Pastor Ted J. Hanson

Greetings;

What an awesome day with the family of God in church! It was great to be home for the weekend here in Bellingham. Pastor Jonathan and the congregation of Abundant Life rock! It is great to be a part of such a wonderful family!

I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago in regard to this being a year that is LIMITLESS in its possibilities. I released another prophetic dimension of that yesterday in church. I can’t help but resound this word again for our expectations of 2012. The present season of God’s grace is going to be LIMITLESS!

We have been given an amazing gift through the love of God. Whether we are Jews by our generations or some other nation that did not have the promises of God, we have all been given access to know God by the gift of His grace. We are blessed in every way, because God is very good and He loves people. As we face this new season of 2012 let’s first remember who God is so we can come to know who we are in Him. He is the Father of all men and He wants us to know the power of His love!  God paid the price of our value through the gift of His only begotten Son in order to give us a revelation of our true value to Him. He is our Father and we are His children. Being a child of God doesn’t give us a Father, God as our Father makes us children of God. The testimony of who He is reveals the truth of who He is. God is good and He loves people!

The apostle Paul prayed an amazing prayer for the church of Ephesus in regard to this revelation of who God is towards men.

Ephesians 3:14

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Because God is our Father, we can know that our future is limitless in its possibilities. We can be strengthened in our inner man through a revelation of God’s love. We cannot possibly comprehend the width, the length, the height, or the depth of His love to us.  The one who loves us is able to do exceedingly beyond all that we can even ask or think and He is God! God is our Father! He is not just a sovereign being who is in control of the universe. He is the passionate Father who loves us as His children. By this we can know that all of the possibilities in our lives are limitless.

When we face the unknown God wants to show us His amazing options. When we can’t see the answers, why do we say that God doesn’t care? God is our Father and He really does care! He doesn’t grow weary like men. He is steadfast in His love toward us and we can know that His love is limitless towards us. He gives strength to us even when we are weary. He gives might when we are helpless. Even the youngest of men grow weary and lose heart, but not God! He is our Father and He loves us! He will give us strength. In 2012 it is time to wait upon the Lord. Don’t wait for Him to do something, get intimate with Him and expect Him to be who He is! Our relationship with Him will prove to give us new strength and we will become those that others will seek to follow in the path of life.

Isaiah 40:27-31

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired.

His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power.

Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly,

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.

God is able do abundantly beyond all that we can ask, so let’s get intimate with Him and ask. He is able to do exceedingly beyond all that we can even think, so let’s get intimate with Him and receive the mind of Christ. This is His year and we are the children of God!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson
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Greetings;

Today I am headed home after a great weekend with wonderful hungry people in the Kootenays of British Columbia, Canada. It was a real blessing seeing God move in a loving and powerful way. Thanks so much for those of you who were in the meetings. I know that God is up to good things in Canada!

As we progress forward in this new year there is a growing expectation in my heart as to what God is going to do. Not everything will be wonderful in 2012, but God is going to reveal Himself as wonderful in our lives as we let Him. In Christ the possibilities are LIMITLESS (Eph. 3:20).

In order for us to see all that God desires to do we must approach this year with three revelations in our hearts. The first is that God is really good and He loves us. The second is that love is a revelation, not a command. The third necessary revelation is that our wrestle is not with man. We are not wrestling with ourselves or anyone else of human nature. As a matter of fact, we are not the ones who have chosen to wrestle. God has come into our lives to wrestle with us! He hasn’t come to destroy us, but to cause us to manifest for who we really are. With these three revelations in our hearts we can know that God is going to do unbelievable things in our lives in this season.

If we have these three revelations firm in our hearts we can face this new year with a confidence of knowing who our heavenly Father is in a greater way. As my pastor Jonathan Hanson says: “Knowing Father and who you are in relationship with Him is everything!” The more we know Him, the more we will discover who we are in Christ.

When we discover who we are in Christ the future is limitless. The possibilities are limitless, the testimonies are limitless, and even the seasons are limitless (2 Cor.3:17-18). God likes who we are and He wants us to find our favor place in Him in 2012. Destiny is not at the end of the road, but is rather the journey of the road. When we live in the reality of who we are we find there are new blessings every day.

