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Greetings,

Today I am in Portugal. We had a great weekend here with a conference with all of the CCVA churches together on Friday. It was a great family celebration in the presence of God. Yesterday I was blessed to minister in Entroncamento. It is good to see what God is doing here.

God’s love for us all has been revealed by His gift of becoming one of us to redeem us from our sin. Our sin was not merely a matter of wickedness or evil, it was a matter of disconnection from God in our spirit. Only a connection with God in our spirit can give us the true testimony of life. Our disconnection from God left us seeking love in all the wrong places. It left us on a search for life through information of good and evil. In this mankind forsook the true power of transformation that gives us a testimony of God’s love and life.

Jesus was born in our world to reconnect us to our Father in heaven. His shed blood upon our old family tree of death has justified us all to live. Jesus is our eternal Adam that has overcome the power of death given to us through an Adam of disconnection from God. First Adam’s decision to choose a family tree of information left us bound to the repeated bondage of sin and death. We looked for love in all the wrong places. Only God can give us true life for His is the author and giver of life in all things. For this reason, God became a Man and moved into our neighborhood. He came to give us the abundant life that our heavenly Father desired for us to have. Jesus came to reconnect us to our heavenly Father to be God’s gifts of life to our world.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

To be saved is not merely going to heaven when we die. It is to live in heavenly ways in the life that has been given to us by God. The shed blood of Jesus justified all of mankind to live. Being justified to live invites us all to the throne of God’s grace where we find the power to live. We are empowered to live by the power of God’s grace through our new family tree of life.

Romans 5:17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Christ in us is the hope of glory! We are to reign in life through a partnership with God in Christ. His gift of righteousness is a gift of reconnection with God through a spirit-to-Spirit relationship from within. The disconnection of first Adam from God left mankind in a condition of judgment and death. Our reconnection with God through the last and eternal Adam of Jesus justified us to find our life in Christ.

Romans 5:18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus made it possible for us to no longer be bound to an Adam of sin, but to be transformed in the family tree of life. God’s mercy redeemed us from the law of sin and death and God’s grace transforms us into the liberty of life in Christ. God’s grace is the manifest presence of Holy Spirit working in and through our lives. God’s grace transforms our lives and empowers us to manifest as sons and daughters of God in Christ. It is through an intimate relationship with God in Christ that we are able to bring the life of God into every area of our lives.

We were born for a purpose and a destiny. That purpose and destiny is to bring life to the world. Jesus said that if we come to Him and drink, rivers of life-giving water would flow through us to the world (Jn. 7:37-39). I believe that that water is an expression of heaven’s grace to the world in which we live. Perhaps the gift to go to heaven is an act of God’s mercy, but the gift to bring heaven to the earth is an empowerment of God’s grace? It is by this that we are able to reign in life.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Last week I was in Bulgaria and the Netherlands. I was blessed to minister yesterday at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Whether it be in Bulgaria, the Netherlands, or at home in Washington, it is a great blessing to be a part of the family of God. My own family is blessed as well with an addition of James Anthony Doyle. Bonnie and I now have six grandchildren, and our family is fourteen in number.  God is surely good!

As children of God, we are the light of Christ to our world. The foundation of our lives is made secure and growing by the power of Holy Spirit working in us. Holy Spirit in us is the testimony of grace that empowers us in all things. As people of grace, we know Holy Spirit working in our lives to be overcomers in our world to be light to all who are in darkness.

As children of God, we must live as people who know Paradise restored. Paradise is only found in the place of God’s abiding presences. When we know God resting in our lives, we discover the testimony of eternal life. Eternal life is knowing God the Father and Jesus His Son through an intimate connection with Holy Spirit in our hearts (Jn. 17:3). It is found in a place of revelation, not one of striving. It is found in knowing Holy Spirit as the Spirit of the Lord in our hearts. Holy Spirit puts God’s desires in our hearts that grant us a change in our being. This inspires us to live as children of God in this world. Our light is a light of knowing God’s love.

