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Greetings,

I had a great week with being back home, Thanksgiving holiday, and all of my family together for a few days. It was a real treat to have everyone together. I am home for a bit now and looking forward to catching up on several things as well as some needed family time. God is good and it is a good day to be alive.

I have been addressing the need to experience and embrace the fire of God in our lives. God is a consuming fire in that His presence consumes what can be consumed and His presence captures the attention of our hearts and minds. The fire of God is found in the manifest presence of God. This was the case when Moses received the Law from God.

Exodus 24:16 Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

It was in the manifest presence of God that Moses received the Law, how much more do we need the presence of God in our lives that gives us His grace that changes our hearts and minds from within. The context of Hebrews chapter 12 is receiving a covenant that has a greater glory than the Old Covenant of the days of Moses. God’s presence in our lives will consume what can be consumed but it will also give us the reality of the unshakeable kingdom of heaven in our hearts and minds. Eternal things become realities from within us by God’s manifest presence in our lives.

1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

The good news of the New Covenant is that in Christ we are a temple of Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the messenger of God sent into our lives to cause us to each be a message of God’s amazing grace. To be a message of life we must be fully joined to the messenger of life. 

Malachi 3:1 “Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” says the LORD of hosts. 2 “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers’ soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.

The context of Malachi is that God was not seen by His people for who He really is. They did not honor Him as their Father and could not even see Him as a master as they would a master among men. Their offerings were not what He desired. He wanted them to know Him for who He really is. The priests had not given their lives for the Father’s will or for the children of His name, but God was sending the remedy to their problem. He was sending His Messenger that would be like a refiner’s fire within them and a soap that would wash away the stains of sin in their lives. I believe that Messenger is Holy Spirit. Jesus came as the word made flesh so that through Him, we can be made a testimony of the word of God in our lives. He made it possible for us to live our lives as sons and daughters of God, the Holy Spirit within us testifying that we are His children. Our former lives of flesh are transformed to be members of the body of Christ filled with Holy Spirit. We are priests of God attending to the fire of His presence in our lives. By this we are being transformed to respond to God rightly and to make offerings that testify of the character, nature, way, power, and authority of our heavenly Father in this world. Our hearts are turned toward God as our Father, and our hearts are turned towards the generations of His children for the glory of His name. The fire of God is within our hearts.

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 heading home after a great week in Portugal and a great weekend back in the Netherlands. Two more courses have been recorded in Portuguese and we were blessed with God’s presence in Ede, and Holton. Thank you to all the hungry hearts in Portugal and in the Netherlands. I am returning home empowered by our destiny in Christ and encouraged by His fruit of life.

As sons and daughters of God, we are called to be messengers of the good news of Christ and ministers of God’s manifest presence in life. Our message is not one of information, it is a message that empowers transformations unto life in those who receive it. Jesus made a way for us to live our lives empowered by the Holy Spirit within us and clothed with the testimony of Holy Spirit in every way. We are to live our lives submerged in God’s presence and transformed by His presence to be givers of life to our world. Holy Spirit makes us sent ones (earth-sent angels) of God’s life to our world. Holy Spirit also comes as a fire to purify our hearts and minds and impassion our souls to be givers of life to our world.

Psalms 104:4 Who makes His angels spirits (winds), His ministers a flame of fire.

We are sent ones of God’s Spirit, and we are attendants to His presence in and for our world. We can only be ministers of His presence by spending time in His presence. The fire of God in our lives consumes what can be consumed and impassions us to be ministers of life.

Our attention, desire, and purpose should be ignited by fire in the presence of the Lord. Like the finely ground flour in the offerings of the Old Testament, our lives should easily burn on the altar of the Lord. The purpose of that finely ground flour was for fire. Our own personal agendas and any form of self-seeking must be sifted from our hearts to be who God destines us to be for His glory. God wants our hearts to be blazing with a passion of love to Him and to one another. It is God’s desire that we be found as ministers of fire before Him (Ps. 104:4). Anything that is within us that is not a passion for Him, nor for one another, will simply become consumed in His awesome presence. Anything that is pure will become an increased flame of love for Him and for one another.

The Old Covenant offerings consisted of blood, parts, and fire. Jesus fulfilled the sacrifice of blood once for us all. There is no more blood to be shed. The offering of the life of the flesh (blood), has been given for us all. We can add nothing and nothing is needed. We regard no one according to the flesh anymore. The parts in the offerings of the Old Covenant represent who we are in Christ. God is the one who determines our true identity. We find our part in His calling, His inheritance, and His purpose. We do not decide who we are in Christ, we discover who we are by the power of God’s grace working in and through us.

