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Speaker 6: Today tonight, I want to talk about expectation, whether we
Speaker 6: know it or not, We're all expecting something. When we
Speaker 6: turn the key, we expect the car to start. When
Speaker 6: the clouds darken, we expect it to rain. When our
Speaker 6: team's up forty points, we expect to win the game.
Speaker 6: The question is not if we're expecting, but what are
Speaker 6: we expecting? Are we expecting the right things? Are we
Speaker 6: expecting enough? The Bible shows us that God meets us
Speaker 6: at the level of our expectation. When we wake up
Speaker 6: expecting to have a great day, God meets us right there.
Speaker 6: When we expect opportunity, he opens doors. When we expect
Speaker 6: to meet the right people, he brings them across our
Speaker 6: paths Wherever our level of expectation is. That's where we're
Speaker 6: asking God to meet us. That's the extent we're allowing
Speaker 6: him to move in our lives. He wants to do
Speaker 6: something amazing, but we got to give him some room
Speaker 6: to work. We got to expect the miracle, expect the breakthrough,
Speaker 6: expect our dreams to come to pass. Sometimes we find
Speaker 6: ourselves expecting the very things we don't want. We expect
Speaker 6: the relationship not to last. We expect that we won't
Speaker 6: get the job or the position. We expect to struggle
Speaker 6: with addiction. When God's saying I want the best for you,
Speaker 6: why are you expecting the worst? Maybe we think if
Speaker 6: I don't expect much, then I won't be disappointed. The
Speaker 6: truth is, if you don't expect much, you'll miss your destiny.
Speaker 6: If we're going to become all that God's created us
Speaker 6: to be, we have to learn to expect on his level.
Speaker 6: We have to take a step beyond what's familiar, beyond
Speaker 6: the ordinary, into what only He can do. This is
Speaker 6: a time to redefine our expectations. If we don't set them,
Speaker 6: then people and circumstances will set them for us. I've
Speaker 6: heard it said things just keep getting worse. This is
Speaker 6: just the way the world's headed. That kind of talk
Speaker 6: has created such a negative outlook in our generation. We've
Speaker 6: been told twenty seventeen was bad, twenty eighteen made it worse,
Speaker 6: and now it's all downhill from here about you. But
Speaker 6: I'm done letting anyone other than God tell me what's next.
Speaker 6: Let's stir our expectation in twenty nineteen. Let's believe for
Speaker 6: our best year yet. Let's believe this is the year
Speaker 6: we see our family restored, this is the year we
Speaker 6: are set free. This is the year we take new ground.
Speaker 6: It's not just positive thinking. Expectation is our faith being released.
Speaker 6: It's a force that can move mountains.
Speaker 4: Part sees bring the dead to life.
Speaker 6: If our expectations don't seem impossible, if our dreams aren't intimidating,
Speaker 6: if what we're believing for is anything less than extraordinary,
Speaker 6: then it doesn't take faith. We're talking about God size expectation.
Speaker 6: The kind of expectation that says, I'll pay this car
Speaker 6: off in half the time and be able to give
Speaker 6: it away. The kind of expectation that says, right now,
Speaker 6: I'm working for this company, but one day I'm gonna
Speaker 6: own it. The kind of expectation and that says I
Speaker 6: will be healed, I will be set free despite what
Speaker 6: the situation looks like. Maybe you're thinking that sounds awesome,
Speaker 6: but you also sound crazy. Then we're off to a
Speaker 6: good start. Let's get our hopes up. I imagine God
Speaker 6: looks at that level of expectation with a smile and says,
Speaker 6: I'll meet you there. Finally she's getting a glimpse of
Speaker 6: who I am. Finally he's scratching the surface of what
Speaker 6: I have in store. Isaiah thirty eighteen says God is
Speaker 6: longing to be good to those who expect and look
Speaker 6: for his goodness. My question is what are you looking for?