Revelation 2:7  “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.“

As children of God we also grow in living by faith towards God in all things. That faith works by love through a revelation of the One who loves us. This is knowing Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom in all things. This wisdom is not a self-seeking or self-serving wisdom. It is God-seeking, God-serving wisdom. In this we shine as lights to our world even in shaking times because we have no fear of death. Nothing can separate us from the love of God and thus we have life in this world and in all that is to come. We live empowered by God’s Spirit to be kings and priests in our world. We do works that speak of our faith towards God and thus we shine with the light of loving God.

Revelation 2:11 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.“

As sons and daughters of God, we have a personal testimony in Christ. This is both inside and out. Our internal and external testimony to this world is given to us by knowing Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Understanding. We are submerged in Holy Spirit to be God’s holy people in our world. We trust the word of God in our hearts and the change that comes to us from within. We shine with the light of responding to God with a heavenly testimony inside and out.

Revelation 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.“

As sons and daughters of God we bring life to our world as God’s special people. We shine in the darkness of our world. We are givers of life as our Father is a giver of life and by this we give light to the world around us. The Spirit of Counsel empowers us to be givers of life to our world.

Revelation 2:26 “And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— 27 ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’— as I also have received from My Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star.”

As God’s people we are a testimony of His praise to our world. We are clothed in Christ, and we walk in the works of Christ as God’s sent ones to our world as a letter of God’s life by His Spirit of Might. We are His people of praise! We shine as sons and daughters of God, each sent with a unique testimony of Christ’s resurrection life to our world.

Revelation 3:5 “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.” 

Love is the strength of our communion with God and with one another. We are not shaken by the ending days of the world, for we are an eternal testimony of His intimate love. We are the people of God as His family empowered by the presence of His powerful love. We live to love God and one another by the Spirit of Knowing, as a light of communion with God and one another in our hearts.

Revelation 3:12 “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.”

As sons and daughters of God we are in partnership with God in Christ to reign in life. God’s mercy has given us the right to know the power of God’s reigning grace. The judgment of death has been defeated by the God’s judgment of mercy and eternal life for all who believe. The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord empowers our hearts to be zealous for the house of our God! We shine with the eternal purpose of God’s kingdom in all things.

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.”

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am arriving home after several great days in the Netherlands. I have been blessed with connections from my past as well as new connections here that promise light and life to the world of tomorrow. We are always on a path of new life, new hope, and new expressions of life to our world. Thank you to Utrecht, Ede, and Den Bosch for your hungry hearts for God your Father, Jesus His Son, and Holy Spirit in your lives.

To be the light, we must look to the light. Our light Is not the natural light of the world. Our light is Christ. Christ in us is the hope of glory. That glory is to be the life of God, the love of our heavenly Father, to the world in which we live. The earth will be covered with the knowledge of the glory of God and glory is the light of Christ within us.

Isaiah 60:19 “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. 21 Also your people shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified. 22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time.”

Our last day of self, was our first day in Christ. When we laid our lives down, we found them in Christ. When we lost our lives, we saved them as sons and daughters of God. Our true identity, testimony, and purpose is found in Christ. He called to us, and we were welcomed into His house. Living in His house empowers us to be light to our world.

As sons and daughters of God, we shine to inspire others to shine also. We are not called to take people by the hand and lead them. We are called to inspire them to be led by the Spirit of God in all things. Christ in them is the hope of glory in their lives. God is light and the true gifts of God in our world are His sons and daughters. They are the good and perfect gifts as lights in the darkness of our world. As a Father of lights, His sons and daughters are the perfect gifts of His light to our world.

