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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Happy Canada day to all my Canadian friends. This is also a week of celebration for my American friends with the 4^th of July coming on Thursday. We hope summer weather maintains here in the Northwest. In any case and every case, God is good, and it will no doubt be a week of testimonies of His love.

Jesus told His disciples to teach those in their worlds to observe all that He had commanded them. Our teaching is not by the old tree of knowledge, it is by demonstrating a life empowered by the tree of life. The Pharisees taught by the tree of knowledge, but Jesus demonstrated the life that comes by being part of the family tree of life. We must be givers of life to our worlds. We must choose intimacy with God in Christ and embrace the tree of life in order to bring life to our worlds. Mercy has triumphed over judgment and the judgment of the Father’s love exceeds the judgments of the flesh.

The great commission of Jesus could be worded to say: The ability to give life in and to every situation in heaven and earth has been given to Me, go therefore and put your peoples under the influence of life. Submerge them into the identity of who God is. Empower them to be givers of life as you are becoming a giver of life from the power of Christ within you. Demonstrate this life to your world as I empower this life within you. You are not disconnected; I am manifestly with you in the whole task and journey. Amen.

Who is in your world? Jesus was the Lamb slain for the world, but His means of reaching the world was by influencing a few. His immediate concern was those in His world and by this the power to reach the whole world would be made known.

John 17:9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.”

John 17:20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.”

Jesus was a disciple of Christ, a disciple of the Spirit of God within Him. He was in the Father and the Father was in Him. His connection with God by the Spirit was His source of bringing life to His world. It is by this same means that we are to bring life to our worlds. We are to abide Him and He in us. Only Christ in us can empower us to be givers of true life to the world. This is how we are sent to our worlds.

John 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

We are sent to bring life to those in our world by the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Each of us has been called to be ministers of life by the power of Christ within us. Let this week be a week of knowing this intimate relationship with God. It is the true strength of humanity. Christ in us to know God’s powerful love.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Yesterday I was very blessed to speak at my home church – Alife. It was good to be home and to see how God is working in our local community. I am looking forward to some home time. I have several training projects that I am working on, as well as the finals of a new book.

How do we bring life to our world by the life of Christ within us? We must be disciples of Christ, not just disciples of some external expression of God in our midst. Christ in us is the hope of glory. Glory could be defined as being fully alive and fully you in every way. There is a glory of everything and everyone and to be who we were meant to be in the fullest state of life is a testimony of glory. Our heavenly Father is a giver of life and as His sons and daughters we are to be givers of life to our world. This is the glory of God.

There is a measure of glory in every season of our lives. We must find the glory of each season. We have been given a great gift. Christ in us is the hope of glory. It is through Christ in us that we can fulfill the commission given to us by Jesus. What is the commission given to us? The commission given by Jesus to His disciples concerning their world and the end of the Jewish age is the same applicable commission given to us in our worlds and the completion of our times. 

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

We know these verses as The Great Commission, but sometimes we make them so great we believe these words are only true for a few sent ones. Let me break these words down into some everyday practicalities. The first statement is that all authority had been given to Jesus as a man. He is Lord of lords and King of kings, but His accomplishment was not that of His deity, it was that of His humanity. He was a man full of grace and truth and He lived a human life never eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but only of the tree of life. He did only that which He saw His Father doing. As a man, He was like His Father. He was a giver of life to His world. Authority is not about control. Authority is not the same as mere power. Authority never takes, it only gives. Authority is the ability to give life to another. We could read these words of Jesus to say: The ability to give life to any and every situation in heaven and on earth has been given to me, go therefore and put all in your world under the influence of life.

The word world in these verses is the word ethnos. It means peoples. It is not just the cultures, races, or peoples of the world, it is the peoples in each of our worlds. The people in my world are not the same as the people in your world and the people in your world are not the same as the people in my world. The ability to give life to any and every situation has been given to Jesus, thus He is able to give each of us as men or women the ability to influence our world with His life. We can influence our spouse, our children, our grandchildren, our extended family, our neighborhood, our friends, and even our enemies with life! Each of us has been given a life of relational connections and expanding spheres of influence. We are to be like Jesus. We are to  be like our heavenly Father. We are to bring life to our worlds. Christ in us is the hope of glory. Christ in us empowers us to be disciples of Christ so we can disciple our ethnos – our peoples.