Speaker 6: What are you expecting? Are you looking for what could
Speaker 6: go wrong? Are you expecting more of the same, or
Speaker 6: are you looking for God's favor? Expecting him to show
Speaker 6: up this year? He's longing to be good to people
Speaker 6: like that. Let's raise our level of expectation. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 6: there are hundreds of people gathered around one man, A
Speaker 6: man they said could make the blind see in the
Speaker 6: lame walk, a man who could touch a leper and
Speaker 6: cause him to be healed. The whole city had come
Speaker 6: to get a glimpse of this man, Jesus. As he
Speaker 6: made his waist through the streets, the people pushed and shouted,
Speaker 6: trying to get as close as they could. In the
Speaker 6: midst of all that chaos, a woman pressed through the
Speaker 6: crowd with one thought in her mind. If I can
Speaker 6: touch him, I'll be healed. This woman had suffered for
Speaker 6: twelve years with chronic bleeding. It took all the strength
Speaker 6: she had just to be there that day. With every
Speaker 6: step she took, she said it again, I will be healed.
Speaker 6: When she could finally see him, she reached out and
Speaker 6: touched his robe, knowing full well what was about to happen. Suddenly,
Speaker 6: Jesus stopped and asked, who touched my robe? The disciples
Speaker 6: probably thought, here we go again. Why does he always
Speaker 6: ask these kind of questions. Jesus, everyone's touching you. There's
Speaker 6: hundreds of people here. He said, no, this was different.
Speaker 2: Who was it?
Speaker 6: When she realized she couldn't hide any longer, the woman
Speaker 6: stepped forward, hung her head and said it was me.
Speaker 6: Jesus looked at her with a smile, lifted her head
Speaker 6: and said, you took a risk.
Speaker 4: Now you're healed and whole, Go and live well.
Speaker 6: Dozens of people brushed up against Jesus that day. The
Speaker 6: woman who reached out in expectation received a miracle.
Speaker 4: Where are we in that crowd.
Speaker 6: Are we brushing up against him just hoping something happens,
Speaker 6: or are we like the woman who reached out expecting.
Speaker 4: To be healed.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of people with needs that day.
Speaker 6: The fact that they were even there shows us that
Speaker 6: they believed what they had heard about Jesus. But there's
Speaker 6: a difference between believing and expecting. The others said God,
Speaker 6: I know you can. This woman said, God, I know
Speaker 6: you will. If we want to see the power of
Speaker 6: God in our lives, we need to go from believing
Speaker 6: to expecting. Many of us believe God can do great things.
Speaker 6: We know it's possible with him, but we don't expect
Speaker 6: that it will happen to us. We don't make room
Speaker 6: for him to work. When we live expectantly, it gets
Speaker 6: God's attention when we wake up each day expecting to overcome,
Speaker 6: expecting to be debt free, expecting to be a greater blessing.
Speaker 4: Heaven sees that, and the angels go to work.
Speaker 6: They get that miracle, that breakthrough down off the shelf
Speaker 6: and put it in one of those brown Amazon boxes
Speaker 6: with your name on it. They're like, finally someone is
Speaker 6: expecting a delivery. We've got warehouses full of this stuff
Speaker 6: up here. Why don't we throw in a few extra blessings.
Speaker 6: Send the joy, send the strength, send the opportunity. God
Speaker 6: is longing to be good to us. Let's not keep
Speaker 6: them waiting because we're not expecting. The Bible says she
Speaker 6: kept saying to herself, I will be healed. She didn't
Speaker 6: just say it once, she said it over and over.
Speaker 6: I will be healed, will be restored, I will overcome.
Speaker 6: She was releasing her face, and it started with what
Speaker 6: she said to herself. It started with her thoughts in
Speaker 6: the same way. We can't go around thinking I'll never
Speaker 6: get any better. This is as good as I get.
Speaker 6: There's nothing good in my future. Doubt and fear may come,
Speaker 6: But like that woman, we have to speak up and
Speaker 6: keep saying to ourself. I will succeed, I will be free.
Speaker 6: The best is yet to come. Don't just say it once,
Speaker 6: say it until you're convinced. This is our year to
Speaker 6: expect great things. This is our year to dream again,
Speaker 6: to see God do something new. We can talk ourselves
Speaker 6: out of the miracle, or like she did, we can
Speaker 6: talk ourselves into it. Let's set our thoughts in the
Speaker 6: right direction. In twenty nineteen, the difference between believing and
Speaker 6: expecting is that two people can be in the same
Speaker 6: place at the same time, doing the same thing and
Speaker 6: have entirely different experiences.
