Annagail Lynes' Blog

2007/7/31

Whispers Of Lies

@ 08:10 AM (27 months, 19 days ago)

There is no truth in him [the devil]." - John 8:44.

There is no truth in the devil.  Whatever he is whispering in your ear--that you are not good enough, that you aren't beautiful enough, that you aren't smart enough, that you are fat--they are all lies.  God sees you as righteous through His Son's blood.  He sees you as beautiful, smart and a winner.  If He believes those things about you, shouldn't you believe those things too?

- Annagail Lynes


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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.


2007/7/30

Have You Said Thank You?

@ 08:10 AM (27 months, 20 days ago)

And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. — Luke 17:17-18 (KJV).


Of the ten lepers who were cleansed by Jesus, only one return to say “Thank you.” How many times are we like those nine lepers who were healed by Jesus? How many times has God healed us? Saved us? Delivered us? Met our needs? Protected us? How many times have we turned back to God and said, “Thank.You, Lord”? How many times have we acknowledged what He had done for us?

- Annagail Lynes


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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.



2007/7/29

Remember Lot's Wife

@ 10:06 AM (27 months, 21 days ago)

Remember Lot's wife - Luke 17:32

Do you remember what happened to Lot's wife?  Lot, his wife and his family were fleeing from Sodom and Gomorrah at the request of God where they lived.  He wanted them to go before He destroyed those wicked towns.  They were told not to look back, but Lot's wife did.  And you know what happened?  She turned into a pillar of salt.  If we look back to our past too often, we too will be stuck in the past.  We must keep our eyes focused on things before us, not behind us.  

- Annagail Lynes


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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.


2007/7/28

Selfishness Causes Pain

@ 09:42 AM (27 months, 22 days ago)

Selfishness only causes trouble.  You are much better off to trust the Lord. ~ Proverbs 28:25 (TEV).

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2007/7/27

The Only Place

@ 11:01 AM (27 months, 23 days ago)

Yesterday, I had a bad day.  I woke up early to run an errand, to buy a new printer.  My old one has been a constant headache.  Always having to reinstall the software.

I bought a new printer that was on sale.  Only to find out when I brought it home that it wasn’t compatible with my computer.  

On the phone with the technical support people, we find out that they are in India. They have heavy accents, which we cannot understand.  We became frustrated by the wait time and communication difficulties.  Then we were told that there was nothing they could due to help us.  But if we would buy a new computer, if we would upgrade our computer for x number of dollars, they could help us.

I tried to download the necessary drivers for the printer off the Internet at their site.  Only I reached another dead end.

I exchanged the printer for another one that works perfectly with my computer.

Every once in a while, we run into dead ends, obstacles that we can’t seem to overcome and that wear our patience thin.  Instead of blaming God or thinking that God is punishing us, we need to God.

God loves us no matter what.  We can get upset.  We can blame Him.  But He still loves us.

We nee to run to the only place where we can find help.  The only place where we can find healing, deliverance and everything we need.

It is only in God’s arms that we can find what we need.  It is the only place where we can be made whole.

Instead of getting upset and fretful, like me, we need to run to God.  We should let Him help us, to let Him do through us what we cannot do.


- Annagail Lynes
 

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.




2007/7/26

Too Much Praise

@ 08:03 AM (27 months, 24 days ago)

Too much honey is bad for you, and so is trying to win too much praise. ~ Proverbs 25:27 (TEV).

Too much praise is just as much as a problem as too much criticism.  When we are praised too much, it goes to our head and we become to full of ourselves.  Then we can't see our faults for all our good qualities.  Instead of trying to win the approval and compliments of others, we need to choose to believe only what God says about us.  God's opinion and God's compliments are the only ones that count.

- Annagail Lynes
 

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.


 

2007/7/25

Expect To Receive

@ 08:24 AM (27 months, 25 days ago)

And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. ~ Acts 3:5 (KJV).


