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Greetings,

Yesterday I was blessed to be at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. There was a great spirit in the house. Once again thank you to all the hungry hearts in Skagit County. God is on the move and His grace is working in our lives!

As I wrote last week, there was a fulfillment of the removal of the Old Covenant Torah/Temple society when the first fruit New Covenant Spirit/Body Church was birthed. That which sought to be anti-Christ could not overcome that which was Christ. The presence of Christ in the first fruit New Covenant Church caused that which sought to destroy the body of Christ to be destroyed by the very weapons that they sought to use against her. There is a principle of this that is true for us today. I believe we are in a time of the grace of the Spirit of Knowing and we can expect whatever opposes us in becoming the people of God in the community of Christ will be destroyed by the very weapons used in an attempt to destroy the will and testimony of Christ. That which is anti-Christ, cannot destroy Christ!

Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. 19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm. 20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

Horses are a testimony of the strength of the flesh. I believe this is a signification of our own personal opinions, our own agendas, and our ways that we seek above being the community of God. The fleshly agendas of our hearts and minds give an open door to demonic forces and influences. The self-seeking, self-righteous passions, and ways of our flesh (fiery red), open doors for spiritual forces from the realm of the second heaven (hyacinth blue), and it leads to demonic influences in our lives (sulfur yellow). Our fleshly desires become the headship of our lives (heads of horses) and we become unwilling to yield to the will of God in loving Him and others. Like the heads of lions, we seek to intimidate and devour others with our own judgments. Instead of being like the lion towards the true enemy, as are being the praise of God in Christ, we exchange the humble face of a man for the attribute of a lion towards one another. When this happens it is a manifestation of what is not a witness of God, and it causes destruction in our lives by the words of our own mouths. We fail to live in the life of community joined to the headship of Jesus and we lose our communion by the Spirit with our heavenly Father and with one another. We end up loving things, more than we love God and His family. We must let the New Covenant life of God and the grace of the Spirit of knowing remove the false things in our lives.

Revelation 6:12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

Earthquakes are significant of offenses. The sun turning black is significant of judgments according to natural sight. The moon becoming like blood is significant of defilement seen as reluctant responses that are manifested as bitter reactions to reject one another. The stars falling from heaven to the earth like figs fall when they are shaken by a mighty wind is significant of a willingness to speak evil of those who are sent into our lives. We become insubordinate and disconnected from the life of who another is as a life-giving authority that empowers us to be life-giving authorities to others. Our personal ministry is no longer sweet toward another but has become natural minded and critical as what is meant to be sweet gets swallowed up by our natural thinking. The sky receding as a rolled-up scroll is significant of apathy in our hearts. We no longer live for a heavenly us or us together. We don’t live for God’s covenant purpose of life. We become more concerned about our own lives than God’s will for our lives together and we are therefore distracted by things that prick and poke our flesh. The mountains and islands moving from their place are significant of a disconnection from community. Like islands, our own way of seeing things and, like mountains, the strongholds of our own minds prevent us from finding true community. We become disconnected and separated from one another. Isolation, separation, and division becomes the testimony of our environment. Every class of mankind calling for the mountains and rocks to fall upon them is significant of ending in divorce, death, and a grave to being the community of God or an expression of union with another. Offenses, judgments, defilements, insubordinations, apathy, atrophy for knowing too much to be naturally true or perceived to be true, and a willingness to forsake generational purpose must be removed by the New Covent grace of the Spirit of Knowing in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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 spent this last week in Portugal. I was blessed to record another video/audio course in Portuguese and had some experiences in God and reminders from Him as to the present season we are in. I believe we are twenty-one years in the process of birthing a grace in the earth of the Spirit of Knowing, the sixth aspect of the grace of the perfecting Holy Spirit in our lives. A measure of grace is arising in the earth as Holy Spirit in our lives shouts for the witness of the Spirit of Knowing in our lives and in the corporate expression of the body of Christ. We are dwelling places of God both individually and as the corporate body of Christ. In this present season we are experiencing God working in our lives to become the people of God. I have written on this numerous times in by weekly blogs over these past several years. What can we expect today and in the next months and years to come?

When the apostle John received a revelation of Jesus Christ and the opening of the New Covenant in the first fruit church of the first century, it set a foundation for the successive generations of harvest in the body of Christ. Whatever was true in the birthing of the church is true in the unfolding generations of the church. I believe that the seven thunders of Revelation chapter 10 were the future testimony of all that was revealed in the foundation of the church as it was seen in heaven and birthed in the earth.