We can present nothing before God but ourselves as fires for His desire within us. Since we cannot offer more blood, nor offer more than His own calling and inheritance within the saints (Eph. 1:18), the only sacrifice that we can willingly present to Him is that which is intended for fire. As we present our bodies to Him as a living sacrifice (Rom. 12:1 – burnt offering of service), we are presenting the one thing that we can offer. He is the one who gives us grace for the work of ministry, but we are the ones who give our bodies toward that work of ministry. Our work of ministry is simply our service in giving our lives to give life to our world. For this to happen, we are fully dependent and committed to the manifest presence of God in our lives. It is within our ability to present ourselves for the fire of God. That which is of God will increase and that which is not of Him will simply burn away.

The difference between fire that is for an increase of God and fire that is for the consumption of our self-willed motives is found in the motives of our hearts. We want the fire of the Lord upon the altars of our hearts, not the fire of ourselves. We want the fire of God that produces God’s results. We don’t want the fire of self (strange fire) that produces the fruit of self.

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 wonderful time recording two new courses in Portuguese and a great time in two churches on the weekend. This is again a very fruitful trip. I have been ambushed by God’s presence several times and I have seen the love of God at work.

Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

We overcome the things that try to shake us in life by the power of the unshakeable kingdom of God in our hearts. That unshakeable kingdom is the fruit of God’s manifest presence in our lives. Seeking God, finding Him, and living in and from His presence is essential to our journey in life. We must find God in our everyday lives to bring His supernatural presence into our everyday world.

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

In the days of Moses in the wilderness, it was a dry, and sometimes difficult, place of taking care of Jethro’s sheep. It was in that place that Moses had to discover the fresh presence of God in his life. Finding God’s consuming presence in that place held the key to the authority in Moses’ life as God’s tool of deliverance for Israel.

Exodus 3:2 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So, he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” 4 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 

God’s presence in the bush inspired Moses to turn from what he had been doing to discover what God would have him be and do. He had to know that who he was would determine what he must do in life. His calling, testimony, and purpose could only be determined by the consuming presence of God in his life. When he turned to look, he heard God call.

Exodus 3:5 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”

The ordinary life of Moses became a holy life of God’s purpose by the presence of God in the place of his standing. Moses could not walk in shoes of human making. He had to stand upon the ground made by God’s holy presence to take on a holy purpose of destiny.

In the same way that Moses needed an encounter with God as his God, we need a constant encounter with God in our lives. We must all know that there is no separation between us and God. We also need to know that God and we lived together in all things. Moses needed a transformation by the life-giving God of heaven to lead God’s people into that same encounter in life. The deliverance of Israel from Egypt was more about becoming the testimony of the children of God upon the earth than about being freed from Egypt. This was but a shadow of what we live in as New Covenant people of God. Being freed from a life of sin is only the invitation to become an expression of God’s life-giving people upon the earth. God wants us to become heavenly powered from within. When we are empowered from within, we can do all things without.

It is for this reason that Jesus baptizes (submerges us) in the Holy Spirit and fire. When we live a life of being submerged in Holy Spirit, we exhibit the heavenly testimony of God’s life in our world. When we live a lifestyle of being submerged in God’s fire, we reveal the qualities of being sons and daughters of God in our world. Holy Spirit makes us sent ones (angels) of God’s Spirit to our world, and God consuming presence makes us ministers of God’s life 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 I am in the Netherlands. I have had a great several days here with the church in Utrecht. I have met with the church body, teens, individuals, and will complete tonight with a gathering of several ladies who are pressing into the realities of the kingdom of God. I have had a great time. Thank you to Pastors Niels and Sandra and all of the church family here. Tomorrow I will journey on to Portugal.

Jesus came to our world as the firstborn of a new creation. He is the eternal Adam of mankind, and the body of Christ is joined to Him as bone of His bones to be the life-giving womb of eternal Eve in the earth. Eternal life is to know God and to know Jesus Christ the Son (Jn. 17:3). This is to know the Father and to know the Son through the fellowship of Holy Spirit in our lives. The prophet John foretold of the grace that would come to us through Jesus Christ.

Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Jesus is the one who submerges us into the life and testimony of Holy Spirit and He is the One who submerges us in fire. To be submerged in Holy Spirit is to be clothed in a heavenly testimony of Christ who resides within us. As sons and daughters in Christ we can live in a lifestyle of continued transformational change unto life because Holy Spirit teaches us by submerging us in the fullness of life. As was foreshadowed in the priests of the Old Covenant, we wear a heavenly robe with a hem that touches the earth beneath our feet that manifests the fruit of Holy Spirit and the power of Holy Spirit in our lives. We bring life to our world by the overflowing life of Christ within us.

Exodus 39:24 They made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet, and of fine woven linen. 25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around between the pomegranates: 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe to minister in, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

It is the fruit of the Spirit and the power of the Spirit that testifies that we are clothed in Christ. The fruit of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control is increasingly evident in our lives as we live a lifestyle of being submerged in Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22, 23). The testimony that Jesus is Lord is seen through the charisma of Holy Spirit that reveals an external testimony of the one who lives within us (1 Cor. 12:7-10). This is the testimony that comes by being submerged in Holy Spirit. What about a baptism of fire? What does it mean to be submerged or submersed into the presence of God’s fire?

The fire of God is referenced in the Scripture hundreds of times. The fire of God is good news for those who seek Him, know Him, and desire to know Him more. The fire of God simply consumes what can be consumed and impassions us to be ministers of life in our world.

Psalms 104:4 Who makes His angels spirits (winds), His ministers a flame of fire.

Angels are ‘sent ones.’ Angels are not just spirit beings. The name angel is a testimony of those who are sent with the good news of life. As sons and daughters of God in Christ we are sent to bring God’s life to our world. We are sent of the Spirit of God, and we are clothed in the Spirit. We minister life to our world. To be a minister is to be a worshipper of God or an attendant to His presence and purpose. We are to be both a testimony of the Spirit and a testimony of fire.

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 Bellingham after a great time away in Angola Africa and quick stop in Portugal. The church in Angola is growing and the life of God was there in our gatherings together in various congregations. I was also able to do some video recording in Portugal. Yesterday I was blessed to minister at Everyone’s church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Lives have been touched by the word and presence of God. It is a good day. On Thursday I head out again for the Netherlands, Portugal, and the Netherlands in a three-week journey.

God has called us to be people of light. God is light and we are His children. Since we are children of God, we walk in the light as He is in the light. The action is ours in turning towards Him, but the experience is Him in that He is the light and the source of our light in this world. When we turn to the Lord in our hearts, we experience the glory of God from within us.

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.

The glory of God is the abundance of His life that changes us from within. When we look in a mirror, we see an image of ourselves, and that image is being changed from within our hearts through a constant and increasing encounter with Christ in us. It is little by little, but it is an increasing testimony of glory to glory. Experiencing the glory of God, is to experience His life that transforms us in our hearts from within.

All of creation is a testimony of the Godhead. Something of God can be seen is all that is created. It is like the light of each new day. the sunrise happens when the earth bows in the direction of the sun. The turning is an act of the earth while the sun simply remains constant as the ever-shining light. The prophet Isaiah proclaimed this truth and prophesied of the day when all people could become the light of God in Christ.

Isaiah 60:1-5 “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side. 5 Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.”

Those who were not in covenant with God can come to be in covenant with God when they turn to the Lord in their hearts. We must bow to stand. Just as the earth bows in the direction of the sun to experience the sunrise of a new day, we must bow to the presence of God to experience the ever-increasing light of Christ within us. It is not a far away mystery. God is near to us, but we must turn in His direction to receive the direction of His light for our way. It is not a matter of information. It is a matter of transformation unto increasing life.

We don’t walk by natural sight. We walk by faith (2 Cor. 5:7). That faith comes by hearing God’s voice within our hearts. It inspires us to see what we could not see before, to hear what we could not hear before, and to think what we could not think before. In this, we become what we could not be before. Our natural light has ended, and the Light of Christ is the increasing testimony of our eternal life in Christ. Our natural sun has turned dark, and the life of our flesh has been ended for our light in the darkness. The life of the flesh was in the blood, but the life of the body of Christ is found in the grace of Holy Spirit in our lives. Our sun has turned to darkness and our moon to blood, because we have discovered eternal life in knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son through the fellowship of Holy Spirit. We no longer live for our days, but for the ever-increasing Day of the Lord in all things. The Lord is our light and there is no more need for the light of self that can only repeat the endless cycles of our past.

Isaiah 60:19-22 “The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.”

To walk in the light, we must turn to the light. Jesus is Lord of our hearts, and He is our everlasting light through our fellowship with His Holy Spirit in our ways. We are children of the light, and we are no longer bound to being children of the night.

