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   Greetings,

Jesus told Peter that the gates of the realm of the dead (hades) cannot prevail against the church. Gates are places of influence. The church is called by God to prevail against the gates of the enemy. The church is the gate of heaven and it is called to be an influence of life in this world. The church is not some institution formed by men. Although we can find the church contained in the walls of an institution, she was never meant to be institutionalized. She is the power of God to change the world. She is a living body, a living organism, and she is intimately joined to God. She is the house of God’s presence filled with divinely joined members who each find the life of Christ. Christ is in her!

The manifest presence of God lives within the true church of God. To know the power of Christ within is to know the power of God’s grace. God’s grace is His manifest presence within us that is the greater power than any power in the world. It is not merely the human spirit; it is the power of the human spirit made one with the Holy Spirit of God. The human spirit is the human conscience. It only serves to tell us there is a God and we need Him. The human spirit is in all people, therefore there is no one with an excuse to say there is no God. When someone presents this argument, they are already debating with their own spirit. The human spirit calls out for the Holy Spirit of God, because only by the Spirit of God within can we become who God has called us to be. Christ in us is the secret to finding our true identity, testimony, and purpose in life, but to receive this is miraculous. It is as miraculous as the virgin birth of Jesus in the womb of Mary. We must be born of the water (natural life) and the spirit (Spirit life) to inherit the internal kingdom of God that transforms our kingdoms to become expressions of our Lord and Christ.

Every mountain is made of stones. The mountain of God is also made of stones. Those stones are the life-giving testimonies of those who have discovered the mystery of Christ within them. Each stone is a stone in the mountain of God. What is true for the mountain is true for every stone in the mountain. What is true for the stones in the mountain is true for the corporate testimony of that mountain. Those stones are made of testimonies that come by the unshakable love of God in each one’s life. They consist of increasing realities of the steadfast attributes of faith, hope, and love in Christ. These are the true elements of the church. The church is not some place we go, it is the substance we become when Christ is in us. When we gather together in some location that we call the church, we are simply making a gathering place where the stones in the church can come together for a corporate calling, inheritance, and purpose in Christ. It is not the physical location that creates the church, but the presence of Christ in each and every member in whatever physical location they find themselves. The church is not merely a place of being loved by God or of loving God. It is the testimony of love, inheritance, and purpose in the earth. We are called by God to find our identity in Christ, discover a testimony in Christ by the power of God’s grace, and fulfill a purpose in this world as an expression of Christ. The influence of the life of Christ inside of us should inspire an external influence in our lives that is stronger than any external influence that seeks to hinder life in our world.

God’s loves everyone and the gift of God’s love in the form of Jesus the Son is the proof of His love for everyone. His gift of mercy invites everyone to boldly come to God’s throne of grace where they can receive mercy and find grace. Our corporate expressions of Him should serve to inspire our individual connections to Him. Our individual connection to Him should inspire our corporate connections so that we can stir one another up towards love and good works in Christ. Those joined together constitute a building of God’s presence and a field for God’s purpose in the earth.

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

The field is more important than those who work in the field. The building containing God’s presence is more important that those who build. As leaders we need to fulfill our role as workers in God’s field and builders in God’s house, but we must live for the place of Christ’s calling, inheritance, and destiny in all things. This is the church, the gate of heaven to overcome the gates of death in the unfolding destiny of men.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

Thanks to all who support House of Bread Ministry in our commission of reaching the nations and the generations with New Covenant Life and Grace. Your prayers and your financial donations are very much appreciated. 

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

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   Greetings,

God loves everyone in the world and the Spirit of God is calling each and everyone to come to God in Christ. The true testimony is only found when we invite the testimony of Christ within our hearts. This is the Spirit of Christ whom the world cannot receive.

John 14:15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”

Jesus was God with His disciples, but He promised He would also be in them after His death and resurrection. He made a distinction between them and the world. He desires that all the world would believe, but only those who seek Him will find Him. When we choose to have a personal relationship with God in our lives, He is faithful to come to us.

