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Greetings,

I hope you are all well. I have been home but this week I will be leaving for the Netherlands, the U.K. and Spain. I am expecting God encounters and divine connections in my path. Because I have peace with God, I am expecting more! I believe that surprises of God’s life are set before me in my path. I believe the same is for you and you should expect to see the goodness of God in the land of this life.

I have been addressing the matter of our kingdoms being expressions of our Lord and Christ. Our internal connection to God in Christ is the secret to being able to reign in life. Christ in us is the hope of glory in every situation of our lives. It is the hope of us as individuals, our marriages, our families, and our various roles in life. It is not just one day that we will reign in life. It is today, tomorrow, and growing in maturity and the testimony of life into eternity. Today is the day to hear the voice of God. We must live our lives from the inside out. People in the world live from the outside in. They rely upon the things that inform their souls for their thoughts, reasonings, emotions, imaginations, and desires in life. As believers in Christ, our thoughts, reasonings, emotions, imaginations, and desires are to be empowered by our own spirits made alive by the Spirit of God in our hearts.

What is the testimony of those who live their lives from the inside out? The kingdom of God within us is a kingdom of God’s Spirit and God’s Spirit will inspire our spirts to make the fruit of the Spirit known in and through our lives.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

When we allow the kingdom of God within us to be the inspiration of personal lives, the fruit of God’s Spirit transforms our spirits to manifest the life-giving fruit of God in our lives. This affects us as individuals, our marriages, our families, and every sphere of influence that we walk in. Our lives will increasingly manifest in love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. When these things are lacking in our lives it’s because we are in some way being distracted by the external influences of our lives. We must look to Christ within us to spring up and heal our wounds, our scars, and any area of internal damage in our heats. Our focus must be a focus of God within us. For this reason, we should make it our aim to stir up the Spirit of God within us by stirring our own spirits to know Him and experience Him even amid our daily tasks of life. This involves both our attitude and our actions.

1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.

Our attitude must be one of rejoicing in God and, therefore, we take actions throughout our day to do acts of rejoicing. Prayer should be a constant attitude of our hearts and we should make actions of praying, speaking and listening to God, by the leading of His Spirit throughout every day. Our attitude and actions should be steeped in being thankful and giving thanks to God throughout each day. We must choose to allow the Spirit of God to flow through us, knowing that a self-seeking, self-focused attitude will hinder the flow of God’s Spirit in our lives. We must prophesy! We must make declarations of what God is saying as an influencing force of life to our God-giving spheres of influence in life. Our attitudes and actions are those that constantly choose good, and we are not easily distracted by outside forces that seek to discourage our souls.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am back in Bellingham. Spring is in the air, and I expect to see new life manifest in the world I live in. I am expecting in in the natural and I am expecting it in the Spirit. There are many new things about to happen in my world and I am expectant in my heart and mind.

Has your kingdom become a kingdom of your Lord and Christ? Each of us have been given a life to bring glory to our Father in heaven. That glory is made possible through the gift of God’s only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ. Jesus reconciled us to our heavenly Father so that we can live our lives in Spirit and Truth and fulfill our destiny in Christ. We are part of His calling, His inheritance, and His purpose in this world. We are children of God and together we are the family of God. We were looking for love in the wrong places because we were confused in our identity, testimony, and purpose. We were living for ourselves, but God had a bigger picture in His vision for our lives. He knew that each of our kingdoms were meant to be kingdoms of our Lord and Christ. We were born to live from the inside out and change the world around us by the life of God within.

Revelation 1:4 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

It is through the resurrection of Jesus Christ that we have resurrection life in this world and in that which is to come. We were dead, but in Christ we have been made eternally alive! We are kings of the earth, but it is through Christ that we can reign in our worlds for the glory of Jesus name. We were bound to our sin, but Jesus loved us and washed us to make us holy and acceptable as living sacrifices to our God. We are kings and priests to God His Father and ours. It is now and forever! It is true and it is increasingly true. Have you seen Him? I have seen Him? I live to see Him again today! When I see Him, I become like Him. The more I see Him, the more I become like Him in my character, nature, way, power, and authority. The truth of who are is only found in Christ.