In the revelation of Jesus Christ given to John, Jesus was seen standing in the midst of the church, even as He stands in our livers and in the corporate body of Christ today. He stands as the motivating voice of faith behind us that invites us to turn and see Him. In this every revelation from God is an invitation to have an encounter with God so we will be transformed by Him and become something of that revelation. We are dwelling places of His presence and He abides in us and with us in all things. Holy Spirit is granting us the overcoming testimonies of His grace working in and through our lives. The sixth overcoming grace of the Holy Spirit in our lives is to become the people of God. It is to become people of brotherly love with an inside out love for God as our Father and for His community on earth made of His family as the people of God. It is a continual process and a place of receiving the name of our heavenly Father in our hearts and minds. This work is done by the Spirit of Knowing. It is not a knowledge of information, but a knowledge of intimacy with God in Christ. The opposite of this type of knowledge is the knowledge of information that promotes judgments of others and only proves to cause people to be divided from one another. This counterfeit knowledge is a distraction to the knowledge found in Christ if we allow it to be. As the people of God, we must keep our focus on knowing God in all things. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life in every day and every circumstance of our lives.

In the revelation of Jesus Christ given to John, the opening of the seals of the New Covenant in heaven released a prophetic sound of life for each grace made known. These are prophetic trumpets were life-giving for the first fruit church and for us as individuals and for us as a corporate dwelling place of Christ today. The sixth seal released a sixth trumpet, and this was true at the time of John’s revelation but has a further fulfillment in our day. I believe this is the present grace of the Holy Spirit working in our lives. What happens when this seal is open and this trumpet blows?

Revelation 9:13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.

In the birthing of the Church, the opening of the New Covenant removed all that was the Old Covenant. The destruction of the Old Covenant Torah/Temple society was brought about by a first fruit New Covenant Spirit/Body reality in heaven and upon the earth. What was in heaven was coming into the earth and what was being birthed in the earth was ascending before the throne of God, even as it was in the testimony of the first martyred saint, Stephen. The Old Covenant had been finished in Christ, but there where those that held on to the Old Covenant in its form and practice and they sought to destroy what was now manifesting in the body of Christ. There was an anti-Christ spirit that opposed the first fruit church in both the world and in the form of dead religion. The first fruit New Covenant Church proved to be the body of Christ and anti-Christ could not destroy Christ. Anything that is anti-Christ cannot overcome that which is Christ!

When the trumpet of the Spirit of Knowing blew in heaven, upon the earth there was a removal of the good and abounding boundary between what was formerly godly and the influences of the world. The Euphrates was the protecting border for the Torah/Temple society of the Old Covenant. When the Scripture says that “one third” of mankind was killed in the earth, it was “one third” in that which was supposed to reveal the life of God in the earth. The earth is not the world, but that which professes to be in covenant with God. What is “one third”? “One third” is the opposite of “two thirds”. The significance is not in the number, but in the symbolism of the number. “Three” is a number that signifies “God”. “Two” is a number that signifies “witness”. In this case, “one” is a number signifying “self”. “Two thirds” would be that which is a witness of God in what should be the life of God in the earth. “One third” is that which not a witness of God, but a testimony of man or self. At the blowing of the sixth trumpet in the first century, that which was not a witness of God was removed from that which was the true witness of God in God’s heavenly community upon the earth (that which professes to be in covenant with God). I believe the trumpet of the Spirit of Knowing is blowing in our lives in this present season also. We can expect anything that is not a witness of God to be removed and we can expect what is a witness of God in our lives to be the path of life that leads us forward in the overcoming testimony of God’s grace of the Spirit of Knowing. This is what will empower us to be the people of God and to manifest His community to our world.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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 Portugal! It has been almost two years since I have been able to come here, and I have already been richly blessed over the weekend. I am looking forward to several days ahead. I will be recording another video/audio course in Portuguese today and tomorrow. I am blessed to be a part of God’s plan to release the Portuguese heart and tongue to give glory to God in New Covenant realities and the manifest power of His grace!

God is doing new things, but we must also value the old things. Old wine is the result of wine that was new yesterday. There is a purpose for both. Without a good supply of old wine there is no reference for the flavor of new wine. The truth is: the new wine of what God is doing today should make even better old wine for tomorrow. God has saved the best wine for now and it is important that we embrace what God is doing now without forsaking what He did yesterday.

