Mon, Apr 30th - 1:17PM

Stay Close

Every word of God proves true.  He is a shield to all who come to him for protection. ~ Proverbs 30:5 (NLT).

Every promise, every word, of the Bible is true.  Not one word is a lie or just conjured up by the imagination of a man.  Stay close to the Word of God and to God Himself.  If you do, they will protect you in times of trouble.

- Annagail Lynes

Sun, Apr 29th - 4:31PM

Who Do You Trust?

Sat, Apr 28th - 1:06PM

He Will Never Abandon You

Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close. ~ Psalm 27:10 (NLT)

Even when everyone else has abandoned you, God never will.  He loves you.  He chose you.  He knows everything you do.  He knows all your faults.  All your secrets.  And yet He still loves you.  Imagine that!

- Annagail Lynes

Fri, Apr 27th - 3:30PM

Only Believe

Thu, Apr 26th - 1:36PM

Heed Every Word

Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.  ~  Deuteronomy 8:3  (NLT).

We are to live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.  Not only do we need to study the logos word--the written word of God.  We also need to spend time every day listening for His voice--the rhema word of God.  Our lives may very well depend on it.

- Annagail Lynes

Wed, Apr 25th - 3:10PM

He Watches Over You!

The Lord himself watches over you!  The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade. ~ Psalm 121:5 (NLT)

God Himself watches over you.  Not only does He assign angels to watch you, He watches you.  He knows what goes on in your life.  Nothing that happens to you shocks Him.  Nothing you say or do is a surprise to Him.  He is in control.  He is still on the Throne.

- Annagail Lynes

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Tue, Apr 24th - 3:00PM

Speak To It

Then he said to me, "Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord!  ~ Ezekiel 37:4 (NLT)

What is dead in your life?  What do you need to speak to?  Speak to those dry bones, those dry places, in your life.  Speak the Word of God to them and watch that pile of dry bones turn into a heap of blessings.

- Annagail Lynes

Mon, Apr 23rd - 5:01PM

What's In Your Hand?

But Elijah said to her, "Don’t be afraid! Go ahead and do just what you’ve said, but make a little bread for me first. Then use what’s left to prepare a meal for yourself and your son. ~ I Kings 17:13 (NLT).

The widow woman had nothing, but God made a miracle out of what she had on hand.  What do you have on hand?  Give it to God and let Him turn it into a miracle.

- Annagail Lynes

Sun, Apr 22nd - 3:05PM

The Best In Others

The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. ~ Proverbs 20:5 (NIV)

The reason we are here, the talents and gifts, our character is deep within us.  A wise person can draw the best on in us.  They can see in us what we cannot see in ourselves.  When you see something special in someone else, do you ignore it?  Or do you draw it out?

 
- Annagail Lynes

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Sat, Apr 21st - 1:32PM

He Exists

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. ~ Hebrews 11:6

Anyone who comes to God must believe that He is.  This seems so simple, but there are people in this world who deny the existence of the One, True Living God.  What are we doing to show them that He does exist?  Does our walk, our talk, our actions reflect our relationship with our Saviour?

- Annagail Lynes

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Fri, Apr 20th - 3:35PM

Wield The Word

There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”  ~ Numbers 13:33 (NKJV).

The Israelites were like grasshoppers in their own sight.

When problems come against us, most of the time, we cower underneath them.  They look as if they are giants towering over us, too big for us to handle.

How did David defeat Goliath who was much taller, bigger and stronger than David, a mere shepherd boy?

David told Goliath, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.” (I Samuel 17:45 NKJV).

Just like David, we have a secret weapon.  We are not to do things in our lives in our own strength.  Instead we are to do them in God’s.

We are soldiers in the army of Almighty God.  We are to fight our battles on His authority, not on ours.

When we fight in our authority, we become overwhelmed, frustrated and ready to give up. On His authority, though, just like in David’s case, it takes only one smooth stone to knock out the giants in our lives.

Our sword is not a physical sword, such as the one Goliath used.  No, our sword is the Word of God.

The Word of God, the Bible, is inspired by God Himself.  Ephesians 6 calls it our Sword of the Spirit.  It is alive and powerful and stronger than any two-edged sword.

We have to speak the Word of God to our mountains--the problems in our lives.  We can’t complain about them.  We can’t worry about them.  Neither of those cause the mountian to fall or the problems to cease.  We have to wield the Word of God at our problems.

We need to find Scriptures concerning our problems, then pick out up to five of them.  Then we have to speak those Scriptures to our problems.

