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Greetings,

Today I am in Angola, Africa. I have had a wonderful weekend with some great testimonies of people hungry for God and God’s life touching many. It was a long journey with some challenges in getting here, but the journey is well worth it to see what God is doing in the lives of His children in this part of the world. I have a full week of training here and I am looking forward to teaching on ‘God, Our Father’.

God has called us to be people of light. God is light and we are His children. Since we are children of God, we walk in the light as He is in the light. The action is ours in turning towards Him, but the experience is Him in that He is the light and the source of our light in this world. When we turn to the Lord in our hearts, we experience the glory of God from within us.

2 Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

The glory of God is the abundance of His life that changes us from within. When we look in a mirror, we see an image of ourselves, and that image is being changed from within our hearts through a constant and increasing encounter with Christ in us. It is little by little, but it is an increasing testimony of glory to glory. Experiencing the glory of God, is to experience His life that transforms us in our hearts from within.

All of creation is a testimony of the Godhead. Something of God can be seen is all that is created. It is like the light of each new day. the sunrise happens when the earth bows in the direction of the sun. The turning is an act of the earth while the sun simply remains constant as the ever-shining light. The prophet Isaiah proclaimed this truth and prophesied of the day when all people could become the light of God in Christ.

Isaiah 60:1-5 “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side. 5 Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.”

Those who were not in covenant with God can come to be in covenant with God when they turn to the Lord in their hearts. We must bow to stand. Just as the earth bows in the direction of the sun to experience the sunrise of a new day, we must bow to the presence of God to experience the ever-increasing light of Christ within us. It is not a far away mystery. God is near to us, but we must turn in His direction to receive the direction of His light for our way. It is not a matter of information. It is a matter of transformation unto increasing life.

We don’t walk by natural sight. We walk by faith (2 Cor. 5:7). That faith comes by hearing God’s voice within our hearts. It inspires us to see what we could not see before, to hear what we could not hear before, and to think what we could not think before. In this, we become what we could not be before. Our natural light has ended, and the Light of Christ is the increasing testimony of our eternal life in Christ. Our natural sun has turned dark, and the life of our flesh has been ended for our light in the darkness. The life of the flesh was in the blood, but the life of the body of Christ is found in the grace of Holy Spirit in our lives. Our sun has turned to darkness and our moon to blood, because we have discovered eternal life in knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son through the fellowship of Holy Spirit. We no longer live for our days, but for the ever-increasing Day of the Lord in all things. The Lord is our light and there is no more need for the light of self that can only repeat the endless cycles of our past.

Isaiah 60:19-22 “The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.”

To walk in the light, we must turn to the light. Jesus is Lord of our hearts, and He is our everlasting light through our fellowship with His Holy Spirit in our ways. We are children of the light, and we are no longer bound to being children of the night.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

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www.ted4you.com or

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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 after a couple of days in the forest hunting. I had a great couple of days in the silence of the outdoors and I enjoyed God’s presence. No harvest yet, but I will look to the end of the year.

Our focus in life should be to seek the kingdom of God in all things. Our focus is not upon meeting our own needs or fulfilling our personal desires. God is our Father, and it is His pleasure to meet our needs and to fulfill our desires, but His ways are better than ours. We can be confident that as we live for His kingdom and for His will, He will abundantly care for us.

Matthew 6:31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

How do we seek the kingdom of God in all things? Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within us (Lk. 17:20, 21). The kingdom of God within us affects the outward expressions of our natural kingdoms to become testimonies for God’s glory. Our internal connection to God and His kingdom reveals true righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit within our hearts. An increasing revelation of these will empower our identity, testimony, and purpose in life.

God cares for the birds, and He cares for the flowers of the field. The birds don’t gather into barns, but people in the likeness and image of their heavenly Father were born to bring life to their worlds through the barns and vats of their lives. Their barns are a testimony of their life to the world as the living bread of Christ. Their vats are a testimony of the life of the Spirit they bring to others. When we seek God’s kingdom first in our lives, we can fulfill our purpose in this world as sons and daughters of God who give life to others.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and depart from evil. 8 It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones. 9 Honor the LORD with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase; 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Our trust in the Lord is foundational to our seeking God’s kingdom and will in our lives. God wants us to trust Him with all of our heart, but that measure grows as we grow in maturity in Christ. God doesn’t expect us to trust Him with a heart we don’t yet have. I am more than 50 years old in Christ and the measure that I trust Him today far exceeds the measure that I could trust Him with twenty years ago. Our trust of God grows as our experience with God grows. To seek God’s kingdom, we must not lean on our own understanding. I often thank God for the simple expression of praying in the Spirit, since the foolishness of the Spirit helps to simplify the complexity of my own natural thoughts. God the Holy Spirit inspires me to lean upon His understanding above my own.

