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Greetings,

Today I am in Prestatyn, Wales. I have spent several days with friends that I have known for close to thirty years. It was good to connect and to experience God’s presence with us for the days that are yet ahead. Today I will be heading to Portugal for many divine appointments, trainings, and experiences with God and my Portuguese church family.

People in the world often get their identity and purpose from what they do in life. This is not the way of children of God. Sons and daughters of God get their identity and purpose from knowing God as their Father. It is not merely knowing God. It is knowing Him as their Father. Knowing Him empowers our hearts and minds to know who we are. As a Creator, He doesn’t shape us like some work of art in stone, wood, or some earthly material. As our Father, He is very creative in how He has designed each of us to be fully alive in our world and givers of life to our world. The life that God gives, and the life that we partake in, is eternal. This is the fruit of an intimate relationship with God our Father and Jesus His Son. It is not merely knowing about them or even knowing that they are. It is about growing in knowing them. This is eternal life (Jn. 17:3)! It is all about a relationship with the One who loves us. By this we are growing in being sons and daughters of God who know God’s love and manifest His love to our world. It is in our identity, our daily testimony, and our purpose in life.

Jesus taught us that prayer in a matter of relationship with God. It is not about praying to know what to do. It is about living in a relationship with God in a way that empowers our hearts and minds to know who God is and who we are. It involves an invitation for His presence and an expectation of change because of His presence in our lives.

Matthew 6:9-13 In this manner, therefore, pray:

• Our Father in heaven,
• Hallowed be Your name.
• Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
• Give us this day our daily bread
• And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
• And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.
• For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Every day is about a personal relationship with God as our Father and we as a part of His family. Knowing Him enables us to be who we are meant to be. In knowing Him we grow in awe of who He is. He is hallowed. This is not a fear of death, but a willingness to give our lives freely and wholly to Him because of who He is. We are in awe of Him! He is holy; therefore, we are holy. An awe of Him is a recognition that He sanctifies us to be holy. Our confession is a daily invitation for His kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth, AS IT IS in heaven. This is in every area of our lives. The kingdom of God is within us, and it empowers our earthly kingdoms to be expressions of Him in His character, nature, way, power, and authority. When we know who God is, we have a proper perspective of our daily bread. Our daily bread is not just the physical food we eat. It is every aspect of provision in our lives that enables us to be givers of life to our world. We live on every word, every expression of God to us in our lives. A relationship with God gives us a dependency upon His love and goodness to be forgiven and to forgive. His attributes of mercy and grace increasingly become a part of the tenderness of our own hearts. Love becomes more valuable than merely rules of right and wrong. We grow in an expectancy of His protection and His deliverance in all things. We know our need for His powerful love in our journey in life. Our invitation to Him is about making everything about Him, not our problems. This is a true perspective of His kingdom, His power, and His glory and it comes through a daily walk with Him in our lives.

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,

Welcome to September! It always amazes me how fast the summer months pass in comparison to the rest of the year. I will be heading back to Europe this week for some time in the U.K. as well as some great ministry venues in Portugal. I am once again looking forward to all that God is going to do.

God’s love for us is the passion of His heart. His love for us is stronger than His hate for sin. Our sin was not merely wicked acts and unrighteous ways. It was our self-seeking, self-willed disconnection from God. We were looking for love in all the wrong places and thus we lost our ability to be life-givers to our world as God is a giver of life to all who come to Him. Jesus is our reconciliation. The New Covenant is a testimony of receiving God’s life, becoming an expression of His life to our world, and partnership with God in all things to give the life that He gives to our world. God’s presence in our lives is our salvation in all things. This is the new song in our lives for each and every day.

