Our Expectancy (Continued)

Some people tend to expect the worst. They walk around with that "poor-old-me mentality," always negative, always depressed. Other people honestly feel so overwhelmed by their troubles, they have difficulty believing that anything good could happen to them. Often they say to themselves, "How can I live with enthusiasm? How do you expect me to get up and say this is going to be a good day, when i have this big mess on my hands?" FRIEND, that's what faith is all about. You have to start believing that good things are comming your way, and they will!

Our Level Of Expectancy

God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. If you don't develop the habit of expecting good things to come your way, then you're not likely to recieve anything good. If you dont expect things to get better, they probably won't. If all you expect is more of the same, that't all you're going to have.

Expecting Things To Change In Your Favor

The Bible says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for," and one definition of that sort of hope is "confident expectancy." We should get up in the morning confidently expecting the favor of God. Start expecting doors of opportunity to open for you. Expect to excel in your career. Expect to rise above life's Challlenges.

Enlarge Your Vision

"You must concieve it in your heart and mind before you can recieve it."

You must stop dwelling on negative, destructive thoughts that keep you in a rut. Your life is not going to change until you first change your thinking. Thoughts like "No matter how hard I try nothing ever works for me." Or "I will never be able to do what I want." Should be thought of as "If I just try a little harder I know one day things will turn in my favor." All it takes is faith the size of a mustard seed.

Pandora

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Old Wineskins

Centuries ago, wine was stored in leather wineskins rather than bottles. Animal skins were dried and cured until the leather could be shaped into containers to hold wine. When the wineskins were new, they were soft and pliable, but as they aged, they often lost their elasticity; they wouldn’t give anymore. They would become hardened and set, and they couldn’t expand. If a person poured new wine in an old wineskin, the container would burst and the wine would be lost. Interestingly, when Jesus wanted to encourage his followers to enlarge their visions, he reminded them, “You can’t put new wine into old wineskins.” Jesus was saying you can’t have a larger life with restricted attitudes and thoughts. That lesson is still relevant today. We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives, and stuck in our thinking. God is trying to do something new, but unless we’re willing to expand and enlarge our vision, we’ll miss his opportunities for us.

Brain Power

• The picturing power of the mind turns your thinking from “I cannot have this”, or “it will never happen to me”, to hope, belief, and finally to mental acceptance.


• The first step to living at your full potential is enlarging your vision.
• You must conceive it and believe it is possible if you ever hope to experience it.
• To conceive it, you must have an image on the inside of the life you want to live on the outside. This image has to become a part of you, in your thoughts, your conversation, deep down in your subconscious mind, in your actions, in every part of your being.