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Greetings,

Each human being has a destiny in Christ to bring life to their world. The uniqueness of each person is meant to bring life to individuals in this world that are commissioned by God for them to bring life to. Jesus was a firstborn of a new creation of humanity. He came as a last and eternal Adam for the sake of all humanity. He lived His life as a man as we should live our lives as sons and daughters of God. When Jesus had completed His life as a man, He prayed to His Father that in the same way that He had been sent to the world, He was sending His disciples and those who would follow.

John 17:9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.”

John 17:17 “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.”

Jesus came for the sake of us all, but He was sent by His heavenly Father to a few to demonstrate the value of each and every one of us to God as our heavenly Father. Jesus came to reconcile us to our Father that we might give our lives to those that God has given to us in this world as Jesus did for those His Father had given Him. Our salvation in Christ is not merely a salvation of going to heaven when we die. It is a salvation that includes fulfilling our heavenly purpose in this world.

God determines who we are. We will never discover who we are by looking to ourselves. We can only discover who we are by looking to God and finding how we give life to others in our world. We are like our Father. We are to be givers of life.

As leaders, we don’t just lead others to know the truth about God. We lead them to be a testimony of the truth of who they are in Christ. We lead to help each one find their connection to God in their hearts and to live in the uniqueness of who they are for the sake of giving life to their world. The enemy uses the environment of our world to tempt us to trade for something less than who we really are. Our true identity can only be found through the internal connection of our spirit to the Holy Spirit of God. It is only from within our spirit that our soul can discover the reality of our true identity in this world. The enemy of our soul comes in the form of outside sources in an attempt to make us trade our true identity for a lie. Spiritual forces inspire our souls to yield to our own fleshly desires to find an identity that is redefined by the external forces of our environment.  

A created being known as the star of the morning (the Latin Vulgate describes as Lucifer), was created to bring light for every new day. His attributes and characteristics were depicted as the root of the testimony of the King of Babylon and the King of Tyre through the prophecies of Isaiah and Ezekiel (Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:12-19). This created being was a covering cherub that revealed expressions magnifying the light, sound, and the rhythm of God. It was a daily process (morning star) and it was connected to his ability to refract or reflect the light of God in various expressions of the frequency of light. He was an excellent creation of God, and he had a great purpose before Him. He failed in his purpose through pride. He saw what he was not (the stars of God) and he desired an identity that was not his. This same enemy seeks to inspire pride in the human soul through jealousy, envy, shame, discontentment, and a rejection of men to tempt them to trade their true identity for a lie. It is only through our true identity given to us by our Father in heaven that we can bring the life that God intends for us to bring to those that He has given for us to influence in this world. Leaders grow in knowing their true identity in Christ and they lead others to find their own unique identity through the internal connection of their spirit to the Holy Spirit of God.

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 grow in knowing who God is, who we are, and who we are sent to in order to give them the life that we have received from our heavenly Father. We lead others into this same understanding. God knows who He is, and He is not defined by who we think He is. He is who He is, and He brings life to us and to our world. He doesn’t need anything from us because He is a sufficient giver of life. He gives us life, breath, and all things. We find our identity in Him, our testimony in Him, and our purpose in Him in life. When we find our true identity, we give life to others.

God determines who you are. We will never discover who we are by looking to ourselves. We can only discover who we are by looking to God and finding how we give life to others in our world. We are like our Father. We are to be givers of life.

The enemy uses the environment of our world to tempt us to trade for something less than who we really are. The environment of our world can wound us and cause harm, dysfunction, and even death. That environment cannot define who we are. It can only challenge us to rise up in our true identity. Who we are will always bring life to our world. Therefore, who we are is not defined by our needs. It is defined by the empowerment of God in our hearts to overcome every wicked thing. Our source of identity is only found in Christ by our connection to Holy Spirit.

Wicked things are things that prevent us from being givers of life to our world. They prevent us from receiving life from our heavenly Father and alter us in our course of life to distract us from the true path of greatness. That path is a path of giving life to others in our world.

