things that are bigger than us, but they are not bigger than God. God wants to partner with us in all things. When we partner with God and God partners with us, all things are possible. Our enemies are greater and mightier than us, but they are not greater and mightier than God! God doesn’t merely want to free us from our enemies, He wants to demonstrate His love for us through His testimony in and through our lives. He wants our partnership with Him to demonstrate a strength of God’s Spirit that overcomes every weapon and power of the flesh. It is a testimony of His glory in increasing measures in our lives. It reveals us as sons and daughters of God who can inherit His promises in our lives.

Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.

The nations left in the Promised Land represent the curses of futility in the lands of men. These things thrive in an external administration of knowledge and information and can only be defeated by an internal administration found in a partnership with God by His Holy Spirit. These enemies thrive in the natural testimonies of human sin. These enemies manifest as selfish desires, self-preserving actions, testimonies of bitterness, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways that only end in dysfunction and death. When we are challenged with difficult times in life, we manifest these attributes. Whatever manifests in the difficult times of our lives will be a lord in the days of our peace. God wants us to find the power of Christ within us in the good times and the challenging times of our lives. Only a partnership with God by His Spirit can empower us to manifest as sons and daughters of God that remain true to be givers of life to their world in every circumstance 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,

Today we end the month of March, and we enter into a new month. Bonnie and I are home now after a blessed time in California with family. Our granddaughter Eleonore turned 5 this week and Zaria turned 10. Our family is growing. Bonnie and I had a blessed morning yesterday at Everyone’s church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Life is good.

God is love and His actions are inspired by His heart toward mankind. In a world that is often difficult and hard, it is sometimes easy to put our focus upon what is difficult, and we miss seeing the love of God in the situation. God wants us to know His powerful love, not merely a superficial affection that only works on good days. God’s love is supernatural, and it reveals His desire for us and invites us to uncompromisingly trust and depend upon Him in all things.

God is a giver of life, and He wants each of us to know the miracle of being givers of life as He is. This is a supernatural testimony, and it is a greater power than any earthly bondage. Being a giver of life is an attribute of sons and daughters of God. It’s not our natural birth that makes us sons and daughters of God. Our natural birth simply makes us natural expressions of a natural world. It’s our spirit connection with the Spirit of God that makes us sons and daughters of God. This requires a birth by the Spirit of God. It is a supernatural reality. For this reason God himself subjected the earth to futility.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits 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.

God is the One who subjected the earth to futility as a consequence of man’s disconnection at the fall. Man chose an outside/in administration when he chose knowledge over intimacy and trust with God. God’s desire was to restore the intimacy and trust that was lost by man at the fall. His subjection of the earth to futility put a demand for a supernatural transformation in the hearts of men and women to become sons and daughters of God. This requires an internal connection of the spirit of man to the Spirit of God. Man was created to live by the Spirit and not the flesh. God’s plan was to restore the truth of the Spirit to mankind. God wants each of us to manifest as a son or daughter of God.

Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

God wants us to partner with Him in all things. There is not a single thing in life that happens as we would plan for it to happen. There is a challenge in all things, and it is in those challenges that we can invite God to partner with us and we can partner with Him for His purpose and will. Being led by the Spirit of God is more important that simply having a conflict free life. Being led by the Spirit of God will reveal God’s goodness and love in the midst of every circumstance of our lives.

What is the purpose of the difficult situations in our lives? An impossible world reveals an all things are possible God. Difficult situations don’t just reveal a loving God, but rather the power of God’s love in our lives. That power is supernatural, and it demonstrates God’s care for us. Jesus is the Amen – what He determines to be the end is made known when we partner with Him in life. Jesus is the Faithful One and His faithfulness is revealed when we partner with Him to find faith in our hearts. Jesus is the True Witness, and when we partner with Him every false witness and lie is destroyed by the power of His life. Jesus is the Beginning of the creation of God and when we partner with Him things are created new, even in the difficult challenges of 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,

Bonnie and I are still in Redding, California. We have enjoyed time with our family here. We will head home to Bellingham on Tuesday. It will no doubt be a sad goodbye, but we look forward to our next time together. Love laughs and love cries, this is the power of the heart.

