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Greetings,

I have just landed in Seattle after a great week in Spain and a great weekend in Clay Cross, England. God is stirring the hearts of people to desire Him and to become Christ centered communities of His presence. It is good to be a part of the family of God. Thanks so much to the hungry hearts of Clay Cross. It was good to be with you and to pray with you this weekend, including the Nuns of Saint Francis.

We are a diverse group of people being united by the radical Spirit of life only found in the Holy Spirit. We are receiving heavenly blessings that go beyond our limitations has men and women in the natural environments of our world. We don’t understand each other well in the natural, but we know Him and our world is become a Christ centered world of radical mercy, grace, and love.

When mankind understood one another naturally, they attempted to leave the earth so that they wouldn’t be scattered across the earth. But God wants to fill our lives with His presence so we will fill the earth. It is difficult to be scattered when we fill every place. We can’t be separate when there is no place to be separate. This has always been God’s desire. So, a time came, when God said that is enough. The fullness of time came and Jesus became flesh and moved into the neighborhood. He lived as a man who was in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Because of that, He did what He saw the Father doing. Then He died on our cross. Think about the cross. It was an instrument of torturous death. The Romans used it to torture and kill people. It was symbolic of the curse of the fall. Where do we access the cross? Where do we find it today? Picture, it as an electric chair, a gas chamber, or a hangman’s noose. This is what the cross was. By itself it is hideous and vengeful, but with the presence of Jesus it becomes a testimony of love and forgiveness for us all. We can see something disgusting became a gift of beauty. How do we as individuals find the cross? The only place we can truly find the cross is at the throne of grace. An ugly thing has become beautiful because of the love of God and the access that is given to a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. It has only become beautiful as a symbol where mercy has triumphed over judgment. An ugly thing has become a testimony of love. The true gift given by the cross is not the death of Jesus, it is a connection with His life on the throne. A connection with Holy Spirit is the true testimony of the cross. It is the life of the Spirit that gives meaning to the cross.

Luke 22:17-20 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

The only thing that can proclaim that Jesus died on the cross for us is for us to drink the cup of the Spirit. This is the cup ‘after supper’. It is fellowship with the Holy Spirit that proclaims the death of Jesus. This is why Jesus took the cup ‘after supper’ and called it the blood of the New Covenant. This isn’t theologically correct. The cup ‘after supper’ in the Seder meal is not the cup of blood. The cup before the meal is the cup of blood. Jesus called the cup ‘after supper’ the cup of blood. He separated the blood of the Old Covenant from the blood of the New Covenant. This is the cup of the Holy Spirit. This is the cup that proclaims His death. This cup is a cup of personal relationship with God in our hearts. It is the cup of finding our life, expression, and very being in Christ. This was also confirmed by the words of Paul.

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner, He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.

The cup after supper was the cup of Hallel, the cup of praise. This is not human praise. It is not natural praise. To experience the cup of Hallel is to be declared legally insane by natural standards. We have experienced something supernatural. As often as we drink that cup we proclaim His death. What is that cup? It is fellowshipping Holy Spirit. Whenever we fellowship the Holy Spirit we are experiencing the blood of the New Covenant. Blood brings life throughout the body. It circulates oxygen, nutrition, fights infections, brings healing, and carries needed hormones, enzymes and other needed substances that provide for the attributes of life. My body is filled with arteries and veins and my heart is pumping blood throughout my body that causes me to be a living body. This is true of Holy Spirit. The blood of the New Covenant is not the blood of the Old Covenant. It is the life of the Spirit, not the life of the flesh. The cup we bless is the cup of fellowship of the Holy Spirit. It brings life to the body. It is communion with God that causes us to be the community of God in heaven and upon the earth. Drinking the cup after supper is not just a community experience in the eating of bread and drinking wine. It is proving we are the bread of the body of Christ by our fellowship with Holy Spirit.  Our community experience with one another is centered around our communion experience with Holy Spirit. The more we commune with Him, the more we become empowered to be life and to give life to the world we live in.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Greetings,

Today I am in Spain doing prophetic training and activation with the G42 students. I am here, hoping France will send my luggage this way shortly, ha ha. I had a great weekend in Utrecht, Netherlands with a great church and good friends. I was blessed to pray with some precious people and to speak on discipleship in connection with the Holy Spirit. Discipling others is about giving life to them and leading them into the life that comes by Christ in them, the hope of glory.

