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Greetings,

Today I am in the Netherlands. My time here has been blessed as usual with my good friends Pastors Bruce and Angelique and the church in Ede. It is good to see hungry hearts for God’s presence and will in the earth. Tomorrow I will be heading to Portugal for a couple of days and then to Angola, Africa on Friday.

All that we go through and all that we are is to reveal to our world that God is great, God is good, and His mercy endures forever. Here’s a quote out of my book, Worship and Praise — A Response to Love:

The sound of worship is the voice of God’s greatness, God’s goodness, and God’s mercy. It can be expressed in many words, but those words say that God is great, God is good, and God is merciful. God’s greatness, goodness, and mercy should be the sound of our lives. If these attributes are not in our expression before Him, we are not truly perceiving and experiencing who He really is.

So, what’s the sound of your marriage? God is great, God is good, and His mercy endures forever. What’s the sound in your family? What’s the sound around the dining table? God is great, God is good, and His mercy endures forever.

In life we go through various struggles. That’s the way it is in the world, but in the kingdom of God, which is within you, there’s not a struggle. There’s an overcoming. There’s a wrestling that has ceased in Christ. There’s a grace of God that overcomes all things. Christ in you is the hope of glory, and glory is not just the manifest presence of God in the room. It’s the manifest presence of God in your heart. It changes your character, your nature, your way, your power, and your authority. That’s the glory of God.

We are righteous in Christ. He is our righteousness because God is great. He gives us life and we know that it is true, because we find a strong testimony of that within our hearts. We are alive! We were dead, but now we live. We were bound to the weakness of a body of flesh, but we have been born again into an eternal reality of life!

Psalms 95:3 For the Lord is a great God, and the great King above all gods.

Psalm 135:13, Your name, O Lord, endures forever. Your fame, O Lord, through all generations.

What’s a name? A name is a character, a nature, a way, a power, and authority. The name of the Lord is the reality of His character, His nature, His way, His power, His authority. His name endures forever. His character, His nature, His way, His power, and His authority endures forever. His fame goes throughout all generations. The evidence is rising within us. We know that it is true because Jesus Christ has come into our flesh! We know we are loved and we are being changed by His name to love others. We’re here to let Jesus use us to show us how famous He is. He’s the desire of the nations. He’s the desire of every human heart. He’s the only one that satisfies. He is salvation in every situation.

Psalms 86:8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord; nor are there any works like Your works. 9 All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name. 10 For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.

This gives us hope. In the world there is darkness, but in Christ there is always life! Does that sound like, oh, you know, it’s going to get really dark? Outside of Christ it is the end times. Get your end time over with. My end time was 53, almost 54 years ago. That was my last day, and I found my first day in eternity on that day. When the apostle Peter said God will  pour out His Spirit and all in the last days, he wasn’t talking about 2000 years in the future. He was saying the last day is right now, in his day. It was an end of Old Covenant and the beginning of eternity in Christ. Get you last day over with. Step out of the Old Covenant and into the eternal New. Step out of the world of self and into the world of God’s glory. Step out of the world of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and enter the family tree of life and bear the fruit of life. Feed the nations, deliver the nations, heal the nations.

In the world, there’s darkness, deep darkness, but not on you. Arise and shine. Your light has come. The glory of the Lord has risen upon you. You see, God is great. God is great! That should be the song of your heart every day.

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 have been blessed to be home in Bellingham. I got to speak yesterday at Alife. It was good to be home. I will be heading to the Netherlands this week, then to Portugal, and then to Angola, Africa. It will be a busy month.

God speaks and life happens. That’s a good definition of prophecy. God speaks; life happens. So, if God speaks and life happens, then our lives speak and life should happen. The expressions of our lives should bring life to our world. That life is not merely the life of humanity. It is the life of Christ in and through humanity.

We live in a world that is difficult at times. That difficulty manifests our inner character. Our character influences the actions of our lives. No created thing can change who you are. No circumstance, no situation can change who you are. It can only manifest who you are. The whole earth was subjected to futility in the hope of the manifestation of the sons of God, male and female. So, a tough world manifests God’s children.

Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

God subjected the earth to futility. He made it difficult. In life we deal with many thorns and thistles, metaphorically. God caused it to be that way so that you and I would manifest, so that you and I would manifest as sons and daughters of a Father who gives life, who gives breath, and who gives all things. God gives us life, breath, and all things. The more we experience who God is, the more we respond to who He is. This is worship. The more we experience who God is, the more we declare who He is. This is praise.

When we experience God, we worship Him. When we experience God, we become His praise. We experience God when we invite Him to be the center of our life. When I was young, I became serious about wanting to put Jesus first in my life. In church, I was instructed that as a believer in Christ, I must put God first in my life. I used to be a little frustrated with that, because life is filled with responsibilities. Those responsibilities require an investment of our effort and time. I discovered that as a young man, I needed a job. I found in the military they expected me to do what I was told. I found there were a lot of things required of us in life. I wanted a wife, but I found out that marriage includes responsibilities. Being a husband required change in me and in my life. I could not live as who I was as a single man, I had to become who I was meant to be as a husband to my wife.

If you’re not husband material, you’re not going to make a good husband. So, you must allow your heavenly Father to make you husband material. Otherwise, you’ll end up getting married, and your wife will be frustrated, because you’re not yet husband material. It can go the other way, also—or wife material to a husband. But we have a Father who trains us, who disciplines us, who brings us through things, so that we become who we’re meant to be. This involves embracing responsibilities and making actions that help us to become who we are.

I used to think, well, I’ll put God first, and then second will be family, right? So, we put God first. We put church third. But then we may put education, employment, recreation, etc. I quickly discovered that doesn’t work, because that’s not putting God first. That’s putting God amid a lot of things. That’s adding Jesus as Lord but not letting go of a whole lot of other lords.

The only way you can put God first is to put Him in the center of everything. He’s in the center of everything, not so that you or I can do everything, but so that we can know Him in everything. He delights in you. He delights in your time together as a church gathering. He delights in your family. He delights in your marriage. He delights in your time in the shower, in the bathroom, in your garden, and in every space of your home. He delights in you being a dad or a mom. He’s the center of you as a grandpa or a grandma. He loves you in your job. He loves it when you go out in the woods to hike, to hunt, to explore. He loves you in your daily activities. He loves you. He wants to be the center of everything.

I must live my life growing in keeping the presence of Jesus, my connection to my Heavenly Father, and my fellowship with Holy Spirit in the center of everything that I do. I seek to put Him in the center of everything I am and do, and I’m growing in that. He the center of my life!

Can you say that? God You are the center of my life! That means I need His desire. I need His wisdom. I need His understanding. I need His counsel. I need His strength. I need His intimacy. I need His partnership in everything so that I can be an expression of Him in everything. To be the first and to be the last, Jesus must be the center of my life!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Today I am in Deming, New Mexico. I had a great weekend with Pastor Cesar and the church family of CitiLife. I am always blessed to come here. These are another part of my family in this world. God moved with His presence and there is a great future here for those who are hungry to find God. CitiLife is an influence into the community. They are bringing stability and hope to people in need in times of need! God is great, God is good, and His mercy endures forever!

The promise of God is that the knowledge of the glory of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. Surely the glory of God includes the power of God, but the true testimony of God’s power is the power of His love.

Habakkuk 2:12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, who establishes a city by iniquity! 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labor to feed the fire, and nations weary themselves in vain? 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 15 “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, pressing him to your bottle, even to make him drunk, that you may look on his nakedness! 16 You are filled with shame instead of glory. You also—drink! And be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the LORD’s right hand will be turned against you, and utter shame will be on your glory.

The context of Habakkuk 2:14 is God’s redemption, forgiveness, and blessing. The context of God’s glory is connected to His name—His character, nature, way, power, and authority. Only in Christ can we be made free from the independent will of self. The glory of men is to live for themselves at the cost of others. The glory of God is to give our lives for the testimony of God’s love in all things. This is the character, nature, and way of God. This is the testimony of His name and His name is the name by which we can become the family of God in the nations of men.

Psalms 72:19 And blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.

