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Greetings,

Today is Memorial Day. I pray a special peace and blessing to all of you who have suffered loss at the sacrifice made for our nation by someone you know. May those who have experienced that kind of pain be comforted by God’s presence. I thank and honor all who have given such a sacrifice.

Last week I presented that God’s presence in our lives is more important than the fulfillment of His promises in our lives. Moses understood that the presence of God would grant him a knowledge of the ways of God. Knowing God’s works will not necessarily enable us to know God’s ways, but knowing God’s ways will also give us access to the authority and power of God’s works. The glory of God is revealed in His ways not merely the power of His works.

When Moses asked for God to see His glory, God put Moses in a rock to keep Him safe for the ways of men cannot comprehend the ways of God in His glory. God’s presence kept Moses safe as Moses found a place by God where he could stand.

Exodus 33:21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”

We cannot see the glory of God from a distance. We must find our place by God where He empowers us to stand in the rock of Christ as a member of the body of Christ. God’s glory will change us to become a testimony of God’s character, nature, way, power, and authority. It was in the glory of God that God wrote upon the tables of stone the values of a love for God and a love for others. It was in the manifest presence of God that the glory of God came as a mystery to change the way of Moses.

Exodus 34:5-7 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Here we find the introduction to the name of God is “the Lord, the Lord God”. In the Stone’s edition of the Hebrew Torah, the rabbinical commentators address this double “Lord” as implying to the love and goodness of God. They state that when the Lord is put in this double context it implies two things. It means that God is the one who forgives us before we sin knowing the full extent of everything we are ever going to do, and He forgives us after we sin knowing the full extent of everything we have ever done. The very first experience, atmosphere, ambiance, and reality received when we experience God’s presence in our lives is one of forgiveness. What a wonderful thing! The verses go on to read that God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abounding in goodness, and abounding in truth. These are all wonderful experiences that flood our lives when God comes to us. These things are the essence of God’s glory. Jesus made a way for us to come near to God and experience these things! We have been reconciled to God in Him. The final verse of this passage reads that God keeps His mercy for thousands. The term “thousands” is an interesting symbolic and prophetic number in Scripture. It implies an aspect of eternity. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills (Ps. 50:10), meaning He owns all the cattle. God is God to a thousand generations (1 Chr. 16:15; Ps. 105:8), meaning He is God forever. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years, meaning His day has no end. Here we see that God wants to show mercy for thousands. He wants to show mercy to everyone, and He wants to show mercy forever!

God forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. These three things are often confused, but they are different. They are progressively linked, but it is the testimony of sin that leads to death. Iniquity is the weakness that leads to transgression. Transgression is a rebellion in the human heart that leads to sin. The wage of sin is death. God does not kill sinners; sin kills them. Being disconnected from life results in the consequence of death. Where there is iniquity there will be transgression, and where there is transgression there will be sin. God in His amazing character, nature, way, power, and authority comes to forgive us fully. This is even to the root of our sin, the weakness of our hearts.

The next phrase in this verse is not out of context with the preceding descriptions. It says that God does not clear but rather visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and fourth generation. The words “the guilty” are not in the original but are meant to clarify what He does not clear. It is somewhat accurate, but it must be taken into consideration in the context of the previous descriptions. It can only be understood in the context of forgiveness, mercy, grace, longsuffering, abundant goodness, abundant truth, and eternal pardon. It is not a judgment to destroy the person, but a judgment to destroy the root of iniquity that leads to sin. It is simply what happens to the iniquity when God visits it. God’s presence eradicates the flaws and heals the heart and mind.

If your Bible translation uses the word “sin” for “iniquity” here it is in error to the original. It is the Hebrew word “avon” (iniquity) and not the word “chattaah” (sin). It is the flaw within us that causes us to come to sin. It is the weakness, or the propensity to transgress that leads to sin. Think of it as a characteristic that has the potential of becoming your character. You may have inherited a negative characteristic, but it doesn’t have to become your character. God wants to visit the place of weakness and transform it to become a place of His strength and testimony. The weakness is your place of dependency upon God that can lead to greater life when you depend upon Him. It doesn’t have to become your character. You can be a scribe in the kingdom of God that unlocks the door to new things in your family line that have never been seen, heard, or thought before. You can restore things antique and lost before your time in your family destiny (Mt. 13:52). Experiencing the presence of God will change our character. This is the glory of God!