This is a year of partnership with God so that we can enter what we could not enter before, we can see what we could not see before, become what we could not become before, and possess what we could not possess before. That possession is not merely for our own gratification. It is not for our own dreams or visions. That possession is so we can be sons and daughters of God who bring the blessings of God to our world. When we find our place in God’s plan, we discover it is better than any plan we can create on our own. We find great satisfaction, but we must lose our old life to find our new life in Christ. We can only enter the new that God has for us when we willfully let go of our old way of administrating our lives.

Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, 3 to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”

God desires a personal relationship with each of us so that we can know the greater glory of His blessing and purpose in life. God doesn’t merely want to give us freedom from the bondages of our world. He wants to the bring the blessings of His kingdom into our world. God wants us to be planted in His purpose in our world. He wants us to be a part of the family tree of life. As sons and daughters of God we are generational trees of righteousness for the will of God in our world. Being planted implies an intimate relationship of connection to the soil of God’s Spirit. In the same way a natural tree is planted in the soil of the earth, God wants us to be securely planted in the soil of His Spirit. This is the soil of His love. It is the soil of His love that enables us to be expressions of His love to our world. It is that soil that enables us to be good dads, moms, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, grandpas, grandmas, friends, neighbors, and members of a life-giving humanity in our world. When we are planted in an intimate relationship with God we can be planted in an intimate relationship with one another. It is from that place of relationship that we become empowered by God’s Spirit to bring His redeeming, restoring, and replenishing life to our world.

Isaiah 61:4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

It is time to rebuild what has been destroyed by our enemies. When we partner with God, He gives us the ability to begin again and to begin in new ways. God gives life and life is more powerful than any destruction of death. The love of God wins over the hateful plans of every adversary. There is a turnaround anointing available to us as sons and daughters of God. What has been torn apart can be made good again in ways that are beyond what was before.

It is time to raise up what was made desolate. God gives breath and when we partner with Him, we find His Spirit filling our lives in new ways. That partnership is not one of natural knowledge but one of supernatural expression of His love. What the enemy made desolate can be filled with the testimony of God’s love.

It is time to repair what was meant to have a generational inheritance. The community of God is one that tabernacles with Him to reveal His inheritance to our children and our children’s children. God gives us all things. His purpose is seen in the glory of His name made real in and through our lives to our world. It is for the sake of our children and our children’s children that God partners with us and we partner with Him 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,

Today Bonnie and I are in Redding, California with our son and his family. It is great to be with our grandchildren here for a few days. I am looking forward to our adventures together in these next days.

This is a year of partnership with God so that we can partner with others in all that we are and do. We are not just people in a plan of human history. We are meant to live as sons and daughters of God who reveal the story of God in our world. We are expressions of life in His-story for His glory in our world.

God has called us to know a greater justice than a justice of human knowledge. Human knowledge alone can only empower us to seek to live by the knowledge of good and evil. That kind of life is dependent upon the strength of mankind – spirit, soul, and body. God has a greater plan for our lives. He has called us to live, move, and have our being in the justice of His love. When we abide in His love, we become givers of His love to our world. Intimacy with God will give us a solid foundation in life while mere knowledge of good and evil leaves us in an unstable world of independence with the strongholds of human pride.

Revelation 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Only a connection with God can give us the stability of faith. Faith is the foundation of our true identify in life. Each of us must find your Identify in God. In the seventh letter of Revelation to the Church of Laodicea, those who had become lukewarm were told to “buy gold refined in the fire”. This was a signification of their need to become faithful to God. Faithfulness is the testimony of standing in faith. Faith comes by hearing God in our hearts, and it is there that we find our strength to stand. We walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). Faith is a supernatural testimony that rises up from within when we hear God. Hearing God will bring salvation to our souls.

1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

I believe that the salvation of our souls is not just our going to heaven when we die. I believe it is the restoration of who we are meant to be in life. Our souls are the bridge between the spirit and the natural. The soul is the throne of our lives, and it causes our desires, thoughts, reasoning, emotions, and imaginations to be manifest in all that we do. A key to allowing God to change our character is to present our bodies in the right place. We must present our bodies as living sacrifices and that means that we cannot live like we did when we were in the world. We must live for the well-being of others and our character is the utmost important in our journey of life!