God’s path in life is a path of our true identity. Only God can give us our true identity. Who we are reveals who God is in way that is uniquely our identity in Him. This can only happen when we trust Him, yield our understanding to His, and acknowledge Him in our ways in life.

Our testimony in life is one that reveals the goodness of God though the health of our flesh and the strength of our bones. We are not to be wise in our own eyes, but dependent upon God for the steps of His wisdom in our lives. An awe of Him will empower us to depart from all evil and the testimony of our lives will reveal God’s goodness to our world.

Our purpose in life can only be discovered and fulfilled when we honor the Lord with all that we possess. We honor Him with our attitudes, actions, and accomplishments in life. We give Him the firstfruits of all that He gives us in life. In doing so our barns will be filled with plenty, and our vats will overflow with new wine. These are the fruits of all that we are and do that brings life to our world. This fruit is both natural and spiritual and it brings the blessings of God to our world.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I hope everyone is well today. I have enjoyed being back home for a few days. Yesterday I was blessed to share in my home church community of Alife. The presence of God was in the house and life was in His family.

Every day the earth rotates in the direction of the sun. Each morning we experience a sunrise, and we call it a new day. The sun does not move. The earth rotates in the direction of the sun. The science is a rotation of the earth in the direction of the sun, but the magical experience is a sunrise in our lives for a new day. This truth in our natural world testifies of a truth in regard to God and our relationship with Him. God does not move. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He loves us and He is ready to give His love to all that desire to know Him. He is the giver of life! He is the giver of light to our dark world. To know His light, we must turn in the direction of Him. When we humble ourselves and bow in His direction, we find Him ready and able to give us a new experience for a new day. Though we were clothed in darkness, when we turn to Him, we become clothed in light. We must face Him, to find His face. We must seek Him, to find Him in our lives.

What direction are we facing in life? The way of the world is to focus upon one’s own personal desires and needs. People look for the substance of magic that meets their own desires and fulfills their own need in some way. They don’t realize that there is a greater destiny in life. God doesn’t just want to meet our needs; He wants to empower us as sons and daughters to be givers of life to our world.

We have a greater destiny than to be merely those who seek our own personal fulfillments. God wants all men to know the destiny of bringing life to their world. It is for this reason that Jesus said that those who are thirsty can come to Him and drink so that life-giving water might flow through them to their world (Jn. 7:37-39). The life of Holy Spirit within us gives us our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life. That identity, testimony, and purpose is found in our connection to God in all things. When we look to Him, His kingdom can come, and His will can be done in our lives just as He already declares it to be in heaven.

God is our Father, and we can trust Him to care for us in life. We must also know that He sees us as greater than we can even see ourselves. His aspiration for us to empower us to be sources of life to our world. Humanity sows seeds for harvests that bring life to their world. When that seed is sown for our own selves, we miss the greatness of what God has for us. Our Father cares for us and He also empowers us to be all that He has determined for us to be.

Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

If God cares for creation of a lower destiny, surely He cares for those who are in His likeness and image in this world. He clothes us with our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life, but we must come to Him to put on the clothing of Christ. This is not the clothing of self but the greater clothing of our purpose in Christ. Jesus is the head, but we are His body. We are the family of God for a corporate identity, testimony, and purpose of 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

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Greetings,

I don’t know how it happened, but my last Monday’s blog didn’t post. I thought it had posted but somehow the magic of the internet didn’t work. I had a great week of God’s presence with the family of God in Bulgaria. As usual, I am blessed by all that God is doing there and I am encouraged by the hunger of the hearts of the church family in Bulgaria. This past week, I was in the Netherlands and Portugal. I met with a core group of the church in Utrecht on Monday, and I recorded training courses in Portugal during the week. I had a great weekend in Lisbon and today I am editing some of the many video courses that I have recorded.

The life of God in our lives is a testimony of resurrection life, creative life, and eternal life. The flow of Holy Spirit from our lives brings life to the deadest places in our world in a supernatural way.

Ezekiel 47:9 And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many.