Our connection with the Spirit of God makes us life-giving in this world. We don’t just become alive by Him, we become life-giving because of Him in our lives. Even Jesus said if anyone is thirsty they can come to Him and become givers of life to others. Have you been dry long enough now? Anyone thirsty? Have you been in drought long enough? Come to Me and drink and from you inner most being, your spirit, will flow rivers of life-giving water. He didn’t say come to Him and drink and you will be satisfied. He said come to Me and drink and you will be a satisfier. You will be a source of water in the desert; a highway of holiness in the most unclean places. You will be a river of destiny on the plains of the earth. From within you will flow the antidote to every sickness. The deliverance from every oppressor will flow from you to the world you live in.

John 7:37-39 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. 

Come to Me and drink and from inside of you will flow rivers of living water. It comes in the name of Jesus, but it comes by the One who comes in the name of Jesus. Who comes in the name of Jesus? Holy Spirit! He is the Helper! He is the giver of life so we can be life and give life to the world!

Jesus spoke to His disciples as an external voice, but He wanted to speak to them internally so He was going to send them another Helper. He was going to speak to them internally. He told His disciples that they would finally hear what He had been saying to them. This is how He speaks to us as well. It is the internal voice of Holy Spirit in our hearts that transforms our lives. This is the testimony of the Helper in and with us in all things. Christ in us is the testimony of the Helper, the Holy Spirit, in our hearts.

Jesus was a New Covenant man. In a sense, He was a disciple of Christ. Jesus didn’t do anything as the Son of God. He did everything as the Son of Man. He was God, but He didn’t come to fix His world. He came to fix our world. He did not have a problem with the devil. We had a problem with the devil. We handed over our authority to the devil. There never has been a conflict between God and the devil that threatened God from losing His kingdom. The conflict was between us and the devil. We were in conflict with the devil and we didn’t even know it. We invited him to the dinner table. Jesus came to put us back in relationship with the Holy Spirit. He did only that which He saw the Father doing. He was a human being who fellowshipped the Holy Spirit. He was a disciple of Christ. He was a disciple of God in flesh. It is at least poetically correct, and probably theologically correct as well. I am not lessoning the deity of God. He humbled Himself to become something less for our sake. He did it to make the holiness of man revealed. We are holy. Human beings were intended to be holy beings. Heavenly and earthly, to bring heavenly things into earthly realities. He came to restore our holiness. He came to restore our family so we could receive the things that come from heaven in this earth and heaven and earth can be one. Part of us is humanity in heaven as the cloud of witness and part of us is humanity among the nations of men. We are the same body. Holy Spirit is God. He is Christ in us. He is the anointing and the anointing One. We have an anointing from the holy One, but we also have the anointed One. The anointing that we each have is who we are, but the anointing that He has is who He is. The source of the anointing that we are is the anointing of who He is. The only way we can activate the anointing of who we are is by fellowshipping the anointing of who He is. Christ in us is the hope of us giving life to the world we live in.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Greetings,

I enjoyed a great day back in my home church, Alife, in Bellingham, Wa. We were blessed to have Brad Jersak speaking at Alife in regard to being refractors of the many facets of God. Even as Jesus was, we are to be self-giving, radically forgiving, and co-suffering in our way among men.

Is unity a testimony of being one together with a common purpose as men? I believe that true unity can only happen when we become one in the Spirit and not one through conformity. Is purpose conspired by a common goal or is it the fruit of being joined together in a common Spirit in a common connection with a common Father? Unity comes by God’s presence in our midst, not by our own purposes and goals in life. There was a time on planet earth after the flood, when the earth had been washed clean and mankind was blessed to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth (Gen. 9:1). Men spoke the same language and they understood each other perfectly (Gen. 11). There was no need for a translator of any kind in the languages of men. They understood each other, both in language and speech. It was then they began to build a city unto themselves. They were afraid that they would be scattered across the earth. Fear entered their hearts when they understood one another perfectly. They sought to do something that would keep them from being separated or scatted from one another. They sought to build a tower that reached heaven.

