Harvest Determines Sowing

Posted on April 25, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings,

I have been continuing to minister in Portugal. We have had a blessed time in Lousa and Leiria this week. I am moving in the Lisbon direction tomorrow. The hungry hearts of my Portuguese family always blesses me.

We are not of those wandering around aimless and without a target (1Pet. 1:18,19). God determined harvest before He determined sowing. He had dominion in mind when He made it possible for us to be fruitful. He had influence in mind when He declared we are a blessing. God established laws, principles, or realities of life that serve His purpose; therefore, these established realities must serve His purpose of harvest. God does not serve His laws; His laws serve Him and His purpose.

God determines harvest, thus the law of sowing is required to serve God’s purpose of harvest. Let’s look at an example of this in the life of Abraham.

Genesis 17:1-12 When Abram was ninety- nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

The sign of circumcision is one of having no confidence in the flesh. It is a sign of complete confidence in the ability of the Spirit of God to bring about all that God has promised. God made a promise to Abraham of a great harvest through his life. God said that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through Abraham’s seed. Abraham received that word by faith and was required to carry out the sign of circumcision as an indication of his faith in God and His completed word. Abraham’s faith was not that there might be a fulfillment of God’s promise. His faith was in the fact that God would fulfill His promise. The circumcision of Abraham was not intended to be a legalistic mark in the flesh, but rather a testimony of a changed heart and mind toward God. God declares a harvest, thus He is willing to transform our hearts and minds by the power of His Spirit in order to bring that harvest to pass.

God brought forth His promise to Abraham through Isaac. Isaac was the seed of the promise and he was a result of the law of harvest. Abraham also had a son name Ishmael through the seed of the flesh. Ishmael was a result of the law of sowing and reaping. Ishmael was a great nation that resulted from the earthly law called sowing and reaping. We can have great things in our life that are the result of the law of sowing and reaping. Whatever we sow we will reap. If we sow bad things we will reap bad things. If we sow good things we will reap good things. If we sow God things we will reap God things. Not all good things are God things. The law of sowing and reaping is working whether we believe in it or not. But there is a law of harvest, which is greater than the law of sowing and reaping. It requires specific sowing to bring about a specific harvest. There was no law of harvest for Ishmael. Ishmael was the result of the law of sowing and reaping. Isaac was the result of the law of harvest. God spoke Isaac before there was ever a sowing. Because God spoke it there had to be a sowing and reaping to serve His word. Read Genesis chapter 22 and you will see that Abraham freely obeyed the command of the Lord by offering his son Isaac as a sacrifice upon the altar of faith. Just as Abraham’s knife was about to slay Isaac, God stopped him and provided a sacrifice in the thicket. God acknowledged Abraham’s faith in His greater law of harvest.

Genesis 22:15-18 Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

It was by faith that Abraham received the word of harvest. He didn’t offer his son Isaac on the altar because of the law of sowing and reaping. He knew that God would have to raise him from the dead because of the law of harvest. Abraham was able to be obedient in the law of sowing and reaping because he had already by faith received the greater word of harvest. Abraham didn’t sow so that he would see a harvest. He freely sowed because he had already seen the harvest.

God’s purpose in sowing seed is for HARVEST. God requires seed because He has determined a harvest. He has a harvest for us in every area of our lives. We are going to have to see the harvest before we can see the sowing. We sow because we know we will reap. We don’t sow to reap. We do not sow seed because we want to see a harvest. We see a harvest, so we sow seed.

We must repent for the times that we have sowed seed in hopes of seeing a harvest. God has called us to walk by faith. We must sow seed for the thing that we see by faith, not for the thing that we cannot see. Seeing by faith is believing beyond the present natural realities of our world and then taking actions to serve that vision. Blindly sowing is seed sown from unbelief. We do not sow so that we might believe. We must sow because we do believe. Our food is to do the will of Him who sent us. It is time that we believe to see that for which we were sent. Faith comes by hearing God speak. We must submit the law of sowing and reaping to the purpose of God because we have heard what He has said. If God has given us a word for harvest we must be faithful to sow whatever it takes to reap what He has said. It is irrelevant how long we must sow or how much we must sow. We must simply sow until we see the full manifestation of what He has said. We must keep looking at the harvest, not the seed. Do we have our combines ready? Have we built our barns and are they ready? Is everything prepared to receive the harvest? When we see the harvest it’s not a question of whether we will reap or not. It is simply a matter of preparing for the time when we will. Do we have a sharp sickle on our combine? Is it greased? Do we have gas in the tank? Is the barn clean and ready to receive the harvest? Have we gotten the mice, rats and other devourers out before the crop comes in? Are the shipping trucks ready to transport the harvest out? Are we ready for export of the blessing? It was by faith that Abraham received the word of harvest. Abraham did not sow so that he would see a harvest. He freely sowed because he had already seen the harvest.

Blessings,

 

Ted J. Hanson

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The Beginning Serves The Ending

Posted on April 18, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings;

I am presently in Portugal and just finished a great weekend with the churches of Figueira da Foz, and Caldas da Rainha. Thank you to all the hungry believers here. It is always a pleasure to minister Christ with my Portuguese family. I am looking forward to the next couple of weeks seeing all that God is going to do here.