John 20:19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

The death of Jesus upon the cross has secured peace for all mankind. There is now a way for us to see God for who He really is. He is our loving Father and He wants to have a relationship with us in all things. He gives life, breath, and all things. When Jesus breathed upon disciples in the room, I believe the Spirit of God was able to be received. They had to open their hearts to receive the Spirit of Christ within.  We must not be deceived to merely living human lives for our own human dreams and desires. We are called to greater things. We are called to live for the glory of God! This is only possible by the supernatural presence and power of Christ within.

1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.  2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

It is the Spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come into your flesh, that is of God. This is the internal witness of life and this is what separates us from the world. Everyone in the world is welcome to come, but each one must come to God in Christ. Only Christ in you is the greater power. It is the power of the resurrection life of God working within. It is not merely the spirit that says Jesus came in the form of flesh two thousand years ago, but the spirit that acknowledges Christ in humanity. Christ in humanity is the testimony of Jesus, the Lord, coming into our own personal lives. Any voice of God to us will be witnessed by the life-giving Spirit of Christ within us. We must willingly receive Him to be internally empowered to confess our believing Him. The internal motivator is the Holy Spirit who has been sent in Jesus name to bear witness to the One whose name is above all other names in every progressing age to come. As leaders, we must lead others into the truth of the internal reality of the power of Jesus name. This is the power of Jesus in the flesh of those who believe!

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

Thanks to all who support House of Bread Ministry in our commission of reaching the nations and the generations with New Covenant Life and Grace. Your prayers and your financial donations are very much appreciated. 

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

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    Greetings,

The Scriptures are not written to the world. They are written as a witness to the voice of God in the heart of all each and everyone who believes. We must understand this in order to move forward from merely being people that God says belong because of His love to becoming people that know they belong for His presence, His testimony, and His purpose in all things. When we read the Scriptures, we are not reading letters written to those who do not believe in God the Father, Jesus the Son, or Holy Spirit as God the giver of life in all things. Holy Spirit can use the Scriptures as a witness to His voice to convict the heart of anyone, but the written word of God is given to those who believe that they might know what they believe in their personal and intimate relationship with God. As believers, we should consume the written word of God to activate His living testimony within our hearts. We read the Scriptures to activate an accurate hearing of God’s voice in our hearts. We should spend more time reading the Scriptures than any other book in the world. No other book, not even books who proclaim to be Christian in their purpose, is more valuable than the written word of God.  It is sharp enough to pierce through our souls and into our spirits to activate us to hear God’s voice within. It is a letter to the church, and it can only be interpreted and applied properly when it is understood that it is for those who believe. The letter written to those who are yet to believe is the testimony of those who believe as they become the evidence of lives transformed by the power of Christ within. This is the testimony of the church. Surely the enemy has formed weapons against this. This is no doubt why being the church is such a challenge in our journey of life.

God is building His church in the earth. His church is His eternal bride revealed as the Proverbs chapter 31 woman in the earth. She is the body of Christ joined to Jesus the Christ, the head of all that is the fullness of God in the earth. She is dealing in the real estate of the earth on behalf of her husband, Jesus, who sits in the gates as Lord of lords and King of Kings in all things.

Ephesians 1:22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

If you search the Scriptures, you will find that standing and walking through the land is a testimony to receiving the land as a possession of inheritance. The church is the body of Christ and she is joined to Jesus as the head to transform the world through the calling, the testimony, and the power of the destiny of Christ. Christ is the place of God’s manifest presence in the earth. It is the manifest presence of God in human form. It is not natural, but supernatural in character, nature, way, power, and authority.

