Annagail Lynes' Blog

Many times you will hear people say that we have to be servants of God while others insist that we must be His sons and daughters.

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If any man desires to do His will (God's pleasure), he will know (have the needed illumination to recognize, and can tell for himself) whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking from Myself and of My own accord and on My own authority. - John 7:17 (AMP)

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"For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8, AMP).

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“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,” - Hebrews 12:28.

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"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18).

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"God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well." - Romans 12:6 (TLB).

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Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our burdens and carries us day by day, even the God Who is our salvation! -  Psalm 68:19 (AMP).

The Lord who bears our burdens and carries us day by day.  Imagine that!  God wants to bear our burdens and carry us day by day.  He wants to be that involved in our lives.  

The word for salvation here is the Greek transliterated word Y@shuw`ah (yesh-oo'-aw).  It means welfare, prosperity, deliverance, salvation (by God), victory.

This means that not only does God want to bear our burdens and carry us day by day, but He cares about our welfare.  He is there to deliver us and bring us through our problems victoriously.


- 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.  

I have a confession to make.  I yell at the television.  I mostly scream at television preachers who aren’t teaching the Word correctly. It angers me when preachers, which are being watched by the nations, teach the Gospel in a distorted way.  They make people believe they have to work for salvation, healing and miracles.  I’ve heard them essentially say to just send them money, and they will fulfill your destiny for you.

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And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. - Luke 17:16.

How many times do we thank God when He does something for us?  Many times we are like the other nine lepers who Jesus healed who rushed off, delighting in their newfound healing.  Instead we need to practice being like the one who did thank Jesus for his healing and became whole.  What has God done for you?  What do you need to thank Him for 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.  

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. - Isaiah 55:7.

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Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only. - 1 Samuel 7:4 (KJV).

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And Jesus answering saith to them, `Have faith of God; - Mark 11:22 (YLT).

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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  For by it the elders obtained a good report. - Hebrews 11:1-2
 
What is the report that you have received recently?  Is it that you are ill?  Is it that you are broke?  Is it that your child is doing poorly in school?  All of these reports are enough to shake your faith.

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"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God" (Romans 4:20).

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For many years, God spoke the same command to me: “Cast your cares upon Me.”

I would try for awhile, but then I would just give up in frustration.

When God would speak that message to me again, I would become upset. I wanted a different message. Not the same one over and over again.

Throughout this whole process, God stood by me. He didn’t disown me. He didn’t say “Because you didn’t obey, I don’t want anything to do with you.”

No, God is faithful even when we are not.

Abraham had been promised a son, but after waiting for so long, Sarah, his wife, devised a plan to help God’s promise along. She told her husband to sleep with her maid to produce a child. He did. Only the son he produced wasn’t the child God promised him.

God, being faithful, when we are unfaithful didn’t take away His promise to Abraham. No, Abraham and Sarah did eventually produce the promised son, Isaac.

The children of Israel are a prime example of God being faithful when we are unfaithful.

When they were in the wilderness, they saw God provide them with manna every day except the Sabbath.  They saw how God parted the Red Sea and turned the bitter water into sweet.  However Moses still found them worshipping a golden calf, a false god.

Yet God continued to be faithful to the children of Israel, bringing Joshua, Caleb and the next generation of Israelites into the land He promised them.

Afterward, they rebelled against God many more times. God sent Samson, Esther and Gideon to save them from destruction. God was faithful when they were not faithful.

God is faithful to us too when we are not faithful to Him. That is His grace in action. We do not deserve it. We didn’t earn it, but we have it nevertheless.

No matter what we do, God will be faithful. The promises that He has given us will come to pass if we hold onto them and believe. God doesn’t take them back when we mess up.

No, they will come to pass. They might be delayed, like Abraham and Sarah’s son. But delay does not mean denial. Hallelujah! Our God is always faithful...especially when we are not.


- 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. 

The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the ear of the wise is ever seeking (inquiring for and craving) knowledge.  -  Proverbs 18:15 (AMP).

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Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. - 1 John 3:18

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Do not neglect the gift of God within you… - I Timothy 4:14.

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For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.  For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. — 1 Corinthians 1:17-18.

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For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. - Romans 8:14

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Each day has enough trouble of its own - Matthew 6:34.

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I used to listen to a woman minister on late-night television who took over her husband's ministry after he died.  She and I don't always see eye-to-eye on key points of the Bible.  Although her foundational doctrine is sound.

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Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come.  - Matthew 12:32 (NLT).

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"Four leprous men...said to one another, 'Why do we sit here until we die?...Let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.'" - - 2 Kings 7:3-4 (NASB).

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So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless. - James 2:17 (NLT).

If faith doesn't produce good deeds, it is dead.  Faith produces the good deeds.  Most people believe we have to do the good deeds, but they are produced by our faith.  Because we have faith in the promises of God, something begins to happen.  We become persuaded that we already have the promise.  We speak as if it is so.  We expect the promise to come to pass.  We make room for it.  We get rid of the old things in our lives to make room for the promise.  Our faith has produced good deeds.


- 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.  

But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. - James 1:6 (NLT).

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I am your servant; deal with me in unfailing love, and teach me your decrees. - Psalm 119:124 (NLT).

God deals with us out of His unfailing love.  He doesn't correct us or teach us His ways out of anger.  He doesn't hit us over the head with lightning if we don't do or say thing right thing.  He doesn't smite us if we fail a test.  No, He loves us, and it is through believing in His love for us that we learn to love Him, obey Him and worship Him.


- 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.  

Don't put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there - Psalm 146:3 (NLT).

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Martin Luther walked into the hospital room of a man who was at the brink of death.  Martin Luther turned his face from the man and walked over to the window and looked out.  

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You see and understand what is right but refuse to act on it. You hear, but you don't really listen." - Isaiah 42:20 (NLT).

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