But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. – Acts 6:4

We need to give ourselves continually to prayer and ministering the Word.

Many times we are more focused on worrying, working and keeping everything together that we forget the real reason we are on this Earth–to minister the Word to the world.

We must make praying for others and ministering the Word to those in our sphere of influence our top priority.

For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith – Romans 4:13

We are not heirs of the world because we have earned it.  Not because we worked for it.

We are heirs of the world, through the promise of Abraham, because we are the righteousness of God in Christ.

What makes us righteous in Christ?  Jesus’ shed blood on the Cross.

It is only when we focus on being the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus that we begin to change to reflect the image of our Lord.

time and chance happen to them all” Ecclesiastes 9:11 (AMP)

My mother and I went shopping one day when I was younger for socks at a store near my great aunt.

A thief stole a woman’s purse after she paid with cash.

The woman, distraught, said, “But I’m a Christian…”

Problems happen to the just and the unjust, Christians and non-Christians, but it is how we react to those problems that is our real strength.

My mother took authority and commanded that purse to come back to the woman in Jesus’ Name, and it did.

When we stand on the Word and believe it as our final authority, we sail through problems that would devastate others.

And God has visited His people [in order to help and care for and provide for them]!” – Luke 7:16 (AMP).

Think about that!  God visited His people in order to help and care for and provide for them.  What a wonderful statement!

Our Father God is still  with us today.

He is still wanting to help, care for and provide for us, but many times we are too busy doing all that ourselves, never allowing God to do what He loves to do best, which is to care for His children.

The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. – Matthew 8:8

Do you have enough faith to say “Lord, speak the Word only”?  Do you have enough faith to believe that what God has said He will do?

We have a book full of God’s promises, full of things that He has promised us, and if we can just believe, we can see God manifest those things in our lives.

So be like the centurion and believe that what God spoke, He will do.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, – Ephesians 1:3

When Jesus cried “It is finished,” He gave us every spiritual blessing.

All of our blessings come from above, so all our blessings are spiritual blessings.

Every thing that is in this physical world started out as something in the spiritual realm.

Our only job is to thank God for what He has already given us, so that what is spiritual will manifest itself in our physical world.

“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

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.

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.

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.