Isaiah 42:9, Deuteronomy 28:13, Acts 9:5, Luke. 1:45, Hebrews 11:1, Acts 3:5-6

Men and brethren, you must realize that the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. Why are you analyzing the mockery and the accusations of yesterday? In the covenant, there is something that will happen to you that will make you forget about your yesterday. God wants you to live on the New Revelation of His promises with expectation. Expectation gives you advanced picture of what is to happen. It can be defined as the vision of the mind. Expectation is the working power of God’s Spirit in your conscience. There is harvest of 2020, it has not yet passed away, and heaven has released it. Anything can happen because the revelation of God works in the now. You need wisdom to bring what the doctors say to what God says, “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. (Isaiah 42:9)

Destiny is not driven by human expectation. It is driven by divine revelation. If you know the revelation of God, you will know where you are and where you are going. When God is saying, “Behold”, He is saying, “See, this is my plan” Deuteronomy 28:13. He has already perfected it and expected to deliver it to any panting soul”. If there is nothing God expected you to see, He would not have said, “Behold.” As long as you are still breathing, nobody can write you off. You are more relevant than your problems and your disappointments.

Right where you are, every miracle thinker and expectant is a Commander of the Miraculous. Therefore, expectation is provoked by the production of hope through the word of God in our conscience. God wants you to show commitment to your expectation. You express commitment to the hope that is conceived when you receive the word of God. God is watching the way you are moderating your life. Every wise man considers a family and the kingdom before considering any other thing. Correct your ways and your lifestyle and God will give you another chance. God said to Paul, “It is hard for you to work against your conscience” Acts 9:5. When we change our attitude, God will change our condition. It is possible to manifest your expectations sooner than you expect it when you show commitment in your covenant walk with God.

Faith without Expectation Is Dead and True faith is tough, practical, and realistic according to Brother Tozer. Expectation and faith, though alike, are not identical Heb 11:1. Moreover, True faith is never found alone; it is always accompanied by expectation. The man who believes the promises of God expects to see them fulfilled. Where there is no expectation there is no faith.

It is, however, quite possible for expectation to be present where no faith is (Acts 3:5-6). The mind is quite capable of mistaking strong desire for faith. Real faith is not the stuff dreams are made of; rather it is tough, practical, and altogether realistic. Faith sees the invisible and conquers the impossible. Faith engages God, the one great Reality, who gave and gives existence to all things. God’s promises conform to reality, and whoever trusts them enters a world not of fiction but of fact.

In common experience we arrive at truth by observation. Whatever can be verified by experiment is accepted as true. Men believe the report of their senses. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. And if its eggs hatch into little ducks the test is about complete.

Probability gives way to certainty; it is a duck. This is a valid way to deal with our environment. No one dare complain about it for everyone does it. It is the way we manage to get on in this world. But faith introduces another and radically different element into our lives. “By faith we know” is the word that lifts our knowing onto a higher level. Faith engages facts that have been revealed from heaven and by their nature they do not respond to scientific tests. The Christian knows a thing to be true, not because he has verified it in experience but because God has said it. His expectations spring from his confidence in the character of God.

Expectation has always been present in the church in the times of her greatest power. When she believed, she expected, and her Lord never disappointed her. “And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord” (Luke. 1:45, KJV).

Every great movement of God in history, every unusual advance in the Church, every revival, has been preceded by a sense of keen anticipation. Expectation accompanied the operations of the Spirit always. His bestowals hardly surprised His people because they were gazing expectantly toward the risen Lord and looking confidently for His word to be fulfilled. His blessings accorded with their expectations.

One characteristic that marks the average church today is lack of anticipation. Christians when they meet do not expect anything unusual to happen; consequently only the usual happens, and that usual is as predictable as the setting of the sun. A psychology of non-expectation pervades the assembly, a mood of boredom which the minister by various means tries to dispel, the means depending upon the cultural level of the congregation and particularly of the minister. No wonder you see many sending text with their mobiles even at church and checking for friends Facebook update. Some Pastors will resort to humour, another will latch on to some topic currently dividing the public, such as boko haram, capital punishment, or Sunday sports with Manchester United and Chelsea playing. Another who may have a modest opinion of his gifts as a humourist and who is not sure which side of a controversy he may safely support will seek to arouse expectation by outlining enthusiastically the shape of things to come. Christian expectation in the average church follows the program, not the promises. Prevailing spiritual conditions, however low, are accepted as inevitable. What will be is what has been. The weary slaves of the dull routine find it impossible to hope for anything better.

We need today a fresh spirit of anticipation that springs out of the promises of God. We must declare war on the mood of non-expectation, and come together with childlike faith. Only then can we know again the beauty and wonder of the Lord’s presence among us.

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