Philippians 2:14 Do all things without complaining and disputing, 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain. 17 Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

There is a race to run! There is a divine commission for us to labor in. Our lives are to be poured out to give life to others. It is a sacrifice and service on our part to empower the faith of others in Christ. When we find our true identity, we find ourselves living for the wellbeing of others. We don’t seek a freedom for ourselves, but a freedom for others because of us. This doesn’t mean that we don’t find freedom. We find the freedom of being a giver of life to our world. This is the likeness of our heavenly Father.

1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.

When we discover our true identity, we can become empowered by God’s grace to edify others. How do we bring life to our family? How do we bring life to our friends? How do we bring life to our relational connections in this world? When we give life, we receive life. We receive life that we might give more life to others and in giving more life to others our heavenly Father gives life to us.

We can only give life to others when we acknowledge the truth. Grace comes on truth. That truth is to say to those whom God gives us in life, “Here I am. I am here for you. I am here to give life to you that you might know the greater measure of life that can only come from the One who gives life, breath, and all things. He is our heavenly Father.”

Everything in life has a corporate purpose. Every member of our physical body lives for its joining parts to bring health and life to our whole being. We were born for our friends, for our spouse, our family, our connection in the body of Christ, and our purpose in giving life to our world.

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,

I believe that there are five basic classes of people on planet earth. There are the very poor, the poor, the middle class, the rich, and the very rich. The possessions of these people are not what determine who these people are. Each of these classes of people actually determines how much they possess. These classes of people are based upon the beliefs of their hearts. For a large part those who comprise the Church are very poor in their mentality. The very poor think from day to day. What in us thinks only for today? Whatever in us thinks for today will act for today, think for today, and live for today. A very poor mindset will keep us bound to today. It will not bring the blessings of the rich inheritance of God into the earth. What in us doesn’t understand how awesome we are as the family of God? These are the things that keep us bound to a very poor mentality in life.

The second class of people is the poor. Poor people think for some short segment of time. They live for the month, a few months, or maybe even the year. Their strategies and plans look to things that are within their own reach. They live to maintain life in this world, but they don’t live to change the world. They believe in entitlements more than they seek empowerments. Any riches they receive they spend it upon wasted causes and short-term agendas of existence in this world.

The middle-class lives year to year and may even plan for the comfort of many years. Their focus is comfort. Much of the Church lives to be comfortable. It is a middle-class life. Those with a middle-class mindset don’t live for significance but spend any inheritances they receive on the successes of their own lives.

The rich live for longer segments of time. They may even give a segment of inheritance to their children, but they still lack something of the substance of true destiny. The very rich live for decades and even centuries. Very rich people don’t think about what is going to happen in the next year. They think about changing nations. They think about changing generations. Very rich people don’t live to make more money. They live to change the world. God doesn’t just want to give us possessions; He wants us to be people who possess the earth.

We could have a widow’s coin and not have a poor mentality. We are not equal with others. We are not supposed to be equal with others. God doesn’t want us to be equal with others. He wants each of us to be significant in the worlds in which we live. He wants us to influence others by the things we possess. A lady named Tabitha had to be raised from the dead because she had the mentality of a rich person in this earth. She made valuable clothing for forgotten widows and when she died God summoned Peter to raise her from the dead, because her destiny of bringing heaven to the earth for widows was greater than her ultimate destination to a heaven beyond this world (Acts 9:36-41). Tabitha was a woman with a kingdom mindset in this world.

Abraham understood the keys to a kingdom mindset even while he was still called Abram. When he encountered King Melchizedek upon his return from rescuing Lot and the goods of Sodom, he recognized Melchizedek’s gifts of bread and wine as a spillover of the blessings God held for him in heaven. Abram spilled over with a tithe of what he had as a covenant response calling for all that God would give him from heaven for his inheritance in the earth (Gen. 14:17-24). He had a mentality of Abraham even though he was still Abram.

Abram was destined to become Abraham, but he didn’t know it. God knew it, but Abram did not. However, Abram thought like a very rich man. He understood that a kingdom mindset has to do with who you are and not what you do.

Abraham was a rich man, but God was very rich (Gen. 13:2, 3). When God gave His covenant promise to Abraham a very rich God was talking with a rich man. God was presenting a 100-year plan to a rich man. Abraham was 99 years old. There must be a 100-year plan. The church is 99! There must be a very a 100-year plan! To receive a 100-year plan we must know the one with the 100-year plan.