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 had a great day yesterday at Alife. Pastor Jonathan released some powerful prophetic words and gave a great message concerning being hungry for God. We must stir up our hunger for Him. God desires to do amazing things. We must be hungry for Him to know Him the way He desires to reveal Himself to us in lives.

God Himself is more valuable than all of His promises. God Himself is more important than all of our victories. If God is for us, who can be against us but Him being for us is a testimony of His love and not merely His power! We have a New Covenant in Christ. In Christ, we are a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. Being the place that God lives is the place of His favor. It is a place of grace.

The Old Covenant was a covenant of law and human conscience. The New Covenant is a covenant of grace and truth. Grace is the manifest presence of God in our lives that changes us and changes the world in which we live. Truth is the testimony that we become because God’s presence abides in us and with us. God’s grace will empower us to subdue in life. To subdue is to destroy all manner of death by the authority and power of God’s life. Truth crumbles every lie, and truth is the force of dominion in all things. Grace and truth are a testimony of God’s love at work in our lives. They are not merely a testimony of God’s power.

These things were a promise given in the Old Covenant, but a reality discovered in that which is new. Although these things were not common in the Old Covenant, some who sought the presence of God discovered them in their time. They tasted of the good thing to come before that good thing had fully come to our world. Moses was such a man. The scripture says that Moses was a friend of God and that He knew not just the works of God, but the ways of God. Moses desired grace in a day of law.

Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”

Moses new that the grace of God would be to have God’s presence with him and the people at all times. God had said He would send His Angel before Moses and drive out all of the enemies of the land, but He would not go with Moses and the people because the people were stiff-necked before Him (Ex. 33:1-5). Moses wasn’t interested in just the promises of God. He wasn’t looking for deliverance from all his enemies. He was longing for and looking for the presence of God in all things. Moses appealed to God and God said that He would grant Moses his wish.

Exodus 33:14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.” 17 So the LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

The character of Moses appealed to the character of God and thus the name of Moses was the name of a friend to God. Grace is the manifest presence of God in or lives that transforms us from what was, into something new in Christ. Grace changes our lives! Mercy is a judgment that frees us from the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death is the reality of death that happens when we live our lives separate from the presence of God. Grace comes to us because of the law of life and peace in Christ Jesus. There is no gap between us and God. He is our loving Father and our connection to Him reveals us to be His family. We are sons and daughters of God for His glory that comes by the power of His grace. Grace is the power of God’s presence in our lives that gives us life and liberty in Christ. God’s grace will perfect our lives. God’s grace can be multiplied in our lives. Grace is the testimony of God’s glory. Grace is the working of God’s love made known in our lives!

Moses appealed to God that he might see His glory. The glory of God is seen as the goodness of God in our lives. When we see God’s goodness, we become a testimony of God’s goodness in and to our world.

Exodus 33:18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.” 19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

We want Your presence more than anything God! Show us Your glory that we might know Your ways, walk in your paths with You, live with hearts that are for Your will, and influence our world with the testimony of Your grace. We were born to be loved by You that we might be transformed by Your love to love You and to love others as ourselves.

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 find yourself in a great day today. I was blessed this past weekend to perform a wedding for a dear friend who has waited patiently for God’s redemptive plan in his life. It was a wonderful day and God’s presence brought an atmosphere of celebration that was pure, holy, and full of life. God is a redemptive Father and Friend.

When we look to the Light, we live in the light! We are children of the Day, and not the night. We can, therefore, have an expectation of new things and new measures of life for a time called TODAY! We must turn towards the day and away from what was in the past to discover the radiance of what is NEW and NOW for TODAY! God’s story in our lives always ends in light.

Our relationship with God as our Father is a story of redemption. It is not merely a story of how things always go right in life. It is a story of how our loving Father works all things for good in our lives. This is a testimony of redemption. Not all things are good. Many things are bad, but God’s promise as our creative Father is to work things out for good according to His purpose in our lives. What was not the purpose of God in our lives ends up revealing a greater glory of God’s purpose because of God’s great love.

Jesus paid a price for the redemptive will of our heavenly Father in our lives. He paid the price as the Son of Man/Son of God to enable us to experience the redemptive purpose of God our Father in our lives. As children of God, we can expect to be a part of Christ’s inheritance for the glory of God in all things. Holy Spirit is the presence of God with us, in us, and even clothing us as a garment of life upon us to reveal God’s true story of redemptive love in our lives.

Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, 10 and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.”

Those who sing the song of the redeemed are the twenty-four elders and the living creatures around the throne of God. These are not merely angels in heaven, but the testimony of us as sent ones through God’s grace by the authority of the resurrection life of Christ made known to us from God’s throne of grace. These are the foundation of the church (Eph. 2:19-21), and the continuing body of Christ in heaven and on earth. They are the testimony of the redemption of God. These are kings and priests to their God for the testimony of God’s glory in all things. These are those who live in a continual partnership with God in all things. God’s promise is not that we will one day be kings and priests to our God, but kings and priests today and into eternity.

This is a season of partnership with God. Our partnership with God will reveal His redemption in surprising ways of testimony because God’s story in our lives is always one of redemption. God allows the circumstances of our lives to be less than perfect so that His perfect love can be revealed to and through us in an imperfect world.

Revelation 1:4 Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Our partnership with Jesus is a partnership with Holy Spirit who comes to us and abides in us in Jesus’ name. He is revealed as the Lord, Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Might, Intimate Knowledge, and an Awe of God in all things. That partnership will empower us to see God’s redemptive testimonies and purposes by the grace of His sevenfold Spirit at all times and in every season of our lives. We live as priests in our ability to receive His heavenly presence that empowers us to be a dwelling place of His Spirit in our world. We live as kings in our influence to our world through our partnership with God as a dwelling place of His Spirit. By these things, God’s redemptive will and plan is made known in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I am home for a while in Bellingham. We were blessed at Alife to have our dear friend Andrew Shearman and his wife Mo with us. I have knowing Andrew and Mo for 34 years. Andrew’s message in life is one of being born to be loved by God. Andrew challenged us with a word on Jabez. We cannot let the pain in our lives deter us from being a blessing to our world. It was a blessed weekend here in Bellingham.

Our relationship with God is not merely about knowing what to do in life. If the main point of knowing God is knowing what to do in life, our goal is human pride and independence. Knowing what to do is not the most important thing in life. Knowing God as a being and knowing His love is! Our connection to God is about knowing Him. Knowing God will give us a wisdom for life. Knowing God will give us a knowledge of Him, and it is a knowledge of God that gives us true understanding. These things are discovered in His presence and His presence grants us an awe of knowing His greatness. An awe of God is the fruit of being loved by Him that gives us a revelation of His love in our hearts and minds.

Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

The fear of the Lord is not the fear of circumstances. It’s not a fear of being in trouble with Him. The fear of the Lord is an experience that comes by being captured by His love. It is through an experience with God in our lives that we walk in the benefits of knowing Him.

We discover the wisdom of God through an awe of God in our lives. Wisdom and knowledge will give us understanding. Understanding is a path to our feet, but it is all dependent upon finding God in our minds. Whatever is in the center of our world will determine what our world becomes. Man does not have the answers for the hope and life that humanity needs. These things come by the inspiration of God in our lives. The answers that we need are not the goal. The goal is knowing God and knowing God will give us whatever answers we need for the challenges of each day in our path of life. Every season of our lives is dependent upon finding God in that season.

Proverbs 2:10 When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, 11 discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, 12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, 13 from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked; 15 whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths; 16 to deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words, 17 who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

The immoral woman is not an individual person. She is a way of life. The seductress is not some person that leads us astray. She is a temptation to the perceived needs of our hearts and minds. She is the way of distraction that can never satisfy. She is a deceiving spirit that seeks to draw us away from knowing the love of God. The true lover of our souls is God! He is the One who will lead us in the path of life, and this is the day to find Him in the center of all that we are and do. By this, and only by this, can we find the path to life!

When we make the needs of our life the goal of our life, we fall into a trap of missing the treasures that we have never seen, heard of, or thought of before. An experience with God will give us the grace of knowing Him in a way that invites us into a partnership with Him for His way and will in our lives. Jesus is knocking on the door of our hearts that we might know a partnership with God as our Father, our Lord, our Savior, our Helper, and our Friend. When we know the awe of His presence, we become impassioned with a zeal for His house. We become impassioned to live to be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit in our world. It is not merely about going to heaven when we die. It is about becoming a heavenly place of God purpose and will while we live!

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 home in Bellingham. It has been a wonderfully sunny week. I have done my spring work, and the garden will soon be growing. It is the season of new life. The natural world is a good reminder of God’s plan for new seasons of life in the world in which we live.

