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
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