I have been writing in regard to understanding the law, principle, or reality of harvest. In the creation of mankind God said to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue and have dominion over all the earth. When we hear God say despise not the day of small beginnings we often focus on small beginnings. When God says despise not the day of small beginnings He is thinking finish line, not beginnings. Small beginnings are not for the purpose of what is small. It is for the purpose of the completed end, the harvest of our lives.

Genesis 1:29-30 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.”

There is a law, principle, or reality called sowing and reaping. We don’t have to believe it, or even believe in it, for it to be true. What we sow we will reap (Gal. 6:7). Western world Christians, of whom I am one, have taught for years that we will reap what we sow. We have therefore believed that we must sow in order that we will reap. I believe that there is a higher law, principle, or reality. It is called the law, the principle, and the reality of harvest. It requires the law of sowing and reaping to serve its higher purpose. We do not sow so that we will reap. We know that we will reap so we submit the law of sowing and reaping to the law of harvest because it is one of several laws that serve to fulfill the greater law of harvest. It is by faith that we see harvest and thus we submit the realities that serve that harvest to the cause of harvest’s destiny. God commissioned a harvest before he commissioned the sowing. In the covenant story of creation, the trees in the garden were full of fruit when God placed man in the garden. Adam was able to see harvest before he understood the things that serve that harvest.

Genesis 2:8-9 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.

Adam was able to see the fruit that was pleasing to his sight and good for food. He was given the commission of tilling the ground, but he was able to see the destiny of the ground before applying the things that serve that destiny.

There is a prophetic significance in the food which God gave man to eat. Man was given food to eat that had seed in it. God knows that the law of sowing and reaping, the law of first things, and some other laws serve the greater law of harvest. We need the law of sowing and reaping but we must know that not everything that we sow was intended by God for us to reap. Not everything that we sow is purposed by God for us to reap, but anything that God purposed for us to reap we must sow in order to reap it. God is not in every harvest that is a result of our sowing, but He is in every harvest that is a result of His word. He is in every harvest that He has determined and there is a specific sowing required in order to accomplish His specific harvest that He decreed.

The food of Jesus was to do the will of Him who sent Him. His food was to eat the thing with seed in it. His earthly life was as a kernel of wheat to be sown for the impending harvest of God in the earth. He came to give us life and life more abundant. He came to give us eternal life. He didn’t come to give us a get out of hell free card. He came to give us life. He came to bring us back into destiny. His target was to bring us back to the goal, the prize, harvest, the finish line, destiny, and purpose. He submitted the law of sowing and reaping, the law of first things, and every other law in order to fulfill the higher law of harvest in the earth.

Jesus didn’t set us free from the law. He set us free from the law of sin and death. It too is a law and it simply says; if you move out of relationship with your life source, you die! For a plant it would mean to be removed from the dirt. To a fish it would be to be removed from the water. For man it means to be removed from God. Anything that takes you from your life source is sin. God is the author and giver of life. Anything that removes you from your life source is sin because God loves life. To be removed from your life source means death, therefore it is sin. There is a law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. It guarantees for us life if we come back into relationship with God our Father through the death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ. God’s purpose is life. Therefore, we submit the laws of the earth to serve the law of life. God’s heart is for life!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

 

 

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The End Determines The Beginning

Posted on April 11, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings;

I had a great time yesterday speaking on responding to God at ALife. Our responses to God reveal our trust in all that He sees for us in our destiny. These things fit with the purpose of harvest in our lives. Our natural birth and natural environment doesn’t match who we are meant to be. We need God’s super-natural grace! All created things, visible and invisible, reveal the mystery of God. A principle of response is hidden in the earth and we must each find it! It is key to the destiny of our lives.

If you read the Hebrew Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament), you will find that it opens from the back and reads in the reverse direction of our English language. I believe that this pattern expresses something of the mind of God. The realization of starting with Genesis at the back of the book reveals to me that we have a beginning because God has determined an end. We do not have an end as the result of our beginning. God has determined a completion and therefore we are required to have a beginning. We are not a product of our past. God created us for a future and a hope. We don’t have a future and a hope because we were created. We were created for the future and the hope that God has determined for us to walk in. This is true for both our natural birth in the flesh as well as our birth through the Spirit of Christ.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

God did not determine for us to do good works because we were created in Christ Jesus. We were created in Christ Jesus because God predestined us for good works. The good works determined by God required us to have a re-creation in Christ Jesus. The works were prepared beforehand; therefore, we needed a past to serve the destiny of our future.

