Expectancy

The Lord gave me something Saturday to tell everyone. I just wanted to share it with you all on here as well. I really do feel that God is moving and that things are getting ready to happen.
I felt like speaking to you all about Expectancy. I love brother Harold's testimony where he says, "Each day I wake up and ask God, if today is the day." Brother Harold has an expectancy. He is waiting on the Lord to move.
Waiting is a part of life. We have to wait almost in everything we do. God is no exception. It is all according to His will and purpose for our lives.
Psalm 37:7 says "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him:......."
We need to wait on God and expect. Isaiah 25:9 says, "And is shall be said in that day, Lo this is our God; we have waited for him and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." We inherit the promises of God by waiting with patients.
It is just like a doctors visit....We go to the doctors office and we can expect to have a seat and wait. We know that more than likely we aren't just going to go in there and as soon as we walk through the door that we are going to be called back. In some cases it may be that way, but more than likely not. We have to wait.....And what do we do while we wait? Do we get impatient because we want to get it over with or do we sit there quitely and know that we will be called at our appointed time? How we wait determines a lot. It is our attitude while we wait.
It is like we become "pregnant" with visions and dreams. Things we need God to move in....And it is how we wait while we are "expecting". If we are pregnant and expecting we know that there will be a due date...so we prepare for what is coming.
Believing is expecting God to show up at any given time with your miracle. When you are nearer to your due date you could go at anytime. That is the same way with God. He can show up suddenly, so we need to be expecting Him to.
God is going to do some excellent, exceedingly abundantly above and beyond things for those who put their faith in Him, but not if we are not expecting Him to.
We need to leave it in the Lord's hands and wait patiently with an expecting attitude. We should not wait with a passive mentality. Passively is wanting to see God move and do something good but only wishing and not expecting. People who passively wait for the Lord only have wishbone and not BACKBONE!
When we truly believe that the Lord will move, we hear it come from our mouths. What we speak is what is coming from our hearts. Our flesh is always negative so we need to be speaking things with a positive outlook. Because God told us that He would not withhold any good thing from us. We need to go around saying Lord I don't know what you are fixing to do but I know it is going to be good!
A woman who is pregnant when the due date gets nearer she wants to be prepared for any and everything. At the first sign of pain she things she might give birth. We have to start having the due date mentality. Lord I don't know when you're going to move but I am expecting you to move. I don't know when but I can feel it is close. If we never expect anything then most of us will go our whole lives and be pregnant and never give birth!
I watched the movie Facing the Giants...In the movie a man was telling the coach about a story of two farmers who were desperate for rain. They each prayed ferverently that God would bless them with rain, however only one of the two farmers prepared his field for the rain. Then he asked the coach a question..He said something to this effect..Now which one of these two do you think was expecting God for the rain. It was the one, of course, who went out and prepared his fields for the rain.
Even though we don't see God moving or we feel He isn't moving He is! If we pray for something then we should expect to see results. We don't need to pray and then just give up and that be the end of it. We must have faith and believe.
In Acts 1:4 Jesus commanded them to not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father....If they would have waited only a little while and then given up and not expected something then they wouldn't had received the promise. But they waited and expected and then all of a sudden they received the Holy Ghost.
We wait, wait, and wait some more for the Lord to move. And then all of a sudden it happens. We could wake up with a problem we have had for 20 years and then go to bed without it.
Exodus 33:18-23 talks about God showing Moses His Glory. God told Moses that he could not see His face, cause no man shall see him and live. But the Lord told Moses to stand upon a rock and that He would cover Moses with His hand in the clift of the rock, while He passed by. Then once the Lord had passed by he would allow Moses to see His back parts.
You don't always see God coming. But while we are there patiently and expectantly waiting with our problems, burdens, and needs, God is protecting us in the clift of the rock (His hands). And although we don't see Him coming...God says after I pass by, you sure know I've been there!
We need to start calling things even though they are not as though they were. I really do feel that there is going to be the biggest outbreak of miracles that we have ever seen in our lifetime. God is making a way but we have to expect it and receive it.