Jesus was the manifest presence of Christ as the eternal Adam, a new creation of mankind for the glory of God in all things. Within Him was the spiritual rib that would be formed into the eternal Eve that would be made of every tribe, tongue, people, and nation in the generations of mankind. From the nations and the generations, a new creation would arise that is the testimony of the body of Christ. The world is not the body of Christ, but the earth is being called to come and be a part of a born-again creation in the body of Christ. This is the New Covenant Adam and Eve joined in the Spirit for the will of God the Father in heaven and upon the earth. The mandate of this New Covenant Man is to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and have dominion in all things. This can only be fulfilled in a Man, male and female, that is the fullness of God in bodily form. The bodily form includes the headship of Jesus and the co-joining partner of an eternal Eve, known as the church. She is joined to her husband in all things and they are one flesh together for the glory of God the Father in all things. They are not a body of flesh, but a body of the Holy Spirit that fills all in all. The testimony of this body is the same as what was revealed in Jesus, the eternal Adam. It is a testimony of being full of grace and truth. God’s grace is His manifest presence that destroys all manner of death. Truth is what be become by the power of God at work in our lives. Truth crumbles every lie. Grace subdues the world with life and truth fill every space with the dominion of that life. The blood of the New Covenant body of Christ is not the blood of the flesh, but the blood of supernatural power. That blood is the power of Christ within! God doesn’t just want us to live good, nice or happy lives. He intends for us to live a life of greatness and destiny in the form of the body of Christ!

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

Thanks to all who support House of Bread Ministry in our commission of reaching the nations and the generations with New Covenant Life and Grace. Your prayers and your financial donations are very much appreciated. 

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

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    Greetings,

When we pursue the will of God, we can expect to be opposed by the will of the flesh. We can also expect the will of God to win in all things.

2 Chronicles 20:23 For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. 24 So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.

When we face the opposition of human wisdom we must do as Judah did in the days of Jehoshaphat.We must humble ourselves before God. We must seek His will to be done and the influence of His kingdom to come. We must stand to praise God and not bow to the power or pressure of earthly, sensual, or demonic inspirations. As did Judah, we must trust that who we are in Christ is enough and we must thrust our hands towards heaven to trust God above all things. Our weapons of warfare are not fleshly, but mighty in Christ and God’s mercy will prove to endure!

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

Wisdom is the means by which we move from today into the footsteps that move forward in the path of destiny. That path leads to the destiny of God’s will and not the will of self. It leads to the destination of God’s purpose and not the success of some human agenda. When we get our identity out of what we do rather than who we are in Christ, we can become envious of what we see others doing. This opens the door of our hearts to earthly wisdom. When we do this, we become confused and we do evil things. It is not that one intends to do evil things, it is the fruit of deception. Human agendas and the will of self will cause our focus to be self-defending, self-fulfilling, and selfish in our thinking. This is earthly wisdom and not the wisdom of God. Earthly wisdom in not pure, not peaceable, not gentle, not willing to yield, it is not merciful, does not produce good fruit, shows partiality, and it is full of hypocrisy. It is not concerned with right relationships or with making peace. It is concerned with fulfilling personal agendas and is destructive in its character, nature, way and power.

When we stand in the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God will prove to lead us into the path of true destiny. What the enemy intends for evil in our lives will prove to work for good. In the battle of Jehoshaphat, the victory included new treasures that came to them because of God’s wisdom. What the enemy thought they possessed became the possessions of God’s people.

2 Chronicles 20:25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, they found among them an abundance of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days gathering the spoil because there was so much. 26 And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berachah,  for there they blessed the Lord; therefore the name of that place was called The Valley of Berachah until this day.

When we trust God and allow Him to fight our battles, we will plunder the spoil of the enemy. Valuable things will be added to our lives by the mercy of God. The enemy will be lifeless and precious things will be added to our lives.

2 Chronicles 20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go back to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies. 28 So they came to Jerusalem, with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets, to the house of the Lord. 29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel. 30 Then the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

Thanks to those who have been able to donate to House of Bread Ministry to meet the need of ticket purchases. We are getting closer to being able to make some ticket purchases. If God gives you the means to help, please consider making a donation to House of Bread Ministry. We are in need of purchasing several travel tickets.