En Gedi and En Eglaim are strongholds at the banks of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea derives its name from the fact that it does not contain fish. It is the lowest body of water in elevation upon the earth and it is the highest in salt content. The strongholds of En Gedi (fountain or spring of goats) and En Eglaim (fountain or spring of two calves), are places that may symbolize a refuge for happiness (leaping goats) and a refuge for liberty (leaping calves). We are freed from our sin because Jesus was the sacrificial scape goat for our inheritance in Christ. We are called to present our bodies and serve God as members of the body of Christ because Jesus sanctified us to serve God in the liberty of membership in the body of Christ. We are witnesses of Christ in the liberty of Christ in our lives. The spreading of nets is symbolized in these verses of Ezekiel to be between a spring of freedom and a spring of liberty. The river brings the freedom and liberty of life to the world. The freedom of today is because of the freedom we found yesterday, but to bring the freedom for tomorrow we must find new freedom today. The liberty of today is because of the liberty we found yesterday, but to bring the liberty for tomorrow we must find new liberty today. The life of God’s river is in every season that comes by the eternal measurements of God’s grace.

The river flows towards the east. It is a glory of increasing grace. To be stuck in what God has done in the past is a hinderance to what God desires to do today.

Ezekiel 47:11 But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.

What are the swamps and marshes in our lives? Where are we stuck in something that God did and expecting that to be the place of life for today? The methods of a previous season of God in our lives can become the imprisonment to the swamps and marshes in our lives. When we love what God has done more than we love God, we can become stuck in something that God did in the past and miss what God desires to do in our lives today. We may think that we are ok because we have some measure of water from what God did yesterday but there is no flow of God’s present purpose in our lives. When this happens, we miss the healing that God wants to give us in the new season of God.

Ezekiel 47:12 Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”

What are our expectations in life? What direction are we facing? Are we looking towards new things or old things? Are we looking towards life or death? Are we facing sunrises or sunsets?

Do we see the glass filling up or emptying? The desirable place is in the east (Gen. 2:8). To find the desirable place, our focus must be towards the east. It your focus is not towards the life that comes from the east you are walking a path of trouble. Cain went out from the east and found himself wandering in a journey that led to disinheritance and death. Mankind journeyed from the east and built the Tower of Babel – a stronghold that bore only the fruit of human confusion and division. The seasons of God are always seasons of new life of the increasing new Day of the Lord.

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 Bulgaria after a great weekend in Portugal. I will be teaching on Finding Your Corporate Identity to a core of the church in Plovdiv as well as some church meetings in Blagovigrad, Sofia, and Plovdiv. I believe it is going to be a great week.

The Life of God in us brings life to our world. It is new every day and every day leads to new seasons in Christ that are meant to change our world in a life-giving way.

Revelation 22:1-5 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

These verses reveal an awesome truth in regard to the administration of God in the body of Christ. That administration is not one of the knowledge of good and evil, but one of the Tree of Life. I believe that this is the administration that is suitable to sum up all things in Christ (Eph. 1:10). It is an administration of grace. If we believe that true righteousness is about being right and not wrong, our words and expressions to others will be about being right verses being wrong. If we embrace a justice system of right and wrong, we will embrace those who are right and reject those who are wrong. We will govern and rule through an administration that defines some as worthy of God’s love, while others are cast out from His love. God’s New Covenant government is not based upon right and wrong. It is the power of life that prevails over every form of death. There is a right and there is a wrong in the matter of things in life, but true life only comes from an intimacy with Life. When we know Him, we release the substance of who He is to the world and to all that we administrate in life.

We must allow every thought, attitude, vision, dream, emotion, and action we express in life to pass through the Tree of Life before the fruit of our lives becomes food for others or the outward expression of our lives becomes a touch of healing to a sick and dying world. We must embrace an administration that receives mercy and finds grace each and every day (Heb. 4:16). Mercy ends that past administration of right and wrong, while grace grants us the present administration of our Father’s love that empowers us to live by the spirit of life and peace in Christ. This is the administration that loves the unlovable and empowers the unlovable to become loveable. It is the administration of love that believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. It is the administration that changes what is a substance of death to become a substance of life for others.

Every season of God brings new life found in God to our world. The seasons of God are defined by the flow of His life-giving river in our lives and in the earth. That life is the moving of Holy Spirit in and through us to our world.

Ezekiel 47:9 And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many.

God’s life-giving water flows from His presence to the East. He always gives us a new day of life! His waters bring healing to the places that need healing. En Gedi and En Eglaim are strongholds at the banks of the Dead Sea. Even the deadest places in the earth and in our lives are transformed unto life when God’s life-giving presence and purpose reaches us in the place called today.

