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That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, - Ephesians 5:26 (KJV).

The other day I heard from a preacher say that thorns are actually dehydrated leaves.  He said that if one keeps their roses well-hydrated that the thorns can return to their original state.

If this is true, we are like those thorns.  

Without enough feeding on the Word, we become a shriveled up stick that is only good for irritating people.  

If, though, we saturate ourselves in the Word of God through Bible study, listening to solid, Biblical teaching and reading Bible-based books, we too can return to our original state.

We have to be washed in the Word, keeping it as the final authority in our lives.  When we receive a bad report, we should go to the Word.  What does the Word say about our problem?  

Stand on the Word in your time of crisis because it is the only Report that will get you through any situation.  It is the only Report that will change what you see into what you can’t see yet.



- 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.  

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. - Hebrews 11:28 (NIV).

I remember hearing about this man who God told to plead the blood of Jesus over the spiritual door posts of his town.  When he did, the Tsunami of 2004 bypassed his town.

I recalled the story in the Bible of the first Passover.  God told the Israelites to kill a lamb and spread the blood of that lamb on their door posts.  What happened when they obeyed?  Their firstborn children didn't die.

The firstborn children of the households who didn't have the blood on their doors died.

Now Jesus is our Passover lamb.  His blood was shed for us.  Instead of pleading the blood of a lamb on our door posts, we can plead the blood of Jesus over our spiritual door posts, our family members, our things.  And Jesus' blood will protect whatever we plead it over.

I plead it over my doors, my windows, my body, the car...anything I want God to protect.  My mom's friend has even pleaded the blood of a guinea pig during a black-out.

Plead the blood of Jesus.  It is the best protection you will ever 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.  

But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message? - Romans 10:16 (NIV).

These days I hear some  (not all of them) ministers who report the news of the bad economy, the war in the Iraq, the oil crisis as if they were a part of the secular media.  They seem to accept the bad report that media has given us.  

Never do I hear these ministers saying, “This is what is happening, but this is what the Lord says...”

It’s like the spies that Moses sent into the land of Canaan.  Only two spies believed the report of the Lord over what they saw with their natural eyes.  The others believed what their natural eyes told them.

Which are you?  Are you a Joshua and Caleb who saw things from God’s perspective?  Or are you like the other spies who accepted what they saw in the natural?

We all need to take what we see in the natural and compare it with the promises of God.  If it doesn’t line up, then we choose to believe God’s report over what we see with our physical eyes.

When we do, the outward circumstances will eventually line up with the Truth of 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.  

For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. - Proverbs 4:22 (NKJV).

This Scripture is referring to the Words of God.  They are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

I remember many times when I suffered with stomach viruses, sinus problems and other illnesses.   I suffered, quoting the Word, if I remembered.  

However, when I finally put on my Healing Scriptures CD by Kenneth Hagin, the symptoms seemed to disappear more rapidly.

I also had trouble walking at one time because I have high arches.  I would quote Isaiah 40:31,  But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint., in order to walk any distance.  And the moment I did, my walking improved.  Now I walk with no trouble at all.

God taught me to pray a prayer over my things and loved ones long time ago.  One day, some friends came over to our place.  As soon as they walked in, they smelled gas.  It turned out we had been living with a gas leak for a long time and didn’t know it.  Neither were we harmed.

For me, there is no question that the Word of God, whether it be the written Word in the Bible or out of His mouth, works!   Use it for yourself and watch how it will your lifeline in times of trouble.



- 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.  

"Then the sons are exempt," Jesus said to him. "But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four_drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours." - Matthew 17:27 (NIV)


Jesus paid the taxes of him and Peter with a coin in a fish’s mouth.  

How many of us actually expect God to do this for us?  

When we ask Him to meet our financial needs, we expect someone to come to the door with a check for us.  Maybe we expect money to come in the mail.  We expect God to meet our need in a natural way.

According to the Bible, though, Jesus didn’t do things naturally.  No, He took water and turned it into wine.  He took mud and put on a blind man’s eyes.  He walked on the water.  

If Jesus didn’t do things naturally in the Bible, what makes us think He will always do things naturally now?

Expect God to do the unexpected in your life 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.  

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. - I John 5:14-15 (KJV).


Yesterday I listened to the 700 Club, and a financial expert talked about how we are having a "crisis of confidence" in our economy.

I thought to myself, "That's what a lack of faith is.  A crisis of confidence."

Faith is the confidence that something is going to happen.  

We can either have confidence that the Word of God is going to change our situation.  Or we can have confidence that things are going to get worse.

We are all going through a "crisis of confidence."  What will we believe?

Will we have confidence in what God says?  That we are healed, saved and delivered?  Even when things look bleak?  

Or will we have confidence in our circumstances?  Our bills piling up?  Our pains and aches?  

Choose to have confidence in God and His Word over what you see with your natural eyes.

Though the storms rage around you, remember to keep your eyes on Jesus and put your confidence in Him and His finished work on the cross.


- 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. 

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: - Hebrews 11:39 (KJV).

For the longest time, I didn't "get" this verse.

I didn't understand why God would say that the heroes of faith didn't obtain the promise when obviously Abraham and Sarah obtained their promised son, Isaac.

Now I don't believe that God is referring to their individual promises.  

I believe He was referring to the promise of Jesus, our better Covenant.  Jesus didn't come to Earth during their lifetime.

God had to count them as righteous, looking forward in time to what Jesus would do on the Cross for them.

They had confidence in God (faith) to obtain their individual promises under the Old Covenant of Law.

How much should more we, now that we have the New Covenant of Grace through the shed blood of Jesus, be able to have confidence in God?  How much more should we obtain the things God has promised 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.  

Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven. - Psalm 119:89  (NKJV).


God’s Word is forever settled in Heaven. The Bible tells us in the Amplified version of the Bible, “Your will be done --held hold and revered—on earth as it is in heaven (Luke 11:2).

What is God’s will in heaven? No sickness. No pain. No sorrow. No poverty. No condemnation.

That is His will on Earth too.

How many of you have spoke the Word, prayed, thanked God, praised Him, and yet the deadline for your miracle still passed without a word or action on God’s part?

Many times we just decide that God must not be in the miracle business any more...or at least not for us.

No, God’s Word, His promises, are forever settled in Heaven.  They are ours through the shed blood of Jesus, but we do everything but the one thing that is necessary for our blessings to flow.

We don’t guard our hearts (John 14:27). The blessings are flowing to us all the time because of the shed blood of Jesus. It is like water flowing through a hose.

If we clamp down on the middle of the hose with our hands, we restrict the water. Is the water still flowing?
Yes, but we are restricting it from flowing to us.

That is what allowing ourselves to be troubled, afraid, agitated, disturbed, fearful, intimated, cowardly and unsettled does to our blessing flow. The blessings are flowing, but we are restricting them by not guarding our heart.

Next time you have a problem and are tempted to worry, quote John 14:27, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”



- 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.  

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