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Greetings,

I have been in Portugal for this past week, and I have had a very productive week. A couple of books are being translated into Portuguese, as well as some new video courses. I will continue to record video courses this week. I had a great time with the CCVA church I Aveiro yesterday. God is good.

Jesus came for the redemption of all men. He didn’t just come so that we could merely go to heaven when we die. Although we pretended to be alive in our bodies of self,  we were already dead. Jesus came to give us life in this world and in all that is to come. He came so that those who were dead could hear God’s voice and live.

John 5:24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. 25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live.”

Eternal life is knowing God the Father and Jesus Christ His Son (Jn. 17:3). This is not merely a knowledge about them. It is intimately knowing them. This is made possible and real by our fellowship with Holy Spirit. Christ in us is the hope of glory (Col. 1:27). We can abide in God our Father and Jesus the Son when Holy Spirit abides in us. It is a matter of being loved and growing in knowing a relationship of love with God. The evidence is seen in the transformation of our hearts and minds that empowers us to love one another.

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

The testimony of Christ in us empowers us to be clothed in the good works of Christ. Those works are works of love that give life to others in our world.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

The word became flesh and He moved into the neighborhood. We saw Him as a man of grace and truth. He was a new Adam and from Him would come a new Eve. Just as Eve came from the flesh of Adam, the Church (Eternal Eve) would come from the body of Christ to be the eternal helpmate of Jesus for the Father’s glory. Co-reigning partners in Christ would fulfill the mandate given to mankind by God.

Jesus came so that humanity could fulfill the mandate to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion. The administration of His life was one of grace. Grace was the manifest presence of the Spirit of God in His life that motivated His heart and mind in all things. He was motivated by grace and thus He was a full manifestation of truth in human form. Grace was the government of the kingdom within His heart. Of this government and this peace there was to be no end.

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Peace is a testimony of mercy. There is no gap between us and God. Grace is the power to reign. There is no end to the increase of this government or peace and the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters presently cover the sea.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Today I am in Portugal. I had a wonderful weekend with ministry in Lisbon and in Samora. Thank you to all the hungry CCVA members who came to hear God’s word and experience His presence together. I am here for a couple of weeks. I will be recording more courses in Portuguese this week and next.

God’s creation of our world was from His vantage point. He saw the world from His heart and declared a finished work from His heart to the place that appeared to be formless, void, and dark. God declares the end of all things from the beginning because He can turn all things for good to bring about life in all things. The second chapter of Genesis reveals how man was to rule in the earth out of a relationship with God. Through an intimate relationship with God, man would be able to fulfill the commission to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in the earth.

Genesis 2:4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The garden was not merely a place of blessing for mankind. It was a place of getting to know God, dwelling with Him, and fulfilling the mandate from a place of personal connection with Him. There were more possibilities in the garden than there were limitations. Only one tree was forbidden, while all the other trees were pleasing to the eye and good to eat from. God commanded man to eat of all the trees, except one. Eden was not a place of restriction, but one of abundance. It was a place of knowing God who is life and experiencing that life in the environment of man’s world. Only one tree would produce death and that was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil – a tree that made man wise. It was a tree that could make man independent. To eat of that tree would disconnect man from God and a dependency upon a relationship of love that would come from God. When man ate of that tree, mankind became bound to a destiny of information with a self-condemning consequence of judgment and shame.

In Genesis chapter three we have a testimony of man eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eating of that tree brought about the consequence of futility in man’s commission in the earth. God spoke words over the earth that subjected it to futility in the hope of one day returning man to an intimate relationship with Him in all things. That could only happen through a restored relationship with God through a last and eternal Adam. That Adam would be the firstfruit of a new creation of humanity – a humanity of Christ.

