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Greetings,

I hope you are all well. Today I am headed to South Africa for ministry there. I will be there for several days and I am looking forward to what God is going to do. I had a great day yesterday at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. God’s loving power of deliverance and freedom was in the house.

God determines who each of us are. Our true destiny is to be an expression of God’s likeness and image. This includes His thoughts, reasoning, imagination, emotions, and desires. Our spirit, soul, and body are meant to work as one to bring glory to God as His manifested sons and daughters in this world. This is the design of our creation.

Satan is a perversion of His original creation. God created him to be a creature of beauty, but he desired to be something beyond who God made him to be. He didn’t like who he was created to be and traded his true identity for a lie. I believe that his sense of the future caused him to see us in the heart of God when he saw the stars of God. He didn’t understand what he could see because he was somehow unsatisfied with who he was. He decided that the stars of God (sons of God) were what he desired to be (Isa. 14:12-15). His motivation was jealousy, envy, shame, discontentment, and pride. Although he was perfect in his beauty and he was full of wisdom given to him by God, he somehow didn’t like himself.

He was not created to be a devil. He was not created to be Satan. These are attributes of his perversion. These are the fruit of embracing and acting upon his internal iniquity. He embraced a lie and has become the father of lies. In his creation he was a seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. He was a refraction of God’s light, God’s sound, and God’s rhythm. He magnified the expressions of God in a wonderful way. He was perfect in his creation until he acted upon a weakness of iniquity within himself. He traded his true identity for a lie, and he was devoured by the fire of his own way. That fire was a personal desire and agenda that perverted his true identity – Ezekiel 28:12-19.  

The weakness of this created being was that he was willing to trade his true identity for a lie. The enemy uses the environment of our world to tempt us to trade for something less than who we really are. Who each of us are will always bring life to our world and any devil is out to destroy who we really are. We are all called to be sons and daughters of God, and like our Father we should give life to our world. The enemy comes in the form of outside sources in an attempt to make you and I trade our true identity for a lie. Our true identity is only found though the connection of our spirit to the life-giving, life-defining, Spirit of God.

The strategy of the enemy is to war against your true identity with his own destructive ways and personality. A spirit of fear attempts to make you afraid. A spirit of rejection tries to crack your soul, so you receive a character of rejection. A spirit of intimidation attempts to make you accept a personality of being easily intimidated. The enemy is out to get your ‘I am’. It’s ok to feel afraid at times, but the enemy wants you to confess an, ‘I am afraid’. When we say, “I am afraid”, we are confessing a personality and character of fear.

A devil strikes the souls of others to destroy their personalities and identities. He seeks to crack the souls of men to tempt them to trade the truth of who they are for the personality of his perversion. A devil of fear strikes the human soul with his personality of fear to tempt them to trade their understanding of love for a lie of fear in their own identity. They trade their trust of love for a personality of fear, and they become fearful. They open their soul to an external spiritual influence that becomes stronger than the internal power of their own spirit that was created to be inspired by the Holy Spirit of God.

1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Spiritual forces of darkness lure the desires of our flesh so that our flesh becomes the motivation of our soul. Our soul is the dimension of our being that is meant to be empowered by our spirit. Our spirit is our inner man, and it is meant to be empowered by a divine connection with God’s Holy Spirit within us. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of holiness that makes our spirit holy. Our spirit is created to be joined to God, and it is empowered to motivate the thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires of our soul from within. The actions of our lives are meant to be a visible expression of the life of God manifesting within our soul. When this does not happen, we become vulnerable to the desires of our own flesh and to spiritual influences in the external environment of our world that war against our soul.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

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www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

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Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Blessings to you from the Pacific Northwest of America. I have been enjoying my time at home and I am looking to the signs of spring. New life is in the air. It is a season for new life!

A few days ago I was awakened in the midst of a dream. As I awoke Holy Spirit was speaking to me in regard to a phrase commonly used by many Christian believers. The phrase was, “everything has a purpose”. This phrase is commonly connected to the thought that God is in control of all things. Believers often connect this term to the concept of God’s sovereignty. I have addressed this concept in some of my past blogs.

I used to believe that God is in control. That is what Bible teachers told me, but I have read my Bible more carefully and I have discovered that throughout the Scripture is says that God owns everything, but He did an amazing thing. He put what He owns into the hands of those that He loves, even those that don’t love Him.