I have been addressing the need to partner with God in all things. I believe this is a season to partner with God in a deeper way. Partnership with God is not a matter of partnership for works. It is a partnership of intimacy with Him. Friendship with God will surely empower us to do works that testify of Him but knowing Him is the goal. Knowing Him will empower us to live for Him, for His purpose, and for His will in all things.

The church of Laodicea was said to be lukewarm in their relationship with God. Their works were not a substitute for an intimate relationship with Him.

Revelation 3:15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.”

The testimony of this church was seen in their works. Their works were a manifestation of their motive for doing them. They were not motivated by love but by a self-righteousness exhibited through half-hearted ceremonial works of mere religion. Their works were not works of faith but works of the flesh. Faith is the testimony of a personal relationship with God whereby we hear Him in our hearts. Faith is the testimony of being a son or daughter of God. It is by being God’s sons and daughters that we are able to find our true identity, testimony, and purpose. It is through a personal relationship of faith towards God that we find the works that God has prepared for us. These are works empowered by a personal relationship with God in Christ.

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

God wants us to seek Him in all things, because He wants us to find Him in all things. He wants us to come alive in Him and to be transformed by Him in all things. He wants us to move forward in our lives from every today into every new tomorrow. This process involves finding God’s presence in our lives every day. God’s presence will give us God’s wisdom for each day. God’s wisdom in our lives is empowered by the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of wisdom in our lives. The Spirit of wisdom is testified through the faith that rises in our hearts when we hear His voice internally. We may not even be able to articulate what He has said, but something of a new desire and vision begins to rise from within. These things happen when we find the place of seeing God in the reality of His greatness. An awe of God is the beginning of knowledge, and that knowledge is the ability to be aware, and even wittingly aware, of the greatness of God’s thoughts present in our hearts and minds.

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The fear of the Lord is an awe of His presence in our lives. It is an awe for His glory and a zealous willingness to fulfill His will in all things. An awe of God is the beginning of wisdom. That wisdom is an internal substance of things hoped for with thoughts, strategies, desires, imaginations, and emotions of faith that can’t be denied. This kind of wisdom doesn’t come from being smart, it comes from the greatness of God’s presence in our lives. We need God’s presence in our world in order for us to find the path of life that God has for us in this world. This is a time to find God’s presence and allow Him to inspire us with knowledge and wisdom that brings about His future and hope.

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 was Easter, and I hope you had a blessed weekend celebrating Jesus in His resurrection and the life we have in Him. Pastor Jonathan gave an awesome word regarding the purpose of the death of Jesus and His covenant of life with us for eternity. It was a blessed day at Alife in Bellingham.

Jesus came to free us from the power of selfish desires, self-preserving actions, bitter responses, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways. These things are a testimony of a life in the flesh. Jesus came to free us from the life of the flesh and grant us the power of His grace to give us lives empowered by God’s Spirit. God wants us to be led by His Spirit with life-giving desires, actions of faith, responses to God’s transforming presence, life-giving connections, identity in Christ, community inspired by a communion of love, and a partnership in humility with God in all things to reign in all matters of our lives. For this to happen, Jesus gave the life of His flesh. He shed blood in seven ways to give us the power of Holy Spirit in seven manifestations of God’s grace.