We are to be disciples of Christ to disciple the nations, or more specifically – the peoples in our world. Who do we influence in life? Who is in our measure of influence? To be givers of life we must cultivate our inner relationship with Christ within us. Christ in us is the hope of glory. The God-connection in our spirits is the source of becoming a disciple of Christ. The ability to give life to any and every situation in life has been given to Jesus as a man, the firstborn from the dead. It is by His life within us that we can bring life to our world. 

We are to baptize those in our world in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is the fullness of the identity of God. I believe in water baptism and that water baptism is a perfect demonstration of a life of works that speak of our faith toward God. In water baptism we publicly demonstrate that we died in Christ, we were buried in Christ, we rose from the dead in Christ, and the life that we now live we live by faith in Christ. We are no longer members of our old bodies of flesh, but we are members of the body of Christ. We have been submerged into the identity of the body of Christ. I believe these words of the commission of Jesus pertain to this, but even more so they are words telling us to live to empower others to be submerged into the identity of the fullness of God in this life. This is the only place where satisfaction can be found.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Today I am on my journey to home. I have spent the past week in Portugal recording two more video courses for further training with my Portuguese speaking family. I was also in the Netherlands this past weekend with my good friend Pastor Niels and the church in Utrecht. We were blessed with God’s presence, wisdom, and direction as we set our hearts to follow His will and kingdom plan for His glory as the family of God. God is surely good!

God is granting us His grace to be His people in the earth. The mountain of God’s love is greater than any other mountain among men. God’s mountain is seen in the increase of His unshakeable love working in our midst.

Isaiah 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Why do the waters cover the sea? The decision of first Adam resulted in the consequence of a flood and the earth was changed. God removed wicked flesh from the earth, but He promised that He would never again remove all flesh by a flood. His promise was that a work of the Spirit would come that would transform flesh to become a testimony of His covenant love.

God promises that the evidence of Last Adam, eternal Adam, will fill the whole earth. In your life, the evidence of first Adam is going to be overtaken by the evidence of eternal Adam. The old man is being overpowered by the new man. He who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it. There is no end to the increase. It is like leaven in three measures of meal. It fills the whole loaf. It is like a little mustard seed that is very small, but it grows to become like a tree. For each of us, Christ in me is the hope of glory! Grace is the ability to subdue, and the result is truth. Truth is dominion. Truth crumbles every lie. Instead of pretending I love my neighbor, grace empowers me to be loving towards my neighbor until I become real. I love you! That crumbles the lie! It is a work of the Spirit. It is also a work in me. The result is my life casts a shadow that looks like law. If my life doesn’t cast a shadow that looks like law, I haven’t discovered grace. I am only living in mercy, and I am pretending this that I know God’s grace. I am not subduing. I am not reigning. I am merely waiting to go to heaven. I am not partaking in the inheritance of the kingdom of heaven. I am simply waiting to die so I can go to heaven. I am not living. I am not loving. I am not changing the world that I live in.

The mandate given to man by God is still good. He has made a provision for us to fulfill the commission of being fruitful, multiplying, filling, subduing, and having dominion. That provision is Christ in us, and He is the hope of glory. Christ in us is the empowerment of grace that transforms our lives in every way. We can subdue, we can experience God’s life, we can become carriers of God’s life, and givers of God’s life to the world. We can become real. We can become truth in Christ. By this we will exercise the dominion of Christ in our world.

Jesus came as a man full of grace and truth to give us back a life of being sons and daughters of God for the glory of our Father in heaven. What we lost in first Adam, we regain in last Adam. Jesus became a man of flesh so that we could receive Him as a life-giving Spirit in our hearts and we could become new creations in Christ.  Jesus took our cross to reconcile us to God and give us life to reign in life.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

It was the death of Jesus as a man that justified us to find the life of God as men and women in our world. Jesus rose from the dead as a man so that we could be given the authority of men and women who bring God’s life to our world. That ability to bring life to our world is made possible by the life of God within each of us.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I have been in Portugal for this past week, and I have had a very productive week. A couple of books are being translated into Portuguese, as well as some new video courses. I will continue to record video courses this week. I had a great time with the CCVA church I Aveiro yesterday. God is good.

