Great Expectations

When you go to the mailbox, what are you expecting to receive? Are you looking for big checks of money or are you expecting to get bills? We get what we’re looking for. If we are expecting to lose, we will. If we expect to win, victory will be ours. It is a spiritual principle that whatever we truly expect to get is what will manifest in our lives. Job’s trial was an example of this principle at work.

What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. Job 3:25 (New International Version, NIV)

Job obviously had made offerings to God because he was afraid calmity would come. Guess what? It did. The same holds true in the opposite way. If we expect good and belive the Lord has good things for us, we will see those things come to pass.

The issue is in our minds. We have been programmed by the world’s system (which is governed by the enemy) to expect the worst. If we can change our minds and reprogram them to believe what God says, we can change our outcome. How do we do this? By doing what God calls renewing our minds.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 (New International Version, NIV)

We renew our minds by immersing ourselves in the Word of God. As we spend time in the Bible, our thought processes and patterns are changed and we believe differently. Our expectations are changed. As we believe differently, we speak differently. And because our words carry creative power, when we speak God’s Word instead of the words that the World speaks, we create better results. And it all starts with our expectations. Isn’t that great to know?