Speaker 4: Some of the people there that day we're.
Speaker 6: At the right place at the right time, and even
Speaker 6: came into physical contact with Jesus, but miss the miracle.
Speaker 4: Why there was no expectation.
Speaker 6: How many times have we bumped up against Jesus thinking
Speaker 6: he doesn't have anything for me. I don't want to
Speaker 6: bother him. The good news is tonight. We're in the
Speaker 6: right place at the right time, and God saying, will
Speaker 6: you just reach out? I want to be good to you.
Speaker 6: Are we coming on Sunday night expecting to hear from God?
Speaker 6: Or are we waiting for the songs or the speaker
Speaker 6: to determine what kind of experience we have. We should
Speaker 6: come expecting God to show up. We should come expecting
Speaker 6: to make new friends. We should come expecting to be
Speaker 6: refreshed and renewed. When we approach life like that, we'll
Speaker 6: stop brushing up against Jesus and start reaching out for him.
Speaker 6: He's not going to pass us by. We're not going
Speaker 6: to miss what he has for us. We're determined to
Speaker 6: become all that He's created us to be. When a
Speaker 6: couple is believing for a baby, it's one thing they
Speaker 6: may believe for a few months or a few years
Speaker 6: before anything happens. But when the woman becomes pregnant, everything changes.
Speaker 6: And I'm not about to assume what that's like, but
Speaker 6: I do know it's a whole new attitude. It changes
Speaker 6: the way they talk, the way they think. It's no
Speaker 6: longer if it's when they start getting ready for what's
Speaker 6: about to happen. They buy toys and clothes, they read books,
Speaker 6: they get a crib, they start making a list of names.
Speaker 6: Now they're expecting when that baby finally arrives, they've prepared
Speaker 6: for it. That's how we should expect, not if, but
Speaker 6: when when I get promoted, when I get healed, when
Speaker 6: my family is restored. Start getting ready for what God
Speaker 6: is about to do. Let's get a vision for what
Speaker 6: we're expecting. Take a tour of that campus, meet some
Speaker 6: people there, go to that open house.
Speaker 4: They don't know.
Speaker 6: You can't afford it right now. Maybe you're single, you
Speaker 6: can plan your wedding annivers or if you're in the hospital,
Speaker 6: have someone bring your running shoes and keep them by
Speaker 6: your bed.
Speaker 4: That's what my grandfather did.
Speaker 6: You might not be able to use them right now,
Speaker 6: but every time you look at them, you can say,
Speaker 6: I will run again.
Speaker 4: You're expecting.
Speaker 6: At first, when there's no sign of a baby, the
Speaker 6: couple doesn't say, you know what, it's been a month
Speaker 6: and I haven't seen anything. I don't think we're expecting anymore. No,
Speaker 6: they don't need to see it, they don't even need
Speaker 6: to feel it. They got a report from the doctor
Speaker 6: that says a baby is on the way. That's all
Speaker 6: they need to start making preparations.
Speaker 4: If we can.
Speaker 6: Expect what a doctor says, surely we can expect what
Speaker 6: God says. There was a couple that lived in a
Speaker 6: tiny apartment and they were happy, but they knew God
Speaker 6: had bigger plans. So they bought this couch that was
Speaker 6: way too big for their living room. It was pushed
Speaker 6: all the way up against the wall and they still
Speaker 6: had to turn sideways just to get by. Whenever people
Speaker 6: came over, they would say, I'm sorry, you'll have to
Speaker 6: excuse our couch. We bought it for our new house.
Speaker 6: When asked where they were moving, the couple always replied,
Speaker 6: we don't know yet. We just know we're not staying here.
Speaker 6: Some people thought that was crazy, but these people just
Speaker 6: knew God had better things in store. They were getting
Speaker 6: ready for it. Three years went by and those same
Speaker 6: people would ask when are you moving? The couple would
Speaker 6: always say soon. They didn't let it bother them. They
Speaker 6: never thought, maybe we should have just bought a smaller couch.