When Moses asked to see the glory of God, he saw the backside of God’s glory. When you look at the back of someone you are looking in the direction that someone is looking. God sees things with eyes of love. This is God’s way of seeing things. It is His way of doing things. The children of Israel knew the works of God, but Moses knew His ways.

Psalms 103:7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.

Psalm 103 praises the Lord for His mercy, forgiveness, healing, redemption, righteousness, and compassion. It contrasts human frailty with God’s everlasting mercy, declaring that He removes transgressions, remembers our weakness, keeps covenant faithfulness, and rules over all.

God’s way is to forgive us, even though we stand before Him in the weakness of our sins. God way is to be merciful, gracious, longsuffering, good, true, and forever merciful. His way is to forgive us and to heal us of the root of all our failures before Him. Moses saw the backside of God’s glory and these things were in the vision of God. These things are in the filter by which He sees us all.

Moses appealed to God’s nature, knowing that He is good. God tested Moses’ by offering him inheritance without the people, but Moses knew God’s ways. He appealed to God’s nature of love (Num. 14:11-17).

Numbers 14:18 The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.’ 19 Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, according to the greatness of Your mercy, just as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.” 20 Then the LORD said: “I have pardoned, according to your word; 21 but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD—

God’s glory is seen through His nature within us. When we seek to know God, we seek to know His glory. We seek to become like Him in the character, nature, way, power, and authority of His great love. When we see how God looks at things it changes the vision of our hearts and minds from within.

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. I was blessed to minister in my home church yesterday. We had a wonderful morning. My youngest grandson turned two today! He is a great blessing in our family. We celebrated as a family yesterday. It is a joy to celebrate the gifts of life and love.

The condition of the earth as we know it was the result of first Adam’s decision to choose the knowledge of good and evil over intimacy and trust with God who is eternal life. When he chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he chose an independence from God rather than dependance upon Him. We have all chosen that path in some form in our lives. At times we have concluded that the most important thing in life is being right. We have concluded that being wrong is the worst thing that can happen in our lives. This way of thinking is the thinking of those who live their lives in the independence of self. When we seek to be right unto ourselves, we end up making judgments of others for being wrong in some way. The righteousness of God is not about being right. It is about being in a righteous relationship with God—a relationship set upon the foundation of being loved by God.

Jesus came to reconcile us to God as our Father. His death upon the cross was the redemptive price to reconnect us to our heavenly Father in a relationship of dependence upon Him in all things. The glory of God is a reconnection of our lives to Him as His redeemed sons and daughters. The knowledge of God’s glory will increase in the earth to fill it, even as the waters cover the sea. What is the context of the glory of God covering the earth? The context is a changed character by the working of Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit is a sevenfold Spirit that anoints us to know the desires, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and a fear of the Lord that is the evidence of an awe for His purpose and will in all things. Jesus as the Christ, and we as the body of Christ are empowered by this life-giving Spirit of God. Our judgment in all things is by faith and not by sight.

Isaiah 11:1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD. 3 His delight is in the fear of the LORD, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears;

The Holy Spirit’s administration of grace empowers us to make judgments for the poor by a righteousness of life. With the equity of who we are we can make decisions for those who do not qualify according to the standards of right and wrong. They simply qualify through a judgment of love. As people of God, we must set the example of destroying evil through the power of love. When the devil strikes the earth, it is with a blow of hate and death, but the breath of God is a wind of love, and the measure of His mouth is a life-giving expression that destroys the power of evil. 

Isaiah 11:4, 5 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist.

The substance of who we are in Christ is enough to give life to those who lack it. God’s love is what heals the differences in the hearts of men. We were not the people of God, but we have become the people of God in Christ. We are a people who have obtained the mercy of God, and we are empowered to live by His grace.

Isaiah 11:6 “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

These verses describe a restored creation marked by peace, safety, and harmony, where natural enemies live together without harm. This peace comes because the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, just as waters cover the sea. God’s glory includes the reconciliation of man to God and of mankind to one another in the testimony of love. This reconciliation empowers our connection with one another through a bond of life and peace in Christ Jesus.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I had a great week which concluded with a worship night at Alife on Friday and a great service yesterday. God’s presence was evident in my time in the woods and His presence was wonderful in the corporate gatherings in the weekend. God is very accessible, but we must seek Him in a way that is not limited to how we have known Him in the past.