In order for us to become the prophetic people that God requires of us, we must learn to think covenant. Those of us from the western world think contract. A contract says that we make certain agreements in order to fashion or secure a particular future circumstance or event. A contract takes certain conditions to acquire a certain result. A covenant is not like that. A covenant is based upon a completed work and requires conditions to be met in order to comply with that completed work. While a contract has conditions that hope to accomplish a completed result, a covenant sees the completed result and then has requirements to serve that completed result. The result is pre-established and does not change. A contract implies a hope for a future while covenant declares hope of the future. We must learn to think covenant, destiny, purpose, target, finish line, prize, goal, harvest, fulfillment, completion and the like. God determined harvest before He determined sowing.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

There are things that we have not seen, heard, or thought that God has prepared for us to enter into. If we base our life upon the things that have happened to us in the past we will be bound to experience the same things that we have seen, heard or known. God desires to bring us further in the things of Him. The restoration of all things requires us to receive things that are yet to be revealed. In order for us to receive the things that are yet to be revealed we must first of all view them as a finished work in Christ. These finished works have been prepared for us by God and are ready to be received through His Spirit. The key is in our ability to receive the revelation and then follow through with the appropriate steps in life to see them come about.

Genesis 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

In the very first book called Beginnings (Genesis) we see that God determined finish line, goal, prize, target, and harvest. That was the commission. That was the mandate to man. Beginnings happen because God has an end in mind. This is the good news of harvest!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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The Law of Harvest:

Posted on April 4, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings,

It was a great day at ALife yesterday in Bellingham with Harold Eberle. We were all challenged in our thinking and blessed by a Father who loves us and is including us in a relational process of purpose in the earth.

My blog today is the first in a series of blogs on the subject of harvest. I have termed this The Law of Harvest, but I must first explain the term law. Laws do not exist because something is written. What is written simply explains the natural/spirit-natural boundaries and the natural/super-natural empowerments of all that is created. Even the things that were revealed in the Torah (Law) of the Old Covenant were simply written explanations of things that were hidden in the fabric of creation. Laws are not bad. Laws are good. They are a shadow of the reality of all that is found in God. They are part of creation and thus they testify of God in His being.

Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse…

Natural and supernatural laws do not reveal a legal contract aspect of God, but a covenantal relational aspect with Him. Righteous laws were intended for the good of man and the glory of God upon the earth. Jesus didn’t set us free from laws. He set us free from the law of sin and death. He translated us into the life of life and peace in Christ Jesus where we find the perfect law of liberty. When we were disconnected from God we were disconnected from our source of life and the result was death in our souls. Now that we have been reconnected to God in Christ, we are free from the consequence, reality, or law of disconnection and death. God doesn’t not kill sinners, sin does. It is a reality of choosing to be disconnected from God as our Father.

God has designed laws to serve His purposes. God does not serve laws. Laws serve Him. There is a law of gravity that keeps us on the ground. It’s a good thing. If we defy the law of gravity we have to make compensations in order to function in a normal operation. When astronauts travel outside of the bounds of the earth’s gravity, they have to take measures to artificially simulate the law of gravity in order to function the same as when they are within the earth’s atmosphere. The law of gravity was created by God to allow us to function in a natural world. There is another law called the law of density. While the law of gravity keeps us on the floor, the law of density keeps us from falling through the floor. I am glad we have been given the law of density. I believe that all laws that God has woven into the fabric of creation serve a greater law of harvest, the law of God’s destiny for our life in Him. Synonymous terms for law could be principle, or realities. They are boundaries, forces, and influencing measurements infused into the fabric of creation.

In order for us to properly understand God’s law of harvest, we are going to have to begin to think like Him. God is a covenant God and He is raising us up to be His covenant people upon the earth. Those of us who are from the western world have a mind-set that is contrary to the covenant thinking of God. We have been raised to think with linear thought patterns. A linear thought pattern is one that thinks in a logical, chronological fashion. We believe that A + B = C or 1 +1 = 2. We believe that cause and effect is the pattern of life. Most of us believe that we are a product of our past. We are the way that we are because of the things that have happened to us in the past. We are poor because we were raised in a poor home. We are rich because our parents were rich. We are insecure because we were raised in a broken home. We have been raised with the subtle supposition that our destiny in life is based upon our past. God does not think that way. God’s thoughts on a matter determine the cause; the cause is not determined by present circumstances. What God declares in heaven determines what happens in the earth. How we were born into this earth is not merely the beginning of our lives. It is a foundation beneath us meant to serve our destiny. The resistance in the earth to who we are meant to be is the very thing that causes us to truly manifest. What God says concerning our destiny outweighs the measurements of our beginnings, thus an Abram becomes an Abraham, a second born Jacob becomes a firstborn Israel, and a Saul of Tarsus becomes apostle Paul to the Gentiles. The shepherd Cyrus requires a prophet Isaiah to proclaim his name 200 years before his birth because God has determined his end before the beginning.

A cause and effect mind-set will not allow us to receive the benefits of the Kingdom of God here upon the earth. God did not determine our future by our past. We have a past because God has determined for us a future. Lesser things than God become things that only steal, kill, and destroy in hopes of stopping our future. The devil, confused people, and the religiously minded have used the laws of nature against us in an attempt to stop God’s law of harvest in our lives. In many cases the devil doesn’t even have to become involved. We do a fine enough job all on our own of thwarting God’s plans for our future through twisting the laws intended to serve our destiny.