We find our identity in God, but we also find our testimony in Him. We live in Him, and we also move in Him. We must put on the “white garments” of Christ. Each of us are to be clothed in the testimony of Christ. We are not the body of self but members of the body of Christ. This is our hope! We are part of the inheritance of God in Christ and we are granted the grace of God to walk in the works that have been prepared for us in Christ.

The promise to the church of Sardis was that he who overcomes would be “given white garments” (Rev. 3:5). White is a symbol of cleanliness, purity, and righteousness. White garments speak of being clothed in the New Man. We are to put on Christ now (Col. 3:5-17) and to be fully clothed in Christ in the “last day” (Col. 3:4; Jude 24). As sons and daughters of God, we are to be clothed in the righteousness of Christ (Gal. 3:27; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10). This is a heavenly truth that is progressively revealed in the life of every believer. It is seen in and through the testimonies of our lives.

It is only when we find our identify and testimony in God that we can live for our true purpose in this world. Our true purpose is not found in our own dreams or visions of life. Our purpose is found in seeing what God sees and finding a zeal empowered by His Spirit. Holy Spirit’s anointing is salve upon our eyes that gives true vision in our world. We must look at what God is looking at to see what He sees.

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,

Blessings to you all as we continue to move forward into a new season in God. We had a great day yesterday at Alife. Pastor Jonathan gave a great word on finding our identity in Christ. God is the only one who can give us our true identity. That identity is revealed to us by God from within and in Christ we are each a unique son or daughter of God.

Last week I addressed the chastisement of God in our lives. God wants us to manifest as His sons and daughters that we might be givers of His life to our world. This is a season of partnership with God and those who partner with God find Him partnering with them to enable them to manifest who they really are. They are givers of life as their heavenly Father is a giver of life. The test of who we are is seen in the good times but especially in the difficult times of our lives. The difficult things we face in life only prove who we really are. Christ in us is the hope of glory in every circumstance, situation, and season of our lives.

I found a portion of a prophecy I gave some years ago that I feel is very relevant to this present season. Here is some of a prophecy that I gave July 8, 2011:

The Lord says He’s seeking for a Jacob generation that He might turn the Jacob generation into the “inheriting ones”. “And even now, there’s a transition”, says God, “in My Body – and those who have sought to seek and find Me are going to discover that I’m the One Who seeks to find them. And in the place of wrestling, there’s a breakthrough.” For God says, “I’m bringing forth My ‘inheriting one’. I’m bringing forth My Israel. I’m bringing forth My Prince with God. There was a time and there was a season when I sought for those who would be a Jacob generation, but hear the Word of the Lord! Hear the Word of the Lord! Hear the Word of the Lord! This is the day for Me to lay hold of you! This is not the day for you to lay hold of Me! This is the day for Me to lay hold of you – and in Me laying hold of you, it’s time for you to endure! It’s time for you to hold on, and it’s in that place of wrestling that there’s going to come an inheritance – there’s going to come an inheritance!”

There’s a shift in the Spirit. Don’t seek the thing that was before. Seek that which is beyond that which was before. Seek that which is the increase. Seek that which is the ‘more’. For this is not a time to break away. This is a time to stand fast and say, ‘Our God has come! He has laid hold of us, and we will not let go of that which He has laid hold of!’”

If you have been experiencing what you thought was a wrestle with yourself, someone else, your circumstance, or some other thing – God wants you to let Him take hold of you. He is wrestling with you that you may become an inheritor of His name. He wants you to become an inheritor of His grace. When we face the chastisement of our faith, we become empowered to manifest as sons and daughters of God by faith.