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.’” 3 Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4 And in that day you will say: “Praise the LORD, call upon His name; declare His deeds among the peoples, make mention that His name is exalted. 5 Sing to the LORD, for He has done excellent things; this is known in all the earth. 6 Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

God in our midst is more important than any instruction that He gives. God is not some boss in a business producing some product of ministry. He is our Father and Jesus has been revealed to us as His Son. His identity is revealed in terms of relationship, endearment, and intimacy. Our walk of faith is not one of merely seeking instructions from God regarding what to do or how to act. Our walk of faith is one of relationship with Him. Trusting God is the fruit of knowing His love. When we know His love, we are empowered to become like Him and we give life to our world. The wells of salvation are within our hearts. Drawing water from the wells of His presence within us is a matter of relationship. The fullness of joy is found in the presence of God and the presence of God is within us. We are a temple of Holy Spirit.

God wants us to call upon His name. We can depend upon who He is. We can know Him in His character, nature, way, power, and authority. It is not just the things that He gives or the works that He does that we depend upon. It is who we become because of Him in our lives. He causes us to change in life-giving ways. It is by this that we truly declare His deeds to others in our lives. We know that His name is higher than any other name. He is the exalted one in our lives that inspires us to sing a new song each new day. This is the fruit of His presence in our lives!

Psalm 16:11 You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

God is always speaking to us, and He wants us to hear His voice. He wants us to know Him in a personal and intimate way. He wants to be our friend. His thoughts are more than can be counted.

Psalm 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

God wants to communicate with us with thoughts of life. His thoughts outnumber the sand. They are precious thoughts that are one of a kind for each of us. The motivation of His heart is love for each of us. It is His desire to think of us in a personal and intimate way and His heart is moved to act according to His love on our behalf. This is our Father in heaven and us as His sons and daughters make Him known in our world with a new song of life each day.

Psalms 139:17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.

God is speaking, but we have to listen (Ps. 95:7-8). His thoughts are good like fruit; they give us life and empower us to be givers of life to our world. God’s voice is a sound and an internal empowerment of love, joy, peace, gentleness, self-control, goodness, faithfulness, patience, and kindness (Gal. 5:22, 23). The notes and words in the song of our lives is filled with the essence of these in all things.

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 Bellingham. We lost summer for a few days and it seems like fall, but the forcast says the sun is on the return. I hope you all had a good weekend and are ready for a new week of purpose in Christ.

Today I am posting two prophesies that were given by me and my son Jonathan on Sunday, August 18, 2024. I believe that these two words are most important for the New Song in our lives that brings about God’s purpose and will for His glory.

August 18, 2024 – by Ted J. Hanson:

The Spirit of God says, You can trust My eye. Because what I see is your destiny. And it’s not by My power that I bring you there, it’s by My powerful love. For am your Rock and I cannot be shaken. In the times of distraction My focus is clear. In times of resistance I am still near, and I’ve set My eye towards your destiny. And I’m placing in your hand the weapons of My life for My weapon is a bow,  not of the flesh, but it’s a bow of the Spirit. And the arrows that I place within that bow are sons and daughters. They are the testimony of the inheritance of My name. My plans for you are greater than you can expect for I am your Redeemer. I brought you back to the place of life. So, My eye is set on the target and My hand is upon you. Where I look is where I send and I’m sending you. I’m declaring this day that the weapons of the enemy have not prospered for the weapons of the enemy are merely weapons of the flesh. But My weapons are weapons of life, weapons that cause dead things to come alive again. Weapons that cause broken promises to be renewed in new ways. For I am the RE God. But when I do things new, I make them NOW. For I am not the GO BACK AGAIN God. I’m the MOVE FORWARD God for My eye has been fixed upon your destiny.

August 18, 2024 – by Jonathan Hanson:

