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Greetings,
I am writing again today from Bellingham. We had a great weekend here with an Open Worship night on Friday and a great message yesterday by Pastor’s Jonathan and Danie. God is turning things towards His purpose in our lives. An awe of Him in our lives will empower us to trust Him in all things.
As members of the body of Christ we are given a new song of life. A new song is not just lyrics to a new musical melody. A new song is a testimony of God’s life made new within you in the moment of today. The Old Covenant was a covenant of remembering what God did in the past and believing for what He will do in the future. The New Covenant is a place of knowing God every new day. In the New Covenant the day is today, and the time is now!
Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
The New Covenant is the reality of being the place where God lives. We are a temple of Holy Spirit – a dwelling place of God in the earth. Our lives are a testimony of the kingdom of God that is within us. We are the body of Christ! Jesus was the firstfruit of the body of Christ for the will of the Father so that each of us could be sons and daughters of God with Holy Spirit within us. God heard the cry of our hearts and made it possible for us to be the place of His will being done on earth as it is in heaven. We are in the rock of Christ and Christ is in us.
Psalms 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. 2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. 3 He has put a new song in my mouth—praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the LORD.
Our lives are a testimony of praise to God. We can trust Him because of who He is. He is our Father who loves us. He is our friend, and He has made a way for us to live with Him and He with us in every situation of our lives. It is our connection to God in our hearts that transforms our lives to be a testimony of His praise. We don’t merely trust the promises that He gives to us. We trust Him! He is who He is and we can depend upon Him at all times.
Psalms 40:4 Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
God’s voice in our lives is not about information. It is a testimony of intimacy with God and God with us. His thoughts towards us are thoughts of life and they are too many to even be recounted to God in order. His thoughts inspire Him to speak and His voice within us empowers are to become who we are meant to be. Who we are determines what we do in life. What we do is merely the fruit of who we are.
Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. 7 Then I said, “Behold, I come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.”
It is not what we do in life that determines our way in life. Our way is life is determined by who we are in life. We cannot fulfill our destinies as bodies of self. We must live, move, and have our being as members of the body of Christ! This is what our Father in heaven desires.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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