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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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House of Bread Ministry
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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

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Greetings:

Yesterday I was blessed to minister at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. It was good to see people I know and a few that I did not. The presence of God was in the house and as always, the people were hungry for all that God desired to say. Thank you for being who you are, Everyone’s Church.

There is much going on in our world that can surely influence our minds and our hearts in a way that tempts us to fear and allow our hearts to be troubled. In times such as these, we must remember who God is and who we are. God is our Father, and we are His children. We are not the people of the world; we are the people of God for the sake of God’s blessings to the people of the world. When the righteous flourish, the city rejoices. When the rain falls on the just, it also falls upon the unjust. There is power in the blessings of God that surpasses the curses of every enemy.

In the Old Covenant, God instructed Moses to put the name of God upon the children of Israel. That is to put the character, nature, way, power, and authority of the Father upon the children as the Father’s name. This is the source of all of our peace.

Numbers 6:22 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them: 24 “The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; 26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”‘ 27 “So they shall put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.”

Our peace doesn’t come by the circumstances of the world. Our peace comes by God’s face shining upon us. When we look to Him, we find life! When we look to Him, we find peace amid every circumstance of our lives. When we recognize that God is looking at us, we turn to look to Him. When we do, we find that He is gracious to us. His manifest presence in our lives is the light to our feet. When we know His nearness, we find His ways. His ways in our lives lead to the paths for our feet. Knowing Him is the key to discovering our way in all things, and at all times.

Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. 4 Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.

The secret to finding peace in life is to find God in our lives. When we keep our minds stayed upon Him, we find His peace. His peace is His presence, and it is in His presence that we become empowered to trust Him. It is in His presence that we find His everlasting strength. The strength of the flesh only lasts until it fades, but the strength that comes by God’s presence in our lives overcomes all things. It is from His presence that we find salvation and strength. This is a season to find God’s presence in a deeper and fuller way.

Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Prayer, supplication, thanksgiving, and requests are not works of the flesh or desperations of the flesh. They are expressions of love. They are connections of intimacy. When we know God in our lives, we know Him. When we know Him, we embrace Him. Prayer, supplication, thanksgiving, and requests are delightful expressions of our hearts to the One we trust. Our connections to Him are not connections that cry out from our pain. They are expressions of our connection of love to the One who loves us. It is our relationship with God as our Father and friend that empowers our minds to trust Him beyond natural understanding.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Today I am in Deming, New Mexico. I have been blessed the past couple of days at CitiLife Church. As I have been, I ministered on the peace of God yesterday. I also did teaching on Authority last night and will do another session tonight. It is always a pleasure to be with my church family and friends here. Thank you for being who you are Pastors Cesar, Irene, and all of CitiLife church. God’s favor is upon you and with you as you continue moving forward in this new year.

I have been writing concerning 2022 being a year of peace. In this, I have been sharing on the Old Covenant peace offerings as a shadow of something real for us today in celebrating the peace that we have with God in Christ as His community of sons and daughters. We are His family, and we celebrate with thanksgiving, praise, and submission to one another because of our nearness to God and His nearness to us in all things.

The peace offerings of the Old Covenant could be a sacrifice of the herd or of the flock. It could be a sacrifice of male of female. It was a testimony of who we are as sons and daughters of God in Christ. It doesn’t matter who we were, or where we came from, we have been brought near to God in Christ. God sees us all as His sons and daughters and He declares us to be His inheritance in the earth.

Leviticus 3:1 ‘When his offering is a sacrifice of a peace offering, if he offers it of the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.’

Leviticus 3:6 ‘If his offering as a sacrifice of a peace offering to the LORD is of the flock, whether male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.’

The peace offering is an offering without blemish. In truth, God doesn’t judge us by the flesh. He sees us by the spirit. He is not looking for the perfection of the flesh, but the sincerity of our hearts. We cannot find our pride in any form of flesh that we might confess to find our identity, testimony, and purpose in. When we come as we are, He sees us as we should be. We don’t come to Him to preserve who we are in the flesh. We come to Him so He can declare who we are by His Spirit. The unblemished sacrifice could depict the best that we could be as perfect in the flesh, but even the best that we could be in the flesh is consumed in the fire of His presence. His baptism of fire transforms the testimony of our lives to be testimonies of His miraculous love and life-transforming power of grace. Jesus took on the form of perfect flesh. He was the word made flesh so that our flesh could become a testimony of His word. God’s peace gives us access to God’s grace and God’s grace transforms our lives.