God wants us all to succeed in discovering and living in the reality of who we are.  There is a good example of a massive failure in the Scriptures that I believe can encourage us to embrace who we each really are. That failure is seen through the examples of two kings. One is the king of Tyre and the other is the king of Babylon. In the testimonies of these two kings there is a very obvious inference to what I believe to be the true spirit of each of the kings being addressed. I believe they are each a testimony to the fallen foe we know of as Satan or the Devil. I believe in his original creation he was a covering cherub who refracted and reflected the expression of God as the Word through God’s frequencies of light, rhythm, and sound. Simply said, his very being was meant to magnify every expression of God in a powerful way.

Let me begin by outlining some of the attributes of this awesome created being, before he failed to hold on to his created identity (Ezekiel 28:12-19):

• He was a morning star (Lucifer in the Latin Script – “refractor” or “reflector of light”) and he was in the place of his assignment for each “new day”
• His very being was gifted to reveal the manifest attributes of God in beauty
• He was sensitive to the Spirit, for he was full of wisdom and thus he must have sensed the coming things of God
• He was a covering cherub of perfection with an authority to reveal who God is as the Word
• His habitation was the desirable place of God (Eden, meaning “desirable place”)
• He was created to reflect and refract the manifold attributes of God to the environment around him as a creature filled with precious stones refracting light
• The rhythm (heart beat) and sound of the corporate purposes of God were refracted through his being to each new day as a creature filled with timbrels and pipes
• He was anointed to magnify God as Most High from the mountain of God
• He was created to live in the passion of God’s presence, with a passion for God’s presence and His corporate purposes as one who walked among the fiery stones
• He was “as God made him” with no need for jealousy, envy, or covetousness

I believe that with this description we can conclude that this creature should have been greatly blessed to be who God made him to be. In this Scripture we find that “Iniquity” was found in him (Ezekiel. 28:15). A weakness to rebel was in his heart. I believe that iniquity was one of wanting to be someone he was not created to be. His rejection of God’s favor place upon his life caused him to become profane and perverted in his identity. He didn’t like who he really was so he traded his identity for a lie. He became a lier and is thus the father of lies. He became a deceiver and thus he drew others to his personal cause. He became a devourer and thus he detested the corporate plan to live for others. He became a creature of conflict and thus he separated from the place of corporate purpose in magnifying God.

What was the plan that led to his failure? I believe that the testimony of the fall of the king of Babylon infers to the fall of this father of lies. In Isaiah 14:12-15 we find:

• His original purpose was to bring light for a new day – It was a daily process, and thus he was a morning star.
• His problem was one of failing for the sake of pride. Instead of being humble, he was humbled. He didn’t like who he was created to be, thus he set the stage to become a perversion of his true identity.
• His product was that of becoming a taker, not a giver. Rather than live for others he sought to live for himself with bargains of trade.
• His process to failure was two-fold. He didn’t give his heart to the corporate purposes of God, and he exhibited an independent spirit.
• His plan for failure was walked out in a 3-fold measure:

• I will ascend – I am my own god – I am doing what I am doing for my life

• I will exalt my throne –  I am my own person
• He found his identity in what he did – He identified in what he did, not who he was

• I will sit above – domination of others through isolation
• Non-relational – (not accountable) he didn’t induce others to dance

• The ultimate presence revealed through his life was that of “self”. His desire of “self” revealed him as that which was as far from God as you can get. His demise is the pit, an eternal reality apart from God.

What can we learn from this example of failure? God likes who we are and our ultimate destiny is to live our lives for the glory of God. That destiny is a journey and not merely a destination at the end of the road. Who we are reveals who He is and brings glory to His name. Let’s implement the following strategy of nobility in 2012:

1.  Purpose —  We must live to bring light for every new day; it’s a daily process.
2.  Proclamation  — We must live to be who you are and like who you are, God does!
3.  Product — We will be a givers of life to others.
4.  Process to significance:

• 1.  We will give your heart to the corporate purposes of God.
• 2.  We will exhibited an interdependent spirit, not one of independence.

5.  Plan  - Our plan for success is was walked out in a 3-fold measure:

• We will lead others to confess – “God is my God”.
• We will lead others to exhibit  – ”We are God’s people”.
• We will lead others into relational function – “We live together”.

6.  Presence revealed – We will manifest the glory of the Father (Heb. 1:3).

With this in mind, all things are LIMITLESS in 2012!

Life and Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Please consider making a donation to House of Bread Ministry to help me serve the Body of Christ with the ministry of life. Thank you

We are taking registrations for our 2012 Ministry Training Schools. Please consider a three-month life transforming encounter with God.

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