We are coming into our inheritance as God has designed it. Many of us are beginning to wake up and realize the power and authority we have in Christ, and more than a few are beginning to walk in that power and authority. When we speak to the weather, do we fully expect the weather to not only hear but to obey, even if we whisper? Or do we say, “Storm be gone, in the Name of Jesus!”, in our most authoritative voice, but underneath we are still thinking “I hope this works.” You may find that to be adventurous doctrine, but just because it’s outside your comfort zone, doesn’t mean it’s outside God’s comfort zone.

So, there comes a question:   What do we expect of God? What are our expectations of Him?

He is God. Do we expect little of Him? …. even though He is God Almighty, Most Vehement, Self-Revelational, and Self Existent. He’s the one who has loved us from before time and loves the company of His people…God who had the character of the cross worked in His Heart from before the foundations of the universe, what do you expect from Him? It is not like our King is small and pitiful and is unable to do all, and more, than we would ever dream possible… and He has spoken to us … A LOT! Is it God not speaking or us not hearing? Do we expect Him to show up, or do we expect Him to only “dribble” a little of His presence around just to keep the hamsters spinning on their wheels? When we ask God questions, do we expect Him to answer us?

We expect a reply from our friends when we speak to them or ask them a question… in fact, we expect a full sensory encounter with people and it upsets us greatly when they do NOT respond … do we expect a full sensory encounter with God?

Sometimes we get little because we expect little, not always, but i suspect more often than we think. Do we expect God to keep His promise of peace, or do we mostly only hope He will extend us some peace, moments with a lack of pressure or violence? Do we expect God to provide for us, or do we mostly hope He will? Do we mostly hope God will give us courage for the fight, or do we expect Him to give us Strength as He has said He would?

What do we expect of God? What are our expectations of Him? i find i expect more from people than i do God, and i’m just wrong about that. i’m convinced that when we put our expectations and hope in men and ministries to validate and approve us, God becomes obligated to show us their shortcomings. The Lord alone validates and approves us, not men, but we expect of men far too easily.

The Lord is so much more capable than people, and more willing, but yet i expect people to respond and mostly only hope God will respond. When i turn on the light switch i expect the light to come on, shouldn’t we have a greater expectation of God than we do of the light switch? He is greater and more sure than a light switch, but yet i find i have a greater expectation of people and physical things than of God, and i’d like to turn my thinking around about that. i can not think of a reason why i would not have a full encounter with my Father everyday, except it is my own unbelief. i feel like most of the time i merely hope He shows up instead of being surprised if He didn’t. i expect the weather to change when i speak to it (and that’s true, i do and have been speaking to the weather as the Lord tells me to, successfully for many years now. It just seems natural to me). i truly expect the Lord will hear me and will answer me (that’s another one that seems natural to me). It is a natural thing for a father to respond to his kids, so it should be the most remote idea in our heads that God will not respond…in fact, to me, there should be a better chance that the moon really is made of cheese than the chance that God would NOT respond to our call.  i want the supernatural to become my natural, and i want to walk in “God’s natural”, and i want to stop being so surprised at the supernatural…i’ll never cease to be totally thrilled at being with God, but i want His “natural” to be my “natural”.

If the Lord prompts us and we speak to the cancer to be gone, and it shrivels and disappears, that should be normal circumstances, and we should be amazed if it DID NOT shrivel and disappear, not amazed if it did. What do you expect from God?