EXPECTATION - DeVon Franklin

[Music] there is a news report that came out that said Christmas Eve is the time when people are most susceptible to heart attacks why a lot of it has to do with the stress of the season a lot of it has to do with the sadness of the season so you be here part of what we're trying to do tonight is to remind you to not bring the heaviness in why because he says if you bring your burdens to me he said that my yoke is easy and my burden is lying some of you have been carrying stress all year long that God is saying if you would just give it to me he said the answer is beyond your capacity so why are you acting like is he but in your strength God is telling me to tell you this you're wearing this this worry and since it's in your stream not just it's already a my strength and if you do that I already had it worked out you wouldn't be so stressed right now he says some of you 20:19 hasn't even hit and you're already worried about the next year and you haven't even made it through this year so God says why are you gonna try to get in your future which I already have handled instead of enjoying the present which I already have handled talking to somebody tonight because I don't want you to get to Christmas and start thinking oh I don't have anything I don't have the gifts to give I don't know what's giving me gifts god bless your heart you that life I don't want talking to right now he won't you up that's a kid man and let me tell you something I said this last last month please listen to me I am NOT going to get in your finances but please do not go and dad getting gifts for people that are gonna forget what you got them the moment after they open it and you kind of pay for the bill the whole neck here I'm talking to somebody if they if they don't love you with the gift but not a gift they don't love you with again I'm talking to somebody there's nothing wrong if you have it do it but if you don't please don't feel badly about it we get to Christmas and people make all these lists listen I've gotten to the point where hey I love you i'ma let you go I love you but I'm tired of the stress of like everybody did I miss anybody it is what this person gonna think and are they gonna be mad at me and are they gonna think I should have because I got let me tell you something if anybody gets mad at me cuz I didn't get him something I was gonna pray for you okay I'm gonna pray for you that God will bless you because clearly he was not going to use me to bless you this Christmas because if he was he would have put it on my mind and give me the energy to do it who am I talking to right now I'm trying to live a right you this Christmas season from all the craziness that the enemy wants to remind us of to keep us down to me as the year progresses as the most progress we should go higher in the hole and it's so often emotionally we come into the year you know excited but by the time we get to December our energy is low why because I believe this one thing we're talk about tonight is called expectation expectation is a dangerous for return to nipsey's a dangerous word and so many of us are dealing with expectations if we don't even realize it and so much of our depression and our stress I argue comes from an expectation that has not given me I'm trying to stay focused I gotta get this word but I want to say one other thing just turn to your neighbor and say you mean and servers other they were saying and you look good too come on and that's what you look good in Jesus that ain't nothing else okay oh I just want you to know you love that you are appreciated so y'all saying a whole lot more you got a lot out of that first okay so let's go to a word generally father thank you for what you're getting ready to do what you have done and anymore Lord I'm just I'm just so grateful that my plans for this year you disregarded it you gave me your plans because what you had planned far superseded what I thought I wanted so thank you too Lord for loving me so much that you gave me your plan instead of my plans and I'm afraid tonight dear Heavenly Father that before we leave this place then we will open our heart in a posture of wanting your will above all else in our life bless this were the name of Jesus we pray amen um so I won't be before your long I'm looking at the clock I think it says 8:20 I'm gonna do my best for about 40 to 45 minutes amen can we do it alright here we go soso this word is I've been studying and nasty God you know what does he want us to know for this last ascend of 2018 and he took me to a text in acts and I'll read you the text and the word expectation almost became a word that I personally could not get out of my spirit and I said lord I don't want to preach on expectation that was the truth and I said well I don't want to pretend expectation why because there are some things that I've expected to happen that have not happened and to be honest I'm still upset about so I don't want to preach on something Lord that I haven't get quite mastered okay I'm talking to somebody right now I'm not I'm not coming to you saying hey I've got it all figured out with expecto seriously and so as I've been studying this word he begin to reveal some things about why there are still some residual resentments in my heart why there's some residual frustration rage why there's some residual anger why there is disappointment because of this word and this idea expectations so we're gonna look at acts 3 we're going to work through 3 and then I'm gonna give you just a verse in chapter 4 oh so says um one day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of the prayer at 3 in the afternoon we're starting at verse 1 for those of you that have to work and don't worry I'll be in your hearing if you don't know verse 2 now a man crippled from birth was being carried to the temple gate called beautiful you know where he was but every day to fail from those that were