The lame man in this story heeded and expected to receive from Peter and John.  What are you expecting from God?  Are you expecting punishment?  Sickness?  Trouble?  Or are you expecting grace? Love?  Healing?  Whole life prosperity?  Be like a child whose parent has promised to take him to Disneyland.  Expect God to do what He promised.  Watch for His fulfillment every day.  Expect it to come.  If you do, you will receive that which you are expecting.  Hallelujah!


- Annagail Lynes
 

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.


 

2007/7/24

The Sacrifices Of God

@ 08:23 AM (27 months, 26 days ago)

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. ~ Psalms 51:17 (KJV).

Sacrifices to God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart.  This means that God loves for us to come to Him when we sin or mess up, to repent and ask for His forgiveness with a sincere heart.  It is when we try to deny our sin, when we try to hide it, that’s when our heart becomes hardened towards God.  We must repent of our sins.  We need to stay broken before God, and He will not despise us.

- Annagail Lynes
 

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.


 

2007/7/23

Made To Be Who You Ought To Be

@ 09:06 AM (27 months, 27 days ago)

Strengthen (complete, perfect) and make you what you ought to be and equip you with everything good that you may carry out His will; [while He Himself] works in you and accomplishes that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ (the Messiah); to Whom be the glory forever and ever (to the ages of the ages). Amen (so be it). ~ Hebrews 13:21 (AMP).

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2007/7/22

Understand This

@ 08:36 AM (27 months, 28 days ago)
Understand [this], my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear [a ready listener], slow to speak, slow to take offense and to get angry. ~ James 1:19 (AMP).

This is really good advice.  How many times do we have problems in life because we didn't heed it?  We talked more than we listened. We took offense.  We got angry.  How many times have our friendships been destroyed by these things?  Nine out of ten times if we would have listened more than we spoke, if we didn't take offense and gotten angry, we would still have many of the relationships we have now lost.

- Annagail Lynes

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.

2007/7/21

Our Heritage

@ 08:55 AM (27 months, 29 days ago)
 
But in that coming day no weapon turned against you will succeed. You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you. These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the Lord; their vindication will come from me.  I, the Lord, have spoken!  ~  Isaiah 54:17 (NLT).

Weapons will be formed against you.  As long as you are in this world, people and circumstances will form against you. It is your heritage as a child of God that those weapons not succeed.  They can be formed, but they cannot succeed.  It is also our heritage that every tongue that rises against us will be silenced.  Claim these wonderful promises today!

- Annagail Lynes
 

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.

 

2007/7/20

On Earth As It Is In Heaven

@ 09:48 AM (28 months, 20 hours ago)
I was in college, away from God.  I developed a lump on the back of my neck.  My mother dragged me, kicking and screaming, to church, a place I wasn’t sure I ever wanted to go to again.

I went up for prayer, and the lump disappeared.  That's the day I met Jehovah-Rapha, my Healer.  And you cannot convince me to this day that He doesn't heal.  I've had people try.

The Bible tells us in the prayer that the Lord taught His disciples, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:10).

There is no sickness in heaven.  No disease.  No pain.  No sorrow.  No grief.

According to this Scripture, there should be no sickness, disease, pain, sorrow and grief on Earth.  Yet obviously we see those things everywhere we go.

The Bible says "In the world we will have tribulation:," someone might say. Yes, but that is only half the verse.  The rest says, "but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).

When Jesus died on the Cross at Calvery (and yes,   it always does come back to that). He took our sicknesses, our diseases, our pain, even our grieves and sorrows, on His body.  If He took them, we don't have to.

Right now He is at the right-hand of the Father, making intercession for us.  He rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven.  Not before he went  to hell to take back authority to the earth from satan. Before ascending, though, He gave that authority back to us.

If we permit sickness or fear down here, it is permitted because we have the authority. Instead we are to stand against sickness, disease, poverty or whatever other problem we are facing.  It is our right to be healed.  It is our right to be delivered.  It is our right to prosper.

We have to stand firm to what God says we can have in His Word.  We have to believe it.  We have to stick to those promises by speaking them over our lives, by agreeing with them, until they manifest.

Jesus took the curse for us, so that we could be free from it (Galatians 3:13).  Stand firm to those promises.  

