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Greetings,
We have come the end of 2024 and are about to enter into a new year. I have expectation stirring in my heart for this new season. I believe that God is going to be revealed in His powerful love.
I have been writing in regard to bearing the mark of God. As sons and daughters of God we are changed in our thinking and changed in our way of doing things. God is our God, and we are His children. We live in Him, and we are expressions of Him to our world. I have presented that the kingdom of God is a kingdom within us that transforms our external kingdoms to be kingdoms of our Lord and Christ. We used to bear the mark of our own carnality. We were self-seeking and self-motivated, but now the focus of our hearts and minds is to live for the will and kingdom of our heavenly Father.
True righteousness is a right relationship with God in our hearts. God is our God! Jesus is our redemption and salvation in all things. We have righteousness in the Holy Spirit, and we have peace in the Holy Spirit. We also have joy in the Holy Spirit. Joy is not dependent upon happiness. Joy is deeper and stronger. In the presence of the Lord there is the fullness of joy (Ps. 16:11). Joy is connected to purpose and our true purpose is found when we partner with God and He partners with us in all things.
Our future is in God. We live for His purpose and will in all things. The Old Covenant feast of Tabernacles was a partnership acknowledging that every aspect of man’s harvest is for the glory of His name. God is the one who gives us all things. In Him we have our being for His kingdom and His will to be done in our world.
The children of Israel were to keep the feast of Tabernacles as a testimony of God’s partnership with them in every season of their lives. Every season of life is a season of harvest. That harvest brings bread to the world today and seed for the world of tomorrow. This was to be a mark on the forehead and a mark on the back of the hand. It was to be in the thinking of God’s people and in their way of doing things.
Deuteronomy 11:18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”
As sons and daughters of God, we are new creations in Christ to be givers of life to our world. It is in our way of doing things and in our way of thinking. We live, move, and have our beings in God for the glory of His name in all things! By this, we will give life to our world.
God gives us all things and all things are for His purpose and glory. Our lives are filled with many seasons of harvest and each harvest is purposed to give the food of life to our world and plant the seeds of life for a generation to come. This is to live our lives as sons and daughters of God who is our Father. We are givers of life as He is a giver of life to us. This is the testimony of the kingdom of God within us. We must seek the purpose of the kingdom of God in our lives. It is in Him that we have our beings.
Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
Our barns are the supply houses of God’s heavenly bread to feed the nations and the generations. Our vats are the reservoirs of life filled with life-giving power for the testimony of heaven’s grace to others in our world. As sons and daughters of God we should make it our aim to live for the kingdom of our Lord and Christ. The kingdom of God is what should consume our attention. His justice system of life to the world should be the focus of our hearts. We have a great heritage and a great destiny. We live for the joy of the Lord. This is our strength! A zeal for God’s house should consume us in all things. It is in our thinking and in our way of doing things.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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