As priests we stand as intercessors before our God, and we fill the gap of heaven and earth. With one foot upon the earth and the other in heaven, we draw all that is in heaven into our earthly place of standing. We live as temples of God’s Holy Spirit for His holy purpose and will. We are a place of His holy habitation in the nations of men. As kings we reign in life by the power of God’s grace. The manifest presence of the sevenfold perfecting Spirit of God empowers us to overcome all things. We overcome the temptation to be governed by the influence of external forces. The kingdom of God is within us. Observations of worldly events don’t determine our path.

Luke 17:20 Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Our path in life is determined by the kingdom of God in our hearts. We have righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:17  for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Our righteousness is an internal connection to the One who is good through the One who is good. God gives us life from the inside out. Our peace is an internal eternal connection to the One who breaths the expressions of heavenly life through the very being of who we are. God gives us breath. He is the Word, but we are His voice. Our joy is an internal reality of a partnership with God in all things. He gives all things, and all things of our lives are expressions of His eternal purpose to our world for His glory. We live our lives from the inside out! In Him we live, in Him we move, and in Him we have our being. We don’t need to be easily shaken. We are kings and priests unto our God!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am in Wichita, Kansas. I have had a great weekend with my good friends Derick and Talita Stoltz. My time with them, Christlife Ministries, and some new connections here in Wichita has been blessed. God loves people and it is the grassroots connection of people to God that can change the world.

Jesus has made a way for us to know life! He has made a way for us all to know life – eternal life! Eternal life is not just to live forever after we physically die. It is true life today, tomorrow, and forever. It is knowing God as our Father and knowing Jesus the Son by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. This is the power of life to every situation in our lives. Our kingdoms can become kingdoms of our Lord and Christ. Our personal lives, our families, and any role we have in this world can be an expression of the life and love of God. We can daily be, and increasingly become, expressions of the life of God in and to our worlds. Jesus is the eternal Adam of a new creation in Christ. This is the testimony granted to all who boldly come to His throne of grace to receive His mercy and find His grace whereby we can be empowered to reign in life.

Romans 5:16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. 17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The blood of Jesus upon our cross grants us the mercy of God that justifies us all to live. Having been justified to live, we can become empowered to live by the grace of God in our world. All people are justified to live, but only those who come to Him become empowered to reign in life. This is the testimony of living in triumph over every enemy in our lives. The enemies of God are enemies to life, but life is more powerful than death in every way. True life can only come from the Father of life. True light can only shine from the Father of lights. In Christ we find every enemy of death subdued beneath our feet because we are the light of God in Christ. To know the life of God is to become a testimony of the life of God to our world. It is Christ reigning in us that demonstrated the testimony of Jesus as Lord and Christ – the One who sits upon the throne of grace in heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.

Matthew 22:44 ‘The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool”’?

Jesus has opened the seals of the New Covenant for all who will come to Him. The opening of the seals of the New Covenant removes the administration of the Old Covenant in our lives. Our lives become kingdoms of our Lord and Christ when we receive a NOW relationship with God in Christ. Receiving the power of God’s grace in our lives supersedes the need for the administration of conscience and law in our lives. Grace is the empowerment of God’s presence and love from within. It is stronger than an internal witness that merely saws that He is and it is stronger than any external law that testifies of who He is. Grace is the empowerment of Christ in us and this is the hope of glory in our lives.

Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”

Revelation 12:10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

We overcome the enemies of God by finding our identify in God by the mercy of the blood of the Lamb. We find our testimony by being submerged in His Spirit in every circumstance of our lives. We partner with Him in the power of His love and our kingdoms become testimonies of His purpose of glory.