Ephesians 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

The apostle Paul wrote these words to the first century church that was the harvest of all that was believed for through the Old Covenant prophets of Israel and was now being birthed by the first-fruit apostles of the first century church. The church that was, is, and would be was part of a continually growing testimony of Christ. What had now become fully real by the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit would grow in greater realities into the future. We are living in a time where God is doing something wondrously great to the authenticity of being people of God, but that place of authenticity is only further fruit of the amazing testimonies of God’s grace that has brought us this far in being the dwelling place of God upon the earth. We cannot build anything, but we can embrace what God is building. What God is building, He has always been building. What He has always been building is built in growing layers of His glory. It is growing in greater testimonies of His light of life.

What God is doing in the earth has to do with His presence in the earth. As King David had foreseen, there is a growing place for God to rest in the earth whereby His enemies are being subdued under His feet.

1 Chronicles 28:2 Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made preparations to build it.

The ark of the covenant of the Lord is only made real through being the body of Christ. It is the place where God rests in the earth and even into heaven. It is in that place every enemy of life is destroyed by the power of eternal life found there. We are receiving the cloud of God’s presence in our lives in greater and more significant ways. This is the prophetic substance of God’s living word that transforms our world to become a testimony for the glory of Jesus name. 

Ephesians 1:22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

What God is doing in the earth right now has to do with His calling, His inheritance, and His purpose. We reap the benefits of being His sons and daughters to partner in this glory. It is in Him we live, move, and have our being. We are part of His calling, His inheritance, and His purpose in our world. We are each dwelling places of God in our world and together we are part of a greater testimony of being the dwelling place of God for His glory. Our hope is that things in our lives are being increasingly summed up in Christ. Our further hope is that the internal influence of God’s kingdom upon our hearts will be the empowerment of our influence to bring life to our world. This is our destiny. We are not beneath the governing powers of this world. We are positioned in Christ to subdue the places of death with life and to exercise dominion in being the truth of life in Christ. By this every pretense and lie will be destroyed. God is doing something of great hope in our world!

Psalms 68:1 Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; let those also who hate Him flee before Him. 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God; yes, let them rejoice exceedingly. 4 Sing to God, sing praises to His name; extol Him who rides on the clouds, by His name YAH, and rejoice before Him.

To find the wicked, we don’t need to look far. We can look to our own hearts. But when God arises what is wicked in us vanishes in its influence and testimony in our lives. Our focus is not to see the wicked, or even what is wicked, destroyed in our world. Our focus is that God will arise! Our hearts were created to be glad in Him. Our lives have been predestined to rejoice before Him. We have been given our day to be another measure in the eternal Day of the Lord as He reveals Himself through His presence in our lives. His name is YAH, and we were born to rejoice before Him!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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 Colorado Springs, Colorado to do a week of prophetic training with the G42 students. I am looking forward to activating, facilitating, and releasing God’s voice though these awesome sons and daughters of God. I am encouraged today as I sense a momentum of what God is doing and about to do. God’s influence in in our live and in the earth is truly a reality for all who seek Him. We are being built as a place of God’s habitation for His glory in heaven and upon the earth.

How do we value yesterday, embrace today, and pursue the destiny of tomorrow? It is easy to value the things of God from our past and we should do so. I should say, it is easy to value the memories of what God has done in our own lives in the past, but it is not so easy holding a value for what God did in someone else’s life. For this reason, we must find a God experience of our own in the things resident in the earth as the works and evidence of God’s grace. We must each find a personal experience with God in what God has given us as an inheritance in the earth. We are not just individuals; we are part of a corporate dwelling place of God. What God has done corporately; He wants us to embrace individually. This is essential to a foundation of inheritance as we seek the things that God is giving us now and in the unfolding path of our future. Without a personal value for what God has done we lack the substance of furthering the purposes of God in the earth. We must also value what God is doing now and what God is going to do that involves things we have not seen, heard, or thought before in our lives. This can be a bit scary, but it is part of a journey of faith. It is the fruit of hearing God above other voices in our world. Our experiences create our traditions and traditions are common denominators to God experiences. Those traditions, however, can resist and even reject what God is doing now and what He wants to do tomorrow. Jesus told the Pharisees of His day, that their traditions made the word of God of no effect.

