Greetings,
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I hope you are all well and that your week and weekend were blessed. I have been blessed to be home for a bit and sense God stirring for the new year that is ahead. We had a good day together yesterday at Alife as we are preparing to end a year in God’s presence and enter into a new one for a further step in our destiny in Christ.
As sons and daughters of God, we know the treasure of the kingdom of God within us. It is the kingdom of God within us that empowers the expressions of our own kingdoms in this natural world to be true to the character of God’s purpose and will in heaven. That internal kingdom is manifested in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. These internal realities mark our lives to think differently than we did in the world and to express our lives to our world as givers of life as our Father in heaven is a giver of life in all things. The Old Covenant feast of Passover was a shadow of our internal knowing the righteousness of God by the power of His Holy Spirit. This feast in the Old Covenant was only a shadow of the good thing that has now come to us in Christ.
Galatians 3:19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Faith has come to us by an ability to hear God’s voice to our hearts from within. This is a part of the testimony of being a member of the body of Christ. Our righteousness is not given to us by an obedience to the law. Our righteousness is given to us by an internal inspiration of faith. We hear God and we respond to Him in our hearts. The actions of our lives are a witness to our relationship with God in our hearts. We bear this mark in our thinking and in our way of doing things. The law could only restrain the actions of our flesh, but God’s manifest presence in our hearts inspires us to demonstrate actions led by God’s Spirit. This is grace. God is our God, and we are empowered to live our lives by His powerful love working within us. We have life and we are givers of life to our world.
God desires all of us to be kings and priests to Him. We are priests in our connection to God in heaven with increasing revelations of His wonderful love. We respond to His love in our worship, and we become a testimony of His praise to our world. Our influence in our world is that of kings. We influence our earthly realities with an authority and an anointing given to us by heaven’s grace. It is not that some are priests and others are kings. We are all meant to be priest before our God and kings in our influence in and to our world.
Revelation 1:5b …To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
We are each to be a part of Christ’s calling in who we are. Our relationship with God in our hearts will reveal His love through us to our world. We are marked in our thinking and in our way of doing things that demonstrates our righteousness with God that comes by faith. It comes by a relationship of love by and for God. The mark of God is not some physical mark upon our hands or our foreheads. It is a way of thinking and a way of doing things. This was foreseen in the shadow of the Old Covenant feast of Passover. The Passover feast signified a way of life that knows it is in God that we live. We have righteousness by the Holy Spirit within us. We know that our sins are forgiven because we know we have a Father who loves us. The Old Covenant shadow was prophesying of what has now come to us in our thinking and way of doing things in Christ.
Exodus 13:8 “And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the LORD did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ 9 It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.”
Wherever the mark of God is revealed, it is a testimony of living to know the life that God gives us so that we can give His life to our world. Our thoughts are for God’s will to be done, and His kingdom to come in all that we are and do. Our hands become instruments of blessing and not instruments that take things from others for our own purposes. We are givers of life to our world. We know the liberty of life that God gives to us and we are inspired to give that life to and for others in our world.
1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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