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No doubt there is a cry in the heart of humanity for revolution and true freedom. This was the case in the day that Jesus opened the door to the tree of life for all men. This was the time when Jesus justified all to live by giving His life as the tree of life for all mankind upon the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil tree was summed up in the cross, the wood of scourging for all of humanity. Love proved to be more powerful than all the scourging of mankind and Love destroyed the power of disconnection and shame that bound mankind from seeing God for who He truly is. The sacrifice of Jesus offered a different family tree for all of mankind. It is not a family tree of personal opinions, personal objectives, personal identities, or personal prejudices. It is a family tree of the calling of Christ, the testimony of Christ, and the purpose of Christ for all of mankind. It is a tree of unity where many grafted branches reveal a diversity of the goodness of the life of God within the hearts and minds of all men. The life-sap of this tree is the blood of grace and it is found in the throne room of God’s grace.

Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Jesus made a way for all to come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace. The mercy is the justification for all to live because the life of the flesh has been given once for all in the body of Jesus Christ the man full of grace and truth. Jesus died once for all so that no one is bound to seek their life in the power of the flesh. God has a better plan for a better revolution in the hearts and minds of men. The grace of God is the power of the manifest presence of God’s Spirit working a power of life transformation in the hearts and minds of all who believe. This is the blood of grace, the blood of the Spirit of God in the people of God as the body of Christ. The revolution that Jesus offered then, and eternally offers to us all, is a revolution of the human heart. It is more powerful than external actions but seems less promising to those who look to weapons of the flesh to obtain their freedom.

When Jesus stood as the door to a personal relationship with God as our Father, the crowds shouted for a deliverer who promised weapons of the flesh. They shouted for the release of Barabbas. Barabbas was a murder and thief in his day, but he was also a zealot. He was a man who challenged the oppressive government of Rome and the crowd saw him as a more promising hope than Jesus. A week earlier they payed homage and honor to Jesus as the king of revolution in their shouts of praise as He rode into Jerusalem upon the back of a donkey. The crowds saw Him as the hope and the promise of freedom, but upon His arrest a week later He stood as a Lamb to the slaughter and the crowd could no longer see how He could possibly free them from their oppression. Although Barabbas was a criminal and a man of carnal character, they considered him a better option than the silent man of peace. The name Barabbas has its roots in the Aramaic and Hebrew. His name means “son of a father or master”, perhaps an indication that most often men see freedom can only come from power. A father who seeks to be a master can seem more promising that a Father who calls for sons to manifest as overcomers by an internal power of grace that brings about true change. The name Barabbas finds it roots in the Hebrew word which means arrogancy, excellency (-lent), majesty, pomp, pride, proud and swelling. It implies a rising up in pride and arrogance. It invokes a power to rise up in triumph over another. It inspires one to be exalted with an implication of haughtiness, highness, and pride. The shout for Barabbas is the shout for a thief and not a shout for the true gift of life and life-giving.

In this present time there is a grassroots revolution in the earth for the Spirit of Knowing to empower us to become the people of God. The headship of legalism and the headship of lawlessness are being removed by a greater power, the power of a life-giving Father and a life-sacrificing Son. We must consider the cry of our own hearts. Legalism will be willing to shout for a deliverer that rises up to oppress all that cry for freedom. Lawlessness will also be willing to shout for a deliver that rises up to oppress all that oppose  what their heart cries out to see. Oppression cannot be destroyed by oppression. Oppression is a spirit and only God’s Spirit breaks the chains by the power of life within. Understand that I am writing to you as the people of God, I am not writing to the peoples still embracing the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

I am not presenting a word for the governmental change of the nations; I am calling out to us as the people of God. I am challenging us all to see the internal change of our own hearts as the only revolution that can lead to true life. We must be the light in the midst of darkness. Law and conscience are only teachers that can inform men of their need for true life. That true life can only come through a personal relationship with God as our Father and Jesus Christ the Son by the fellowship of Holy Spirit in our hearts. We need the teachers of law and conscience in the world of sin, but we can only bring about a true revolution of life by being a testimony of the people of God. Our teacher is the One who submerges us from the inside out to overflowing, like the pickle brine of true transformation. The people of God are the people whose hearts and minds are transformed by the Spirit of Life within. The fruit will be seen in being givers of life in all things.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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     Greetings,