After God’s perspective of creation, man’s experience of creation, and man’s fall to disconnection, we have the other books of the Bible. Sometimes we think that God created the world, He made man to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion, man fell, and God said, Shoot! I thought it would work. So, the rest is about how God is going to destroy it and take us to heaven. That kind of thinking is really quite foolish when you think of God and who He is. The missing piece has been intimacy of men with God, but God so loved the world He sent the solution.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved

 God had to become a man of flesh. The word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood. He lived as a man with an intimate relationship with God His Father to restore our connection to God as our Father so that we could become a testimony of God’s word in our flesh. Jesus lived as a man of flesh. He died as a man of flesh. He was buried as a man of flesh. He rose from the dead as a man of flesh. He ascended into heaven as a man of flesh. He is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh so that we can all live our lives empowered by God’s Spirit to fulfill the mandate given to us by God in our world. We can be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in our world for the glory of God in all things.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

Yesterday I was blessed to speak at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Thank you to all who came. It was good to be together. I believe that we are all ready for another measure in a new chapter of life for God’s glory. Stand strong and be the treasure that you are in Him.

Why did God become a man? What was His purpose in coming to us as a man? What was the importance of His resurrection from the dead and what did His ascension to heaven mean for us as mankind? As we approach these questions, we must first consider man’s problem and man’s need in the earth. Our need was for God because only God can give us life, breath, and all things that bring life to our world. Our need was not more information as to what to do or not to do. Our need was to regain a connection to God in our hearts so that we could know life and bring life to our world.

When man chose the knowledge of good and evil over an intimate relationship with God from his heart, he became disconnected from God in his heart. Shame prevented man from seeing God for who He truly is. He is a loving Father and His love for us cannot be broken by our disconnection from Him. God’s love for us is stronger than our rejection of Him. God loved the people of the world so much, that He sent His only begotten Son to pay the ransom of disconnection from Him that would restore us to our destiny in this world. God’s world was not in trouble, but our world was disconnected from Him. Our disconnection from Him resulted in our loss of the destiny given to us by God in our creation. God became a man and moved into our world to reconnect us to God as our Father. This was a matter of relationship and love, not merely one of purpose, but it did make it possible for mankind to live in the original purpose given to them by God. What was that purpose?

Mankind’s purpose was to be the likeness and image of God in the earth that would fill the earth with His glory. Through an intimate relationship with God, man would bring the fruitfulness of the God of the garden to the barren places of this world. The glory of God is to see sons and daughters of God bringing the liberty of life to their world. Man’s disconnection from God resulted in something far less than God’s glory. The testimony was disastrous, and the end was the removal of flesh apart from one family line that exhibited a conscience towards knowing God. When left with the rule of conscience, only one family sought intimacy with God over the administration of independence and self-willed desires.

Human conscience is the human spirit, and it is an internal witness that cries out for the need to be joined to God in the Spirit. By conscience alone, man cannot subdue and have dominion. They can only know there is a God, and they can only know their need for Him in their lives. God desired more for mankind and the commission of His life-giving authority in the earth. There was a need for the flesh of mankind to become the word of God in human form. Only by this could the mandate be fulfilled. God coming into our world in the form of flesh was the redemption of our flesh so that we could become a testimony of God in our world. To be an expression of God’s word is to be an expression of His character, nature, way, power, and authority. The fruit of this is life to our world.

After the flood, man was given the harsh reality of ruling by law. Human law became the administration of mankind, but the ability to subdue and have dominion was removed from the commission of humanity (Gen. 9:1). Even in the giving of the Torah law, there was no greater hope than merely being fruitful, multiplying, and filling. The law was added because of the transgression, but the ability to subdue and have dominion could only be restored through the reconciliation of man (male and female) to their source of life. The word had to become flesh so that all flesh could again become expressions of God’s word. Only by this could the mandate be restored, and subduing and dominion could be regained by God’s sons (male and female in Christ).

