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.

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.

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.

Many blessings to you all today. It is a beautiful sunny morning in the Northwest. I have a lawn to mow today and students to teach. It will be a full day, but it will be good, because God is good!

Today I want us to consider how rich we are in Christ. We have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places (Eph. 1:3).  True blessing is to be able to live with a prosperous spirit, soul, and life. If our soul prospers, our life prospers (3Jn. 2). The key to a prosperous soul is a prosperous spirit, and God is the source of such riches. I believe that we can be prosperous with nothing or with everything. The apostle Paul said that he new how to be content whether he was abased or living in abundance (Phil. 4:12). We have this amazing of gift of Christ in us and He is the hope of glory!

There are many kinds of riches. Sometimes we hold on to things so tight we can’t receive the things that God wants to give to us. If we hold on to our ashes we cannot receive the beauty that God wants to restore to us. If we hold on to our heaviness He can’t give us a garment of praise. If we grasp our mourning He can’t give us the oil of joy. You see even things that appear like poverty can be riches. A trap for the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 10:15

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

A poverty mentality will rob us of our focus in life. I believe there are often more rich poor people than there are rich wealthy people. This is not always the case and cannot be taken as a stereotype for poor people, but an entitlement mentality is truly a form of riches. When the focus of our lives becomes the condition of our lack then the riches of our lives is our lack. A Failure to see what we have will result in poverty.

Proverbs 20:13 …if you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!

An attitude that says that prosperity is for tomorrow is a wrong attitude and is guaranteed to lead to poverty. We have to learn to recognizes the riches of each day, but never be stuck in any day. We can’t hope for a better day and miss the day that we have been given. Each day is a day to be lived for the glory of God. God wants to fill each day with His presence and from His presence we will receive more of His promises. He is a greater treasure than any treasure He can give.

Deuteronomy 30:9

“The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

We have been granted access to the throne of grace in Christ! We are no longer bound to the limitations of the law and the prophets of the past. The Old Covenant rested upon two commands; love God and love your neighbor (Mt. 22:37-40). The New Covenant rests up a revelation of God’s love. We are empowered to love God and others even as God has loved us in Christ (Jn. 13:34). Theses verses for us in Deuteronomy don’t rest upon keeping God’s commandments and statuettes written in the Book of the Law. They rest upon the increasing glory found in our hearts. The more we receive a revelation of God’s love the more we will understand the liberty of God’s prosperity in our lives. It can be true with many things or it can be true with not many things. God wants us to prosper in all things! If we don’t believe that God wants for us to prosper, we won’t prosper. It is the will of God prosper us in all things.

Philippians 4:6-8

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

Let’s not be afraid to make our requests known to God today, but let’s be sure to do it with a thankful heart. We must lay down any preconceived ideas we might have about prosperity and be willing to let go of what we have to receive all that God wants to give to us. We have plenty to think about. We can think on ways to give life to others. This is a noble thought. We can think of who we are in Christ and how we can bring life to others or how we can make decisions on behalf of others not base upon what they deserve but based upon a Christ like character. This would be just. We can think believing thoughts, life-giving thoughts, and hope filled thoughts. These would be pure thoughts. We can think the best of people and the best of things. This would be lovely and would be of a good report. If there is anything good or praiseworthy today, we should think on these things!

May His prosperity abound in your heart!

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.

I am now home from travels, but this week has been a whirlwind of busyness in teaching school and catching up on things that need to be done. My hair and my lawn are reflecting the neglect, so it is hopefully a day to cut the lawn and then teach for several hours. I hope to mow the hair before the week passes as well. Thanks so much for everyone’s prayers, there is a lot going on at the moment. It appears we are in a transition in our Lodge and will be looking for our next step in our resource and training venture after the 30^th of this month. God knows and all things will be worked out!

In light of all of this activity, I wanted to blog on what I believe to be a most important topic. That is the subject of thankfulness. I believe that the highest form of faith is thanksgiving. Thanksgiving comes from a grateful heart and a grateful heart is the result of a revelation of goodness. The greatest revelation of goodness is a revelation of how good our God is. God is good and He loves us, this is the foundation for true thankfulness. He is so good that even what the enemy intends for evil in our lives is turned to good by His great love (Rom. 8:28).

We have a lot of reasons to be thankful. Most often the way things appear in the natural are not the way they really are. Our natural observations of seeing, hearing, feeling, remembering, or any other natural means of assessment are the very things that resist faith. We walk by faith and not by sight (2Cor. 5:7). Our natural observances commonly hinder a revelation of thankfulness in our lives. Thankfulness is a key that opens the door to the testimony of God’s goodness in our lives.