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 after a great time in California. It was great to be with family in California and it is great to be with family here. I will be heading to Portugal, Bulgaria, Netherlands, back to Portugal and back home in the next weeks. I believe that God is going to doing some great things.

The life of Holy Spirit within us empowers us to be alive in Christ and to give the life of Christ to our world. Every season of God in our lives gives new life to us and new life to our world. We are called to live today for the sake of the successive generations in our lives.

Ezekiel 47:6 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river. 7 When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other.”

Trees are a testimony of humanity in generational terminology. Trees bear fruit that brings blessing to the world. The life-giving river of Holy Spirit in our lives and in the earth is meant to establish us as sons and daughters of God who receive His life, become expressions of His life, and bring an influence of His life to our world.

Isaiah 61:3 …that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.” 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.

Only life can rebuild old ruins, raise up former desolations, and repair ruined cities. 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 in its relational connection to God and others. 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 of life to any situation in in our world. Every new season of God is a new season of new life. That life is for us, for our children, and for our children’s children.

Every season of God is influenced by the river of Holy Spirit for us to be alive, to be an expression of life to our world, and to bring an influence of that life to our world through a partnership with God in Christ that affects our world in a generational way.

Ezekiel 47:8 Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed.”

Every season of God is meant to bring healing to the world. The sea is a symbol of the world. The sea is salt water, and it is a prophetic symbol of the fruit of man’s decision to choose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil over a trust relationship with God to become a testimony of His love that is expressed in the tree of life. The flood of the earth was the result of man’s decision.

The decision of first Adam resulted in the consequence of flood and the earth was changed. God promises that the evidence of Last Adam, eternal Adam, will fill the whole earth (Isa. 11:9, Hab. 2:14). In your life, the evidence of first Adam is going to be overtaken by the evidence of eternal Adam. The old man is being overpowered by the new man. He who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it. There is no end to the increase. It is like leaven in three measures of meal. It fills the whole loaf. It is like a little mustard seed that is very small, but it grows to become like a tree. For each of us, Christ in me is the hope of glory! Grace is the ability to subdue, and the result is truth. Truth is dominion. Truth crumbles every lie. Instead of pretending I love my neighbor, grace empowers me to be loving towards my neighbor until I become real. I love you! That crumbles the lie! It is a work of the Spirit. It is also a work in me.

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. I have had a great week with my family here. My grandson Kaden and granddaughter Zaria continue to get bigger and bigger. It is wonderful to be with them and to see how they have grown – spirit, soul, and in life.

The seasons of God are seasons of life, and He is the Lord of the seasons of mankind. The life of God is seen as the fruit of God that comes by knowing Him and that fruit brings God’s life to our world. There is fruit in every season of God, but the fruit for today’s season is not the same as the fruit of the season of yesterday.

I am experiencing many aspects of harvest in my garden this year. There was a harvest of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, loganberries, currents, and now apples and pears. I have had many different kinds of lettuce, kale, cucumbers, beet roots, peppers, beans, and tomatoes. Each harvest in my garden is relationally connected to the season of each crop. Although I had a harvest of strawberries, now I am left with strawberry plants but no more berries. I had a harvest of raspberries, but now I have only raspberry plants. The fruit of each plant is for the season of each crop. The same is true in the church. The seasons of God determine the fruit of our lives and we cannot expect to get the fruit of yesterday in the season of today. We must recognize the seasons of God to serve the harvest of fruit in each season. The fruit of yesterday cannot give life to our world today, only God’s fruit for our world today can bring His life for our world today.

Every season of harvest requires laborers of that harvest. There is not just a need for laborers, but laborers who are willing to seek to understand each season of harvest. Sometimes we put the emphasis upon our labors, and we miss the need for God’s presence. Sometimes we seek God’s presence and forget the need to partner with Him with our willingness to labor. Every season of harvest requires us to do works that serve that harvest.

Psalms 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

God is the One who builds the house of His presence and purpose but we must labor in partnership with Him to receive what He is building. The Lord is the One who guards the city, but we must be awake and partner with Him in watching to receive the blessings of His guard. We each have a role in the seasons of God. God gives the increase in every season, but we must plant, we must water, we must tend to the crop of every season of God in our lives.