Matthew 15:1 Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, 2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

The traditions of the Pharisees were based upon God experiences from the past, but the walking out of those things in their own lives was twisted by their own person agendas and selfish desires. The past is important, but we must have a personal understanding of the past things of God in our hearts today. We must also seek to embrace God’s personal voice of faith in our hearts that leads us into new things of God in our lives. Faith is a matter of relationship. It is seen in the works of our lives, but the foundation for those works is a revelation of a love for God. Our traditions can be based upon our own ways of doing things, or even upon how God did things in our past. Traditions can be good, and traditions can be bad. Even the ways of the world establish traditions that can be strongholds against what God is doing now and what He wants to do tomorrow.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

We don’t want to lose the past established by God, but we must never allow the past to bind us to the past. We must also value the things of God in the past so that we don’t just embrace any new thing for the sake of something new.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

We must hold fast to the traditions that are part of our foundation in Christ, but we must live to build upon those foundations with a constant growth of the truth of God in our lives. When we do this, we value what God has done, what God is doing, and what God will do in our lives tomorrow. We never stand fast on the foundations of the past to be held in the past. We seek the new things of God that are connected to the foundations of the past. When we do this, we grow in being a place of God’s habitation in the earth.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I hope you all had a great weekend. I have been in the woods attempting to harvest some elk. The operative word at the moment is “hunting” because I haven’t had any success yet. I am enjoying my time in the outdoors alone. I have had good days and good sleeps so far. Maybe I will find the blessing of harvest today. In any case, it is a good day to connect with God.

What does it mean to inherit the kingdom of God? I believe that there is a realm of the kingdom of God beyond this life as we know it, but I also believe that the kingdom of God is now. I believe that the kingdom of God is inside of us. Our lives are not determined by what is going on around us, but upon what is going on inside of us. Our worlds should be defined by the kingdom of God that is within us. Our internal relationship with God should shape our world; our world should not shape our relationship with God.

Jesus told us to seek first the kingdom of God and not to seek our own needs or desires. Our Father in heaven knows our needs and our desires and He wants to care for us as a good Father. Life is not about merely getting our needs met or fulfilling our desires. Life is about a personal connection to God in our hearts. Life is about being one with God in heaven so we can be heavenly expressions of God in our world. Life is about a partnership with God in all things that enables us to fulfill God’s purpose in all things. This is the kingdom of God. The apostle Paul said it was righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

Righteousness in the Holy Spirit is an internal righteousness. It is a dependency upon God. It is a right relationship with God in our hearts that inspires our minds to think as He thinks. We cannot live our lives as self-seekers and think as God thinks. God is a giver and not a taker. He doesn’t need anything. He gives life, breath, and all things. His focus is outward, and our focus must be as His; a focus of giving life to our world.

We cannot live our lives with being right as our Lord. When being right is our Lord we use what we believe to be right to destroy those that we deem to be wrong. In a justice system of right and wrong it is unjust for an innocent man to die for the guilty. In a justice system of love, it is totally right for an innocent man to die for the guilty. This is what Jesus did for us. The administrations of the world are administrations of a knowledge, or even a perceived knowledge, of good and evil. The administration of the kingdom of God is one of eternal life, an intimate knowing of God as our Father and Jesus the Son. When we embrace the administration of the world in our hearts and minds, we cannot inherit the righteousness of God that is a righteousness of true life and love. The same is true for peace. The kingdom of God is a place of peace in the Holy Spirit. The world’s definition peace is the absence of conflict. True peace is not the absence of conflict. It is a place of no gap or separation from God in every situation of our lives. We are joined to God in heaven, so a heavenly testimony is the only possibility in the outcomes of our lives. He is the word, but we are expressions of Him in and through the testimonies of our lives. If we look to our present circumstances, we will only have peace when there is no conflict. But when we partake of the inheritance of the kingdom of God, we can have peace that surpasses our understanding. The world has peace when everything appears to be right, but we can always have peace because the life of Christ within us will become the testimony we are clothed in on our path of moving forward in life. The kingdom of God is also a matter of joy in the Holy Spirit. Joy is not self-happiness. It is the zeal of true purpose. It is only in the presence of the Lord that we can find the fullness of joy. It is a matter of partnership with God in His purpose in all things. Jesus endured the cross for the joy that was set before Him. That joy was the fruit of the cross, not an escape from the cross. That fruit was that one seed would become countless seeds of sons and daughters of God in partnership with their heavenly Father in the purpose of eternal life in the earth. The world defines joy as the fulfillment of personal visions and dreams, but true joy is only found in a partnership with God in all things. We cannot live for ourselves and avoid an all-in partnership with God and find the true inheritance of joy. When we open the doors of our hearts to the manifest presence of God in every aspect of our lives, we find ourselves eating, drinking, and partnering with God in all things to reign in life. This is where we find joy in the Holy Spirit.