Speaker 4: This is ridiculous.
Speaker 6: No, they kept expecting until one day they were offered
Speaker 6: this huge promotion. It was an amazing opportunity. And do
Speaker 6: you know where that couch is now? It's not in
Speaker 6: their new house. They bought other furniture. They gave that
Speaker 6: couch to another couple that's expecting their dream home. We
Speaker 6: can't overestimate God. He always meets us at the level
Speaker 6: of our expectation. Take the limits off, don't let it
Speaker 6: be so low he can't fit anything there. Start getting
Speaker 6: ready for what God's about to do. Make some room
Speaker 6: for him to work. We don't have to buy a
Speaker 6: really big couch, But what can we do to show
Speaker 6: God that we're expecting. Let's say what that couple did soon?
Speaker 6: When is that problem going to turn around soon? When
Speaker 6: are you getting out of debt soon? When is that
Speaker 6: door going to open soon? Say it by face, Say
Speaker 6: it with expectancy, and watch how God meets us there.
Speaker 6: Have you ever told a five year old something and
Speaker 6: then almost wished you hadn't because they never ever forgot it.
Speaker 6: I have some friends of mine have a little boy
Speaker 6: that's about five years old, and one day he was
Speaker 6: playing with some legos that I have. He's flying this
Speaker 6: ship around making the sound effects. It keeps falling apart.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to put it back together. But he doesn't care.
Speaker 6: He's loving life. You've never seen happiness like this. So
Speaker 6: in the spur of the moment, I say, hey, I'll
Speaker 6: get you some of these legos. I meant for his
Speaker 6: birthday or for Christmas. I didn't mean I get them.
Speaker 6: In like fifteen minutes, I said that. It was all
Speaker 6: he could talk about. He kept asking, Jo, did you
Speaker 6: get my legos yet? I said, it's been three minutes.
Speaker 6: I've been right here the whole time. How would I
Speaker 6: have gotten your legos? The next time I saw him,
Speaker 6: he didn't say hi, He didn't give me a hug.
Speaker 6: The first words out of his mouth were, did you
Speaker 6: get my legos? I would get calls from his parents'
Speaker 6: phone throughout the week, and when I answered, this little
Speaker 6: voice on the other end.
Speaker 4: Would ask me about legos. I could not escape it.
Speaker 6: But he wasn't being rude, he wasn't being unfriendly, he
Speaker 6: wasn't even demanding. He just knew if I told him
Speaker 6: I'd get him legos, I would. He believed me enough
Speaker 6: to expect it. The thought that he wasn't going to
Speaker 6: get legos never crossed his mind. He might not have
Speaker 6: known when, but he never doubted I even overheard him
Speaker 6: telling other people I was going to get him legos.
Speaker 6: It wasn't his birthday, it wasn't Christmas. But I finally
Speaker 6: got him those legos, and I think I was even
Speaker 6: happier than he was now that he had stopped asking.
Speaker 6: Isn't that what we should expect from God, that if
Speaker 6: he said he'd do something, he'd do it. That's childlike expectation.
Speaker 6: When we take God at his word, we hold on
Speaker 6: to the promise. We can't help but tell other people.
Speaker 6: This little boy didn't ask if I could afford it.
Speaker 6: He didn't try to give me directions to the store
Speaker 6: or check if it was in stock. And the same way,
Speaker 6: we don't have to figure it out for God. We
Speaker 6: don't have to tell him how to do it. We
Speaker 6: don't have to have a step by step plan with
Speaker 6: our expectation. The Bible says, ask and keep asking, expect
Speaker 6: and keep expecting. God knows what he's saying, He meant
Speaker 6: what he said. If there's no way he can make one,
Speaker 6: sometimes it feels like if we can't figure it out,
Speaker 6: then God probably can't either. We think expectation sounds great,
Speaker 6: but let's be realistic. There's not enough time. This stet
Speaker 6: is too great. I've had this addiction too long. No,
Speaker 6: God didn't say ask, but keep it real, realistic, expect,
Speaker 6: but don't get carried away.
Speaker 4: He created reality.
