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Greetings,
Bonnie and I just finished several days with gathering in Trail, Slocan Valley, Tarry, and Nelson, BC, Canada. It was a wonderfully blessed time of God’s presence and word in community settings of the family of God. Thank you to all the hungry people who came and participated in a time of blessing with Holy Spirit. God is in the Kootenay area of Canada. I look forward to coming here again.
As sons and daughters of God, we are expressions of our heavenly Father. Very often we think that our need in life is to receive life from God, but our true need is to be givers of life to our world as our heavenly Father is a giver of life to us. We are meant to be like our Father in our character, nature, way, power, and authority. We are earthly expressions of all that is of God in heaven. This is the testimony of His kingdom come and His will being done in our world.
The true thirst of our lives is to fulfill the purpose and destiny of being a child of God. We often confuse our thirst as a need for something that serves us in some way, but God knows better.
John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jesus defined the need of the thirsty as one of giving life to others. The rivers of living water that flow from us can be understood as rivers of life-giving water. Each of us are uniquely created to give life to our world. Our true need is to receive the substance of life from God that enables us to fulfill this God-ordained purpose in our lives. This is the fruit of a partnership with Holy Spirit in and through our lives. The power is of the Spirit, but the expression is also fully us.
We were created in the likeness and image of our heavenly Father. He gives life, breath, and all things. He defines our identify, testimony, and purpose in life. Our identity is found in who we are. We are alive; therefore, we give life to our world. God is the source of life and that life is eternal life. It is greater and stronger than every force of death. It is life; therefore, it brings a testimony of life in us and through us to our world. This is the source of our purpose. Our purpose is for the kingdom of God and for His will to come in all things. This changes our world. We are to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in life. To subdue is to destroy death with life and to exercise dominion is to destroy every lie with truth. The lie is a matter of death, and the truth is always a matter of life. To subdue is not a conquering through control or some measure of death. To subdue is to bring life and thus death is destroyed. To have dominion is not a domination to some knowledge of control. It is to be a truth that gives life and thus death and the control of death is conquered in some way. God made us to have dominion over the works of His hands for this reality.
Psalms 8:4 What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.
God doesn’t do anything in the earth without human voice, because dominion in the earth was given as a purpose and responsibility of mankind. We are to be expressions of God’s word to our world. The word of God is not just the verbal expressions of God. It is by no means merely the written expressions of Scripture. The word of God is His touch, His voice, and His expressed atmosphere that brings life to all that is around Him. When God expresses who He is, who He is brings life to all that experiences Him.
Isaiah 51:16 And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens, lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
God’s words in our mouths bring God’s life to our world. His words come from His presence and His presence plants heaven in our world. This is the foundation of the life-giving community of God in the earth. The former strongholds of our enemies become the places of God’s purpose and will. They become the source of the direction of our world as Zion, a former stronghold of the Jebusites, that became a headquarters for the influence of God’s life to the world.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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