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Greetings,
I have been enjoying my time in California with my family here. It will be sad to leave my children and grandchildren again, but love keeps our connection and our anticipation of coming together again. I love my family just as God loves us as His family to eternity.
When the hidden places of darkness in our lives come to the light in Christ, they become light. We become holy, because the holiness of Christ within us brings about transformational changes from within our being. Holiness is not merely an abstinence from the power of the flesh. It is an attachment to the power of God’s Spirit. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of holiness. When we join our spirit to Holy Spirit, our spirit becomes a sanctifying source to our soul and to the physical expressions of our life. This happens when we put our hearts to the place where we trust God above all things. When we depend upon God in all things, all things reveal a testimony of the greatness, goodness, and mercy of God in all things.
Jeremiah 17:5 Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.” (NKJV)
When we put our hope in our natural world, be become attached to something less than the life-giving force of our Father, who is the Creator and giver of life in all things. We end up living our lives for ourselves and only reveal the testimony of a wilderness bush that dries up and blows away like a tumble weed in the wind.
Jeremiah 17:5-6 “Cursed is the strong one who depends on mere humans, who thinks he can make it on muscle alone and sets GOD aside as dead weight. He’s like a tumbleweed on the prairie, out of touch with the good earth. He lives rootless and aimless in a land where nothing grows. (The Message)
When we put our trust in the Lord, we become fully dependent upon Him in all things. We become like a tree planted by the waters that give us life in every season of our lives.
Jeremiah 17:7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.” (NKJV)
As people, we are spirit, soul, and body. Our body is the outer form of our lives. The natural form of our lives is like the trunk and branches of a tree with its surface covering of bark. The physical expressions of our life are administrated by our soul. Our soul is not our mind or physical brain. Our soul is the inner core of our being like the inner core of the tree that can be measured in its rings that denote the history and experiences of the tree in its journey of life. That inner core fills the trunk, the branches, and all of its extremities. The human soul is the inner core of our being that serves as the facilitator causing what is within us to become an expression in the outer actions of our life. Our soul is impacted by the experiences that come against us in life, just as the tree is impacted by the experiences of its growth in the environment around it. The marks of impact can be seen in the growth rings of the inner core of a tree, but the sap within the tree rejuvenates the tree from within and it overcomes the resistance found in every season of the tree. It is the life of spirit within us that will empower us to grow in the life of God and overcome in every season of our life in this world.
Our spirit is like the sap of a tree, and it is the source of life within our being that is meant to be connected to the source of our existence. As a son or daughter of God our source of life is found in God our Father. It is only through our connection to God in our spirit that we can become expressions of the likeness and image of God in the earth. From the roots of the tree, throughout the core of its trunk and branches is the sap. This is the life source of the tree that empowers it to put forth its leaves and fruit. The leaves and fruit of the tree bring the blessings of the tree to the world around it.
When our spirit is fully joined to the roots of our connection to God in the Holy Spirit, our spirit floods the inner core of our being. It floods our soul, and our soul empowers our lives to manifest externally the fruit of the Spirit and the attributes of the Spirit in supernaturally natural ways and naturally supernatural ways. It is essential that we pursue a connection to the Holy Spirit in our spirits and that we respond to our spirit with thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires that flood our soul from within. We must then give actions in the physical attributes of our lives. Our mouths speak, our hands love, our feet walk, and our lives become filled with actions that are empowered by God’s Holy Spirit within. We are planted by the river, and we put our roots deep in an intimate and supernatural connection to God in all things. The testimony and purpose of our lives becomes that of our Father’s will.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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