Tell sickness, disease and all the other curses of the law listed in Deuteronomy 28 that they are evicted from your life.

Then stand firm.  Eventually your natural circumstances will come in line with the Word of God.

- Annagail Lynes

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.



2007/7/19

Stick To Your Calling

@ 11:17 AM (28 months, 1 day ago)

Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall. ~ 2 Peter 1:10 (AMP).

This verse tells us to stick to our calling. If we do, it says you will never stumble.  If we try to do someone else's calling, if we try to be like someone else, we will fail every time.  Ask God to lead you into all truth about what He called you to be.

- Annagail Lynes


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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.


2007/7/18

And God Laughs...

@ 08:46 AM (28 months, 2 days ago)

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.  The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. ~ Psalm 37:12-13 (KJV).

The Lord laughs at the evil men, the wicked ones, plotting and scheming against the righteous.  They don't even realize their time is almost up.  Unlike them, the devil knows his time is short.  That's why he is trying to take as many people with him as he can into the lake of fire.  We can't let him.  We have to do our part to bring as many people to Christ as we can.

- Annagail Lynes



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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.

2007/7/17

The Sure Word

@ 08:07 AM (28 months, 3 days ago)

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. ~ Matthew 24:35 (KJV).

This Earth and Heaven will pass away because the Bible tells us that God is going to give us a new Heaven and a new Earth (Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22).  His Word, the Bible, will never pass away.  It is the sure Word of God.  If you need a Word from God, go to the Bible.  If you stand on it, and you keep standing on it, God's Word will come to pass.  It is the sure Word.  It never lies.  It never returns to God void (Isaiah 55:11).

- Annagail Lynes


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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.

2007/7/16

How To Receive The Promises

@ 09:27 AM (28 months, 4 days ago)

We do not want you to become lazy, but to be like those who believe and are patient, and so receive what God has promised. - Hebrews 6:12 (TEV).

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2007/7/15

Don't Hide From Him

@ 09:15 AM (28 months, 5 days ago)
Those who know you, Lord, will trust you; you do not abandon anyone who comes to you. ~ Psalm 9:10 (TEV).

The Lord will not abandon anyone who comes to Him.  As long as we go to the Lord, He will not turn us away.  It is when we don't come to Him, when we hide from Him, that we have abandoned Him. Not vice versa.  Come to God today.

- Annagail Lynes

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Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?  Do you believe Jesus died to pay the price for your sin?  That He was raised from the dead?  Then just pray aloud, "Lord Jesus, I repent of all my sins.  Come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour."  If you believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth, you are Born-again.  Let us know if you prayed this prayer.

2007/7/14

The Frustration Of Grace

@ 08:52 AM (28 months, 6 days ago)
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. - Galatians 2:21.

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2007/7/13

How's That Working For You?

@ 09:27 AM (28 months, 7 days ago)

Growing up, being an only child, I learned to entertain myself.  I'd line up my dolls along my bed and play school, or I'd type up newsletters on my Mom's old portable typewriter.  I'd even pretend to be a doctor or a ballerina.

After a while it became clear where my talents lied.  As much as I felt I was supposed to do something worthwhile with my life, I had my own plans, as many of us do.

I met a guy, who I thought I was head over heels in love with.  We were engaged.  We planned to get married.  I knew that my dreams from God didn't fit into his lifestyle, his philosophy of life.

Instead I pursued God's life for me part-time, on the side after working a string of dead-end jobs.  I wasn't happy because I knew what God wanted me to do.  Deep in my soul, I knew.  I also knew that any man who couldn't accept what God was telling me to do, no matter how foolish it seemed, wasn't anyone God wanted me to be involved with.

I am the definition of insanity.  I stay with things and people long after I can see that it is not working.

About five years into the relationship, our problems mounted.  Around that time, I had that near-death experience from drinking too much water.

Soon afterward he made it clear that his feelings for me had changed.  I thought, Here I am in the middle of a string of kidney and bladder infections, and this guy is breaking up with me?

It was as if God was saying to me, "So, how's your plans working for you?"