going into the temple courts when he saw Peter and John about to enter he did what he normally would do which is he asked them for money beautiful straight at him as John did and then Peter said look at us so this implies that here is a man at the temple gates he's asking for money this is what he normally did this was his and he asked them for money but one reader says look at us it implies that he asked potentially with no expectation yeah yeah because if he was looking at them already why would we either have given him the directive to look at them so it was almost as if he was just sitting there saying you know that I have somebody please gonna have some money please to every person that passed by with no necessary expectation that they listening or would do it so the leader said I need you to look at me I need to get your attention I get you engaged with you because if I use if I don't engage with you if I have your attention then I'm not gonna be able to do what God is putting on my heart to do yes mm-hmm some of us relate to this issue of expectation our expectations have not been met for so long that we no longer have an expectation that our expectations really met who am I talking to right quite a bit said no he titled me and so what happens is we get to the point where we break we don't believe because we had an expectation that when we bring in 2018 in January that he was going to do it by February but we're still in December and what we pray for had not yet happened so instead of going to thought with belief we lower what we believe he can do why because we're tired of being disappointed who am I talking to tonight and so many of us can relate to the crippled beggar and I want to get the action definitions of expectation I wrote this down but many of us can relate to the crippled beggar who just does something out of the team but is it actually engaged in the process do you realize that that's subconsciously we could be awake but still asleep for example I like what you say how many of you go to work the same place almost every day I'm going to go home pray with you even when you know where home is when you know where your office is or you know where sin is you know where you're going you can almost get there without even thinking in the right yeah have you been there before yeah today when I drove out of the office and I was coming to a sin I'm so he used to going home that I was almost about to make the wrong turn and I said Olli I thought listen I had to go right step on that why cuz I was on autopilot I was just going and following the routine and so often in life we get on an autopilot so much so that we're not actually engaged and the parent actions were participating for many of us and I say us this is one of the challenges is is God I want to come to you in prayer and and I'm told in the Word of God that if I pray in the name of Jesus anything I asked what would would be done but sometimes I pray in the name of Jesus and when I asked what doesn't happen so so so I find myself being spiritually disappointed because I'm not really sure what can I expect God and what can't either so as a result I would say god is good all the time and I'm gonna say that yes he is and I will say Lord in the name of Jesus please ask this prayer for the truth of the matter is I'm just going through a routine I'm not necessarily engaged we just blessed food and we say yeah blower in a bless the food nerd strengthen our body a minute but it's a routine we're not really thinking about what we're doing is just part of what we do that's right hmm so what I love other texts is it is it Peter saying to this beggar I gotta get your attention because I don't get your attention you're gonna miss what's been ready to happen some of the reasons why we have experienced certain things this year not because God is punishing us he needed to get our attention he needed to wake us up like like I need to get you auto out of autopilot I'd have to get you out of your routine I need to get you off the hamster wheel and if some things aren't allowed to come into your life you're just going to keep doing this over and over again and you'll never get the I have for you so I'm going to allow something to come into your life that's gonna wake you up can I say it and I say too much so it how many have gone through major difficulties this year how many go on the road my son my son right now let me run right now grateful that okay see here's the thing here's the thing here's the thing you're awake aren't you because because this whatever you're going through whatever the main thing is you're dealing with you have a concern about how it's going to get resolved and so the needs you have are so immediate you're wondering how am I gonna make it to December 31st 7:30 thank you right so some of the things are dealing with you're like lord I need to know how this doesn't happen by the end of the month right so so one of the challenges is that when we have a need and we're burying the stress of it and we're trying to find out where God is sometimes God will allow this so that we are awake so that we say okay God how did I get here and I want to get we have another on this conversation tonight right right on this conversation amen see there are some oh man Jesus Lord heaven I see that okay you know don't worry we'll get you a place where you go celebrate the world okay maybe a little hard okay okay all right so so if we're honest we not you us me us included a lot of the things the reason why we are where we are in some instances because of decisions that we've made in the past can I say that yeah can I say it I mean I mean there are some things that I truly shouldn't be getting mad at God about it's really all right and it's you often as as people who have a a fake consciousness we love to outsource accountability for our own actions just say God or why did you let and he says well what do you mean why