The missing pieces of the mandate could only be restored when the word became flesh and moved into our world. Jesus was a man full of grace and truth and He came into our world so that all men (male and female) could be filled with grace and truth.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Grace is the presence of the Holy Spirit joined to the human spirit, enabling the human being to subdue death by the power of life. Truth is the testimony of life made known in the uniqueness of each one to crumble the lies and deceptions in the sphere of each one’s influence in life. By this the word becomes flesh and good news is given to the formless, void, and dark places of the earth. Jesus came into our world to put an end to our disconnection from God as our Father. He came so that we could die in Him and then find eternal life through Him that would empower us to fulfill the mandate given to us by our Father in heaven. For this to happen, He had to die so that we could die, He had to raise from the dead, so that we could live as new creations in Christ. He had to also ascend into heaven as a man to give us the authority of life to reign in this life as human sons and daughters of God for the glory of our Father in heaven.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I hope you have had a great week. My time in Africa was very blessed. I am working on several new projects now. I have finished the rough draft of a new book, and I will be publishing it in the near future. There are several things stirring in my spirit to be developed in the coming summer months.

The first chapter of Genesis gives an account of what the creation of our world looked like from God’s perspective. The story actually goes through Genesis, chapter two verse three. When there was a need for a beginning, God saw an end and declared the beginning to be. Because God gives life, breath, and all things; a situation that is formless, void, and dark is a perfect environment for God to create a world of destiny. This account in Genesis is a description according to God’s vision and God’s covenantal nature of love. It is not about science or literal facts of the creation of a natural world. It is about God’s plan according to what He sees and what He desires to express in our world.

The six days of creation culminated with God’s best creation – mankind in the likeness and image of God in heaven. Man was to be the ruling agent as God’s likeness and image in the world that would bring God’s life wherever the soles of his feet would go. God’s blessing was on mankind – male and female. They were to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in the earth. This was the mandate that would fulfill God’s will in the world and bring the influence of God’s kingdom to the generations of mankind. 

Genesis 1:26 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.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 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.”

The mandate of mankind was given by God to the substance of Himself in the earth. That substance was the masculine and the feminine expression of who God is, made known in earthly form. The creation of both male and female from the substance of the Spirit of God was to be the source of the mandate. They were to be one flesh comprised of dual expressions of the nature of God. God is both a giver of life and a nurturer of life. Mankind was the antidote to everything that is formless, void, and dark. They were to be rooted in the Spirit of God to be an expression of God in earthly form. By this they could be fruitful, multiply, and fill as living creatures do, but they could also subdue and have dominion as only mankind was destined to do. The testimony was to be one of authority and not merely power. Authority always gives life, while power alone grasps to take life from others. Mankind (male and female) were to be givers of life, not takers of life. By this they could give life to formless things and the order of life would unfold. They could fill anything void with life and thus fullness would prevail. They could bring light to darkness and light would arise. This would only be possible through intimacy with God as a living, growing extension of His family in the earth. Mankind would reveal a family tree, if you will, exhibiting the overcoming power of God as the tree of life. They would subdue by being givers of life to their world. They would exercise dominion by manifesting the truth of God’s life that would destroy every lie of death. When man choose the external rule of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he/she disconnected from the source of what would empower them to subdue and have dominion. Thus, the blessing on man after the flood was only to be fruitful, multiply, and fill (Gen. 9:1). They lost their ability to subdue and have dominion. To subdue is to destroy death with life and to exercise dominion is to crumble every lie with truth.

A relationship with God is a relationship with life. A relationship with life will produce a family tree of life. When Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden, they chose an administration of human wisdom and forsook a relationship of trust and love for God. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the only tree in the garden that made man smart – it made man independent of God. It left man with a stronghold in their hearts and minds. That stronghold was one of needing to be right. If man can have enough information of good and enough information of evil, they can make good decisions, be a good person, and live a good life, doing good things. With this administration, the worst thing that man can be is ‘wrong’; therefore they are always seeking to be right according to their own wisdom.

When mankind embraced an administration of human wisdom, they embraced a disconnection from the true wisdom of God that leads to and brings forth life. Natural sight became more dominant than faith. What they could see became more important than what God says. This seeing included their natural hearing, their feelings, their own perceptions, and their own imaginations. The result was the loss of the ability to bring life to the formless, void, and dark places of the earth. God became our salvation in our world when He became a man – Jesus, God’s gift of love for us all. He came to restore the mandate of mankind, male and female, in 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,

Today I am still in South Africa. It has been wonderful to be with my friend Pastor Barnard, his family, and various members of another part of the body of Christ. The sun has been shining and I am blessed to be alive in my relationship with God.  God’s presence brings His salvation into my life every day. We increasingly know the fire of God’s presence of God in our lives every day.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

We experience God’s salvation in our lives in many measures. The ultimate measure of our salvation will be when our corruptible bodies take on incorruptible glory in heaven. This is no doubt the ultimate salvation of our lives, but we also need salvation in the days of our journey in this world. Whenever there is a revealing of Jesus in our lives we experience a measure of salvation in our lives. We are to eagerly wait for every appearing of Jesus. God’s grace comes to us when Jesus is revealed to us.