Genesis 11:1-4 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

God looked and saw it and God spoke as a plurality. God the Father, the Word, and the Spirit said, this is not good. Let us go down and confuse them. Because nothing is impossible for them.

Genesis 11:5-7 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

God did not desire for man to build a tower that left the earth and entered into heaven. The reason that God put man in the earth in the first place was so the glory of God could enter the earth. God wanted to move into humanity and bring a community that is built by God and not man. God wanted a community that would bring treasures that come from heaven to the earth, not treasures of earth that go into heaven. This was not a secondary plan, but a first plan of God’s glory filling the earth. God’s plan was to invade the earth with heaven. His plan was to bring order to places that need order, to bring fullness to every empty place, to bring light to every corner of darkness. How was God going to do that? By fellowship with God, spirit to Spirit. God and man and man and God in fellowship with one another. God in heaven and man in the earth as one together. God scattered them and confused them. I believe He made it so people looked different.

Genesis 11:8-9 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

My personal idea is it was at this point in time that God made man black, white, yellow and red and all of the variations of human appearance. He made sure there were plenty of reasons to categorize, plenty of reasons to prejudice one another. He made it difficult to understand one another naturally and even impossible to understand one another. It became impossible for human beings to be of one mind and one speech without a supernatural intervention from God. Except with God, all things are possible. God wanted to give man a city whose builder and maker was Him. A heavenly Jerusalem, a heavenly vision of peace that comes out of heaven and fills the earth. It comes out of heaven and fills our lives, our families, our community, and even our nations. It is something that God builds. It is impossible with men, but supernatural among men. Something that is life giving, not life taking. Only unity with the Spirit of God in our hearts can bring the life of God into the world we live in.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Greetings,

Today I am leaving Angola, after ten great days of fruitful ministry. The leaders and church members here were very hungry and willing to receive all that God gave me for them. I have partnered with the leaders here to provide continued training for the near to distant future. Four training courses have been recorded in video, audio, and written material in the Portuguese language to be used for ongoing training purposes. I will be recording several more in the coming year and returning here in March and November of 2018. Thank you for the prayers and support that has assisted me in seeing this God ordained connection continue to flourish. Thank you to all the beautiful people of Angola. You are in my heart and I am praying for God to manifest his glory in and through your lives today and in the days to come.

Today I am again addressing the subject of fellowshipping the Holy Spirit. After Jesus died and He rose from the dead, He revealed what normal human beings should look like. Normal human beings are in relationship with God who is life, therefore, they have life and the are empowered to give love and life to the world. That life is the resurrection life of Christ. Even when they die, they do not die. These are human beings who are in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Jesus, as a man, went down to the grave, but because He had fellowship with the Holy Sprit the grave could not hold Him. After He ascended into heaven He poured out His Holy Spirit upon the flesh of humanity. His disciples and their disciples gathered with hungry hearts for an experience of His outpoured presence. Everyone in the upper room became a disciple of Christ that day. The Holy Spirit was in them, with them, and upon them. They entered a deeper level of intimacy with God in the Spirit. Something amazing happened. It was the opposite of Genesis chapter 11. In Genesis 11 humanity was of one language and one speech. They attempted to build a tower to heaven. They attempted to build a city unto themselves. In Acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit came upon hungry seekers of God and the ability for heaven to come to earth became an available reality for all men. Something happened that enabled the city, the community of God, to invade the nations. A power more awesome than the power of flesh began to invade the earth. They began to speak with tongues. Something more powerful than natural understanding entered the upper room. Four thousand were added in a moment. There was a supernatural testimony that came about by a supernatural experience with God in the place where they were.