Belief in God is the result of faith, but faith is also rooted in belief. Strong belief in God is the result of a revelation of God’s love. It is rooted in a revelation of who God is! While the opposite of faith is natural sight, the opposite of fear is love. Perfect love casts out all fear (1Jn. 4:18). Faith will battle fear, but a revelation of God’s love will bring a full resolution to the battleground of fear. I believe that a revelation of God’s love sets the foundation for belief and belief is the ground in which faith is found. A greater revelation of God’s love produces a greater foundation for faith. That foundation is a foundation of believing God, not just for believing in the promises of God. In the forest of belief we find the companions of thankfulness, trust, hope, and vision for the future.

When we lack a revelation of God’s love we find ourselves in the wilderness of fear, doubt, and unbelief. While belief is filled with the testimony of thankfulness, I believe that the highest form of unbelief is complaint and murmuring. Complaint and murmuring is what caused a generation of Israelites to die in the wilderness. God warned them of the consequence of an ungrateful heart.

Deuteronomy 28:45-48

“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever. Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

We are children of hope and faith! Thankfulness should be the testimony of our hearts every day and in all things. Circumstances don’t change who we are, but we can change our circumstances by who we are!

Psalms 50:14 Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows (keep your promises) to the Most High. “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

God cannot answer our prayers unless we are thankful and live to keep our promises to Him. God is gracious and He understands our limitations. He is more than willing to give us the grace we need to accomplish this testimony. It is the power of God at work in our lives that really empowers our thankfulness and our ability to keep our promise. We really can’t take much credit, but simply increase in His testimony of love.

Under what circumstance MUST we be thankful?

Colossians 3:17 – And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

1Thesalonians 5:16-19  - Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit.

When Daniel and his Hebrew brothers were captive in Babylon they continued before God with thankful hearts. Even when those around them sought to make the circumstances impossible, they continued to be thankful to God.

Daniel 6:5- 10

Then these men said, “We will not find any ground of accusation against this Daniel unless we find it against him with regard to the law of his God.” Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever! All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the high officials and the governors have consulted together that the king should establish a statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who makes a petition to any god or man besides you, O king, for thirty days, shall be cast into the lions’ den.  Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.”  Therefore King Darius signed the document, that is, the injunction. Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

The circumstances didn’t change Daniel’s attitude toward God. He didn’t change his normal way of prayer and giving thanks to God. In spite of the circumstances he continued doing as he had been doing previously. God gets activated when there is thanksgiving. If you read the rest of the story you will find that Daniel was thrown into a den of lions, God delivered him. In the same way his friends had been thrown into a fiery furnace, but God was seen in the midst of their circumstances with them. He was dancing and so were they! Those men came out of the impossible furnace of death, free from their bonds and without harm or even the smell of smoke!

Psalms 100:4,5

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.

Thankfulness opens the door for God’s manifested presence (2 Chr. 5:11-14).  The will of God for us all is to have a thankful heart in all things (Eph. 5:1-4, 17-21).

2 Corinthians 2:14-16

Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death to death, and to the other the aroma of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Let’s be the aroma of death to our resisting circumstances through a grateful heart to God in all things!

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.

I have just finished a week of ministry training in Uganda, Africa. I will be going home tomorrow and I am very excited to be home with my family and local connections. Thank you to the church family and hungry hearts of Uganda. I pray that God continues to bring the grace of His eternal kingdom to your boundaries of influence in the earth.

We have just recognized and celebrated a weekend commemorating the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. What great news it is that Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead for all mankind! I believe that the good news of all of this is found in the testimony of Jesus Christ who forever lives to give us the power of His amazing grace!

It was by the shed blood of Jesus Christ that both Jews and Gentiles have been brought near to God to obtain His perfect covenant of peace (Eph. 2:13-16). There is no longer any need for the separation of God and men. All men can come and draw near to the presence of God. We can boldly come to His throne of grace that we might find the power of His life.

Hebrews 4:15, 16

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

We have grace and peace through our Lord Jesus Christ and we have been granted the testimony of His life in this world in which we live. Jesus is the ruler over all the kings of the earth and there is no power of death that can hold us back from the increasing testimony of His peace and grace (Rev. 1:4:5). I believe that true peace is the evidence that we live in God’s house. All of His safety, wellness, friendship, welfare, health, and prosperity are ours in Christ. There is no gap between God and us; therefore we have been granted access to all that is His. We have been granted His peace! We have also been given the power of His grace. I believe that God’s grace is the evidence of His power at work in our lives.