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 with some great testimonies of people hungry for God and God’s life touching many. It was a long journey with some challenges in getting here, but the journey is well worth it to see what God is doing in the lives of His children in this part of the world. I have a full week of training here and I am looking forward to teaching on ‘God, Our Father’.

God has called us to be people of light. God is light and we are His children. Since we are children of God, we walk in the light as He is in the light. The action is ours in turning towards Him, but the experience is Him in that He is the light and the source of our light in this world. When we turn to the Lord in our hearts, we experience the glory of God from within us.

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.

The glory of God is the abundance of His life that changes us from within. When we look in a mirror, we see an image of ourselves, and that image is being changed from within our hearts through a constant and increasing encounter with Christ in us. It is little by little, but it is an increasing testimony of glory to glory. Experiencing the glory of God, is to experience His life that transforms us in our hearts from within.

All of creation is a testimony of the Godhead. Something of God can be seen is all that is created. It is like the light of each new day. the sunrise happens when the earth bows in the direction of the sun. The turning is an act of the earth while the sun simply remains constant as the ever-shining light. The prophet Isaiah proclaimed this truth and prophesied of the day when all people could become the light of God in Christ.

Isaiah 60:1-5 “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side. 5 Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.”

Those who were not in covenant with God can come to be in covenant with God when they turn to the Lord in their hearts. We must bow to stand. Just as the earth bows in the direction of the sun to experience the sunrise of a new day, we must bow to the presence of God to experience the ever-increasing light of Christ within us. It is not a far away mystery. God is near to us, but we must turn in His direction to receive the direction of His light for our way. It is not a matter of information. It is a matter of transformation unto increasing life.

We don’t walk by natural sight. We walk by faith (2 Cor. 5:7). That faith comes by hearing God’s voice within our hearts. It inspires us to see what we could not see before, to hear what we could not hear before, and to think what we could not think before. In this, we become what we could not be before. Our natural light has ended, and the Light of Christ is the increasing testimony of our eternal life in Christ. Our natural sun has turned dark, and the life of our flesh has been ended for our light in the darkness. The life of the flesh was in the blood, but the life of the body of Christ is found in the grace of Holy Spirit in our lives. Our sun has turned to darkness and our moon to blood, because we have discovered eternal life in knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son through the fellowship of Holy Spirit. We no longer live for our days, but for the ever-increasing Day of the Lord in all things. The Lord is our light and there is no more need for the light of self that can only repeat the endless cycles of our past.

Isaiah 60:19-22 “The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.”

To walk in the light, we must turn to the light. Jesus is Lord of our hearts, and He is our everlasting light through our fellowship with His Holy Spirit in our ways. We are children of the light, and we are no longer bound to being children of the night.

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 Bellingham after a couple of days in the forest hunting. I had a great couple of days in the silence of the outdoors and I enjoyed God’s presence. No harvest yet, but I will look to the end of the year.

Our focus in life should be to seek the kingdom of God in all things. Our focus is not upon meeting our own needs or fulfilling our personal desires. God is our Father, and it is His pleasure to meet our needs and to fulfill our desires, but His ways are better than ours. We can be confident that as we live for His kingdom and for His will, He will abundantly care for us.

Matthew 6:31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

How do we seek the kingdom of God in all things? Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within us (Lk. 17:20, 21). The kingdom of God within us affects the outward expressions of our natural kingdoms to become testimonies for God’s glory. Our internal connection to God and His kingdom reveals true righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit within our hearts. An increasing revelation of these will empower our identity, testimony, and purpose in life.

God cares for the birds, and He cares for the flowers of the field. The birds don’t gather into barns, but people in the likeness and image of their heavenly Father were born to bring life to their worlds through the barns and vats of their lives. Their barns are a testimony of their life to the world as the living bread of Christ. Their vats are a testimony of the life of the Spirit they bring to others. When we seek God’s kingdom first in our lives, we can fulfill our purpose in this world as sons and daughters of God who give life to others.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and depart from evil. 8 It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones. 9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Our trust in the Lord is foundational to our seeking God’s kingdom and will in our lives. God wants us to trust Him with all of our heart, but that measure grows as we grow in maturity in Christ. God doesn’t expect us to trust Him with a heart we don’t yet have. I am more than 50 years old in Christ and the measure that I trust Him today far exceeds the measure that I could trust Him with twenty years ago. Our trust of God grows as our experience with God grows. To seek God’s kingdom, we must not lean on our own understanding. I often thank God for the simple expression of praying in the Spirit, since the foolishness of the Spirit helps to simplify the complexity of my own natural thoughts. God the Holy Spirit inspires me to lean upon His understanding above my own.