did I let you didn't even pray before you went out on that date you can even ask it they weren't the right one for you and then all of a sudden you get caught up and you want to know why you get caught up well if you let slip my face first I would have told you you either leave them right now don't respond to the tale don't go out on that why because I can tell you they don't need any regard for you am I say too much because so often we want to outsource accountability and responsibility for decisions yeah but if we're gonna have a successful 2019 we have to start saying yeah that's on me that's on me I'll take that yeah that was my decision no I didn't worry about that at all I have to own how that's how that played out I gotta own it you know what truth be told I actually have enough money to make it through this year but you know the conference came out okay the Jordans Jordans some of my secret is known about right right like like yo they had this sale and I had to comp oh yeah mostly I'm not trying to get your finances under your finances as an example to understand that our decision-making actually matters and so it's not that he hasn't given us enough is that sometimes we don't always aren't good stewards of the we are always good stewards of the resources yeah right right so so so part of this this part of what God wants us to be is to wake up get out of the routine why because he wants us to seek Him he wants us to pursue him and sometimes we won't pursue him will pursue our own power if he doesn't allow certain things into our life to wake us up all right are you with me I'll be traffic okay watch this so I just want to give a definition of expectation it is a strong belief that something will happen in the future a strong belief that something will happen in the future when we expect something we look forward to it we have hope over it we consider it probable we consider it reasonable to happen and in some instances we consider that it's obligated Jesus these expectations are dangerous watch this next watch what happens he says Peter says weaken us verse 5 so the man gave his attention gave in his attention expecting to get something from them Wow all right ok so so he asked the question without looking at them which implies had no expectation he was just going through the normal routine of what he would normally do on his job but to his benefit Peter and John through the grace of God heard his question and said he get us we're about to do something for you and in that moment he went from not expecting to expect it because he actually had a foundation to expect something why because of what they said to him here is where the challenge is when we don't spend enough time to God we don't know what to expect from him because we can't hear from him listen listen here's what I've learned I've got to learn to hear his voice more I've gotta spend more time with than why because he won't tell me what I can expect from him but sometimes I come to him with some unrealistic expectations that he never told me that he would do that was most boys speaking to me but I never went to him except God is this you [Applause] so what happens sometimes is that we begin to say well wait why is it that these things are not happening in my life why have these things not manifest yes I've read the secret come on ok yeah you say would you read the secret I'm talking to somebody right gonna lead you forward then I can hold y'all don't do listen don't get holy on me all right all right I've been I've been meditating on these things I've been practicing positive visualization [Applause] Oh buddy give me these things that say I don't want to say okay I'll say you don't like that listen listen I get all the positive visual days all that code right so you know in my phone there's this app called a vision board so I've made a digital vision board and um on that vision board you know there was a picture there is a picture of physically what I want to look like right hey I'm just telling all the truth all right okay I'm sorry I'm gonna tell you all my truth okay so so literally on this vision force I think I want to look like that now what was interesting is that what it what it says is when you go to this vision board after you press play and it will play all the images in your vision board like with this Center right this is trying to impress upon your subconscious all these different so oh you have been going through the mirror okay this is really really interesting that no matter how many times I play this no matter how many times I visualize the body that I might like to have it's not actually manifesting because how can I have an expectation when I'm not aligning my life to receive the very thing I'm hoping for I actually didn't start to see the manifestation of the vision until I began to alter my diet until I decided you know what I'm not doing ice cream at night no more true story we're talking about the last month I've been a month in I may be a desert baby three times a man give me some positive points that I needed right but here's what happened once I begin to align my life then I have an unrealistic expectation that became a realistic expectations all right because I now wasn't wasn't trying to have grace and mercy cover what was it my power to do this I don't need to be hard on you we're in this together I'm trying to get you to a place to understand how you can expect what God is going to do but first we have to clear out these myths about expectations good it wasn't until I made a choice and a change in my life that I began to look like what I was hoping to look like there would be no amount of praying that will remove the calories [Music] for me and you don't tell me how I wanted to live I talk about nobody I'm come on me my goals what I want to do for myself if they what was so crazy is that it's a prior to giving up not honestly giving up a prior to monitoring and