Genesis 13:2, 3 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.  He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai…

Abraham’s foundation was the mindset of a very rich man. Because he thought like a very rich man he could go from Bethel to Ai. The journey of his life supernaturally demonstrated that as the house of God (Bethel), the only direction you can go is to the heaps and the testimonies of God in the earth (Ai). The real issue of inheritance is that God is very rich, and He wants His family to change the world.

Genesis12:7, 8 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.  And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

Abram moved, but when he moved the house went with him. Too much of the Church is begging to be the house when they are already the house. Build a tabernacle and move! Don’t stay at the memories of what God has done. Move forward with the grace that God has given you to do all things.

Move from the place of the house of God because they are the house of God and move west. Ai is on the east and Abram went on a journey still!

Abraham was very rich therefore God could make him exceedingly fruitful.  How do you see yourself? Abraham was not a person. He was a house. How you see yourself determines your beliefs, your actions, your imaginations, and your influences. Do you see yourself as a house? Don’t see yourself as a ministry, a giver of blessings, or a healer. See yourself as God’s inheritance in this earth.

God of heaven, possessor of heaven and earth, impregnate us and activate us to be your testimony of inheritance in this world. You are our Father, and we are Your sons. Activate us to be very rich so we will be exceedingly fruitful. Give us an impartation and an activation of a 100-year plan for the sake 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,

God wants us to live in the perpetual testimony of a 100-year plan. He wants us to live as blessings that multiply those blessings to a second generation. Those multiplying the blessing of God empower a third generation to possess the gates of their enemies. Gates are forces of power in the world. Gates are portals the release what is behind the walls they guard to the world. The force behind a gate is seen in the power of the one who advances from behind the gates. To possess the gate is to hold the power that is released from the gate. The power that comes from the gate is seen in life and also by powers of death. When we believe God, we act upon God’s ways and God’s ways create a power within our hearts that is a force of life to our world. The imaginations of our hearts empower us to create a world that is different than the influences of death in times past. This is the testimony of the inheritance of Christ in a third generation and it becomes an authority of influence in a fourth generation. That influence establishes new first things, new principles that carry on to the generations to come.

Our beliets and actions are not connected to the knowledge we know. They are connected to who we believe. Who we believe determines who possesses the gates. Who possesses the place of heaven in the earth? Who possesses the high places in the earth? Whoever possesses the gates, possesses the places of influence. God’s covenant promise to us is that our descendants should possess the gates of their enemies. This is part of God’s inheritance in the earth.

When inheritances are given, they remain in the earth. These are the things that create places for the coming generations to stand. We stand in the inheritances given by those before us and we walk forward to expand those inheritances to the generations beyond us. God’s covenant promise to men is that wherever the soles of their feet walk it will become the possession of their inheritance. Money is not for spending; money is meant to change the world. Wealth isn’t given to merely gratify the pleasures of a generation. Wealth of any kind is meant to influence the world. It is not the destiny of any generation to spend the inheritances given from the previous generations upon themselves. Inheritance is meant to influence the generations of men. The riches of inheritance far exceed the value of mere things and those valuable things are a power of influence in the world.

Jesus came to this world as a man so that through Him all the families of the earth could be blessed. Going to heaven is a fringe benefit of believing in Jesus, but bringing heaven to the world in which we live is a part of our destiny. We are called to advance the kingdom of God in the earth. We are called to bring the kingdoms of this world into the kingdom of the Son of the Father’s love. We must receive the inheritances given to us by God to pass them on to the generations that follow our lives in this earth.

God’s promise to Abraham was not a promise to a man. It was a promise to his house. The good news given to Abraham was that he could trust in the Promiser. He could trust in the one who gave a promise, and He could change the world through the house of Abraham. The strength of the world is that they think they are the house, but they are not the house. The weakness of the church is they don’t know they are the house, therefore, they long to go to God’s house in some place in the sky. All God has ever wanted is to tabernacle with men. All He wanted to do was to move into the neighborhood of humanity and satisfy the human heart.

We have been blessed with every spiritual blessing from God in heavenly places, but we must first believe that we have been blessed in order for us to receive the blessing of those blessings here upon the earth. When we receive those blessings, we live to be a testimony of that blessing to our world.