I believe we are in the midst of a grassroots revolution where God is empowering us to become His people free from the headships of legalism and lawlessness. As I have previously written, Grace is the manifest presence of God in our lives that transforms our hearts and minds to become what we could not be before. God’s manifest presence, God’s transforming grace, must be what captures our attention in the midst of this present move of God’s grace in the earth. When things shake it is only because something of the unshakeable God is manifesting in the earth. When heaven touches the earth, the earth shakes. Love has come to heal the wounds of our hearts and when the wounds of our hearts are exposed we can either choose God’s healing grace or we can choose a path of disconnection from the life that God desires to give us in all things. This is not a time to be distracted because of bitter roots that are being exposed in our hearts. Bitter roots only produce the briers and thorns of law or lawlessness. They cannot produce the fruit of life but can only defile many. They will disqualify us from being participants in bringing the inheritance of heaven into the earth for such a time as this.

Law can only control us, constrain us, or restrain us in some way; grace liberates us, transforms us, and frees us into truth. Lawlessness merely authorizes promiscuity which is the power of being a law unto oneself. Law without an understanding of love is merely embracing a shadow of darkness and demanding that others accept it as light. Law by itself without an understanding of love leaves us vulnerable to interpreting the law though our own judgments of justice that can only demand something from others but can never reach the heart where love can live. Law alone and lawlessness alone can only produce death and dysfunction in the lives of humanity. Only love can transform us. It is miraculous! No one can pay the debts that they owe and proper stewardship of all that we are or have is to be a friend of God and friend to one another. This means that all we are and have must be dedicated to the wellbeing of others. The life that has been given to each of us is a measure of space to bring life to the space of our world.

Neither legalism nor promiscuity are administrations of life. The headships of these two administrations are the fruit of bitter roots and they bind us to the realm of time. They bind us to the testimonies of the pain of our past and prevent us from experiencing the yet to be seen fruit of God’s life. God wants the fruit of the tree of life to be the testimony among men, but bitter roots in our hearts will thwart that destiny. It is time to be healed of our bitter roots, but even more – it is time to bear the fruit of the tree of life among men in a broader way than ever before.

I have an apple tree in my yard that is a prophetic sign of the church and this year it has decided to grow sideways, rather than up. It is a short tree, but it is filled with countless apples. God has made it clear to me that this tree is short because He wants His church to be the kind of tree that even little children can reach the fruit. Perhaps it is only the childlike of heart that have an expectancy of good things in times of restraint. It is also clear to me that this tree is proclaiming that God wants to expand the fruit of life in a broader way.

I planted this tree in the year 2000 at the direction of the Holy Spirit and it has six grafted branches. God told me to plant the tree with six grafts and it would represent the kind of church that He wants. It is the family that He desires in the earth. Six is the number of man and God’s church is both Spirit and human. It is a place of connection of God with man where God reveals who He is through diverse expressions of humanity. It is also the source of connection for all of the branches of the tree. The common connection is the branching out connections with the trunk of the tree. Each branch on my tree is grafted into natural branching out expressions of the trunk of the tree, but each branch produces a different kind of fruit. There are red apples, green apples, yellow apples, and many combinations of diversity in the fruit of apples. There is no competition between the branches of my tree, only a greater expression of fruit and its diverse flavors of life in the full expression of the tree. There is one tree, one root, and one life-flowing sap in the tree, but there are six branches with unique fruit on each branch.

I believe that this is truly the kind of church that God is revealing in the earth at this time. God does not want unity through conformity, He wants unity through diversity. The diversity that God desires is not merely the creativity of human will. It is diverse in its fruit, but each branch is fully dependent upon its connection to the tree. God wants us to be a tree of life that produces life in many wonderful and diverse ways. That tree is a generational tree and not merely a testimony of the strength of branches. It is tree of roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and fruit. The life-giving expressions of the tree are new today, but they find their life source in the roots and body of the past. Things look different, but they are true to the destiny of the ages past.