Thanks Again – 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

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       Greetings,

Last week I addressed the story of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and his partnership with Ahab the king of Israel in pursuing something that was not the will of God. I mentioned that Ahab persuaded Jehoshaphat to go to battle against Ramoth Gilead. Ramoth Gilead was a city formerly established in the days of Moses as a city of refuge for unintentional killers. I have observed that in this present time there are many who are quick to go to battle against others assuming they are worthy of being conquered, when perhaps they are simply in a place of refuge for unintentionally causing death in some way. They didn’t intend to cause death, but they somehow ended in a circumstance or an environment that caused death or pain to someone else. Those in a community of refuge don’t need to be destroyed, they need to be healed and transformed. They are bound to some stronghold in their thinking due to some dysfunction or lack of life in their past. At the time of Ahab’s battle with Ramoth Gilead, the city was in the hands of the Syrians. The name Syria means a height as in a castle or a stronghold. Sometimes people get stuck in some place of life and it becomes a stronghold that resists truth. God wants us to be compassionate to those who are stuck in the strongholds of life. This city of Ramoth Gilead had exchanged hands from Israel to Syria several times and in the days of Ahab, king of Israel, it was in the possession of Syria. Ahab persuaded Jehoshaphat to partner with him in going up against the Syrian stronghold to retake the city with the encouragement of several false prophets of Israel. Jehoshaphat’s alliance with Ahab caused the identity of Ahab to come upon himself and were it not for God’s rescue he would have been killed for being mistaken in the battle. God rescued him and allowed him to return safely to Jerusalem. Although Ahab tried to pretend that he was not in the fight, he received wounds in the battle that resulted in his demise. When God confronted Jehoshaphat through the prophet Jehu, he was both sorry and repentant for his error of judgment. He made himself vulnerable to the people and he brought them back to the Lord God of their fathers. He gave the rest of his life to reestablish the judgments of God, the worship of God, and the testimony of God in the nation of Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever? 8 And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying, 9 ‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’

Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah understood God’s covenant love. They knew if they became a place where God abides, they would know the salvation of God in whatever circumstance they found themselves in. A further test came when Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir came against Jehoshaphatand the people of Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

2 Chronicles 20:20 …Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.” 21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: “Praise the Lord, for His mercy endures forever.” 22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated. 23 For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. 24 So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.

The name Ammon, Moab, and Mount Sheir, are very significant. Ammon means tribal or the will of the people. Moab means, seed of the father or specifically – an incestuous seed. Moab was the son of the oldest daughter of Lot after they fled to the caves at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra. Ammon was the son of the second daughter. The story is that the daughters got their father drunk and then slept with him to become pregnant. They pursued this course because they feared there would be no future for them since they had been forced to flee to the caves for fear at the destruction of their home. Their wisdom was fear based and it produced two nations that represented the will of self and the will of a people. Neither of these produce the testimony of the will of God. Seir means hairy or shaggy. In Biblical terms something hairy or shaggy relates to something demonic. I believe that these three names represent things that are of human wisdom. More specifically, the natural wisdom of humanity. This is not the same as the wisdom of God. The wisdom of God is based upon things that only God can see, only God can hear, and only God can think. Earthly wisdom is based upon things that we have seen, we have heard, and we have thought before. Human wisdom alone is earthly, sensual, and can be demonically influenced and thus is a wisdom that is not willing to yield to the will of God. It is not humble, teachable, and willing to change. I believe we are living in a time where demonic powers are influencing the knowledge of men to cause there to be a great resistance to the will of God.  Deceiving spirits are fortifying human wisdom to create strongholds in the hearts and minds of many to resist the true wisdom of God. This is even true for believers in Christ.  As leaders we must trust God to deliver us from the influence of human wisdom in leading God’s people. I will address this more next week.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

We still need to purchase tickets for numerous trips and connections in October, and November. If God gives you the means to help, please consider making a donation to House of Bread Ministry. 

Thanks Again – 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

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     Greetings,

We are living in a very interesting time. As leaders, we are facing challenges and opportunities not seen before in the church. It is a costly time for leaders and for believers. God is requiring us to be transparent and vulnerable.