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Children of God are like the stars. They are light as God is light. God’s light is the light of life. We are called to know God from within. It’s by knowing God within that we can shine with the light of Christ from within. We are not reflections of the light of God in Christ. We are the light of God in Christ. This is the testimony of being sons and daughters of God. Eternal life is knowing God our Father and knowing Jesus His Son through an intimate connection with Holy Spirit in our hearts. It’s not merely knowing that God is, it is growing in knowing who He is. As we grow in knowing our heavenly Father, Jesus His Son, and Holy Spirit, we become lights in the darkness of our world and we shine as stars in the night by which the lost can find their way home. Finding our right place in our world is hope to the lost in our world.

Isaiah 60:1 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.

Jesus is the Light of the world, but He is also the light of every man and every woman. Each of us are meant to shine to our word revealing the life and love of our Father in heaven. When we find Jesus in our hearts, we shine to our world as a light in the darkness. To shine we must seek first God’s kingdom. The kingdom of God is within us. It is the place of knowing righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17). Christ in us is the source of our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life. Righteousness in the Holy Spirit is a right relationship with God in the Spirit. He makes us come alive! Peace is being one with God’s presence in our lives. His presence causes us to be expressions of Him to our world. He is our testimony of life. Joy is finding our purpose in Christ. A partnership with God in all things empowers us to reign in life in all things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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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:
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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today I am in Bulgaria. We had an awesome time as we have experienced heaven invading the earth. Today I am in Blagoevegrad and headed to the Netherlands on Wednesday.

The eternal plan of God in our lives is meant to change the beliefs, actions, imaginations, and influences of mankind in the world. The process for this to happen in one of standing. Standing is a term for inheritance.  We are part of the inheritance of Christ in the path of our eternal destiny as the body of Christ. Wherever the soles of our feet walk is a testimony of taking possession of our world for the will, purpose, and glory of God. The promise of standing was given to Abram in his path of becoming Abraham for the blessing of God’s inheritance to the nations. It was the manifest presence of God in Abram’s life that would give Him possession of the land

Genesis 13:16 “And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”

When Joshua led God’s people into the Promised Land the commission of standing was so that he could lead God’s people in the land of inheritance. The manifest presence of God upon the shoulders of the priests was essential for the path to open in the Jor dan that led to the land of inheritance.

Joshua 4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as before.

The church is a place of relationship. It is a place of hearing the voice of the Father and of bringing heaven’s influence into the earth. The gates of the realm of the dead cannot prevail against the church. The church is the gate of heaven in the earth and the influences of death are not more powerful than heaven’s influence of life. The enemy seeks to kill what is alive so that it is no longer a threat to the realm of the dead. The gate of heaven is light to the darkness. It is healing to sickness! It is life to a world bound to death for their lack of the presence of God.

We are each called to be a part of the church. Our connection to God is as sons and daughters of God and our connection to one another is that of the family of God for the glory of our Father in heaven. Our connection to one another cannot just be as a prophet or some anointed minister. Our place in the body is not just a demonstration of power that makes us the church. It is a testimony of relationship with the power of Christ that makes us the church. That relationship is supernatural and a connection by the Spirit and not merely the flesh.

In the book of Ephesians, we find some significant truth concerning the church. Paul was writing about being the body of Christ. Paul began in chapter one by talking about the blessings that are ours from the Father. 

Ephesians 1:22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Traditionally, the church lost the point, the plot, and the purpose of being the church. Even saints were redefined. Whether it be the Orthodox church, the Catholic, or some other form the traditionally structured church, something was lost in being the church and a called-out member of that church. You could not be a saint until after you died. But the word saint means, set apart one. A saint is a believer who is joined to God. A saint is someone who is one with God. They are joined to Him and set apart for His purpose and His will in the world. Only living people can be saints. You must be alive to be a saint. You must be a saint before you die to be a saint after you die. You have to be joined to the living while alive so that death cannot destroy you when you die. Being joined to God’s life gives us the power of life over every form of death in our world.