We can be assured that we are walking in the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven when we find the fruit of His Spirit manifesting in the attitudes, actions, and atmosphere of our lives. These are not realities we find from the outside in. They are the fruit that comes from the inside out.

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

We cannot do love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, or self-control. These are not disciplines of the flesh. They are the fruit of the Spirit of God living in our hearts and working in our hearts and minds in all things. When we seek first the kingdom of God, we can see the evidence in the fruit of our lives. Let us all be sons of daughters of God who live to know what it is to be partakers of the inheritance of the kingdom of God. It is a righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is internally knowing a right relationship with God in our hearts that inspires us to confess that He is our God. It is internally knowing a divine connection of peace with God in heaven that empowers us to wear the heavenly testimony of sons and daughters of God that overcome the wicked one in all things. It is an internal partnership with God in all things that empowers us to know the joy of His purpose in and through our lives at all times. It is a kingdom inside of us that causes the external expressions of our kingdoms to become expressions of life. By this we will know that the kingdoms of this world have become kingdoms of our Lord and 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 back in Bellingham after my time caring for my grandchildren in California. I have a busy week this week with lots of online training and preparations for coming ministry missions in October. I am believing for an effective door of life as this summer transitions into the fall for a new year.

The kingdom of God is an internal force of love and life upon the human heart that is the testimony of intimacy with God in Christ. The administration of the law was an external influence upon the human soul and was limited to the instruction of words and the voice of a prophet. The administration of grace is an internal influence that brings about true change of the hearts and minds of men. It is not administration of mere accountability to God. It is an administration of intimate and powerful relationship with Him. It is an unshakeable testimony of God in the human heart.

Hebrews 12:25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26  whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

The voice of God within our hearts is a more sure voice than a covenant of remembering what He has said in the past or the discipline of keeping to rules that He has established for us to follow. The writer of Hebrews was admonishing the Jewish people to remember that they were meant to be Hebrew people and it was time to listen to the intimate voice of God within their hearts that empowers children of God to be children of faith. This is the power of the kingdom of God for each and everyone of us. External things can be removed, but the internal realities of the kingdom of God in our hearts is enough to frame a world of love, hope, and faith in any environment we find ourselves. The kingdom of God is not just a promise for us in heaven to come, but also for heaven coming into our world in increasing measures as we respond to the internal voice of the One who loves us in all things. We must let the shakable things be removed so we can become the unshakeable people empowered by His love.

Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

The temporary things of creation are the things that can be shaken. These are the things that will be removed. We have this hope and guarantee of the corruptible things of this world being swallowed up by all that is incorruptible. The incorruptible things are those of our Heavenly Father, the Creator of all things. As people put their focus on creation, they often become distracted from the Creator. Creation is bound to the laws of entropy. There is as frustration, a futility, a great struggle in the groanings of creation and it is not possible to get a clear perspective of truth as God sees it in the lies that mankind has chosen to believe. We are living in a time of seemingly great knowledge, but the mass availability of information has overwhelmed our heads and dullened our hearts to hearing the true news of heaven. This is not only found in the world, but also in the church. I am not talking about an institution known as the church. I am talking about the church in the essence of who she really is. She is the many membered place of God’s corporate dwelling in the earth. Even in this place, there is often a distraction from the true light by a peering into the darkness. When the news in the world gets shaky, we begin to recite the end of the world to the nations. We should be exhibiting the increasing light of Christ to the darkness of the world. Instead of asking if people are receiving the mark of the beast, we should be asking the real question: Are they receiving the mark of God?

The Scriptures of the Old Testament foretold of the New Testament, but the New Testament is the fulfillment of what was old. The New Testament is foundational for eternal life and the kingdom of God; therefore, it does not tell us the absolutes of the future. It does, however, give us a first fruit of all that is the New Covenant harvest. We can know what is in the fruit of our harvest by looking at what was in the first fruit of our harvest in Christ. The first fruit of the new demanded a full harvest of what was old and produced seed and bread for a further harvest of all that is new in the future. The true destroys what is false. The light removes the darkness. The life overcomes all death. This is our hope in every season of harvest in our lives and in the earth. The harvest of every season is about seed and bread. It is about seed that brings more life in increasing measures. It is about bread that brings life to the world. Harvest is not a thing that happens at the end of our lives. Harvest is a testimony in every season of our lives. The final harvest of our lives is only seen in the celebration of trumpet that declares the overcoming triumph of Christ in us, the hope of glory!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today is my last day in California with my grandson Kaden and granddaughter Zaria. We have had a great week. My wife Bonnie went home last week, and dad and mom have now returned here. It will be a sad goodbye, but we look forward to our next adventures together.