Psalms 8:3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 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…  

We must be intimate with the one who owns all things, so we can bring His life to the world given to us for the glory of His name. We are all little lords and kings born to be intimate with the King of kings and the Lord of lords that we might become givers of life to our worlds, even as our Father in heaven is a giver of life in all things! The kingdom of God is an internal kingdom of the human heart that changes the external expressions of our lives. The kingdom of God within our hearts reveals a testimony of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is rooted in the human spirit, and it inspires the human soul from the life of God’s Spirit inspiring our human spirit within. This is the strength of our inner man that empowers us to live our lives as an external testimony for God’s glory.

As I awoke from my dream, God continued to talk to me. He expressed to me that He is sovereign in His gifting, but relational in His character. God doesn’t need anything from us. He can do all things. He can intervene in our lives by His sovereign abilities, but His heart is always for a relationship of intimacy. God is not who He is. Our Father is who He is, and God is a description of what He can do. To say that all things happen for a purpose and consider that purpose being the will of a sovereign God is not true to the character of God. Not all things are the purpose of God, but because our Father loves us, He can turn an evil purpose to a purpose of His will. Our Father wants us to know the reality of His character in our own lives. He wants us to live as His sons and daughters with a nature that is in His likeness and image.

Because man is in control of what God has created in this world, we often experience the consequence of our own actions or even the actions of others in life. My garden produces plants that benefit my life as well as weeds that require my cultivation. In the same way, the world is filled with things that are both good and bad. I don’t believe that this is because God’s will is both good and bad. I believe that God’s will is always good, but bad things happen that prove how good God really is. Bad things not only prove how good God is, but they also prove how good His people can become in the midst of bad things and bad situations.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

In these words, Paul reveals to us that all things work together for good when we love God and walk in the way of His purpose. We could say that everything happens for a purpose but not all is for the purpose of God. Because God is relational in His nature, He invites us to love Him. He invites us to know Him. When we choose to love Him and know Him in all things, God uses His sovereign abilities to work on our behalf because His nature is one of love for us. Our dependency is upon the Love of God, not merely His sovereign abilities. Love is the true power that motivates His working in our lives. God’s love motivates Him in His sovereign abilities working on our behalf. It is not His sovereignty that motivates His love.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I hope you had a great Resurrection Sunday! We celebrated the presence of Jesus at Alife yesterday and we enjoyed a wonderful feast together as a spiritual family. Because Jesus lives, we can life! God wants us all to live a prosperous life of knowing Him. True prosperity is not found in the things we possess, but in the life that we live.

The secret to a prosperous life is a prosperous soul. The secret to a prosperous soul is a prosperous spirit. The health of our lives comes from within. Our connection to the kingdom of God is discovered in our heart. Our soul is the seat of authority in our lives. It is with our soul that we make our choices in life. Our soul can be motivated by our own carnal desires or even by outside spiritual forces that impose their will upon us. Only God working in our heart empowers thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, desires, and emotions that bring life to our soul. Our soul determines the actions of our lives. Life-giving actions are inspired by a life-giving attitude in our soul.

3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

God wants us to prosper in all things. To be in health and to prosper in all things, our soul must prosper. Our soul manifests our desires, our thoughts, our reasoning, our imagination, and our emotions. The healthier our thoughts are the heathier our reasoning is, the healthier our imaginations are, the healthier our emotions are, and the healthier our desires become. When our thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires are healthy our lives will be more prosperous in all that we are and do. This affects all that we are in spiritual and practical ways.

To have a healthy soul we must maintain a healthy connection to Holy Spirit in our spirit. Like the sap of a tree, our spirit is the life-source of our soul. Everything in life is dependent upon our personal relationship with God in our heart.

I am a husband to my wife. I am not a husband to the wives of the world. I am a husband to one woman. She doesn’t need me to be a husband. She needs me to be her husband. She needs me to dwell with her, to understand her, to see how valuable she is, and to treat her accordingly. She needs me to rule in life with her in all things. Bonnie Hanson needs Ted Hanson to be her husband. This means I cannot just find a recipe to being a husband. I must be empowered to be her husband.

I can be inspired by a book on marriage, but I must discover God’s grace that makes me who I am as a husband for my wife. I must constantly grow and mature. My wife doesn’t need the husband she married forty-six years ago. She needs a better husband than that. She needs the husband that has been growing in maturity for forty-six years. My wife needs to be the same, concerning me.

