Pastor Ted J. Hanson

Hello;

Today I am writing from Spain. I arrived this past weekend for a week of training the G42 students. I am looking forward to activating the hearts of a rising generation of faith. Yes it is sunny Spain, but I understand that Bellingham is also sunny Spain this week! Surprise! Surprise!

I want to continue today in regard to the present grace of God at work in the earth. God is really good and He loves us. We were not a people, but now we are the people of God. God is anointing His Church with the grace of the Spirit of Knowing and His community is emerging in the earth. It is great to be a part of the community of God! It is a place of making God’s passion and compassion known to men. The eternal judgment of eternal life for all who believe is truly another stanza to sing in the song of Amazing Grace!

God has a way of resolving issues. In the kingdom of heaven there is no right and wrong justice system. It is much more powerful in nature than that. It is a system established in the Tree of Life and empowered by the Tree of Life. It is a place where the decrees of heaven change the environments of the earth.  The Prophet Isaiah declared that a shoot would come from the stump of Jesse. From the stump of old Adam came the resurrection life of eternal Adam in Christ. From that shoot there grows a branch and that branch is both Christ the head in Jesus and Christ the body in the body of Christ.

Isaiah 11:1, 2

Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

The sevenfold perfecting Spirit of God rests upon Christ the head and Christ the body. It is by the power of that Holy Spirit that this anointed shoot and branch grow to reveal the glory of God in Christ. This is the community of God in heaven and in the earth. This is the place of God’s kingdom life and rule made known to the generations of men.

Isaiah 11:3,4a

And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, and He will not judge by what His eyes see, nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

But with righteousness He will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth…

The governing anointing of the community of God is not found in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is established in the Tree of Life. This is the place of intimacy with God that brings forth the true knowing of God in our heart. The decisions of the kingdom of heaven are not based upon who is right and who is wrong. They are solely based upon who God is and the goodness of His will. He makes decisions for the destitute based upon who He is, not based upon what they deserve. This is why the innocent man of Jesus died for the guilty ones such as us. He made a decision for us based upon who He is, not based upon what we deserve. It is too good and too amazing, but it is true!

He doesn’t just cover up the guilt of the injustice systems of the world. He has the power to change them. Wherever He expresses His will the unrighteous are transformed to become righteous. That which is wrong is made right. This isn’t because He judges it as wrong, but His judgments eradicate the injustices of the world. That which is wicked is destroyed by the power of His love. It is then, and only then that those who were once enemies of God and of one another become partners in life.

Isa. 11:4b-6

…And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.  Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins, and faithfulness the belt about His waist. And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little boy will lead them.

Our justice system was established in the first fruit. Whatever is established in the first is made manifest in the culmination of the full harvest. Jesus, our head, made a decision for those who crucified Him based upon the justice system of heaven. He said, “Father forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing”. According to the justice system of the Torah this was an untrue statement. They, including us, knew exactly what they were doing. According to Torah Law, this is the sin of Presumption and it requires a judgment of being cut off from the fellowship of God forever. Jesus made a statement that released all of humanity to the sin of Transgression. This is a sin in which forgiveness can be found through His own shed blood (Lk.23:34). The first fruit bride of Christ made the same judgment through the mouth of the first martyred saint. As the crowd was stoning Stephen he said the same words when he declared to his head, Jesus, not to hold it against them, for they did not know what they were doing (Acts 7:54-60). The first fruit community of God made a decision based upon the equity of heaven and not the poverty of the earth.

The government of God is a government of love and it carries the power of forgiveness for the sins of all men. Only God can change the hearts of our enemies. Only God can change our hearts as His enemies. It is the Spirit of Knowing and a power of intimacy with God in Christ that destroys the true injustice systems of the world. We need a revelation of God’s love to come to the nations of the world. We need a revelation of God’s love to come to the generations of the world. We need a revelation of God’s love to enter into the heart of the Church. It is time to rise up as the community of God in the earth!

Our judgments cannot be based upon the natural seeing of our eyes or the natural hearing of our ears. Things are not as they appear. Things are always as God sees them to be. Our decisions in life cannot be based upon the injustices of our life. They must be based upon the power of God’s love made known to us in all things. If we get it right in the Church, maybe we can even get it right in the world?

