Living with Expectancy: Faith in Action
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"And when we live with that sense of expectation that God will move, not that he may, not that he might, but he will move. We stand on his words. When we live in that sense of expectation that he will move, we position ourselves to receive his promises. What are his promises? That we're blessed and highly favored, right? We're blessed coming in. We're blessed going out. We can do all things through Christ who threatens us, right? We live in those promises. When we walk in that expectation, we position ourselves to receive those promises." [00:41:10] (31 seconds)
"You have to put your faith in action. It's the confidence anticipation that what God has spoken will come to pass. Amen? I believe what he has spoken will come to pass because we serve a God who shall not lie. He can't lie, right? So what he says will come to pass. Amen? And see, expectation, we got to understand also, it's not just the wishful thinking. It's not a la-di-da, pie-in-the-sky kind of wishful thinking, but what it does, it allows us, I mean, it aligns us with God's will, God's perfect will for our lives. That's what expectation does." [00:42:00] (37 seconds)
"Whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive. Expectancy. You have to stand on that sense of expectation. See, expectancy is believing in advance that what God has promised is already on the way. It's already on the way. Don't give up. Don't lose hope. You've heard us share this message time and time again about standing. When you've done all you can do, stand, right? Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Too many times people lose hope and they give up right before God shows up because they try to do it on their timeline and not God's timeline, right? So God will show up. If he told you he's going to show up, he will show up. Don't waver. Don't falter. Stand in that hope. Stand in that confidence." [00:44:04] (44 seconds)
"And so we continue reading, and she pressed through the crowds with unwavering faith, right? And see, that's important. I went to the dentist. you to grab a hold of that, that she pressed through that crowd. You see, when she was suffering with this blood issue, she was an outcast. She was not supposed to be around anybody. She was not supposed to be in any kind of social engagement, but she did not care. She said, you know, in herself, she was thinking, I'm going to do whatever I have to do, take whatever consequences I have to take, but I am going to get to Jesus. I'm going to press through whatever obstacles are in my way. I'm going to press through and I'm going to get to Jesus just to touch the hem of his garment because I know that I will be made whole. Amen? So when she did, she touched the hem of his garment and immediately, immediately the bleeding had stopped." [00:47:05] (48 seconds)
"Her expectation activated her healing. Amen? Her expectation activated her healing. And so what I want you to understand is that expectancy, it requires three things. It requires faith. She heard Jesus was coming. She knew what he could do, right? So she had that faith. If I could just get to him. So she had that faith. The second thing, it requires declaration. She declared to herself. She said, if I could just but touch his clothes. She made a bold declaration. If I could just touch his clothes, I shall be healed. And the third thing expectation takes is action." [00:48:23] (39 seconds)
"And so once he saw that and he started calling out, Jesus, have mercy on me, what did the crowd immediately do? The crowd immediately tried to get him to be quiet. They tried to silence him. They did everything they could. And many severely censored him, telling him to keep still, but he kept on shouting, all the more, amen? He got louder. He didn't let those around him stop him from declaring that God could heal him, right? He said, Jesus, have mercy on me. And they're trying to silence him. He said, I'm not going to listen to them. I'm going to get even louder. It's time for us, church, to get louder and get bold with our faith." [00:53:31] (38 seconds)
"Notice he wasn't healed just yet, but he threw his garment off. I want you to grab a hold of that. He threw his outer garment off. What that symbolizes is he was leaving the old behind him, and he was expecting something new. Amen? He didn't know how it was going to happen. He didn't know what it was. He just said, Jesus, have mercy on me. So he took off his old garment, left it alone, don't go back to it, and expect something greater. Expect something new, something more. Amen?" [00:57:14] (30 seconds)
"So expectancy has to be rooted in God's word, in God's promises. So what did Elijah do? He went up to the top of Mount Carmel and he bowed down in prayer and he told his servant to look at the sea. So I want you to think, really get this. He told his servant, you know, there's no sign of rain. There's no cloud in the sky. Nothing's going on. But he's at the top of the mount and he's praying because he knows that God said, I am going to send rain. He has that sense of expectation. So he sends his servant out and said, hey, go toward the sea and come back and report to me what you see." [01:01:09] (35 seconds)