We must embrace the life of Christ within us to find the life to overcome every enemy of our souls. People in the world live their lives by the influences of external information and forces that affect their thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires. It is an outside/in testimony that creates a kingdom of the world. As believers, we must live our lives by the internal influence of Christ in our hearts. When our spirits become alive in Christ, our spirits give us right thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires from within. It is an inside/out influence that causes our kingdoms to become growing testimonies of being kingdoms of our Lord and Christ. It is a place of knowing His government and peace that ever grows and has no end. It is by this that we reign in life.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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www.ted4you.com or

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

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I hope you had a great weekend celebrating the love of God from the testimony of Jesus upon the cross to His resurrection from the tomb! In a world of many troubles, we have great hope. Jesus lives! He is seated on the throne of authority and that authority is life! He gives us the power to reign in life by the blessing of His life within our hearts! Our minds are being renewed by the mind of Christ within us.

Romans 5:17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

Our salvation is not merely a salvation to come. It is a constantly coming salvation. It is the salvation of our souls. Our thoughts, reasoning, imagination, emotions, and desires are impassioned by the life of God through His Holy Spirit to our inner beings – our spirit within. Our spirits are made alive by the Holy Spirit and then our spirits flood our souls that our kingdoms might be increasingly revealed as kingdoms of our Lord and Christ. The kingdom of God has been made alive in our hearts though the gift of God’s Son. We are sons and daughters of God, and our identity, testimony, and purpose has been restored through our reconciliation to God as our Father. We can know the grace of heaven today that overcomes every realm of death in this life and in all that is to come.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Jesus made a way for us to die that we might live! His death upon our cross was the death for us all that we might receive His judgment of mercy! God’s mercy triumphs over every other judgment. We can boldly come to God through Jesus Christ by the gift of His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God’s gift to us of the name of Jesus working in and through our lives in all things. That name is above all other names! We eagerly wait for Jesus in every aspect of our lives. We intertwine our hearts and minds to know Him and the continual coming of His presence in our lives that gives us salvation, even beyond the grave!

Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Today is the first day of a new season of our lives. Let us make it our goal to live in truth. Our identity, testimony, and purpose are only found in Christ. Jesus made it possible for us to be new creations beyond the old creations that lived by an administration of condemnation and death.  The administration of our hearts and minds is an administration of grace. It is the intimate presence and transforming power of Christ in us that is the hope of glory for us all.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

I hope you had a great week and weekend. Bonnie and I have been in Redding, California with our son Aaron, his wife Amani, and our grandson Kaden and granddaughter Zaria. It was a great week and yesterday was like the icing on the cake. Our grandson Kaden was water baptized last night at Bethel, the church they attend. Many people were water baptized and the presence of God was wonderful. It was such a blessing to watch our grandson make his public confession. Jesus, you are faithful, and you are good!

This weekend marked the celebration of Palm Sunday. It was on Palm Sunday that Jesus rode into the city of Jerusalem upon the back of a young male donkey that had not been put to manual use before. Jesus was the substitute lamb for the firstborn lineage of every donkey. The donkey symbolized the Gentile nations of the world as an unclean animal intended only for the service of servant labor. Jesus invited the nations into the full harvest of life for all of humanity when He willingly chose to ride into Jerusalem upon the back of that colt. He was the Lamb for Israel, and He was the substitute Lamb for the nations of the world.

Exodus 13:11 “And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you, 12 that you shall set apart to the LORD all that open the womb, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have; the males shall be the LORD’s. 13 But every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And all the firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. 14 So it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall say to him, by strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Jesus was the firstfruit offering that guaranteed the future of all the nations of the world. He was both our peace and our victory unto life and a destiny of being the life-giving family of God among the nations of the world. When Jesus rode into Jerusalem He came to redeem all of mankind for their identity, testimony, and purpose of life in the world.

Matthew 21:1 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.” 4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: 5 “Tell the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your King is coming to you, lowly, and sitting on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.'” 6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. 8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Hosanna in the highest!” 10 And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?” 11 So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”  

The crowd’s response to Jesus was that of honor and praise. They had expectations of a coming King, but their expectations were according to their own preconceived ideas of how that was to be. They cast their palm branches before Him and gave Him homage as the one who gives true prosperity by way of peace and victory that can only come through Him. Their expectations were stronger than their expectancy, because by the end of the week, they were willing to change their hope from the silent King for a man of violence and shame.

