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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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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

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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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I have been having a problem in sending blog postings to my subscribers. I am working on fixing the problem. Please be patient with me as I work through the process of rectifying the situation.

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

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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It has come to my attention that my ted4leaders blogs have not been mailing to my subscribers. I believe I have fixed it and tomorrow’s post should deliver. Because my blog has not been mailing I am sending some of them so you will receive them and have a chance to listen to them or read them. I am very sorry for the problem.

As leaders we lead people to know Jesus, to be transformed by Jesus, and to partner with Jesus for the will of the Father in the earth. Jesus came to our world as the word made flesh. He was fully man, but He was also fully God. He acknowledged that He was God, but He gave His life as the Son of Man for all of mankind.

John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Jesus made it possible for us all to be a dwelling place of God by His Spirit. Whether we are men or women, we are called sons of God in Christ. Those who are led by the Spirit are sons. Holy Spirit is a sevenfold Spirit and Holy Spirit testifies of the name of Jesus. He testifies of the salvation that we find through Jesus’ name in the testimony of the body of Christ.

Jesus made seven confessions as to His identity and those seven realities influence our lives with the testimony of God’s saving grace.

John 6:35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.”

Jesus is the bread of life. He is the bread that gives us life. He is the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord empowers us to live on every word and expression of Jesus in our lives. He is the bread that we live upon that we might also become life to our world.

John 8:12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Jesus is the light. He is the wisdom that leads us from today to tomorrow. Holy Spirit leads us into the path of light by the Spirit of Wisdom in our hearts. We walk by faith in Jesus’ name.

John 10:7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.”

Jesus is the door. He is our access to heavenly things. He transforms our lives through an understanding that surpasses our own. Holy Spirit transforms our hearts and minds by the Spriit of Understanding made known by being one in peace with God.

John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.”

Jesus is the good shepherd. He is the counsel that leads us into the life-giving authority of Christ. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Counsel that testifies of the authority of the good shepherd in our lives.

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.”

Holy Spirit empowers our lives by the Spirit of Might. This is not the strength of the flesh but a testimony of who we are in the works of Christ according to His resurrection life. To be clothed in Him is to be clothed in His resurrection.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Jesus leads us into the testimony of community. We are one with God, and we are one with one another by the knowledge of His love. Holy Spriit leads us by the Spirit of Knowledge that gives us an identity, testimony, and purpose as the family of God.

John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.”

Jesus is in the Father, and the Father is in Him. He is the vine and the Father is the vinedresser. We are branches called to bear fruit for God’s glory. Holy Spirit leads us in the purpose of the Father’s will. The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord empowers us to open the door of our hearts to a partnership with God in all things to bear the fruit of His will in the earth.

Leaders lead in a way that enables us all to grow in knowing the fullness of Jesus in our lives. Jesus is the living bread; He is the light; He is the door, He is the good shepherd; He is the resurrection; He is the way, the truth, and the life; and He is the vine for the fruit of the Father’s kingdom and will in our lives. When we are led by Holy Spirit we grow in the realities of this great and wonderful salvation in Christ.

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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Leaders in the New Covenant, lead others to embrace the administration of the New Covenant. That administration is not one of information; it is an administration that transforms our hearts and minds from within. This is the testimony of New Covenant. The New Covenant is a NOW relationship with God each day. It is a testimony of divine empowerment in our lives through a personal relationship with God in Christ.

We live in a world bound to Old Covenant realities, but we must live as New Covenant sons and daughters of God in Christ. The Old Covenant was an administration of the knowledge of good and evil. This is an independent administration of human strength. Whether it be by human conscience or some form of law, this administration is one of information. It creates a world where one strives for what they believe to be good and they judge others as being evil. That administration is the way of the world, and it is the means of living for those who live for themselves. It is way of the flesh.

The fall of Adam left the world in a condition of futility whereby man was left striving in their human pride to overcome the difficulties in the world. Only sons of God can find victory over this futility in the earth. Sons of God find an administration of life in Christ. That life is eternal life, and it is a testimony of being loved and it empowers us to love others.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

In the world there are many lords. Wherever there is a dry place there is a devil bound to the dust of that dry place. Where there is unforgiveness there is a spirit of unforgiveness. Where there is fear, there is a spirit of fear. Where there is a form of dysfunction there is spirit that inspires that dysfunction. That spirit is the desire of that dysfunction. That desire is a lord of one’s heart and mind. The antidote is to turn the dry places to a watered garden of God’s presence. The desires of the flesh must be transformed by a desire of God’s Spirit. The lords of this earth are only conquered by the testimony of Jesus as Lord in our hearts.