Psalms 29:9 The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare; and in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”

I believe that there is a present grace of God at work in the earth. That grace is a grace of the Spirit of knowing. I believe that we have been living in increasing measures of this grace for these first years of this millennium. This grace is a grace of becoming the people of God. To be the people of God we must know the purpose of our lives. Our purpose is life! The secret to the forest is not merely the forest, it is the generational life that is hidden therein. We cannot hold on to our stuff and freely live for the future generations. We must be willing to be exposed and changed. We are a temple of God’s presence individually and corporately as the family of God.

Whenever God does something in the earth, His is voice is heard by everyone. Although His voice is heard, His voice is not understood by everyone nor is it responded to. I believe that even people in the world hear God, but they don’t know that it is God who is speaking. They hear a sound in their spirit and that sound comes to their souls. Thoughts come to their minds, reasoning begins to become a strategy, their imaginations come alive in their hearts and they begin to dream new things or see new things. When God speaks, He speaks everywhere, and the frequency of His voice can be heard by those who have ears to hear. God wants those of us who are believers in Christ to have these same realities. We should be hearing God, embracing what God is saying, and creating new things with what we’ve heard. Unfortunately, much of the church tries to preserve what God said in the past and they’re not open to hearing new things that God is saying. Sometimes we hold on to our understanding of what God said yesterday so tightly, the very thing that God said becomes a strong rock of remembrance that can even cause us to love what God said yesterday more than loving God. We can close our hearts to hearing what God is saying today. We must hold on to the foundations of the past, but we must see them as foundations to the present and the future and not the absolute reality of the present nor the future. They are stones in the mountain of God in the past, but they are not the stones of faith in the mountain of God today. When we grip them too tightly, they become monuments to what God said yesterday and hinder us from hearing what God is saying today.

I believe that the present grace of God at work in the earth is one of finding our true identity in Christ. This is not for our own sakes, but for the glory of our Father in heaven and for the glory of His family name. The cry in the temple of God should be Glory! This is not our own self-indulgence, but the glory of the calling, the inheritance, and the destiny of Christ. This involves our embracing our part in the calling of Christ, the inheritance of Christ, and the power of destiny in Christ. It is about being a part of the will, the way, and the plan of God through mankind so that the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God as the waters presently cover the sea. We make a great us and a terrible someone else. God wants each of us to be real and authentic. Even in the world, people are searching for their true identity. Their hearts are crying out to become authentic. In their search, they often embrace lies, because they do not know the source of truth. They don’t blatantly embrace lies; they are vulnerable to deception because they are not clear in understanding the source of true identity. They don’t embrace lies because they’re wicked or evil, they simply embrace lies because they don’t know how to find the truth. Unfortunately, we often do the same in the church as the people of God. We don’t know how to find truth. We don’t know how to discover who we really are. Only in Christ can we find our true identity. Our true identity is a testimony of praise! This is not human praise; this is human beings becoming a testimony of the praise of God as their heavenly Father. We are each a one and only in life. This is our true value. Our true value can only be discovered when we become who we really are. Who we really are in Christ will be resisted by what we are not. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood. We wrestle against spiritual powers who seek to destroy our true identity. Our true identity will establish our true dominion. God wants us to be able to subdue and have dominion in life. To subdue is to destroy death with a life! I believe this is the testimony of grace. Grace is the manifest presence of God’s Holy Spirit in our lives, Who destroys death. This is the power of grace. True dominion is to destroy lies with truth. Truth is not something we know in our heads; truth is what we become in our lives. When we discover our true identity in Christ, we discover our true dominion in Christ. Jesus was the Word made flesh so that all flash could become a testimony of God’s word. As leaders we must allow God to strip away the lies that simply serve as a hiding place from our true selves. We must be an example and lead others into the same. God is inviting us to go another measure in manifesting His glory as the people of God.

Food For Thought,

Ted J. Hanson

Thank you to those who have given the House of Bread. We have purchased our travel tickets through September. We still need to purchase tickets for numerous trips and connections in October, and November. If God gives you the means to help, please consider making a donation to House of Bread Ministry. 

Thanks Again – 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