Jesus came for the redemption of all men. He didn’t just come so that we could merely go to heaven when we die. Although we pretended to be alive in our bodies of self,  we were already dead. Jesus came to give us life in this world and in all that is to come. He came so that those who were dead could hear God’s voice and live.

John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. 25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.”

Eternal life is knowing God the Father and Jesus Christ His Son (Jn. 17:3). This is not merely a knowledge about them. It is intimately knowing them. This is made possible and real by our fellowship with Holy Spirit. Christ in us is the hope of glory (Col. 1:27). We can abide in God our Father and Jesus the Son when Holy Spirit abides in us. It is a matter of being loved and growing in knowing a relationship of love with God. The evidence is seen in the transformation of our hearts and minds that empowers us to love one another.

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

The testimony of Christ in us empowers us to be clothed in the good works of Christ. Those works are works of love that give life to others in our world.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

The word became flesh and He moved into the neighborhood. We saw Him as a man of grace and truth. He was a new Adam and from Him would come a new Eve. Just as Eve came from the flesh of Adam, the Church (Eternal Eve) would come from the body of Christ to be the eternal helpmate of Jesus for the Father’s glory. Co-reigning partners in Christ would fulfill the mandate given to mankind by God.

Jesus came so that humanity could fulfill the mandate to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion. The administration of His life was one of grace. Grace was the manifest presence of the Spirit of God in His life that motivated His heart and mind in all things. He was motivated by grace and thus He was a full manifestation of truth in human form. Grace was the government of the kingdom within His heart. Of this government and this peace there was to be no end.

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Peace is a testimony of mercy. There is no gap between us and God. Grace is the power to reign. There is no end to the increase of this government or peace and the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters presently cover the sea.

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 Portugal. I had a wonderful weekend with ministry in Lisbon and in Samora. Thank you to all the hungry CCVA members who came to hear God’s word and experience His presence together. I am here for a couple of weeks. I will be recording more courses in Portuguese this week and next.

God’s creation of our world was from His vantage point. He saw the world from His heart and declared a finished work from His heart to the place that appeared to be formless, void, and dark. God declares the end of all things from the beginning because He can turn all things for good to bring about life in all things. The second chapter of Genesis reveals how man was to rule in the earth out of a relationship with God. Through an intimate relationship with God, man would be able to fulfill the commission to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in the earth.

Genesis 2:4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The garden was not merely a place of blessing for mankind. It was a place of getting to know God, dwelling with Him, and fulfilling the mandate from a place of personal connection with Him. There were more possibilities in the garden than there were limitations. Only one tree was forbidden, while all the other trees were pleasing to the eye and good to eat from. God commanded man to eat of all the trees, except one. Eden was not a place of restriction, but one of abundance. It was a place of knowing God who is life and experiencing that life in the environment of man’s world. Only one tree would produce death and that was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – a tree that made man wise. It was a tree that could make man independent. To eat of that tree would disconnect man from God and a dependency upon a relationship of love that would come from God. When man ate of that tree, mankind became bound to a destiny of information with a self-condemning consequence of judgment and shame.

In Genesis chapter three we have a testimony of man eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eating of that tree brought about the consequence of futility in man’s commission in the earth. God spoke words over the earth that subjected it to futility in the hope of one day returning man to an intimate relationship with Him in all things. That could only happen through a restored relationship with God through a last and eternal Adam. That Adam would be the firstfruit of a new creation of humanity – a humanity of Christ.

After God’s perspective of creation, man’s experience of creation, and man’s fall to disconnection, we have the other books of the Bible. Sometimes we think that God created the world, He made man to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion, man fell, and God said, Shoot! I thought it would work. So, the rest is about how God is going to destroy it and take us to heaven. That kind of thinking is really quite foolish when you think of God and who He is. The missing piece has been intimacy of men with God, but God so loved the world He sent the solution.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved

 God had to become a man of flesh. The word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood. He lived as a man with an intimate relationship with God His Father to restore our connection to God as our Father so that we could become a testimony of God’s word in our flesh. Jesus lived as a man of flesh. He died as a man of flesh. He was buried as a man of flesh. He rose from the dead as a man of flesh. He ascended into heaven as a man of flesh. He is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh so that we can all live our lives empowered by God’s Spirit to fulfill the mandate given to us by God in our world. We can be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in our world for the glory of God in all things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Yesterday I was blessed to speak at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Thank you to all who came. It was good to be together. I believe that we are all ready for another measure in a new chapter of life for God’s glory. Stand strong and be the treasure that you are in Him.

