God’s MASH Units

“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes – Isaiah 54:2

When everyone else is cutting back, it is time for the Body of Christ to think expansion.

Churches and the Body of Christ are like MASH units, and this is a time when casualties of this economic crisis, casualties of the world’s system, are flooding in.

All of them are in need of God’s kind of guidance.

And we are His medical staff.

Therefore we have to be ready and prepared to receive all those who are hurting.

Annagail Lynes
http://annagaillynes.wordpress.com

Holy Spirit Power

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” – Acts 1:8

It is when the Holy Spirit comes upon us that we receive power.  This word for power  is dumanis, which is where we get our English word for dynamite.

When we allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives, we hook up to God’s dumanis power, which is the power to perform miracles.

Conscious Weaponry

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; – Ephesians 6:14.

Being conscious of our righteousness in Christ and confessing it aloud every day is a weapon against the enemy.

Frustrating Grace

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. – Galatians 2:21

If we try to earn righteousness through keeping the law, we frustrate the grace of God.  We are essentially saying when we do this that Jesus’ death was of no effect.

Focus On Rightness

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. – I Corinthians 15:34.

The more we focus on our righteousness in Christ, the less we will sin.  The more we focus on Jesus and what He did for us, the more we will do what is right with no effort on our own part.

Done Deal

In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. – Ephesians 3:12

We can approach God without fear and trembling.  Through the awesome blood of Jesus, we can approach our God as we would our earthly father (or how we are supposed to approach our father since some of us approach him with fear and trembling).  We are to approach Him with freedom and confidence like children who love their Dad.

Children don’t keep asking Daddy for the same thing when they know Daddy promised it.

They keep talking about how they already have it, as if it were a done deal.

“Daddy, it is going to be so fun when we ride the roller coaster.  I think I will ride the roller coaster first, then have some ice cream…,” they say.

We should be like that with God.   What He promises, we need to consider a done deal.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. – 2 Corinthians 5:21.

Christ was made sin for us, so that we could be in right standing with God.

Nothing Into Something

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. – Galatians 6:3

When we think we are something, there is only one person we deceive and that’s ourselves.  We are something in Christ but not because of our works.  They don’t impress God.  It is Jesus’ blood on the cross that makes us something.  It took nothing people like us and made us something.  It took worthless people and set them up at the King’s table.  How marvelous is that?

Quit The Excuses

Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ. – Acts 28:31

We have to quit our excuses about why we cannot preach the kingdom of God within our own sphere of influence.  We have opportunities every day to show the love of Christ to someone, to help out people on our block, in our church and in our neighborhood  and yet most of us don’t.  Why?  Because we are focused on us and not others.

Our Covenant With God

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. – Deuteronomy 7:9

God will keep His covenant with us.  He is faithful even when we are unfaithful because He is faithfulness and cannot go against His nature.

God Never Changes

So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. – Hebrews 13:6-8

What can man do to me?  He can kill me, destroy my finances, make me sick, but he cannot take away my God’s love, my eternal security nor can he change God.  What God did for the people in the Bible, He has to do for me because He never changes.