Last week I addressed the subject of the Day of the Lord and the end times. End times is only necessary for the things that need to end. Things that offend and things that are lawless are removed by the administration of God’s grace in our lives. The Day of the Lord is a continued reality for all that is eternal and knows no end. The Day of the Lord is not just a coming day. It is the continued coming light of Christ in our lives. In Christ, we are children of the day and not the night. No aspect of the coming of the Day of the Lord comes as a thief for us. It is a constant, maturing, and culminating reality in our lives. We are increasingly becoming the light of Christ. We must not be distracted by those who choose to walk in darkness, but rather be the light of life that shines in the world for their sake. We are putting on the clothing of Christ.

Galatians 3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.

Romans 13:11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. 12 The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

These words written by Paul were words to the first century church of Christ. They apply to us today, but Paul was not talking to us. He was talking to the first fruit church of Christ in his day. We are a further-fruit church, but we are not the first fruit. Whatever happened in the first fruit set a precedence for all the aspects of fruit and harvest that would follow. These words are applicable to us, but they are words to the foundation of the church. The Day of the Lord is a day that has no end. It is a day that is as a thousand years.

God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, meaning He owns all cattle (Ps. 50:10). God keeps His love and mercy for a thousand generations, meaning He keeps His love and mercy forever (Deut. 7:9). He remembers His covenant and word for a thousand generations, meaning He remembers them forever (Ps. 105:8; 1 Chr. 16:15). God is God for a thousand generations, meaning He is God forever (Ps. 105:8). With the Lord a day is as a thousand years, meaning it is a day that never ends. We need not be moved to fear by the end of days around us. We live in the eternal day of the Lord!

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day

There was an aspect of the Day of the Lord in Peter’s day. There was a testimony of grace and truth in the first fruit church that guaranteed that same testimony in the fruit of the church in the generations to come. Last days can only come when that which is temporary comes face-to-face with something of the realm of eternity. We are people of eternal life, and we can expect God’s grace and truth to be good news for who we are in this world and all that is to come.

Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

The writer of Hebrews was clearly communicating a last days that was at hand for his letter’s recipients. He was putting this last days era in the context of the already given Son of God, Jesus Christ. It was not a last days thousands of years in the future, but a last days for a nation at the time. God speaking to our hearts is an internal power of the kingdom of God that transforms our lives to be eternal testimonies of all that is in heaven. The last days only come because of the eternal day of life given to us all in Christ.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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www.ted4you.com or

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Greetings,

Today Bonnie and I are in Redding, California. We have the very blessed duty of being grandparents for the week with our eight-year-old grandson Kaden and our six-year-old granddaughter Zaria. Their parents are away so we get to be all things to a couple of our favorite people. It should be a great week, as long as we get them off to school on time in a rested, fed, and somewhat clean condition – ha, ha.

If you have been connected on the internet with social media in a Christian format, you have no doubt seen many concerns regarding the coming of Jesus and the end times. This thinking is spawned by what many believers perceive the Scriptures say regarding the end times. The Scriptures are foundational for our believing in Christ, they are not words that project thoughts towards what might come. Even the coming of Jesus is a foundational truth in the Scriptures and not merely some coming event. Jesus said that all the things of His discourse in Matthew chapter 24 would be in the generation of the first century church. Jesus came as a man in the fullness of the times and brought an end to the Old Covenant age for those of the Torah/Temple society so that the continued coming of Jesus in the manifest presence of Holy Spirit could bring an end to every tongue, tribe, people, and nation in the ages of the earth. That end would only come because of an embracing of eternal life in Christ. When we embrace the true, the things that are false are destroyed. An opening of grace in our lives destroys the things of law in our lives. The law is not bad, but it is only a shadow of what is truly good. God’s grace is the power of His manifest presence in our lives that transforms our character, nature, way, power, and authority to be as we should be. God’s grace empowers us to take on the true likeness and image of our Father in heaven. The follow is an exert from my book, For His Glory – You Have Been Left Behind.