Mark 15:6 Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them, whomever they requested. 7 And there was one named Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels; they had committed murder in the rebellion. 8 Then the multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them. 9 But Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” 10 For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

A week earlier they paid homage and honor to Jesus as the king of revolution in their shouts of praise as He rode into Jerusalem upon the back of a donkey. The crowds saw Him as the hope and the promise of freedom, but upon His arrest a week later He stood as a Lamb to the slaughter and the crowd could no longer see how He could possibly free them from their oppression. The people had preconceived ideas as to what God would and must do. Barabbas was a criminal, but he was also a zealot. He was a man who challenged the oppressive government of Rome and the crowd saw him as a more promising hope than Jesus. Although Barabbas was a criminal and a man of carnal character, they considered him a better option than the silent man of peace. The name Barabbas has its roots in the Aramaic and Hebrew. His name means “son of a father or master”, perhaps an indication that most often men see freedom can only come from power. A father who seeks to be a master can seem more promising than a Father who calls for sons to manifest as overcomers by an internal power of grace that brings about true change. The self-will of mankind chose a son of the flesh over the Son of God but it is only through the gift of the Son of God that we can truly become sons of men as God has called us to be.

Jesus was the price to deliver us all from the house of bondage. He is the one who has freed all men from the bondage of sin, as Egypt symbolizes the way of the world – a way of darkness. Jesus was the lamb slain for the sins of the world. It is by the blood of Jesus that we have been made one as the family of God in this world and into all of eternity.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

We are living in a season of becoming the people of God. To be the people of God is to be the family of God. The source of our family is not some belief system. It is a joining to God and to one another by the life of His Spirit. Yesterday, Pastors Jonathan and Danie gave a great challenge at Alife to being the family of God. The present move of God’s Spirit is all about being His family in the earth. Before Jonathan gave His word, I felt stirred to release the following prophecy:

It’s not merely the shackles and chains that I desire to break, it’s your heart that I desire to liberate. For I have called you to be sons and daughters. It is not merely My presence for blessing. It’s My presence for identity. It’s my presence for your testimony. It’s My presence for your fulfillment of purpose of life. For this is a season of us, says God. A season of you and Me and Me and you. A season of us being who we are meant to be. For this is not just a time to be free from an enemy. This is a time to be attached – to be connected. To be connected to Me and to be connected to one another. For it’s not just the shackles and the chains that I desire to break, it’s your life I desire to liberate.

It is drawing near to God that causes every enemy to flee in our lives. God’s manifest presence in our lives is the manifest presence of eternal life. It is the manifest presence of resurrection life. His presence in our lives is not so we will be freed from our past. It is so we will find our attachment to Him to become who He has always desired us to be. As sons and daughters of God we are the family of God. We have been brought near to God through the love sacrifice of His only begotten Son, Jesus who has been declared to be both Lord and Christ. He is the source of the desire of our hearts and the testimony of our lives. At the beginning of this year God told me this would be a year of peace. That peace is being one with God and one another in all things.

James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Our objective is not to resist the devil. Our purpose in life is to be near to God. It is living near to God that delivers us from every power of the devil. This is our submission to God and to one another. It is being near to God that cleanses our hands and frees us from all sin. The objective is not merely to have clean hands and to be free from sin. It is to be near to God. Life is life! Light is light! Good is good!