We are part of the greatest influence in all the world. We are members of the church and principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, and names are under the feet of our corporate standing. We stand to possess the ground upon which we stand and give to God the glory due His name. Wherever the soles of the feet of the church walk is part of the inheritance of God for His purpose of His will.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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www.ted4you.com or

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

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today I am in Bellingham, and I will be heading to Bulgaria tomorrow. I am looking forward to all that God is going to do there. My wife will be with me as well as my son Jonathan and a team from Alife Church. I know it is going to be a life-transforming time. I am expectant of Holy Spirit revealing God’s love in supernatural ways.

Knowing God is not about believing that He is, it is about knowing Him in an intimate and personal way. Holy Spirit within us makes God closer than our skin. He is in us, with us, and desires to clothe us with His presence. He desires an intimate relationship with each of us. We don’t seek to know Him for His power or the things that He gives. We seek Him to know Him. His presence in our lives is the presence of a Father, who is a friend. Knowing Him enables us to be who we are meant to be in our world. This is dependent upon His presence every day. Without God’s presence, we cannot become. This is part of our eternal salvation.

God’s purpose won’t give us His presence, but His presence will reveal His purpose. His purpose is generational, and it is eternal. It is new every day and it bears the fruit of life in each new season of life. God’s purpose gives food for the life of others in our world and seed for life for the harvest seasons to come. Each season of our lives is another season of harvest. The purpose of every harvest is to give food for the day and seed for another season. This is the eternal plan of God in this world and in all that is to come. An eternal plan requires an eternal focus. That focus is to know God our Father and Jesus His Son through our fellowship with Holy Spirit each day. This is eternal life, and eternal life cannot die (Jn. 17:3).

What, or who, gives us our identity, testimony, and purpose? This is a season where you can find your identity, testimony, and purpose in Christ. There is an identity crisis in the nations and generations. When people look to created things in their world to give them their identity they fall for the deceptions of a lie. Only our Creator can create us to be as we each should be. The apostle Paul prayed for the church of Ephesus regarding these three things.

Ephesians 1:18 …the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Our part in the calling of Christ is our true identity. Our part in the inheritance of Christ is our true testimony. Our part in the power of Christ is our true purpose in our world. As children of God, we are destined to be the body of Christ. We are called by God to be the helpmate of Jesus our head in all things. As the body of Christ, we are above and not beneath, and we are walking into our world to bring God’s life to every territory of death. We are sent as light and life to our world in a progressive and generational way. It is for this reason that we stand in all things.

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Our wrestle is against spiritual powers that motivate and manipulate human beings to resist the will and purpose of God in life. The beliefs of God are resisted by the lies of whatever opposes God’s kingdom in this world. To walk in a testimony of the spiritual realities of life in Christ, we must understand our warfare and walk being clothed in Holy Spirit. We are not defending ourselves against the enemy, the enemy is defending himself against us as we stand in our journey in Christ. We are moving forward, clothed in the armor of life to bring life to our world.

Principalities are spiritual influences that seek to influence the natural sight of mankind. Powers are spiritual imaginations that work to activate the creativity of the hearts of mankind to propagate influences that control the atmosphere within its sphere of influence. Rulers of darkness are actions of death that are motivated by judgments of the flesh. Spiritual powers of wickedness in heavenly places are beliefs in the hearts and minds of people produced by lies and deceptions.

When we are clothed in Christ, God’s Word and Spirit transform the lies and deceptions in our hearts and minds to embrace beliefs empowered by the kingdom of God. Those beliefs produce life-giving actions for the sake of our children and our children’s children. Beliefs based upon lies produce actions that are self-preserving and self-seeking. Beliefs based upon the kingdom of God produce actions that are life-giving as our Father in heaven is a giver of life in all things. Those actions activate imaginations in the hearts and minds of our children and our children’s children to be givers of life to their world. The end result is an influence of life the prevails over the former influences of death. These things are part of God’s eternal plan in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I hope you are all well today. We are now into the fall season and very often the fall of the year seems to be a season of new focus, new testimonies, and new purpose for the church. I believe we are in a season of knowing God in a deeper way with a further step in our destiny as the body of Christ.