My son Jonathan, my son Aaron, and my daughter Joanna need me to be their dad. They don’t need a dad; they need me to be their dad. Jonathan doesn’t need me to be Aaron’s dad, he needs me to be Jonathan’s dad. Aaron needs me to be Aaron’s dad. Joanna needs me to be Joanna’s dad. In the same way, each of my grandchildren need me to be their grandpa. That means I must become who I am for each of them.

When I go as a minister to places that God has divinely joined me, those places don’t need me to be a minister. Each place needs me to be who God says I am for them. I must discover who God says I am for each one and each place that He sends me. This can only come by the power of God’s grace.

The places I go need the minister that has been growing in maturity by grace. We can only be who we are meant to be today by embracing the work of God’s grace in our lives today. How do we find God’s grace? God’s grace is the empowerment of God’s Spirit working in and through our lives.

Our personal connection to Holy Spirit within us is the secret to life today. Jesus made a way for us to be a temple of His Holy Spirit. This is the temple that He raised up when He rose from the dead. It is not just a guarantee of life after we die. It is the guarantee of life that can never die. Without the grace of God at work in our lives we are destined to the tombs of death, but Jesus rose from the tomb to make room for us to be a part of the forever living body of Christ. Christ in us is the hope of glory in all things and to eternity.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I have been enjoying my time in California with my family here. It will be sad to leave my children and grandchildren again, but love keeps our connection and our anticipation of coming together again. I love my family just as God loves us as His family to eternity.

When the hidden places of darkness in our lives come to the light in Christ, they become light. We become holy, because the holiness of Christ within us brings about transformational changes from within our being. Holiness is not merely an abstinence from the power of the flesh. It is an attachment to the power of God’s Spirit. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of holiness. When we join our spirit to Holy Spirit, our spirit becomes a sanctifying source to our soul and to the physical expressions of our life. This happens when we put our hearts to the place where we trust God above all things. When we depend upon God in all things, all things reveal a testimony of the greatness, goodness, and mercy of God in all things.

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.” (NKJV)

When we put our hope in our natural world, be become attached to something less than the life-giving force of our Father, who is the Creator and giver of life in all things. We end up living our lives for ourselves and only reveal the testimony of a wilderness bush that dries up and blows away like a tumble weed in the wind.

Jeremiah 17:5-6 “Cursed is the strong one who depends on mere humans, who thinks he can make it on muscle alone and sets GOD aside as dead weight. He’s like a tumbleweed on the prairie, out of touch with the good earth. He lives rootless and aimless in a land where nothing grows. (The Message)

When we put our trust in the Lord, we become fully dependent upon Him in all things. We become like a tree planted by the waters that give us life in every season of our lives.

Jeremiah 17:7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.” (NKJV)

As people, we are spirit, soul, and body. Our body is the outer form of our lives. The natural form of our lives is like the trunk and branches of a tree with its surface covering of bark. The physical expressions of our life are administrated by our soul. Our soul is not our mind or physical brain. Our soul is the inner core of our being like the inner core of the tree that can be measured in its rings that denote the history and experiences of the tree in its journey of life. That inner core fills the trunk, the branches, and all of its extremities. The human soul is the inner core of our being that serves as the facilitator causing what is within us to become an expression in the outer actions of our life. Our soul is impacted by the experiences that come against us in life, just as the tree is impacted by the experiences of its growth in the environment around it. The marks of impact can be seen in the growth rings of the inner core of a tree, but the sap within the tree rejuvenates the tree from within and it overcomes the resistance found in every season of the tree. It is the life of spirit within us that will empower us to grow in the life of God and overcome in every season of our life in this world.

Our spirit is like the sap of a tree, and it is the source of life within our being that is meant to be connected to the source of our existence. As a son or daughter of God our source of life is found in God our Father. It is only through our connection to God in our spirit that we can become expressions of the likeness and image of God in the earth. From the roots of the tree, throughout the core of its trunk and branches is the sap. This is the life source of the tree that empowers it to put forth its leaves and fruit. The leaves and fruit of the tree bring the blessings of the tree to the world around it.

