When I first learned the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3, I remember it having a part called WYSIWYG, meaning what you see is what you get.

That’s is true in our lives too.  If we see ourselves sick, no matter how many Scriptures we quote or how many preachers lay hands on us, we will still be sick.

Why?  Because that’s the picture we have of ourselves inside us.

The image we have of ourselves on the inside is the picture that will manifest on the outside.  If we see ourselves sick, we will be sick.  If we see ourselves well, we will be well.

An angel of the Lord visited Mary, a young woman who was engaged to be married, to tell her that she would conceive a child by the Holy Spirit.

Mary had a choice: she could believe what God said through the angel, or she could believe her natural circumstances.

What did she do?  “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her” (Luke 1:38).

She took to heart what the angel said and let the image of that word rise up in her.

That’s what we need to do.  We must choose to believe what God says about us and let it seep deep into our spirits.  Then it will rise up and paint a new picture of how we see ourselves.

Remember what you see is what you get.  You will speak according to how you see yourself on the inside.  And Jesus tells us in Mark 11:23 that we can have whatever we say.

I encourage you to change the picture inside you by daring to believe what God says you are.

- 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.

What are you identifying with?

How many times have you said “my sickness”?  How many times have you said “my debt”?  “My problem”?

When you say these things, you are identifying with your problems.  You are owning them.

If the Word is true, and we know it is, then Jesus said in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

James stated that every good and perfect gift is from above (James 1:17).

The author of your problems, your sickness, your money trouble is not God.  It is satan.  When you identify with those problems, you are agreeing with the devil.

The power of agreement (Matthew 18:19) is so strong that if you agree with the devil, you will solidify those problems in your life.

However, God says that you and your problems are not one in the same.  He says that you are seated in heavenly places.  He says you are a king and a priest and have authority over your problems.  If you agree with what God says,  then you will solidify your victory instead of your defeat.

Who are you identifying with?

Choose to be on the winning team.  Choose to identify with God and what He says about you.

- 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.

What are you believing God for?  Is it a new house?  A new car?  Healing?  Salvation for your family?  What is it that you are believing Him for?

In my own life, I have a list of things that I have been believing Him for.  I have confessed the Word over them.  I have begged God for them.  I have commanded them to come.  And yet they haven’t shown up in my life.

I have been trying to make things happen in my life through my own efforts.

God has been dealing me with about trusting Him as my Source, but recently that call has been louder.  It has become “trust God in everything.”

For me, God usually aligns everything to tell me the same message.  Not only did He start speaking this to my spirit, but I would come into the room when a preacher would say “trust God for everything.”  Over and over, I heard the same message both in my spirit and through preaching.

I don’t know if you are like me, but I have trouble relinquishing control of the things around me.  I feel downright irresponsible if I don’t try to juggle everything in my sphere of influence.

You can imagine how I felt about trusting God in everything and for everything.  After all, I am not Smiths Wigglesworth and George Mueller who made this a lifestyle, but I made a decision to obey God.

In Proverbs 3:5, which says, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; ” the word trust is the transliterated word, batach.  Batach means to have confidence, to be bold, to be secure.

In order to trust God, we have to be confident and secure in knowing that He will come through for us as He has promised us through Jesus’ finished work on the cross.  We have to know that His plans are never to harm us but to prosper us (Jeremiah 29:11).

As scary as it might seem to trust Someone else with the problems and concerns in our lives, if we ever want to live the God kind of life, then we have to trust Him in and for everything.

Even when you don’t understanding what He is doing in your life, learn to say, like I’m learning to, “Lord, I don’t know what you are doing, but I trust You.”

- 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 saw the Supernanny re-run that aired on Wednesday.  In her conference with the parents, she said one interesting truth.

She told the parents, “Don’t fight for the position you already have.  Just claim it.”

She, of course, spoke of their position as the parents.  However this truth applies to us as Believers as well.

We are kings and priests (Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10).  Jesus gave us authority over this Earth (Luke 10:19).  We have the authority.  We have been given the position.

Instead we are begging and pleading with God to do what He has given us the authority to do.

We are trying to fight for our healing.  We are trying to fight for our prosperity.  We are trying to fight for the things God has already given us when Jesus cried, “It is finished” on the cross (John 19:30).

We need to claim what is already ours.

The word claim, according to the American Heritage® Dictionary, means to
demand, ask for, or take as one’s own or one’s due, to state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain.

We have to take our rights in Christ as our own.  We don’t fight for our rights.  We already have them.  Instead we use the authority that we have as children of God to enforce those rights in our lives.

For example, let’s say a police person, who has a badge and the authority that goes with it, sees a car who is speeding.  When he pulls the driver over, he doesn’t beg and plead for the driver to stop speeding.  Instead he writes the driver a ticket.

We should be like that police officer and know what authority we have been given in Christ.  Then we need to enforce that authority in our lives and not settle for less than what God’s Word says we can have.

- 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.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest - Matthew 11:28

I remember listening to Joel Osteen’s sister, April Simmons, and her husband on a Christian talk show years ago.  They knew that God wanted them to believe  for a piece of property for their church that Johnson and Johnson owned.

She made a statement that stayed with me.  She said that she doubted in her head, but she refused to speak it out.

It is when we speak out our doubts that we get into trouble.

Jesus says in Matthew 6:31, “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’”

We worry when we say what we fear.

Jesus tells us to, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).”

That word rest is the Greek transliterated word, anapauo.  What does that word mean?    It means to keep quiet, of calm and patient expectation.

I believe that we need to keep our mouths shut and not speak out those things that we fear.

Jesus charges us in Mark 11:23 that we can have what we say.  If we don’t want what we fear to come to pass, then we need to zip our lips.

Speak the Word of God only and the things in your life will begin to heal.

- 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.