As people, we tend to see our world through a paradigm of our lifetime. We tend not to think in terms of generations. When it comes to inheritance, we very often think of what our parents will leave us that we can then spend. I believe that inheritance is meant to be expanded in the generations. It is something passed on that is then used to expand the family name and influence for the sake of the world of each successive generation.

Inheritances are cultural and not structural. They are living and not preserving in nature; therefore, inheritances are meant to expand in the generations of men. Inheritances are a substance that can be received by the children of a passing generation. One generation gives the substance of its beliefs to the next generation and those beliefs are expanded through actions, imaginations, and influence on the generations that follow. Inheritances are a substance of value to be expanded to greater value in the earth.

Inheritances are measures of power given to expand the influence of God-given destiny in the earth. When inheritances are received, they are supposed to be cultivated, propagated, and released to expand in the earth. They are the testimony of a family name. Inheritance is a measure of destiny given to a family name. Destiny received is a substance to be passed to and through the dynasty of a family name that brings blessing to the world in a multi-generational way. The Church bears the name of Christ and God wants to give inheritances that can release a destiny of His great grace to the world. An inheritance from God is life-giving in its character and way.

Inheritances from God come by revelation. God has blessed us in heaven with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Eph. 1:3). Those blessings are only ours when we come to see what they really are. When we see them, we can receive them. When we see the blessings of God, we can also believe that God is giving them to us. God wants us to receive His blessings from heaven so that we can become the riches of His inheritance in the earth (Eph. 1:18).

The blessings of God come from God. God is not a performer of works. He is a being, and He wants to bless us by who He is. What we believe is the image that we will present to the world we live in. What we believe is not really based on the knowledge we believe, but in the person we believe. Who we believe determines what we believe, and beliefs determine who possess the gates. Gates are places of influence. They are what determine the future of the world. Whoever possesses the places of influence possesses the future of the world. Whoever possesses the gates possesses the future.

The future of the world is determined from heaven, but the question is, “Where is heaven?” Much of the Church believes that the future is determined by heaven, but their focus of heaven is a place that is far off or far away. I believe that we go to heaven when we die. It’s a great promise and reward when our race has been run in this life, but our race is a destiny and not merely the reward that we will receive in heaven. Jesus didn’t instruct us to pray that we would one day go to heaven. He told us to pray that the kingdom and the will of heaven would be done in the world in which we live. He told us to look to our source of inheritance while we are here upon the earth not to our hope of God’s power for escape. He didn’t instruct us to pray to a God who is powerful. He told us to pray to our heavenly Father who is holy. A father is a source of blessing. A father is a source of inheritance. This is not commonly understood in the fatherless societies of the world today, but a father is the source of a family name, and a family name is a source of inheritance. A family name carries the power of a family’s destiny that carries through the dynasty of a family name. Having a father in heaven guarantees heavenly blessings in any world in which we live.

When it comes to salvation, we tend to look through a view of our own lifetime as well. We may say that we understand our salvation to be one of eternal life, but our concept of eternal life is often centered on where we will go when we die. Jesus said that eternal life is to know God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son.

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Knowing God the Father and knowing Jesus Christ is not merely knowing that they are. It is knowing them. To be an inheritor of the things of God we must grow in knowing Him. When we know Him, we trust Him. When we trust Him, we can believe and receive the things that He gives. He wants to reveal to us secrets of His kingdom that can in turn influence our kingdoms in this world. We must grow in knowing God. This is possible by Holy Spirit in and with us in this life. He wants to clothe us with His testimony of life. God’s presence in our lives is more important than merely knowing what to do. Knowing God will empower us to be inheritors of His name.

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 home for a couple of weeks after a fruitful time in Portugal. It was good to be in my home church yesterday. Today I am posting a prophecy that I gave while I was in Portugal. I believe this word was not only for the church that I delivered it to, but to the body of Christ in this season and time. As we are awake to God, we discover that God has always been awake to us. Our prayers to Him are not overlooked. He is ready to partner with us and enable us to partner with Him for His eternal plan in our world.

