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Greetings,
I hope you had a great Resurrection Sunday! We celebrated the presence of Jesus at Alife yesterday and we enjoyed a wonderful feast together as a spiritual family. Because Jesus lives, we can life! God wants us all to live a prosperous life of knowing Him. True prosperity is not found in the things we possess, but in the life that we live.
The secret to a prosperous life is a prosperous soul. The secret to a prosperous soul is a prosperous spirit. The health of our lives comes from within. Our connection to the kingdom of God is discovered in our heart. Our soul is the seat of authority in our lives. It is with our soul that we make our choices in life. Our soul can be motivated by our own carnal desires or even by outside spiritual forces that impose their will upon us. Only God working in our heart empowers thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, desires, and emotions that bring life to our soul. Our soul determines the actions of our lives. Life-giving actions are inspired by a life-giving attitude in our soul.
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
God wants us to prosper in all things. To be in health and to prosper in all things, our soul must prosper. Our soul manifests our desires, our thoughts, our reasoning, our imagination, and our emotions. The healthier our thoughts are the heathier our reasoning is, the healthier our imaginations are, the healthier our emotions are, and the healthier our desires become. When our thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires are healthy our lives will be more prosperous in all that we are and do. This affects all that we are in spiritual and practical ways.
To have a healthy soul we must maintain a healthy connection to Holy Spirit in our spirit. Like the sap of a tree, our spirit is the life-source of our soul. Everything in life is dependent upon our personal relationship with God in our heart.
I am a husband to my wife. I am not a husband to the wives of the world. I am a husband to one woman. She doesn’t need me to be a husband. She needs me to be her husband. She needs me to dwell with her, to understand her, to see how valuable she is, and to treat her accordingly. She needs me to rule in life with her in all things. Bonnie Hanson needs Ted Hanson to be her husband. This means I cannot just find a recipe to being a husband. I must be empowered to be her husband.
I can be inspired by a book on marriage, but I must discover God’s grace that makes me who I am as a husband for my wife. I must constantly grow and mature. My wife doesn’t need the husband she married forty-six years ago. She needs a better husband than that. She needs the husband that has been growing in maturity for forty-six years. My wife needs to be the same, concerning me.
My son Jonathan, my son Aaron, and my daughter Joanna need me to be their dad. They don’t need a dad; they need me to be their dad. Jonathan doesn’t need me to be Aaron’s dad, he needs me to be Jonathan’s dad. Aaron needs me to be Aaron’s dad. Joanna needs me to be Joanna’s dad. In the same way, each of my grandchildren need me to be their grandpa. That means I must become who I am for each of them.
When I go as a minister to places that God has divinely joined me, those places don’t need me to be a minister. Each place needs me to be who God says I am for them. I must discover who God says I am for each one and each place that He sends me. This can only come by the power of God’s grace.
The places I go need the minister that has been growing in maturity by grace. We can only be who we are meant to be today by embracing the work of God’s grace in our lives today. How do we find God’s grace? God’s grace is the empowerment of God’s Spirit working in and through our lives.
Our personal connection to Holy Spirit within us is the secret to life today. Jesus made a way for us to be a temple of His Holy Spirit. This is the temple that He raised up when He rose from the dead. It is not just a guarantee of life after we die. It is the guarantee of life that can never die. Without the grace of God at work in our lives we are destined to the tombs of death, but Jesus rose from the tomb to make room for us to be a part of the forever living body of Christ. Christ in us is the hope of glory in all things and to eternity.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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