Why did God become a man? What was His purpose in coming to us as a man? What was the importance of His resurrection from the dead and what did His ascension to heaven mean for us as mankind? As we approach these questions, we must first consider man’s problem and man’s need in the earth. Our need was for God because only God can give us life, breath, and all things that bring life to our world. Our need was not more information as to what to do or not to do. Our need was to regain a connection to God in our hearts so that we could know life and bring life to our world.

When man chose the knowledge of good and evil over an intimate relationship with God from his heart, he became disconnected from God in his heart. Shame prevented man from seeing God for who He truly is. He is a loving Father and His love for us cannot be broken by our disconnection from Him. God’s love for us is stronger than our rejection of Him. God loved the people of the world so much, that He sent His only begotten Son to pay the ransom of disconnection from Him that would restore us to our destiny in this world. God’s world was not in trouble, but our world was disconnected from Him. Our disconnection from Him resulted in our loss of the destiny given to us by God in our creation. God became a man and moved into our world to reconnect us to God as our Father. This was a matter of relationship and love, not merely one of purpose, but it did make it possible for mankind to live in the original purpose given to them by God. What was that purpose?

Mankind’s purpose was to be the likeness and image of God in the earth that would fill the earth with His glory. Through an intimate relationship with God, man would bring the fruitfulness of the God of the garden to the barren places of this world. The glory of God is to see sons and daughters of God bringing the liberty of life to their world. Man’s disconnection from God resulted in something far less than God’s glory. The testimony was disastrous, and the end was the removal of flesh apart from one family line that exhibited a conscience towards knowing God. When left with the rule of conscience, only one family sought intimacy with God over the administration of independence and self-willed desires.

Human conscience is the human spirit, and it is an internal witness that cries out for the need to be joined to God in the Spirit. By conscience alone, man cannot subdue and have dominion. They can only know there is a God, and they can only know their need for Him in their lives. God desired more for mankind and the commission of His life-giving authority in the earth. There was a need for the flesh of mankind to become the word of God in human form. Only by this could the mandate be fulfilled. God coming into our world in the form of flesh was the redemption of our flesh so that we could become a testimony of God in our world. To be an expression of God’s word is to be an expression of His character, nature, way, power, and authority. The fruit of this is life to our world.

After the flood, man was given the harsh reality of ruling by law. Human law became the administration of mankind, but the ability to subdue and have dominion was removed from the commission of humanity (Gen. 9:1). Even in the giving of the Torah law, there was no greater hope than merely being fruitful, multiplying, and filling. The law was added because of the transgression, but the ability to subdue and have dominion could only be restored through the reconciliation of man (male and female) to their source of life. The word had to become flesh so that all flesh could again become expressions of God’s word. Only by this could the mandate be restored, and subduing and dominion could be regained by God’s sons (male and female in Christ).

The missing pieces of the mandate could only be restored when the word became flesh and moved into our world. Jesus was a man full of grace and truth and He came into our world so that all men (male and female) could be filled with grace and truth.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Grace is the presence of the Holy Spirit joined to the human spirit, enabling the human being to subdue death by the power of life. Truth is the testimony of life made known in the uniqueness of each one to crumble the lies and deceptions in the sphere of each one’s influence in life. By this the word becomes flesh and good news is given to the formless, void, and dark places of the earth. Jesus came into our world to put an end to our disconnection from God as our Father. He came so that we could die in Him and then find eternal life through Him that would empower us to fulfill the mandate given to us by our Father in heaven. For this to happen, He had to die so that we could die, He had to raise from the dead, so that we could live as new creations in Christ. He had to also ascend into heaven as a man to give us the authority of life to reign in this life as human sons and daughters of God for the glory of our Father in heaven.

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