I see people looking up to Jesus with their eyes, they’re looking directly at Him. They’re not blinking. Their eyes are open wide and as Jesus is looking for people’s eyes that are open, His flames in His eyes are setting the fames in your eyes on fire. And that’s what He is doing across the planet right now. He’s looking for anyone who has their eyes set on Him. Because He’s coming with fiery eyes to set ablaze something that’s inside of you. To set ablaze, to start a fire. To keep a fire that goes from ever and ever. It burns away the things that do not belong in your life. It makes it so you have to release the ashes, that are things that used to be in your life. But He’s turning those places of ashes to beauty. He’s turning those places of ashes to rivers of living water. He’s bringing life – He’s bringing fire and He’s bringing water. The springs of life are being stirred inside of you. The longings of your hearts are coming alive. The longings of the passions and dreams He’s put inside of you have caused you to open your eyes and to look. So, set your gaze on Him. Set your gaze on Him and as you set your gaze on Him, keep your eyes on Him. Don’t’ grow weary. Keep your eyes on Him and He’s going to set your eyes ablaze on fire with His eyes. That is what He’s doing in this season. He’s looking for the ones who were like the three hundred of Gideon’s time who did not take their eyes off of what was around them. They kept their eyes open as they were doing the things they were doing. They kept their eyes open as they were nourishing their bodies. God says I’m looking for the three hundred. I‘m  looking for the remnant, the hungry remnant who keep their eyes on Me. Because as you keep your eyes on Me, I have kept My eyes on you. And I’m piercing through the places of your hearts and I’m awakening things inside of you that the earth needs, that the earth is groaning and travailing for. This is what I put in you for such a time as this. This is what you were born for. Your purpose is not done. Your purpose is just getting clear. Your purpose is not done. What the enemy meant for evil I’ve already turned it for good. I’ve already turned it into a testimony before you could even see it. So, keep your eyes on Me. Your purpose is not done. Your identify is being made clear. Your purpose is being made clear. And I’m releasing the keys of the kingdom of heaven to bring heaven to earth. I’m releasing the keys of the kingdom of heaven. You carry a specific key that I designed just for you to open up the flood gates. To open up the gates that are around you. To open up the needs that are all around you. I’ve anointed you for topics. I’ve anointed you to share the good news of what you’ve been through. I’ve anointed you to share and release the keys that release the anointing oil that breaks the chains that other people are still stuck in. Your time is not done so keep your eyes on Me. It’s my timing that makes it perfect. It’s My timing that makes it perfect. So, keep your eyes on Me and I will open the doors when it’s time. For now, your eyes are being set ablaze by Me. The springs of life are being stirred within you and that’s where I want you in this space. You are not done. You are moving forward in Me and there’s coming a time where I’m going to show off with the light on your life where you get to see chains broken on others. Even before your chains feel like they’re fully broken, I’m going break free other people around you because of your yes. So, keep your eyes of Me, He says. Keep your eyes on Me.

Let’s keep our eyes on Him, because He has set His eye upon the target of our lives. He has our destiny and as we look to Him, we will fulfill His purposes in our lives. It is for such a time as this.

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 back in Bellingham. It was great being in California with family and now I am blessed to be with my family here. I am loved and I know the riches of the fruit of family. Our time together as a church family yesterday was filled with God’s presence and a deep sense of community.

Whatever causes a condition that destroys what was meant to be built, desolates what should be filled, or ruins what was meant to be seen can be made new by God’s Holy Spirit of life though the expression of His word. His presence in our lives empowers us to be expressors of His life to our world. God is the word, and we are His voice! We are called to be expressions of Him in who we are in our world. When we become expressions of Him, life happens!

When the prophet Jeremiah was appealing to God’s people to return to God, he saw something in the spirit that alluded to a time before human history. His words were not intended to inspire us to pursue some theory regarding a pre-Adamic race. They were words to inspire God’s people to know that God is the Creator and only by returning to Him can we find the future that we were meant to walk in.

Jeremiah 4:22 “For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are silly children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.” 23 I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; and the heavens, they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. 25 I beheld, and indeed there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled. 26 I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, by His fierce anger.”

