Annagail Lynes' Blog

2007/5/31

The Hero Of Our Salvation

@ 11:26 AM (29 months, 20 days ago)

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. ~ John 3:16 (NLT).

Anyone who believes in Jesus has eternal life.  Not through their good works.  Not through being good enough.  Only by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.  Only Jesus can save us.  Sometimes we just need to be reminded of that.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/30

Do Whatever He Tells You

@ 09:37 AM (29 months, 21 days ago)

But his mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ~ John 2:5 (NLT).

Mary's advice applies to us as well.  Do whatever God tells you to.  When you obey, you will have less headaches down the road.  It is when we disobey that we suffer the consequences for action.  We become in a prison of our own doing.  Short-ciruit the problems.  Just obey.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/29

God Is His Word

@ 09:41 AM (29 months, 22 days ago)


In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. ~ John 1:1 (NLT).

The Word is God.  God is His Word.  When we read the Bible, we are getting to know our Heavenly Father, God.  We cannot effectively hear the voice of God or discern His prompting and cues if we don't know what God is like.  Read the Bible more.  Get to know God better.  If we do, there will be less static in the communication lines between us and God.

- Annagail Lynes

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2007/5/28

Confess Your Sins

@ 09:33 AM (29 months, 23 days ago)

People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy. ~ Proverbs 28:13 (NLT).

If we conceal our sins, if we keep them hidden, we will suffer.  We will worry someone will find out what we have done.  We will live in constant worry.  However, if we confess our sins to God and to others, we will receive mercy. Sins that are hidden cause pain.  Confessed sins free us.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/27

A Real Treasure

@ 10:02 AM (29 months, 24 days ago)


The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense. ~ Proverbs 27:9 (NLT).

When your friend tells you the truth, such as you complain too much or do something that offends others, rather than sparing your feelings, that friend thinks highly of you. He cares about your character and the way you live your life. Most people won't tell you the truth. They sugar-coat it instead. Praise God for honest friends. They are a real treasure.


- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/26

Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain

@ 09:45 AM (29 months, 25 days ago)


A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls. ~ Proverbs 25:28 (NLT).

Do you exercise self-control? Most people react on their emotions. They don't think before they act. If we don't feel like exercising, we don't. If we are angry, we blow up at whoever is in our path. If we think before we act and consider the long-term gain rather than the short-term pain, we would be walking with more self control.


- Annagail Lynes




2007/5/25

Receive The Promises

@ 10:48 AM (29 months, 26 days ago)


Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. ~ Mark 11:24 (KJV).

Let's say, I hand you a beautiful present with red wrapping and a neatly tied white bow and say, “Here, I want you to have this.”  Instead of grabbing it, though, you put your hands to your side and make no attempt to reach for it.  I can't give you the present because your hands aren't outstretched.  If I did, it would fall to the ground.  

Now, who is at fault because you didn't receive your present?  The person giving it?  Or the person receiving it?  

This might seem like a silly illustration.  Why wouldn't  someone receive a present, you might ask.

When it comes to receiving our promises from God, though, we do just that.  We don't receive them.  

I've heard people say, “Well, God doesn't heal everyone,” “Miracles don't happen today,” “God only answers the prayers of people like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Copeland.”

If He answered their prayers, He has to answer yours too.  What He did for one, He must do for another.  He is no respecter of persons.  However, He is a respecter of faith.

If you do what they did, He will do the same thing for you.  

You must believe the promises of God and stand firm to them.  Not letting anyone talk you out of the promises you find in God's Word, His expressed will,  for you.  If you do this and pray according to His Word in Jesus' Name, you should see your promise fulfilled, right?

No, there is one more thing you must do.  You must receive it.

How do you receive?  How would you receive that present?  You would take it from me and say “Thank you.”

That's the same thing we must do with God's promises.  We have to take hold of them by standing firm, but we also must thank God in advance for what He is going to do in our lives.