The glory of God is seen in the evidence of His presence in our lives. His presence reveals His power, but it also reveals His character. An intimate relationship with God will empower and inspire the fruit of His person in our own identity that influences our testimony in our world. The fruit of God’s presence is evidenced with love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. His presence in our lives will produce the evidence these.

Jesus was the express image of His Father’s glory, and the fruit of the Spirit was no doubt a surrounding influence from His life to all who knew Him. These same things should be an obvious witness to those who know us in our world.

When we live in the Spirit, we will also walk in the Spirit. We will live our lives as physical people, but the testimony of our lives will be credited to the work of God’s Spirit within us.

Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

To be led by the Spirit, we must turn to the Lord in our hearts. Intimacy with the Lord is the secret to knowing His glory in our lives.

2 Corinthians 3:17 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.

God said that the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea (Num. 14:20; Ps. 72:19; Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14). Why do the waters cover the sea? The decision of first Adam resulted in the consequence of a flood and the earth was changed.

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water—Ps. 104:6-8.

The condition of the earth was the result of first Adam’s decision to choose the knowledge of good and evil over intimacy and trust with God who is eternal life. To seek the knowledge of good and evil is to seek independence from God rather than dependance upon Him. To embrace an administration of information is to embrace a glory of man and a forsaking of the glory of God. This was the case at the fall of Adam.

God promises that the evidence of Last Adam, eternal Adam—Jesus, will fill the whole earth. In your life, the evidence of first Adam is going to be overtaken by the evidence of eternal Adam. The old man is being overpowered by the new man. He who began a good work in us is faithful to complete it. There is no end to the increase of His change in our lives when we willingly and willfully embrace a daily relationship with Him. It is like leaven in three measures of meal. It fills the whole loaf. It is like a little mustard seed that is very small, but it grows to become like a tree. For each of us, Christ within us is the hope of glory!  Jesus is our salvation in and 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 you are all well today. I have been in the woods for a few days hunting my yearly groceries. I am hoping for success today. I almost had elk in the freezer yesterday, but not quite the right opportunity. I am having a great time with my Friend and Father.

The glory of God is the testimony of God and the formation of His character in our lives. His glory is not just the brightness of His presence filled with signs and wonders. Surely supernatural power is part of the glory of God, but the glory of God is much more. The glory of God is more about a relationship with God than merely His power. He wants us to be a testimony of the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person. He wants to reveal His character, nature, way, power, and authority in and through our lives to our world.

Isaiah 2:3 Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

God’s ways are ways of love and life. God doesn’t seek His own way for His own desires. His ways are to give life to the world. Holy Spirit in our lives empowers us to give life and love. Knowing the ways of God is a changed character. It is a changed nature within us that empowers us to demonstrate a life that is true to the character of God. God is a giver and not a taker. He doesn’t need anything from anyone, but gives life, breath, and all things. I believe that knowing the ways of God is about being transformed from living for ourselves to living to give life to others. The way of God is always a matter of choosing life that brings life to others. It brings life to the world we live in.

What does it mean to walk in the path of God? I believe the path of God is not a discipline of our flesh, but an empowerment of the Spirit. It is not merely a way of walking for our own sake, but a way of moving forward in life that reveals the testimony of God’s love and life in every circumstance. That path also serves to help others find a way forward to life in their world.

Psalms 27:11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.

Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

Perhaps the smooth path is the path that causes no pain to others. Our enemies seek to cause us pain, but the path of God brings life. I believe the path of God includes the testimony of God in and through our lives and it empowers us to move forward and even make a way that others can follow. It is the witness of the testimony of life. God’s path is a path of justice that makes a way for life in the earth. It reveals the goodness and the greatness of God in our lives. The path of God is always a path of deliverance from our enemies, and it leads to a place of transformation and inheritance in Christ. The path of God in our lives always leads to life.