We are living in a time where our true identity, testimony, and purpose can be found in Christ. We have a part in the calling of Christ, the inheritance of Christ, and the purpose of Christ in the plan of eternity. This is where we discover the life that we are, the testimony of that life to our world, and God’s partnership with us for His glory in His story to and in our world.

I hear God saying that the strength of the generations is in My presence. For the strength of the generations is not merely in where they come from, it’s who they are joined to. And God says, My favor is in this house and I’m awakening a new thing in the earth. For from the cry of identity, I AM. And the nations are crying for identity –  I AM.

You will know that I AM. In increasing measures you will know that I AM in your midst for My presence is not merely for blessing. My presence is for purpose. There’s not merely a new energy that’s coming into your midst, there’s a new fire. And that fire will consume you. And that fire is a fire of My purpose. It’s a fire of My vision. Not the vision of the hands of men but the vision of the heart of the Father. For I have a great inheritance and My inheritance prevails.

There’s an awe of Me that’s coming into the nations.   An awakening to My presence, that is holy. An awakening to My presence that transforms you. It doesn’t adjust you; it transforms you. Not a religious reverence, but a breaking open of your hearts to see Me, to see Me, and be changed. To be awakened.

Seeds have been sown and seeds cannot die. For seeds of Me have eternal life within their destiny. And I’m germinating the seeds in the nations. I’m germinating the seeds. And there’s a stronger community that’s coming into the earth. You will see Me. Signs and wonders will confirm My presence and the presence of Me in your life will confirm My signs and wonders.  For you will see sons and daughters, you will see living waters. In the driest of place will come forth the power of My grace.

The Spirit of God says, daughter, you’ve given me your night, you’ve given Me your nighttime. The night hours, you’ve given them to Me and I’m giving you my DAY time. My daylight hours are at hand. And you will shout, you will say; This is the Day! This is the Day!

For our God has prevailed and His love has not failed for the glory of God is filling His  house. There’s an awakening, an awakening. For every tribe, every tongue, every people, every nation will know that I am the Father of creation. Not merely from days past but from now, and you will say, TODAY is the day and NOW is the time! For the glory of God is arising.  

God is awakening us to His plan in our world. Things that have been against Him will be destroyed by Him arising in our lives. His presence in our lives will empower our being. God’s presence in us will not only bring His blessing; it will also empower us in His purpose for the glory of His name.

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 busy, but wonderful, week. I was blessed to connect with several churches and many leaders. I am finishing today with more connections and times of sharing. I will fly home tomorrow. I am looking forward to being with my family after a fruitful time away.

The true desirable place of life is to live in and from the presence of God in our lives. It is not only a place of God’s blessing, but also the place of finding God’s purpose for our lives. To fulfill our purpose in life, we must live from a place of God resting in us and with us. This testimony can be seen in the beginning of creation as recorded in the book of Genesis.

God formed man from the dust and then He plated a garden in the East and put man in the garden. It was a place of knowing God and knowing the goodness of God in order to fulfill human purpose upon the earth. The goal was not to live life in the garden, but to live life from the garden. Our goal is not just to live to know God in life, but to live life from the place of knowing God. We are supposed to influence our world with the goodness and presence of God in all things.

There was a river in the garden of Eden that produced four riverheads,  and those riverheads flowed to the world. I believe that these rivers in the garden depict what Jesus was talking about when He cried out; Is anyone thirsty? Come to me and drink, and from inside of you will flow rivers of life-giving water! I know this to be true, not only in Scripture, but in the testimony of my own life.