I believe that the true evidence of the cross of Christ in our lives is the seen through the evidence of the life of God made known in our lives. Jesus shed all of His blood that we might be granted access to the fullness of His Spirit in this life. We have been granted the power of His resurrection life. The evidence of His resurrection life is the testimony of His death. Christ in us is the evidence of His death for us. God does not want us to cling to the death of the cross; He wants us to embrace the testimony of the cross. The testimony of the cross is life for all men and the evidence of the life is seen in the power of God’s grace at work in our lives.

I believe that grace is one of the most misunderstood things in the Body of Christ. Many cultures and languages have no distinction between mercy and grace. Their word for mercy is the same as their word for grace. Some cultures even include atonement and forgiveness to be synonymous with mercy and grace.  My own culture has a separate word for each, but I believe that most often the definition of grace in their thinking is that of mercy. I believe that mercy ends our past, but grace is what empowers us for the future. God’s mercy is His gift of pardon from the condemnation of our sin. His mercy makes us eligible to receive all that God has for us. God’s grace is His favor in our lives. His favor carries the substance and the power to bring true change in our lives. Mercy gives us the right to be changed, but grace empowers that change!

Romans  5:9, 10

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

God’s mercy came by the shedding of Jesus’ blood, but God’s grace comes by the evidence of His resurrection life! Jesus died once for us all to reconcile us to God, but when we receive the truth of His reconciliation we live close enough to Him to be changed by Him. If there is no evidence of change, there is no testimony of grace. His death justified us to live, but His life empowers us to live.

Romans 5:15

But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Romans 5:17

For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

God’s grace has been given to us that we might reign in this life. The good news brought to us through Jesus Christ is not merely a guarantee of heaven some day. It is a guarantee of heavenly realities in increasing measures throughout the generations of men. God wants His kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

It is the grace of God that allows us to walk in newness of life in this world (Rom. 6:4). We have an ultimate promise of an unending life of glory in Christ, but God wants us to live in the testimony of that life in this world in which we live. We are alive to God in Christ and as we live accordingly we can expect the life of God to affect the world in which we live. Our lives are bound to a living relationship with God in Christ. It is through that relationship with God that we can expect to bring the increase of His glory in this world.

Romans 5:1-5

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

The power of Christ’s resurrection life is greater than any pressure or tribulation of this world. There is no gap between God and us; therefore, the things of God are the increasing blessings of God in our lives. The true testimony is the character, nature, way, power, and authority of Christ within us. Christ in us is the hope of glory and that glory is a power that changes the worlds of men (Col. 1:27). Without pressure there is no testimony of grace, for in grace we face the tribulations of this world. It is in the midst of that pressure that we cheerfully endure as those who are joined to the life of God in Christ. It is through that relationship that the true character of Christ becomes manifest and that character is the testimony of the hope that brings God’s glory to our lives. It is the evidence of God’s life that reveals the testimony of His grace. Without the opposition there is no true evidence of His miraculous power of life.

Let us embrace this great power of God’s grace. It is the testimony of the resurrection life of Christ at work in our lives. It was by the gift of God’s mercy that we have been justified to life. The shed blood of Jesus Christ has given us the right to live, but the testimony of His resurrection power of grace empowers us to live in increasing measures in this life.

May God’s grace and peace be multiplied to you,

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.

Today I am writing from Ede, Netherlands. I just finished a weekend of meetings with my good friends Andrew Shearman and David Fredirksz. The church family of the Netherlands is doing well and God was very good. Thank you to all who participated in this experience with God.

I am off now for Uganda, Africa for a week of training in prophetic ministry and an Easter conference. I know God will show up and reveal Himself as good!

God is building a living church that has power over the realm of the dead. Jesus told Peter that upon the rock of Christ and the revelation of the Spirit the church would be build and that church would be greater than the gates of Hades  (Mt. 16:15-19). Hades is a word meaning “the realm of he dead”. The “realm of the dead” affects much of the earth. Hades is not just a place in the hereafter, but it is also a common place in the here and now. God is raising up a church that is a giver of life and light. We are anointed by God to bring life to death, healing to sickness, liberty to bondage, and all manner of light to every manner of death in this world  (Acts 2:4, Acts 2:14-21).

As we approach this Easter weekend, let’s remember that the true story of the cross is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is when we reveal the power of Christ’s resurrection that we proclaim the power of the cross. Jesus died for our sins that we might participate with Him in His resurrection life! Life is more powerful than death! Life brings victory beyond the grave and takes every place of death in this world and turns it to a testimony of God’s glory.