Father, let Your Spirit of Knowing transform our hearts and minds to become Your community of life in this world!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Thank you so much for your donations to House of Bread Ministry. Your commitment to House of Bread helps me serve the Body of Christ with the ministry of life.

Hello;

I want to first of all thank Pastor Cesar and the church of Deming, New Mexico for an awesome conference in the presence of God. It was fantastic seeing about 80 young people make a connection with God on Saturday night. I believe God’s plan of blessings is great for this place in the coming days!

I want to write today in regard to a message I spoke in Deming on Friday night. The theme of our conference here was one of the power of God’s grace and love. God’s grace and love is the power to be, not merely a power to do. We are human beings with Christ in us and with that hope within us we know that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. God’s own mercy gave us access to this amazing place, but grace is the power that changes our lives. Jesus’ own shed blood justified us to live (Rom. 5:9), but His resurrection life within us empowers us to reign in life (Rom. 5:10). We don’t need more instructions as to how to live our lives. We need a fresh revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives. Whenever there is a revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives we unlock the power of this amazing grace within us.

1Peter 1:13   Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

God’s grace is not only at work in our lives individually; it is at work in the earth. What is the present grace of God in the earth? I believe that we are about 12 years into a 30 or 40-year season of coming to know the power of God’s grace through the work of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Knowing. That knowing is not an informational knowledge, although there is a grassroots revolution at work in the earth through the power of knowledge. The knowledge that God is releasing is a knowing of Him and a knowing of one another for a community grace of life. It is the power of communion and a testimony of the breaking of bread. Even as Jesus professed, we are called to be living bread for one another and for the nations of the world. This bread involves a sharing of our lives with one another at a new level of intimacy. The apostle Peter described this level of grace found in the Spirit-living house of God as that which declares: “We were not a people, but now we are the people of God.” (1Pet. 2:4-9).

A revelation of God’s speech is being released in the Body of Christ and even in the tongues of the nations. That speech is one of passion and compassion. It inspires a love for God and a love for the community of God. The apostle Paul testified it as being the grace of “one God through us all” (Eph. 4:6). He also made this grace known through the sixth piece of armor in our standing to possess the earth. That piece of armor is the sword of the Spirit, which is the word (rhema) of God. This is the power of God’s expressions through us to give life to the world. It is the testimony of one God through us. This is not the power of Scripture memory or our ability to flog the world with what we believe God has said in His written word. It is the true testimony of God through our lives that gives life to this world. This grace releases the power of the eternal judgment of life to the world through Christ. It is the true power of the bread of life sent down from heaven for the life of the world.

Whenever there is a revelation of Jesus Christ in the earth there is a releasing of the power of His grace. That grace comes as a revelation from God into the hearts of men. It strikes the hearts and minds of men like the power of lightning. The result is a change of heart and mind that is much like the sound of thunder in response to the lightning flash of heaven. Most lightning travels up from the earth to the heaven, just as the revelation of God’s grace comes from within our hearts and then brings a revelation of Christ’s kingdom in heaven to the world in which we live. Grace is the power that releases things in heaven to become living realities upon the earth. The resounding testimony of that grace is heard and seen through the confessions and actions of our lives just as thunder gives sound to the flashes of lightning in a storm.

I believe that the present thunder of the earth can be seen in a sixth thunder described in the book of Psalms:

Psalms 29:9 The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare; and in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”

This verse is a bit enigmatic, but I believe there is a profound and present truth in two seemingly contradictory things. Within the forest the deer is hidden, but within the deer is hidden the testimony of the life to come. God wants to reveal the community of heaven to the communities of the world, but we so often find ourselves hidden in the forests of the past inheritances of men. We are often bound from releasing the life within us because of the hiding places of our past. God is releasing a grace to strip away the hiding places of our past in order to release the testimony of the true life that is within us. This is a grace of transparency and vulnerability that releases a deep understanding with deep sharing of God’s life. We have to let go of the past in order to receive our future in Christ. The communities of men must yield to the ever-birthing community of Christ.

Let’s embrace the thunder of community and enter into the reality of the breaking of bread. We are the People of God with a testimony of love. He is the one who freely flows through our hearts to make decisions for others based upon the grace of who He is in our lives.  There is no fear in the community of God because perfect love casts out all fear (1Jn. 4:18-21, Rom. 8:14-17).