Laboring in the season of God requires us to do things that serve that season. The things we do are not meant to be permanent methods for every season of God. They are simply methods we receive to labor in the harvest of each season. This requires us to do new things, but also to do. We cannot be bound to the methods of a past season, nor can we reject being involved in new methods that serve the present season of God in lives. We don’t get our identity out from what we do in life. What we do in life gets its identity from who we are. We get our identity from our Father in heaven. To get our identity out of what we do is idolatry. Life can only come from a source of life. It cannot come from works. In doing, we must be willing to submit what we do to the now season of God in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

I have had a few great days at home with my family and my church community. Today I am heading to California to be with family there. I am looking forward to being with kids and grandkids. It is always my happy place. Bonnie and I are driving the long scenic tour. We had a great weekend here in Bellingham and we are enjoying our summer months.

Jesus is seated at the right had of God in the realm of heaven. He sits in a position of authority, and He makes intercession for us (Rom. 8:34). As a temple of Holy Spirit, we are stirred in our spirits to respond to the will of God according to the intercession of Christ. We seek the things of above (Col. 3:1) and not our own earthly desires, plans, or visions in life. Jesus is seated in a place of authority for our sake that the enemies of God might find their proper place of being under the feet of the body of Christ. Those enemies are all manner of wickedness and unrighteousness that suppresses the truth of God’s love with a lie. God’s love for us is the love of a father and He sees us as His sons and daughters called to live in His perfect will of love. We are perfected forever in Christ and Christ in us is the authority of life that sanctifies us spirit, soul, and body in our journey of life (Heb. 10:12-14).

Ezekiel 47:2 He brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east; and there was water, running out on the right side.

The north gate is the place of God’s manifest presence. It is with the manifest presence of God in our lives that we bring the testimony of the desired place in God to our world. It is new every morning. Like the rising of the sun in the morning, the water that flows from God to our world brings the life of God’s Day to our world. It is the power of God’s grace at work in and through our lives because of God’s mercy to us that freed us from all death.

Ezekiel 47:3 And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles. 4 Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters; the water came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the water came up to my waist. 5 Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed.

God’s grace increases in our lives and God’s grace increases through the church to the world. The history of the church has brought about a continual reformation and restoration of life to the church. The church is the body of Christ, the temple of Holy Spirit, the family of God – the place where heaven’s grace invades the earth. The move of God’s Spirit in the past has opened an effective door for the earth to find the grace of the Spirit of the Lord that enlightens human hearts to know the just live by faith. That same river has given us a revelation of God’s wisdom in that we know we are sanctified unto God and our works are works of faith towards Him. Those works are empowered by the Spirit of Wisdom, and they make us different than mere people of the world. Humanity without God is humanity without the wisdom of God to move forward in the destiny of life. We have inherited an increasing grace of heavenly testimonies in the fact that there is growing external evidence of supernatural things from heaven. The Spirit of Understanding is giving us a testimony of being a witness of heavenly things. We are submerged in the Holy Spirit of God to be the holy people of God. We can know that we are the body of Christ, and the life-giving authority of Christ is causing us to grow in the testimony of the laying on of our hands and the ministry of Christ’s true authority of life. The Spirit of Counsel is empowering us to bring light to darkness, healing to sickness, and life to death in growing measures. Body ministry is a growing reality in the church. We have inherited a huge value for hearing God, speaking God’s word, and experiencing God’s manifest presence in our lives. The Spirit of Might has granted us a grace of being awake to God in new measures. Others paid a price for us to have such things in our hands. We have been growing in a testimony and an understanding of being the community of God with communion with God and believers. We are experiencing new understanding of intimacy with God and one another that comes by the Spirit of Knowing in our lives. We are living in increasing benefits of what God has done, and is increasingly doing, for us by His eternally flowing river. Each measurement of a thousand in the river of God is another eternal measure that cannot end.

Each generation before us has laid hold of essential foundations of life. We should grow in being justified by faith, works that speak of our faith, testimonies that come by being submerged in Christ, authority of body ministry, revelation of God’s voice and presence in our lives, and in brotherly love in new levels and dimensions of intimacy with God and one another.

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 Wichita, Kansas. I have had some wonderful days here serving Christlife Ministry, Pastor Derick, and the family of God. We had a great time yesterday as God’s family. God is doing a new thing. We are in a season of community, presence, participation, and the supernatural riches of being the family of God.

The enemies of God are being subdued by God’s presence from heaven to earth. God is invading darkness with light. He is bringing life to death in the lives of people and in the generations of mankind. Although there is great darkness in the world, the earth is the Lord’s, and all of its fullness and God is increasing His glory in the lives of men and women in the tribes, tongues, peoples, and nations of the world. His glory transforms our lives as individuals and is also a growing glory in the testimony of the body of Christ in the corporate context of the generations of the church. The growing glory of God in the earth is a testimony of the changing seasons of God in the rising Day of the Lord in the nations. The more we see Him, the more we are changed to become like Him in our character, nature, way, power, and authority.