Much of the church is living at the cross, but failing to live from the throne of grace (Heb. 4:14-16). When the children of Israel were about to enter the Promised Land, they stopped at a 41^st stop in the wilderness. It was the place of the Acacia or Shittim trees (Num. 25). The word Shittim means, “scourging”. I believe that place was symbolic of the cross. The wood of the cross was the place where Jesus took the scourging of our sin. Jesus took the scourging of mankind that we might receive the blessings of being one with God in His eternal life. It was at the place of the Shittim grove that the Israelites fell for the deceptive trap of Balaam. They began to enter into sexual relationships with the women of the foreign countries around them. It was then that they began to worship the Baal Peor. The word Peor means, “gap”. Peace is a place where there is not gap between God and us. When we separate from God we end up in a stronghold of the gap. These Israelites found themselves in a place of separating from who God really was. The story reveals that the priest Phinehas brought peace to the camp by executing the sin of the flesh with a spear through an Israelite man and a Midianite woman in the camp. His quick act to kill what was bringing judgment in the camp brought God’s testimony of peace (Midian means judgment). I believe that we do the same when we live at the cross, but fail to enter into a relationship with the resurrected King. When we stay at the cross we entertain relationships with the things that Jesus already judged for us. It is then that we experience a gap with God. We are to no longer judge one another according to the flesh. Jesus died once for all that we might find God’s life in His Holy Spirit. To live in the resurrection life of Christ is to live in the testimony of the power of the cross.

We have been commissioned to bring the kingdom of God to the nations of the world. That kingdom is a place of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17). It is not a geographical location, but works in any and every geographical location upon the earth. It is place of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. It is a place of being able to say from our hearts, “God is our God!” (Passover – a right relationship with God in Christ).   It is a place where the evidence of a heavenly God becomes clearly seen in our lives (Pentecost – a place of peace and no gap between the God of heaven and us upon the earth). It is a place where we find the fullness of joy in living with God in this world in which we live (Tabernacles – a place of knowing the joy of God’s presence in our lives). This is the kingdom of God and it is a living reality for us in this life (Isa. 51:16).

We live from God’s presence with the anointing of His life!  We are the Body of Christ and our increasing glory is that of the testimony of Christ in this earth (Eph. 1:15-22). We are anointed to bring Christ’s light to the world for we are the spiritual habitation of Christ in this world (1Pet. 2:9-11). As the family of Christ’s life we have been commissioned to fill the earth with life! This Easter season, let’s embrace the resurrection power of Christ in our lives!

Blessings,

Ted 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.

We had a awesome weekend in Bellingham. Saturday was a great memorial to a great woman of God, Yvonne Cornmesser. Sunday was a celebration honor with our first fruits offering to our amazing God! I have been teaching pretty much non-stop in our School of Eagles and God has showed up in some wonderful ways. Things are always on the move, but I want to pen a few words of encouragement this morning to start your week.

Never forget who you are! You are a child of God, an inheritor of life. Eternal life is to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. What a gift! To know God! You didn’t get a fire insurance policy in Christ. You have become fire proof! As a matter of fact, you are a fire of life that extinguishes all the distracting fires of death. God’s passion and love is yours in increasing and limitless measures!

We are truly blessed. Paradise has been restored for us and God just wants to walk with us in this life. He is not just calling us to walk with Him; He wants to walk among us. He is the one who has our backs. He is the voice behind us and He wants us to turn to Him and discover another layer of a face-to-face relationship with Him, the giver of life. He is seated at the right hand of the Father in His authority, but He is standing in the midst of His church in His intimacy with us. We are the body of Christ and He in us is our full hope of glory! He is Prophet, Priest, Judge and King. He is the Lord of our hearts and He is revealing the desirable place in our lives as the desire of our hearts.

Come and eat of the Tree of Life

For He is our portion and He is our call

The Tree of Life makes all things right

In Him we find life without limits for us all

I will call upon Him for He is the one I need

In abounding measures His life prevails

His love for me will never recede

His love for me, it never fails

Don’t be so busy in the garden’s chores

For your friend wants to walk and talk with you

Don’t miss the blessing He wants to give to you more

His love is more important than the things He can do

Evil is not the issue in this life we live

So watch, be awake, He is willing you see

Christ’s Spirit is real and He is ready to give

To give you life without limits so amazingly

Don’t forget the one who wants to walk with you this week. He is picked you and His love will never fail. Life is not about measurements of right and wrong. Life is about walking with the one to whom you belong.