Have you ever seen a child whose parent promised him a trip to Disneyland?  He is excited.  He thanks his Dad or Mom, then he goes and tells all his friends that He is going to Disneyland.   He doesn't question whether Dad or Mom is really going to take him.  He believes his parent will be faithful to the promise.  He accepts it as truth.  He has already received the promise.

We need to be like this with God's promises.  We should accept what God says in His Word without  question.   Believe it.  Tell all our friends how God is going to meet our needs.   Thank Him in advance for what He is about to do.  Then and only then will we received the promise.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/24

He Will Pay Them Back

@ 09:46 AM (29 months, 27 days ago)

And don’t say, “Now I can pay them back for what they’ve done to me! I’ll get even with them!” ~ Proverbs 24:29 (NLT).

When people hurt or betray us, we become angry. Instead of taking matters into our own hands by beating them up or getting revenge ourselves, we need to turn the situation over to God. Only He can bring justice to the matter. Only He can take revenge. It may take a while, but in the end, we see how God always deals with those who do His children wrong.


~ Annagail Lynes

2007/5/23

Don't Waste Your Breath

@ 11:12 AM (29 months, 28 days ago)


Don’t waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice. ~ Proverbs 23:9 (NLT).

As Believers, we are out to win the world for Christ, which is a godly endeavor.  However, there are people that will not listen to the truth, no matter how you approach them with it.  Don't waste your breath on them.  Certainly try to talk to them about God, but if they don't listen, commit them to God.  If their heart is not hardened, at the right time, God will draw them.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/22

Are You Missing Out?

@ 10:03 AM (29 months, 29 days ago)


Listen to the words of the wise; apply your heart to my instruction. ~ Proverbs 22:17 (NLT).

Do we really listen when others speak? Even when we do, we only catch a portion of what is being said. We are missing out on truths, advice, that we can apply to our lives to make it easier. May we learn from the mistakes of others, so we won't be force to repeat them.

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2007/5/21

Higher Than Our Ways

@ 10:10 AM (30 months, 22 hours ago)

No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the Lord. ~ Proverbs 21:30 (NLT).

We cannot, in our limited understanding, comprehend God's plans. Even when God doesn't seem to be working in our lives, that's when He is doing the most. When we go through difficulties, we cannot understand how God can turn it around for our good. He always does, though, because His ways are higher than our ways. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

- Annagail Lynes



2007/5/20

Put A Value On Yourself

@ 10:28 AM (30 months, 1 day ago)

To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper. ~ Proverbs 19:8 (NLT).

To seek wisdom is to love one's self. When you acquire wisdom, you are bettering yourself, or as my Mom says, you are putting a value on yourself. If you study the Bible, you will gain wisdom from it, and you will learn how much God loves you. And if He thinks you are worth loving, shouldn't you think so too by developing a healthy love of yourself based on what He says about you in His Word?


- Annagail Lynes





2007/5/19

Do You Hear About...

@ 09:59 AM (30 months, 2 days ago)

Rumors are dainty morsels that sink deep into one’s heart.~ Proverbs 18:8 (NLT).

How often do we listen to rumors? How often do we believe what we hear? Most times we don't verify the facts. Instead we believe everything we hear and accept it as truth. How would we like it if people believed everything they heard about us—good or bad? Shouldn't we treat others the same way we would like to be treated?

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2007/5/18

Faith Works By Love

@ 10:48 AM (30 months, 3 days ago)


For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. ~ Galatians 5:6 (KJV).

Faith works by love. I believe that every thing in the Bible, every promise, every condition, hinges on the love of God.

It hinges on believing that God loves you. Recently I read a question from someone that read “Is it a sin to love yourself before others?” You cannot truly love yourself or others without believing that God loves you.

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. ~ Mark 12:31.

This verse tells us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. If we don't love ourselves, we can't love others because we will treat them the same way we treat ourselves. And if we don't love others, we don't love God.

