Expand Your Expectations

But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [[e]who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]. (1 Cor. 2:9, AMP)

The aforementioned scriptural passage centers in an extremely significant truth; our imaginations and expectations cannot ever exceed the power of God to perform the exceptional in our lives. In this passage the Apostle Paul vividly paints a portrait of a God that can do and has done far beyond our wildest imaginations on our behalf.  God has prepared great blessings on our behalf and He holds them in escrow for us to claim through the process of faith.

One of the problems that many believers are facing is the fact that they cannot seem to get out of survival mode. It seems that all so many of you want is to just get the bills paid, to just make it through another day, to just be able to cope with a person at the office that is trying your patience. Yes, we need to trust God to carry us through these moments, but we must also know that God desires to so much more in our lives. God is glorified in blessing and elevating His people. Contrary to popular belief, there is so much more to living the Christian life than simply surviving it to make to heaven.

The Christian life is one of victory and power. It is a life built on the foundation of faith that believes that God has created a plan specifically for your life and that He has empowered this plan through the anointing that has been placed on your life. We have to keep in mind that the life we live as believers we live because Christ paid the ultimate price on Calvary in order to provide it (Gal. 2:20), and He did not provide this life for us to live on the edge of defeat, simply happy to survive. Christ died to provide the ultimate victory (reconciliation with God) and all that accompanies it.

The scriptural passage says that eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it entered to the heart of man, all that God has done and prepared for those that love Him. This doesn’t mean just your eye, ears or heart; it means that no one in the history of humanity has been witness to the extent of all that God has done on behalf of those whose hearts are turned toward Him. In essence, the greatest dreamer cannot fathom a fraction of what God has done for us.

Well, if God has done so much, why is it that so many believers live on the edge of defeat or worse? It is because they are in survival mode. They have bought into the lies of the enemy that say that lack is their lot in life.  They have boxed God in with their limited perspicacity instead of trusting Him to do exceedingly, abundantly and above all that they could ever imagine (Eph. 3:20). They have become captivated by life’s circumstances instead of apprehending the truth of divine omnipotence resident within them. It has become easy for them to believe the negative report of the enemy than it is to trust God to accomplish the supernatural.

When Joshua prayed that the sun stand still, he did not give consideration to the fact that nothing like that had ever been done before. He wasn’t concerned with putting God on the spot. He wasn’t fearful of the possibility of failure. God had promised him that he would be with him every step of the way and He would fight for him. Based on this promise, Joshua dared to ask for the impossible and expect nothing less than what he requested.

If you are to move from survival mode to live a life of a conqueror, you will have to expand your expectations of God and subsequently yourself. God wants to accomplish great things through you, but He will only meet you at your level of expectation. As long as all you expect is the bare minimum that is all you will get. There are some that don’t even expect the bare minimum; they have chosen to believe that a life of defeat is their lot. Victory is accomplished at the feet of God as you petition Him to perform the supernatural in your life. It is achieved as you dare to ignore the circumstances and take hold of the promises of God.

Trust me, there is nothing that you can ask God that will baffle Him or put Him on the spot. You are not going to put God in a position to be embarrassed because you’ve asked Him for something He can’t provide. God responds to radical faith; faith that has the audacity to expect the impossible. So, I encourage you to expand your expectations as far as God is concerned, He is capable of so much more that simply helping you to survive the moment. If you trust Him He will empower you to dominate the moment.

God Bless,

Dr. Rick Wallace