1 Peter 1:13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

A revelation of Jesus Christ is a revealing of Jesus in our lives. When we expect to see Him, we seek Him, find Him, and abide with Him. This is the testimony of God’s grace that changes and empowers our lives to be sons and daughters of God in Christ. We must maintain a careful consistent effort in having a diligent and tireless expectation of His appearance in the power and testimony of salvation. We eagerly wait for Him to appear in our lives in the testimony of His salvation in all things and at all times.

The word for appear is the Greek Strong’s Reference number 3700. ὀπτάνομαι optanomai; it means to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable. It implies an ability to look at, behold, to allow oneself to be seen – to appear. We experience the salvation of God in our lives when we expect Jesus as a life-giving Spirit to come into our lives and He appears to us. There is a great Old Testament Scripture that reveals a testimony that comes when we wait upon the Lord.

Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

The Hebrew Strong’s Reference number for the word wait in this Scripture is 6960. קָוָה qâwâ; a primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect. Those who wait on the Lord are those who seek to bind themselves together with Him. They expect Him to partner with them in their lives.

When God lives in our lives we experience His salvation in our lives. Our experiencing Him in our lives comes by our returning to Him and our abiding with Him. The fruit of connection to Him is our salvation. This is not just a salvation of going to heaven when we die but a salvation in any and every situation of our lives.

Isaiah 30:15 For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not…

Psalms 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

God’s salvation in our lives includes God’s blessings in our lives, His forgiveness, His healing, redeeming testimonies, His loving kindness, and His mercy. We are renewed like an eagle when we experience God’s salvation in our lives. His salvation comes when we experience an appearance of Christ by His life-giving Spirit.

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 South Africa. I am enjoying watching God love His children. He is our Father and He is our friend, and He is waking up our hearts to be His friends. We increasingly know the fire of His presence in our lives.

To know Jesus is to know the presence of Holy Spirit within our lives. Holy Spirit has been sent to us by God our Father in Jesus’ name. Through Jesus we experience the end of our old life to live a new life by His resurrection power within us.

John 5:25 Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

Jesus has judged sin that we might live our lives empowered by the life-giving desires of His Holy Spirit. His sacrifice for our sins was merely the entrance for us to know Him in His salvation. Jesus told His disciples that He would come to them again after His resurrection. This was not just His physical appearance to them after He rose from the dead. It was a coming to them in a way that would exceed how they had known Him while He was physically with them in their world. This was not merely a future event of a second coming of Jesus, but a coming that is increasingly experienced by all who receive His death upon the cross that they might find His presence in the throne of grace.

Hebrews 9:26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Jesus has put away sin and He empowers us to live free from the power of sin through a relationship with Him as the body of Christ. Jesus reconciled us to our Heavenly Father – He came so we could see who God really is and who we are meant to be.

Jesus first coming as the Son of Man/Son of God and second coming as a life-giving Spirit in the first century was the end of the Old Covenant generation for Israel – extending to all nations of world in the centuries to follow.  His physical first coming as a man of flesh (living soul) enabled Him to become a life-giving Spirit for and in us all. He was the fulfillment of old Adam and the firstborn of a new creation as a last and eternal Adam in the form of an eternal life-giving Spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”

God’s mercy justifies us to live and God’s grace working in our lives empowers us to live. Christ’s manifest presence in our lives enables us to reign in life. Jesus as the Son of Man/Son of God gives us the gift of mercy – a judgment that frees us from the law of sin and death. Jesus as a life-giving Spirit gives us His salvation in our lives. That salvation comes to those who eagerly wait for Him. He comes to them as a life-giving Spirit.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