It is good to know that God is greater than all of the violations we have done, others have done, the devil has done, and circumstances have created in all of the attempts to destroy our destiny. God is the one who knew us before we were formed in our mother’s womb. He has determined C (the end) and He knows that it is going to require us to embrace A + B in order to accomplish the determined C. He has determined 2, thus he knows we will need to embrace 1 + 1 to see it come to pass. These metaphors are not meant to imply ridged limitations, but concepts of diverse options that lead in the path and journey of destiny in our lives. If harvest is C, then C requires the laws of A and B to serve the greater law of C. God does not just desire a completed work. He has commanded it. In the concept of harvest A and B serve the greater purpose of C and 1 + 1 serve the greater purpose of 2 in our lives. It is not that A + B has the required result of C or 1 +1 has the required result of 2. It is that the result of C requires A + B and the result of 2 requires 1 + 1. Our business, our ministry, our call in life requires us to honor God first, sow our time in study, invest our money wisely, work hard and diligently, and whatever else is necessary to serve the greater end. We don’t work hard to get ahead. God says we are to get ahead so we work hard. We don’t sow our time in studying business technology in hopes that we might have a future in business. God says we are called to business so we study business technology in order to serve the success of our call. God doesn’t think in a linear, chronological way. The Scripture says that He has determined the end from the beginning.

Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure…

I will continue with thoughts on the Law of Harvest next week. Consider the end to discover every beginning and every step of your journey in destiny.

Blessings,

 

Ted J. Hanson

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His Blood – For Our Life!

Posted on March 28, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings,

Today it is sunny in the Northwest of the U. S. and I am ready for a great week. It was a good time in church yesterday hearing a testimony of a young couple in their journey of life and their testimonies in Christ. God’s love is real, the tomb is empty, and Jesus is alive in the hearts of many! This is good news!

Mercy ends our past and grace empowers us in the present to know the increasing glories of God in our lives. The testimony of the cross is not merely what happened two thousand years ago on the grounds of Calvary. The testimony of the cross is found at the throne of grace. Knowing Jesus in His resurrection life is the testimony of His death. Christ in us is the hope of the glory and Christ in us testifies of the blood Jesus shed at Calvary. Jesus offered His life in the flesh so that all flesh could know Him in the power of His resurrection.

Hebrews 4:14-16 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Jesus shed blood to make us free. He shed blood as a first Adam so that we could experience the blessing of last Adam. Jesus didn’t rearrange the chairs on the Titanic and say, “Alright boys and girls – it’s all okay now.” We can celebrate because we have a new ship, a fellowship, a relationship – a ship that’s set by His apostleship – a ship that has a cargo of heavenly grace. We are the Body of Christ and members that can behold His face because Jesus shed blood.

These are the seven places Jesus shed blood:

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

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

He wants to say it to us today, “Peace be with You.” He wants to tell us today that today is the continuation of Resurrection Sunday. He wants to tell us today that today is the resurrection moment of our lives. He wants to tell us today that He picked up dust from the earth and formed us. He formed us from the dust that was perfect dust. He formed us from the place of the Father’s heart. He formed us from Living Bread, and that Living Bread shed blood so that we could receive the life of the Spirit. We rejoice today that we have peace with God, because He gave us peace and He’s breathed His Spirit into us to know His abundant gift of life.

The tomb is empty! The doors are open! Go! Bless the world with this abundant grace He’s given each of you! He came as the true man of the human race to redeem all of humanity. He came to declare to each of you that there wasn’t room at the cross for you – there was room at the cross for Him. Now there is room at the throne for you! Jesus shed blood at your cross, and now He’s calling you to pick up your cross and follow Him. Your cross is to confess, ‘I’m no longer an Old Adam – I’m part of Last Adam. He was wounded for your transgressions. He was bruised for your iniquities. The punishment that you deserved, He took. He led you back to the Father’s house. He’s reconciled you. He’s redeemed you. You are a part of the resurrection day to eternity!’”

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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The Kingdom Within to the Kingdoms Without

Posted on March 21, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings;

Yesterday I spoke at Everyone’s Church in Mount Vernon, Washington. Thank you Pastor Brice Greathouse and the church family in Mount Vernon for receiving me with hungry hearts. We had a great time. I have included a link to the message I preached there at the close of this blog.

I have been addressing the issue of two administrations in the earth. One is the administration of the knowledge of good and evil and the other is an administration of the Tree of Life. The administrations of the world are bound to the knowledge of good and evil, but those in the community of Christ have been freed within their hearts to be governed by the Tree of Life. We cannot impose the administration of the Tree of Life upon those who are still bound to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We can only demonstrate what it looks like to be empowered by the administration of life. We can show mercy to those who are still stuck in the systems of the world, but we cannot require them to show mercy to us. We can be gracious towards those bound to the systems of the world, but we cannot require them to be gracious to us. We can demonstrate what it looks like when someone is empowered by righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit from within, but we cannot require those in the world to understand that righteousness, peace, or joy. We must be true to the kingdom of God that is empowering our hearts from within, but we cannot impose the inner kingdom upon those who are still bound to the external influences of the kingdoms of the world.

