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Greetings,

Today I am back in Bellingham. It was great being in California with family and now I am blessed to be with my family here. I am loved and I know the riches of the fruit of family. Our time together as a church family yesterday was filled with God’s presence and a deep sense of community.

Whatever causes a condition that destroys what was meant to be built, desolates what should be filled, or ruins what was meant to be seen can be made new by God’s Holy Spirit of life though the expression of His word. His presence in our lives empowers us to be expressors of His life to our world. God is the word, and we are His voice! We are called to be expressions of Him in who we are in our world. When we become expressions of Him, life happens!

When the prophet Jeremiah was appealing to God’s people to return to God, he saw something in the spirit that alluded to a time before human history. His words were not intended to inspire us to pursue some theory regarding a pre-Adamic race. They were words to inspire God’s people to know that God is the Creator and only by returning to Him can we find the future that we were meant to walk in.

Jeremiah 4:22 “For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are silly children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.” 23 I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; and the heavens, they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth. 25 I beheld, and indeed there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens had fled. 26 I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, by His fierce anger.”

Whatever this creation was that Jeremiah saw, it appears that the loss of form, the depletion of life, and the condition of darkness was the consequence of silly children not seeking to know God. Something that was formerly stable was shaken. There was a fleeing from God and what was fruitful became desolate. In their departure from God they could not stand in the presence of the Lord and thus they suffered the anger of the Lord instead of His blessing. The condition appears to be a condition that needed a new beginning. The condition was that which we see at the first of God’s words to man, but that condition was all that God needed to give a beginning. God gives life, breath, and all things. He gives form to what needs form, He gives fullness to what was is void, and He gives light to what becomes dark.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 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. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

God rebuilds things when they are destroyed. He raises up things when they become desolate. God repairs things that have been ruined. God doesn’t merely want to restore our lives; He wants to empower us to be a testimony of restoration to and for our world. This is the nature of our Father. God is a redeeming God. He is a reconciler, a restorer, a rewarder, and a replenisher to a world in need. When we experience God’s presence in our today, we find that our world is created new in some way.

Everyday we need to invite God’s presence. Everyday we must expect to see God in our world. When we turn to Him, we find His light. Whatever situation you face today is ready for God’s presence to do a miracle. We are not silly children turning away from God. We are those who seek Him in our world every day. By this we can know new things, new experiences, and new expressions of His life in our world for a greater glory that we have known before.

The new song of God brings new pathways of life. That life is not just for us, it is for us to reveal God’s goodness to our world. It is so that we can partner with God in seeing what has been destroyed rebuilt, to see what was made desolate raised up again, and to see what was ruined repaired in a new and greater way.

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 Redding, California. Bonnie and I have had a wonderful week with our family here. We will be heading back to Bellingham tomorrow. Family is great, but knowing God as family is even better. God’s gift of life, expression of life, and His purpose of life in and through us is meant to bring life to our world.

Christianity is not meant to be some form of religion. Christianity is simply a label placed upon those who embrace a relationship with Christ in their hearts. This is the testimony of sons and daughters of God. We are no longer a body of our own identity, testimony, and purpose. We are members of the body of Christ. This is to be a dwelling place of God by His Holy Spirit. Christ in us is the hope of glory. We are joined to God, and we know His powerful love working in and through our lives. We sing a New Song of life in every season of our lives.

Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God gives us life and liberty so that we become givers of life to our world. He doesn’t just love us to set us free. He sets us free to empower us to be givers of life to our world. This is not merely a testimony of being set free, it is a testimony of being made free as sons and daughters of God to be givers of life as He is a giver of life in all things. The Spirit of Lord is in and upon us so that we can be a part of a multigenerational family of life. It is by the fruit of our lives that God is glorified.

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 gives us life and liberty as sons and daughters of God so that we can bring life and liberty to our world. We can expect to face things that need the identity of life, the testimony of life, and the purpose of life. Sons and daughters of God grow in their identity in Christ, their testimony in Christ, and their purpose in Christ. What the enemy intends for evil God turns toward His purpose.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

God doesn’t just work things for our good according to our own plans and vision for life. When we receive His love and allow Him to empower us to love Him, He takes what any enemy intended for evil, and He turns it for good according to His purpose. Some things were destroyed – they need to be rebuilt. Some things have been made desolate – they need to be raised up. Some things have been ruined – they need to be repaired. God doesn’t merely want to restore our lives; He wants to empower us to be a testimony of restoration to and for 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.

The nature of God our Father is to give life, breath, and all thigs. His Spirit hovers over places that are formless, void, and dark. His Spirit is always ready and willing to bring forth a testimony of God’s love and life. Who are we? As sons and daughters of God we can expect to partner with Holy Spirit to rebuild what has been destroyed, raise up what has been made desolate, and repair what has been ruined.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Today I am on my way to see my children and grandchildren in California. Bonnie and I are excited to see them. I know our time together will be blessed. Yesterday I spoke at Alife, and it was both a privilege and a blessing. I am enjoying my summer months.

In my past several blogs, I have been addressing the New Song of the Lord in our lives. The New Song is the testimony of God in our lives in the day called TODAY and the time called NOW. This is the power of the New Covenant. The New Covenant is a testimony of God in our lives each and every day. We don’t merely live as servants to a God who is a Master. We live as sons and daughters of God with a growing reality of His character, nature, way, power, and authority manifesting in our lives. In the Old Covenant, the first command that revealed the character of God was to put Him before all others.

Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 You shall have no other gods before Me.”

God doesn’t need us to put Him first for Him to be who He is. He is who He is! We need to put Him first to be who we are in all things. God is the only one who brings us out of bondage into our path of destiny. His powerful love leads to His powerful purpose. He wants us to know Him as our Father, who is a friend, who does God things in our lives. Believing God creates us, empowers us, and sends us into our purpose in Christ. As sons and daughters of God, WHO WE ARE determines what we can do in life.

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’” 

Our relationship with God is a daily reality for us. The identity, testimony, and purpose of our lives is found in Christ in the day called TODAY and the time called NOW. The New Covenant is a testimony of the character, nature, way, power, and authority of God written in our hearts and minds for God’s glory. It isn’t a covenant of information, but one of testimony. 

Jesus was the body of Christ for the will of the Father so that each of us could be sons and daughters of God with Holy Spirit within us. As members of the body of Christ we are given a new song of life. This is what others in our world see, hear, and experience as we walk in our path of destiny. Who we are brings life to our world. Our identity, testimony, and purpose is revealed through the song of our lives.

Our lives are a testimony of praise to God. The praise of God is our LIFE-SONG of PURPOSE. It is our connection to God in our hearts that transforms our lives to be a testimony of His praise. God’s voice to our hearts is not about information. It is a testimony of intimacy with God and God with us. Who we are determines what we do in life. Who we are determines the life that we bring to our world.

We are sons and daughters of God, empowered by His love, for the purpose of His love in our world. As sons and daughters of God we are a part of a family of life – eternal life. Eternal life is knowing God the Father and Jesus the Son by the fellowship of Holy Spirit (Jn. 17:3). Our futile world appears to oppose us as sons and daughters of God, but the impossible things in our world are meant to reveal who we really are.

Romans 8:20 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.

When we are faced with opposition in our path, that opposition only proves the testimony of Christ within us. When we hold on to our relationship with eternal life, a knowing of God our Father and Jesus the Son, we become empowered by His powerful love to be who we are meant to be. We increasingly manifest as sons and daughters of God. We become givers of life to our world.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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