Great Expectation!
Matthew 21:22
Subtitle: Power of Believing
Introduction:
What exactly is the power of believing, and how does it affect our lives? Let me start by encouraging you to believe that good life is for us!
Jesus has given us so much, so that we can experience abundant living. And when I say abundant living, I don’t mean in the spiritual realm but in the physical aspect of our lives as well. I think "believing" spells the big the difference.
I don’t know how you view your life, right now, but, I believe you can foresee your future now.
How do you see yourself in five, ten, fifteen years from now? What to you is the picture of a successful life? What is the key that will unlock the door to that which we aspire and hope for? Right believing is what will make the difference. Let me share with you why.
First, Belief power gets powerful results. Matthew 21:22 says " If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
Church, we have all what it takes to be successful! Whatever we are believing for, we should express in and through prayer, and like the bible says, you will receive it. I want you to see the power of the One who is inside us!
In Ephesians 1:19 it says, and His incomparably great power is for us who believe. That power is like the working of His mighty strength!
Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us
If we let this sink deep in the recesses of our hearts, we will never be a loser in life.
Failure begins in your thoughts when you hold the idea that you are actually incapable, that you are born to lose. (Norman Vincent Peale) Do not look at yourself as a loser; we are more that conquerors in Christ Jesus!
What guarantees success is not knowledge, not education, not training, not experience, not money...it is in the belief what God can do in your life. Naturally, other qualifications are extremely important, but the primary factor, the one basic essential, is belief.
Our belief can generate powerful results! "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact"
(William James)
The person of belief never goes crawling through life on his hands and knees. As a child of God the good God, I am greater that anything that can happen to me.
Secondly, Your belief can change the course of your life.
Mark 11:24 , Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours
I don’t know what you are praying in your life right now, but whatever it is, the bible says, believe that you have already received it.
When things are not going well for you, ask yourself whether you are thinking good things or bad. It is a well- established fact that there is a strong tendency for the outward manifestations to match inner thought patterns.
Thoughts are alive and they produce vibratory influence. They have acute drawing power."Oh, I’m a flop, always was" "My brother has all the brains. He gets all the breaks in life." This man was violating one of the basic principles of success - never build a case against yourself!
Now, I get the point on why Jesus never wants any of us to allow condemnations in our life. "Never build a case against yourself"
Do not say that times are hard... Charles Fillmore said, "The very words will tighten your purse strings until omnipotence itself cannot slip a dime into it. Fill every nook and corner of your mind with the word plenty, plenty, plenty."
When you say, "I am poor," you are in effect declaring poverty. Your word is the expression of your mental image. Positive words are vital when things are not going well with your life, in order to avoid holding a failure image in your mind. Remember, thoughts and words can speak life to your future. Or, it can command death to your future as well.
Keep this in mind : the lack thoughts and lack of words tend to produce lack as a fact. Your thought and your words are converted into reality.
Remember also the truth that prosperity thoughts and prosperity words move you into the direction of prosperity and increased success, because you tend to become what you think , affirm, pray and visualize.
This year, I challenge everyone to have a paradigm shift. Let go of all the negative thoughts about yourself, your work, your health, your family and your relationships. Change the way we think, today! This is the year of great expectations!
Believe that something good and great is going to happen to you, and start reaping the fruits of your positive words!
This year is the year of POSITIVE DECLARATION!