managing my sugar intake I wouldn't get frustrated cuz wait well why are they supplements not working why am i working out and it's not working oh man what's going on I'd be mad but I wasn't willing to do the one thing that was gonna make the biggest difference which was to reduce sugar because they'd had the strongest hold on me what has the strongest hold on you that is holding you back from doing what you know you need to do but you really don't want to do because it has it has you in its grip so much it could be a person lured by having to give them this commercial break Oh in the name of Jesus let me tell somebody i'ma come right back to our regular scheduled program in a minute let me talk to somebody here's the thing you gotta you know did he did this video which I thought was you know pretty good like about how you get the monitor the people around you you know you have to monitor the energy around you because if people around you are going in a different direction you got to cut them off because you know if you're going in the wrong energy around you will take you in the wrong direction and so when it comes to dating and relationships you have to ask yourself is the person I'm spending time with taking me to my goals taking a true card or away from God or a way through my goal I don't know who I'm talking to right now but sometimes okay you're gonna go deeper see this is why I advocated waiting for sex until marriage we're all adults in the room we're gonna have an adult conversation because one don't get off say it's a fight over the Holy Ghost see some of you that are new to us said you're like what in the world it's going on I don't want to impose right now but hey you're here so I'm gonna tell you the truth well we got you in it so here's the thing here's what happens here's what happened and I'm gonna come right back to our regular sets a program about expectation but God wants me to get this in your spirit so that I should get into 2019 he has some knowledge of you that might help you make different decisions if this is an area where you're failing or struggling because see here's what happens there are people that only want sex from you but they're very manipulative intrude about how they go about it now mind you out understand that the same people that literally have the goal of sex and getting it from you are the same people that has spent a majority of their life doing it okay so they are very very proficient in what to do how to do and when to do so when we don't allow enough time so identify is this person from God and then when we allow ourselves to sleep with them prior to marriage and then we find ourselves because we all have must in us we all have flesh and I must say a man you ain't gotta say it none of us are subhuman either we all got it what happens is that person that has a proficiency in a particular area didn't allow us to get out what he called in addition to that person why because the God God has not been in the situation and the enemy has been using that person to manipulate you in order to get you hope why they don't want you to make decisions that are in your best interest because they only want you to think about when you're getting it now and where you're going to get it again and what happens in between your they care about here is why it's so important to monitor who you're dating because somebody are dating may only want from you not to give it to you and this is why when you take sex off the table you get a chance to see what you really want eat really are you after my body are you after what I can give you really wanna know who I am do you really wanna know what I'm about are you really from God let me tell you something if you would just tell the person that you're dating we do it in a warm because Guinea one back to expertise what happens is I don't know I'm just telling wait okay cuz he hears for heavens wait you told we're not do it anymore here's what's gonna happen now that you're gonna see oh that's right see inherently when you're in a dating situation and you're sleeping with someone and you're spending a lot of time with them there's a tendency to think oh maybe you're further along than you are and sometimes they're thinking that there's an assumption oh we're together [Music] can I just give you a little truth they view with somebody and you haven't actually asked them are we together with them every day you may be with them every night you may have been over their mama's house at Grandma's house they do that over your mom's house your grandma's house please don't assume you're together till you ask the question and get the confirmation please please please I've seen too many people make an assumption about what's going on and I'm gonna give you a little truth about then men know what they have told you what they haven't come on ladies have done hoochie long game right now I'm gonna put y'all game any man knows what he has said it what he has so even if he spends every day of his of his waking breath with you but you have not asked him that he has I told you do not make the assumption that you are further along than you are please don't do it why is it so important goes like expectation what happens is that when you're with somebody and you think you're further along you start to expect Oh business where this is going yeah this is what's gonna happen from this but when you don't actually get a chance to see what it is you may have an expectation that will never be met somebody [Applause] I mean I'm sorry but I'm not sorry okay expectation expectation right max all right let's get the program when Peter said look at us the Bayer perked up with expectation of what was going to happen in the future now what was fascinating is that his expectation was for money so he it was okay for him to expect something because when they said he look at us it was an indication that okay we heard your request now we're gonna