Whatever this creation was that Jeremiah saw, it appears that the loss of form, the depletion of life, and the condition of darkness was the consequence of silly children not seeking to know God. Something that was formerly stable was shaken. There was a fleeing from God and what was fruitful became desolate. In their departure from God they could not stand in the presence of the Lord and thus they suffered the anger of the Lord instead of His blessing. The condition appears to be a condition that needed a new beginning. The condition was that which we see at the first of God’s words to man, but that condition was all that God needed to give a beginning. God gives life, breath, and all things. He gives form to what needs form, He gives fullness to what was is void, and He gives light to what becomes dark.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

God rebuilds things when they are destroyed. He raises up things when they become desolate. God repairs things that have been ruined. God doesn’t merely want to restore our lives; He wants to empower us to be a testimony of restoration to and for our world. This is the nature of our Father. God is a redeeming God. He is a reconciler, a restorer, a rewarder, and a replenisher to a world in need. When we experience God’s presence in our today, we find that our world is created new in some way.

Everyday we need to invite God’s presence. Everyday we must expect to see God in our world. When we turn to Him, we find His light. Whatever situation you face today is ready for God’s presence to do a miracle. We are not silly children turning away from God. We are those who seek Him in our world every day. By this we can know new things, new experiences, and new expressions of His life in our world for a greater glory that we have known before.

The new song of God brings new pathways of life. That life is not just for us, it is for us to reveal God’s goodness to our world. It is so that we can partner with God in seeing what has been destroyed rebuilt, to see what was made desolate raised up again, and to see what was ruined repaired in a new and greater way.

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 Redding, California. Bonnie and I have had a wonderful week with our family here. We will be heading back to Bellingham tomorrow. Family is great, but knowing God as family is even better. God’s gift of life, expression of life, and His purpose of life in and through us is meant to bring life to our world.

Christianity is not meant to be some form of religion. Christianity is simply a label placed upon those who embrace a relationship with Christ in their hearts. This is the testimony of sons and daughters of God. We are no longer a body of our own identity, testimony, and purpose. We are members of the body of Christ. This is to be a dwelling place of God by His Holy Spirit. Christ in us is the hope of glory. We are joined to God, and we know His powerful love working in and through our lives. We sing a New Song of life in every season of our lives.

Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God gives us life and liberty so that we become givers of life to our world. He doesn’t just love us to set us free. He sets us free to empower us to be givers of life to our world. This is not merely a testimony of being set free, it is a testimony of being made free as sons and daughters of God to be givers of life as He is a giver of life in all things. The Spirit of Lord is in and upon us so that we can be a part of a multigenerational family of life. It is by the fruit of our lives that God is glorified.

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.”

God gives us life and liberty as sons and daughters of God so that we can bring life and liberty to our world. We can expect to face things that need the identity of life, the testimony of life, and the purpose of life. Sons and daughters of God grow in their identity in Christ, their testimony in Christ, and their purpose in Christ. What the enemy intends for evil God turns toward His purpose.

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.

God doesn’t just work things for our good according to our own plans and vision for life. When we receive His love and allow Him to empower us to love Him, He takes what any enemy intended for evil, and He turns it for good according to His purpose. Some things were destroyed – they need to be rebuilt. Some things have been made desolate – they need to be raised up. Some things have been ruined – they need to be repaired. God doesn’t merely want to restore our lives; He wants to empower us to be a testimony of restoration to and for our world. 

Isaiah 61:4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

The nature of God our Father is to give life, breath, and all thigs. His Spirit hovers over places that are formless, void, and dark. His Spirit is always ready and willing to bring forth a testimony of God’s love and life. Who are we? As sons and daughters of God we can expect to partner with Holy Spirit to rebuild what has been destroyed, raise up what has been made desolate, and repair what has been ruined.

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 on my way to see my children and grandchildren in California. Bonnie and I are excited to see them. I know our time together will be blessed. Yesterday I spoke at Alife, and it was both a privilege and a blessing. I am enjoying my summer months.

In my past several blogs, I have been addressing the New Song of the Lord in our lives. The New Song is the testimony of God in our lives in the day called TODAY and the time called NOW. This is the power of the New Covenant. The New Covenant is a testimony of God in our lives each and every day. We don’t merely live as servants to a God who is a Master. We live as sons and daughters of God with a growing reality of His character, nature, way, power, and authority manifesting in our lives. In the Old Covenant, the first command that revealed the character of God was to put Him before all others.

Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 You shall have no other gods before Me.”

God doesn’t need us to put Him first for Him to be who He is. He is who He is! We need to put Him first to be who we are in all things. God is the only one who brings us out of bondage into our path of destiny. His powerful love leads to His powerful purpose. He wants us to know Him as our Father, who is a friend, who does God things in our lives. Believing God creates us, empowers us, and sends us into our purpose in Christ. As sons and daughters of God, WHO WE ARE determines what we can do in life.

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’” 

Our relationship with God is a daily reality for us. The identity, testimony, and purpose of our lives is found in Christ in the day called TODAY and the time called NOW. The New Covenant is a testimony of the character, nature, way, power, and authority of God written in our hearts and minds for God’s glory. It isn’t a covenant of information, but one of testimony. 

Jesus was the body of Christ for the will of the Father so that each of us could be sons and daughters of God with Holy Spirit within us. As members of the body of Christ we are given a new song of life. This is what others in our world see, hear, and experience as we walk in our path of destiny. Who we are brings life to our world. Our identity, testimony, and purpose is revealed through the song of our lives.

Our lives are a testimony of praise to God. The praise of God is our LIFE-SONG of PURPOSE. It is our connection to God in our hearts that transforms our lives to be a testimony of His praise. God’s voice to our hearts is not about information. It is a testimony of intimacy with God and God with us. Who we are determines what we do in life. Who we are determines the life that we bring to our world.

We are sons and daughters of God, empowered by His love, for the purpose of His love in our world. As sons and daughters of God we are a part of a family of life – eternal life. Eternal life is knowing God the Father and Jesus the Son by the fellowship of Holy Spirit (Jn. 17:3). Our futile world appears to oppose us as sons and daughters of God, but the impossible things in our world are meant to reveal who we really are.

Romans 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

When we are faced with opposition in our path, that opposition only proves the testimony of Christ within us. When we hold on to our relationship with eternal life, a knowing of God our Father and Jesus the Son, we become empowered by His powerful love to be who we are meant to be. We increasingly manifest as sons and daughters of God. We become givers of life to our world.

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 am back in Bellingham, and I have enjoyed several days with Bonnie doing some needed tasks at home. The sun has been shining, but today is a day of needed rain. I have been writing on the theme of the New Song and I want to continue on that theme today.

The New Song is a testimony of an intimate relationship with God each and every day. In Christ, every day is TODAY, and the time is always NOW. Every experience with God is TODAY and every testimony of God is discovered in the time called NOW. To live for ourselves is to be stuck in some moment of time in the past or to live for some time in the future that is yet to come. We cannot experience the full testimony of God’s life in our old way of flesh. Our old way leaves us bound to some bitter root of legalism or lawlessness. Only in Christ can we find the freedom of a personal testimony that destroys the strongholds of the knowledge of good and evil. God wants us to experience Him each and every day. This is the place of the New Song in Christ. It is a testimony of a family tree of life.

When we experience God in our lives the fruit is a testimony of life. That life is not just for us but for others in our world. Our attitudes, confessions, and actions are meant to bring life to others. When we live with the life of self, a body of flesh, we cannot bring life to our world. Only as a member of the body of Christ can we bring the life of Christ to our world.

Psalms 45:1 My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

When we live in a relationship with Jesus as His bride, we experience the blessings of the life that He gives, the words that He speaks to us, and the invitation that He gives to us to come alongside of Him as His wife – His co-partner for the purpose and will of God our Father in all things. It is through connection with God as the body of Christ that we become expressions of His life to our world. Our connection to God joins us to Him where we receive His desires within our hearts. It is from the desires of Christ within us that we experience His righteousness and bring His life to our world.

Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.