Those who are still stuck in the systems of the world are neither good nor bad, they are simply bound to an administration that is bad. When the internal kingdom of God changes our hearts it will affect those around us. Even those who are bound to the systems of the world will begin to respond to the witness of our hearts. Our lives can inspire those in the world to seek to be good. Our lives can inspire those in the world to seek to do what God wants to be done in the earth. An internal justice system of forgiveness in us can inspire those in the world to seek to be kind and good. We can inspire those in the world, but we cannot bind them to our inner thoughts. If we measure them by the internal values of our hearts we only allow the values of our hearts to become measurements of law upon those who simply cannot understand.

The administration of the knowledge of good and the knowledge of evil leaves men and women bound to deception. That deception influences the hearts and minds of men and women to create systems that are evil and filled with destructive forces. It also influences others to create systems that are seemingly good and filled with acts of human good. There is a good and there is an evil, but law can only attempt to influence the actions of men by an external control of perceived good. Only the internal kingdom of God can change the hearts and minds of men and women to desire the One who is good and thus be transformed in their hearts to be good and to do good. Being good and doing good is not the objective. Being intimate with the One who is good is the objective. The kingdom of God is a kingdom that motivates the hearts of individuals in a unique and personal way, whereas the kingdoms of the world are administrations of the people enforcing their beliefs upon others. As those who have experienced Christ in our hearts, we cannot impose upon others the beliefs of our hearts. We cannot judge others by the motives of our own hearts. We can only be merciful and gracious to others in their attempts to do good. We can only demonstrate our beliefs by our actions towards them. In doing so, we will even invite those bound to the administrations of the world to desire to partner with us in the endeavors of life. Those who seek to partner with us will still think like those bound to the governments of the world, but our actions towards them will inspire them to seek to contribute to the cause of what God desires to do from the hearts of men. Their actions will not change the world. They will only cause the governments of law and conscience to move in a direction of agreement with the true kingdom of life-giving change that transpires within the hearts of men. The external actions of the kings of the world will become actions that seek to agree with the internal actions of the heart seen from those who walk in the administration of the Tree of Life.

Promiscuity and legalism are both attributes of the kingdoms of the world. Neither of these are attributes of the kingdom of God. Kings bound to the administrations of promiscuity and legalism can be inspired to contribute to the purposes of God in the earth when inspired by a Joseph, a Daniel, or a Nehemiah in a time where the altar of God is determining a change in the earth. I believe that the altar of God is found in the human heart. When we become a place for God’s presence to rest, we become a place where God can bring about His change in the earth. Law is a shadow of what is good, but it is not what is good. When we discover what God is doing in the kingdom of God we are changed in our hearts and minds. We become people who seek to rebuild, raise up, and make new the things of God in the nations of the earth. This includes the purposes, plans, and inheritances of God among men.

The administration of the kingdom of God within our hearts should inspire men and women in the world to discover the laws of God hidden in the earth. Those laws are a knowledge of good, just as the human conscience is a knowledge of good. That knowledge of good simply directs men to know the One who is good. The good that is in the earth is a witness to the character, nature, way, power, and authority of Christ. A mere knowledge of good doesn’t change the world. Only the One who is good can change the world and intimacy with Him will empower our partnership with Him in His purposes among men. Our partnership with Him can even inspire those in the world to partner with His purposes among men. Sometimes their partnership will be knowingly, but many times it will be unknowingly.

I ask for God to bless the kings of the world to be kings of the world and I pray that God will position Josephs, Daniels, and Nehemiahs to influence the kings of the world and inspire a partnership for the purposes of God in the earth. May God ultimately transform the hearts and minds of all men from within!

Blessings,

 

Ted J. Hanson

Kingdom to kingdoms – Audio 

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Kingdom to Kingdoms

Posted on March 14, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings;

Today I am in Bellingham, where we had a great weekend with several being water baptized. Pastor Jonathan brought a refreshing word about being under the influence of that which is bigger than who and what we are. That influence is meant to change who and what we are to who and what God says we should be. Impossible opportunities provide proof of what we are submerged in. Thank you Pastor Jonathan for the challenge.

The kingdom of God is an internal kingdom. It is not an external kingdom imposed upon the lives of others. It is an internal reality of Christ that transforms the hearts and minds of men. There are two dynamics at work among men. Those dynamics involve the internal realities of the kingdom of God and the external realities of the kingdoms of men. One is a testimony of the family derived from the Tree of Life and the other is a testimony of the families derived from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. These kingdoms are separated by a great divide. We cannot impose the conditions and expectations of grace upon those who are still bound to law.

God wants to give a different administration to all men. To those who sought an administration that was greater than the administration of the knowledge of good and evil, Jesus said things like:

Matthew 5:44-48 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

The context of these words was not one of defending the lives of others. It was in regard to being self-preserving with one’s own life. He was not telling them to impose this thinking upon others, but to have this thinking in themselves. This is the testimony of the kingdom of Christ’s life within the human heart.

