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Greetings,
I hope everyone is well today. I have had a great week with time with my friend John Marsden in Prestatyn, Wales and my fried Andrew Shearman in Mijas, Spain. The weekend has been filled with lots of life with Pastor Elijah Boswell and Impact Churches in the Manchester area of England. It has been great to make reconnections and to see what God is doing in and through His people.
Our footsteps forward are often determined by our perspective in life. Do we see ourselves above or below? In a battle, the one who possess the higher ground has the advantage in the battlefield. If you possess the higher ground you can possess the territory below, both offensively and defensively in the advancements of war. We are in a spiritual battle, but it is not a battle of flesh and blood. It is a battle of spiritual realities. We are the body of Christ. We are the place that the Spirit of God fills. We are the real estate upon the earth that is filled with the manifest presence of God for the calling, testimony, and purpose of God in all things.
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.
What is beneath the feet of the place that carries the indwelling presence of God? There is no spiritual or physical reality that is higher than the authority of life in Christ. The authority of life in Christ is not just an authority of life, it is an authority of resurrection life. It is an authority of eternal life!! It is the authority of God’s life that cannot be destroyed.
Ephesians 1:19 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.
Our perspective must be that of having the higher ground than our enemies. We are not defending ourselves against the powers of darkness, the powers of darkness are defending themselves against us as we live, move, and have our being in and as the body of Christ. We are the light of Christ in the world in which we live. We each have a part in the calling, the inheritance, and the purpose of Christ for the day in which we live and to the generations that follow. We must keep our perspective right! We are above and not beneath. It is from that place of the authority of life that we can reign in life and bring life to every circumstance of our lives. We have a mandate to bring life to our world.
Keep your head in the clouds! Find your thoughts submerged in the presence of God in all things. Keep your thoughts upon God and not upon the defensive plays of the enemy. Our focus must be upon the manifest presence of God in our lives. When we keep our minds fixed upon God, we can expect the path of our feet to reveal a testimony of His victory for us. It is not victory that we seek. It is His presence that we seek to live in, move in, and have our being in. His presence grants us an intimate understanding of, and connection to, who He is. The fruit of our relationship with God is victory in all things.
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. 4 Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength. 5 For He brings down those who dwell on high, the lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down—The feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.”
Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
We can expect to see the goodness of God in the land of the living because He is the living One in our land when we live as those who are above and not beneath. We are called, appointed, and anointed to bring the life of Christ to our world. It is from this higher ground that we will bring life to our world. It is from this higher ground that we will reign in life!
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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