When our spirit is fully joined to the roots of our connection to God in the Holy Spirit, our spirit floods the inner core of our being. It floods our soul, and our soul empowers our lives to manifest externally the fruit of the Spirit and the attributes of the Spirit in supernaturally natural ways and naturally supernatural ways. It is essential that we pursue a connection to the Holy Spirit in our spirits and that we respond to our spirit with thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires that flood our soul from within. We must then give actions in the physical attributes of our lives. Our mouths speak, our hands love, our feet walk, and our lives become filled with actions that are empowered by God’s Holy Spirit within. We are planted by the river, and we put our roots deep in an intimate and supernatural connection to God in all things. The testimony and purpose of our lives becomes that of our Father’s will.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I have returned home to the U.S. and today I will be heading to see family in California. I am ready for Spring, and I am ready for new life in this season of new life. God is doing good things in the nations.

I believe that we are in a season of finding our true identity in Christ. The truth of God’s presence in our lives expels the lies that twisted and perverted our identities in life. God is causing the hidden things in our lives that do not produce life to be exposed and removed. God is bringing things to light that they may be made light. God does not expose darkness to shame us. He exposes darkness to the power of His light and His light gives us the power of grace that transforms the night into day. We are sons and daughters of God. We are children of light and not children of darkness. We are of the day and not the night.

Ephesians 5: 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

When we walk with the light, we become the testimony of that light. The true light of Christ is manifest as the fruit of the Holy Spirit in our lives. That fruit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22, 23). When these things don’t manifest there is something that is not good, not righteous, or not true in our lives. It is the testimony of our internal connection to the kingdom of God. The world around us is not the source of our lack of the fruit of the Spirit. It is a matter of the focus of our lives. Are we looking to the kingdoms around us, or are we looking to the kingdom of God within us? Are we dependent upon the life of Christ within us, or are we looking to find our life from created things in our world? Are we living as sons and daughters of God who live to give life to our world even as Our heavenly Father gives life in all things?

When we become distracted by created things our thoughts, words, and conversations might even sound scripturally true, but if the fruit of the Spirit is not there it is not the right spirit. The cure to being free from any darkness in our lives is to passionately embrace fellowship with light. That light is the light of Christ in us. This is the hope of glory in all things. The light of Christ transforms the darkness in us to light when we walk in the light. Walking in the light is a matter of intimacy with God by the spirit.

Sometimes the lines between good and evil, righteousness and unrighteousness, truth and deception get blurred. A good indicator that we are walking in the path of life is the evidence of the fruit of life. We cannot do fruit; fruit is something that happens when we live in the place where fruit grows. Fruit is something that gives life-energy to someone else and releases seeds for a future generation of life. Fruit is not a self-gratifying thing; it is a life-giving thing to others beyond your own life. Children of light shine light to the world around them! They don’t shine that light to merely expose darkness or sin. They shine light to transform darkness to light and disconnection to connection to God, who is life. Sons and daughters of God are givers of life, not those who simply complain about the darkness around them. We must be children of light!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today I am in Bulgaria. I just finished an awesome time of ministry here. God was powerful in Blagoevgrad and these past few days in Plovdiv have been phenomenally filled with God’s manifest presence. God is loving us, and God is joining our spirits to His Holy Spirit to empower us from within in our true identity as sons and daughters for the glory of His name.

We are in a season in the earth where God is restoring the identities of His sons and daughters. In the world, it looks like there is an identity crisis, but I believe it is really a hunger in the hearts of men to find their true identity. The human soul cries out for an internal knowing of who he or she is. When the human spirit is not joined to the Holy Spirit in a constant and increasing way, the human soul yields to influences of the flesh or influences of destructive spirits that create a false identity in the human soul. When this happens, we embrace a false identity that is not true to who God declares we are in the reality of heaven.

Our true identity is not found in any created thing. Our true identity is to be an expression of the likeness and the image of God in God’s unique way for our lives. When we seek to create our identity from our own desires, we end up creating an image that is not true to the likeness and the image of God. God is a giver. He doesn’t need anything. He gives life, He gives breath, and He gives all things. When we find our true identity, we live to give life to our world. We live to give life to others. We live to give life to our children and our children’s children. When we don’t know our true identity, we create an identity that comes by meeting our own needs in some way.

The tattoos and piercings on the body of Jesus are marks of sacrifice and suffering that He took for the sake of giving life to us. The marks on His body are not marks that He sought to find His identity. His identity in His Father empowered Him to willingly take marks that were simply the fruit and evidence of who He was.