Ephesians 2:11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— 12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation…

Peace with God is all about being One with Him. It is about living with Him and Him living with us. When we live with Him, we come alive by the life that He is. Christ in each of us is the hope of glory. It is our great hope of life in all things. When we live with Him and then live with one another we experience an expediential reality of His love, life, and liberty as the family of God in all things. This is a season of growing in our understanding and the reality of being the authentic family of God in this world. It is a place of being perfect because it is the place of us continually being perfected by His presence in us and in one another for the sake of being a family of true life. It is the authenticity of being loved by God, loving God, and loving one another as the family of God in all things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I hope you are well. I am enjoying being home again after a great trip to Bulgaria. There is a lot going on. I just did a new release my book The Now Covenant in print and e-book on Amazon. It is also in audiobook form in many locations. I have also released a new book, Grafted Into Love – Parenting, Family, and the Destiny of Life. It is available on Amazon in printed and e-book formats. It is also available in audiobook form at several locations. I recommend both of these to anyone and everyone. I am presently working on a new release of my book, Authority – Control? Or Release! It will be in audiobook as well.

God is working in our lives so we can know the goodness of who He is. He wants us to know the possibilities that come into our lives because of who He is. He cares for us and He is working in our lives to reveal the glory of who He is in the glory of who we are in the story of our lives.

God desires a relationship with us and we with Him. His righteousness is to reconcile those who were disconnected from Him. This is His heart’s desire, and for this reason His breastplate conveys His true desire for righteousness. That righteousness is a relationship with Him, not some righteousness of simply doing right things or knowing right knowledge. His righteousness is defined by His desire to love us and our willingness to receive His love. When we receive His love, we become empowered to love Him. It is then that we are also empowered to love ourselves and to love others.

God also desires to be our salvation in every situation of our lives. For this, Jesus desires to be the head of our lives. He desires to rest His headship on the testimony of our lives. For this reason, He wears a helmet of salvation on His head. His thoughts are always concerning our salvation.

God is also empowered to take vengeance on anything that seeks to destroy our lives. His passion for us empowers Him to demonstrate His authority and victory over our enemies. Jesus is the full testimony of His passion for us and His zeal to cause us to receive His true liberty of life. His passion is fueled by His love for us as children of God. I believe His justice is a justice of love and this is what He wears in the very substance of His being. God is good and He loves us as a Father loves his children.

Isaiah 59:17 For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

In days of trouble, we tend to look for God’s rescue from the midst of our trouble. Perhaps we should simply be looking to His love. His heartbeat is for a relationship with us. His thoughts are for our salvation, and He is clothed in a zealous passion to destroy all our enemies. Better than what He does, is who He is in our lives.

This is not a time to be distracted by the news of the day. It is time to be attached to the presence of God in all things, and at all times. God has made a way for our hearts to turn from our ways to His ways. His Spirit is upon us, and His word is in our mouths.

Isaiah 59:20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” says the LORD. 21 “As for Me,” says the LORD, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the LORD, “from this time and forevermore.”

Christ in us is the hope of glory in every phase of our lives. God’s love for us is not just some external influence of His presence. It is an internal and external reality in our lives. This is the covenant of eternal life in Christ. It is for us and for our children and our children’s children. When we seek Him, He willingly comes and abides in us and with us in life. This should be our focus in such a day as this.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

It has been a great week in Bulgaria. God’s presence, God’s life, and God’s purpose have saturated the atmosphere of the week. Once again, thank you so much to the hungry hearts here who desire God above all. Your love for Him and for me is a testimony of life to the nation! The future is life, and more life, in Christ!

This is a time to know the peace of God in the midst of the storms of the world. It is a time to know the justice of God above the judgments of men. I believe that peace and justice are connected. The justice systems of the world are based upon judgments of good and evil and they very often promote evil in the disguise of good. When we seek a justice system of good and evil, we embrace a family tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The fruit of that tree is death and not the life that God intends for us to know and have.

Everyone wants justice of some sort. True justice is only found in God. It is rooted in mercy, but it is not void of life-transforming grace. It does not condemn mankind in their iniquities, nor does it condone the clothing of iniquities as the way of truth. The justice of God is found in the place of God’s peace. It is from the place of God’s peace in our lives that everything is made just. In the world, people seek justice that they might have peace. In Christ, we find peace and therefore we bear the fruit of justice towards others. Because we are loved, we become loving in our ways. Peace is both a place and a revelation. The worldly man or woman does not know this truth; therefore, they don’t wear the testimony of the righteousness of God in Christ.

Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we are as dead men in desolate places. 11 We all growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: 13 in transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Everyone believes they are seekers of light, but apart from Christ that light proves to be darkness. It is not that people intentionally seek to bring death to their world. They are simply blind. They grope to know who to be, what to seek, and how to act, but their vision is self-focused. Like bears, they are concerned with their own appetites and their own way in life. They walk according to the flesh. You cannot walk according to the flesh and find peace. Like the moaning of doves, they seek the comfort of their own desires and needs. The sound of their hearts is a sound of self-focused love. It is by these things that they seek justice, but they don’t find it. The true justice for humanity is to be like their heavenly Father. They need to be givers of life to others. We cannot find these things apart from God. Apart from God we are oppressed, and we oppress others. When we revolt to God’s ways, we revolt to the true source of our ways. A disconnection from God only leads to falsehood and empowers one to believe lies and to even believe in lies. The way of life-giving cannot enter that path because it is a path that is not true to the destiny of sons and daughters of God. This is not the path of truth for humanity. Our destiny is to be like our heavenly Father. Our path is a path of giving life to others.

Jesus became the intercessor of our peace. He destroys the lies of falsehood by making a way for us to come to Him and live in and for Him in all things. By this His Kingdom comes and His will is done on earth as it is in heaven. The foundation is mercy, and the walls are restored by grace to become truth. This is the way of peace in Christ.

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 after many hours of travel. Tonight, we are Sofia, then to Blagoevgrad for a couple of days, and then to Plovdiv. It will be a full week, but I know that God is going to do some really good things. I am expectant of God in these days!

God looks for those who worship Him in spirit and in truth.  He doesn’t need us to worship Him, we need to worship Him. When we worship Him, our world changes! When we come to Him with expectations of His love, we open our lives to His effective willingness to give us all that is His. He doesn’t just give us everything. He gives us everything that we need for the day. This may not be what we think we need, but it is always what we need to manifest as sons and daughters of God. He brings life to our world, because He is the One who gives life, breath, and all things. God is a giver and not a taker. It is His character, nature, and way to give life. His power and authority are testimonies of life and not death. The greatest testimony of life is to become like our heavenly Father in our character, nature, and way. When we become like Him, we then discover the secret to true power and authority. God’s power subdues death with life and His authority crumbles every lie. God’s power is the substance of His grace in our lives and His authority is the substance of His truth. God is not just interested in delivering us from our troubles in life. He is interested is us becoming who we should be in the midst of the troubles of our lives. This is the testimony of God’s true peace. Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is our connection to God in all that He is so we can become as we should be in our world.

Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perversity.

God can always save us, and God can hear us, but we must be willing to receive His salvation and His response to our cry. These are not according to our expectations, but they are accessed by our expectancy. We must be willing for Him to be God. We cannot form Him in our likeness and image. We must be willing to allow Him to form us to become like Him.

God doesn’t separate from us; we choose to separate from Him. This is the condition of the nations of the world. They have chosen a way unto themselves and in choosing their own self-gratifying desires, they separate from God. God is a giver of life, and He cannot join Himself to those who choose to live for themselves. They are takers of life and not givers of life and God is a giver of life to those who join themselves to Him.

Isaiah 59:4 No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. 8 The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

A character, nature, and way of selfishness separates us from the peace that is ours in Christ. To find that peace, we must willingly and eagerly come to receive what God our Father gives. God’s justice and truth are not based upon what one can get. His justice and truth are based upon what we can give and become for the sake of bringing life to our world.