"And he says, and on the seventh time, the servant said, a cloud as small as a man's hand is arising out of the sea. And so Elijah said, go up and say to Ahab, hit your chariot and go down unless the rain stop you, right? Don't let the rain stop you. See, it's important. I want you to grab hold of this. When he went out to sea, all he saw was a small cloud the size of somebody's hand. Now some of you might be saying, well, what's so significant about that? You've got to understand how far away he saw that cloud. So for that cloud to be the size of his hand, when it came, it was a downpour. So you might be going through something right now. You might be expecting something and you're not seeing anything come to pass, but you start seeing just a little hope. You start just seeing a little bit. Grab hold of that. Amen. That's exactly what Elijah did here. He grabbed hold of that. He said, praise God, rain is coming. And what happened? A downpour came. Amen." [01:02:45] (57 seconds)
"See, expectation, it persists even when there are no visible signs. We have to keep praying, keep believing, and our breakthrough is going to come. Amen. Elijah didn't give up when he was on top of that mountain. He kept on. He was persistent. And when he saw, when his servants saw that small cloud in the distance, he knew there was going to be a downpour because that's exactly what God had promised. Amen. So you might be thinking, well, how do these, you know, stories, how do they relate to us? You know, well, we serve a God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, right? He's no respecter of persons. So what he did for the woman with the issue of blood, what he did for Bartimaeus, what he did for Elijah, he will do for each and every one of us." [01:04:40] (46 seconds)
"See, you also have to meditate on God's word. Joshua 1 .8 instructs us to meditate on God's word day and night. Amen? Day and night. Not just when you feel like it, not just, you know, like I said, Sunday mornings, Wednesday nights, day and night. Make time for God. Amen? You know, I shared a, as a matter of fact, our lesson last week over in the children's church was talking about putting God first in your life. And before I had the kids start this activity, I was asking them questions about what they do during the week. A lot of them were in sports and, of course, school and some of them had piano lessons and soccer practice and they were naming all this stuff in their lives. And I was asking them, okay." [01:07:38] (44 seconds)
"Because it's called the ever-living Word of God for a reason. Amen? You're going to grab new revelation time and time again when you read His Word. You might read the same scripture many, many times, and then you grab a different revelation. It's like, oh, a light bulb clicks on. That's what that means. I need that for such a time as this, right? So meditate on His Word. Get the Word deep down inside of you. You know, Captain Rex says this all the time. You want to, how does he say it? I'm going to get there. You know, read God's Word, meditate it, fill your heart with God's Word when you don't need it so that your heart will fill your mouth when you do. I knew I was going to get there. That wasn't in my notes, so otherwise I would have been able to say exactly what he said. But fill your heart with God's Word when you don't need it so that your heart will fill your mouth when you do. Why is that important?" [01:09:31] (50 seconds)
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"You have to put your faith in action. It's the confidence anticipation that what God has spoken will come to pass. Amen? I believe what he has spoken will come to pass because we serve a God who shall not lie. He can't lie, right? So what he says will come to pass. Amen? And see, expectation, we got to understand also, it's not just the wishful thinking. It's not a la-di-da, pie-in-the-sky kind of wishful thinking, but what it does, it allows us, I mean, it aligns us with God's will, God's perfect will for our lives. That's what expectation does." [00:42:00] (37 seconds)
"Whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive. Expectancy. You have to stand on that sense of expectation. See, expectancy is believing in advance that what God has promised is already on the way. It's already on the way. Don't give up. Don't lose hope. You've heard us share this message time and time again about standing. When you've done all you can do, stand, right? Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Too many times people lose hope and they give up right before God shows up because they try to do it on their timeline and not God's timeline, right? So God will show up. If he told you he's going to show up, he will show up. Don't waver. Don't falter. Stand in that hope. Stand in that confidence." [00:44:04] (44 seconds)
"And so we continue reading, and she pressed through the crowds with unwavering faith, right? And see, that's important. I went to the dentist. you to grab a hold of that, that she pressed through that crowd. You see, when she was suffering with this blood issue, she was an outcast. She was not supposed to be around anybody. She was not supposed to be in any kind of social engagement, but she did not care. She said, you know, in herself, she was thinking, I'm going to do whatever I have to do, take whatever consequences I have to take, but I am going to get to Jesus. I'm going to press through whatever obstacles are in my way. I'm going to press through and I'm going to get to Jesus just to touch the hem of his garment because I know that I will be made whole. Amen? So when she did, she touched the hem of his garment and immediately, immediately the bleeding had stopped." [00:47:05] (48 seconds)
