Baby, at this point in your life your mind should now be the expectancy level. Instead of hoping for things to happen you should be expecting for things to happen. See, expect is defined as to look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of. Now, I’m speaking in the way of blessings and not mess because you should be expecting a cure for your arthritis, that new job, that new car, that new house/apartment/condo, that new spouse that belongs to only you, that mending for your heart that is broken, the drying of the tears that won’t seem to stop, the receiving of rest that you can’t find on a bad night, the comfort when momma is gone and daddy is no where around. Yea, you should be expecting these things by now. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with hoping because Romans 5:5 says, “And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us,” but don’t just hope alone because with hope you have to have expectancy. Let me break this thang down. When you pray to God you hope that He hears your prayer and then you expect Him to come and see about you, right? When you hope for a callback from that job you applied for, you go in expecting to get the job. When you hope for a solution to the sickness in your body, you expect the medicine that the doctor gives, to work. See, in order to have hope you’ve got to also expect. This is why I said, before, that your mind should now be at the expectancy level because if you keep hoping that God hears you when will you expect him to send what you’re asking for?
Again, there is nothing wrong with hoping for this and hoping for that, but when will you expect to receive it? If you’re hoping for your check to come, it will eventually but when will you expect it to be there? If you’re hoping that your boyfriend will ask you to marry him, he can continue to drag his feet because you haven’t given him a date of when you expect him too. It’s like loaning someone money and you tell them you hope they will pay you back and they hope they will too but if you never give them a date of when you expect them too then they will pay you when they feel like it. You have to expect things to happen in order for them to happen. This doesn’t mean you get all cocky and arrogant in your expectancy from God and from folks but it means you have that type of faith to know that God will come just like he promised and folks will do what they say they will. See, if I pray with the hope that God will enlarge my territory; I’ve also got that type of faith to expect it to happen so now I’m clearing space in order to receive what I’ve asked for. I can’t say God isn’t coming to see about me if I never expect Him too because I’m only hoping He will. When will you expect your breakthrough? When will you expect your miracle? When will you expect your storm to be over, for your crying to stop? When will you expect to be elevated up instead of always being down? You’ve got to expect your healing to come! You’ve got to expect your financial breakthrough to come! You’ve got to expect for your husband or wife to come! You’ve got to get to your level of expectancy in order to get somewhere new. Psalm 62:5 says, “My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.” God is your expectation because Psalm 62:6 says, “He only is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken.” Expect and then get! Don’t stop hoping but with hoping expect. Hope for your miracle, hope for your blessings, hope for your deliverance and then expect to receive it! You are worthy of all the things that God has promised but you have to expect to get them.
Lakisha, the Author 