What does it mean to eagerly wait? The Greek word for wait is the Greek Strong’s Reference number 553, ἀπεκδέχομαι apekdechomai. It means to expect fully. It is to assiduously and patiently wait for Him to appear. It implies a maintaining of a careful consistent effort in having a diligent and tireless expectation of His appearance in power and testimony of salvation. Some synonyms for the word assiduously would be to be diligently, attentively, tirelessly, persistently, constantly, continuously, and never-endingly expectant of His appearance in our lives. We eagerly wait for Him to appear. We eagerly wait for His appearing to us when we transition to heaven beyond this world. We eagerly wait for Him to sum up all things and present them to God the Father in the culmination of glory. We also eagerly wait for an appearance of Him as the life-giving Spirit in our lives each and every day. By this we know Him from glory to glory in our lives (2 Cor. 3:18).

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 Angola, Africa. I’ve been in Angola for the past several days and it was wonderful to see all that God is doing. On Wednesday I will be traveling to the Free State of South Africa for engagements with another part of God’s family. I’m looking forward to all that God is going to do there.

I believe that we are in a new season of seeing God in a greater measure of who He is in our lives and who He is in our world. We must know Jesus in His first coming in our lives but we must also know Him in the seasons of His greater coming into our lives as a life-giving Spirit that gives us His salvation to in every season of our lives.

I released a prophecy a couple of weeks ago that I feel is very significant to His appearing in our lives for a time called now.

Prophecy – April 21, 2024

The Spirit of the Lord says, “The seasons are Mine and you are My seasons. And in each season, there’s seed and there is harvest but in the harvest there’s new seed. For I am the First and I am the Last, I am the Beginning, and I am the End. But in every end, there’s a new beginning. Understand this, that this is a new season. It’s not a season merely of harvest. It’s a season of seeds. It’s a season of new beginnings.

As the prophet Isaiah said, ‘You have heard, see all this, will you not declare it. I have made you hear new things from this time, even hidden things; you did not know them. For they are created now and not from the beginning. Before this day you have not heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Of course I knew them.’”

“I’m the God of mystery, but I’m not the God of mystery to keep it hidden. I’m the God of mystery because I am the God that creates. I’m the God that releases the poetry, the art, the sound, the song, and the music, I’m the God that releases the grace and the goodness of who I’ve declared you to be.

So, this is a season of a new season. So, lean your ear to Me, lean your heart to Me, intertwine yourself with My presence, for this is a day for you to know Me; as the First, as the Best, that you can also be as I am. For this is a day for new things to be created. Let go of your expectations and fill your heart with expectancy. For this is a season not merely of harvest but a season of new seeds. For new things will be seen, new things will be heard, and new things will be thought; and the glory of My name will astound you. A greater glory you will yet see.”

In this prophecy there is a secret to the present season. It is a secret to a greater glory than what we have known before. God doesn’t want to recreate our past lives. He wants to give each of us greater life than we have known before. God wants us to know that the season is today, and the time is now. This is where all things can be made new. It is not about old things being made new. It is about new things being created in our lives. In this place, even the things that any enemy determined for evil in our lives can be turned for good. We must lean our ears to Him. What does God say today? His voice always reveals that He is great, He is good, and His mercy endures forever. His voice is a voice of faith, hope, and love. His voice reveals our part in His calling, our part in His testimony, and our part in His purpose.

When we see Jesus in our lives, we see the power of His word working in our lives. God doesn’t want us to forsake any part of our journey thus far. He simply wants to what is today and make it new for our tomorrow in Him. We must lean our hearts to Him. It is not about our will. It is about a greater gory of His will and His kingdom in and through our lives. It is about knowing Him. It’s about knowing His love and the working of His love in our lives. We must intertwine our lives with His presence. Every focus, every dream, every plan, every strategy, and everything of our lives must be from a partnership with Him in our lives. Holy Spirit is a person, and He is the secret to our present, our past, and our future. He is the Helper who has come in Jesus’ name, and He is the Spirit who empowers our spirits to know that we are sons and daughters of God.