March 16, 2023 – Prophecy by Ted J. Hanson

I am stripping away your false identities, the identities inherited by the natural generations of men, and I am birthing the inheritance of new life in Christ. This is not a time to hide in your ways nor is it a time to hide your ways from Me. Let go of that which does not define you. For that which is being birthed has a greater testimony than that which you have inherited from the past. You have believed that the things of your natural inheritance defined you and you are even rebelling against them for there is a cry for greater destiny in your lives. That destiny is the life that you bring to the world. It is not the life that you get from the world. Generations are being birthed in this hour! Generations are being birthed that will be established by Me and established in Me for that which I have declared will be. Let go of your false identities and embrace your true identity in Me. For the glory of My latter temple far exceeds the former glory of every earthly temple made by the hands of men. My glory is found in My body and My body brings life to the earth. My body contains My Spirit and My Spirit births the generations of destiny who will walk in faith, confidence, and trust in Me. The strength of your life is not your natural coverings. It is not found in what you proposed your natural purpose to be. The strength of your life is found in the One who resides within you. For the true city of life, the true community of life, is born of a heavenly Jerusalem. It is born from the place of My love. It is born from the place of My testimony. It is born from the place of My purpose in all things. It is birthed by the power of My grace because of My provision of peace. See Me and see that we are one! You are My family! There is no gap! What is in heaven is in you and what is in you is found in heaven. You abide in Me, and I abide in you! So, let My temple rise! Arise and shine with shouts of GLORY! For you are called to be the people of God.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today I have arrived in Bulgaria after a great weekend in Ede, Netherlands. Thank you to House Of Praise Ede for receiving me and for being hungry for God’s presence and word. God is moving in the nations!

God doesn’t just make Himself known to us to bless us. He makes Himself known to us so we will be a blessing to our world. Knowing Him empowers us to know who we are. God is a giver of life and whenever He speaks, life happens! False things get removed because true things are revealed. God never reveals who He is merely for information. He reveals who He is to transform our lives and to transform our world.

Acts 2:1 Now when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Jesus was the word made flesh and He completed His course of life as a man to receive His inheritance as the ‘Son of Man’, not as the ‘Son of God’. The inheritance of the kingdom of God had been given to Him as the ‘Son of Man’, not the ‘Son of God’. He was the resurrected Last Adam. Jesus had risen from the dead and ascended to the presence of His Father in heaven in a flesh and bone body. That body was the flesh and bone body of the ‘Son of Man’. The cry of the souls and flesh of men could now be answered with the regained access to their Father in heaven. He was the door to the presence of God for all of mankind. He was the firstborn among many who would open the door of the kingdom of God unto men.

Acts 2:12 So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?” 13 Others mocking said, “They are full of new wine.”

Gladness, joy, and strength had come to the nations. The guarantee of the inheritance had been poured out, and continues to be poured out, upon all flesh. God has poured His Spirit upon all flesh so that we can all now stand as ‘doorkeepers’ in the courts of our God welcoming all to come and tabernacle with Him as their Father. Jesus is the ‘Desire of the nations’. He is the answer to the cry of the souls and the flesh of all men.

Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 “For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 16 “But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. 18 and on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and notable day of the Lord. 21 And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ 

The salvation of mankind is that all would become a dwelling place of the Most High. Only God can fulfill the cry of the hearts of men. God has put it within the hearts of all of humanity to seek out the place of their dwelling in Him and His dwelling in them. His presence brings life to our world. He brings order, fullness, and light. God has released the power of His prophetic presence upon the flesh of men in order to call all men to come and tabernacle with Him. The days of natural limitations are being replaced by the eternal day of life in Christ. Old ways are ending so that eternal realities can be experienced in Christ.

Psalms 84:1 How lovely is Your tabernacle, O LORD of hosts! 2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. 3 Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young–Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts, My King and my God. 4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; They will still be praising You. Selah

Let us fulfill our destiny in Him as ‘doorkeepers’ in His awesome house of life! The key to the cry for life is found in a dwelling place with Him. He is our abiding place. How wonderful is His presence! How wonderful is the Body of Christ. Let us be fruitful and multiply for His glory! He is our God! He is our Father! He is the nesting place of LIFE and we are the nesting place of His presence!