do something about it so he expected that they were gonna do what he asked them to do right but they actually had something else in mind thank you because here's what happens many times we go to God in prayer over what we want and this true confession this is where I personally have missed it many times where I go to God and say Lord you've allowed me to produce this movie I expect it to be successful you don't Lord you've allowed me to write this book I expect it to be a best-seller and then I said can you take me to the scripture keepsake where I said you know I promised that you would have hit movies then I promised that you would have best-selling books and I promised that you would have all the month where does that scripture to mama so we plea to God expectations of what we want you're not always getting clear on what he wants for us can I go step further yeah we can wrap it up no here's the other dangerous party that the same way we come to God expecting something from him that he has not promised us we do that with others I believe this is why we have so much resentment anger frustration is because we expected something from somebody and that expectation was not met and as a result we got angry yeah really and many of us were being very honest one of the greatest expectations and at the same time greatest discipline this has a lot to do with our parents we had an expectation they were going to do a certain thing in our life they were going to provide for us a certain way they were going to protect us a certain way and sometimes nopal their own they didn't but we still hold onto the anger and not only go onto the anger we didn't play the blame game well if they had done what most parents would do I wouldn't be where I am now I would be struggling the way that I'm struggling talking to somebody right now because we had an expectation and I'm your child this is what parents do for their children this is what I see others do for their children but but for some reason some parents that you do that and may hold on to the bitterness and frustration why why did I get care for the way I wanted to we had an expectation of somebody else and this is where we experienced so much disappointment is because most people end up letting us down in some way whether they intend to or not because we have a tendency to expect a lot of others that we sometimes never voice so I want to unpack two things which is there are certain expectations when I talk about the parental relationship that we have to come to peace about because at the end of the day we can't go back and change you know I have my father died when I was nine years old he died of a heart attack when he was 36 my mother yeah unbelievable you know he's alcoholic the majority of his life and you know my mother raised me and my older brother younger brother along with my grandmother and my grandmother Seven Sisters and so really took a village to raise us and my father passed away I was really angry about that you know I didn't even know how to handle it to be quite honest with you and as I got older you know I took a lot of that anger out of my mother you know because I was like well mom you know I was active in basketball and a lot of different things and so when I would go you know to the games and I would look at the stands all the other parents would be there my mother would be there so I would get angry and bitter and resentful I never said this to her but it came out how I treated her right that bitterness that that frustration I never said mom why aren't you there but when she would ask me to take out the trash I would say I'll get to it in a minute hmm or sometime when I was really upset I would just ignore and and in the moment you know there were times when she would express how much that was hurting her but you know as a teenage kid sometimes I feel indignant about what we do right so as I got through high school and I got into college it wasn't until I was in college when I began to realize right her choice was going with my son's game or I spend a few more hours to make sure we had put on the same show that my son's game or make sure that I do a few more runs because she was in daycare you know picking up the kids so I can get a little bit more money to make sure we make my rent show that my son's game or make sure there's money for pictures show that my son's game will make sure they have money for prom you see a lot of times we're holding on to this resentment to our parents and the reality is that many of them did the best they could with what they had once I I realized that you know I apologized to her mom I'm sorry that I had an expectation of you that you were meeting just in a different way amen she said I love them going to provide him gonna care for you but it was just different than how I thought she might have done it right but she did it nonetheless so I haven't apologized and I said mom oh I'm sorry and how our relationship the screen because I also had to let go of it I can't go back in the past and fix it it is the way it is and I think some of us in this audience right now you've been holding on to something that [Music] fixed yeah yeah I wish I could tell you that there's a magic wand to take it out of your past or your story but somebody you trusted let you down God sent you here to his service today because he's trying to take you into a new place in 2019 but if you bring the resentment that you've been carrying all through this year into next year it's gonna weigh you down so God wants you to make peace with the person that you feel didn't meet your expectation and God is asking me to ask you to forgive them who am I talking to right now who am I talking to right now am I talking to you raise your hand please don't worry about them looking at you a minute I pray that as you release this that you will feel freedom and magazine see what would mmm I don't to get ahead of my text book