The Three P's of Expectations

So stop waiting for evidence to move. Stop waiting for everything to be laid out in front of you before you take that step and step out of the boat because your movement is the evidence of your faith. That first step you take, that is your evidence of faith. That's putting your faith into action. Amen? That's why we walk by faith and not by sight. [01:01:18] (23 seconds)  #StepOfFaith

Notice he had to step out of the boat and step into faith and that's when he began to walk on the word come and walk walk on the water. But it wasn't while he was in the boat. Because the truth is, you will never experience supernatural results while living a natural, comfortable, low expectation life. I wanna say that again. You will never experience supernatural results while living in a natural, comfortable, low expectation life. Right? [00:39:14] (34 seconds)  #NoComfortNoMiracles

As long as I stay in this boat, I know how things are going to turn out. I don't wanna step out of the boat, and that's a dangerous place to be. We are called to step out of the boat into faith and walk on the water, but you can't do that when you're still stuck. See, faith doesn't live in that boat. Fear, anxiety, doubt, concern, you know, the status quo, that's what lives in that boat, not faith. Faith actually has you walk out on the water. [00:36:42] (31 seconds)  #FaithLeavesTheBoat

Expectation is not passive. Expectation is the preparation. It prepares. You think of an expecting mother, right? Someone who's expecting their child. They don't just sit and wait nine months and say, okay, well whenever the baby gets here then I'll do everything. I have to wait until I see it before I'm able to actually do stuff. That's not what an expecting mother does, right? [00:52:07] (23 seconds)  #ExpectationIsPreparation

See, what I want you to understand is faith begins where your imagination is redeemed. And what that means is your ability to believe God starts with what you allow your mind to picture. So what are you picturing? Amen? I'm picturing a good God, an abundant God, a God who's yes and amen. Because before faith before faith actually shows up in your actions, it shows up in your imagination first. Right? [00:41:12] (28 seconds)  #FaithStartsInImagination

See, you can't maintain expectation without staying in God's presence. Staying in his word, staying prayed up, praying without ceasing, staying in an act of worship. See, the moment that Peter stepped out of that boat, he was walking on the word come and he began walking on water. But when he looked at the wind and the storms around him and the circumstances, that's when he began to sink. [01:01:57] (29 seconds)  #StayInGodsPresence

See, you can't step out of that boat if all you see is the storm around you. If you focus on the storm and you focus on the circumstances that are going around you, it's gonna hold you back into that boat of captivity, that boat of, well, I don't have enough, that boat of of anxiety and all that kind of stuff. You can't step out of that boat if you're focusing on the storm around you. [00:50:54] (24 seconds)  #EyesOnThePromise

But you have to prepare, you have to walk in that expect that preparation for expectation. So if you're believing today, if you're here today and you're believing for a job, then prepare and act like it's already yours. Amen? Act like it's already yours. Prepare. That's exactly what I had to do. I dusted off a resume. I started practicing for interviews. I hadn't even had interviews set up yet and I was practicing for interviews. [00:59:54] (25 seconds)  #PrepareLikeItsYours