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Here are a few simple ways it which this can become a reality in your life: Ask God to give you a fresh spirit of expectation. Spend time in God’s word, it produces faith and that in turn produces expectancy. Begin to declare your expectancy, because everything starts with words. Take up the challenge and…

AW Tozer wrote: ‘We need today a fresh spirit of anticipation that springs out of the promises of God.’ Faith and expectation work together. Hebrews 11:1 Faith assures us of things we expect and convinces us of the existence of things we cannot see. (God’s Word Translation) When you live with expectancy your faith has the…

AW Tozer wrote that ‘We must declare war on the mood of non-expectation, and come together with childlike faith.’  When we no longer have expectation, we stop growing.  We can never afford to stop growing! I was recently reading a book on personal growth. In this book the author looked at four signs that we…

There are two aspects to expectation: 1. It is future orientated. You can’t be expectant for the past.  It has this future orientated dimension.  So it does not matter where you come from or what you have been through.  In a sense we are all back to the beginning when it comes to the future…

My father was a Pastor of a wonderful church. The church grew from 90 members to 6500 members under his ministry. During his ministry it was prophesied that his ‘congregation’ would reach 20 000 people. But then he died. I was convinced that the prophetic word was inaccurate as the congregation was only 6500 at…

With expectation I believe so much more can happen.  I have been a worship leader for many years, and I have seen the effect of expectation. When I step up to minister in an environment where there is expectation, things happen. When I step up and there is no sense of expectation, very little happens.…

According to the definition of the word EXPECTATION it is ‘a state of expecting or anticipating’.  It is the act or state of looking forward to some occurrence.  I believe it should be part of the Christian lifestyle or the Christian way of life. It includes the aspect of believing for a positive outcome.  It…

Isaiah 40:31 (Amplified Bible) But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired. We should be…