"Her expectation activated her healing. Amen? Her expectation activated her healing. And so what I want you to understand is that expectancy, it requires three things. It requires faith. She heard Jesus was coming. She knew what he could do, right? So she had that faith. If I could just get to him. So she had that faith. The second thing, it requires declaration. She declared to herself. She said, if I could just but touch his clothes. She made a bold declaration. If I could just touch his clothes, I shall be healed. And the third thing expectation takes is action." [00:48:23] (39 seconds)
"And so once he saw that and he started calling out, Jesus, have mercy on me, what did the crowd immediately do? The crowd immediately tried to get him to be quiet. They tried to silence him. They did everything they could. And many severely censored him, telling him to keep still, but he kept on shouting, all the more, amen? He got louder. He didn't let those around him stop him from declaring that God could heal him, right? He said, Jesus, have mercy on me. And they're trying to silence him. He said, I'm not going to listen to them. I'm going to get even louder. It's time for us, church, to get louder and get bold with our faith." [00:53:31] (38 seconds)
"Notice he wasn't healed just yet, but he threw his garment off. I want you to grab a hold of that. He threw his outer garment off. What that symbolizes is he was leaving the old behind him, and he was expecting something new. Amen? He didn't know how it was going to happen. He didn't know what it was. He just said, Jesus, have mercy on me. So he took off his old garment, left it alone, don't go back to it, and expect something greater. Expect something new, something more. Amen?" [00:57:14] (30 seconds)
"So expectancy has to be rooted in God's word, in God's promises. So what did Elijah do? He went up to the top of Mount Carmel and he bowed down in prayer and he told his servant to look at the sea. So I want you to think, really get this. He told his servant, you know, there's no sign of rain. There's no cloud in the sky. Nothing's going on. But he's at the top of the mount and he's praying because he knows that God said, I am going to send rain. He has that sense of expectation. So he sends his servant out and said, hey, go toward the sea and come back and report to me what you see." [01:01:09] (35 seconds)
"And he says, and on the seventh time, the servant said, a cloud as small as a man's hand is arising out of the sea. And so Elijah said, go up and say to Ahab, hit your chariot and go down unless the rain stop you, right? Don't let the rain stop you. See, it's important. I want you to grab hold of this. When he went out to sea, all he saw was a small cloud the size of somebody's hand. Now some of you might be saying, well, what's so significant about that? You've got to understand how far away he saw that cloud. So for that cloud to be the size of his hand, when it came, it was a downpour. So you might be going through something right now. You might be expecting something and you're not seeing anything come to pass, but you start seeing just a little hope. You start just seeing a little bit. Grab hold of that. Amen. That's exactly what Elijah did here. He grabbed hold of that. He said, praise God, rain is coming. And what happened? A downpour came. Amen." [01:02:45] (57 seconds)
"See, expectation, it persists even when there are no visible signs. We have to keep praying, keep believing, and our breakthrough is going to come. Amen. Elijah didn't give up when he was on top of that mountain. He kept on. He was persistent. And when he saw, when his servants saw that small cloud in the distance, he knew there was going to be a downpour because that's exactly what God had promised. Amen. So you might be thinking, well, how do these, you know, stories, how do they relate to us? You know, well, we serve a God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, right? He's no respecter of persons. So what he did for the woman with the issue of blood, what he did for Bartimaeus, what he did for Elijah, he will do for each and every one of us." [01:04:40] (46 seconds)
"See, you also have to meditate on God's word. Joshua 1 .8 instructs us to meditate on God's word day and night. Amen? Day and night. Not just when you feel like it, not just, you know, like I said, Sunday mornings, Wednesday nights, day and night. Make time for God. Amen? You know, I shared a, as a matter of fact, our lesson last week over in the children's church was talking about putting God first in your life. And before I had the kids start this activity, I was asking them questions about what they do during the week. A lot of them were in sports and, of course, school and some of them had piano lessons and soccer practice and they were naming all this stuff in their lives. And I was asking them, okay." [01:07:38] (44 seconds)
"Because it's called the ever-living Word of God for a reason. Amen? You're going to grab new revelation time and time again when you read His Word. You might read the same scripture many, many times, and then you grab a different revelation. It's like, oh, a light bulb clicks on. That's what that means. I need that for such a time as this, right? So meditate on His Word. Get the Word deep down inside of you. You know, Captain Rex says this all the time. You want to, how does he say it? I'm going to get there. You know, read God's Word, meditate it, fill your heart with God's Word when you don't need it so that your heart will fill your mouth when you do. I knew I was going to get there. That wasn't in my notes, so otherwise I would have been able to say exactly what he said. But fill your heart with God's Word when you don't need it so that your heart will fill your mouth when you do. Why is that important?" [01:09:31] (50 seconds)
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