Galatians 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

The peace offering could be a male or a female animal – as we are all sons of God in Christ. God’s peace in our lives confirms that we are all inheritors of the abundance of His life. Being one with God and one with one another gives us all access to the wholeness of all that God is and has in heaven. Our future is determined by God and all that He possess in His heavenly house. It doesn’t matter what trouble there is in the world, our portion is a portion of life in all things! We are joined to the eternal life of God in heaven and to the eternal life of God in one another.

The grace of God is working by the Spirit of Knowing in this season in the earth. We have peace with God because we are the community of His family. Whether we were bound to the law or bound to lawlessness, we have found the presence of God in Christ that gives us peace in all things. We know the life and power of God’s grace working in and through our lives.

Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

The testimony of God’s peace is seen in being a community of His presence. It is not just being joined to Him, it is being joined to one another. Peace is not just the testimony of being brought near to God, but one of being brought near to one another. It is where the law and the lawless become one because of the One who empowers them both by grace. Intimacy with God in our hearts makes us one with Him and with one another. It is by faith that we live as His sons and daughters, it is not by the legalism of some Biblical principle or the liberty of some personal desire. It is by relationship with God that we come to know relationship with one another as His community in the earth. It is a community of the Spirit, and not a community of human control nor human liberty. It is by the life-giving way of God!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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www.ted4you.com or

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

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3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I am now home after three weekends in Portugal. It was great to be in my home church yesterday. Pastor Jonathan gave us all a great challenge in stepping forward in this new season. This week I will begin to audio record a new book that I will soon release. I am off to New Mexico on Friday. I am looking forward to the week.

I am discovering that peace is not an individual reality but a participatory reality. When we connect to God, God connect to us, and we connect to God in one another. That connection is not a connection according to common interests of mere social connections. It is a connection by God’s Spirit and in His Spirit. It is not a connection according to the flesh. It is supernatural and spiritual in its nature. There is where it brings the substance of God’s house to our natural world.

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. 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.

We are not judged according to the flesh anymore. Jesus gave us the gift of peace with God and the judgment of the Father’s love. That judgment is one of mercy. God’s mercy in our lives has triumphed over every judgment of the flesh! God’s grace empowers us to live as new creations in Christ. Our reconciliation to God in Christ grants us access to all that is in God’s house in heaven. 

The peace offering in the Old Covenant had explicit instructions concerning the offering of flesh. No flesh was to be eaten after the third day and all flesh that was eaten, was to be clean and eaten by those who made themselves clean. The blood and fat of the sacrifice was to be burned with fire as an offering to God. In addition to the instructions concerning the flesh in the peace offering, no person was to eat any blood in any of their dwellings, whether of bird or beast –  Leviticus 7:18-27.

To know the peace of God is to know the freedom of His mercy freely given through the gift of His only begotten Son. We are not judged according to the flesh; therefore, we cannot judge one another according to the flesh. Because we are not judged according to the flesh, we cannot live according to the flesh anymore. When we embrace lives of the flesh or judgments of the flesh, we are choosing to eat something that is an abomination to the ways of God. When we do these things, we separate ourselves from the life that is found in being the body of Christ. To have the peace that God has given us through Christ, we must embrace living our lives as the body of Christ. We are not a flesh and blood body of self; we are a part of the flesh and bone body of Christ. The life of that body is the life of the Spirit, and not the flesh. The blood of the New Covenant is the life of the Holy Spirit seen as God’s grace working in our lives.

The peace offering of the Old Covenant was an offering of participation. It included elements of a wave offering and of a heave offering. As a wave offering, it was a testimony of thanksgiving and praise to God. As a heave offering, it was a testimony of being one with God through a oneness with one another as the body of Christ. Our submission to one another is a submission as unto the Lord.  It is not a submission of the flesh, but a submission empowered by God’s Spirit. It is a submission to God’s Spirit in and through one another for the testimony of the life of Christ. The elements of the peace offering are given to us because of the sacrifice that Jesus became on our behalf. The testimony of that offering is seen in our living together as the body of Christ.

Ephesians 5:17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.