Isaiah 43:16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters, 17 Who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power (They shall lie down together, they shall not rise; They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick): 18 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

What does it mean for the law to go out of Zion? In the Old Testament, Zion was the place that David set up his tabernacle for the manifest presence of God in Jerusalem. Zion was the geographical place of the stronghold of the Jebusites, a name meaning “to trample” or “to tread upon”. I believe that Zion represents the human heart. This is where the tabernacle of David is found. It is the place of the human heart that has been redeemed in Christ. What was formerly a stronghold of destruction, becomes a stronghold of God’s mercy and grace. God’s presence is in our hearts. God’s law is a law of love. I believe that knowing God causes our hearts to become a habitation of His love. Love for others even as we are loved by God becomes the rule of our hearts.

What does it mean for the word of the Lord to go forth from Jerusalem. The name Jerusalem means “vision of peace”. The influence of our lives is determined by a vision of peace, a vision of our lives being one with Christ in heaven as we increasingly become the community of God in the earth. We become expressions of God’s word in some way as a testimony of those who have a vision of peace, an increasing reality of being part of the community of Christ in the earth. We become transformed to influence the world as expressions of the people of God. We don’t condemn the world; we give love and life to inspire all to come to the mountain 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,

Blessings to you all from my home in Bellingham. I hope you had a great week. I am doing well, working on a few projects in preparation for some coming trips. I am enjoying God’s presence and encouraged by His love. I am still contemplating upon the glory of God.

God doesn’t just want us to know His character. He wants us to exhibit His character in our lives as His sons and daughters. As children of God, we should be forgiving. We should be merciful and gracious in our heart and actions towards others. We should be longsuffering in the circumstances of our lives and in our relationships with others. We should abound in goodness and abound in truth. Like our heavenly Father, we should show mercy in every opportunity that is given to us. This does not mean that we simply sweep illegitimate issues under the rug.

Exodus 34:5-7 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

The last phrase in these verses is not out of context with the preceding descriptions. It says that God does not clear but rather visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and fourth generation. The words “the guilty” are not in the original but are meant to clarify what He does not clear. It is somewhat accurate, but it must be taken into consideration in the context of the previous descriptions. It can only be understood in the context of forgiveness, mercy, grace, longsuffering, abundant goodness, abundant truth, and eternal pardon. It is not a judgment to destroy the person, but a judgment to destroy the root of iniquity that leads to sin. It is simply what happens to the iniquity when God visits it. God’s presence eradicates our intern flaws and heals the hearts and minds.

Jesus is our salvation in all things. He is a loving Savior granting us forgiveness. He grants us mercy as a judgment unto life. He demonstrates His love to us in His patience and endurance. He reveals the abundance of His goodness to us in all things. He gives to us His truth—the stability and faithfulness of His presence to perform the will of His freedom in our lives. He gives us constant and eternal mercies that demonstrate His forgiveness of our weaknesses, our internal rebellions, and even our disconnections from His presence in our journey with God in life. He is a loving Jesus, but He is also a dangerous Jesus. He is loving in His care for us, but He is dangerous to the things that seek to destroy our lives. By no means does He clear the guilty but visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.

He carries a shepherd’s rod, and staff to guide us and protect us from the wandering ways of carnality and the vulnerabilities of the destruction of the flesh. These are essential tools for managing and protecting each of our lives as members of His flock. His rod is used for discipline and defense, while the staff is used for guidance, rescue, and gentle correction. He doesn’t overlook our internal flaws; He comes to heal our hearts and minds that we will walk in His ways in our paths of life.

Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

This is also part of the glory of God. God wants us to know His glory, and He has declared that the knowledge of His glory will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. The evidence of His goodness, deliverance, and care will be greater than the knowledge of man’s sin in the earth.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Blessings to you all as we enter another week. Yesterday we were blessed to hear from Marty Euper, a long-standing friend and member of our church community. Her testimony revealed that we can always trust God in every season of our lives. Whether He changes our circumstances or is found in our circumstances with us, the miracle is Him in our lives.

The glory of God is His influence in our world. What does that influence look like? When God speaks, life happens! This is His glory. His glory is to give life to us and for us in our world. Life on earth is a testimony to the eternal life with God in heaven.

