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Greetings,
God’s grace enables and empowers us to be transformed in our hearts and minds to be seen in this world as sons and daughters of God. I have been addressing seven things for leaders to lead and for believers to live. Those seven things are testimonies of God’s grace working in our lives. God’s grace is the manifest presence of Holy Spirit working in and through us.
Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Lord that gives us God’s desires in our hearts. Those desires are the fruit of being loved by God. We have been granted repentance unto life and we are not bound to dead works because every dead area of our hearts is being made living by the desire of heaven. That desire is a gift of the Spirit of the Lord working in us.
Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Wisdom that grants us an empowerment of God’s love to demonstrate our love for God by works that speak of our faith towards Him. Our faith is not merely towards what God can do; our faith is towards who God is. He is love and life and no manner of death can prevail in our lives. Together we are members of His body of life with works that testify that we are the body of Christ.
Holy Spirit is increasingly giving us a testimony of heaven by the Spirit of Understanding working in and through our lives. We have God’s daily words in our hearts and minds. It is the hidden manna (an internal mystery of ‘what is it?’), giving us an internal transformation that spills over in a supernatural testimony of change in our lives. We live each day with an increasing identity of our peace with God in Christ. We are one with Him and our connection to Him is revealing His testimony of heaven in our lives in supernatural ways.
Today I present that another foundation of our lives in Christ is the Spirit of Counsel and our ability to bring God’s influence of light to our world. We have a ministry of laying on of hands. Our authority is a power to give life to our world. We bring healing to sickness, hope to hopelessness, fullness to emptiness, light to darkness, and life to death in every place we walk in life. We are light to our world because our Father is Light. We are not merely reflections of His light; we are the substance of His light. Every good and perfect gift comes from Him and as His sons and daughters we are sent in His authority to bring the influence of His good and prefect gifts to our world.
Mark 16:17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Our Heavenly Father delights in us as His children. We have been given the ministry of being His life-giving hands to our world. It is not merely knowing some teaching concerning the laying on of hands, it is the laying of our hands upon our world and seeing the fruit of God’s Spirit of Counsel at work. The counsel of the world is a counsel of instruction and information, but the Counsel of God is the substance of true authority that brings life to the world. It doesn’t merely instruct us in what to do, it empowers us in who to be. We become expressions of life as our Father is Life. We become expressions of light as our Father is Light.
The world often defines authority by what they can get from someone else. They measure it by a power that defines the importance of who they are. The kingdom of heaven defines authority by what we can give to someone else. We have already found our importance in Christ as sons and daughters of our Father in heaven and we are anointed to give the substance of the life of heaven to our world. Our hands, the external extension of our lives, are instruments to give life to our world. It is not about what we can get but what we have been given to give to our world. This is not a truth just for those who have physical hands, but for everyone in Christ to be givers of life to their world. A leader must lead in the laying on of hands and all believes must live to lay hands upon their world to bring life to all that is within their God-given sphere of influence in life.
The way of life of the apostles of the first-fruit church of the first century was that of bringing life to the world in life-giving ways. The foundation of the church had a ‘sent authority’ within it that was the way of the apostles. I believe that keeping in the apostle’s doctrine was fulfilled by embracing the lifestyle of being sent ones to the world with the life-giving authority of Christ. The word apostle means, sent one. All believers in Christ are to be ‘sent ones’ to their world with the authority of the Spirit of Counsel in Christ. We can expect to lay hands upon our world and see the fruit of life in supernatural ways.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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