God’s path in life is a path of our true identity. Only God can give us our true identity. Who we are reveals who God is in way that is uniquely our identity in Him. This can only happen when we trust Him, yield our understanding to His, and acknowledge Him in our ways in life.

Our testimony in life is one that reveals the goodness of God though the health of our flesh and the strength of our bones. We are not to be wise in our own eyes, but dependent upon God for the steps of His wisdom in our lives. An awe of Him will empower us to depart from all evil and the testimony of our lives will reveal God’s goodness to our world.

Our purpose in life can only be discovered and fulfilled when we honor the Lord with all that we possess. We honor Him with our attitudes, actions, and accomplishments in life. We give Him the firstfruits of all that He gives us in life. In doing so our barns will be filled with plenty, and our vats will overflow with new wine. These are the fruits of all that we are and do that brings life to our world. This fruit is both natural and spiritual and it brings the blessings 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,

I hope everyone is well today. I have enjoyed being back home for a few days. Yesterday I was blessed to share in my home church community of Alife. The presence of God was in the house and life was in His family.

Every day the earth rotates in the direction of the sun. Each morning we experience a sunrise, and we call it a new day. The sun does not move. The earth rotates in the direction of the sun. The science is a rotation of the earth in the direction of the sun, but the magical experience is a sunrise in our lives for a new day. This truth in our natural world testifies of a truth in regard to God and our relationship with Him. God does not move. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He loves us and He is ready to give His love to all that desire to know Him. He is the giver of life! He is the giver of light to our dark world. To know His light, we must turn in the direction of Him. When we humble ourselves and bow in His direction, we find Him ready and able to give us a new experience for a new day. Though we were clothed in darkness, when we turn to Him, we become clothed in light. We must face Him, to find His face. We must seek Him, to find Him in our lives.

What direction are we facing in life? The way of the world is to focus upon one’s own personal desires and needs. People look for the substance of magic that meets their own desires and fulfills their own need in some way. They don’t realize that there is a greater destiny in life. God doesn’t just want to meet our needs; He wants to empower us as sons and daughters to be givers of life to our world.

We have a greater destiny than to be merely those who seek our own personal fulfillments. God wants all men to know the destiny of bringing life to their world. It is for this reason that Jesus said that those who are thirsty can come to Him and drink so that life-giving water might flow through them to their world (Jn. 7:37-39). The life of Holy Spirit within us gives us our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life. That identity, testimony, and purpose is found in our connection to God in all things. When we look to Him, His kingdom can come, and His will can be done in our lives just as He already declares it to be in heaven.

God is our Father, and we can trust Him to care for us in life. We must also know that He sees us as greater than we can even see ourselves. His aspiration for us to empower us to be sources of life to our world. Humanity sows seeds for harvests that bring life to their world. When that seed is sown for our own selves, we miss the greatness of what God has for us. Our Father cares for us and He also empowers us to be all that He has determined for us to be.

Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

If God cares for creation of a lower destiny, surely He cares for those who are in His likeness and image in this world. He clothes us with our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life, but we must come to Him to put on the clothing of Christ. This is not the clothing of self but the greater clothing of our purpose in Christ. Jesus is the head, but we are His body. We are the family of God for a corporate identity, testimony, and purpose 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,

I don’t know how it happened, but my last Monday’s blog didn’t post. I thought it had posted but somehow the magic of the internet didn’t work. I had a great week of God’s presence with the family of God in Bulgaria. As usual, I am blessed by all that God is doing there and I am encouraged by the hunger of the hearts of the church family in Bulgaria. This past week, I was in the Netherlands and Portugal. I met with a core group of the church in Utrecht on Monday, and I recorded training courses in Portugal during the week. I had a great weekend in Lisbon and today I am editing some of the many video courses that I have recorded.

The life of God in our lives is a testimony of resurrection life, creative life, and eternal life. The flow of Holy Spirit from our lives brings life to the deadest places in our world in a supernatural way.

Ezekiel 47:9 And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many.

