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Greetings,

Today I am in Portugal. I have been recording another course of training in the Portuguese language for training in the Portuguese speaking parts of the world. An eighth course is now recorded in video, audio, and written material. Now I will edit the material and prepare it for implementation among my Portuguese family. God is good. Yesterday I was blessed to minister to two churches that are new to me in the Porto area of Portugal. God was good, and I believe that God is arranging more divine connections for His glory.

Isaiah 2:2-3  Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.  Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

No mountain is made one stone. No mountain is made of one material. Every mountain is made of many stones. Those stones are made of different minerals and materials with different qualities and characteristics. When they are joined together they make a mountain. The mountain of God is filled with a diversity of material, but each stone has something of the unique life-giving character of God. The Old Covenant was given upon a mountain and the Torah (Law) / Tabernacle (Temple) system revealed was one of a knowledge of good and a knowledge of evil. It was a mountain that measured men according to their failures. It was not a mountain that could transform men’s hearts and minds.  It could only inform them of their short-comings and failures. It was a mountain of condemnation and death. Each stone in that mountain was a stone of judgment. The truth was written down as something that could be remembered and bound to, but it was not a truth that one could become because of the life-giving liberty of transforming grace. Jesus came to give us a different mountain than the mountain of law and judgment. He came to cause us to become a mountain of grace and truth!

2 Corinthians 3:4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

The Old Covenant was based upon a knowledge given upon a mountain of judgment. It as a mountain that killed flesh, but it did not transform the flesh of men to become expressions of the word of God. It was a letter of a law that could only kill. A mountain of death is filled with stones of death. When someone was found short of being good according to the material of the knowledge of good and evil they were judged by the rocks of that mountain. Those found guilty by its measurement were forced to leave the community of God’s people and they were put to death by stones (Num. 15:35, Deut. 13:10, 21:21). I believe that those stones were symbolic of the death we put upon ourselves when we seek to live under a governing system that makes us dependent upon knowledge and temps us to live independent from intimacy with God in our hearts. If we seek to live our lives under an administration of law or conscience we seek to live independent from a place of life-transforming intimacy with God. We were not given life to spend it upon ourselves. We were not given life to create kingdoms that are separate from the kingdom of our Lord and Christ. We were given life to be expressions of the kingdom of God in the kingdoms of men.

The mountain of God is a mountain made of stones that are intimate with God in Christ. Each stone has the quality of hearing God in their hearts, responding to Him in their path of life, and becoming one with Him as the immovable, unshakeable rock in their lives. They too become life-giving stones as He is life-giving to them in all things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am in Wales, where I have been staying with good friends and spending time with my covenant brother John Marsden. Yesterday we had a great time at Rock Church in Prestatyn and then life together to cap off a great day. Relationships are surly the substance of life. This includes our relationship with God and with one another in life.

All people have an internal need to worship God. I believe that internal need is given to each one by God, because of God’s desire to give life to all people. He is the one who gives life, breath, and all things. When we worship Him it does not change who He is, it changes who we are. When we worship Him, we open our hearts to receive the life that He gives. When we receive His life, we become changed by His life. We receive whatever or whoever we bow to. When the earth bows towards the sun it receives the benefit of a sunrise and night becomes day. When we bow in the direction of someone or something we experience what that someone or something has the ability to give to us. God’s wants to love us. He wants to give life to all men, but when we bow to other things we experience the consequence of something that God is not in.

Isaiah 2:9 People bow down, and each man humbles himself; therefore do not forgive them. 10 Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty.

The blood of Jesus Christ offers forgiveness to all men for all things, but when men embrace things that cannot give life to them the forgiveness of God cannot be found. Forgiveness is easily found in Christ, but it is found in Christ. When men seek other things, they submit themselves to realities that cannot offer the forgiveness of God. God’s love is for all men, but men can choose to embrace things that cannot offer the love or life of God. When men embrace other things, they suffer the consequence of what those other things offer.

Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up—and it shall be brought low—13 Upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan; 14 upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up; 15 upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall; 16 upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all the beautiful sloops. 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day, 18 but the idols He shall utterly abolish. 19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth mightily. 20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made, each for himself to worship, to the moles and bats, 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crags of the rugged rocks, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth mightily. 22 Sever yourselves from such a man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

God does not desire to destroy men. Pride destroys men. God’s presence destroys the lofty things that destroy men. When we embrace other things, other ways, or other realities than God, we find ourselves under the force of a crashing wave that comes by the presence of God. God’s presence destroys the false treasures of men, when men embrace false treasures they embrace what those false treasures have to offer. Man can suffer consequence of the destruction of those false things if they continue to embrace the things that are destroyed by God’s presence. All they have to do is look to Him, and His presence is a rescue and a force of transformation in their lives. The judgment of God is upon those things that do not bring life to man or to the earth. God is not looking to judge men, He desires to love them. However, there are consequences to embracing false treasures. Loving the things that are destroyed by God’s presence can only offer shaking and destruction in our lives. God is love and we cannot accuse Him of being unloving when we embrace the things that are destroyed by the power of His love. If we think His love means that all things are blessed, we are deceived concerning what true love is. His love destroys the things that destroy life and love. True life empowers us to produce life in a multigenerational way. True love empowers us to be love for others in a multigenerational way. Life is not something we merely get, it is found in our ability to produce life for the sake of others in all things. True love is not something we live to receive, it is the substance of what we can become for the sake of God and men in the life that has been given to us to live.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am heading home after some days in Wisconsin to see a very good friend and to enjoy a family reunion with my remaining siblings, nephews, nieces, and various extended realities. It was a great time for relational connections. God was in the journey and divine appointments happened each day.

True God-seekers desire to become like Him. They want to walk in His light. His light will transform their darkness to become a testimony of His light. Eastern mysticism teaches that human darkness becomes light when it is accepted as truth, but God’s way is to bring our darkness to His light, whereby the testimony of our lives changes from darkness to the character, nature, way, power, and authority of His name. God is willing to move into our world to confirm the power of His mercy, but He invites us to move into His world to experience the transforming power of His grace!

Isaiah 2:5 O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

God does not forsake people, but the ways of people can put them in a path that is forsaken by God. The mystic ways of the east are not the same as the ways of our Father in heaven. We cannot expect God to change who He is for the sake of soothsayers and ways that are foreign to who He is.

Isaiah 2:6 For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with eastern ways; they are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they are pleased with the children of foreigners. 7 Their land is also full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is also full of horses, and there is no end to their chariots. 8 Their land is also full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.

When we expect God to change who He is for the sake of who we think we are, we are embracing a created image of God instead of embracing the One who is creative in all of His ways. He can cause a man who has never seen to finally see. He can cause a man who has never walked to finally walk. This means He also empowers a formerly blind man to now live as a man with sight with all of the responsibilities of sight. He empowers a formerly crippled man to now live as a man who can walk with all the responsibilities of a man who can work. The former treasures have to be exchanged for the new treasures given by God. He transforms an Abram to an Abraham and expects him to live in the boundaries and expectations of a Hebrew and no longer a Chaldean. He transforms a Jacob to an Israel and expects him to be a prince with God and no longer merely a seeker of His blessing.

Jeremiah 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: 2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?” says the Lord. “Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!”

The clay is different that the Creator and Molder of clay. The one who molds the clay knows the purpose of the clay. The clay can only allow its substance to trust the one who forms it into a vessel of destiny and purpose. What was formerly marred can become something of great beauty in the hands of the Potter. Christ in us is the hope of glory and it is God by the power of His grace in our lives that can reshape us to be as we should be in this world. We cannot shape His image to match our marred testimony. We have to trust who He is to form us as we should be. He does not shame us because we are marred. Our marred inheritance doesn’t change what He sees when He looks at us. He sees that we are the full substance of all that He needs to reveal to us the vision of His love, the touch of His love, and the destiny of His love in all things. This is the power of God’s grace at work in our lives. His mercy justifies us to live, but His grace empowers us to become as we should be.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am heading back to Las Vegas after several great days at CitiLife Church in Deming, New Mexico. God was very good. God is joining lives for the purpose of life! We are being defined by God as children of the tree of life. It was a great time in Deming, but I am blessed today to get a couple more days with two of my grandbabies in route to my next destination. We will no doubt play and celebrate life together!