In the Movie, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, there is a line in the movie that defines the reason for this discipline in a marvelous way. In the movie, the wicked uncle killed Arthur’s father and mother, and the boy Arthur was raised by prostitutes in a village. He endured handicaps, hardship, poverty, and an environment that required him to overcome many things. Arthur grew up believing he was the son of a prostitute, but something inside of him drove him to be the best he could be in everything. He became the best street fighter, the best at caring for those he loved, the best saver of financial profits, and many other things. He excelled in advancing amid his situation in every area of his life. When he came to the age of being a young man, all the young men in the kingdom were being summoned to attempt to pull the sword, x caliber, from the stone. It had been foretold that whoever could pull the sword would be the rightful heir. The evil uncle wanted to discover who was the heir only so he could kill him. Arthur was brought to the stone among the other young men, and the sword came out from the rock. He was thrown to the ground by the power of the sword and the uncle brought him into his chambers and says, what is it that gives you such drive? Do you know who you are? Arthur says, I am the son of a prostitute. No, you’re not, explained the illegitimate king. You are the heir. We know who you are. We’ve been in your city. We heard of your reputation. We found your treasuries. What is it that gives you your drive? Arthur didn’t answer. All his life, he had a dream about a fire devil. At the end of the movie he had to face the fire devil. He accepted the responsibility of being Arthur. During the fight, he got a revelation that the devil in his visions and dreams was really his evil uncle. He stands and he says, you asked me what gave me my drive? You did; you made me what I am. You finally give reason to the devil.

Each of us are a son or a daughter of God. Something inside of each of us has called out for the greatness of who we are and none of us are illegitimate children. Even if we were naturally illegitimate by birth, we were all called to be sons and daughters of the King. We must go through chastening; we must go through difficulty. It is the difficulty that inspires us to manifest who we are. Amid the challenges of life, the testimony of Christ in us is the hope of glory. It is the hope of manifesting as true sons and daughters of God, and it comes by the chastening of God in our lives. The test of our partnership with God is seen in our ability to seek Him in the difficult and the good times of 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

Greetings,

I hope you are all well. I am writing this letter to present a need of House of Bread Ministry. I am excited with all that God has done and is continuing to do. I have been providing equipping and resources to the body of Christ in many places for these past years. This is my 52^nd year as a believer in Christ and I will complete my 70^th year on planet earth this year. God continues to open effective doors for me to bring life to this world.

Much of my focus these past fourteen years has been to equip and train people in parts of the world that cannot financially support or contribute to my ability to come to them. I am asking for your help.

I need funding for air travel and support to do all that God has called me to do. House of Bread has been supporting the establishing of churches and schools in Angola, Africa. We need funds for building materials, staffing, and ministry development there.

Even when I travel to places in Europe or the UK, my expenses are very often not covered. I need support for travel, but also for my own family while I am focusing on giving life to God’s family. If God blesses you, please consider partnering with House of Bread Ministry in our commission to reach the nations and generations for God’s glory.

My mandate is to bring Christ’s New Covenant life and the empowerment of His grace to places that have been bound to death and the legalism of law. Anything you can to support House of Bread Ministry will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your prayers and support,

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 good day at Alife yesterday. I was blessed to share. Spring in in the air in my part of the world and it feels like a new season. There are some challenges, but the season is a season of new life.

This is a season of partnership with God for His will and purpose in all things. God is ready to reveal His glory as His-story is revealed in and through our lives in our spheres of influence in our world. God wants us to know that He is our Father, and we are His children. The difficult things that we face in life only prove to reveal who our Father is and who we are when we invite God to partner with us and we partner with Him.

Revelation 3:19 “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.”

Partnership with God is so that we might reign in life for God’s glory (Rom. 5:17). Our independence and ability to be right will not empower us to reign. Only our ability to partner with the One who loves us will enable us to show God’s love to our world. Mercy is a greater judgment than law and only God has the ability to give us the gift of mercy that comes by a revelation of His love to us and in us for us to find His triumph in our lives.