En Gedi and En Eglaim are strongholds at the banks of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea derives its name from the fact that it does not contain fish. It is the lowest body of water in elevation upon the earth and it is the highest in salt content. The strongholds of En Gedi (fountain or spring of goats) and En Eglaim (fountain or spring of two calves), are places that may symbolize a refuge for happiness (leaping goats) and a refuge for liberty (leaping calves). We are freed from our sin because Jesus was the sacrificial scape goat for our inheritance in Christ. We are called to present our bodies and serve God as members of the body of Christ because Jesus sanctified us to serve God in the liberty of membership in the body of Christ. We are witnesses of Christ in the liberty of Christ in our lives. The spreading of nets is symbolized in these verses of Ezekiel to be between a spring of freedom and a spring of liberty. The river brings the freedom and liberty of life to the world. The freedom of today is because of the freedom we found yesterday, but to bring the freedom for tomorrow we must find new freedom today. The liberty of today is because of the liberty we found yesterday, but to bring the liberty for tomorrow we must find new liberty today. The life of God’s river is in every season that comes by the eternal measurements of God’s grace.

The river flows towards the east. It is a glory of increasing grace. To be stuck in what God has done in the past is a hinderance to what God desires to do today.

Ezekiel 47:11 But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.

What are the swamps and marshes in our lives? Where are we stuck in something that God did and expecting that to be the place of life for today? The methods of a previous season of God in our lives can become the imprisonment to the swamps and marshes in our lives. When we love what God has done more than we love God, we can become stuck in something that God did in the past and miss what God desires to do in our lives today. We may think that we are ok because we have some measure of water from what God did yesterday but there is no flow of God’s present purpose in our lives. When this happens, we miss the healing that God wants to give us in the new season of God.

Ezekiel 47:12 Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”

What are our expectations in life? What direction are we facing? Are we looking towards new things or old things? Are we looking towards life or death? Are we facing sunrises or sunsets?

Do we see the glass filling up or emptying? The desirable place is in the east (Gen. 2:8). To find the desirable place, our focus must be towards the east. It your focus is not towards the life that comes from the east you are walking a path of trouble. Cain went out from the east and found himself wandering in a journey that led to disinheritance and death. Mankind journeyed from the east and built the Tower of Babel – a stronghold that bore only the fruit of human confusion and division. The seasons of God are always seasons of new life of the increasing new Day of the Lord.

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 Bulgaria after a great weekend in Portugal. I will be teaching on Finding Your Corporate Identity to a core of the church in Plovdiv as well as some church meetings in Blagovigrad, Sofia, and Plovdiv. I believe it is going to be a great week.

The Life of God in us brings life to our world. It is new every day and every day leads to new seasons in Christ that are meant to change our world in a life-giving way.

Revelation 22:1-5 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

These verses reveal an awesome truth in regard to the administration of God in the body of Christ. That administration is not one of the knowledge of good and evil, but one of the Tree of Life. I believe that this is the administration that is suitable to sum up all things in Christ (Eph. 1:10). It is an administration of grace. If we believe that true righteousness is about being right and not wrong, our words and expressions to others will be about being right verses being wrong. If we embrace a justice system of right and wrong, we will embrace those who are right and reject those who are wrong. We will govern and rule through an administration that defines some as worthy of God’s love, while others are cast out from His love. God’s New Covenant government is not based upon right and wrong. It is the power of life that prevails over every form of death. There is a right and there is a wrong in the matter of things in life, but true life only comes from an intimacy with Life. When we know Him, we release the substance of who He is to the world and to all that we administrate in life.

We must allow every thought, attitude, vision, dream, emotion, and action we express in life to pass through the Tree of Life before the fruit of our lives becomes food for others or the outward expression of our lives becomes a touch of healing to a sick and dying world. We must embrace an administration that receives mercy and finds grace each and every day (Heb. 4:16). Mercy ends that past administration of right and wrong, while grace grants us the present administration of our Father’s love that empowers us to live by the spirit of life and peace in Christ. This is the administration that loves the unlovable and empowers the unlovable to become loveable. It is the administration of love that believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. It is the administration that changes what is a substance of death to become a substance of life for others.

Every season of God brings new life found in God to our world. The seasons of God are defined by the flow of His life-giving river in our lives and in the earth. That life is the moving of Holy Spirit in and through us to our world.

Ezekiel 47:9 And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many.

God’s life-giving water flows from His presence to the East. He always gives us a new day of life! His waters bring healing to the places that need healing. En Gedi and En Eglaim are strongholds at the banks of the Dead Sea. Even the deadest places in the earth and in our lives are transformed unto life when God’s life-giving presence and purpose reaches us in the place called today.

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