The peace offerings of the Old Covenant were merely a shadow of our lives together as a community of Christ. We have been brought near to God in Christ and we are a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. We are filled with His Spirit that we might participate with one another in the life of God’s Spirit. Life should be the sound of our lives! God’s words, God’s sound, God’s melodies should be the expression of our influence towards one another. This is not some formula for some religious ceremony. It is simply a description of the kind of influence we should have upon one another as the body of Christ. This is the testimony of being the community of Christ. Something is manifesting from within each of us that is bringing life to one another. The attributes of a wave offering and of a heave offering can be seen in our lives together as a community of Christ. We are thankful to God and in our thankfulness to God, we submit to one another in an awe of God’s presence in our midst.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I have just finished my third weekend in Portugal. I have been blessed to be with many churches as well as many pastors and leaders of different streams of God’s life here in Portugal. Another training course has been recorded and mostly edited. It has been a fruitful time here and a wonderful time of connection with my Portuguese family in Christ. I look forward to my next time here.

I believe that we are in a season of God revealing to us greater peace. Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the presence of God in His wholeness in all things. Our oneness with Him causes us to celebrate the life that He has and gives to us in all things.

I believe that the peace offerings of the Old Covenant were a shadow of the peace that has been given to us as the body of Christ. Although the people of God in the Old Covenant heeded the letter of the ceremonies of a peace offering, they did not likely understand the truth that cast the shadow of the ceremony. We can know the truth and the truth can make us free!

The peace offering was not an offering to make peace with God. It was an offering to celebrate the peace that God gives. It was a thanksgiving and praise for who God is and who God made each member of His family to be. The authenticity of each member inspired each member of the family to worship God in the earnestness of their hearts. I believe the unleavened cakes and wafers of the peace offering depicted a testimony of sincerity of the heart.

Leviticus 7:11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the LORD: 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. 13 Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering.

Jesus revealed to us that God, our Father, seeks those who worship Him in spirit and truth. This is the qualifying testimony for becoming a temple of His presence. The unleavened cakes and wafers were anointed with oil. When we seek God in the sincerity of our hearts, He freely gives us the anointing of His eternal life from heaven.

John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The peace offering had an element of leavened bread, but that leaven was a testimony of the bread of the Body of Christ as we are joined to God and to one another by the life of God’s Spirit. We come to Him as unleavened meal of sincerity and His presence empowers us to become the bread of life for those who knock on our door in life. Because we come to Him for who He is, He transforms us to become new creations that offer living bread to the world in which we live.

The peace offerings didn’t just depict a connection to God. They also depicted our connection to one another. There was an element of submission to God through our submission to one another. Peace is a testimony of connection.

Leviticus 7:14 And from it he shall offer one cake from each offering as a heave offering to the LORD. It shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

The peace offering depicted a submission to God and to one another through the giving of a heave offering. What was lifted to God, became a provision for the priestly believer.

Leviticus 7:15 The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day it is offered. He shall not leave any of it until morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; but on the next day the remainder of it also may be eaten; 17 the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day must be burned with fire.

Leviticus 7:29-34 (NKJV) 29 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: He who offers the sacrifice of his peace offering to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offering. 30 His own hands shall bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD. The fat with the breast he shall bring, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD. 31 And the priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

The potency of the offering was not a testimony of the strength of the flesh. The flesh was to be consumed in the day of the offering in the case of a peace offering given for thankfulness. The peace of God comes because there is no longer a judgment given to us by God. No one is judged according to the flesh because the perfect flesh of Jesus Christ has made us one with God and with one another according to the life of the Spirit. No flesh was to be eaten after day three, since the resurrection life of Christ on the third day released all men from the need to die according to the flesh.

Jesus became our offering of peace to God. He was perfect flesh, and He gave the life of His flesh to God for the sake of our peace. As sinless humanity, He was the best of humanity. He gave His life as both the blood and the fat. His death, burial, and resurrection from the dead proved that He destroyed the condemnation of the flesh forever. He made a judgment of mercy for us that we might know God’s grace and peace multiplied in our lives.

Leviticus 3:17 “‘This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'”

Colossians 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. 21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

True peace is found in Christ and the testimony of that peace is revealed through our faith towards God and our faith towards one another as the body of Christ. We are the community of God justified by God’s mercy and empowered by God’s grace to be life and to bring 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’ve had another great week in Portugal. Another training course has been video recorded in Portuguese and I am presently editing the videos for the training of many in the Portuguese world. We printed seven of my books in Portuguese and those arrived this past Friday. It was great to be in Lisbon for the weekend and now I am in Aveiro. I have a gathering tonight with many Portuguese pastors from various churches and denominations. I am looking forward to all that God is going to do.