I am aware that I must pay attention to the fruit of my tree this year. I am going to have to be creative in supporting the branches of my tree in order for the branches to be able to carry the weight of the fruit that is destined to come to maturity on each branch. Something really good is happening on my tree that is growing sideways and not up. I could say that everything is going sideways, but I choose to see that the fruit of my tree can go out to reach all those who would reach up and partake of its fruit. I believe that God desires to move the church in a sideways momentum that causes the fruit of life to be accessible by those who are looking for life in such a day as this. Perhaps this is a time for the church to grow broader rather than bigger, but broader in its ability to bring the fruit of the tree of life to the nations.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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   Greetings,

I believe we are in the midst of a grassroots revolution where God is empowering us to become His people free from the headships of legalism and lawlessness. Grace is the manifest presence of God in our lives that transforms our hearts and minds to become what we could not be before. Whereas, law controls us, constrains us, or restrains us in some way; grace liberates us, transforms us, and frees us into truth. Lawlessness merely authorizes promiscuity which is the power of being a law unto oneself. Neither legalism nor promiscuity are administrations of life. I believe that these two headships are the fruit of bitter roots and they bind us to the realm of time. They bind us to things that I presented to be seen in the story of Joshua in the battle against the kings of the Amorites as found in Joshua chapter 10. I presented last week that those five kings represent forces of bitterness in our own hearts that resist the grace of God working in our lives. They represent:

• A justice and righteousness that sees a peace empowered by a bitter root, such as a personal vindication of some kind.
• A motivation in our lives impelled by alliances with bitterness, because of judgments and vows that become a strong force that resists our path forward in life.
• An anointing for independence and personal opinions based upon some bitter root.
• An overt expression of invincibility based upon a bitter root. This is a demanding force that insists that one’s own light is the light to measure everyone else by.
• A sanctuary of personal liberty based upon a bitter root. This is an independent freedom that sees one’s own way as the true way to liberty.

God wants to free us from the strongholds of bitterness in our lives. The Spirit of Knowing is not a knowledge of information, but a transformation of intimacy. This is the grace for becoming the people of God in the earth. Information heaps up in the halls of time, but eternal life is a matter of relationship with God as our Father and a knowing of Jesus as the Son that empowers us to manifest as sons and daughters of God empowered by grace. When I gave the prophecy in 2004 in regard to this present grassroots revolution, four time pieces stopped at the same moment on two separate occasions. I believe this to be a witness as to God’s covenant of grace being released in the earth as the power to free us from the bitterroots created in the realm of the generations and times of our lives.

When Joshua was in the battle, God turned the sun back and gave him another day to win the victory (Josh. 10:12-14). Imagine; Joshua is fighting in a battle with the enemy. He is running out of time to defeat the enemy, so he asks God for more time. He may have had a finger missing. He may have had a few gashes in his flesh and wounds in his body from the combat of battle. He had been in the battle with a sword. A heavy sword! He had been likely fighting for 12 to 16 hours and he cried out to God for more time! We can do this! We can overcome! Give me another day to risk my life. Give me another opportunity to lose another finger. Give me the opportunity to suffer longer. We can do this! Give me another day. That day God heeded the voice of a man. He turned the sun back and gave Joshua another day.

This present grace is not just about what God will do for us, but what we are willing to ask God to do. Joshua did not fight the battle for the fulfillment of his own desires. He fought for the sake of his people. He fought for the namesake of God. He fought for the wellbeing of others. While the battle was going on Joshua captured five Amorite kings. The name Amorite means, bitterness. These were kings of bitterness. He locked them in a cave and when the battle was done, he called the next generation to reap the reward of his victory. He told those men to put their foot on the necks of those kings. Joshua defeated a bitterness of the past and made it so the next generation had the victory over that bitterness. I believe this is God’s intention for us all. God’s grace doesn’t just empower us to overcome, it empowers us to overcome all things for the sake of others.

God is removing the headship of promiscuity and legalism. They are rooted in the realm of time. Even as God stopped the sun in the day of Joshua, God wants to free us from things that are bound to the realm of time. Religious legalism is a result of a bitter root. It is mean and angry and it trying to control those who embrace it as truth and inspire them to control the lives of others. It attempts to assure those that embrace this stronghold of thinking that what caused the wound of bitterness will never happen again and it is more bitter than anything that happened. Promiscuity is the same. I can do anything. All things are lawful for me. I can do anything I desire! These are the songs of a bitter wound seeking freedom from its root of pain. God’s grace can give us the victory of the bitter roots bound to time. Grace can turn back the sun and stop the moon for the sake of life for the future generations of our lives.

2 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.