We are called to be sons and daughters of God who bring the testimony of God’s glory into our world. To receive God’s glory, someone must see what is in heaven and then express what they see into the earth. Prophetic expression must first be seen as it is in heaven. It must then be expressed as a mystery into the earth. Prophetic expression is then made known as a clear declaration of heaven to the earth. After the word is clearly proclaimed, the word which we proclaimed by God is then physically manifested in our everyday lives. This principle is simple; every revelation from God is an invitation to have an encounter with God, to be changed by God, and become something of that revelation to our world.

The glory of God is more than His power. It is a testimony of His character. It’s a testimony of His love. Moses asked to see God’s glory. When Moses asked for God to show him His glory, God put Moses in a rock to keep Him safe for the ways of men cannot comprehend the ways of God in His glory. God’s presence kept Moses safe as Moses found a place by God where he could stand.

Exodus 33:21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”

We cannot see the glory of God from a distance. We must find our place by God where He empowers us to stand in the rock of Christ as a son or daughter of God. God’s glory will change us to become a testimony of God’s character, nature, way, power, and authority. It was in the glory of God that God wrote upon the tables of stone the values of a love for God and a love for others. It was in the manifest presence of God that the glory of God came as a mystery to change the way of Moses. 

Exodus 34:5-7 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation

Here we find the introduction to the name of God is “the Lord, the Lord God”. In the Stone’s edition of the Hebrew Torah, the rabbinical commentators address this double “Lord” as implying to the love and goodness of God. They state that when the Lord is put in this double context it implies two things. It means that God is the one who forgives us before we sin knowing the full extent of everything we are ever going to do, and He forgives us after we sin knowing the full extent of everything we have ever done. The very first experience, atmosphere, ambiance, and reality received when we experience God’s presence in our lives is one of forgiveness. What a wonderful thing! The verses go on to read that God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abounding in goodness, and abounding in truth. These are all wonderful experiences that flood our lives when God comes to us. These things are the essence of God’s glory. Jesus made a way for us to come near to God and experience these things! We have been reconciled to God in Him. The final verse of this passage reads that God keeps His mercy for thousands. The term “thousands” is an interesting symbolic and prophetic number in Scripture. It implies an aspect of eternity. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Ps. 50:10), meaning He owns all the cattle. God is God to a thousand generations (1 Chr. 16:15; Ps. 105:8), meaning He is God forever. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, meaning His day has no end. Here we see that God wants to show mercy for thousands. He wants to show mercy to everyone, and He wants to show mercy forever!

God forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. These three things are often confused, but they are different. They are progressively linked, but it is the testimony of sin that leads to death. Iniquity is the weakness that leads to transgression. Transgression is a rebellion in the human heart that leads to sin. The wage of sin is death. God does not kill sinners; sin kills them. Being disconnected from life results in the consequence of death. Where there is iniquity there will be transgression, and where there is transgression there will be sin. God in His amazing character, nature, way, power, and authority comes to forgive us fully. This is even to the root of our sin, the weakness of our hearts. He doesn’t just clear the weakness. He visits the weakness to heal the root cause of every flaw.

God’s character is life-giving. It is the character of love. When we see His glory, we are changed in our character to be loving and life-giving to others.

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 Kootenay area of B.C. Canada. I have had a wonderful few days here with some wonderful people who are hungry for God and all that He desires to do. It is always a blessing being here with friends that I have known for a long time.

The environment we find within us becomes the environment around us. The way of God’s kingdom is to transform our hearts and minds from within. A revelation of Jesus in our hearts will prove to be the power that is manifested in and through our lives. We find true life from the environment of Christ within us. We are a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. An experience with God will change us and it will change our world. An encounter with God is prophetic in nature—God speaks, Life happens!

For God to bring the change that comes from heaven into our lives, we must have a personal experience with Him. When we have an experience with God, we see something of Him. Jesus is the voice behind us. He is the motivating voice of faith in our hearts. When we turn to see Him, something in us changes. A revelation of Jesus is an invitation to turn and see Him more clearly that we might be changed by Him.

Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet… 

Revelation 1:12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands…

Every revelation from God is an invitation to have an encounter with Him, to be changed by Him, and become something of that revelation to our world. When we are changed by God’s presence in our hearts, we see something of the glory of God in our lives. We must turn, but the work within us is a work of God’s grace when we turn to Him. His manifest presence changes 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.