Every season of our lives is about a relationship with God and the fruit of that relationship is a season of greater love for ourselves and for one another. Each of us are a first for the sake of others. Every one of us is that best at being who we are for the sake of others being who they are. Our heavenly Father gives life, breath, and all things and we are to be givers of life even as He gives life to us. We love one another because He first loved us. It is a revelation that is paramount to each new season in our lives.

“Lean your ear to Me, lean your heart to Me, intertwine yourself with My presence, for this is a day for you to know Me; as the First, as the Best, that you can also be as I am.”

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 Bellingham. I have enjoyed another great week at home with my family and friends. Yesterday I was blessed to speak to my home church of Alife. I will be blogging the next weeks on my topic. God’s presence in our lives is the testimony of salvation in our lives at all times and in all things.

To know the salvation of God we must know Jesus in both His first coming and an eternally increasing second coming in our lives. We must know His gift to us as the Son of Man/Son of God and we must receive Him as a life-giving Spirit in our hearts. We must embrace His sacrifice for us upon our cross and we must live from His throne room of grace to experience His salvation in our lives in this world and in heaven to come.

Jesus’ death upon our cross was God’s judgment of mercy for us all. That judgment gave us peace with God and all we have to do is come and receive His gift of mercy to be justified to live. His death upon our cross was God’s judgment of love. Our Father’s love was greater than our disconnection from Him. The marks in Jesus’ body were a testimony of God’s gift of love for us all. After His resurrection from the dead Jesus appeared to His disciples and He revealed to them both His gift of mercy and their new ability to experience His grace.

John 20:19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

When Jesus showed His disciples His hands and His side it was a testimony of His first coming for all of mankind. As it was appointed for all men to die once, Jesus died once for all so that all could find a new life of living as a dwelling place of God’s Spirit. God’s judgment of mercy has given peace to us all. The peace of God is made evident by His Spirit living within us. Jesus not only showed His disciples the marks in His body, He also gave them the gift of Holy Spirit within them.

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.”

I believe that when Jesus breathed on His disciples it was like the breath that God breathed into first Adam when He formed Adam from the dust of the earth (Gen. 2:7). The breath of God’s Spirit within us is the testimony of Holy Spirit, the Helper, within us. Holy Spirit within us is the testimony of the name of Jesus within our hearts. This is the birthing and forming of His character, nature, way, power, and authority in our lives. This empowers us to be a body born by His Spirit – we are the body of Christ. Because of the mercy given to us through the death of Jesus we can find the grace of God that empowers us to reign in life. This is the power of a new life as a member of the body of Christ. We are no longer bound to the body of self, but we are liberated in Christ to live our lives as life-giving members of the body of Christ. This is the testimony of our salvation that makes us part of the calling of Christ, the testimony of Christ, and the purpose of Christ in all things.

Our life in Old Adam was destined to die, but Jesus was the Son of Man in flesh to free us from the life of the flesh. He came to liberate us to live our lives empowered by the life of His Spirit. This is a life of faith – a life of hearing God within our hearts that empowers us to live. That life is eternal life, the fruit of knowing God our Father and Jesus Christ the son by the fellowship of Holy Spirit.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I hope you are all well. I am home again in Bellingham, and I am enjoying some days of Spring. It is not as warm as California, but we are moving toward warmer days in the Northwest. It was good to be in our home church of Alife yesterday and we celebrated by offering our firstfruits to God in an atmosphere of love, life, and the goodness of God. We are expecting God’s purposed harvest for our lives.

Before Jesus gave His life upon the cross of Calvary, He promised His disciples that He would give them His peace. He would give them God’s gift of mercy that would grant them the peace of God in their lives. That peace wouldn’t merely be an emotional comfort but the testimony of being one with God and God with them. There would be no separation between them and spiritual blessings of God in heaven.

John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe.”

The promise of Jesus to His disciples was that He was going to come back to them. We know that He came back to them after He rose from the grave, but there was more to His promise to them than merely His physical appearance to them. His promise was that of coming to them in a way that He could be with them and in them. He was promising an abiding with Him that would be in the same way that Jesus was able to abide in God His Father and His Father in Him.