The statement that all things are lawful requires the added testimony of grace. God doesn’t want us to measure things by what is lawful or what is not lawful. He wants us to come to another level of understanding as the children of God. He wants us not to be that ignorant. We should not have to be told what to do. He doesn’t want to tell us how to act. He wants us to know what to do and how to act. He wants a revolution A revolution of grace, a human race that is empowered by grace. People of God do not only know who God is, but they live with a revelation of who they are and they seek to know Him in every way that He is.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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   Greetings,

I believe we are in the midst of a grassroots revolution in the nations of the world. God is up to something big! God is inviting all to find a fresh dependency upon Him and a fresh empowerment from within to stand up and be who we are meant to be in Christ. Last week I addressed a prophetic word that I released in 2004 in regard to this grassroots revolution that is removing the headship of legalism and lawlessness. Legalism is a dependency upon being right according to the law or even one’s perception of law and lawlessness is an embracing of promiscuity that defines right and wrong according one’s own desires. Both legalism and promiscuity are the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They are both the bitter fruits of a tree of information that is empowered by external influences in the world around us. God wants to empower our hearts with life from within. He wants to transform our lives to be givers of life to the world around us.

At the releasing of my prophetic word in 2004, the clock on the wall stopped at 7:45p.m. as well as my watch and two other watches in the congregation. The clock battery was replaced and the following morning the anointing came during the morning worship session that was the same presence of God’s Spirit as the night before and the clock stopped again at 9:45a.m. as well as my watch and the same two watches in the congregation that stopped the night before. I believe the stopping of the time was an act of God and very significant to this word. I asked God as to the significance of the stopped time pieces and He directed me to the story of Joshua in Joshua chapter 10, when he asked God for another day to defeat God’s enemies in the battle and God turned the time back to give Joshua another day to attain the victory.

In the battle, Joshua and the armies of Israel faced five Amorite kings. The name Amorite means, bitter; a rebel; a babbler and it implies an obvious external testimony of bitterness – a testimony of bitterness that affects the world around you. I believe that the battle of Joshua represents our own deliverance from the strongholds of bitterness in our lives that affect the world around us. God wants to roll away the reproach of the bitter wounds in our lives. Those bitter wounds have left us bound to limitations in becoming who God intends for us to be. If we are honest, many of our desires and many of the attributes in our lives have been shaped and bound by bitter experiences in our past or inheritances rooted in some bitter curse of despair. We must not be afraid of the bitter strongholds of our hearts and minds, but we must face them and know that God’s grace is sufficient to empower us to overcome in all things.

Joshua 10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor. 8 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you.”

When Joshua pursued his enemy, the Lord fought with him in a supernatural way. When we stand to overcome the things of bitterness that resist us from being who we are meant to be in Christ, we can expect that God will fight with us in a supernatural way. This is the testimony of grace!

Joshua 10:9 Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal. 10 So the Lord routed them before Israel, killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah. 11 And it happened, as they fled before Israel and were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.

Who were these 5 kings of bitterness? Prophetically, the number 5 is a testimony of grace and grace works in authenticity but is bound by the bitter testimony of legalism and/or lawlessness in our lives. One  Amorite king was Anoni-Zedek the king of Jerusalem. His name and location imply a life that exemplifies a justice and righteousness that sees a peace empowered by a bitter root – perhaps a personal vindication of some kind. This is not a justice and righteousness of the Father’s love, but one of personal opinions and beliefs. The second king was Hoham king of Hebron. His name and location imply a life that is impelled by alliances with bitterness. I believe that judgments and vows can become a strong force that resists our path forward in life. They hinder us from being led by the voice of God and bind our hearts from the life-giving motivations of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The third king was Piram the king of Jarmuth. His name and location imply an anointing for independence and personal opinions based upon some bitter root. The fourth king was Japhia the king of Lachish. His name and location imply a shining of invincibility based upon a bitter root. This is a demanding force that insists that one’s own light is the light to measure everyone else by. The fifth king was Debir the king of Eglon. His name and location imply being a sanctuary of personal liberty based upon a bitter root. This is an independent freedom that sees their way as the true way to liberty.

Bitter roots are connected to experiences in the realm of time. Grace is the healer of bitter roots and grace abides in the realm of eternity. I will continue with this next week but consider these forces in your life and in the lives of humanity. In the battle, Joshua put these kings in a cave and when the battle was complete, he called the next generation to put their feet on the necks of these kings. God wants to empower an emerging generation to stand in the victory over the bitter roots of the past. This is essential to becoming the body of Christ that stands to bring life to the world.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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     Greetings,