but what you're gonna see in a minute is that is his paralysis was related to a different issue gonna see in a minute here's the other thing in order to mitigate the danger from expectations don't allow on spoken expectations to be expected instead again don't allow unspoken expectations to be expected it's very important whoever is in your life that you're close friends if you're dating someone if you're in a relationship you're in a marriage get clear about what you can expect from them right now when you get married there is an implied contract an implied understanding that you're gonna be faithful to me and I'll be faithful to you yeah but you know what get clear on that these days come on now talking to somebody get clear this isn't hey I just want to be clear I know we wearing rings but that means that's all that's going on right okay just making sure I don't want any unspoken expectations or uninvited guests on it's so important okay to not assume that someone's going to do something that they have never been given a chance to say yes to when we have unspoken expectations it's the equivalent of I expect you just because you're in this room to give me $10 and if you don't when you leave I'm mad at you it's crazy right why is that crazy because I never even asked you could you give me $10 and I never give you a chance to say yes or no I had unspoken expectation that I held you hostage too and then I made a judgment about you what you didn't need it huh and then we wonder why sometimes we're so angry and frustrated it's because we keep doing this in our mind when the other person that were mad at we may have not even given a chance just say I can meet that expectation or you know what please don't expect that from me because that's not gonna come for me we're talking to somebody it's important to not allow unspoken expectations to go unspoken in 2019 get clear about what you can expect and also be okay because sometimes there's people you're expecting things from they can't do it now listen this I deal with this all the time people will always want to meet with me and I think it's a blessing that's great but in you said you should I hold a out gonna do and then recently I said okay I can't do it well can you do it like next look no I can't do it why because I don't want to create an expectation I know I can't actually feel mmm and guess what sometimes they give me a minute all right - Oliver so worried about people's feelings I'm sorry if you get upset that I'm doing Kyle called me to do and telling him telling you what he told me to tell you that's between you and not not me get upset with him not me amen very important to verbalize expectations amen and if you currently have anything unspoken that you're upset with somebody about go to them say hey you know what I need to release this as my friend I thought you were going to do this one I needed you and you didn't nothin that ever since and I want to apologize not because you did anything wrong but I expected something out of you that I didn't even ask you you could do it so I wanna I want to apologize I've been holding a grudge against you I want you to go into next year with no runs I want you going next year free there's some people literally there's some people it's an expectation to grab from that goal from something and here's another thing I'm gonna say I'm gonna get over the text what I have come to realize is that people are really more self-centered than we would love to knowledge am i right yeah so sometimes we'll do for others and we expect us because we did it and they're gonna do it for us yeah yeah doesn't work that way unfortunate but but but I don't want you to get out of doing what God has called you to do and even if others have not been obedient to do the same I'll return the favor amen this is one of the ideas that they'll be very well doing and there's sometimes they get weary in well-doing that we've done well so long for other people and they haven't done the same for us we want to stop but God says don't allow your disappointment over expectations to change the character of your heart because it's cool it's really good though you got a good heart I need you to take think you've got a good heart you're a good person you care for others you do for others you sacrifice for others there's some of you that have gone without eating because you help somebody else to make sure they have what they needed and God want you to know he has seen your sacrifice he honors your sacrifice you have a good heart you're a good person and there are some people that don't know a good thing if it knocked it upside the head I don't want to talk you to right now so please man yourself it's not trying to change yourself no no no no no that's not the move because you're so good that some people who don't feel good about themselves all they know how to do is hurt please don't allow their inability to handle good to affect your heart keep your heart beat or keep your heart good why because God is going to honor me right watch it here we go so it says this so the man gave him came to his attention expecting to get something from them in verse 6 then Peter said silver or gold I do not have I don't have your money you expected us to give you money we are not going to beat your expectation we're not going to even play with you we're gonna let you know that what you expect from us we cannot do now the text does not give us any information all demands response in that moment now if he was like some of us we would be like what what you only look at you fall you don't want me to look at you and now you they gonna give me no money what is the point I'm talking to somebody watch this it says look what I give you what I have I will give you in the name of Jesus Nazareth war so here is a man who is crippled who absolutely brought to the temple gates every day to bang he asks Peter and John to many does not know for money