When I have lived my life and run my race, I want it to be said that I believed therefore I acted. I acted therefore I dreamed. I dreamed therefore my children and my children’s children were born with vision. My family was born with vision therefore many families of the earth were blessed. This is a testimony of inheritance and the reality of a 100-year plan. This is the kind of leaders we should be in the Church.

It is only through living as inheritors and givers of inheritance that we can see the hearts of the fathers turn towards the children and the hearts of the children turned toward the fathers. This is the testimony of inheritance and a 100-year plan. By this the curses of futility are broken, and the blessings of heaven invade the earth.

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,

Inheritances from God come by revelation. God has blessed us in heaven with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Eph. 1:3). Those blessings are only ours when we come to see what they really are. When we see them, we can receive them. When we see the blessings of God, we can also believe that God is giving them to us. God wants us to receive His blessings from heaven so that we can become the riches of His inheritance in the earth (Eph. 1:18).

The blessings of God come from God. God is not a performer of works. He is a being, and He wants to bless us by who He is. What we believe is the image that we will present to the world we live in. What we believe is not really based on the knowledge we believe, but in the person we believe. Who we believe determines what we believe, and beliefs determine who possesses the gates. Gates are places of influence. They are what determine the future of the world. Whoever possesses the places of influence possesses the future of the world. Whoever possesses the gates possesses the future.

The future of the world is determined from heaven, but the question is, “Where is heaven?” Much of the Church believes that the future is determined by heaven, but their focus of heaven is a place that is far off or far away. I believe that we go to heaven when we die. It is a great promise and reward when our race has been run in this life, but our race is the journey of destiny and not merely the reward that we will receive in heaven. Jesus didn’t instruct us to pray that we would one day go to heaven. He told us to pray that the kingdom and the will of heaven would be done in the world in which we live. He told us to look to our source of inheritance while we are here upon the earth not as a hope of God’s power for escape. He didn’t instruct us to pray to a God who is powerful. He told us to pray to our heavenly Father who is holy. A father is a source of blessing. A father is a source of inheritance. This is not commonly understood in the fatherless societies of the world today, but a father is the source of a family name, and a family name is a source of inheritance. A family name carries the power of a family’s destiny that carries through the dynasty of a family name. Having a father in heaven guarantees heavenly blessings in any world in which we live.

As leaders in the body of Christ we are not called to tasks of Christian ministry. We are called to inherit the blessings of God our Father and to expand them as His inheritance in the earth. The secrets given to us by God are the substance of inheritance that belongs to our children and to our children’s children. This is the power of God’s increasing kingdom in the earth. 

The blessings of God in our lives are about us becoming sons and daughters of God for His life-giving purposes in our lives. It is not about us being blessed but about us becoming God’s blessings of life. There are four things that comprise the basic substance of humanity and mankind’s facilitation of spiritual forces of either good or evil. They are the issues of belief, action, imagination, and influence. These four things hold the power to bring about change in the earth. This is not a grace for mere blessings in our lives, but the very keys to unlock the destiny of our lives as those who rule in Christ. It all starts with the issue of belief in our lives. Who we believe determines what we believe and only believing God can empower us to become the blessing that He has called for us to be.

Who you believe is whom you will be like. Who you believe determines what you believe. It is not what you believe that determines whom you believe, but whom you believe that determines what you believe. What you believe is the image that you will present to others, but it is all rooted in whom you believe. I believe that whom you believe determines who possesses the gates in your life. Who you believe determines who possesses the gates in the earth, because possessing the gates has to do with what you believe. Gates are places of influence. Gates are the power of true inheritance in the earth.

John 8:31, 32  Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

In these verses we see that Jesus was talking to Jews who believed Him. He was not talking to those who did not believe Him. He told those who believed Him that if they were to abide in the words that God speaks personally to them, they would know truth that would bring a power of freedom. The word translated as “word” in this Scripture is the Greek word “rhema”. It is not the word “logos”. Rhema is a personal expression given directly to someone.  The secret to knowing truth is not in something that God has already said. It isn’t in believing something that God has said in the past. It is found in believing God. True belief in the person God would enable men to receive truth from God. It would enable them to receive a substance of inheritance from the one who gives inheritance, but the secret would be a close relationship with God where inheritance could be received. That relationship would be a relationship of sons to a Father that would empower them to be fathers to sons.

