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Greetings,
I am posting this blog a day late since I was traveling home from the UK yesterday. I had an amazing trip with lots of old connections, new connections, and most of all – God appointments filled with God’s presence. I am home renewed and refreshed by all that God did.
When we know someone and we love them, we value who they are, and we respond to who they are. We invite them into our world, and we share our world with them. Our relationship with God is the same. We find our identity in our Father God. We live to be expressions of Christ as part of the body of Christ joined to Jesus is every aspect of our lives. Jesus is our Lord. He is our desire. He is the motivator of the will of our hearts. Holy Spirit is God in us, with us, and upon us to reveal that we live with God for His purpose in all things. Our source of being is our heavenly Father. The very expression of our being reveals a prophetic testimony of Jesus as the Lord of our lives. The posterity of our being is empowered by Holy Spirit working in us and with us for the glory of God in all that we do. God doesn’t just reveal these things in our lives. They are revealed as we willingly respond to God.
Mark 16:17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
The signs that follow those who believe are within them, but those who believe live a lifestyle of responding to Holy Spirit within them to reveal a testimony of being clothed in the power of Christ. Holy Spirit empowers the casting out of demons, but we cast them out by releasing that anointing and speaking words of delivering life. Holy Spirit empowers new tongues from within us, but we respond to new sounds brought to our souls from within by a motivation of Holy Spirit and we speak them with our mouths. Holy Spirit gives us power over deceiving spirits (serpents), but we take them up. We respond to the discerning of Holy Spirit, and we exercise power over the things that seek to deceive us. Holy Spirit gives us immunity to deadly things, but we must respond to His inspiration of life to walk in the protection of that life. Holy Spirit’s anointing heals the sick, but we lay our hands upon them to release that healing. Our relationship with Holy Spirit is that of a relationship with the One who loves us, and we practice responding to Him in our lives to release His life-giving power in and through us to our world.
Mark 16:19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.
Holy Spirit has come to us in Jesus’ name. He is the Spirit of the Lord working within us that testifies of the authority of Jesus who sits at the right hand of God. We can expect supernatural signs of Christ’s authority to accompany us when respond to a partnership with Holy Spirit in our lives. We must choose to give the utmost importance to a living relationship with Holy Spirit each and every day. We cannot ignore Holy Spirit and expect to see God results in our lives. We must choose to be spiritual. We choose to be empowered by Holy Spirit through the natural expressions of our lives. This makes us spiritual (spirit-natural) in all that we are and do.
1 Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led. 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. 4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
The way of the world is to be led by the things of the world. This is to be motivated by created things. When we are motivated by created things, we become expressions of something less than who God intends us to be. This is idolatry, and it diminishes the life-giving likeness and image of God in our lives. When we are motivated by Holy Spirit, we become expressions of God that reveal the ministry of Jesus for the work of our heavenly Father by the giftedness and power of Holy Spirit. This involves a constant responding to Holy Spirit in and through our lives. It is a connection of our spirits to Holy Spirit that empowers our souls to motivate the works of our lives to bring God’s supernatural life to our world.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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