Does God judge? Many believe that there is no judgment in God, but God’s judgment is a boundary of life meant to guide, lead, and transform people into His way of life. It is created by the flow of life. God’s judgments are the boundaries defined by life. In the same way that a river cuts boundaries causing the course of the river to be defined, God’s boundaries are defined by His flow of life. The boundaries do not define the river, it is the flow of water created the boundaries that define its direction of flow. The point is the flow of the river, the direction of the river, and the destination of the river. It is a source of life, a course of life, and it carries a destiny of life for a final goal. God is a giver and not a taker, thus the judgments of God are the places outside of His flow of life. They appear as a consequence upon all things that destroy the testimony of true life in Him. God is not one who shames men, but rather heals them of all of their shame. We cannot be healed of our shame if we continue to live in our shame. Things that do not produce life for the generations cannot be the true life that God has for us. This is true in the natural and in the spirit. There are shameful things in the natural and shameful things in the spirit that are not the path of destiny for sons and daughters of God in Christ. We can only be healed of our shame when God comes into our shame and transforms us from the guilt of shame and then leads us into the path of life that does not lead to shame again.

Isaiah 2:4 He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

The word rebuke in this verse is the Hebrew word, h3198. יָכַח yâḵaḥ; a primitive root meaning; to be right(i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict.

God does not condemn us, but He does convict us. He doesn’t just condone our flaws, He desires to transform our character. He wants to transform our lives to become as they should be in Him. We were born to be the likeness and the image of God in the earth. We are God’s agents of life to all things. Love cannot be defined by what we deserve or what we get from another, but by the fruit of life it produces for our family name. It has to be life-giving in a generational way to be the true life of God. We cannot be takers of life and fulfill our true calling, testimony, and destiny in Christ. God wants to bring heaven into our hearts and our minds to change us by the power of His internal kingdom of life. In this, there is a means of transformation that causes us to become as we should be. The rebuke of the Lord is not a matter of right and wrong, it is a matter of life and death. When we choose things that are outside of the character of God and call it life, or call it love, we are deceived. God is life! God is love! He can define us, but we cannot define Him. It is only when we allow Him to transform us to become like Him that we can see our weapons of death become the tending tools of life. It is only then that swords can become plowshares and spears can become pruning hooks. We cannot lay down our swords without embracing the process of being plowed. We cannot lay down our spears without embracing the process of pruning. We must be willing to be changed and we must expect to be changed. It is a supernatural thing and is impossible apart from Christ.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Greetings

Today I am in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bonnie and I have been spending several days with our children and grandchildren. It is great being with family. We have been working on their new house and enjoying time together in a rich and wonderful way. It will be hard to leave and I will look forward to coming again soon. I will be off in a few days to New Mexico, but then back for a couple of days before I head out again.

Isaiah 2:3 Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Wherever God’s presence rests, His presence subdues. His presence changes everything in our lives and even in the environment around us. The name of Jesus is higher than any other name. He is salvation in every situation. We are the place God lives. He rests in our lives. When God rests in our lives the beliefs of our hearts change. When the beliefs of our hearts change, the actions of our lives change. We choose a different path of walking. When we choose a different path of walking, a different way of doing things in our lives, we end up entertaining different imaginations in our hearts. The strongholds of our hearts end up being strongholds of God’s love and the empowering transformations of the imaginations of our minds. When our imaginations change we envision a world around us that is empowered and transformed by our Father’s will in heaven. We end up seeing things as they are in heaven, thus we end up influencing the world around us by heaven’s grace. We become testimonies of the word of God. The expressions of God become the expressions of our lives. We become the embodiment of the word of God that influences our world in heavenly ways. We prove that there is no gap between us and God and the world around us becomes influenced by the power of Christ in us. By these things we testify that as blessings we live to be blessings in our world. We seek to give greater value to those things that are beyond our lives. We live to multiply and not merely add blessings to our own lives. We see ourselves as significant for the sake of others, not merely living for our own success in life. The result is a multigenerational influence that transforms the word beyond our lives. This is how we discover the reason for which we were born. We were born for the generations of our family name. Our family name is nothing less than the name of Jesus and the testimony of Christ in all things.