I knew I had to change my ways.  I knew I had to surrender my plans and take up the Lord's.  The truth is that people have thought over the years that I am crazy, and maybe I am, but I'd rather be crazy than be without God on my side.

When the guy wanted me back, I knew that the answer had to be no.  God delivered me from that relationship, and I couldn't go back.

So, how are your plans working for you?  Are you happy?  Do you feel that tugging at your heart that says you aren't where God wants you to be?

It is time that we choose God's plans over ours.  His Will over ours. It is time that we ask God to lead us into all truth concerning His purpose for our lives.

Remember: His plans are always blessed.  Our aren't.

- Annagail Lynes

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2007/7/12

He Did It All For You

@ 08:44 AM (28 months, 8 days ago)

He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed. ~ I Peter 2:24 (AMP)

Jesus personally sacrificed His life on the Cross for you.  He knew you from the foundation of the world, and He gave up His own life for you.  He took on Himself your sins.  He was beaten and brusied for your sicknesses, your diseases and your broken heart.  He was raised from the dead.  He is making intercession for you at the right hand of the Father. And He did it all for you...and me.  Isn't He amazing?

- Annagail Lynes

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2007/7/11

Spend Time With Him

@ 08:30 AM (28 months, 9 days ago)

No, the Lord has told us what is good.  What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God. ~ Micah 6:8 (TEV).

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2007/7/10

What In Your Life Stinks?

@ 09:05 AM (28 months, 10 days ago)
Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. ~ John 11:39, 43-44 (KJV).

Are there things in your life that have a bad smell?  That have been buried for too long?  Things that you have grieved over?  Things you decided were a lost cause?  Just call for Jesus as Mary and Martha did.  Just as He raised Lazarus from the dead, He can resurrect the dead things in your life as well.  

- Annagail Lynes

2007/7/9

Reap A Harvest

@ 08:50 AM (28 months, 11 days ago)

And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. ~ Matthew 17:20

If we have faith the size of a mustard seed.  The mustard is the smallest of all seeds and yet it grows into a large plant.  If we have just a little faith, and we apply it to our circumstances, we too will reap a large harvest.

- Annagail Lynes





2007/7/8

Lean On Him

@ 08:52 AM (28 months, 12 days ago)

He strengthens those who are weak and tired ~ Isaiah 40:29 (TEV).

Are you tired?  Have you become weak trying to do what is right?  Take heart!  This Scripture says that God strengthens the weak and tired.  When we do things in our strength, we grow tired and weak, but if we lean on God and His Strength, we will be able to accomplish more...and come out victorious every time.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/7/7

Here On Assignment

@ 08:29 AM (28 months, 13 days ago)

"My food," Jesus said to them, "is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do. ~ John 4:34 (TEV).

If it was food to Jesus to do the will of the Father, that means it was nourishment to his body.  It was what kept Him alive.  Without foo, He would have died.  Without His purpose. His assignment. He would not have been needed on this Earth.  We, just like Jesus, are here on assignment. As long as we are breathing, we haven't finished it yet.  As long as we are breathing, there is still more for us to do.  As Jesus did, we need to be doing what God sent us here to do.  And the only One who knows what He sent us to do is God.  Ask Him about it today.

- Annagail Lynes :-)


2007/7/6

Stay Still

@ 10:06 AM (28 months, 14 days ago)

As I mentioned last week, I have struggled in the past with anxiety issues.  I still do from time to time.  If I dwelled on the negative thoughts too long, they sent me into a full-blown panic attack. I have experienced panic attacks less frequently since I learned to stay still.

Conventional wisdom tells us when things are going wrong in our lives, when we are going through crisis, we should work harder, read more of the Bible, confess more Scriptures, do more good works.

No, the time for reading, confessing and doing is before the trial. See trials are similar to growing crops.  We have to plant the seed, water it and give it sunlight before it grows up.  Once it is here, that's not the time to plant, water or give it sunlight.  In fact, if we didn't do all those things before, we wouldn't have any crops at all. Instead, when it grows up, it is time to harvest.

The same is true for trials.  When we are in the middle of the trial, that is not the time to start reading the Word or confessing Scripture. It is the time to maintain our reading and confessing.  