How can we truly love ourselves if we don't believe God loves us? We can only see our true worth when we believe what God says about us. It is only when we believe that the Creator of the Universe, the Great Alpha and Omega, can love someone like us—faults and all--that we can see how much we are worth.

We don't obey God before we believe He loves us. It is a byproduct of believing it. We aren't blessed because we are good enough or because we confess Scriptures every day. It isn't even because we pray enough or go to church enough. No, we are blessed because we believe that God loves us.

When we believe that, we step into our new identity. We put on our coat of many colors, our coat of promise. It represents who we are—children of the Most High God.

It is then that we take on our new identity and become the person God created us to be. We cannot move forward in our destinies, our work for the Lord, until we learn how to be loved by God, until we take a leap of faith and believe that God loves us.

Take the book of John and read one chapter every day. Keep reading it until it seeps into your spirit. Find Scriptures on the love God has for you and read them every day. When you go by the mirror every morning and evening, tell your reflection “God loves me.”

Do these exercises every day until you really believe that God loves you. Then watch those long-standing problems in your life disappear.


~ Annagail Lynes




2007/5/17

Dwelling On The Hurt

@ 08:49 AM (30 months, 4 days ago)

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. ~ Proverbs 17:9 (NLT).

When we hold onto a grudge, when we dwell on how someone did us wrong, the relationship will be lost.  However when we forgive that person, love prospers.  What's more important?  The hurt or the person?

- Annagail Lynes





2007/5/16

Blessed Plans

@ 09:32 AM (30 months, 5 days ago)

We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps. ~ Proverbs 16:9 (NLT).

We can plan all we want, but it is the Lord who determines our steps.  Instead of asking God to bless our steps, we should ask God what His plans for us are.  His plans are already blessed.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/15

Nuggets Of Gold

@ 09:56 AM (30 months, 6 days ago)

If you listen to constructive criticism, you will be at home among the wise. ~ Proverbs 15:31 (NLT).

Instead of ignoring the criticism of others, we need to sift through it as if we were panning for gold.  We need to look for those nuggets the contain the truth.  Is there anything in their criticism that is true?  That you could work on?

- Annagail Lynes


2007/5/14

Do You Have Peace?

@ 09:46 AM (30 months, 7 days ago)

A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.  ~ Proverbs 14:30 (NLT).

Do you have peace in your life?  Or do you want what others have?  Are you trying to keep up with your neighbors, your friends and the people in your church?  If you focus on God instead, and let Him be your source, you will have a peace that passes all understanding.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/13

Practice Self-Control

@ 08:55 AM (30 months, 8 days ago)

A fool is quick-tempered, but a wise person stays calm when insulted. ~ Proverbs 12:16 (NLT).

How is your temper?  When you are insulted, are you quick to respond?  Or do you stay calm?  A wise person stays calm when insulted.  For a lot of us that will take a lot of practice and a lot of self-control.  The more we practice, though, the more it will become a habit, the more it will become a part of our nature.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/12

Invest In God's Kingdom

@ 09:48 AM (30 months, 9 days ago)

Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything. ~ Proverbs 11:24 (NLT).

If you give freely, you will receive more than you had.  If you are stingy, you will lose even what you have.  That’s why we shouldn’t be afraid to give what we have to God.  We are investing in God’s Kingdom.  The riches we have here will fade, but the riches we store up in God’s Kingdom will never fade away.  

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/11

God Can Use You

@ 10:27 AM (30 months, 10 days ago)

For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.  ~  Jeremiah 29:11 (AMP).

God has a plan for our lives.  We have dreams that God has place deep within our spirits.  Maybe it’s to teach.  Perhaps it’s to build our own businesses.  Or maybe we want to write a novel.

Whatever the dream if we have accepted what Jesus did on the Cross, we can be almost certain that it is from God.

But for most of us, life has interrupted the pursuit of our dreams.  Perhaps a long-standing illness took over our lives.  Maybe we married, had kids and are helping to support our families.  Perhaps we were sidetracked by an anxiety disorder that kept us bound to fear.  Whatever the reason, we have lost sight of the dreams God put in our hearts.