they tell him to look at them and then they say we're not going to give you money but we're going to give you something you don't think you can get which is the ability to walk you had your expectation of what was possible in life was based upon what you think happened in your previous situation so what I mean is here's a man who is crippled so he's like I will never have life healed so I might as well lower my expectations from life and live at a level that will at least be consistent my expectations because whatever I raise my expectations of life there's too much pain involved so I will keep my expectations just to make it dated then I don't know what I'm talking to right now but God called me here to tell you stop lowering your expectation of him he loves you he cares for you you can't miss of Jesus to die for you he would do anything for you his plans for you and superseded and exceed what you think is possible but he is saying you keep lowering your expectations and I'm trying to get you to raise them on me this is what God is saying to me to tell you the man had lowered his expectation if I can just get money I'll be fine but they say no no no we're not to give you money in the name of Jesus war can you imagine what the do you see do you want me to walk now you're making fun of me there's something wrong with you did you see how I you see I you want me to walk how am I gonna walk I've never done it before why do you think they bring me here every day why do you think I'm asking you for money because I clearly can't walk how do you know you can because I have this table dude in the back okay well even economics they tell you that that past performance is not an indicator of future performance go ahead GC okay I'm gonna say this commercial break see some of you have lowered your expectation of what I was doing your career because will I have moved the roll yet you know I ain't got a manager yet I've got an agent yet so Wysocki hope or something gonna happen don't you even I need you to understand something that already God is bought into your future he has already put you on the mind of the right agent in the light manager and the light casting director right now putting a role on the writers heart that only you can play I think I'm talking to right now movie I just made a movie with Christine x4 this is us and then the reality is that while we were writing the script God was preparing her to play the role now mind you before she got this is us she was basically living out of her car I had a dream of one day making as an actress has spent over 10 years in this business it had never happened but instead of getting upset and instead of getting mad and lowering her expectation she was acting class she kept her gift shop so when it came to the audition of this is us they wrote apart they didn't even know who she was but they wrote apart into the pilot that only she could play and when she walked in for the audition because she has been preparing herself she crushed the audition and they said you are gay and now the shows were the biggest shows get the world method sometimes in the world and now she's known all around the world why because she said I'm not going to allow my past disappointments to lower my future expectations I don't know what I'm talking to keep my expectation in God of some of you in this area of love thank you for expectation I know I see some of your feet yes I was like why didn't you why did you go out what why they should let them take a picture right to go out no here's the truth here's the truth here's the truth it's true because your heart has been broken before and the right people have not yet found you you have found the right fit yeah there's a tendency to lose hope that love has been written into your story pray [Music] so instead of believing for love or hoping for love some of you have said you know what I'm just gonna turn that off because I no longer think it's possible and I'm gonna live in a way that will keep me from anything where I hope for love because it's too painful just because it hasn't happened before it doesn't mean God doesn't have a plan for your future be open enough where you say God you know I don't know why it hasn't worked out yet but I'm gonna trust that if you have love for me I'm gonna be open to it I'm gonna be all over my heart I'm not gonna be afraid and what I'm not gonna do God is allowed what has happened in my past to dictate how I pray for my future God just gave me a vision like I can see some of y'all ways something out right now to just have given up I could see some of your blames and let me tell you you got it you got it right but let me tell you so God is telling me um don't lower your expectations so much then also what happens is you let people into your life that because because you it's like almost it's also a stair-step you know when you when you when you lower this the case instead of anybody can get on it so you so some of you have lowered your your expectation so low your allowing anybody into your life conscious under you have a range or expectation higher it's not everybody is qualified to make that step get you your life right now [Applause] because there's so much disappointment over expectation this is why with the man that was crippled when they stick it up in wall he didn't he merely do it because he's like I keep wah they said well we don't know you long enough to know what you can or can't do but we do know who we serve and what he could be [Applause] this is why we gotta get out of our expectation and into his not by our minds but five years not by our strength but by is nothing that you are aspiring to do in this life is gonna be done by your strength it's gonna be because you open yourself up to be a vessel of God let me tell you something there are some people in this room you know good and well if it wasn't for his power he what you drive what you drive you wouldn't have