Expectation (part 1)

When I was in the shower Sunday, I just got this sense that the Lord was telling me to focus on “expectation” in my message. That changed what I’d originally planned, but I went with it.

Matthew 7:7-11 (NKJV) “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

A few points come across really strong to me in this passage:
- ask, expecting to receive
- expect to receive something good, not something bad
- Ask recognizing we’re talking to our Father

I want to develop these points further over the next few days.

Doug

Wherever you go, God goes

Have you ever thought about God being inside you, and what it means?

2 Corinthians 6:16 (NKJV) And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.”

Where you go, God goes. Not just in His Omnipresence, but in His personhood inside you.
When you speak to someone, you are speaking as one with God inside, who has the ability to hear God’s voice (John 10:4)
When you pray for someone, God is inside your hands.

We are Christ’s ambassadors – His representatives (2 Cor 5:20). But unlike earthly ambassadors, the One we represent is inside us, not just in a far-off land.

This truth needs to be mediated on more within the church.

Doug