The more we speak the Word to them, the more we chip away at the problems.  As we chip away at them with the Word, the smaller they becomes until it is non-existent because  the Word of God and our faith are growing bigger in our lives than the problems.

We don’t need a sword made of metal.  All we need is the Sword of the Spirit--the Word of God.

- Annagail Lynes

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Thu, Apr 19th - 2:36PM

We Are Chosen

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. ~ John 15:16

God chose us.  Imagine that.  Almighty God chose us to be His fruit-bearers.  He chose us to be a part of His grand plan.  But how much time do we spend doing what He called us to do?  How much time do we bear fruit?  How much of the tim are we just stagnant, in need of pruning?


- Annagail Lynes

Wed, Apr 18th - 2:18PM

He Cares For You

Tue, Apr 17th - 1:16PM

We Are The Master's Pieces

Mon, Apr 16th - 3:48PM

God Knows

 
O LORD, You have searched me and known me. ~ Psalm 139:1 (NKJV)

God knows everything about us.  Why do we pretend that He doesn't?  Why do we try to get way with things?  Are we hoping that God took a coffee break?  We have to be more honest not only with God but with ourselves.

- Annagail Lynes

Sun, Apr 15th - 2:20PM

What Is There To Fear?

Sat, Apr 14th - 1:44PM

In You

Fri, Apr 13th - 4:02PM

Delight Yourself In The Lord

Thu, Apr 12th - 1:45PM

The Well Of Faith

Wed, Apr 11th - 1:54PM

He Loves Us

 
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ~ Romans 5:8

Christ died for us while we were still sinners.  If He did that while we were living in sin, polluted by our perverseness, how much more does He love us now that we are His children?

- Annagail Lynes

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Tue, Apr 10th - 1:35PM

The Exchange

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. ~ Proverbs 16:3

It is only when we commit our works to God, when we surrender our will to Him, that our thoughts are established.  We must exchange our thoughts for His thoughts, our ways for His ways.  His are always higher and better than ours.


- Annagail Lynes

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Mon, Apr 9th - 4:10PM

What Are You Saying?

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit. ~ Proverbs 15:4

We need to watch the words that come out of our mouths.  When they are negative, they bring us down, make us sick and attract negative circumstances into our lives.

- Annagail Lynes 

Sun, Apr 8th - 7:14PM

Wisdom

Fri, Apr 6th - 5:23PM

Change Your Focus

Two and a half weeks ago, my laptop–my prize possession after my Bible–started giving me trouble. I had to send away for the item I needed to fix it.

Then seven days ago, I woke up with what I thought was just a kink in my neck. It became clear after several days that I had pulled a muscle. The pain made my normal activities, such as working on the computer, sleeping or writing difficult.

I wanted to complain. I wanted to scream about how it wasn’t fair, about how the forces of the universe were ganging up on me. Instead I decided to focus on what was going right rather than wrong. The pain and the laptop problems couldn’t last forever. I just had to be patient and wait.

The word complain, as in James 5:9 (NAS). comes from the transliterated Greek word stenazo, which means a sigh, to groan.

How often do we complain when things go wrong? When we are stuck in traffic. When the chef doesn’t make our meal just as we ordered. When the computer loses a very important file.

I challenge you to become aware of how many times you complain in a day. In an hour? Many times we don’t even know that we are doing it. Many times we react without thinking.

But words are very important. What we say is very important. We are creative beings made in the image of God. He says in Mark 11:23 that we can have what we say. If we say negative words, negative things will occur in our lives. If we say positive words, positive things will happen for us.

Now, I ask you, do you really want what you have been saying to manifest in your life?

The children of Israel complained in the wilderness. They complained about the food, the water, the leadership. What happened to them? Most of them died in the wilderness. Most of them didn’t enter the land that God promised them.

Miriam, Moses’ sister, murmured against her brother. What happened to her? She developed leprosy and had to be put out of the camp.

Miriam and the children of Israel focused on the bad that was happening around them, as most of us do. Instead they needed to be directing their attention toward the good. They were alive. They were no longer in slavery. God provided food and water for them. Their shoes never wore out.

As long as we focus on the bad, we will see everything through a bad mind set. Instead if we force ourselves to pick out at least five good things about any situation, we will begin to see our circumstances more positively. And our lives will reflect our new attitude.

When a race car driver is learning to race, his instructor tells him what to do if he is about to crash into a wall. The instructor advises him to focus on where he wants the car to go. Strangely enough, when he does, the car moves in that direction.

So it is in life. Focus on where you want to go, and your life will follow.

- Annagail Lynes