1. JESUS SWEAT DROPS OF BLOOD – He was wounded for our transgressions. Jesus shed great drops of blood like sweat in the garden of Gethsemane (Lk. 22:39). In Gethsemane Jesus won back our will power; the Spirit of the Lord and a grant of repentance from dead works was given to us. His gift to us is a desire from within through a revelation of His love for us.
2. JESUS SHED BLOOD INTERNALLY (Lk. 22:63) – He was bruised for our iniquity. They beat Him. They blindfolded Him so that He couldn’t see with His natural eyes, because humanity was bound to the fear that comes from what we see. Jesus’ bruises won our deliverance from inner hurts, iniquities, our propensities to fail, and our source of human wisdom in order to give us God’s wisdom of faith toward God. The Spirit of Wisdom in Christ gives faith to overcome the fear of death. Our faith is empowered by a revelation of His love that gives us love for Him in our hearts.
3. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM SCOURGING (Jn. 19:1) – the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we were healed. He was fully submerged in human blood so we could be fully submerged in His Spirit of life. The stripes on Jesus’ body won back our health and a testimony of a holy body transformed by God’s submerging grace. The Spirit of Understanding in Christ transforms our lives with many testimonies through the submerging of the Holy Spirit.
4. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM HIS HEAD (Jn. 19:2) – Jesus shed blood to break the curse of human control and liberate our lives to His headship of life. He gave us back the power of light to darkness and the testimony of lives submitted to the headship of the Father. His crown of thorns won back our prosperity, our ability to be givers of life as those submitted to His headship of Life in all things. The Spirit of Counsel in Christ empowers our hands with life-giving authority to our world.
5. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM HIS HANDS (Jn. 19:17)! With a crown of thorns and a robe of purple He was presented to the world. ‘The Resurrection’ faced the death of the cross. The hands that give life overpowered the curse of thorns and thistles that day. Jesus shed blood from the hands of resurrection life to redeem us from the curse of death, fleshly distractions, circumstantial rule, and crisis management. Jesus’ pierced hands won back dominion over the things we touch and secured our ability to know the power of His resurrection Might in all that we are and do.
6. JESUS SHED BLOOD FROM HIS FEET – for the standing of all men. He shed blood from His feet so all men could stand in a relationship of intimacy with God and intimacy with each other. Living Bread stood on the nails of sweat and human will. He stood as the judgment of love upon the nail of the judgment of right and wrong. His pierced feet won back dominion over the places we walk, that we might freely give the Bread of Life to all we meet. We stand in the eternal judgment of eternal life for all men.
7. JESUS SHED BLOOD (AND WATER) FROM HIS SIDE (Jn. 19:34). Just as the Adam of dust was put to sleep and out of his side came the rib of flesh – from the side of Jesus came the living water of the Church. Jesus’ pierced side won back our joy and the testimony of a face-to-face relationship with Him in life. We are being perfected in Him to rule now and into eternity. The bride of Christ is the body of Christ, and we are co-heirs with Him in the destiny of the family name!

Jesus went down to the grave. They put Him in a tomb. But on the third day, He walked into a room where there were many fearful friends (Jn. 20:19). He walked into His family’s house, and He came to announce to them, “I shed blood for you. I’ve broken the curse in your life. I’ve bought back your will, and it is yours to love me. I’ve bought back your acts and now you can live from your heart with acts of love. I’ve bought back your testimony so you can be supernatural in a natural world. I bought back your inheritance to give the life of your Father to others in this world. I’ve come to tell you that I’ve bought back the power over apathy so you can be empowered from within with an awareness of my presence in your life. I bought back the intimacy of life and communion of the Spirit with me and with My family in this world. I bought back your ability to reign in life so your children and your children’s children can know My increasing glory in their lives. I’ve come to make you of One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father, One God Above All, One God Through All, and One God in All.”

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

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Greetings,

Today I am in Angola, Africa. I have had a wonderful weekend in Huambo. I was blessed to bring training to two different groups. One group was a new connection, and I was blessed to share with many hungry pastors, leaders, and students regarding Generational Leadership. On Saturday and Sunday I taught a group of wonderful hungry believers concerning Foundations of the Church. God is doing good things here and it was a great blessing to be with friends and new connections with my African family. Thank you to all to participated.

In our journey of life, we are often faced with difficult and challenging situations. Those challenges present a wrestle that can appear to thwart our purpose and plans for life. When our spirit is joined to God’s Spirit within our hearts, we can overcome those challenges, and we even find that those times of difficulty present an opportunity for us to be freed from any selfish desires, self-preserving actions, bitter testimonies, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways. These are fleshly enemies that are only overcome by the power of God’s Spirit and His love within our hearts. It is in the challenges of life that we become desperate for a partnership with God by His Spirit. It is in that place we manifest as sons and daughters of God that remain true to be givers of life in our world. What we become in the difficult times will be who we are in the good times of our lives.

Like the inhabitants left in the land of promise, we are to conquer every fleshly enemy in our lives and utterly destroy them. We are not to be intimate with them. We must not have a relationship with them. Whatever we are intimate with, gives us our identity, testimony, and purpose. Only intimacy with God by His Spirit can give us our true identity, testimony, and purpose.

Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

We must destroy the place where these things rest in our lives. We must destroy our value for them in our hearts. This is the power of a new and living covenant with God whereby His nature is written upon our hearts and minds. We cannot destroy these things merely by the power of our own will. We must find the manifest presence of God in our hearts that destroys the will of self through an empowerment of our spirit by God’s Spirit within us. Only Holy Spirit within us can give us life-giving desires that come by a receiving of God’s love. Only Holy Spirit can empower faith within us that is empowered by a love for God. Only Holy Spirit within us can inspire our hearts to respond to God’s transforming presence whereby everything that is bitter becomes submerged in a testimony of transformation that comes by an understanding of God’s love. Only Holy Spirit within us can cause us to be givers of life to others in our world. Only Holy Spirit within us gives us an identity in Christ that is stronger than any worldly distraction. Only Holy Spirit within us can give us a true communion of love that creates a community with others through a life-giving attitude of love. Only Holy Spirit within us gives us can inspire a partnership of humility with God and one another.

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

Our identity, testimony, and purpose are only found in God, our Creator. Sons and daughters of God find these things through a partnership with God at all times. That partnership is especially proven in the difficult times of testing.

Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.”

When we partner with God, we discover the mystery of being holy. We cannot be holy to come to God. Joining ourselves to God is what makes us holy. What makes us God’s treasure is a partnership with Him in His manifest presence. Knowing God is what makes us special. Knowing we are known by God causes our hearts to realize how special it is to be 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,

Today I am in Portugal. I have had a great weekend in Lisbon and God’s presence has been wonderful and life is happening. This is a year of partnership with God for the glory of His-story in all things.

We all face difficult situations in life. Those difficult situations are not meant to be the determining factor in the story of our lives. They are merely circumstances whereby we invite God’s presence to determine the story of our lives. What is the purpose of the difficult situations in our lives? What is God’s solution to our oppression? What is God’s solution for our bondage? We all face various taskmasters and sorrows, but God hears us, and He answers our cries. 

Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

In this account of God and the children of Israel, God revealed that His desire for all His sons and daughters was to bring them liberty. Like the children of Israel, God delivers us out of the hand of the oppressor. He desires to brings us all into a good and large land of milk and honey. Milk symbolizes what makes our bones strong and honey symbolizes what gives us renewed the energy of life. These things are not merely given to us. These things are found in the place of enemies that are bigger than us.

Deuteronomy 7:1 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you…

These nations represent things that are bigger than us, but they are not bigger than God. God wants to partner with us in all things. When we partner with God and God partners with us, all things are possible. Our enemies are greater and mightier than us, but they are not greater and mightier than God! God doesn’t merely want to free us from our enemies, He wants to demonstrate His love for us through His testimony in and through our lives. He wants our partnership with Him to demonstrate a strength of God’s Spirit that overcomes every weapon and power of the flesh. It is a testimony of His glory in increasing measures in our lives. It reveals us as sons and daughters of God who can inherit His promises in our lives.

Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.

The nations left in the Promised Land represent the curses of futility in the lands of men. These things thrive in an external administration of knowledge and information and can only be defeated by an internal administration found in a partnership with God by His Holy Spirit. These enemies thrive in the natural testimonies of human sin. These enemies manifest as selfish desires, self-preserving actions, testimonies of bitterness, independent motivations, worldly distractions, self-justifying attitudes, and prideful ways that only end in dysfunction and death. When we are challenged with difficult times in life, we manifest these attributes. Whatever manifests in the difficult times of our lives will be a lord in the days of our peace. God wants us to find the power of Christ within us in the good times and the challenging times of our lives. Only a partnership with God by His Spirit can empower us to manifest as sons and daughters of God that remain true to be givers of life to their world in every circumstance of life.

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 we end the month of March, and we enter into a new month. Bonnie and I are home now after a blessed time in California with family. Our granddaughter Eleonore turned 5 this week and Zaria turned 10. Our family is growing. Bonnie and I had a blessed morning yesterday at Everyone’s church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Life is good.

God is love and His actions are inspired by His heart toward mankind. In a world that is often difficult and hard, it is sometimes easy to put our focus upon what is difficult, and we miss seeing the love of God in the situation. God wants us to know His powerful love, not merely a superficial affection that only works on good days. God’s love is supernatural, and it reveals His desire for us and invites us to uncompromisingly trust and depend upon Him in all things.