Isaiah 2:2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

When we lose our lives in Christ, we actually find them. God doesn’t want us to lose our life, He wants us to finally really find it. When we lay our false lives down, we find our true lives in Christ. The latter days and nothing more than the loss of what is false to finally find what is true. My last day was forty-five years ago when I invited Christ into my heart. It was that the I began to discover the presence of God in my life. The name of Jesus has continually proven to be greater than any other name in my life. His name is above every name that is less than life that has tried to rob me of my true life that can only be found in Christ. All the other high places in my heart are transformed by the name that is above all names. I find my identity in Christ because of the power of Jesus name. His name is above all other names and His name is the name that presides in the house of God in heaven and upon the earth.

Psalms 148:13 Let them praise the name of the Lord, for His name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and heaven. 14 And He has exalted the horn of His people, the praise of all His saints—of the children of Israel, a people near to Him. Praise the Lord! 

Ephesians 1:19 …and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

It is a wonderful thing to be a part of the house of the Lord. His name will fill every aspect of our lives and we can know increasing life for all the days of our lives. The name of Jesus is above all other names and we are part of that family name.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings;

Today I am in Castlegar, BC, Canada. We have had a great weekend at the church here and a gathering of people from the area have been hungry, willing, and teachable. God’s presence was wonderful, and people’s hearts were hungry and receptive for what the Holy Spirit desired to give them. There are shoots of New Covenant life and grace planted for the increase of God’s glory. Our theme was the Simplicity of Devotion based upon Paul’s writing to the church of Corinth.

2 Corinthians 11:1 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

These verses begin with Paul expressing his heart concerning Godly jealousy for the church of Corinth. We can apply Paul’s appeal to them to God’s heart for His church today. God’s jealousy is different than the jealousy of men. When people become jealous it is because they feel something that should be theirs is being given to someone else. Their jealousy is based upon what they are not getting. God is not a taker. He is a giver. His jealousy is different than ours. He wants to give us more than we want to allow Him to give. He doesn’t need anything from us. He gives life, breath, and all things. He wants to give to us identity, testimony, and destiny. We are called to find our place of predestination in Christ as part of His calling, His inheritance, and His power that subdues death with the power of His resurrection life. This is true dominion as the revealing the life-giving truth of each “i am” in Christ that comprises the many-membered body of Christ that crumbles every lie beneath the feet of Christ. That Christ is both the headship of Jesus and the Church as the body of Christ. It is the testimony of an eternal Adam and an eternal Eve that brings glory to God the Father in all things. It is a partnership of God and man that fulfills the mandate of God in heaven and upon the earth. That dominion is the fruit of intimacy with God who is life, thus life fills all in all and affects the worlds of men.

Paul’s point in writing was to clarify the identity, testimony, and destiny of who we are in Christ. We are part of an eternal Eve and the secret to discovering who we are is found through an intimate love relationship with God that fulfills the purpose of His life-giving Spirit in the earth. We are the Proverb’s chapter 31 woman dealing in the real estate of the earth on behalf of our Husband who sits in the gate. We purchase the real-estate of the earth in our family name and we weave relationships in the earth for the fullness of His glory.

Our purpose is determined by our connection with Jesus, the One who gives us our identity. He gives us the true spiritual DNA of life. Holy Spirit gives us our God-given testimony as a part of God’s inheritance. It is God our Father who partners with us in all things to give us our part in the destiny of the family business of life. Even as the serpent deceived Eve it is possible for members of the body of Christ to be deceived. In the original fall, Eve was deceived and then Adam ate. When the “one flesh” of Adam and Eve ate, there was a disconnect from the Spirit of God as the administration of man’s heart. Information became the presiding force of human administration and a love relationship of trust with God was lost. The power of internal transformation was abandoned, and the destiny of man-kind became a destiny of self instead of a fulfillment of the mandate to bring the fruitfulness of the God of the garden to every barren place of the earth. It wasn’t until Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that the full disconnect happened for man – male and female as the one flesh testimony of God in the earth to fulfill the calling, testimony, and destiny – things that can only be fulfilled by God resting in human identity upon the earth.

