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Annagail Lynes (491)    
Annagail Lynes  
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Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (125 days 11 hours ago.) Viewed 8 times.
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.
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Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 (126 days 12 hours ago.) Viewed 4 times.
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.
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Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 (127 days 11 hours ago.) Viewed 8 times.
The cross in itself is of little value. The cross itself cannot save us. It is what happened on the cross that saves us.
Jesus came to Earth as a baby, conceived of both a woman, Mary, and the Holy Spirit.
He lived a sinless, blameless life. He fulfilled the law that we could not.
God's punishment for sin is death (Romans 6:23). Someone had to die for us to become righteous in God's sight, but it had to be Someone who didn't sin.
Therefore Jesus became our Substitute, our living Sacrificial Lamb. Jesus was the only Sacrifice that wouldn't have to be repeated year after year.
The officials sentenced Jesus to death because they believed He blasphemed against God.
They beat Him with a thick cat-of-nine-tails thirty-nine times until his skin hung on the whip. They spit on Him. They nailed His hands and feet to the cross with big, stake nails similar to the ones that we use to put up a tent, and they dug a crown of thorns into His head.
God judged Him for all our sins--past, present and future. He judged Him with all our sicknesses, and all the curses that came from the law.
He died, went to Hell, where He took back the keys to Earth from satan who had gained them by deceiving both Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3). This allow sin to come into this world (Romans 5:12).
On the third day, as a sign that the New Covenant had been made, Jesus rose from the dead (John 21:14).
For the first time in history, anyone who accepted Jesus (Romans 10:9-10), could become righteous in the sight of God not by our own works but by the shed blood of Jesus (II Corinthians 5:21).
For the first since the fall, humans could go boldly into the throne of grace and find grace and mercy in their time of need (Hebrews 4:16). All through Jesus' shed blood.
We cannot earn our salvation. We do not deserve it, but if we accept Christ (Romans 10:9-10), it is ours nevertheless.
God wants a relationship with us, but He couldn't have a relationship with us while we were dirty and in our muck. He had to made us righteous in His sight.
He had to judge and punish a sinless, blameless Person for our sins, then we could be righteous through the blood of that Person, Jesus.
He went through a lot of trouble to have a relationship with mere humans but that shows how much God loves us.
What is the power of the Cross, though?
When Jesus hung on the Cross, God judged Him for all our sins. When we accept Christ (Romans 10:9-10), God remembers our sins no more (Hebrews 8:12).
Jesus wasn't just judged for the sins we committed today and in the past but for our future sins as well.
All we have to do is "...confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Romans 10:9-10 NKJV).
Once we do that, we are saved, we are now in right-standing with God (II Corinthians 5:21).
Now when God sees us, we are not filthy from our past and present. Instead we are covered by the blood of Jesus. He sees Jesus' shed blood that covers us instead of our sins. Now we are righteous in His sight through Christ Jesus (II Corinthians 5:21). How cool is that?
We are righteous. What does the Bible say about the righteous?
They prosper (Psalms 1:3). Their prayers are answered (James 5:16). They are not moved (Psalms 55:22). We have all the benefits of being righteous through Christ. We don't deserve them. We couldn't earn them. They are ours nevertheless.
We have two choices. One, we can act like we are righteous through the shed blood of Jesus as we truly are. Two, we can act as if we are still sinners in our muck and mire.
Think about this for a moment. Imagine a woman, a princess, dressed up in torn and dirty clothes, who lived on the street outside the palace.
That seems ridiculous, right? It seems absurd for a princess to wear tattered clothes and sleep on the streets, right?
Most of us are doing that. We are kings and priests (Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10)--children of the Most High God--and yet we are living way below our privileges.
God has entitled us to grace through Jesus' death, resurrection and the stripes He took on His back. Through Jesus, and not through our own efforts, we are to have God blessing (Galatians 3:14), healing (Isaiah 53:4-5, I Peter 2:24, Romans 8:11), delivering (Psalms 107:20, Psalms 91: 15) and prospering (III John 2) us. These are a part of our salvation package when we accepted Christ (Romans 10:9-10)..
Most of us are sick, broke and in trouble, and we think it is God's Will. We think that God is teaching us something or that God is somehow punishing us.
God judged Jesus for all our sins on the cross. He is not holding any of our sins against us. If we have accepted Christ, God sees us in right-standing with Him. We are special to Him. We are His children...and He wants to heal us, prosper us, deliver us and love on us.
The power of the cross is that through Jesus, we are going to Heaven when we died. It is that God judged Jesus for all our sins. It is that God has already forgiven us of every sin the day Jesus hung on the cross. It is that Jesus' blood has atoned for every sin we will ever commit or have committed.
In addition to that, Jesus paid the price for our health, our prosperity, wealth and our peace (Isaiah 53:5), so that we can have His peace (John 14:27), which in Hebrew is the word Shalom, meaning nothing missing, nothing broken. He paid for us to be whole here on Earth.
Most of us don't know that God is our Healer, our Provider, our everything. We should recognize that the gifts and the Giver are not separate. They are the same.
We need to focus on Jesus and what He did for us. We must see Him on the cross, taking our migraines or our shingles, our poverty, our problem. When we focus on Jesus, we will receive the full benefits of what happened on the cross. And that pleases God.
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Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 (127 days 11 hours ago.) Viewed 3 times.
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: - Acts 10:34 (KJV).
I have started reading "Ever Increasing Faith" by Smith Wigglesworth. As I read the testimonies of others who were healed under his ministry, faith arose in my heart.
I know that what God has done for others, He is willing and able to do for me.
God is not respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). He is a respecter of faith. If you have faith, if you believe in God and His ability to do for you what He did for Abraham, for the lady with the issue of blood, for Smith Wigglesworth, Joyce Meyer, Oral Roberts and the other great men and women of faith, then He will do it.
We all think that these people are special that God won't do for us what He did for them. Oh no! That is a lie from the very pit of hell. We have all been given the same measure of faith (Romans 12:3). The more we use it, the bigger it grows. But if we have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, we can have whatever we say if we don't doubt in our hearts (Mark 11:23).
If we have all been given faith the same measure of faith, then you have faith at least the grain of a mustard seed.
Whatever it is in your life that is hindering, speak to it. Command it to go. Expect it to do so. It may not be as quick a result as when Jesus cursed the fig tree (Matthew 21:19-21), but it will happen for you, if you believe and don't doubt in your heart.
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