To those religiously bound to their perceived knowledge of good and evil Jesus said things like:

Matthew 12:34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 23:33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

We could find many more words where Jesus spoke in this way to religious people who sought to destroy the lives of others. Jesus did not speak kind, sweet words to all people. He spoke words of truth that were motivated by love. Jesus didn’t hate people, He hated their deceptions. To the hungry He spoke words that inspired change. To those who were religiously bound He spoke words that challenged their adherence to a bankrupt system of legalism and death. His desire was that those bound to the administrations of the world would embrace a hunger that would enable them to lose their old lives to find them new in Christ. The kingdoms of the world are the kingdoms of the world. Any legalistic form of religion is not kind, good, or a possible means of salvation. It is simply an identifier to the bankrupt reality of the administration of the knowledge of good and evil. This is also true for those bound to live by the promiscuous ways of a lawless conscience. Promiscuity and legalism are not ways of life. They are simply the fruit of those bound to the bankrupt administration of the knowledge of good and evil. The purpose of law and conscience is simply to reveal to men and women their need for a change of administration in their lives.

Grace and truth are not realities found in a system of law and conscience. Grace is a testimony of the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit at work in our hearts and truth is the result of the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. We cannot measure or judge those bound to the system of law and conscience by our own understanding of grace and truth. When we do this we end up putting our own version of law upon those who are simply bound to a system of ignorance. Can God use those bound to the systems of the world for the purpose of His kingdom in the earth? He can and He has throughout the telling of His story in the ages of men. He used a Pharaoh to secure the earthly territory, produce the provision, and appoint a godly man named Joseph for to administrate an earthly kingdom for a time of rescue and salvation for His people in the earth. He moved upon the heart of a Nebuchadnezzar to recognize a Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah to be the wise counsel to preserve His people in a time of captivity. He used a Cyrus, a conqueror of kingdoms, to appoint a Nehemiah to rebuild His temple so the city of God could be restored in Jerusalem. He even visited an evil emperor named Constantine with a dream in the night in order to cease a persecution of His people and inspire a preservation of the written word of God for the future generations. Although Constantine did not understand the ways of God, his actions served the purposes of God by putting the seed of God’s word into the nations of men for a time of germination and reformation among the nations.

People in the world are neither good nor bad, they are simply bound to an administration that is bad. God can use them for His purposes and for His plans in the earth, but the systems of the world are not the same as the administration of the kingdom of God and the administration of the kingdom of God is not the same as the governments of the world. We must keep the kingdom of God the kingdom of God and allow those bound to the kingdoms of the world to come to faith. Religions are neither good nor bad, they are simply dead boxes filled with dead works and a testimony of dead bones governed by the governments of the world.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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The Unshakable Kingdom Within

Posted on March 7, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings;

Today I am writing from Bellingham where it appears spring has arrived. I have now mowed my lawn twice, flowers are blooming, and the trees are beginning to bud. I am claiming this spring season in the natural and in the Spirit for the people of God. It is important that we focus on the life that God brings to us in order for us to impact the world we live in in a life-changing way.

God is at work in our hearts through His internal, eternal kingdom of life and peace in Christ. We are born to be loved by Him and when we receive a revelation of His love for us we cannot help but love Him and all that He loves. We are being transformed from the kingdoms of self to the kingdom of our Lord and Christ by His anointing within our hearts. It is a testimony of His great love for us. Although the kingdom of God is an internal kingdom, it affects all that we do in life. If Christ is in our hearts, our lives should be filled with expressions, works, and endeavors that give life to others. The kingdom of God within us is expressed through acts of love for God and for His children.

The outward influence of the kingdom of God within our hearts is made real through a partnership of faith, hope, and love. Love is the foundation, hope is the inspiration, and faith is the facilitation of the internal kingdom of life through external expressions of that life. He loves us as we are, but His love empowers us to change to become as He is. As we become as He is, we are inspired to give life to the world. We become empowered to live for the Father’s will and for the future generations of His family in the earth. This is the fruit of Christ within our hearts.

Love inspires true hope and hope inspires faith. What is a proper perspective in finding our hope? Our hope cannot merely be in the things that God does or the promises that He makes to us. Our hope cannot be in beginnings and endings, since we don’t always know which we need in our lives. Our hope must be in the One who gives beginnings and endings. Who really knows what they need?

Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “ who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

When we put our hope in God our hearts are clear to hear what He says to our hearts. When we lay down our preconceived ideas as to what He should do in our lives and we simply trust who He is in our lives, we hear Him clearly. When we hear Him in our hearts we become inspired in our actions. Our actions become those of faith and our worlds are changed through a partnership of His voice in our hearts and the actions in lives. This is the testimony of that foreshadowed in the history of God and the men and women of faith who led to the day of God’s kingdom being implemented in our hearts.

Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

The book of Hebrews is a wonderful book! It was likely written sometime between A.D. 64 and A.D. 68. This was only a few years prior to the destruction of Jerusalem (Tabernacles of A.D. 70). This book was written to a group of people who called themselves Jews. The writer was adamant to address them as Hebrews, a term that had not been used for centuries in regard to the Jewish people. The issue at hand was the true convent of Abraham. The Aaronic Covenant could not supersede the Melchizedek Order. The last days of Israel was at hand, so the eternal days of the Melchizedek Covenant could be made known to the nations of the world. The very source of the Hebrew people was the voice of God. That voice was the same voice that spoke to Abraham and was now speaking to the nation at hand. The voice of the Son had come in the last days of the nation of Israel to reveal the eternal day of Christ as the reality for all true Hebrews in Christ.