Just last month I know of a situation where 200,000 Muslims came to Christ. That is more than anywhere in the book of Acts. Our fellowship is not just so we will know God. The more we fellowship the Holy Spirit the more heaven invades the earth. We don’t just fellowship the Holy Spirit so we will know more of God. We fellowship Holy Spirit so that wherever we are we give access to the Holy Spirt. We fellowship the Holy Spirit so that wherever we are heaven can invade the earth. Theologically He is here, but there needs to be more poetic experiences of His coming in our lives. God is an experiential God. That is why the Bible is not boring and dry. It is written with metaphors. It is written with experiences. It is written with whirlwinds and unexplainable phenomena. The word of God came to men expressly. Like Ezekiel, there were wheels within wheels and eyes throughout. Something beyond human understanding was experienced by a man. An encounter with the Holy Spirit will result in an experience that is beyond our natural understanding.

Fellowship Him today and experience His presence so His presence can invade your world. I have been soaking in Him this morning and He is tender, loving, powerful, and near. I sense He desires to do big things, but we must move in His direction to receive the fullness of His affection. We must draw near to Him and abide in that place to see His glory come. It doesn’t have to look religious. Just enjoy Him and let His presence flow in and through your life. Heaven can come, but we as the earth must turn in His direction. He came powerfully on the day of Pentecost and in times of our lives. Will we step powerfully in His direction? Will we embrace what can happen so that anything can happen? This is the goodness of His presence in our lives!

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

Greetings,

Today I am writing from Bulgaria. I have had several very blessed days here in the church of Sofia and Plovdiv. The presence of Holy Spirit has been wonderful. The hunger, willingness, and teachable hearts of the people has been refreshing. It is great to be with family and this is my Bulgarian family. I will be in Blagoevgrad, tomorrow and Wednesday. I am looking forward to all that God is going to do.

We often think of God in heaven, but the truth is that God is in heaven and on earth. Christ in us is the hope of glory and Christ in us is the testimony of God in us. We not only have an anointing in us, we have the presence of the anointed One in, with, and upon our lives. It is important for us to welcome His presence and to welcome His life in all that we are and do. The work of the Holy Spirit is a work of life. The Father has sent the Spirit and the Spirit invites the Son. Jesus is Lord of lords and King of kings in all the earth and the Holy Spirit has come in His name. Holy Spirit partners with us as the bride of Christ and calls for the manifest presence of Jesus to come in increasing measures in the ages of men.

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

The Holy Spirit is God with us and He comes in the name of Jesus. The water that we freely drink of is the water of the Holy Spirit. It is the life of the Holy Spirit flowing in and through our lives to bring life to us and to the world we live in.

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

When we receive Jesus, we receive the Holy Spirit. It is by believing Jesus receive the Holy Spirit and when we receive the Holy Spirit we become testimonies of the life that comes by Jesus name.

John 7:37-39 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

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

Genesis 1:2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.   

What was the Holy Spirit doing in Gen. 1:2? Holy Spirit was hovering over what needed the life of God. There was a need for order, fullness, and light. These are all attributes of life. God is the One who gives life, breath, and all things. Holy Spirit was there in the beginning to give life, breath, and all things. Holy Spirit is ready to do the same in our lives and Holy Spirit is the source of every beginning in our lives. What in your life needs form or order today? Holy Spirit is God ready to bring the form and order of life to your situation of need. What in your life needs filling? Holy Spirit is ready to fill what is empty with the fullness of life. What in your live is dark? Holy Spirit is ready to bring light to every area of darkness. The order of life, the fullness of life, and the brightness of the light of life is in the heart of God and Holy Spirit is ready to hover over our areas of need. Holy Spirit cares for us and we need to welcome the Holy Spirit in every new day of our lives. It is not just a matter of partnering with Him. It is a matter of intimacy, fellowship, and connection.

Think of something that needs to come together in your life. Recognize the Holy Spirit is God and He is already brooding over your situation. Talk to Him. Expect His care to bring about His word and His testimony in your life. Think of something in your life that needs filling. Holy Spirit is hovering over what is empty and preparing to fill with the fullness of God’s life. Talk to Him. Expect His care to bring about the filling testimony of life. Think of something in your life that needs light. Holy Spirit is God and God is light. Holy Spirit is moving into your area of darkness. Talk to Him. Expect His care to bring about the testimony of His light. Don’t be afraid to pray in a mystery. His mystery is better than our knowing when our knowing is only confused by natural sight.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson