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Greetings,

During the time of captivity, God told His people to pray for the peace of Babylon. That captivity would last seventy years, but God promised to take care of His people during their restraint. His thoughts for them were for a future and a hope, despite the circumstances that seemed to bind them.

We are to pray for the place of our dwelling. That peace is for the welfare of our place of dwelling. We don’t agree with the ways of the world, but we pray for peace in our world. We remain true to the character of Christ in our actions, but also remain true to His character in our attitude towards sinners.

Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace, you will have peace.

We are to be those who live by a relationship with God and the testimony of His love. We pray for God’s peace in the midst of every worldly trouble. Our wisdom comes from God, and it is not a wisdom that comes through human protest, but a wisdom that makes peace by seeking the presence of God in all things. It is not an earthly, self-seeking, demonic inspiration. It is a willingness to seek God and yield to Him and His will in all things.

Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion. 17 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Leaders lead others in being a witness of Christ to their world. We are in the world, but we do not live according to the values or principles of the world. We live according to the values and the principles of God in Christ. God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness, abundant in truth, merciful, and forgiving in all things. He doesn’t ignore the flaws of men, but only He can transform the minds and hearts of men.

We must be true to the character of Christ to be a testimony of Christ to our world. We are salt and we a light in and to our world. God is the one who sets things right, but we must act right towards those who are bound to the darkness of this world.

1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

We are responsible to embrace the holiness of God in Christ, but we are not to shame or condemn those who have not experienced the life of God in Christ. We are to shine as ambassadors of light to a world in darkness.

Food For Thought,

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

We must be true to the character of Christ to be a testimony of Christ to our world. We are salt and we a light in and to our world. God is the one who sets things right, but we must act right towards those who are bound to the darkness of this world.

1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”

We are responsible to embrace the holiness of God in Christ, but we are not to shame or condemn those who have not experienced the life of God in Christ. We are to shine as ambassadors of light to a world in darkness.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

The wisdom of God is not like the wisdom of the world. It is a wisdom of faith, not a wisdom based upon human thoughts or desires. As leaders in the body of Christ, we are called to lead others into the path of God’s wisdom in life.

James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

The wisdom of God leads us into a path of righteousness. That righteousness is a matter of relationship and not legalistic laws of judgment. It leads us to become givers of life to our world. It is not a path of peace according to our own personal opinions or desires. It is a peace that makes peace for others. That peace is a peace that comes by God’s will and way in our lives. It is a will that comes by faith and not by sight.

The wisdom of God is a meek wisdom; it’s a wisdom that is willing to yield. It is willing to yield from one’s own will to the will of God for each day. It is not defensive concerning what is known from the past but is sensitive to embrace things that have not been seen, heard, or thought before. Wisdom from God doesn’t reject the wisdom of the past but sees the wisdom of yesterday as a foundation for the wisdom of God today. Wisdom from God is the testimony of faith towards Him. Wisdom from God requires an innocent trust in what God says.

Natural human wisdom is very often an enemy to the wisdom of God in our lives. Natural wisdom is based upon human will and human will can come in the form of self-will or the will of others. It is self-preserving in nature and is based upon personal desires motivated by fear. I believe the sons of the daughters of Lot depict these two types of wisdom. These children were the testimony of a fear of no future and therefore embraced a carnal fulfillment.

Genesis 19:36 Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.

Wisdom involves moving into the future, and in the story of Lot and his daughters, there was a fear of no future, thus there was a pursuing of the future through carnal human ways. One bore a son that was a seed unto himself and the other bore a son that signified the will of a tribe, or a people. Either of these create a world that seeks a testimony of personal needs and the fulfillment of such.

Jesus didn’t come into our world to merely meet our needs. He came to transform our hearts and minds to live as sons and daughters of God. We are in the world, but we are not of the world. We don’t embrace the ways of the world, but we pray for the world. We pray for those in our world that those in our world will find wisdom that comes from God for the sake of all in our world. God desires all men to know the power of His saving grace.

1 Timothy 2:1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

We are to be those who live by a relationship with God and the testimony of His love. We pray for God’s peace in the midst of every worldly trouble. Our wisdom comes from God, and it is not a wisdom that comes through human protest, but a wisdom that makes peace by seeking the presence of God in all things. It is not an earthly, self-seeking, demonic inspiration. It is a willingness to seek God and yield to Him and His will in all things.

Food For Thought,

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,

As leaders, we don’t lead others to know the commands of God. We lead them to know His love. To know His love, we must know His presence in our lives in an intimate and powerful way. God desires a connection with us, not merely obedience to the instructions of His words. The law holds the power of death, but only God’s presence in our lives holds the power of life and peace.

2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Knowing God our Father and Jesus our Lord, produces the fruit God glory and goodness. The promises of God are given to us so that we will be partakers of God’s divine nature. They are not given so that we will simply receive rewards for obeying His voice. Only a relationship with Him can produce the fruit of becoming like Him in our hearts.

The testimony of the law is love. The law can be summed up in two statements. Those statements are a love for God and love for one another. These were commands in the Old Covenant, but commands alone cannot transform our hearts and minds.

Matthew 22:34-40 (NKJV) 34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

The law and the prophets depended upon commands to love God and one another, but humanity could not love God and one another based upon a command of law. Jesus gave a new commandment to His disciples. That commandment was to love one another even as He had loved them, that they would love one another.

John 13: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

This New Covenant command was based upon a revelation of God’s love. Only a revelation of God’s love will inspire a commitment of love. The source of our commitment to a relationship with God or one another must be a revelation of God’s love for us. When we know how much God loves us, we are inspired to know how much God loves others. Only a revelation of God’s love can create a true commitment that will empower the actions of our lives towards God and others. Love is a revelation, not a commandment of law to love another. 

James 4:11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?

Since the law is a shadow of the testimony of love only found in our hearts by God’s presence, to judge ourselves or others by the law is to miss the testimony of the law. The law is a shadow of love, and love makes judgments according to God’s eternal mercy in all things. To be a doer of the law is to be loving in our hearts and minds towards others.

Food For Thought,

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,

Leaders lead by example in embracing an intimate and personal relationship with God. God guides us by His love, not His power. He guides us by His love, not by information. Principles are merely a witness to an influencer. Commands are spoken by a person. Judgments are made by someone who exercises discernment. These things testify of the person God. God is Spirit and our connection to Him is through our spirit.

John 4:24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Romans 8:27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

God’s will is that all men would know His love, receive His love, and be transformed by His love to be a testimony of His love to the world. His will is not about information; it is a matter of human transformation from within. His law of love is to be written upon our hearts and minds.

1 Corinthians 2:11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

The spiritual things of God are not merely a matter of right Bible understanding. They are a right understanding of God as a loving eternal Father who loves us. I gave a prophecy this past week that I believe reveals that this is a season to grow in knowing God in His love.

Prophecy – October 9, 2026

Know that I surround you with My love. I’m moving you forward, but it’s not as your eye sees, it’s as I see, for I surround you with My love.

Expect Me. Expect Me around you. Expect Me to guide you, to lead you, not by a tree of information of knowledge, but by My surrounding love. For I’m shifting things. I’m changing things. I’m causing things to move.

Sometimes you’ll sense me behind you. Sometimes you’ll sense Me in front of you. Sometimes you’ll sense me beside you. In this way or that. But it’s My love that surrounds you. Don’t be distracted by that which is not My love.

Be expectant of Me. Be expectant of Me. Be entrenched in Me, and you’ll be established by Me in all things. My love surrounds you. It’s not My information that guides you.

I put it within you to have sensitivity that goes beyond your own natural abilities. Trust the senses of your spirit. As My Spirit moves, be expectant of Me. It can happen in a moment. The shift has changed. The season’s new. The season’s done. The season begins. But these seasons are all because I surround you with My love, and nothing can separate you from My love.

Let My love guide you. Let My love guide you.  Let My love be the source of your expectancy. Be pregnant with My love. Let my love be the source of your entrenchment. Be entrenched in My love. Let your expectancy be entrenched in Me and be established by Me in My love in all things.

Food For Thought,

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,

As leaders we set an example of faith that others can follow. We live on every word that comes from God’s mouth. This is not just His informational words, but the expressions of life that come from Him. We live on every expression that comes from God. We live on His heavenly expressions that defy the natural limitations and surroundings of our natural lives.

The expressions of God are not merely the expressions of a Creator. They are expressions of a loving Father who creates all things from His desire to give life, breath, and all things. He can work out all things in our lives according to His purpose. His purpose is always connected to His love. We live on His love, and we are not to be shaken by things that seek to shake our understanding of God’s love for us in our world.

We have been given a path of destiny in the land of our journey in life. We are called to receive the victory over every giant in our world. That victory is not merely a matter of power; it is a testimony of God’s love working in our lives. Faith works through love and faith frames our world. A revelation of God’s love will empower our faith.

Although we are walking in the promises given to us by God, there is still a truth of trust that is taught to us in the principle of the wilderness. In the wilderness we are taught to trust what God gives every morning without a full understanding of what God gives to us each day. We can be confident that He provides each day, but we also know that each new day brings something new from God. To us it is a “what is it (manna)”, but to God it is His daily provision of love to children that He loves.

Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.”

God’s law is not intended to be a testimony of rules and commands. It is a testament to His character. He loves us and because of this, He will always provide for us. The internal manna of God in our hearts leads to an external testimony in our lives. Leaders set an example in this and lead others to walk in this truth.

Revelation 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”‘

God is the One who changes our hearts and minds. That change comes about by an internal knowing of His love. When we know His love, we are forever changed by His love. Leaders lead others to know and to walk in the testimony of God’s love in their lives.

Food For Thought,

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,

Leaders don’t take people by the hand and lead them. They lead in a way that inspires others in their own personal relationship with God. They respond to God’s voice in their own lives and set an example for others to do the same. This is the testimony of New Covenant life in Christ. The Old Covenant was one of Law and imposed discipline, but the New Covenant is one of a changed heart and mind through a personal relationship with God. This was God’s promise to us all and Jesus was the way by which this is now real for all who believe.

Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

The new covenant is not a different way of informing us concerning what God desires in our lives. The new covenant is a granted gift from God that puts His desires in our hearts and minds by an internal supernatural power of grace. Our knowing God is not the result of new instructions from God; it is an internal transformation of our hearts and minds by Christ within us. Knowing God is not a matter of understanding His instructions, knowing God is a matter of internal revelation and intimacy with God in our hearts. Leaders set an example in receiving this gift and they inspire others to receive the life-transforming gift of God’s grace that brings about this internal change in everyone who comes to believe. It is a grant from God. Knowing God is a matter of knowing His love that forever changes us. That process is not just a one-time event. It is a way of life that changes us from glory to glory as we each turn to God in Christ.

Christ in us is the source of life for a changed and enlarged heart. Leaders lead others in knowing the power of Christ in them. Each person must know the testimony of God’s grace that gives them a changed and enlarged heart that increasingly becomes a testimony of God’s law of love.

leadership cannot take people by the hand and lead them and expect to see New Covenant transformations in the lives of those they lead. We must inspire people to live from their hearts in loving God, and we cannot lead them through mere accountability to godly principles and rules. A covenant of accountability will not change the hearts of those we lead. It must be a covenant of love and relationship. We must lead in a way that inspires people to live from transformed hearts and mind towards God. It must be a covenant based upon a revelation of God’s love. Even the least in a covenant of love can know Him. We must lead in a way that we inspire a culture that is shame free. We need God’s manifest presence that transforms the weaknesses of people’s hearts by the greatness of God’s love and the power of His grace.

We cannot put God’s way into the hearts and minds of those we lead. We must be more dependent upon God’s manifest presence in the lives of those we lead than in merely teaching them godly principles. We must be dependent upon God’s presence to lead others into His presence as well. We must teach people what God is like in His character, nature, way, power, and authority, but we must depend upon God to be the one who makes those things real in the lives of those we lead.

Food For Thought,

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,

Leaders don’t take people by the hand and lead them. They lead in a way that inspires others in their own personal relationship with God. They respond to God’s voice in their own lives and set an example for others to do the same. This is the testimony of New Covenant life in Christ. The Old Covenant was one of Law and imposed discipline, but the New Covenant is one of a changed heart and mind through a personal relationship with God. This was God’s promise to us all and Jesus was the way by which this is now real for all who believe.

Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

The new covenant is not a different way of informing us concerning what God desires in our lives. The new covenant is a granted gift from God that puts His desires in our hearts and minds by an internal supernatural power of grace. Our knowing God is not the result of new instructions from God; it is an internal transformation of our hearts and minds by Christ within us. Knowing God is not a matter of understanding His instructions, knowing God is a matter of internal revelation and intimacy with God in our hearts. Leaders set an example in receiving this gift and they inspire others to receive the life-transforming gift of God’s grace that brings about this internal change in everyone who comes to believe. It is a grant from God. Knowing God is a matter of knowing His love that forever changes us. That process is not just a one-time event. It is a way of life that changes us from glory to glory as we each turn to God in Christ.

Christ in us is the source of life for a changed and enlarged heart. Leaders lead others in knowing the power of Christ in them. Each person must know the testimony of God’s grace that gives them a changed and enlarged heart that increasingly becomes a testimony of God’s law of love.

leadership cannot take people by the hand and lead them and expect to see New Covenant transformations in the lives of those they lead. We must inspire people to live from their hearts in loving God, and we cannot lead them through mere accountability to godly principles and rules. A covenant of accountability will not change the hearts of those we lead. It must be a covenant of love and relationship. We must lead in a way that inspires people to live from transformed hearts and mind towards God. It must be a covenant based upon a revelation of God’s love. Even the least in a covenant of love can know Him. We must lead in a way that we inspire a culture that is shame free. We need God’s manifest presence that transforms the weaknesses of people’s hearts by the greatness of God’s love and the power of His grace.

We cannot put God’s way into the hearts and minds of those we lead. We must be more dependent upon God’s manifest presence in the lives of those we lead than in merely teaching them godly principles. We must be dependent upon God’s presence to lead others into His presence as well. We must teach people what God is like in His character, nature, way, power, and authority, but we must depend upon God to be the one who makes those things real in the lives of those we lead.

Food For Thought,

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

Greetings,

I am continuing to fix my blog to you problem. Some of you have been receiving it while others are not. Please be patient with me in this process.

Here is another thought for today:

As leaders, the effectiveness of our leadership is directing connected to our connections in relationship to members of a body of believers. We are an expression of that body. If we’re not connected to something living, we cannot give living words to others. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in their older age. Our ability to flourish is directly connected to our planting in Christ-life relationships.

When we read about the church in the New Testament, none of the New Testament letters existed for the first 20 to 30 years of the church. There were no buildings or structures called the church in the foundation of the New Covenant. So when the Scripture refers to the church, it’s not referring to something that is locational. It is referring to something that is relational. When we study the scriptures as leaders, we must keep this in mind.

We’re called to help those we lead to find a relational connection with God and relational connections with one another. For this to happen, we must be connected in relationship ourselves. Our first relationship is with God and our second relationship is with the body of Christ. It’s all for love that we do anything, not for the power of ministry. All we do is for the testimony of powerful love.

We must be planted to plant others. Unless we have a spiritual letter that is joined to us, we don’t have credentials to speak to others. The testimony of our leadership is the fruit of our leadership. That fruit is seen as life-giving people. Human lives are the testimony of a spiritual letter written by the Holy Spirit. It is written in the heart of leaders first. We lead people in a direction that is led by Holy Spirit, not the will of leaders. It’s not the will of a Christian belief system that we stand for. It’s the life-giving testimony of Christ. We believe Christ and lead others into that reality of believing Christ. When we believe Christ, we join ourselves to Him. When we join ourselves to Him, we become an expression of Him. We cannot just say we are joined to Christ by being joined to Jesus as our head alone. We must be joined to Christ in His body and His headship to lead others into the path of Christ-life relationships.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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We can’t experience a deep relationship with God merely by informational truth. We need a relationship with God that inspires dreams, visions and experiences that are not just inspirations for surface understandings, but they invoke deep revelations in the heart. They’re like mysteries revealed. They’re like hidden treasures buried in a field. They’re like groves of truth hidden in a forest. We want to experience things that cause our own lives to become testimonies that activate stories in the lives of others. We want a relationship with God that transforms our lives by the testimony of His powerful love.

Look to see Jesus and the Father through the indwelling connection of Holy Spirit in your heart. Know God today in an intimate way. He is your friend and He desires to give you life!

Have a great day,

Ted J. Hanson

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The secret to the external presentation of our lives is what happens within us. We have entered a New Covenant where God writes His law upon our hearts and minds. That law is a law of love. It is a testimony of the character, nature, way, power, and authority of God. It is the inward testimony of grace in Christ that transforms our lives from glory to glory.

2 Corinthians 3:17 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.

Leaders don’t lead others to know the outward testimony of their lives. They lead them to know the process by which that outward testimony was attained. The testimony of our lives comes about by an internal manna that enables us to experience a change of name in Christ. Our name is our character, nature, way, power, and authority. We are changed in the substance of who we are by an internal work of Holy Spirit. The hidden manna is a hidden “what is it?” The word manna means, “what is it”? This is a very personal thing. It is the testimony of faith that comes by hearing God in our hearts. God doesn’t just speak to us so we will know what to do. When He speaks, it changes us and we become different. God speaks to empower us to become who He proclaims us to be.

God has called us to be obedient to the faith. Faith comes by hearing God speak to our hearts. When God speaks to our hearts, faith happens. It is faith that changes our lives and it is faith that changes the world. Faith works through love and faith is the testimony of love working in us. It is not God’s instructions that change us. It is intimacy with Him in connection with the words that He speaks to our hearts.

We are not here to fashion and form God in our likeness and image. We are here to see the likeness and image of God formed in us. When we hear God in our hearts, we think we understand His words, but the understanding comes through a walking out of internal change that comes from intimacy with God in what He says to us. Leaders are an example of change and they inspire those they lead to also find the internal change that comes by hearing God in one’s heart. The process of change is more important than the final change. The process of change is the process of trust and intimacy with God in our hearts. The change can be seen as a white stone in our lives, but the name on that stone is a personal thing. The change can be seen by others, but only we know the change of name that has been given to us through our relationship with God in our hearts.

Revelation 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”‘

This is not a promise for us in heaven. It is a heavenly promise in our lives today. It is progressive and real. Leaders set an example for others to follow but each one must find the intimate connection with God in their hearts.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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