Blessings,

Ted J.  Hanson

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Greetings,

I hope everyone is well. We had another great week and weekend here in Bellingham. I was blessed to speak at Alife yesterday. God’s presence in worship, the hunger of the people, and the feeling of family were all hallmarks in yesterday’s community connection. I am preparing now to go to the Netherlands and Bulgaria for an appointment with what God is going to do there.

God’s plan has always been that He would manifest His presence among men. He desires to tabernacle with all men. Let’s look at a Scripture in the book of Numbers that will help explain God’s heart in wanting to see His presence made known among all men.

Numbers 11:16 So the LORD said to Moses: “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you. 17 Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.”

Here we see that Moses was to appoint seventy men among the people to stand before them. These men were elders of the people and officers over them. They were ‘doorkeepers’ among the people. I believe the number 70 is significant of all of the tribes and tongues upon the earth. In Genesis chapter ten we find an account of the descendants of the sons of Noah. If you do a study of this chapter, you will find that the descendants of the sons of Noah were represented in seventy different peoples. The sons of Japheth were fourteen, the sons of Ham were thirty, and the sons of Shem were twenty-six, for a total of seventy. I believe these seventy elders represented God’s intention for all of the tongues, peoples, tribes, and nations of the earth.

There is significance in the prophetic content of this number 70. Throughout Scripture this number 70 carries with it the passion of God the Father’s heart for the scattered sons of Noah. It represents the Father’s heart for all people. We find that all through the record of God’s relationship with His covenant people, the number 70 comes up again and again. When we see this number 70, it is God’s heart for the sons of Noah. It is God’s heart for the tribes, tongues, peoples, and nations of the earth. By gathering the seventy around the tabernacle, God was declaring the need for all men to tabernacle in His presence. God was about to demonstrate the means by which He would make Himself known to all of mankind.

Numbers 11:25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again. 26 But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp.

What did these men prophesy? Perhaps they prophesied that one day God would pour His Spirit upon all flesh and that He would make a way whereby He could tabernacle with all men. They may have said that the cry of all flesh would be fulfilled when men would come to know God intimately and He Himself would make His home among men. They may have prophesied of God’s desire to meet with all men upon His Mountain, Zion. We don’t know what these men prophesied, but we do know that two of these men were in the camp when they prophesied.

These were Eldad and Medad. The name “Eldad” means, “God has loved”; and “Medad” means, “The affection of God”. These men were not following the rule and order of an Old Covenant. They were prophesying in the camp and proving that God’s love and affection would one day be made known to all men. Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, became very concerned that they were prophesying in the camp. He wanted Moses to put a stop to their actions.

Numbers 11:27 And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 28 So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!”

The response that Moses made has of a great prophetic significance. He spoke of God’s heart concerning His desire to make Himself known among all men.

Numbers 11:29 Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put His Spirit upon them!” 30 And Moses returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel.

Moses was prophesying of the day when God would pour His Spirit out upon all flesh. This act would be the guarantee of the inheritance of God to all men. He would give men the power to tabernacle with Him. In the New Testament account of the fulfillment of Pentecost, we find this prophetic statement of Moses made complete.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

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Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

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3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today I am in Bellingham. I am looking forward to some days at home after being on the road for several weekends. I was blessed this past weekend to have my granddaughter spend the night and several people in my house for our ‘church at home’ Sunday with Alife. It is still winter here and it is much colder than it was in Africa. My body is adjusting to wherever I am.

For the past weeks I have been addressing the content of Psalms Chapter 84. This Psalm describes the psalmist’s desire to be a place where God lives and to be someone who invites others to know the life and freedom that comes from being a place of God’s habitation. The psalmist was proclaiming the truth that God intends to make known to all mankind. God has always desired to dwell in and among His children.

The basic problem of the Old Covenant was that man could not relate to God on a personal basis. The power of God’s prophetic nature was not fully attainable by God’s people because they were limited in their ability to hear God for themselves. They were bound to the limitations of their flesh. The true longing of their souls and the true cry of their flesh could not be satisfied within the limitations of an Old Covenant relationship. They lacked the power of God within them that would allow them to do all that the prophet spoke. They could attain to a measure of prosperity, but they could never be established. This is true for us today if we choose to pursue a path of a knowledge from God but fail to prioritize on a being intimate with God. Jesus made a way for us to be a living temple wherein abides the Spirit of God. This is a greater temple than any created structure of form of worship created and facilitated by man. God is the builder of our lives by changing our hearts and minds by His manifest presence within our hearts.

