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Greetings,
Today I am home after a great time with family in California. We will be blessed to see our California family home with us all here in Bellingham for a few days at the start of the new year. It was good to be in my home church yesterday and I was blessed to minister on God as our friend.
God wants to partner with us in life. This is the testimony of fulfilling our purpose in Christ. God is our God, we are His people, and we live together in all things. God is our friend, we are becoming His friends, and we are to partner with Him in all things as His friends in all that we are and do.
A friend doesn’t need anything. A friend seeks to give life to those they are a friend to. This is the character, nature, and way of God. He gives life, breath, and all things. He doesn’t need anything from us but wants to partner with us to give us life. God desires to empower us to be friends to Him and to one another as He is our friend.
To see God as our friend and to be empowered to be His friend and a friend to others requires a healing in our identities. When we discover our true identity, we become givers of life to our world. This is a testimony to the likeness and image of God.
God is healing our identities. We are not merely people living in a world to fulfill the will of mankind. We are sons and daughters of God, and our destiny is to fulfill the will of God in all things. We are loved by God, sought by God, and joined to God in His purpose in our world.
I believe that the present anointing of God is seen in the testimony of the cassia oil. It is a type of cinnamon oil, testifying of a deeper level of intimacy with God in Christ. This anointing oil is restoring our breath, our ability to digest things that give us life, our ability to give life to others, and our ability to be free from things in our past. This present anointing oil empowers us to be strengthened in our joints, our relationships with others in the community of Christ. It is a healing oil to things that have affected our relationships in the past. It is a healing oil to things that have given irritations, pain, and relational difficulties in the past. It is a healing oil to give us peace and relieve us of stress and anxiety.
The enemy has fashioned weapons against us in an attempt to resist God’s plans for humanity, but God is our friend, and He cares for us, He is there for us, and He will always fight for us. He doesn’t merely rescue us from the assaults of our enemies. He empowers us to partner with Him and to know His partnership with us in the midst of every battle. The resistance of our enemy only challenges us to be empowered to overcome all things by the power of Christ in us.
God chooses to know our good. He promises to never leave us. He is strong on our behalf, and He empowers each of us to be strong in Him when we call upon His name. He empowers us to be strong in His Spirit and strong in His Word and we know the victory of overcoming all things by the power of His grace.
God doesn’t just want to deliver us from our enemies. He wants us to become strong in the midst of them. He wants us to become givers of life in our world for the sake of bringing life to our world. God has partnered with us, and we must partner with Him.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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