God is the SOURCE of hope. When we are in a mental posture of hopelessness, it is because we have separated ourselves from the Word. The Bible says the Word of God gives us Hope. It’s always connected to joy and peace. Biblical hope is the expectation of a good and happy life ahead. Our expectation should be in God NOT in our conditions or circumstances, people, or things.
What is expectation?
1) Expectation is the strong belief that something good OR something bad will happen or be the case in the future.
2) Expectation is a readiness to receive.
3) Expectation is watching with an outstretched neck.
4) Expectation implies not only looking for something but also looking away from something.
Move your expectations from other things and other people, and center them in God. When you enter your expectations in God, you will have peace.
Where are your expectations?
The Law of Expectation states that whatever you expect in your heart, with conviction, will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
YOUR STEPS ARE ORDERED BY YOUR EXPECTATIONS.
Your steps are literally ordered by your expectations. Your steps should be ordered by the Lord, but for most people, it is not. When you confidently expect good things to happen, good things usually happen. When you expect negative things to happen, you’re usually not disappointed. Notice the word ‘usually’. If you listen to negative people talk, they always see the negative side of things: “If it’s not one thing it’s another thing.”
It is biblically true that our thoughts, words, and actions usually line up with our expectations. Your thoughts, words, and actions are going to demonstrate FAITH or fear. (Thoughts > Words > Actions). There is a negative expectation when you operate in fear.
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Who or what is the object/focus of your expectation/attention?
Is it situations, circumstances, or things? Men? Self? God?
“Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”
“I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.”
Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”
Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,”
This man object of expectation was not in God. Often, people who have experienced conditions and situations in their life, they expect what they are used to. When we center our focus on God, He will exceed our expectations.
“Let all that I am wait quietly before God,
for my hope is in him.
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress where I will not be shaken.
7 My victory and honor come from God alone.
He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.
8 O my people, trust in him at all times.
Pour out your heart to him,
for God is our refuge. ”
Our expectation should be in God NOT in our conditions or circumstances, people, or things.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Psalm 62:5-8
John 5:2-9
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