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Greetings,
Today I am in Angola, Africa. I have had a wonderful weekend in Huambo. I was blessed to bring training to two different groups. One group was a new connection, and I was blessed to share with many hungry pastors, leaders, and students regarding Generational Leadership. On Saturday and Sunday I taught a group of wonderful hungry believers concerning Foundations of the Church. God is doing good things here and it was a great blessing to be with friends and new connections with my African family. Thank you to all to participated.
In our journey of life, we are often faced with difficult and challenging situations. Those challenges present a wrestle that can appear to thwart our purpose and plans for life. When our spirit is joined to God’s Spirit within our hearts, we can overcome those challenges, and we even find that those times of difficulty present an opportunity for us to be freed from any selfish desires, self-preserving actions, bitter testimonies, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways. These are fleshly enemies that are only overcome by the power of God’s Spirit and His love within our hearts. It is in the challenges of life that we become desperate for a partnership with God by His Spirit. It is in that place we manifest as sons and daughters of God that remain true to be givers of life in our world. What we become in the difficult times will be who we are in the good times of our lives.
Like the inhabitants left in the land of promise, we are to conquer every fleshly enemy in our lives and utterly destroy them. We are not to be intimate with them. We must not have a relationship with them. Whatever we are intimate with, gives us our identity, testimony, and purpose. Only intimacy with God by His Spirit can give us our true identity, testimony, and purpose.
Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
We must destroy the place where these things rest in our lives. We must destroy our value for them in our hearts. This is the power of a new and living covenant with God whereby His nature is written upon our hearts and minds. We cannot destroy these things merely by the power of our own will. We must find the manifest presence of God in our hearts that destroys the will of self through an empowerment of our spirit by God’s Spirit within us. Only Holy Spirit within us can give us life-giving desires that come by a receiving of God’s love. Only Holy Spirit can empower faith within us that is empowered by a love for God. Only Holy Spirit within us can inspire our hearts to respond to God’s transforming presence whereby everything that is bitter becomes submerged in a testimony of transformation that comes by an understanding of God’s love. Only Holy Spirit within us can cause us to be givers of life to others in our world. Only Holy Spirit within us gives us an identity in Christ that is stronger than any worldly distraction. Only Holy Spirit within us can give us a true communion of love that creates a community with others through a life-giving attitude of love. Only Holy Spirit within us gives us can inspire a partnership of humility with God and one another.
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
Our identity, testimony, and purpose are only found in God, our Creator. Sons and daughters of God find these things through a partnership with God at all times. That partnership is especially proven in the difficult times of testing.
Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.”
When we partner with God, we discover the mystery of being holy. We cannot be holy to come to God. Joining ourselves to God is what makes us holy. What makes us God’s treasure is a partnership with Him in His manifest presence. Knowing God is what makes us special. Knowing we are known by God causes our hearts to realize how special it is to be loved by Him.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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