In September of 2004 I released a prophecy of a grassroots revolution that would come to the nations. It would be a revolution of the body of Christ rising up and being freed from the headships of legalism and lawlessness to become the people of God. I believe we are in the time of this revolution coming to pass. It is a revolution that restores the speech of God’s passion and compassion to the body of Christ for the sake of the nations. It is not merely a priestly anointing but an anointing of kings. It is an anointing to influence the world by heaven’s gate. The church is a body, not an organization. The church is a living being and God is mobilizing her to be the church in every neighborhood. The church is a corporate being made of individual members that are life-giving stones with heavenly identities, testimonies, and unique roles in the purpose of Christ in the earth. The church has been influenced by the world, but God is bringing about a revolution whereby the church will be a rising light unto men. I believe this is a grassroots revolution that will even cause the world to speak what God is saying without them even knowing they are saying it. It is a revolution that is going to cause the body of Christ to become the authentic body of Christ.

This is not a time for merely plans of a church community. It is time for the plans of Christ’s kingdom to be revealed. It is not merely a change of plans, strategies, or methods. It is a revolution empowered by a partnership of men, women, and the Spirit of God their Father. This present move of God’s Spirit involves a personal ownership and a personal arising in being the life of God in the earth. Things are shifting in the nations because things are shifting in the hearts of God’s people. At hand is a grassroots revival that is meant to consume things that are dead. It is a power of a rising grace that will eradicate things that have created human trouble. These things are things spawned by bitter roots that have promoted a headship of legalism or lawlessness. It is a revealing of what is true that will crumble everything that is a lie. It is not about exposing the false, but a matter of the true body of Christ arising as a force of life in the nations. She will be given the keys of authority, an ability to bring life into the neighborhoods of humanity. She will take responsibility for being the rising light of Christ. God’s people will rise up with a shout. They will rise up with the confidence of each member being who they are for the sake of being who we are together as the salt and light of Christ in the neighborhoods of men. God wants to open the hearts of the nations and the hearts of their peoples to come before Him in a personal way. This is not a move of human task, but a force of desire rising in the hearts of God’s people. The speech of the Lord will be proclaimed in passion for God and compassion towards men. What could not be unlocked in the nations before will be unlocked by the power of a grassroots revival in the people of God.

Part of the word given in 2004 was:

And the Lord says, I’m exercising My righteous decree to declare to you the opposition of bondage and promiscuity. I am bringing forth My true Spirit of Liberty. My true Spirit of Liberty will be a spirit of passion, it will be a spirit of compassion, it will be a spirit without compromise. It will be a releasing of those who have been held captive to the bondage of legalism, and a releasing of those who have been held to the bondage of liberality that goes beyond the boundaries of life.

The Lord says, I’m exercising My righteous decree even now to declare, “Will you be My people? For My anointing oil is here for you. Will you be My people? Will My anointing oil flood your soul? Will you rise up and touch the nations and make them whole? For I am God and I decree My righteous decree in the land this day.”

In the full delivery of the prophetic word, God declared that He was moving into the earth in a spirit of adoption to declare the treasures of great worth. At the giving of this word I heard millions of voices in the spirit being called into their destiny. One of my lead intercessors in the church saw me in a vision as a father’s womb. God showed me people as gems and jewels coming from the core of the earth to be found in the common realities of mankind. I saw the core of the earth as a means of heaven entering the earth for the glory of God’s name. As the Spirit moved me to prophesy, I declared a release of gems, a releasing all the jewels, and a breaking all the boundaries and all the human rules. Bringing forth the glory of His destiny. Causing all the hearts to be opened to see. He’s forming with the dust a people who can trust. He’s blowing by His Spirit into their very souls. Raising up a people that are strong and whole. The Father sent His love (x 8). End the debates. It’s not time to be late. End the discussion, the time is now.

Don’t ask questions. Don’t ask reasonings. Don’t ask for wonderings of how. Just receive the glory that He sent unto you. Rise to a higher ground – release condemnation. Let go of the fear. Come to the throne of grace. Come stand here. Release the glory that is due unto My name because you’re the reason that My Son came.

It’s the day of inheritance, of distribution. It’s the day of handing out the treasures of My heart. It’s the day of new beginnings. It’s time to start. I send My love to you.

I didn’t just come to break off the shackles. I didn’t just come to rebuke the enemy’s tackles. I came to endorse you. To seal you with My name. I came that I might send you, that is why I came. I send My love to you (x 8).

You’re not the earth’s refuse. You’re not the earth’s outcast. You are the eternal. The everlasting grace. Because you are a people that I have called My own. You are the house. You are My home. I send My love to you (x 8).  