God is a giver of life, and He wants each of us to know the miracle of being givers of life as He is. This is a supernatural testimony, and it is a greater power than any earthly bondage. Being a giver of life is an attribute of sons and daughters of God. It’s not our natural birth that makes us sons and daughters of God. Our natural birth simply makes us natural expressions of a natural world. It’s our spirit connection with the Spirit of God that makes us sons and daughters of God. This requires a birth by the Spirit of God. It is a supernatural reality. For this reason God himself subjected the earth to futility.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

God is the One who subjected the earth to futility as a consequence of man’s disconnection at the fall. Man chose an outside/in administration when he chose knowledge over intimacy and trust with God. God’s desire was to restore the intimacy and trust that was lost by man at the fall. His subjection of the earth to futility put a demand for a supernatural transformation in the hearts of men and women to become sons and daughters of God. This requires an internal connection of the spirit of man to the Spirit of God. Man was created to live by the Spirit and not the flesh. God’s plan was to restore the truth of the Spirit to mankind. God wants each of us to manifest as a son or daughter of God.

Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

God wants us to partner with Him in all things. There is not a single thing in life that happens as we would plan for it to happen. There is a challenge in all things, and it is in those challenges that we can invite God to partner with us and we can partner with Him for His purpose and will. Being led by the Spirit of God is more important that simply having a conflict free life. Being led by the Spirit of God will reveal God’s goodness and love in the midst of every circumstance of our lives.

What is the purpose of the difficult situations in our lives? An impossible world reveals an all things are possible God. Difficult situations don’t just reveal a loving God, but rather the power of God’s love in our lives. That power is supernatural, and it demonstrates God’s care for us. Jesus is the Amen – what He determines to be the end is made known when we partner with Him in life. Jesus is the Faithful One and His faithfulness is revealed when we partner with Him to find faith in our hearts. Jesus is the True Witness, and when we partner with Him every false witness and lie is destroyed by the power of His life. Jesus is the Beginning of the creation of God and when we partner with Him things are created new, even in the difficult challenges of our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Bonnie and I are still in Redding, California. We have enjoyed time with our family here. We will head home to Bellingham on Tuesday. It will no doubt be a sad goodbye, but we look forward to our next time together. Love laughs and love cries, this is the power of the heart.

This is a year of partnership with God so that we can enter what we could not enter before, we can see what we could not see before, become what we could not become before, and possess what we could not possess before. That possession is not merely for our own gratification. It is not for our own dreams or visions. That possession is so we can be sons and daughters of God who bring the blessings of God to our world. When we find our place in God’s plan, we discover it is better than any plan we can create on our own. We find great satisfaction, but we must lose our old life to find our new life in Christ. We can only enter the new that God has for us when we willfully let go of our old way of administrating our lives.

Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, 3 to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.”

God desires a personal relationship with each of us so that we can know the greater glory of His blessing and purpose in life. God doesn’t merely want to give us freedom from the bondages of our world. He wants to the bring the blessings of His kingdom into our world. God wants us to be planted in His purpose in our world. He wants us to be a part of the family tree of life. As sons and daughters of God we are generational trees of righteousness for the will of God in our world. Being planted implies an intimate relationship of connection to the soil of God’s Spirit. In the same way a natural tree is planted in the soil of the earth, God wants us to be securely planted in the soil of His Spirit. This is the soil of His love. It is the soil of His love that enables us to be expressions of His love to our world. It is that soil that enables us to be good dads, moms, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, grandpas, grandmas, friends, neighbors, and members of a life-giving humanity in our world. When we are planted in an intimate relationship with God we can be planted in an intimate relationship with one another. It is from that place of relationship that we become empowered by God’s Spirit to bring His redeeming, restoring, and replenishing life to our world.

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

It is time to rebuild what has been destroyed by our enemies. When we partner with God, He gives us the ability to begin again and to begin in new ways. God gives life and life is more powerful than any destruction of death. The love of God wins over the hateful plans of every adversary. There is a turnaround anointing available to us as sons and daughters of God. What has been torn apart can be made good again in ways that are beyond what was before.

It is time to raise up what was made desolate. God gives breath and when we partner with Him, we find His Spirit filling our lives in new ways. That partnership is not one of natural knowledge but one of supernatural expression of His love. What the enemy made desolate can be filled with the testimony of God’s love.

It is time to repair what was meant to have a generational inheritance. The community of God is one that tabernacles with Him to reveal His inheritance to our children and our children’s children. God gives us all things. His purpose is seen in the glory of His name made real in and through our lives to our world. It is for the sake of our children and our children’s children that God partners with us and we partner with Him 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