Hebrews chapter 11 reveals a testimony of people of faith. The worlds of many men and women were framed by faith. They heard God and their worlds were transformed. In the context of being surrounded by all the witnesses in heaven, Hebrews chapter 12 describes men and women who embraced a partnership with God to see His will become the focus of their world. Like those of faith, we too must embrace a walk of finding God in the hard times of our lives. We like the victories, but the chastisements in life are different. This is partly because we don’t understand discipline. We tend to think that correction means we are bad, and we need to be good. We often think that if we go through something hard or difficult, if we are corrected or chastised in some way, it means we are bad people. This is not correct. Chastisement endears us to God and keeps us in the right path, the path of life. In the context of that, the writer of Hebrews says that Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, endured suffering. He endured hard things. He was chastised. If chastisement was for those who are bad, then Jesus would have wrongfully endured chastisement. He endured chastisement, because He was the Son of God. 

Hebrews 12:3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; 6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.” 7  If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

We are not to despise the chastening of the Lord. We are not to be discouraged when we are rebuked by God. He scourges every son He receives by allowing them to go through hard things. Jesus never sinned, but He was scourged. He never looked for love in the wrong place, but He was tempted with everything we are tempted with. God, His Father, allowed Him to be chastened. He allowed Him to be disciplined. What did that look like? It looked like being treated wrongly. It looked like showing mercy to those who deserve death. God allowed His son Jesus to be despised, rejected, hated, lied about, misunderstood and many other things. All of this was for the sake of manifesting as God’s Son.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I am now back home in America. It is good to be home with family and my local community. It was a great trip out, but now I am working on catching up on things at home. I am focused and ready for all that God is going to do in this new season. I am choosing to step into the new through a partnership with God in all things.

I have been addressing our need for a partnership with God so that we can partner with one another for God’s will and glory in our lives. I am using the seventh letter of Revelation to the church of Laodicea as a foundation for understanding this partnership. Without a partnership with God we can profess a form of godliness, but we cannot see His manifest presence that empowers us to reign in life. A belief that God simply is, will not empower us to reign in life. Only His manifest presence, and believing all that He says, can empower us to be givers of God’s life to our world. Only His presence in our lives will empower us to live for the purpose and will of God in life.

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

Because of the Laodicean’s lukewarm condition, Jesus said He would spew them out of His mouth. This is a Jewish phrase that was part of the curse for breaking covenant with God (Lev. 18:24-28; Lk. 21:24). Israel was told that if they became like the nations of the world, the Promised Land would vomit them out. The people of Laodicea had become conditioned by the world to no longer be seekers of God, but simply lovers of themselves. They sought their own interests above the will and purpose of God. They thought themselves to be rich and in need of nothing, but God saw them to be “wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked”. This same principle is true in our lives. When we seek to live our lives independent of God voice and presence, we embrace a testimony of the flesh. The end result is a state of disqualification from the blessings of God.

Revelation 3:18 “I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.”

Gold refined in fire is a testimony of faithfulness. Our faithfulness to God is tested by the trials in our lives. The true purpose of every trial is that we might see the faithfulness of God and that we might be proven faithful to Him. Faith comes by hearing God in our hearts and to be faithful is to be found full of faith. We hold fast to hearing God in our hearts in every circumstance and situation of our lives. Sons and daughter of God are faithful to God in all things as He is faithful to them. This produces the salvation of our thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires – the salvation of our souls! Our identity is found in faith that comes by knowing God for who He is.

1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

White garments speak of the testimony of our lives. We are to be clothed in Christ and not simply the personal testimonies of our own desires. To be clothed in Christ is to be a testimony of His Word and His Spirit in our daily lives. We reveal Christ to the world around us. We are clothed in the testimony of Christ – inside and out!

To anoint our eyes with eye salve is to see what God sees. It is to live for His purpose and will and not our own. When we see what God sees, we live for His glory. We live for the wellbeing of others above our own, because we become givers of life to our world as our heavenly Father is a giver of life in all things.

To partner with God and to open the door of our hearts for God to partner with us bears the fruit of knowing that our identity, testimony, and purpose is for God’s will in all things. We live in His faithfulness to be faithful to Him in our world. We are clothed in His testimony of life to be givers of life to our world for the glory of God. We choose to be empowered to see what God sees above the vision of our own will and desires. When we see what God sees, we live for His will and purpose in all things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Please consider helping us complete our mission.

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