I believe that we are in the midst of something that is small and big, yet big and small. We are to each take on the character, nature, way, power and authority of who we are meant to be for such a day as this. Though things look like we are being separated, there is going to be a great uniting for the great cause and purpose of Jesus name! It is out of pressure that the gems and jewels are formed. It is by faith, hope, and love that we will see the grassroots revolution of a Father’s womb that empowers the church to arise and shine like never before.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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       Greetings;

I believe that we are in a time of defining and refining the purposes of God in our lives. His purposes don’t change, but our means of walking in them and fulfilling them depend upon our willingness to embrace ways and means that involves things we have not seen, heard, or thought before. Things are not as they have been, and it is a great opportunity to discover God’s presence, plan, and purpose for the unfolding future of our lives and that which has been entrusted to us. We are having to refocus in the midst of the present world challenges. In light of this, I want to address our roles as leaders. We must trade our expectations for expectancy. We are all discovering things that we expected to be a certain way have been ambushed by the surprise of unknown elements. We can be moved to fear for lack of seeing God’s love as we have known it to be expressed in our everyday world. God’s love for us never changes, even when the circumstances of our lives change. Sometimes we get comfortable and we confuse the familiar circumstances of our world as the evidence of God’s love. The power of God’s love is the testimony of life in all things! It is in times like these that faith works best. Faith is the supernatural experience that comes from within. It is the result of hearing God’s voice in our hearts. It feels as life in the moment we hear, but then we have to embrace that moment to become the power of God’s grace working faith that inspires our souls.

1 Corinthians 2: 1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 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. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

God is revealing things by His Spirit to our lives if we are willing to listen. His wisdom will give us His testimony, while our own wisdom can only bind us to what we already know, or think we know. Our reality for today and our path forward to tomorrow are dependent upon a demonstration of God’s Spirit and power. Our faith is in the power of God. Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom enables us to see what we have not seen, hear what we have not heard, and to think what we have not thought before. We can trust that Holy Spirit is already working in us in heavenly expressions for the heavenly will of God in our time. We must stir up our spirits to embrace the wisdom of the Holy Spirit from within. It will appear to be foolish to our natural man, but if we willingly embrace what we have not known, we will become what we have not been able to become before. We will do what we have not been able to do before.

Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

The word for worlds in this Scripture is aions or ages. These are not the worlds that God has made, but the ages of men that were transformed by God’s word to men. I believe the worlds spoken of here are the worlds of Abel, Noah, Abraham, and all the men and women who saw their worlds (ages) changed by hearing God, the One who loved them. God’s word to them was His rhema or personally spoken word to them. Their ages, their worlds, were framed by what God spoke to their hearts. What could have been a pile of rubble became the very building material set before them to see God’s love work in their lives. In order to frame our world, we must put our hope in God not in a changed world. We must trade our expectations for a spirit of expectancy in our hearts and respond to the voice of God from within.

Let’s not be hindered by our expectations, but let’s embrace an expectancy for what God is going to do and empower us to see and become is such a day as this. Leaders, stir up your spirit to activate the mind of Christ from within you. It is time for the testimony of God with a demonstration of His power to be revealed in this day. It is time for light, not darkness. Arise, and shine!

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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    Greetings,

In the beginning of the year of 2009 the Lord spoke to me in a vision I had while worshipping in a church service in England. The presence of God was in the room and I saw a vision of a woman on a horse. The focus of the vision was at first on the horse’s neck and head. The woman was riding this horse, but the wind was blowing strong into the face of the horse and the woman. The wind seemed to be demanding change that was contrary to the known desires of the woman and seemed to inspire emotions, feelings, opinions, and personal judgments. I could see the neck of the horse was tight with strong muscles. The sinuous muscles of the horse were very noticeable. It gave me the impression of the strength of flesh, the strength of emotions, and the strength of human feelings. I could see the face of the horse and the appearance was of much emotion and strength of feelings. As the wind blew, the horse violently turned its head to the side, and when the horse turned, the head and upper body of the woman turned in the same direction. The movement was full of emotion and passion. As I recall, this happened about four times. I believe it was four times, significant of the four directions of the earth as being something that was affecting the whole world. At the last turn of the horse, the woman stood up on the horse and became brilliant with light. As she stood the horse dissipated and was no longer a point in the vision. She now stood upright with clear focus and determination in a straight forward direction. She was no longer distracted by the wind, but appeared to be determined and full of life. The whole vision at first was on the upper part of the woman and the neck and head of the horse. I was straining to get a grasp as to what color the horse was, thinking it must be significant, but I was not allowed to see the color of the horse. My main focus was drawn to the emotion and strength of the horse’s flesh. As I have stated, when the woman stood up the horse dissolved in the vision. She and the field she was standing in became the focus of the vision. The woman had long golden hair and she was now standing upright in a field of wheat. The wind was blowing, and the woman’s hair became like long golden waves of the sea behind her head. I could see that the wheat field was also waving in the same pattern as the woman’s hair. I now believe the woman’s hair represented an authority of life. An authority to bring life to the world. The feeling was glory and life! Then I heard God say, if the Bride would call the winds of change winds of increase, she would rise up in her brightest hour and she would become the life-giving womb of God in the earth. I was reminded of this vision this morning.

