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Bonnie and I are still in Redding, California. We have enjoyed time with our family here. We will head home to Bellingham on Tuesday. It will no doubt be a sad goodbye, but we look forward to our next time together. Love laughs and love cries, this is the power of the heart.
This is a year of partnership with God so that we can enter what we could not enter before, we can see what we could not see before, become what we could not become before, and possess what we could not possess before. That possession is not merely for our own gratification. It is not for our own dreams or visions. That possession is so we can be sons and daughters of God who bring the blessings of God to our world. When we find our place in God’s plan, we discover it is better than any plan we can create on our own. We find great satisfaction, but we must lose our old life to find our new life in Christ. We can only enter the new that God has for us when we willfully let go of our old way of administrating our lives.
Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, 3 to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”
God desires a personal relationship with each of us so that we can know the greater glory of His blessing and purpose in life. God doesn’t merely want to give us freedom from the bondages of our world. He wants to the bring the blessings of His kingdom into our world. God wants us to be planted in His purpose in our world. He wants us to be a part of the family tree of life. As sons and daughters of God we are generational trees of righteousness for the will of God in our world. Being planted implies an intimate relationship of connection to the soil of God’s Spirit. In the same way a natural tree is planted in the soil of the earth, God wants us to be securely planted in the soil of His Spirit. This is the soil of His love. It is the soil of His love that enables us to be expressions of His love to our world. It is that soil that enables us to be good dads, moms, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, grandpas, grandmas, friends, neighbors, and members of a life-giving humanity in our world. When we are planted in an intimate relationship with God we can be planted in an intimate relationship with one another. It is from that place of relationship that we become empowered by God’s Spirit to bring His redeeming, restoring, and replenishing life to our world.
Isaiah 61:4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
It is time to rebuild what has been destroyed by our enemies. When we partner with God, He gives us the ability to begin again and to begin in new ways. God gives life and life is more powerful than any destruction of death. The love of God wins over the hateful plans of every adversary. There is a turnaround anointing available to us as sons and daughters of God. What has been torn apart can be made good again in ways that are beyond what was before.
It is time to raise up what was made desolate. God gives breath and when we partner with Him, we find His Spirit filling our lives in new ways. That partnership is not one of natural knowledge but one of supernatural expression of His love. What the enemy made desolate can be filled with the testimony of God’s love.
It is time to repair what was meant to have a generational inheritance. The community of God is one that tabernacles with Him to reveal His inheritance to our children and our children’s children. God gives us all things. His purpose is seen in the glory of His name made real in and through our lives to our world. It is for the sake of our children and our children’s children that God partners with us and we partner with Him in all things.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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