Hebrews 1:1-4 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

The writer of Hebrews was clearly communicating a last days that was at hand for his letter’s recipients. He was putting this last days era in the context of the already given Son of God, Jesus Christ. It was not a last days thousands of years in the future, but a last days for a nation at the time.

The kingdom of God is an internal force of love and life upon the human heart that is the testimony of intimacy with God in Christ. The administration of the law was an external influence upon the human soul and was limited to the instruction of words and the voice of a prophet. The administration of grace is an internal influence that brings about true change of the hearts and minds of men. It is not administration of mere accountability to God. It is an administration of intimate and powerful relationship with Him. It is an unshakeable testimony of God in the human heart.

Hebrews 12:25-27 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

The voice of God within our hearts is a more sure voice than a covenant of remembering what He has said in the past or the discipline of keeping to rules that He has established for us to follow. The writer of Hebrews was admonishing the Jewish people to remember that they were meant to be Hebrew people and it was time to the intimate voice of God within their hearts that empowers children of God to be children of faith. This is the power of the kingdom of God for each and everyone of us. External things can be removed, but the internal realities of the kingdom of God in our hearts is enough to frame a world of love, hope, and faith in any environment we find ourselves. The kingdom of God is not just a promise for us in heaven to come, but also for heaven coming into our world in increasing measures as we respond to the internal voice of the One who loves us in all things. We must let the shakable things be removed so we can become the unshakeable people empowered by His love.

Hebrews 12:28-29 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.

 

Blessings,

 

Ted J. Hanson

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Hope Is Connected To Love

Posted on February 29, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings;

It appears to be spring in Bellingham. I have mowed my lawn for the first time and the daffodils are blooming, and the trees are beginning to bud. I claim this as a sign of my day. Things are beginning to bud and grow! God’s loves us and the SON is shining in our hearts!

We are in a season of knowing God’s love in a more intimate and powerful way. Knowing God’s love means that we will also know true hope. Having true hope will empower us to have life-transforming faith in our lives. These three are partners in the goodness of God’s life in our lives. They are faith, hope, and love.

Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

Psalms 130:7 O Israel, hope in the Lord; For with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption.

Psalms 31:24 Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

We must know where to put our hope in order to position our hearts and minds in the place of eternity. No matter what the circumstances are in our lives our hope is a future and a hope because of the love of God and His covenant towards us. Even when the children of God were to be bound in the captivity of Babylon the prophet Jeremiah confirmed to them that God’s thoughts for them were for a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29: 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

We must know where to put our hope in order to position our hearts and minds in the place of DESTINY. When we put our hope in events, circumstances, or things we fall short of a having a proper perspective of life. In the time of Jeremiah God’s purpose for His children was that they would discover Him. He wanted them to know Him so they could truly know His love. God wants all people to know this experience.

Jeremiah 29:12-14a Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity…

We hope in God our Father because we know He loves us. We can find him because He wants us to find Him. He wants our whole hearts, because only when we give Him our whole hearts can our whole hearts find true freedom and life. It is a matter of intimacy and life, not one of power and ministry. When we know God loves us we are able to experience a revelation of His love in our lives. We recognize His love when the tree of the knowledge of good and evil wants us to buy into a lie that God does not love us. Christ in us is our hope of glory!

Jeremiah 17:7, 8 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”

Job 14:7 “For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.”

The tree that God wants us to choose and to know is the Tree of Life. It is a family tree of intimacy and love. It is an administration that allows faith, hope, and love to partner in our lives for the eternal purposes of God in our lives. The foundation of this partnership is love, but hope is a step to allow faith to produce its perfect work in our lives. That perfect work is a changed world by the power of God’s love.

When we understand the purpose of hope we are able to receive a revelation of God’s love. Hope is not about what things we will receive in this life. It is about a divine connection with the One who loves us. When we know He loves us we hear Him and faith transforms the world in which we live.

Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

The word for worlds in this Scripture is aions or ages. These are not the worlds that God has made, but the ages of men that were transformed by God’s word to men. I believe the worlds spoken of here are the worlds of Abel, Noah, Abraham, and all the men and women who saw their worlds (ages) changed by hearing God, the One who loved them. God’s word to them was His rhema or personally spoken word to them. Their ages, their worlds, were framed by what God spoke to their hearts. What could have been a pile of rubble became the very building material set before them to see God’s love work in their lives. In order to frame our world we must put our hope in God not in a changed world. This is the power of faith. It is a substance that comes by hearing God and it is real! The secret to hearing Him is knowing that He loves us. When we know He loves us we hear Him when He speaks. When we know He loves us we know that we can put our hope in Him in all things. When we know that we can hope in Him in all things His words in our lives will empower belief inspired actions that change the worlds we live in.