In the original fall, Eve was deceived and then Adam ate the fruit and man (male and female) became disconnected, separate, and independent of God. The moment Adam ate, sin entered into mankind. Sin didn’t enter until Adam ate. Eve was deceived, but when Adam ate man-kind became disconnected from being able to be truly God-kind. I believe if Adam had not eaten, but had loved instead, that Eve could have been freed from her deception. Perhaps Adam and Eve could have been whole and holy before God, but when the headship embraced the fruit of the tree it was the full embracing of independence from intimacy with God. When Adam bit of that tree mankind become sinners. They became disconnected in their hearts from God. Jesus came to reconnect us to intimacy with God in Christ. Jesus is the eternal life-giving Adam to all who are in Christ. He has reconciled us to God and the sting of death does not need to prevail over us anymore. His love covers us even when we are deceived, but can we be deceived? What is that deception? That deception is seen in choosing an identity, a testimony, and a destiny that robs us of experiencing the life, breath, and all things that God wants to give to us.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Greetings,

It was great being home in my family church this Sunday. Pastor Jonathan gave a great word on walking in the way of peace. We hear God with our spirits, not our souls and it is by the power of Christ in us that we can bring life to our world. Life comes from the internal kingdom of life and it is the kingdom of God within our hearts that sets our path to destiny.

I used to believe that God is in control. That is what Bible teachers told me, but I have read my Bible more carefully and I have discovered that throughout the Scripture is says that God owns everything, but He did an amazing thing. He put what He owns into the hands of those that He loves, even those that don’t love Him.

Psalms 8:1 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, 7 All sheep and oxen—even the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas. 9 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!

We must be intimate with the one who owns it all, so we can bring His life to the world given to us for the glory of His name. We are all little lords and kings born to be intimate with the King of kings and the Lord of lords that we might become givers of life to our worlds, even as our Father in heaven is a giver of life in all things! The kingdom of God is an internal kingdom of the human heart that changes the external expressions of men. The kingdom of God within our hearts is a matter of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is rooted in the human spirit and it inspires the human soul from the life of God’s Spirit inspiring our human spirit within. This is the strength of our inner man. This is what Paul was praying for in regard to the church of Ephesus.

Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

God made human beings less than gods, but He put them in control of what He created. God is in charge, but man is in control. When we misrepresent God with what we are in control of we damage the reputation of the One who owns all things. Man has dominion over angels and all created things. Human beings will judge angels. Who is in control? Human beings are in control, but they need to know that in order to be in control they need to be intimately connected to the one who owns it. They need to be intimate with the one who is charge. This answers the question, if God is good why do bad things happen? God is not in control, but He has a hope that the more we manifest as sons and daughters the more the earth will be liberated from its corruption. We are kings and lords of what is in the sphere of our rule, but we are not kings like the kings of the world. We are not lords like the lords of the world. We are kings like our King Jesus, the One who gives life in all things. We are lords like our Lord Jesus Christ, the One who serves to bring life to all things.

Let me make this practical. God is not in control of your marriage, but He is in charge. Your marriage can be wonderful or disastrous. It can only be wonderful if each partner gets intimate with the One who is in charge. If I as Bonnie Hanson’s husband do not seek to become a place where God lives, to become the husband that God lives in, I cannot be the husband that Bonnie needs. If I choose to be the husband who is smart, our marriage will not succeed. Being the husband who has enough information of good and enough information of evil, so I can judge when my wife is good and when my wife is evil, will bring destruction to our marriage. If that is my choice of administration, I have already chosen a recipe for disaster, a plan for destruction in my marriage. The only way that our marriage can become a testimony of heaven is for both of us to choose to become a place where God lives. Ted and Bonnie Hanson must become a place where God lives in order to bring life to all that we are in control of. We cannot be in control of one another, but we can be in control of our own hearts. This will bring life to all that is beyond us. It is only then that the decisions we make in the things we are in control of will take on a different testimony. We won’t be living upon judgments of things that look formless, void and dark but our decisions will be based upon hope, promise, and expectation. This is the only place where love holds no record of wrong. We are on a journey to increasingly become that place. It is a place where God lives, and it always promises hope.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Thank you for your prayers and your financial support. With your help the message of New Covenant Life and Grace is reaching the nations.

House of Bread Ministry –

Checks Payable to: House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA  98225

Online Donations can be made above at the column to the right.