So much foolishness has been propagated in past years regarding “last days” mania and fear-filled predictions of the Second Coming of Christ. The New Testament has many references to “the end” and “last days”. What were the “last days” and “the end” proclaimed in the New Testament Scriptures? Were they predictions of the end of the world, as we know it? Were they predictions of events to come thousands of years in the future, or were they warnings of something much closer to the people of the day? Was there an exegetical truth to their warnings, or were they simply irrelevant words to their day and prophetic warnings for fifty-plus generations in the future? We are going to look at what Jesus said concerning “the end”. Let’s look at a parable that Jesus spoke to real flesh and blood Jewish people who came to hear His words of instruction.

Matthew 13:24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, “Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, “An enemy has done this.” The servants said to him, “Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, “No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

In this parable we see the story of the wheat and the tares. Many people think the tares were just weeds, but the tares were not weeds. “Tares” were darnels, “a type of grass commonly found growing as a weed in grain fields in Europe and Asia. Tares looked like wheat that had not produced a full wheat head. They were simply stalks of straw with a worthless seed head. All of the energy went into producing stalk, but it had not produced any wheat for food for others. These darnels were symbolic of humanity that consumes its nutrients on self-survival and self-exaltation. The Rabbis called these darnels “bastard wheat”. These tares that were sown by the enemy in this parable represented fleshly lives that are bound to being self-seeking, self-responsible, self-governing, and self-ruling in the DNA of their life’s existence. Jesus described the tares as “the sons of the evil one”.

Matthew 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.” 37 He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

This parable had an exegetical fulfillment in the days of Jesus’ hearers. He said the harvest is the “end of the age”. He didn’t say it was the end of the world. This was the end of the Jewish age. Following the end of this age the “righteous would shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” This must have meant that it was possible to hear and understand this principle at the time that Jesus spoke it. At the end of that age the wheat would be gathered into barns, but the tares would be burned. The false covenant keepers would be consumed, but the true covenant keepers would become food for the nations and seed to be sown in the lands of the earth. You don’t put wheat in barns to collect it! You put wheat in barns to distribute it! God had a plan of filling the earth with the knowledge of His glory (Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14). The tares looked like wheat, but they did not have the substance of wheat. They would be burned, and the wheat would become the hope of the nations! We can receive this as a principle of truth in every generation, but there was a literal fulfillment of this Scripture within a generation of His speaking. The destruction of A.D. 70 burned the tares and left the wheat. Those holding on to the Law were consumed and the grace empowered Church came through a great tribulation to become the overcoming power of life and hope for the 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

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Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

I was blessed to speak at ALife Church yesterday. I spoke on the theme of Christ in us and us in Christ. It is part of the message I have been blogging on in the past weeks concerning Jesus being the way, the truth, and the life.

We are blessed to receive the first coming of Jesus as the one who judged sin to give us mercy and justify us to live as new creations in Christ. His blood upon the cross was His death once for us all. When we willingly receive Jesus into our lives, we receive Holy Spirit. This is a first coming of Jesus into our hearts that enables us to find the grace of God by which we can reign in life.

Romans 5:17 For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Jesus’ coming was not merely to get us to heaven when we die, but to bring heaven into our lives today. We often think of God in heaven, but the truth is that God is in heaven and on earth. Through Jesus, we have the presence of the anointed One in, upon, and with us in our lives. It is important for us to welcome His presence and to welcome His life in all that we are and do. He does not force Himself upon us, but He invites us to call upon Him. When we draw near to Him, He quickly draws near to us. He is willing, but it is the willingness of our hearts that allows Him to come. He is knocking at our door, but we must open the door for Him to come in and commune with us in life.

The work of the Holy Spirit is a work of life. The Father has sent the Spirit and the Spirit invites the Son. Jesus is Lord of lords and King of kings in all the earth and the Holy Spirit has come in His name. The name of Jesus is not merely an identification of who He is, it is the identity of who He is. It is the substance of who He is. We identify water by the substance of wet, refreshing, thirst quenching, washing, and other attributes of water. The name of Jesus is like this. It is the substance of who He is. Holy Spirit comes in the substance of all that Jesus is. Holy Spirit partners with us as the bride of Christ and calls for the manifest presence of Jesus to come in increasing measures in the ages of men.

Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

The Greek word for “come” in this verse is the Greek word ἔρχομαι (erchomai). It is used only in the present and imperfect tenses, thus it is not a concluding event, but a continually happening reality. This is not merely meant to give the hope of what is to come in the future, but for hope in our present reality for the increasing glory of God in our future. It is a foundational truth of Jesus Christ in our lives. There is an aspect to the second coming of Jesus in our life as a continually happening reality. The Holy Spirit is God with us and He comes in the name of Jesus. The water that we freely drink of is the water of the Holy Spirit. It is the life of the Holy Spirit flowing in and through our lives to bring life to us and to the world we live in.