The flaw of iniquity is the internal flaw of our hearts that seeks to get life, even at the cost of the sacrifice of the lives of others. When we live as self-preserving people in our hearts, we fall for the deception of lies. We seek promises over being promise keepers. Our words to others become poisonous words of death. We weave traps for others that lead to deception because we ourselves are vulnerable to deceptions. When we are selfish, we seek to cover our failures in the clothing of works that give us some form of perverted identity from our souls to our hearts. Because of this our actions are violent to others. Our feet run to evil, and we become willing, and even eager, to take the lives of others. These things are the fruit of not knowing the peace of God. Being disconnected from God creates crooked paths for our feet. This is not the way of peace. God’s way of peace is to be life and to give life to others in our world. That way of peace comes when we are joined to the One who makes peace.

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 there is a bit of Spring in the air. We had a very sunny weekend with a wonderful time together as the Alife family in Bellingham. I hope you had a great time in connection with God and His family in some way. God is doing good things and empowering His sons and daughters to know a greater connection with Him and with one another. We are in a season of greater peace in Christ. That peace is a connection of communion with Him and with one another as the body of Christ.

On Friday night I saw a picture of what appeared to be funnels coming out from within the hearts of people. They appeared as funnels, but rather than being a wide opening to a small channel for pouring some substance in, they appeared as operating in the opposite direction. They were operating as trumpets, but instead of merely blowing wind or sound, they were dispersing water. There was water springing up from the channel to the wide opening and affecting the area coming out from the wide rim in a broadcasting way. What I saw was the water of God’s life within individuals springing out like a trumpet to change the atmosphere, the ambiance, and the reality of the world they are in. It wasn’t just a corporate sound to them; each person was contributing to a corporate effect of life.

Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers in desolate heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

We are in a time of a grassroots revolution. The momentum of God’s Spirit in the nations is rooted in the hearts of each one. Each one makes a greater testimony of the whole. Each one becomes a genuine one for a greater sound of the authenticity of life. It is from within that the waters of life spring forth. This is true in the desolate heights. It is true in the valleys. It is true in the wilderness. It is true in the dry land. The revolution of life for the desolate heights, the valleys, the wilderness, and the dry land is the water of Christ’s life from within. That water springs forth to transform every place to become a place of planted and growing life.

Isaiah 41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree, the myrtle and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine and the box tree together, 20 that they may see and know, and consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

The seven classes of trees proclaimed by the prophet Isaiah are all evergreen. They transform the stories of yesterday to become stories of life today and into the generations to come. I believe these trees are a testimony of every measure of the authority of mankind. Every measure of the authority of mankind can choose to be life to their world or they can choose to be swallowed up by their world. Whether they are kings, great men, rich men, commanders, mighty men, servants, or free men; they all can each choose to be life or to be swallowed up by the worldly circumstances of desolate strongholds, valleys, wildernesses, or dry lands. Jesus said that those who come and drink of Him will bring life-giving water to their world.

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.”

God has determined life for the nations and the key to the nations is the people of the nations. The key to bringing life to the nations is Christ in each one releasing the life-giving testimony of Christ to transform every desolate height, valley, wilderness, and dry place to a testimony of life. In this, the people become truth. That truth is the life of Christ and that truth will sweep away every lie of death. It is Christ in each one as a foundation of life, a testimony of life, and a life-giving purpose in all things.

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; whoever believes will not act hastily. 17 Also I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet; the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. 18 Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

We only lose our covenant with death when the life of Christ from within springs forth. We don’t lose our true life. We find our true life in Christ! The victory over every enemy is discovered when each one becomes a testimony of the life of Christ from within. This is the truth of being sons and daughters of God, a grassroots community of life.

Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. 20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” says the LORD. 21 “As for Me,” says the LORD, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the LORD, “from this time and forevermore.”

When I look at the context of Isaiah chapter 59, I believe it is more appropriate to move the coma in verse 19 from after the word ‘flood’ to after the words, ‘comes in’. I believe it should read:

Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in, like a flood the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him.

The flood of the life of Christ from within us is our victory over every enemy. The power of Christ within us is greater than any weapon that the enemy can form against us. The flood of the life of Christ from within each of us is the weapon of God’s life to transform every desolate height, valley, wilderness, and dry place that seek to swallow up the testimony of Christ. Life is more powerful than death!

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