We are being changed from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord within. An experience with God within us is prophetic. That experience becomes manifest as His expression to us and it causes us to be something of the mystery of heaven in our world. We experience a mystery, we receive that mystery by faith, and then we are progressively changed in a way that brings understanding to our hearts and minds. What was a prophetic expression of God in our hearts becomes made known to our world as a clear declaration of heaven in our world. This is seen in our confession of faith and our faith filled testimony to our world. After the word has been clearly proclaimed, the word which we received becomes manifested in our lives in practical ways. We are not the same as we were before. We are a testimony of the glory of God.

God’s glory is His influence in and to our world. His influence is an influence of love. He changes our character from within to become like His. He is a giver of life and an encounter with Him will transform us to be givers of life to our world if we receive Him and respond to Him willingly. If we resist Him, we align ourselves with something that He removes. When we cling to Him, we become like Him. We must embrace His presence—embrace His love— and be changed.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I hope you are all well. Today is my birthday and I have completed 71 years on this earth. I begin my 72^nd year of life with expectation of God, who is good! I am ready for His ways, His paths, His love in my heart, and His influence in my world. As a child of God, I hope you have an expectation of life for what is before you.

God is the one who gives us life. Life is about identity, testimony, and purpose. When we know who God declares us to be, we can partner with Him to bring His life to our world. We become an inheritor of the destiny of the family of God. We don’t get our life from any created thing. We don’t get our life from any created being. Only God can give us life.

Family doesn’t give us life; we give life to family. Family expresses life. God is the author of marriage; thus, God is the author of family. Family is the foundation and the fruit of God’s will in the earth. The enemy will form weapons against family in every way that he can, but God is greater than any enemy. When we partner with God, we find the glory of His presence that prevails against every enemy.

To be an individual who’s qualified for marriage you must first be an individual who is a dwelling place of God’s Spirit. To be a marriage, a husband and wife must be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. To be a father or mother, you must be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. You raise your children to know the testimony of being a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. This is God’s way and God’s desire. In this, your children will grow in knowing their identity, their testimony, and their purpose as God desires for them in all things.

Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

This text is not for women to submit to men. It is for a wife to submit to her own husband. In a marriage the husband gives his love to the wife, and the wife receives the love that her husband gives. She submits to his love as unto the Lord. He is not her Lord. He is an expression of her Lord in physical form. She submits to him as unto her Lord and thus she opens the door for God’s access to her husband’s heart for their sake as one flesh before God. The husband gives words and expressions that wash and water his wife and she receives and believes the words of love that he gives. She believes in who she is for the sake of her and her husband as one together. The husband presents his wife to himself as a co-reigning partner in life. He seeks to bring her alongside of himself in everything for God’s purpose in their lives in everything. The wife willingly comes alongside of her husband in every invitation to partner with him in the identity, testimony, and purpose of being one flesh for the glory of God in their lives. Together they live for the purpose of giving life to their world. The fruit is seen in the inheritance of their house.

Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God’s established family as the foundation of blessing and purpose of mankind in the earth. Fruitfulness comes from blessing.  We are His blessing in the earth—a source of life! Fruit is a source of life from one to another.

Multiplication comes from fruitfulness. Whatever is fruitful, multiplies. We are not adding others to our cause; we are activating others into the cause of Christ. When we multiply, we greatly increase the value and potential of another

To fill is to fully complete something. In the kingdom of God our fullness leads to the inheritance of others. The places of inheritance (gates) in the earth are meant to be the possession of your children and your children’s children. When we fill, we create ceilings that becomes foundation floors for the next generation to go beyond where we have ever been.

To subdue is to conquer with the power of life. It is a place of the influence of life. Subduing is the testimony of the full power of God’s grace at work in the earth. God’s family is the place where God’s grace abounds in the earth.

Dominion is the manifestation of truth. Truth crumbles every lie. It is not a matter of control. It is a matter of prevailing in life. Dominion is the testimony of life-giving authority. When a man and a woman parter with one another in partnership with God, they become an unstoppable force of God’s love to their 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