We should be reading the Word and confessing Scriptures  before the trial  to prepare us for the hard times.

It is a time to rest, to stay still, to believe that God will do what He promised in His Word.

Rest?  What does that mean?  Most of us in this work hard, play hard society have no idea what it means to rest.  We think it means to sleep, but rest is so much more than that.

My Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has ten definitions for rest.  My favorites are freedom from activity; quiet; tranquillity; peace of mind or spirit; to repose without anxiety; to trust; rely; depend.

We say we believe God.  We say we believe His Word and all the promises in it, but do we really?  

Do we believe Him enough to say "God, You said You shall supply all my needs according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  Lord, I'm just going to rest in that promise, knowing you are going to come through for me"?    Even when we are facing money issues? Unemployment?  Demotion?  An empty bank account?

Do we believe Him enough to trust in Him?  Rely on Him?  Depend on Him when we are in a crisis? For most of us, the answer is no.

Where has our belief in our circumstances gotten us?  Where has our belief in the bad reports of this world gotten us?  We received what we believed.

If that is true, wouldn't the opposite be true too?  If we believe God's Word and put our faith in what God has said, wouldn't we receive what we believe too?

What do we have to lose?  If it doesn't work for us, we are still in the same position as we were before.  We are no worse and no better.  

But what if it does work as God said it would?  Then we could be living the life God intended for us to live.

Stay still in adverse circumstances.  Believe God.  Rely solely on Him and His Word because He keeps us in perfect peace when our minds are stayed on Him.

- Annagail Lynes :-)

2007/7/5

Our Shalom

@ 08:47 AM (28 months, 15 days ago)

A child has been born for us.  We have been given a son who will be our ruler.  His names will be Wonderful Advisor and Mighty God, Eternal Father and Prince of Peace. ~ Isaiah 9:6 (CEV).

We hear this Scripture at Christmas.  Have you ever thought about it, though?  Jesus came to this Earth as a baby. He was in Mary's womb.  He went through all the trials and tribulations of growing up.  Jesus--God in the flesh--did that for you, so He could die and be raised from the dead for you.  He truly is our Prince of Peace, our Shalom.  He is our nothing missing, nothing broken God.

- Annagail Lynes :-)


2007/7/4

You Cannot Earn It!

@ 08:10 AM (28 months, 16 days ago)

See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.  ~ Hebrews 12:15 (NIV).

See to it that no one misses the grace of God.  Many people sing about grace, but they do not tap into the grace--the undeserved, unearned favor of God.  If you are laboring for grace, it isn't grace.  You cannot earn it.  You cannot deserve it.  Otherwise it would not be grace.  It's there when we mess up, fall and fail, we just have to ask God for it, knowing that we have neither earned it nor deserved it.

- Annagail Lynes :-)





2007/7/3

Who Is Like Our God?

@ 10:31 AM (28 months, 17 days ago)

And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. ~ Isaiah 44:7

Who is like our God?  Are you?  I know I am not.  Let anyone who is like God, stand up and declare the things yet to come.  But no one can because only God is God, only he can truly and accurately proclaim the future.  There is no one like our God.  Hallelujah!

- Annagail Lynes


2007/7/2

Put Your Confidence In Him

@ 08:54 AM (28 months, 18 days ago)

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; ~ Hebrews 3:14

We are partakers with Christ.  We are joint-heirs with Jesus.  We are brothers and sisters with Jesus, and as such, we are partakers in God's inheritance....if we hold onto our confidence from the beginning to the end.  We have to trust God and put our confidence in Him that He will perform what He promised in His Word.

- Annagail Lynes

2007/7/1

Desensitized To God

@ 08:16 AM (28 months, 19 days ago)

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. ~ Acts 28:27

It is so easy to go on with our every day activities and forget our God.  It is so easy to become so desensitized to the murders, abductions and violence on the news that our hearts become hard toward God.  Our ears turn from His voice.  But if we will come back to Him, just as the Prodigal son's father, He will open His arms wide and welcome us home.

- Annagail Lynes :-)