Speaker 6: He gets to decide what's realistic, and he says we
Speaker 6: can do all things through his strengths. He says we
Speaker 6: are free, equip talented. He calls us his children. Why
Speaker 6: don't we expect like kids?
Speaker 4: Again? God is a good father.
Speaker 6: He's longing to be good to us. Let's not keep
Speaker 6: him waiting because we're not expecting. We don't have to
Speaker 6: beg We don't have to figure it out. We can
Speaker 6: trust because he's faithful. And if he said he'd do it,
Speaker 6: then we can praise him like it's already done. In
Speaker 6: Psalm five, David writes, each morning, I bring my request
Speaker 6: to you and wait expectantly. He didn't pray and then
Speaker 6: get discouraged. He didn't ask God and then become complacent.
Speaker 6: David waited expectantly, and the time before our prayers are answered,
Speaker 6: the moment's leading up to the promise. There's always a
Speaker 6: period of waiting. The question is are we waiting the
Speaker 6: right way? When we wait expectantly, we wake up saying,
Speaker 6: this could be the day I get the call, This
Speaker 6: could be the day the situation turns around. We have
Speaker 6: anticipation in our spirit. We might not see it yet,
Speaker 6: but we talk like it's on the way. We act
Speaker 6: like it's going to happen. We're not just waiting, we're
Speaker 6: releasing our faith. We see this all throughout David's life.
Speaker 6: He said things like, surely goodness and mercy will follow
Speaker 6: me on my days.
Speaker 4: He wasn't just hoping that happened. David was convinced.
Speaker 6: He expected it, and this is one of the reasons
Speaker 6: God called him a man after his own heart. He
Speaker 6: had great expectation. When David wrote some of these things.
Speaker 6: He wasn't the king of Israel. He was a man
Speaker 6: on the run. The current king wanted him dead. Yet
Speaker 6: he still said, I am confident I will see God's
Speaker 6: goodness in the land of the living. He knew it
Speaker 6: was only a matter of time before God delivered him,
Speaker 6: and until then he was going to wait expectantly. True
Speaker 6: waiting is not past, it's actively expecting. We're not thinking
Speaker 6: this is never gonna work out. I should just learn
Speaker 6: to live with this problem. Like David, we pray, believe
Speaker 6: and then start looking for the answer. We can say
Speaker 6: things like, surely his blessings will chase me down. I
Speaker 6: am confident God is going to show up. It could
Speaker 6: be a work, it could be a school. I could
Speaker 6: get a call whenever wherever I'm on the lookout for
Speaker 6: God's goodness. The Bible in the Book of James encourages
Speaker 6: us to wait for God's promises like a farmer waits
Speaker 6: for the harvest.
Speaker 4: Think about that.
Speaker 6: A farmer doesn't plant his crops and spend the next
Speaker 6: six months worried. He doesn't stress when he can't see
Speaker 6: the seed. He doesn't kick back and do nothing until springtime.
Speaker 6: He's actively expected. He waters the seed, takes care of
Speaker 6: the soil, pulls up the weeds. On top of that,
Speaker 6: he's making preparations for the harvest to come. He's getting
Speaker 6: ready for what it's about to happen. Like a farmer,
Speaker 6: we don't have to live anxious and worried while we
Speaker 6: wait for the promise. We know it's not if it's
Speaker 6: when God has us in the palm of his hand,
Speaker 6: He'll never leave us or forsake us. He promised to
Speaker 6: keep us in perfect peace. We don't have to stress
Speaker 6: when the seed's underground. When we don't see anything happening,
Speaker 6: we know God is at work behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: He's still in control. He'll do what he said.
Speaker 6: When doubt and fears come pull him up like their weeds,
Speaker 6: Let's just let them know that the harvest is on
Speaker 6: the way. We're not waiting anxiously, We're waiting expectantly. It's
Speaker 6: an active position of faith. A farmer isn't complacent. He
Speaker 6: cultivates what he's expecting and God causes it to grow.
Speaker 6: It's our job to do the same while we wait.
Speaker 6: Let's thank God for what he's done in the past.
Speaker 6: Let's praise him for what he's going to do in
Speaker 6: the future. Keep saying to yourself, the promise is coming.