At the close of 2009 I released the following prophecy:

I keep hearing ‘God’s purposes’ – the hatching of this egg is not a revealing of who you are or who we are corporately. It is the revealing of the bigger plan of God. It’s going to bring great excitement. I’m reminded of the vision I had at the beginning of the year – if the Bride would call the winds of change winds of increase, she would rise up in her brightest hour and she would become the life-giving womb of God in the earth. Another name for an egg that is hatching is ‘womb’. “There is a womb that is an ancient womb – it’s a womb that at times has seemed almost barren, at times it has seemed abandoned, not connected to the will or intent of My people. But,” God says, “it’s right on time and this is the season where My life-giving place is going to be revealed. But it’s not going to be life-giving to you, it’s going to be life-giving because of you. It’s not going to be something that comes merely to do something that meets your needs – it will go way beyond that. It’s going to come forth and be an influence that is world changing – not just world shaking, world-changing. There are many world-shaking things that are going on, but God says He’s bringing forth world-changing things.

I believe we are in the midst of a move of God’s Spirit that is going to enable the church to be small, but big and big, yet small. I have an apple tree in my yard with six grafts, a diversity of fruit yet one root. It is not tall, but it is reaching out. It is filled with blossoms this year. I am expecting to have to put supports under what is destined to bear great fruit in this season. I think we need to take a posture as leaders to support what is both small and big. We need to support a grassroots revolution that is putting the identity, testimony, and purpose of God in every block of every city. We need to be a standing church, not merely sitting on the strength of the flesh. Our focus needs to be on the lower portion of the Body of Christ. This is the place of her standing up and becoming the womb of God in the earth. This is not a time to be strong in opinions, personal passions, or personal visions. This is a time to empower a church to stand up and be the light of Christ in the midst of change.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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      Greetings,

God is resting in our lives. It is from the place of His presence in our lives that we find our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life. So, here we are in the midst of shaking times in the world. I believe that things can only shake when something or someone more stable than the things that can shake is manifesting. God is doing something in this season and the outcome is going to be a testimony of the glory of His name. Something of grace and life is shaking the doorposts to our tomorrow.

Leaders, be confident in the One who is resting in your lives! God is not in all the things that we do, but God is in our lives. We have welcomed Him and He is making a way to be welcomed even more! He is making a way for His presence to be welcomed in the nations. We must take responsible actions to live for the wellbeing of others and the wellbeing of our world, but in all things our actions alone are not enough. Only God’s manifest presence in, through, and with us in life can change our world to become a testimony of His life. The outcome of this present time is going to be a testimony of the wisdom of God.

To embrace the wisdom of God we must be willing to let go of the wisdom of self. The experiences of our present and our past can influence our steps to the future, but only God’s manifest presence in our present can empower us to walk in a direction we have never seen before. God wants to give us a future that is based upon all that God decrees in and from heaven. We must be willing to embrace things that come from heaven to receive a heavenly reality upon the earth. Perhaps earthly things are shaking that we might receive heavenly things in our earthly world beyond anything we have seen, heard, or known before. As the body of Christ, we are the gate of heaven in the earth. We are the gate of life! We are the gate of grace to a world in need of life! If we do what we have done before, we will receive what we have done before, but the path to the future is also connected to what God has been doing in the street of our journey to today. The future is not disconnected from the foundations of the past, but it is not bound to the past either. It is a furtherance of God’s river of life that leads to a deeper measure of His presence and purpose in our world. The past time is not about the last days of men, but the increasing Day of the Lord. It is about the increasing measure of God’s life. It is about an increasing measure of God’s grace.