God’s faithfulness to us is each and every day. God is good TODAY and we can feed on His faithfulness NOW. Our delight in Him can give us the desires that will enable us to be the body of Christ for the will of Christ in our world. This is our hope of glory. That glory is to reveal the character, nature, way, power, and authority of God in and through our lives. God’s presence in our lives is our hope. Our hope is not in instructions from Him as to what to do or how to act. Our hope is found in the transformation that comes into our lives and into our world when we experience His presence in us. Only by experiencing God in our lives can we reveal His testimony through our lives to make a difference in our world. It is a supernatural testimony of God’s love. It’s not a power of independent strength, but strength of God’s love working on our behalf. The will of God begins with knowing who Christ is in us and who we are in Him. Sacrifice and offerings are not what He desires, but a body He has prepared to do His will. That body is the dwelling place of God’s Spirit for His purpose and will in all things. This is the place of the New Song in our lives.

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

Greetings,

Today I am in Wisconsin. I have had some wonderful days with a life-long friend and a family reunion on the weekend. Yesterday I was with the church family of Living Waters Fellowship and we had a wonderful time with God in His presence and with one another. It is good to be alive, to be joined to God in life, and to be joined to others in this journey of life.

As members of the body of Christ we live our lives as a testimony of those who have been reconciled to God in Christ. We live to know His presence in us and with us in our journey of life. Knowing God will enable us to be who we are meant to be. This is good news! It is the good news of being sons and daughters of God who are His song of life to our world. The melody of our hearts is life to one another.

Psalms 40:9 I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness in the great assembly; indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O LORD, You Yourself know. 10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly. 11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD; let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.

Psalms 40:16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, “The LORD be magnified!”

The song of your life is determined by the focus of your heart. The testimony of a song from the heart is that others become influenced by its melody and words. Whatever, or whoever, we allow to affect our hearts determines the expressions of our lives to our world.

What frequency are we tuned into? We hear radios with our ears, and we can hear the frequency we choose to tune to.  We see television pictures with our eyes in the same way. We can see whatever we seek when we tune into the frequency of what we want to see. We hear God with our hearts. We hear the God we choose to tune in to. Our heart is the receiver and God’s heart is the frequency that we must seek to become a song of His love and presence in life.

We must seek to know the frequency of God’s heart in order to know where to put our hearts. We join to Him in our spirit and then our spirit floods our soul.

A prosperous spirit makes a prosperous soul, and a prosperous soul makes a prosperous life. True prosperity is not measured by the things we possess. It is measured by the measure of life we give to our world. A new song is a testimony of God’s life within us and it is expressed through our actions in life that are empowered by thoughts, reasoning, imaginations, emotions, and life-giving desires in our souls. For this to happen we must seek to live with a prosperous heart – a prosperous spirit. We hear God with our spirits and then our spirits flood our souls. Our souls flood our lives with the song of our hearts.

God is good and He loves people. Hearing Him and responding to His voice brings life to our world. This is the fruit of the life of God in our hearts in the moment called NOW to be experienced by others in our world TODAY. Hearing God brings life!  When God speaks, we feel that life inside our hearts, we experience an overflow of that life in our souls, and we express that life to others in our world.

My heart is stirred by a noble theme, as I recite my verses for the King, my tongue is a skillful pen inscribing words to praise Him (Psalm 45:1).

The season is TODAY, and the time is NOW to experience God’s love in a supernatural way and to become an instrument of His praise in your world. Let Him love you! Whoever has an ear to hear, let him hear!

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 am writing again today from Bellingham. We had a great weekend here with an Open Worship night on Friday and a great message yesterday by Pastor’s Jonathan and Danie. God is turning things towards His purpose in our lives. An awe of Him in our lives will empower us to trust Him in all things.

As members of the body of Christ we are given a new song of life. A new song is not just lyrics to a new musical melody. A new song is a testimony of God’s life made new within you in the moment of today. The Old Covenant was a covenant of remembering what God did in the past and believing for what He will do in the future. The New Covenant is a place of knowing God every new day. In the New Covenant the day is today, and the time is now!

Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

The New Covenant is the reality of being the place where God lives. We are a temple of Holy Spirit – a dwelling place of God in the earth. Our lives are a testimony of the kingdom of God that is within us. We are the body of Christ! Jesus was the firstfruit of the body of Christ for the will of the Father so that each of us could be sons and daughters of God with Holy Spirit within us. God heard the cry of our hearts and made it possible for us to be the place of His will being done on earth as it is in heaven. We are in the rock of Christ and Christ is in us.