Blessings to your day and week,

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.

Today I want to write in honor of a great woman of God, Yvonne Cornmesser. Yvonne went to be with the Lord last Thursday and is no doubt celebrating the greatest revelation of the Lord in all of her life. She was a woman of the Spirit and she leaves a legacy behind her of people who are both hungry for and aware of God and the things of God. Yvonne was a member of our church for many years. She frequently visited heaven and talked of heavenly experiences as simply as one would talk about going to the grocery store. In talking with her you would never call her “weird”, she was practical and normal in every way, except Yvonne could see things in the spirit as commonly as looking at the tree in the yard. I will never forget an incident a few years ago when I returned from a ministry trip. God had assigned another angel to me while I was on the trip and had told me that this angel would always work behind me. The name of the angel is “Destiny”. When I returned from the trip I was in worship on a Sunday morning and Yvonne and one of her best friends (who sees things in the same way Yvonne did) came to me at the end of worship. She asked me, “Who’s the big angel behind you? He has something to do with inheritance!” Yes, Yvonne could see things clearly in the spirit.

One time we were gathered at my house for a time of prayer and prophetic declaration. Yvonne made a casual statement: “Last week when I went to heaven, God asked me; ‘Why do you always go to the same places?’” Everyone in the room was freaking out with the statement “last week when I went to heaven”, but Yvonne was amazed with the question “Why do you always go to the same places”. Yes, Yvonne was an amazing woman of God!

I can only imagine what Yvonne is up to this moment! The Bible says that we are sown as a seed of flesh, but we are raised with a glory that far exceeds anything we have seen or known in this life (1Cor. 15:35-43). We are sown as a perishable body, but raised as an imperishable body. The dishonor of this life is raised in great glory. We are sown in weakness, but raised in power! Yvonne has entered into a place beyond anything we could think. I guess she has gone to a place she had not gone before! I don’t know what that is like, but perhaps she is measuring the storehouses and seeing what she can send our way? Yvonne always lived for God and for others and has no doubt transitioned into a higher level of all that she is!

Two weeks ago Yvonne was in church and laid hands upon her grand daughter. She spoke words of blessing and imparted her gifts to the next generation. What an amazing lady and what an amazing legacy will be lived out in this earth, even as Yvonne is rejoicing in heaven. Her wonderful family knew her as mom, but I think one of the greatest things about Yvonne was that she was a good friend. She was a friend to her children and a friend to her friends. But most of all, Yvonne was and is a friend of God and God is her friend. Like Enoch, Yvonne got a little too close to God’s house and it was good for her and Him to walk a little farther together. Well done Yvonne!

Yvonne lived in this world as a princess of the King, a bride to the Groom, a partner with the Spirit, and a wonderful daughter to her heavenly Father!

1 Corinthians 15:53-57

For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. “O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

To the very last moment Yvonne was strong of heart and spirit. She was a joy to know and a joy to be around. She was and is no doubt a doorway of heaven. Today she is shining to both sides! Let’s follow the example of such a great woman of God. We can be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that our toil is not in vain in the Lord (1Cor. 15:58). To Yvonne’s family and friends I speak God’s peace and a revelation of the glory increasing in the heavenly. Yvonne was a minister of reconciliation to many and gave great meaning to the silver cord of life. She was a testimony to the divine nature and power of God and gave great definition to the golden bowl of testimony. Yvonne gave life-giving water to many and thus she fulfilled the destiny of a pitcher by the well. She was a great woman and she did the work of life and fulfilled the destiny of the wheel of purpose in this earth.

Ecclesiasties 12:6 Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed…

Yvonne is still among the living and she dwells in the land of the living! I dedicate this following Psalm to Yvonne Cornmesser, a great woman of God!

Psalms 116

I love the LORD, because He hears my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live. The cords of death encompassed me and the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow. Then I called upon the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I beseech You, save my life!” Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate. The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. For You have rescued my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I shall walk before the LORD in the land of the living. I believed when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.” I said in my alarm, “All men are liars.” What shall I render to the LORD for all His benefits toward me? I shall lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the LORD. I shall pay my vows to the LORD, oh may it be in the presence of all His people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His godly ones. O LORD, surely I am Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid, you have loosed my bonds. To You I shall offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and call upon the name of the LORD. I shall pay my vows to the LORD, oh may it be in the presence of all His people, In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

In honor of a great woman of God!

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.