Religious activities keep us busy in church, but Christ in us transforms our testimony to our world. We don’t get our identity out from what we do in life. What we do in life gets its identity from who we are. We get our identity from our Father in heaven. To get our identity out of what we do is idolatry. Life can only come from a source of life. It cannot come from works. The works that we do must serve the life that is being given to us by God. God doesn’t want to bless what we are doing in life. He wants us to partner with Him in what He is blessing. In doing so, we become a partner with Holy Spirit in becoming a blessing to our world. We must not be stuck in the works of a past season of God in our lives. We must seek to do works that serve what God is doing in every new expression of His life in the earth.

Ezekiel 47:1 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar.

We are a temple of Holy Spirit. Together we are a greater expression of the temple of Holy Spirit. The prophet Ezekiel was proclaiming of the day when we would become a temple of Holy Spirit. We are each a temple of Holy Spirit but together we are a greater expression of Holy Spirit that brings a greater glory to our Father in heaven. Together we are a family.. Life-giving water flows from the threshold of the temple to bring new things into our world. It flows to the east. It flows to the desirable place of knowing God and walking with Him, even as Eden (the desirable place) was a garden in the east. It was a place of knowing God and bringing the blessings of God to the barren places of the world. The rivers that flowed from Eden, were a testimony of God’s desire to bring life to the world. It is from the place of knowing God and walking with Him that we can bring life to our world.

John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Holy Spirit in our lives is the testimony of Jesus at the right hand of God. Jesus is not dead – He is alive! The life that He releases in us is life with resurrection power. The life that God gives to us is testified by the life that comes out from us to our world. Knowing God will bring the fruit of life that comes by knowing Him to our world. Jesus had told His disciples that they would see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of God in power (Lk. 22:69). That power is the power of the authority of resurrection from the dead. On the day that Pentecost was fulfilled, the outpouring of Holy Spirit was the confirmation that Jesus had been exalted to the right hand of God (Acts 2:32, 33).

The right hand of God is the place of God’s authority to man. It is the authority of resurrection life, and that life is an eternal life. It is a life that cannot die, and it is life that can bring life to the deadest of places in us. Eternal life is a place of knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son (Jn. 17:3).

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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

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Greetings,

We had another great weekend here in Bellingham. There was lots of personal ministry in the Alife community yesterday. The family of God is becoming a greater testimony of community. God is doing good things in the nations.

Jesus is our Lord. A lord is not merely a term of information. A lord is a desire that determines the beliefs and actions of our lives. The term lord implies the motivation of our hearts.  As sons and daughters of God, Jesus is our desire. He is the motivator of the will of our hearts. Holy Spirit has come into our lives in the name of Jesus. Fellowship with Holy Spirit is fellowship with Jesus. Our relationship with Holy Spirit is the key to our connection to Jesus as Lord in our lives. Holy Spirit is God in us, with us, and upon us to reveal that we live with God for His purpose in all things.

2 Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Turning to the Lord is turning towards our internal connection to Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Lord within our hearts. Holy Spirit gives us new desires that are inspired by God’s desires within us. Our fellowship with Holy Spirit in our hearts is the empowerment of internal changes that come by the Spirit of the Lord – the Spirit of changed desires as we are transformed by the power of Jesus name.

Our connection to Holy Spirit is also our connection to our heavenly Father. Our source of being is our heavenly Father. It is through knowing the Father that we know the Son and it is through knowing the Son that we know the Father. The more we practice our relationship with Holy Spirit, the more we grow in knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son. We practice our relationship with Holy Spirit by responding to His presence in our lives. Our willingness to know Holy Spirit is revealed through our willingness to respond to Holy Spirit in our daily lives.

Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

The very expression of our being reveals a prophetic testimony of Jesus as the Lord of our lives. That prophetic expression is an increasing testimony of life that causes us to become givers of life to our world. The posterity of our being is empowered by Holy Spirit working in us and with us for the glory of God in all that we do. God doesn’t just reveal these things in our lives. They are revealed as we willingly respond to God. The testimony of Christ is within us, but we must willingly respond to Holy Spirit to see those things manifest in our lives.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

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

www.ted4leaders.com

www.ted4you.com or

www.houseofbreadministry.org.

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

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

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

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