what you have you come on who am I talking to everyone supports power you wouldn't have the opportunities you had it's not your talent that got you there it was allowing yourself to be a vessel to say use me come show me where you want me to be put me in position let me fulfill I'm talking to right now but its power you can justify its his comedies here we go and then we're done watch this he does not get up and walk verse seven taking him by the right hand they hadn't show up oh you don't think you can do it let me show you this is why it's important to have people you'd like to encourage you come on now we all need somebody to break this up once in a while we can all need somebody to say an encouraging word we all need somebody to speak positivity into our life that's right they take him by the hand the right hand he helped him up and instantly the man's angles and feet became strong Wow so you have somebody who can't he can't move they pull them up and instantly this piece of ankles becomes strong now when you know anything about paralysis it wasn't that there was something wrong with the feet of the ankles it was a spinal cord so when they made him up the spinal cord is healed so that the ankles will be strong the vehicles were symptoms of a different problem your bitterness your anger your frustration are symptoms of an expectation problem if we can resolve the unrealistic expectation we might be able to clear up your anger your bitterness or resentment in frustration who am I talking to right now do just that this is why God sent you here tonight because he does not want you to go into next year with expectations that he didn't give you and he also wants you to bring peace over those expectation that unfortunately we're not meant to watch this and we are sincerely done he jumped to his feet and it began to walk that he went into the temple courts walking and jumping and praising God verse 9 when all the people saw him walking and praising God they recognized him as a man who used to sit bein at the temple gate called beautiful and they were filled with Wonder and amazement and what had happened to him everybody knew who he was they saw that he was healed now watch this they go into town talking about God's goodness and this man is holding on to Peter and John and next thing you know the scribes and the Pharisees and the Sadducees and all of the leaders at the time began to get upset because Peter and John began to proclaim the name of Jesus they told them hey you crucify him youyou found him guilty but now he is risen and we are operating in his power they got so upset with Peter and John they put him in jail and they began to debate what are we gonna do with them so they broke either a job before the magistrate brought them before it said listen you gotta stop talking about Jesus and Peter and John said we cannot help speak it before we cannot help speaking about what we have seen in her so sorry we have seen we have heard that we can't help with taco pie now watch this is the verse that I want you to know when we're going home verse 21 of chapter 4 after further threats they let them go they could not decide how to punish them because all the people were praising God for what had happened but that's not the verse I want you to pay attention to this is it for the man who was miraculously healed was over 40 years old I said this is interesting why did the Bible tells us that he was over 440 years old the Bible is a very specific book it's not read I said Oh interesting because he was at an age where the miracle he experienced was absolutely beyond any expectation relative to the age so often we look at our age your age I said I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it the man was 40 and he still got his you too right but stop putting a limitation on your expectation when it comes to what God said he would already do turn to neighbor say you aren't young enough to do what he is called to do turn other news they stop letting your age limit what you believe oh I'm talking to right now [Applause] there's somebody in here right now you think you are you are don't you realize [Applause] don't let the fact that it's 2018 the way into 2019 to make you feel depressed cool you know I'm I'm getting you're older no you're getting to hear better alternative and say you give me your bed and turn the other neighbors think nobody believes you're as old as you are anyway so why you trippin come on now come on now come on down come on down I don't know who I'm talking to right now anybody receive this right now receive this right now don't worry you put too much on your age don't worry guess what god knows how old you are he knows that there are certain things that that get come into the earth until you turn a certain age because the very people that he has ordained you to touch won't be ready for you until that age amen so I don't I don't want you on December 25th being all down I don't want you on the 31st saying oh no don't no uh-uh I want you to get excited I'm turning another year I'm sure it's already done so it's opening to expect to get from him yet but I'm gonna challenge you to say god these are my expectations Lord but give me your expectations and spend enough time with you where you can hear what do you want you to expect study his word I got a book that I got a movie coming out I just said Lord I'm gonna stop I want these things to be successful but I'm gonna stop putting my understanding of you as an expectation on how these things do your good no matter what happens it's not one but one movie to be useful good care see God you open up the door for it to happen so let me be thankful and it just expects for goodness no matter how it appears if these things take off great but I'm no longer going to enter God's goodness to the outcome of a project who am I talking to right now [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Sun Dec 30 2018