John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”

Jesus was the vine of God’s Spirit. He was the vine of Christ and He was making a way for His disciples to become branches of Christ in Him. He was making a way for all people to know the salvation of being a living, growing, vine of God’s presence in the nations and generations of mankind. The life within those in Him and He in them would be the life of God’s Holy Spirit. Christ in them would be the hope of glory! That glory would be to bear the fruit of God that would bring life to their world. It would be the fruit of God’s character, nature, way, power, and life-giving authority.

John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.”

The salvation of Christ empowers us to be givers of life to our world. Fruit is what gives life to others. As part of the vine of God’s abiding, we become givers of God’s heavenly life to our world.

Jesus gave us all peace with God through His atoning blood upon our cross. He poured out the life of His perfect flesh to give us the life of His perfect Spirit. The blood of the New Covenant is different than the blood of the Old Covenant. The blood of the Old Covenant was the blood of the flesh because the life of the flesh is in the blood (Lev. 17:11, 14). When Jesus gave His life for us upon the cross, He gave every drop of the life of His flesh so we could be granted the life of His Spirit. The blood of the body of Christ is the presence of Holy Spirit flowing in and through our lives to our world. This is the power of God’s grace that is given freely to us because of God’s mercy given to us through the shed blood of Jesus as God’s give of love to us all.

Jesus confirmed His gift of mercy when He appeared to His disciples after His resurrection. The disciples were hiding in a locked room and Jesus appeared to them to confirm God’s gift of peace through His shed blood upon our cross. That mercy had granted them, and all of mankind, peace with God. It is through peace with God that we find His amazing grace working in and through our lives. This is the power of His salvation.

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 been here this past week having a great visit with our son Aaron and his family. It has been a blessing being with them. It will be especially hard to say goodbye to our grandson and granddaughter again. A few more days of blessing still.

As I have previously written, Jesus coming to us as the Son of Man was God’s first appearing to us for the reconciliation of our hearts to God. Sin never stopped God from seeing humanity for who they were meant to be, it only stopped humanity from seeing God for who He really is. He is a loving Father who has always desired for us to know Him as our friend. His is a giver of life and His gift of life to and in us empowers us to be givers of life to our world.

The firstfruit recipients of both His first coming and a coming again were His human disciples. Before His death upon the cross, He assured them of both the purpose of His death and His promise to come to them again in a way that was not naturally possible without the power and glory of the grace of God. He had revealed to them that He was a spacious place of God’s presence and purpose, and He was making a way for them to be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. They too would be spacious places of His presence and purpose in their world. Greater things they would do because He would go to the Father and come to them again in the Spirit of the Father and the Son.

John 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

The place that Jesus would prepare for them would not just be a place in heaven someday, but a heavenly place in their world. It would include the greater glory to come beyond this world, but it would prove to empower them to be a testimony of God’s love in and to their world. His words to His disciples apply to us as well, but He was specifically addressing those who had become His friends while He lived as a man in their world.

John 14:16 “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”

Jesus told His disciples that He would leave them, but He also told them they would see Him again for He would come to them again. His coming to them again was not just the significant testimony of His resurrection from the tomb, but in His presence not only with them but in them by the testimony of the Holy Spirit who would be given as a Helper. Holy Spirit would be God in them and with them for His salvation in all things.

John 14:19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Jesus told His disciples that they would see Him because He would be in them. They would also know an intimacy of living in Him as members of the body of Christ. Jesus would manifest Himself to them by the presence of Holy Spirit within them.

John 14:25 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.”

These same truths are for us today. Jesus wants us all to know the gift of God’s judgment that came to us by His first coming as a man of flesh. That judgment was one of mercy and eternal life for all who believe. God’s judgment is better than any judgment of law that can be found in the tree of the knowledge of good or evil. That judgment is more powerful than the judgment of sin. It is a greater judgment than any other judgment because it is the only judgment that gives us life. The letter of the law will kill but only God’s Spirit will give us life.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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