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,

Today I am continuing to address God’s desire for a 100-year plan in our lives. God’s words to Abraham had four levels of ingredients. Those levels are generational in their nature. They are the ingredients of a 100-year plan:

Genesis 22:17, 18 “…blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Some translations read that God would “greatly bless” Abraham. The Hebrew word for blessing here is a double use of the same word. It implies that in blessing God would bless him. It implies blessing beyond his own life. God was empowering Abraham to be a blessing and to live for the sake of blessing others beyond his life. This is the anointing of a father’s grace. It is an anointing to bring inherited favor to the generations beyond one’s own existence.

The same significance exists with the word “multiply”. Some translations read that God was going to “greatly multiply” Abraham. The Hebrew word for multiply is also a double use of the same word. God was not only empowering Abraham to multiply, but to release an anointing and action of multiplication to those beyond himself. Abraham would be empowered to do actions of faith that would propagate actions of increase in the generations beyond his life. These are the actions of a father for the sake of all that is to come.

God told Abraham that his descendants would “possess the gate of their enemies”. This is not a measure that would be seen directly in Abraham’s life, but in the lives of his children and his children’s children. This was an anointing of the power of life-giving imagination. It was a grace that would carry beyond the vision of Abraham’s life into the generations beyond. It meant Abraham had to live with more than a vision for his life. He had to live with a dream that would extend beyond his life. Gates are places of influence. The gates of the enemy are the influences of the enemy in our lives. God was revealing to Abraham that the present conditions of his world would be changed through his generations tomorrow. It was part of an increasing inheritance and the power of a multi-generational plan.

God also told Abraham that “in his Seed all of the nations of the earth” would be blessed. This is the ultimate testimony of influence. God was prophetically declaring the Seed of Christ that would be shadowed in the nation of Israel, but fully revealed through supernatural Seed of Jesus Christ and the conception of the Body of Christ.

I have written in previous blogs in regard to four levels of spiritual warfare. Those levels are the elements of belief, action, imagination, and influence. Beliefs inspire actions and actions propagate imaginations of the heart. The imaginations of the heart determine the influences of our lives. When we receive a belief, we activate actions of that belief. A belief received is most often the testimony of an old belief lost and a new belief taking hold. A life-giving belief will dispossess a death producing one. Life-giving beliefs then inspire life-giving actions. When we act upon our beliefs, we inspire the imaginations of our hearts towards further influence of that belief. It all begins with a belief, and it culminates with an influence on others in the world. As I stated last week, God wants to reveal to us the secret things that belong to Him so those things can become influencing inheritances in the world to and through our children and to our children’s children.

When God reveals His secrets to men His secrets become a revelation to men. A revelation is a secret that existed but has now become known to those who discover it. Revelations are simply disclosed secrets. The purpose of every revelation from God is to invite us to have an encounter with God so we will be transformed by God and become a testimony of that revelation from God. A revelation from God brings a blessing of God into our lives. When we receive a revelation from God we are called to act according to that revelation. It is impossible to act upon a revelation from God without God’s transforming power at work in the actions of our will. Anything less than faith will only result in dead actions of vane works. They may mimic truth, but they will never propagate real truth. Revelation from God is given to release spiritual inheritances into the earth.

Inheritances are cultural and not structural. They are living and not preserving in nature; therefore inheritances are meant to expand in the generations of men. Inheritances are a substance that can be received by the children of a passing generation. One generation gives the substance of its beliefs to the next generation and those beliefs are expanded through actions, imagination, and influence on the generations that follow. Inheritances are a substance of value to be expanded to greater value in the earth. An inheritance is not meant to be spent by the next generation, but to be used to increase the influence of a family to the generations beyond their day. Inheritances are measures of power given to expand the influence of God-given destiny in the earth. When inheritances are received, they are supposed to be cultivated, propagated, and released to expand in the earth. They are the testimony of a family name. Inheritance is a measure of destiny given to a family name. Destiny received is a substance to be passed to and through the dynasty of a family name that brings blessing to the world in a multi-generational way. The Church bears the name of Christ and God wants to give inheritances that can release a destiny of His great grace to the world.