We are in a season where God is going to give us the substance of peace in spiritual and natural ways. It is not peace as the world defines peace. It is peace as God defines it. I am embracing this word from God and Holy Spirit has prompted me to consider the peace offerings of the Old Covenant to understand what cast that shadow. Something true existed in heaven to cast the shadow in the past. That substance of peace was hidden in the instructions of the Old Covenant but is being revealed in its reality through the New Covenant in Christ for us today.

I believe that the offerings in the Old Testament were really a shadow of something that is real in the body of Christ. The writer of the book of Hebrews states that the priests of the Old Covenant offered gifts to God according to the law that were only a copy and shadow of what cast that shadow from heaven (Heb. 8:4, 5; Heb. 10:1).

Before the law was, Christ existed in heaven. The New Covenant in heaven was before the Old Covenant served as a copy upon the earth. The law was informational, but what cast the shadow of the law was and is transformational it its substance.

When we look at the gifts offered by the priests in the Old Covenant, we must understand their truth through a living relationship with God in Christ. The burnt offering was a shadow of presenting of our bodies to God as living sacrifices, because the blood of Jesus has made us holy and acceptable before God. The sacrifice offering was only a shadow of acts that we do that demonstrate our faith towards God. That faith is birthed and released from hearing God in our hearts. Our actions of love towards Him are actions inspired by His love for us. The tithe offering was a shadow of our response to the One who gives us His heavenly bread and wine in every season of our lives. We respond to the gratuities that He gives us through a gratuity of what we have, demonstrating our desire to receive all that He holds in heaven for our testimony upon the earth. The heave offering was only a shadow of our submission to God by submitting to the life-giving sources of authority in our God-given connections in the body of Christ. The vowed offering was only a shadow of who we are in Christ as a demonstration of His resurrection life in our place of fellowship as the body of Christ. We are clothed in the works that God created for us in Christ. The freewill offering was only a testimony to our part in the communion of Christ and our being a community of brotherly love through intimacy in Christ. The firstling, or first fruit, offering was only a shadow of our lives as prayer before God that opens the path of heaven’s inheritance and destiny to our children and our children’s children in the earth. These seven offerings define our relationship of love and life in the body of Christ. Because of these, we can experience the truth of the peace offerings that were made in the Old Covenant shadow of what is true life.

The peace offerings of the Old Covenant were offerings of participation. They included elements of a wave offering and of a heave offering. As a wave offering, it was a testimony of thanksgiving and praise to God. As a heave offering, it was a testimony of being one with God through a oneness with Him, and Him in one another as the people of God.

The people of God are the body of Christ, a community of people in communion with God and one another by the life of God’s Spirit. This is a season of new revelations of God’s peace. We will experience a greater thankfulness to God for the peace that He has given us as His dwelling place in the earth. It is a greater communion with God and with one another by His Holy Spirit. In a time when the world offers us disappointments and failed promises, we will know the goodness and faithfulness of who God is. In this time in a world of disconnections and isolations, we will know greater connections and communion with God and one another. This is not just to know the goodness of God in heaven, but to also know His goodness in and through one another as His family in this world.

Leviticus 7:11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which he shall offer to the LORD: 12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil. 13 Besides the cakes, as his offering he shall offer leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offering.

The peace offering was a testimony of thanksgiving. It was not an offering to make peace with God. It was an offering celebrating the peace that was enjoyed with God and with one another by the life and anointing of His Spirit. This offering could be given as a wave offering of thanksgiving and praise for something God did in one’s life. Because of something that God did, a feast of celebration was enjoyed before God, with God, and with the people of God as His family communing together in the blessings of who God was among them.

A peace offering could also be given as a vowed offering. A vowed offering was a testimony of thankfulness to God for an answered prayer or request that you made to Him. A vowed offering could be a thankfulness to God for who He says you are by the life and power of His Spirit.

In a world of uncertainties, the family of God has the certainty of God’s presence and provision in all things. A peace offering could also simply be a freewill offering. Because you know that you have peace with God and with one another as His family, you celebrate a communal offering with God and those you are joined to in His community of life. It is a celebration of connection in spirit and truth.

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