In the natural world there are many lords, many temptations to fear death, and many false identities through submersions in created things rather than their heavenly Father. People in the world see authority as a matter of power and they govern others through control or manipulation to get what they believe should be theirs. People in the world are distracted by worldly things, influenced by too much natural knowledge, and bound to dysfunction and death in the circumstance of their lives. How are we to live in a futile world?

To live in a futile world and to bring life to it, we must be connected to God and dependent upon Him. We must receive our life from Him, and we must experience Him in our lives each day. We are in the world, but we are not people of the world. We are children of God. We live by an administration of grace and God’s grace empowers us to be different than we were in the world.

Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

The days before us are not days of despair. They are days of increasing glory. In the world there is darkness and the people of the world are in deep darkness, but we are not the people of the world. We are sons and daughters of God, and we are to arise and shine in the darkness. Leaders lead others in being the light of Christ to the world around them. When we are the light of Christ, those in the world will be drawn to our light. We are not to worry; we are to shine! Christ’s administration of grace in our hearts transforms us from glory to glory for the sake of the world in which we live.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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www.ted4you.com or

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Checks can be made payable to House of Bread Ministry and sent to:

House of Bread Ministry, 3210 Meridian St., Bellingham, WA 98225

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Our Ministry Information Is:
House of Bread Ministry
3210 Meridian St.
Bellingham, WA 98225-1728

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Greetings,

As leaders we lead others into the growing testimony of being New Creations in Christ. We don’t lead people to merely discipline their flesh through the Old Covenant standards of the Law. We lead people to know the saving grace of Christ working in them. This is how the knowledge of the glory of God is seen in the earth.

Isaiah 11:1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. 3 His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears…

Jesus is our salvation. He is the eternal Adam by whom we are born again. The old tree has been cut down, and the eternal tree of life has sprung up where our self-seeking nature once ruled. We are new creations in Christ, and the sevenfold Holy Spirit transforms our lives by God’s work of grace within our hearts. He gives us new desires, as He works as the Lord in our hearts. We are empowered by faith as Holy Spirit is the source of God’s wisdom from within. Holy Spirit gives us understanding through heavenly transformations seen as the mystery of God’s word working in our hearts and personal experiences with His presence that changes the testimony of our lives. Holy Spirit is the counsel who anoints us to be givers of life to others in our world. We are clothed in the resurrection life of Christ by the supernatural might of Christ to walk in the works of Christ as members of His body. We have become members of the family of God with the intimate knowledge of God’s love. We are growing in the zeal of His house as Holy Spirit gifts us with the fear of the Lord in our lives.  

Jesus made a way for us to be delivered from the old Adam of flesh and to know the life-giving testimony of sons and daughters in Christ. Jesus is the head and we are His body. Jesus is the tree and we are His branches. The Branch from the Rod of Jesse is both Christ the head and Christ the body. Jesus was manifested as both the head and the body of Christ that made a way for us all to become part of His body through the blood of His mercy and the Spirit of His grace. The sevenfold Spirit upon our lives anoints us to live by a different justice system than that of the knowledge of good and evil and mere judgments of right and wrong. Holy Spirit empowers us to delight in the awe of God and to judge things by a different standard than what can be seen or heard naturally.

Isaiah 11:3 His delight is in the fear of the LORD, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears…

Holy Spirit empowers us to make judgments for the poor by a righteousness of life. With the equity of who we are we can make decisions for those who do not qualify according to the standards of right and wrong. They simply qualify through a judgment of love. As people of God, we must set the example of destroying evil through the power of love. When the devil strikes the earth, it is with a blow of hate and death, but the breath of God is a wind of love, and the measure of His mouth is a life-giving expression that destroys the power of evil.

Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. 5 Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist.

The substance of who we are in Christ is enough to give life to those who lack it. We are the substance of good news to the destitute, healing to the broken hearted, liberty to the captives, an open door to freedom for the bound, restored heritage and inheritance to the enslaved, deliverance to the controlled, comfort to the mourning, clarity to the confused, beauty to the destroyed, joy to the sorrowful, and praise to the oppressed. Who we are is a testimony to who all can become! We are the people of God and our love for another is not dependent upon them loving us – it is an anointing upon our lives given to us by our Father in heaven! We are trees of righteousness; the planting of the Lord that God might be glorified! This is the growing testimony of leaders in the body of Christ, and this is the testimony that leaders lead others to know.

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