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,

Today I feel prompted to begin posting on a subject that I addressed in 2012. I have also written on this in my book, Generational Leadership. I am addressing the need for a 100-year plan in the church. I am not talking about our ability to live for 100 years, but rather our ability to transition inheritance to the generations beyond our lives. God is a multi-generational God. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel. He is the God of Paul, Timothy, faithful men, and others also (2Tim. 2:1, 2). As leaders we must lead in a way that the God given vision and the God given letter entrusted to us becomes a spiritual reality in increasing measures beyond our lives. Our leadership must not be for our lifetime, but for the generations of our lifetime. The generations of our lifetime will lead to the generations of the lifetimes to come. I believe that there should be three and four generations revealing the glory of God at all times.

So much of the church is longing for the day of Jesus’ return, but I believe that our aim in life must be for His continual return. Jesus’ is revealing Himself as the One who stands in the midst of His Church at all times (Rev. 1). His prophetic testimony is a testimony of life that continues to mature and advance in the generations of men. We are the bride of Christ and the Holy Spirit lives within us. The cry of the bride and the cry of the Holy Spirit are for Jesus to come (Rev. 22:17). This is not just an event in the coming future, but a continual reality of Christ’s manifest presence in the advancing generations of men. We are living in an administration that is suitable for the summing up of all things in Christ and there is a continual increase of glory to the fullness of the summing up of all things in Him (Eph. 1:10).

There is a difference between being a successful person and a significant one. One can be successful in life and only accomplish things that can be measured in his or her life, but true significance is to make an impact upon others. When we equip others, we find that the testimony of all that God has given to us becomes a testimony in the generations of tomorrow. I believe that the heart of leadership in the church must be the heart of a father. Fathers live to raise up sons (men and women) that can carry the vision of today as a dream for tomorrow. A father seeks to put responsibility in the hands of the next generation. A father takes the secrets that he has received from God and gives them as an inheritance to his children and his children’s children.

Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

The true measure of God’s law is a testimony of His law of love working in and through our lives to others. This is an attribute of our heavenly Father. It is not merely the attribute of a god, but one of a loving Father. Abraham is known as the father of faith. God’s promise to Abraham was a multi-generational promise. That promise was not a promise of a sovereign God, but of a loving Father. When we read the covenant promise given to Abraham, we find that it is a multi-generational plan. I call this a 100-year plan. God made a covenant promise to the human race through the SEED of Abraham. That covenant promise was one of blessing, multiplying, possessing, and influence in the world.

Genesis 22:17, 18 “…blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

God’s words to Abraham had four levels of ingredients. Those levels are generational in their nature. They are the ingredients of a 100-year plan:

1)  In blessing I will bless you

2)  In multiplying I will multiply

3)  Your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies

4)  In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed

These four things are the ingredients to a 100-year plan. I will be addressing these things and what it means to have a 100-year plan in my blogs for next few weeks. What secrets are you called to release as an inheritance in the earth? What secrets have and are you receiving from the generations of the past? The revealed secrets of God are the blessings to men. The blessings of God are supposed to be expanded in the generations of men. All that God gives is meant to change the world to become a testimony of the increasing inheritance of God as our heavenly Father. We are His multigenerational family to walk in His life-giving authority in this world.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

This is a further look at the topic of communion, in light of the fact that Easter is this coming Sunday. I am taking this from my book The Seven Eyes of Grace, Chapter 6. This is part of the audiobook:

It is for the sake of the living testimony of the Body of Christ that we seek to find our divine placement in the house of God. We are the temple of His Holy Spirit and together we express the fullness of His habitation. He is the High Priest over the house of God, and we are the house of God. This is why we seek to come together. This is why we seek to build one another up in the faith. We live to stir one another up to love and good works as members of the Body of Christ.