John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Jesus was saying these words to His disciples, but these words are true for us as well. When we receive Jesus, we receive the Holy Spirit. It is by believing Jesus that we receive the Holy Spirit and when we receive the Holy Spirit, we become testimonies of the life that comes by Jesus’ name. Jesus is alive and it is by the Holy Spirit in us that we can know Jesus with us.

John 7:37-39 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. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

It is the Holy Spirit of God that draws us to God the Father and God the Son. Holy Spirit precedes the work of God in all things and is God with us and God at work with us in all things. In the book of beginnings (Genesis) we find the Holy Spirit as the expression of God in the earth. Holy Spirit was ready, willing, and able to bring life to all that needed life.

Jesus came to reconnect us to God as our Father in this world and in heaven to come. His goal was reconciliation for mankind. That reconciliation was to restore the mandate of mankind. That mandate was to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion (Gen. 1:26-28). Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life for us to fulfill this mandate. We know this by the Holy Spirit in us, upon us, and with us 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

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3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

Yesterday I was blessed to speak at Everyone’s Church in Mount Vernon, Washington. Thanks to all who came and to those who follow online. Pastor Brice has had COVID, and we are praying for his full recovery. It was a good day to be together and it is a great time to expect God’s presence in increasing ways!

Jesus came to reconnect us to God as our Father in this world and in heaven to come. Jesus didn’t merely come to die for our sins. He came to reconnect us to the place of being the likeness and the image of God to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion. He had to die for our sins to make that possible, but His ultimate goal was reconciliation for mankind so that mankind, male and female, could fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of God! It is knowing Jesus on the throne of grace that makes that possible. The blood of the cross opened the door to find the life of the New Covenant in the throne of grace. It is there that we find mercy; a judgment that frees us from the guilt of sin and justifies us to find the empowerment of God’s grace. God’s grace is something we can find. It is the empowerment of a changed character, nature, way, power, and authority in Christ! The throne of grace is the place of reining in Christ!

Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Jesus came to empower us to live our lives with Holy Spirit in us, upon us, and with us in all things. His coming back to us is not just a return in the future. It is an increasing return of His presence in our lives every day. We are not just waiting for Jesus to return. We are embracing His manifest presence each, and every day. He is our salvation in each, and every, situation we face in this world.

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

The judgment that has been given to those who come to Him is a judgment of mercy. We lose our lives to find them in Christ. We laid our old life down to find a new life in Christ. We died in Christ, so the life we now live is by faith in Christ. This enables us to see Jesus for who He is. He is the way, the truth, and the life! All we have to do is come to Him and see Him. His appearing in our hearts is a testimony to His death upon the cross. It is a judgment of mercy for all who believe. His mercy is new every day and it frees us from every sin. It frees us from being disconnected from God in any way. This is the place of our death in Christ so that we might find our true life in Christ. After this, there is a continual coming of Christ for salvation in our lives. There is no doubt a maturation to a culmination of this reality, but we can embrace His coming presence after our first encounter with His judgment of mercy in our lives. Jesus came for us to live in this second and eternal reality of life! It is a second coming for salvation! Jesus gave this truth to his disciples, who were about to know His judgment of mercy and the return of His presence not just in the bodily form of Jesus, but in the form of the body of Christ.  They would soon know what it is to be a dwelling place of God in the earth. Not just a place of God being with them, but in them, upon them, and with them at all times.

John 14:28 You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. 29 “And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

In this account of Jesus and His disciples, Jesus was about to enact the fulfillment of His first coming so that He could enact the reality of His second coming for His disciples. That would be the testimony of His true salvation in their lives and in the lives of men and women from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation in the world. When He said, “Arise, let us go from here”; He wasn’t just talking about physically going from the supper to the cross. He was talking about entering the fulfillment of the purpose for which He came. He didn’t come for judgment; He came for salvation. He made a way for God’s judgment to be a judgment of mercy for all who come to Him to receive it so that He could come to them for salvation in their world. He wanted to move into every neighborhood, not just a region in the Middle East. He came so that all would know what it is to be a dwelling place of God in the earth. Surely there is a maturation and a culmination of all things in Christ. There is no doubt an increasing reality to the second coming of Christ, but there is also a truth of His second coming in our lives today. Are we living at His first coming of judgment or are we moving beyond to an increased testimony of His coming for salvation 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