Raising The Level Of Expectation Series

I PETER 2:5-9

Stop praying like you were inconveniencing God and disrupting His busy schedule—He always has time for you. How can you get a new car, house, clothes, pay the bills off, when you don’t make that much? How can anything happen for you like that? Maybe you don’t have enough paycheck for the month—what do you have to lose in believing God for it?

Don’t ask God to do the things for you that you can do, but ask Him to do for you what you can’t. For example, ministry…

My friends, God is speaking to you and saying, you’ve been at this mountain long enough, it’s time to go to a new level. You can either start climbing or take a wilderness journey.

NEWS FLASH: God wants to do more than you think.

It’s time for fresh visions and refreshing what has already been shown to you. Tear down strongholds in your mind, capture every thought. Remove the barriers of the past—forgive and move on already. You are built to hold…

Acts 2:47

No matter what anybody in your family has or hasn’t done, no matter what naysayers say, don’t let those things impose limitations on you. Make up your mind that you are going to be the one to set the new standard. Be the one to affect new generations. Be the one who trusts God with all their heart, soul, mind and body.

Proverbs 3:5-6

It’s time to increase in favor. No matter how many people tell you what you’re attempting can’t be done, you persevere and declare the favor of God, stay in an attitude of faith, and God will open doors for you and change your circumstances.

God has crowned you with glory and honor—honor can be translated: favor, which means to assist, to provide special advantages and to receive preferential treatment. However, to experience that, you have to look for it, to be favor-minded, to expect God to be in your life everyday, in all things.

I’m a child of God. My Daddy is the creator of the universe and He crowned me with favor. Therefore, I can expect preferential treatment. Not because of who I am, but because of whose I am.

ROMANS 8:1-17

That is the spiritual correlation with the physical. We are treated certain ways because of association. Get up every day and declare all day long, what you know is the truth. Just because it hasn’t happened yet, doesn’t mean it’s not so. Paycheck example.

When you get in a situation that needs favor, declare it, even in the little things like parking spaces (good testing ground). But what happens if you don’t get that space? Then you get out and walk, and with every step, you thank God that you are healthy and strong and have the ability to walk.

Just because I don’t get what I wanted, doesn’t mean that I’m going to quit believing in the favor of God. I know that God always has His best interest in His heart for me and He is working everything out for my good. Delay could mean missing an accident or cause me to bump into somebody that needs to be encouraged, someone who needs a smile.

No matter what does or doesn’t happen, you must keep believing the favor of God in your life. Do your part and God will do His.