Salvation of Your Soul

Greetings;

Today I am writing from Spain. I started today with the G42 Leadership group in embarking on a journey in New Covenant Realities. I am looking forward to all that God is going to do this week. I know we will have an encounter with the Holy Spirit in a wonderful way.

The community of God has a foundation of mercy and grace. Something in all of us should be like a little child. We should always know we have a Father who loves us and our sins are forgiven. This is a powerful revelation, but this by itself is not an understanding of grace. It is an understanding of mercy. Knowing we have a Father who loves us and our sins are forgiven is enough for us to know God’s heart for who we are, but only the presence God’s Spirit in our lives can cause us to become who we were meant to be. How we were born naturally is not the true testimony of who we were meant to be supernaturally. We had to be born again in Christ to find God’s grace that transforms our lives to become who and what God says we are to be. We should desire to be different than who we used to be. Who we are outside of Christ is not who we were meant to be in Christ. It is not true to the character, nature, way, power, or authority of a son or daughter of God. It is only a testimony of being a son or daughter of man outside of Christ. We were meant to be the likeness and the image of God in human form. When we become the likeness and the image of God we become the testimony of God’s influence in all that we are and all that we do. All humans are meant to be this way, but a disconnection from God has prevented mankind from fulfilling their true destiny. In Christ, we don’t present an image of people who just do anything. We don’t just act any way we want to. In the same manner, we are not humans who are controlled or contained by some form of law just to a pretend an action of change. Law controls us, but grace transforms our lives from within our hearts. Law constrains our actions, but grace liberates our actions to finally be life-giving actions. Law is a hard-fast unchangeable rule. Grace is an increasingly changing, transforming, metamorphosis in our hearts and minds. Metaphorically speaking, we were supposed to be butterflies, but we were born as caterpillars. We were destined to fly, but we were born crawling. We need a metamorphosis. We need to change in our character and ability. This is the power and purpose of grace.

We do not understand grace because we have redefined salvation. We say by grace we are saved, but our definition of being saved is going to heaven when we die. Going to heaven when we die is surely part of our salvation package in Christ, but there is more to our salvation than what happens when we die. We think by grace we will be saved when we die, but God wants our souls to be saved. Our souls are being the bridge between our spirits and our physical lives.

3 John 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

God wants us to prosper in all things. To be in health and to prosper in all things, our souls must prosper. Our souls manifest our desires, our thoughts, our reasoning, our imagination, and our emotions. The healthier our thoughts are the heathier our reasoning is, the healthier our imaginations are, the healthier our emotions are, and the healthier our desires become. When our thoughts, reasoning, imagination, emotions, and desires are healthy our lives will be more prosperous in all that we are and do. This affects all that we are in spiritual and practical ways.

I am a husband to my wife. I am not a husband to the wives of the world. I am a husband to one woman. She doesn’t need me to be a husband. She needs me to be her husband. She needs me to dwell with her, to understand her, to see how valuable she is, and to treat her accordingly. She needs me to rule in life with her in all things. Bonnie Hanson needs Ted Hanson to be her husband. This means I cannot just find a recipe to being a husband. I must be empowered to be her husband. My son Jonathan, my son Aaron, and my daughter Joanna need me to be their dad. They don’t need a dad, they need me to be their dad. Jonathan does not need me to be Aaron’s dad, he needs me to be Jonathan’s dad. Aaron needs me to be Aaron’s dad. Joanna needs me to be Joanna’s dad. That means I must become who I am for each of them. When I go as a minister to places that God has divinely joined me, those places don’t need me to be a minister. Each place needs me to be who God says I am for them. I must discover who God says I am for each one and each place that He sends me. This can only come by the power of God’s grace. I can be inspired by a book on marriage, but I must discover God’s grace that makes me who I am as a husband for my wife. I must constantly grow and mature. My wife does not need the husband she married forty years ago. She needs a better husband than that. She needs the husband that has been growing in maturity for forty years. The places I go need the minister that has been growing in maturity by grace. We can only be who we are meant to be today by embracing the work of God’s grace in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

About ted4you

Ted J. Hanson is the author of several Christian books intended to equip and raise up strong believers in Christ. He leads a training school known as Christ Life Training (www.christlifetraining.com) and ministers globally through House of Bread Ministry (www.houseofbreadministry.org). Ted travels to various places throughout the U.S. as well as other countries. He is a dynamic preacher/teacher who has a heart to share, uncompromisingly, the Word of God and the Lordship of Jesus Christ. He holds a bachelor of theology and masters of biblical studies through Christian International Ministries Network and is ordained through Abundant Life Ministries and House of Bread Ministry. He has served to plant and establish many ministries.
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Gary and Marilyn Stuart
Gary and Marilyn Stuart
7 years ago

What a revelation to us men. Our wives do not need us to act like the men they married years ago…….our wives need us to be the men that God says we are today. Wow.
Blessings upon your heart Pastor Ted
Gary

Will Price
7 years ago

My first call has to be for my family. If I cannot love and forgive, nurture and lead in a loving manner my own natural family, how will I ever understand Gods family which I am a father brother and friend to. I must reveal who I really am to my wife and children. If I cannot trust them with my story how will I ever trust a stranger. I seek to reveal myself in the most vulnerable manner I can in this present season. This is Holy Spirit teaching me how to trust in Him for everything. I am no longer suspicious. My walls are crumbling and the glory of His presence is able to reach others through me. I have become simple and uncomplicated and the world can respond to this. Yes it can be humiliating… so what? Yes it hurts sometimes. Compared to what Jesus bore for us it is nothing but at best a Bee sting. Thank God for his ongoing transformation in our thought and lives! Thank God when you are reduced to sacrifice for others.