Maybe we think that God can’t use us because we are women.  We are too young or too old.  We aren’t educated enough.  We are divorced.  We aren’t married.  We are married with children.

It isn’t who we are in ourselves that qualifies us to be used by God.  It’s who we are in Christ that qualifies us.

We couldn’t gain our salvation through our good works or anything we said or did.  The only way to be saved, to receive eternal life, was to accept what Jesus did on the Cross.  Jesus, the sinless, blameless Son of God, died on the Cross.  He took all of our sins--past, present and future--on Himself.  God raised Him from the dead.  He ascended back into Heaven and is right now at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for us.

If we didn’t have to be perfect to be saved, why would God suddenly change the rules?  Why would He expect us to be perfect in order to use us?  We, as long as we are in this human form, will never be perfect.

God isn’t looking for perfect vessels, only willing ones.  If you are willing, God can use you. 

Don’t give up on your dreams.  Give them to God and watch Him “do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]”  (Ephesians 3:20 AMP).

- Annagail Lynes




2007/5/10

Keep Your Mouth Shut

@ 08:57 AM (30 months, 11 days ago)

Too much talk leads to sin. Be sensible and keep your mouth shut.  ~ Proverbs 10:19 (NLT).

When we talk too much, we end up complaining, gossiping, maybe even exaggerating the truth.  We are wise when we keep our mouths shut.  Then our talking cannot lead us down the road to destruction.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/9

Add Years To Your Life

@ 09:54 AM (30 months, 12 days ago)

Wisdom will multiply your days and add years to your life. ~ Proverbs 9:11 (NLT).

A benefit of seeking wisdom is that it will multiply our days and add years to our life.  Along with wisdom comes diligence.  Diligence to our daily habits that bring us long life, such as exercise, eating right, praying and not being foolish.  Read a chapter in Proverbs a day to keep the foolishness away.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/8

Choose Wisdom

@ 10:20 AM (30 months, 13 days ago)

Choose my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold. - Proverbs 8:10 (NLT).

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2007/5/7

The Gateways To Your Heart

@ 10:15 AM (30 months, 14 days ago)

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2007/5/6

Are You Convinced?

@ 11:47 AM (30 months, 15 days ago)

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. ~ Mark 11:22

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2007/5/5

Healing To Your Body

@ 12:48 PM (30 months, 16 days ago)

for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body. ~ Proverbs 4:22 (NLT)

Wisdom is healing to your whole body.  Imagine that!  Something as simple as gaining wisdom by applying the Word of God to your life can be healing to your whole body!  Take your daily dose of wisdom--reading the Word and applying it to your life--every day along with your daily vitamins.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/5/4

Make God Smile

@ 11:07 AM (30 months, 17 days ago)

I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others.~ Genesis 12:2 (NLT).

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2007/5/3

The Right Decision Every Time

@ 09:52 AM (30 months, 18 days ago)

He shows how to distinguish right from wrong, how to make the right decision every time.  ~ Proverbs 2:9 (TLB).

God teaches us to make the right decisions every time!  Wow!  If we consult God and let Him guide us, it would cut down on the amount of mistakes we make.  Not to mention, the consequences we endure from making wrong choices.

Annagail Lynes

2007/5/2

The Basis Of Wisdom

@ 10:03 AM (30 months, 19 days ago)

Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.  ~ Proverbs 1:7 (NLT).

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2007/5/1

What's Coming Out Of Your Mouth?

@ 10:20 AM (30 months, 20 days ago)


When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness. ~ Proverbs 31:26 (NLT).

When we speak, what is coming out of our mouths?  Are we spreading wisdom and kindness?  Or are we complaining and saying whatever comes into our heads?  We need to be careful about what we say.  Others are listening.  What effect are our words having on them?

- Annagail Lynes