God wants to establish us as His sons and daughters in the earth and into all of eternity. He doesn’t just want to bless us in this life. He wants us to have and to know eternal life. That eternal life is to know God the Father and Jesus the Son in an intimate and personal way by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (Jn. 17:3). We can find a testimony of this in the story of Jehoshaphat when he chose to adhere to God’s presence in the face of his enemies.

2 Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”

It has never been God’s intent to merely prosper His people. He has always desired to ‘establish’ them. We find this to be true throughout Scripture. A good example is found in Isaiah 61:1-3:

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.”

The goal of these three verses of Scripture is not just that we might prosper. God has much more in mind for us. God’s goal is not just to give us riches for our poverty, healing for our brokenness, or freedom from our captivity. His goal is that we might be ‘established’. There is only one reason that God brings freedom and prosperity into our lives. That is so that we might become the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. God intends that there be a people with a personal relationship with Him. He desires to have a people who will ‘believe Him’ that they might be ‘established’.

We must believe God in order to be ‘established’. To believe God means that we must first have a living relationship whereby we can hear Him and relate to Him. We must live in His presence. We have been called to be the place of His dwelling. It is in that place that we can be ‘established’. This was not possible in the Old Covenant, but for just a few. In the New Covenant, Jesus has made a way for this to be the real world for us all.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Today I am in Deming, New Mexico with CitiLife church. We had a great weekend, and I am expecting our gathering tonight to be filled with God’s presence, purpose, and will. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and we have the mind of Christ within us. We were inspired by the Holy Spirit yesterday and I know that Jesus will be seen again today in our lives and in our gathering together.

Last week I addressed some thoughts concerning being a doorkeeper at the entrance of God’s house. People in the world are bound to a history and inheritance of aimless wandering but God has invited everyone into a life of knowing Him and an inheritance of eternal life and peace. God wants everyone to know Him in an intimate and powerful way. To be a doorkeeper in the house of God is to stand at a place where you invite others to come and experience the goodness of dwelling in the presence of God as you do.

Psalms 84:10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

There is another important aspect to remember when considering the fact that this Scripture is relating the believer to a doorkeeper. You can only be a doorkeeper if you have been fully accepted into the house. Having been in, you want to call others in as well. Being a “doorkeeper” implies the responsibility of ‘keeping’ the door. It is a place of ‘responsibility’. You have ceased your endless journey of aimless conduct and you want to invite others to do the same. You have been ‘entrusted’ to bear the responsibility of inviting others into God’s place of dwelling. It is only those who have tasted the abundance of God’s life that God would trust to be keepers of the entrance to that life. A doorkeeper is someone who lives his or her life for the purpose of others. Having tasted the good life of God, they now live to invite others to that life. I believe that the truth of the context of this verse in Psalms can be found where Paul, an apostle, was faced with the dilemma of not knowing whether to go to be with the Lord, or to stay and be a doorkeeper for the sake of the saints.

Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. 24 Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.

The context of the goodness of this verse in Psalms is verified in the following verses of Psalms 84. Having no good thing withheld is hardly a testimony of poverty or of ‘almost’ making it into the presence of the Lord’s dwelling. Those who trust in Him find the fullness of God’s blessing!

Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

When the psalmist says that the Lord God is a sun and shield, he is implying that God is life (sun) and protection (shield) to all who walk in a relationship with Him. This is hardly a testimony of slavery, servant hood, labor, or anything that is short of entering into the full blessing of God in His presence. The word for “blessed” in verse 12 is the Hebrew word “esher”. It means “happiness; only in masc. plur. constr. as interjec., how happy!” This is hardly the scenario of one looking at the presence of God from merely the doorway. It is rather the picture of one who is boldly inviting others to come and partake of the abundant life that they have come to know in His place of dwelling.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Donations can be made at the link on the home site of:

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

To avoid us paying a transaction fee from your donation, you can also set up a payment or an automatic payment from your bank to House of Bread Ministry. Just set it up as a ‘bill pay’ through your online bank account and your bank will mail a check to House of Bread Ministry. We will record your payment as a donation to House of Bread Ministry (E.I.N. 91-2009037) and we will send you a contribution receipt at the close of the year.

Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728