Blessings,

 

Ted J. Hanson

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Influencers of Life

Posted on February 22, 2016 by ted4you

Greetings,

Today I find my self with an unexpected reality of being back in Bellingham. The journey of life is always forward, with forward adjustments along the way. The journey is surely a journey and there is a story in all of this, but today I am home. I had a great time in Spain this past week activating hungry young people in the New Covenant life of God. There is an expectant generation rising with a mandate of life to the world! I am encouraged as a spiritual father with hope for the harvest of life.

People in the world are stuck in the administration of the knowledge of good and evil, but our family tree is a Tree of Life. Life chooses to love! People who know God loves them have been made free, and are continually being made free. Now we live to help others know they are free! Our purpose is to:

  1. Rebuild
  2. Raise up
  3. And Repair or ‘Make Things New’

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.

Our mandate to build is because something has been torn apart. Our mandate to raise things up is because something has been thrown down. Our mandate to repair or ‘make new’ is because something has been ruined. We cannot approach any situation by assessing how torn apart it is, how thrown down it appears, or how ruined it is it its quality of life. We must approach every situation in life on the basis of our connection with LIFE. God is LIFE and our connection to Him and His family of life is powerful enough to bring His testimony to any situation in heaven or earth.

When we don’t walk in a living relationship with God we depend upon an administration of the knowledge of good and evil and things end up torn apart, thrown down, and ruined. It is an administration filled with judgments of others based upon who is right and who is wrong. Life is never ‘anti’ something – it is simply LIFE! It is not even anti-death. Death is actually anti-life, but it can never win. For the believer in Christ, even death is swallowed up life into glory. Nothing is more powerful than life and life is a testimony of LOVE. When we walk in a living relationship with God empowered by the administration of Tree of Life things become rebuilt, raised up, and made new again. It is an administration of mercy and grace and it measures all things by love

The foundation of the tree of life is:

  • God loves me – He gives me life, He gives me breath, and He gives me all things
  • God loves you – He gives you life, He gives you breath, He gives you all things

Life is the foundation of our desires, thoughts, strategies, emotions, imaginations and determined influences in life. In order for things to be rebuilt, raised up and made new, we must be willing to recognize the partnerships that God is sending into our lives for His purposes in the world. This doesn’t just involve recognizing those who bring life to us, but who we are appointed to give life to in every season and time of our lives. When we are life we can even make partnerships with those bound to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we can influence them by the Tree of Life. When we are life, who they are cannot change us, but who we are is powerful enough to influence them in a life-giving way. This is a season of partnerships for the purposes of God’s life in the earth.

Isaiah 61:5-6 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be named the priests of the Lord, they shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory you shall boast.

When those who do not know God become empowered to be who they are for the purposes of God, God will use them to assist in bringing His glory in the earth. I believe that the discoveries, inventions, strategies, and interventions of the world serve the purposes of God in the earth. God determines the future of the world by the altar of God in the earth; He does not determine the future of the alar by the world. We cannot change the world by natural means, but the spiritual life of the altar of God will influence the natural workings of the world. There will be counterfeits and there will be truth, but even the counterfeits are an indication that it is time for a new harvest to grow. When heaven is in the earth the earth responds to heaven’s sound. The church prevails against the influences of hell when the church is the testimony of the Tree of life.

We are in a move of God’s Spirit where He is calling humanity to come and be the people of God. This is a witness of life and hope to those who need to change the administration of their lives.

Isaiah 62:12 And they shall call them The Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

When the people of God live by the administration of the Tree of Life they will be sought out and recognized as those who are not forsaken. People in the world will seek to partner with people of God and the purposes of God will be seen in the earth. This also means that the people of God must recognize whom God may be using in the partnerships of life. God can use Pharaoh for His purposes. He can use Cyrus for His will. Pharaoh cannot bring life, Cyrus cannot bring life, but God’s people can be facilitated to give life when placed in a position to be life in the world.

A partnership with the world does not mean we become submitted to the world. Jesus became flesh and moved into the neighborhood, but the neighborhood didn’t change who He was. The life of God within Him was enough to change every neighborhood of His residence. He was not afraid of darkness; darkness could not put out the light. Jesus’ covenant was with the Tree of Life, thus He could partner with those bound to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and influence them by the grace of life and the truth of life in who He was. His covenant was not with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, His love was simply for them. Thus His partnership with the world was an invitation for all in the world to make a covenant with the Tree of Life. When those who should be people of God make a covenant with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they seek to disconnect from the people of the world and thus the people of the world remain bound to the ways of the world. We must covenant with the Tree of Life and seek to partner with the world to make men free. Who we are, is enough to transform the world.

In order to recognize or embrace partnerships with those who do not know what you know about God means you are going to have to embrace the covenant of knowing God in the midst of human partnerships for the purposes of God in the earth. This is a covenant of who God is, not merely a covenant with what God says. The aspects of rebuilding, raising things up, and making things new involve us receiving the power to build, a testimony of bringing things to life, and an authority to make things new. This involves a covenant with God that includes a covenant with the substance that comes from the Tree of Life. This substance is a partnership of faith, hope, and love within the covenant of life in our hearts. Love is a revelation and it empowers the substance of hope in our lives. Faith is an inspiration and it involves an intimate connection with the One we hope in, the lover of our souls.

 

Blessings,

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