In this time of separation, will we receive thoughts and strategies that empower of future? Or will we be bound to the things of the past and fail to see or receive what God is giving and doing in our present day? Will we simply live another measure in the history of men, or will we embrace God grace for another measure of His-story among the nations of men? The path to the future is not a path of fear, but a path that is empowered by God’s love. It is a path of faith! The evidence of our faith will be demonstrated in works that speak of our faith. Those works are the testimonies of actions taken because of beliefs of life and not death, a future and a hope, and not despair. What things are being created now, for the testimony of tomorrow?

God is resting in our lives and He is empowering our expectation, creativity, and purpose. The world is changing, not for the purpose of despair, but for the glory of God’s name. Don’t be distracted by weeds, when the real plants of destiny are about to sprout in the garden. Don’t be distracted by the counterfeits to life, when true life is already sprouting and is destined to grow to maturity for the harvest of tomorrow.

What things do we need to allow to become memorials and steppingstones in our path to the future? What new things do we need to embrace to become who God says we need to be for such a day is this? What treasures of heaven can we receive in this hour that will serve as keys to the advancing influence of God’s kingdom of life to the nations of the world?

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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    Greetings,

Today I want to challenge leaders to be an example in expectancy, creativity, and purpose. Our expectancy is a matter of faith. What do we expect to see today? Do we expect victory, or do we expect defeat? Do we have a revelation of Jesus in our lives today that inspires faith to lay hold of the grace that God has for us today? God’s grace is the power of His manifest presence in our lives to overcome all things each and every day. It is the foundation of the kingdom of God working in and through our lives to reign in life. As leaders we must lead those entrusted to our influence into a path of faith. To do this we must also embrace hope. It is hope that inspires the creativity of our hearts and minds. The creativity of our hearts and minds will position our inner beings to be inspired by the internal voice of God. The result is faith, the substance of whatever we hope for. As leaders we must also be steadfast in our purpose. When the circumstances of our lives change, the purpose of our lives does not. If our purpose can be shaken or altered by our circumstances, we haven’t discovered our true purpose in life. Our purpose is connected to God’s love flowing through our lives to the lives of others. As leaders we must demonstrate a purpose of life-giving love to others and we must give our hearts to assist those we lead in finding their life-giving purpose in all things as well.

God loves each of us and each of us are inspired in our hearts to be seekers of God. We are seekers of God to become the blessing of God in the earth. We are the blessing of God to bring about the multiplication of His purpose and blessing in the generational families of mankind. Our descendants are destined to possess the gates of their enemies and the earth is to be changed by the destiny of our family name. We are more than ourselves, we are the corporate expression of God’s purpose and glory. We are the place of God’s kingdom administration in the earth. We are the place of Zion. Zion is a house of grace. Grace gives, grace never takes. God’s grace is God’s power to change our lives and to change the world we live in.

God wants us to understand grace. Grace is given to us, but it is not something that we take. It is something we must each find. It is found when we discover He is a giver. We know we have found grace when we become givers. When we are not givers, we haven’t discovered God’s grace. God’s presence in and through our lives is the place of God’s government at work in and through our lives. This is the true Zion of God. It is a place of faith, hope, and love working in and through our lives to the world around us. Zion is a culture of grace. It is not a lesser covenant than the covenant of law, it is a greater covenant. It is not a covenant of a soft God, it is a covenant of a great God! Zion is a testimony to finally being able to be transformed. It is a testimony of a place where we do not just hear that God is speaking, but we hear what He is saying. We hear Him, we respond to Him, and we become a testimony of what He says.

When we stand fast for our own opinions, when we stand fast to get what we need from others, we may have heard that God is speaking, but we have not yet heard His voice. The testimony of hearing Him is the receiving of a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Where do we receive this kingdom? We receive this kingdom in Zion.

Hebrews 12:22-29 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.

It is among the innumerable company of believers in heaven and upon the earth that we receive the increasing testimony of God’s grace. The increasing eternal grace of God causes us to experience the fire of God that purifies us.

We are living in a time of another level of what cannot be shaken being revealed in our lives. These are the unshakeable things of faith, hope, and love. The world only shakes when something of the unshakeable kingdom of God is being manifested in the nations of men. We must not look at what is shaking, but to the things that cannot be shaken. As leaders we lead other in a culture of faith, hope, and love. These things will inspire our expectancy, creativity, and purpose even in shaking times.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

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