Heb. 10:21 …and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

The very essence of true communion is to draw near with a true heart. It is to seek to come together, knowing that our bodies are living sacrifices one for another (Rom.12:1). We don’t just hold fast to the confession of our hope for ourselves, we hold fast for the sake of one another. Our aim is to consider one another, and our goal is to stir one another up to love and good works. Our communion is to love God and to love one another. The more we see of His coming, the more we come together to give one another the life of His presence. Our lifeblood is found in exhorting one another. We love God and we love people! When we choose to live together by the life of His Spirit, we confirm that we no longer live according to the flesh. We seek to live according to the Spirit. The cup is a sharing of His blood and Spirit. The bread is a sharing of His Body.

1 Cor. 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17 For we, being many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread. 18 Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

The bread of Christ is not the bread upon the communion table. It is the bread of the communion table, called the Body of Christ. “The bread which we break is the communion of the Body of Christ!” We are the “one bread” that Jesus put into reality through the mercy given by His death and the grace given by His resurrection. We must live for one another and not for the life of our own flesh. When we fellowship darkness, we defile the table of the Lord. We do so because we are members of one another. If we seek darkness, we also seek to defile the bread of Christ. We are not properly discerning the Body of Christ.

1 Cor. 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

The “cup of blessing” mentioned in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 10 is the life of God’s Spirit among us as believers. The blood covenant that Christ made at Calvary enables all human beings to come into a personal relationship with God by His Spirit. True communion is to drink of the cup of God’s Spirit as members of a new flesh known as the Body of Christ. In Christ we have the life of His Spirit within us, and our bodies are members of His Body that we might serve one another with a living sacrifice of life (Rom.12:1). This was made possible through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The wages of sin is death and Jesus paid the wage of our sin that we might find life in Him. The life of the flesh is in the blood (Lev. 17:11), and Jesus poured out the life of His sinless flesh to become atonement for the sins of our sinful flesh. His sacrifice has opened a door for us to commune with God and one another through the “cup of blessing” as living members of the Body of Christ. Our cup of blessing is the cup of Praise. It is the cup of His resurrection life made possible by His partaking of the cup of Redemption on our behalf. He died for us that we might live in Him! Because we are members of the Body of Christ, we must seek to drink the cup of the Spirit, the cup of blessing, that we might fulfill the desires of God’s will and not the desires of our flesh. The cup of the Lord is the life of God’s Spirit that edifies one another (1 Cor. 10:23, 24).

We live for God and one another and to fulfill God’s purposes in the earth. We are the Body of Christ. We must be seekers of God and not seekers of self. If we live self-seeking lives, we despise our place as a member of the Body of Christ and we provoke the Lord to jealousy. There is one Body and one Spirit, and we are partakers of and contributors to both.

1 Cor. 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

2 Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson  

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Greetings,

Today, I again continue on the topic of communion, in light of the fact that Easter is coming soon. I am taking this from my book The Seven Eyes of Grace, Chapter 6. This is part of the audiobook:

That which was “shadow” in the Old Covenant, has now become “complete”! Passover has been made “complete” in Christ. The writer of Hebrews reveals this clearly.

Heb. 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’ “

Jesus didn’t come to invoke more sacrifices. He didn’t come to exchange the ritual of the Old Covenant for a ritual of New Covenant ceremony. He came to establish the Body of Christ upon the earth. Jesus became the completion of the Passover meal in order to establish the true bread of the Body of Christ and the true life of the cup of Praise in human form! We have been sanctified to God, not for further ceremonies and sacrifices, but to be the Body of Christ.

Heb. 10:8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The obedience of Jesus to His Father fulfilled all of the requirements concealed in the Passover meal. He was the Lamb slain for our deliverance from sin. He was the fulfillment of the bread of Adam to give us the bread of Christ. His life was given for the bitter herbs of slavery and suffering in the bondage of sin. He identified with us that we might identify with Him. Jesus shed tears of sorrow for the captivity of all men, as was portrayed in the green herbs dipped in salt water. He exchanged the mortar of the kingdoms of men for the relationship of the kingdom of God, as seen in the “charoset” set at the table to represent the mortar used by Israel to build the palaces and pyramids of Egypt. He was born as the cup of Thanksgiving, lived as the cup of Telling, died as the cup of Redemption, and forever lives as the cup of Praise for all who receive Him in the power of His resurrection. All of these He drank in the “common bowl” of human flesh! He completed Passover and is seated at the right hand of God offering us the bread and wine of true communion!

Heb. 10:12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” 17 then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

The testimony of the communion that Jesus offers us is a change in our lives together as the Body of Christ. We have experienced His resurrection life in that we love God with all of our hearts, souls, and strength. We have partaken of the life of His living bread, in that we love one another as we love ourselves (His city). We are free from condemnation and shame (Rom. 8:1)! We must judge no one according to the flesh (2 Cor. 5:14-16)!

Heb. 10:18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. 19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh…

The veil that Jesus rent was not merely the shadow veil of an earthly temple. It was the skin of the real temple! It was the opening up of the Body of Christ for all to come in! It is a holy of holy place! It is a corporate place! It is filled with many members. It is filled with broken pieces of living bread. When those pieces come together, there is a fullness of the bread of the Body of Christ! We are bread with feet! It is our responsibility to come together to drink the cup of Praise. In doing this, we proclaim the death of Christ and the life of Christ! We enforce His victory and subdue His enemies beneath the feet of the Body of Christ!

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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Greetings,

Today I am going to continue on the topic of communion, in light of the fact that Easter is coming soon. I am taking this from my book The Seven Eyes of Grace, Chapter 6. This is part of the audiobook:

The elements of the New Covenant communion table are revealed in verses 19 and 20 of Luke, Chapter 22. He told them to do this in remembrance of Him. It was not the cup of verse 17 that he told them to drink. It was the cup of verse 20. The cup of verse 17 was the cup of Redemption that Jesus drank for all men when He shed His blood. The fourth cup of verse 20 was the cup of Praise. It represents the life of the Spirit! It is the cup of Resurrection. It is not the death of Jesus Christ that guarantees our resurrection. It is the resurrection of Christ that guarantees our resurrection! It is the partaking of life that guarantees the fullness of life! The death of Jesus gave all men the right to drink of the cup of resurrection through faith in Him. When we receive the life of the Holy Spirit, we are guaranteed the full resurrection! It is the cup that Jesus drinks new with us in the kingdom of His Father. It is not a cup to be drunk in heaven. The fourth cup was the cup of Praise, a cup to be drunk upon the earth. It is the testimony of His resurrection life that guarantees the fullness of the resurrection to come. It guarantees the resurrection of heaven, because the members of the living Body of Christ are drinking the cup of resurrection of heaven upon the earth.

Lk. 22:17 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; 18 for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” 19 And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.”

The cup of Christ’s blood for the New Covenant believer is not the third cup. It is the fourth cup! By drinking of the cup of Praise (Resurrection) with God by His Spirit, we proclaim that Jesus Christ has drunk the third cup of Redemption for all of mankind! The communion table of the New Covenant is not set with the third cup of Redemption. It is set with the cup of Praise. When we drink of His resurrection life together as living members of the Body of Christ, we truly experience the communion table of the New Covenant. We do this in remembrance of Him! Communion is not coming together to drink the third cup of the Passover again. It is coming to drink the cup that followed the supper. It is the cup that was meant to be drunk after the lamb had been eaten. It is not the shadow cup of Praise, but the real cup of Praise! We are called to receive one another as the living members of the Body of Christ and then drink the cup of His resurrection together as the Body of Christ! The true Lamb of God is to be received (eaten) for the death of all mankind and true life (the cup of the Spirit) is to be received by all men.

I believe the true communion was sharing in the bread of the Body of Christ and the cup of the Spirit. There was a furtherance to intimacy with a deeper understanding of God and one another. It wasn’t the elements of bread and wine that made for a communion service. It was a receiving of the Holy Spirit and the Body of Christ!

I want to propose that the “breaking of bread” of the early church was not meant to be a ritual of bread and wine. It was meant to be the daily celebration of the gathering together of the Body of Christ. It can include the elements of food, but in its greater reality it reveals the food of the Body of Christ and the life of the resurrection Spirit in the Body of Christ. It is a celebration of human brethren living together according to the Spirit of Christ. It is void of judgments according to the flesh. It is a testimony of a love for God as their Father and a love for one another as members of God’s city; His community of sons and daughters in His kingdom.

2 Cor. 5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. 16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

Taken from my book The Seven Eyes of Grace: Empowered to Live: Chapter 6 – The Spirit of Knowing.

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3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728