Speaker 6: Don't give into negative thoughts. Stand on God's word and
Speaker 6: start getting ready for it, making room for what is
Speaker 6: about to happen. Let's worship while we wait. When we
Speaker 6: do what we can, God does the things we can't.
Speaker 6: He brings the healing, he brings the favor, he brings
Speaker 6: the deliverance. He's faithful to his promise. The Bible says,
Speaker 6: while we wait, God gives us strength. He causes us
Speaker 6: to soar like eagles. We may still face challenges, but
Speaker 6: we can expect to overcome. We'll rise up and soar
Speaker 6: above the difficulty. Maybe you're thinking, what if I expect
Speaker 6: and it doesn't happen. What if I say this could
Speaker 6: be the day and it's not. Then you're one step
Speaker 6: closer to the promise. It might not have happened today,
Speaker 6: but God can still do it tomorrow. We're not talking
Speaker 6: about one or two days of expectation. We're not talking
Speaker 6: about expecting for a week and seeing if it works.
Speaker 6: We're talking about a lifestyle of expectation. Let's not miss
Speaker 6: what God has for us because we weren't willing to
Speaker 6: see step out in faith. It might seem impossible. God's
Speaker 6: not asking us to deny the facts. He's looking to
Speaker 6: see if we'll put more weight in his promise or
Speaker 6: our problem. The impossible hasn't stopped him yet. He flung
Speaker 6: stars into space, He created the universe. He breathed life
Speaker 6: into every soul. We can expect great things from our God.
Speaker 6: Romans eight says creation weights an eager expectation for what
Speaker 6: God will reveal. One translation says, on its tiptoes, what
Speaker 6: if that's how we approach this year on our tiptoes
Speaker 6: and expectation, knowing that at any moment God could show up.
Speaker 6: We can be on our tiptoes at work, at school,
Speaker 6: at the grocery store. We're so looking forward to what
Speaker 6: God is going to do that we can't keep our
Speaker 6: feet on the ground. When people ask why we're so excited,
Speaker 6: we'll tell them we're expecting the best. Twenty nineteen is
Speaker 6: going to be a great year. That old cynical attitude
Speaker 6: never got anyone anywhere. Let's leave that in the past
Speaker 6: and be a generation on our tiptoes and expectation for
Speaker 6: what God will do. What are you expecting this year?
Speaker 6: Is it enough? Let me say it this way. If
Speaker 6: God gave us what we were expecting in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 6: would we be pleased or would we look back and
Speaker 6: wonder why we didn't expect his best. Don't be just
Speaker 6: another person in the crowd. Reach out like that woman
Speaker 6: and receive the miracle. The Bible says God has blessings
Speaker 6: stored up for the righteous. Twenty nineteen is a time
Speaker 6: to bring some of those blessings.
Speaker 4: Out of storage.
Speaker 6: For as much as I didn't want to let that
Speaker 6: little boy down when I said I'd get him legos.
Speaker 6: How much more will your heavenly father not let you down?
Speaker 6: There are scholarships and management positions waiting for you. There
Speaker 6: is freedom and healing and breakthrough in your future. God
Speaker 6: is longing to be good to you. Don't let a
Speaker 6: lack of expectation keep you from your legos. This is
Speaker 6: your year to see the miraculous. This is your year
Speaker 6: to experience God's goodness. He's going to show up.
Speaker 4: He's going to.
Speaker 6: Open doors and break chains. He'll take you to a
Speaker 6: new level. You will be healed, you will be free,
Speaker 6: you will fulfill your destiny. Let's do our part and
Speaker 6: expect it. Let's get on our tiptoes. Let's wake up
Speaker 6: like David and start looking for God's promise. It might
Speaker 6: not happen our way or on our timetable, but God
Speaker 6: always has our best interest at heart. He always meets
Speaker 6: us at the level of our expectation. Take the limits off,
Speaker 6: dare to expect great things. Dare to dream again. Dare
Speaker 6: to believe God for the impossible. Release your faith and
Speaker 6: watch how he responds.
Speaker 4: Let's pray.
Speaker 6: God, We're on our tiptoes and expectation this year. We
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