Psalms 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. 2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. 3 He has put a new song in my mouth—praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the LORD.

Our lives are a testimony of praise to God. We can trust Him because of who He is. He is our Father who loves us. He is our friend, and He has made a way for us to live with Him and He with us in every situation of our lives. It is our connection to God in our hearts that transforms our lives to be a testimony of His praise. We don’t merely trust the promises that He gives to us. We trust Him! He is who He is and we can depend upon Him at all times.

Psalms 40:4 Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.  

God’s voice in our lives is not about information. It is a testimony of intimacy with God and God with us. His thoughts towards us are thoughts of life and they are too many to even be recounted to God in order. His thoughts inspire Him to speak and His voice within us empowers are to become who we are meant to be. Who we are determines what we do in life. What we do is merely the fruit of who we are.

Psalms 40:6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. 7 Then I said, “Behold, I come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.”

It is not what we do in life that determines our way in life. Our way is life is determined by who we are in life. We cannot fulfill our destinies as bodies of self. We must live, move, and have our being as members of the body of Christ! This is what our Father in heaven desires.

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,

We are now into July, and I am enjoying some great summer weather at home. Yesterday I was blessed to minister at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. I hope you all had a great weekend as well.

Our view of God is affected by the administration of our lives. What is it that governs our thoughts and actions in life. If we embrace an Old Covenant administration, our thoughts are governed by an information of good and evil. We measure ourselves and our lives by what is good and what is evil – what is right and what is wrong. This administration ends up in the pride of a self-empowered life. We begin to think that the most important thing in life is to be right. We end up judging what we believe to be wrong, and we measure ourselves and others by what we perceive to be right and what we perceive to be wrong. When our thoughts and lives are motivated by a knowledge of good and evil we make works our priority and we lose the true trust that can only come through intimacy with God in Christ. Serving God is not meant to be an attempt to be good. Knowing God is a revelation of being loved by God. When we know God’s love, we live to love Him. This is a greater testimony than merely serving God to be good, do good things, and live a good life. What we believe can determine what we do, but who we believe will determine who we can become.

When the knowledge of good and evil is the motivation of our lives, we seek to know God through what we can know. We cannot know God through information about Him. We can only know God through an encounter with Him and a path of walking with Him in life. A revelation of God will give us interpretation of the Scripture, an interpretation of the Scripture won’t give us a revelation of God.  All Scripture must be seen through a lens of life and not mere information. A knowledge of good and evil will not give us an understanding of God, but an understanding of God will empower us to choose what is good.  Intimacy with God will give us a revelation of Scripture. Intimacy with Scripture will not give us a revelation of God.

We were not born to serve God. We were born to be loved by God. The human journey of looking for love in the wrong places left us dead in our sins. Our disconnection from God left a hole in our hearts that could only be satisfied through a reconnection with God in our hearts. To know God for who He is can only be realized when we are born again in our hearts to know His Spirit within us. Being sons and daughters of God is only possible as members of the body of Christ. Jesus was the firstborn of mankind in a relationship with God as their Father.

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’” 8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Sacrifices and offerings cannot substitute a spirit-to-Spirit connection with God in our hearts. Jesus made it so we could be born again to love God as our Father as He loved God as His Father. Our connection to God is as sons and daughters, not mere servants of His will. Being sons and daughters of God enables us to be holy as He is holy. Being sons and daughters of God empowers us to live our lives for His kingdom and His will to be done.

Luke 11:2 So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Jesus freed us for the Old Covenant tree of self and made us a part of the body of Christ. Only the body of Christ can fulfill the will of God in life.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

We are new creations in Christ and our lives are a testimony of Christ. We are sons and daughters of God and His Holy Spirit is in us. Being members of the body of Christ empowers us to live our lives as a testimony of being loved by Him.

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