This is a season to forgive the debts of others. Our debts have been forgiven even as we forgive the debts of others (Mt.6:12). God has made an eternal judgment of life for all who believe. We can all believe because there is no more condemnation for us because of the great mercy and grace of Christ. Our judgments are no longer bound to that which lives according to the flesh (2 Cor. 5:14-17). Our justice system is based upon a life of love and faith in Christ. We didn’t deserve it, but God is good and He loves!

Let’s live as the community of Christ in the earth influencing the communities of this world with the life found in Jesus’ Name!

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Thank you so much for your donations to House of Bread Ministry. Your commitment to House of Bread helps me serve the Body of Christ with the ministry of life.

Greetings;

I hope you all had a great week and weekend. We had a great service yesterday at Abundant Life. God really moved among the people and many lives were touched. God is truly good!

Today I want to remind us all of the tasks set before us. We were called by God to influence the worlds we each live in with the testimony of God’s life. This is a time for the community of God to be seen in increasing measures in our world. This will be the result of an intimate relationship with God and His people. We were not a people, but now we are the people of God. As the people of God we hear His voice and it is by the hearing of His voice that our worlds are affected by the power of faith.

Hebrews 11:1-3

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. (NASB)

These verses state that faith is the key to preparing the worlds. The word for worlds is a word that means “ages”. This is not the ages or the worlds of God. These are the ages and the worlds of men. The NKJ version of the Bible states this process of change as a creation of worlds. This word for “prepared” or “created” literally means to “frame”. It implies that a pile of material can be framed into something of purpose. What looks like a pile of rubble or what looks like as a pile of trouble can be framed into something of purpose in the lives of men and women who hear God in the midst of their circumstances. It is by faith that the ages of men are framed. What appears to be even a bad thing can become something of great value for the glory of God.

The first-fruit offering of Abel framed a world where all men can be saved through a love relationship with God. Although he was only upon the earth for a short time he gave God first and the best. God was speechless at Abel’s offering and Abel became a testimony to the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the salvation of the world.

A world filled with the hardening hearts of men became an environment for a man named Enoch to walk with God and enter the glory of heaven in a time of trouble. Noah framed a world of the inheritance of God while the dreams of the ungodly were washing away.

Abram framed a world of a right relationship with God becoming Abraham, the father of faith for all who believe in Christ. Though his wife Sarah was barren their life together became a home in which to frame a world of promise. God had destined their descendants to be comprised of every tribe, tongue, people, and nation. These were destined to be as numerous as the sand and as plentiful as the stars of heaven. The framing of their world required them to hear God and loose His miraculous power in their lives.

The men and women of old did not see the full fruit of their framing, but the measure of faith in their lives still advances even today. Giving their lives to the purposes of God through the offering of all caused them to die alive to God and thus their life in heaven continues to increase in this life. Many men and women of faith gave their lives to frame the ages of the past. Those men and women of faith did not seek a country of their own. They knew that the framing of their worlds would serve the greater destiny of the inheritance of God in the earth. Each of them played a role in calling forth the community of God into the communities of this world.

Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son demonstrated faith’s framing power. When at the place in life of even losing his natural sight, Isaac blessed Jacob for the framing of his world in the purposes of God. Even in his death, Jacob chose to frame his world by blessing the sons of Joseph as the entered a season unknowingly leading to 430 years of bondage in Egypt. The mother of Moses framed her world of destiny when she hid her baby Moses in a basket afloat in a river to save his life from the threat of a Pharaoh who would even be used to raise Moses to a man for the deliverance of God’s people from the bondage of Egypt. Moses framed his world by choosing a life of confrontation and a journey of challenges over the comfort of an Egyptian retirement plan. Numerous men and women of faith framed worlds of destiny for the sake of the generations of men by acts of righteousness in the midst of persecution, opposition, torture, and even death. Although these men and women of faith saw miracles of deliverance, healing, provision, and even resurrection of the dead, the greater miracle of the worlds of these faithful men and women was to contribute to the connections of God’s increasing glory among the advancing generations of men.

Hebrews 11:39,40

And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promise, because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

What pile of rubble are you facing in your life? Hearing God will frame your world for the destiny of tomorrow. What looks like trouble, what looks like rubble, is all that you need for God to empower you to frame your world for the glory of His name.

Blessings,

Ted J. Hanson

Thank you so much for your donations to House of Bread Ministry. Your commitment to House of Bread helps me serve the Body of Christ with the ministry of life.