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