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Greetings,
Today is a holiday in the US and I will be spending my day with family. We had a great time yesterday as a church family in a city park. It was good to eat, fellowship, and to get to know one another a bit more. Tomorrow I will be heading across the Atlantic for a few weeks in the UK, Portugal, and the Netherlands. I am looking forward to seeing all that God is going to do.
The expressions of God produce results. God speaks, and life happens! God doesn’t speak for information. He speaks to bring forth life. His speech is not merely His voice. His speech is every expression He makes. His presence, thoughts, words, expressions, and actions bear the fruit of life.
Our relationship with God is not merely for the fact of knowing that He is. It is not just for knowing who He is. It is for the sake of being loved by Him that we might become expressions of His love to our world. Being loved by God causes the substance of His love to flow as a life-giving river from our hearts to our world. Jesus said that those who drink of Him will become sources of living water to their world. That living water is expressed as the words of God in our mouths. This is not words for information, but every expression that flows from us to bring life to our world. We are a dwelling place of God by His Spirit to be expressions of His Spirit in natural and supernatural ways to our world.
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 hand upon our lives is the impartation of His blessing to us that we might be sources of His blessing to our world. God wants the influence of heaven to become the influence that establishes our place in the earth as a heavenly place of life. He wants our place in this earth to manifest our partnership with Him in and from heavenly places of life.
God is the Father, the Word, and the Spirit. He is the one who gives life, expresses life, and causes life to come in all things. As people, we were created in the likeness and the image of God. We are three-part in our being. We are spirit, soul, and body. Our spirit is meant to be one with the Spirit of God in all things, thus we become alive by the life that He gives. Our soul is the bridge between that which is spirit and that which is natural. It manifests with thoughts, reasoning, desire, emotions, and imagination. The human soul is how the human spirit can be manifested in the human life. The human life is the physical expression of authority. Authority is not a matter of control but one of life. Authority gives and does not take. Our authority is the substance of life that we carry for the sake of others in our world. It is the measure of life that we can give to our world in the reality of who we are. It is the testimony of the human spirit made real in practical endeavors through our physical lives in the world.
Our expression of life to our world is the fruit of our personal connection to God in our spirit. The human spirit is to be one with the Holy Spirit and thus it is to be abundantly alive and prosperous in all its substance. When our spirits are alive in God, our souls become impassioned from within. The thoughts, reasoning’s, emotions, imaginations, and desires of God become the attributes of all that we are in Him. A prosperous spirit produces a prosperous soul that inspires a prosperous life. This is how the Spirit of God influences the world in which we live.
The expressions of our lives are to be expressions of sons and daughters of God. It is only as manifested sons and daughters of God that we can bring the life-giving liberty of God to our world.
Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
What is the glorious liberty of the children of God? I believe that true liberty is to become like our heavenly Father in His character, nature, way, power, and authority. He is the one who gives life, breath, and all things. As sons and daughters of God, the expressions of our lives give His life to our world. In this our presence, thoughts, words, expressions, and actions that bear the fruit of life even as our Father gives life. The source is Him but by Him in us we become givers of life to our world.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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