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Greetings,
We had another great weekend here in Bellingham. There was lots of personal ministry in the Alife community yesterday. The family of God is becoming a greater testimony of community. God is doing good things in the nations.
Jesus is our Lord. A lord is not merely a term of information. A lord is a desire that determines the beliefs and actions of our lives. The term lord implies the motivation of our hearts. As sons and daughters of God, Jesus is our desire. He is the motivator of the will of our hearts. Holy Spirit has come into our lives in the name of Jesus. Fellowship with Holy Spirit is fellowship with Jesus. Our relationship with Holy Spirit is the key to our connection to Jesus as Lord in our lives. Holy Spirit is God in us, with us, and upon us to reveal that we live with God for His purpose in all things.
2 Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Turning to the Lord is turning towards our internal connection to Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Lord within our hearts. Holy Spirit gives us new desires that are inspired by God’s desires within us. Our fellowship with Holy Spirit in our hearts is the empowerment of internal changes that come by the Spirit of the Lord – the Spirit of changed desires as we are transformed by the power of Jesus name.
Our connection to Holy Spirit is also our connection to our heavenly Father. Our source of being is our heavenly Father. It is through knowing the Father that we know the Son and it is through knowing the Son that we know the Father. The more we practice our relationship with Holy Spirit, the more we grow in knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son. We practice our relationship with Holy Spirit by responding to His presence in our lives. Our willingness to know Holy Spirit is revealed through our willingness to respond to Holy Spirit in our daily lives.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
The very expression of our being reveals a prophetic testimony of Jesus as the Lord of our lives. That prophetic expression is an increasing testimony of life that causes us to become givers of life to our world. 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. The testimony of Christ is within us, but we must willingly respond to Holy Spirit to see those things manifest in our lives.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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