When we live in a desirable place with God, the expressions of our lives become desirable to others. When we experience the life of God, we become givers of the life of God to others. Like the four covenant rivers in the garden of Eden, the life that flows out from our lives causes our world to be changed. The covenant rivers in the garden were filled with the abundance of life for the purpose of reaching the field. The purpose of the rivers was to reach the place where herbs needed to grow. The water of these rivers was destined to flow where trees needed to find their destiny. The field that Adam was formed from was dust and it needed herbs and trees. The earth needed life to become a place that can give life. The garden of Eden was not just a place of blessing, it was a place of purpose. When God rests in our lives it is not just for us to experience the life of God. It is so we can be those who give life to our world.

Genesis 2:10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

There was a river in the garden that produced four riverheads. Four is a number of covenant and it represents the ability to give life to the whole world. These rivers were the testimony of life for all who need life in the earth. If we look at the names of these riverheads, we find some great truth concerning the power of life. If you research the names of these four rivers you will find a description of the following testimony:

• A RIVER THAT BRINGS CHANGE FOR INCREASE – (Pishon – persuasion – an extension of the mouth). This is like BELIEF that causes our confession to be one of faith.
• A RIVER THAT BRINGS AWAKENING – (Gihon – breaking forth – valley of grace). This is like ACTION that empowers our vision to give our lives for the sake of others.
• A RIVER THAT BRINGS INCREASE AND MOMENTUM – (Hiddekel –beyond what is – sharp voice, sound). This is like IMAGINATION that inspires us to dream for the next generations.
• A RIVER THAT BRINGS FRUITFULNESS – (Euphrates – that makes fruitful). This is like INFLUENCE that produces blessing for the world beyond our own lives.

Whatever be BELIEVE determines how we ACT. How we ACT determines what we can IMAGINE. What we can IMAGINE determines how we can INFLUENCE the world around us. The secret to these being life-filled realities for life-filled purposes is to live in and from the presence of God in all things. God is resting in our lives for the testimony of His glory in our world! It is not merely so we will be blessed. It’s so we will be a blessing. It’s not so good things of God will be added to our own lives. It’s so we can see good things come to others in our world. It’s not just so we will know God today, but so the world can receive the glory of God through a generational inheritance of life. It’s not about what can happen in our lifetime. It’s what can happen in the earth because of our lifetime. Knowing God resting in us is so we will fulfill the purpose of God in our lives and His name will be glorified 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 I am in Prestatyn, Wales. I have spent several days with friends that I have known for close to thirty years. It was good to connect and to experience God’s presence with us for the days that are yet ahead. Today I will be heading to Portugal for many divine appointments, trainings, and experiences with God and my Portuguese church family.

People in the world often get their identity and purpose from what they do in life. This is not the way of children of God. Sons and daughters of God get their identity and purpose from knowing God as their Father. It is not merely knowing God. It is knowing Him as their Father. Knowing Him empowers our hearts and minds to know who we are. As a Creator, He doesn’t shape us like some work of art in stone, wood, or some earthly material. As our Father, He is very creative in how He has designed each of us to be fully alive in our world and givers of life to our world. The life that God gives, and the life that we partake in, is eternal. This is the fruit of an intimate relationship with God our Father and Jesus His Son. It is not merely knowing about them or even knowing that they are. It is about growing in knowing them. This is eternal life (Jn. 17:3)! It is all about a relationship with the One who loves us. By this we are growing in being sons and daughters of God who know God’s love and manifest His love to our world. It is in our identity, our daily testimony, and our purpose in life.

Jesus taught us that prayer in a matter of relationship with God. It is not about praying to know what to do. It is about living in a relationship with God in a way that empowers our hearts and minds to know who God is and who we are. It involves an invitation for His presence and an expectation of change because of His presence in our lives.

Matthew 6:9-13 In this manner, therefore, pray:

• Our Father in heaven,
• Hallowed be Your name.
• Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
• Give us this day our daily bread
• And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
• And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.
• For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Every day is about a personal relationship with God as our Father and we as a part of His family. Knowing Him enables us to be who we are meant to be. In knowing Him we grow in awe of who He is. He is hallowed. This is not a fear of death, but a willingness to give our lives freely and wholly to Him because of who He is. We are in awe of Him! He is holy; therefore, we are holy. An awe of Him is a recognition that He sanctifies us to be holy. Our confession is a daily invitation for His kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth, AS IT IS in heaven. This is in every area of our lives. The kingdom of God is within us, and it empowers our earthly kingdoms to be expressions of Him in His character, nature, way, power, and authority. When we know who God is, we have a proper perspective of our daily bread. Our daily bread is not just the physical food we eat. It is every aspect of provision in our lives that enables us to be givers of life to our world. We live on every word, every expression of God to us in our lives. A relationship with God gives us a dependency upon His love and goodness to be forgiven and to forgive. His attributes of mercy and grace increasingly become a part of the tenderness of our own hearts. Love becomes more valuable than merely rules of right and wrong. We grow in an expectancy of His protection and His deliverance in all things. We know our need for His powerful love in our journey in life. Our invitation to Him is about making everything about Him, not our problems. This is a true perspective of His kingdom, His power, and His glory and it comes through a daily walk with Him in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Welcome to September! It always amazes me how fast the summer months pass in comparison to the rest of the year. I will be heading back to Europe this week for some time in the U.K. as well as some great ministry venues in Portugal. I am once again looking forward to all that God is going to do.

God’s love for us is the passion of His heart. His love for us is stronger than His hate for sin. Our sin was not merely wicked acts and unrighteous ways. It was our self-seeking, self-willed disconnection from God. We were looking for love in all the wrong places and thus we lost our ability to be life-givers to our world as God is a giver of life to all who come to Him. Jesus is our reconciliation. The New Covenant is a testimony of receiving God’s life, becoming an expression of His life to our world, and partnership with God in all things to give the life that He gives to our world. God’s presence in our lives is our salvation in all things. This is the new song in our lives for each and every day.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.’” 3 Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4 And in that day you will say: “Praise the LORD, call upon His name; declare His deeds among the peoples, make mention that His name is exalted. 5 Sing to the LORD, for He has done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

God in our midst is more important than any instruction that He gives. God is not some boss in a business producing some product of ministry. He is our Father and Jesus has been revealed to us as His Son. His identity is revealed in terms of relationship, endearment, and intimacy. Our walk of faith is not one of merely seeking instructions from God regarding what to do or how to act. Our walk of faith is one of relationship with Him. Trusting God is the fruit of knowing His love. When we know His love, we are empowered to become like Him and we give life to our world. The wells of salvation are within our hearts. Drawing water from the wells of His presence within us is a matter of relationship. The fullness of joy is found in the presence of God and the presence of God is within us. We are a temple of Holy Spirit.

God wants us to call upon His name. We can depend upon who He is. We can know Him in His character, nature, way, power, and authority. It is not just the things that He gives or the works that He does that we depend upon. It is who we become because of Him in our lives. He causes us to change in life-giving ways. It is by this that we truly declare His deeds to others in our lives. We know that His name is higher than any other name. He is the exalted one in our lives that inspires us to sing a new song each new day. This is the fruit of His presence in our lives!

Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

God is always speaking to us, and He wants us to hear His voice. He wants us to know Him in a personal and intimate way. He wants to be our friend. His thoughts are more than can be counted.

Psalm 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

God wants to communicate with us with thoughts of life. His thoughts outnumber the sand. They are precious thoughts that are one of a kind for each of us. The motivation of His heart is love for each of us. It is His desire to think of us in a personal and intimate way and His heart is moved to act according to His love on our behalf. This is our Father in heaven and us as His sons and daughters make Him known in our world with a new song of life each day.

Psalms 139:17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.

God is speaking, but we have to listen (Ps. 95:7-8). His thoughts are good like fruit; they give us life and empower us to be givers of life to our world. God’s voice is a sound and an internal empowerment of love, joy, peace, gentleness, self-control, goodness, faithfulness, patience, and kindness (Gal. 5:22, 23). The notes and words in the song of our lives is filled with the essence of these 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