Joyful Expectations of Good Things to Come

If you raise your level of expectation, you will raise your level of experience.  

The things we are believing for matter. Too often we are actually expecting things to go badly, because of past experiences or because of preconceived ideas. 

If you are always waiting for the next shoe to drop, you’ll live in a world of dropping shoes. 

Mark 11:24

It’s not what you pray for that matters. It’s what you believe for that matters. We often pray for things because we’ve been trained to. It’s the Christian thing to do. You pray about it. Our health, finances, relationships, everything. But do we expect things to change? “I’m still praying about…” It’s good you’re still praying, but the problem is you stopped believing. Our fear develops out of the thought that we don’t want to get our hopes up because we might get hurt. 

Explain Judges 6:1-10

Judges 6:11-27

Gideon is on the move. Something is beginning to change in Gideon. Hope is rising! You will never have joyful expectations if you lose your hope. 

Judges 6:28-34

He went from hiding behind winepresses to blowing trumpets. Why? Because he believed and raised an expectation of good things to come!

How many know, doubt still tries to find it’s way in to your mind?

Judges 6:35-37

I believe Gideon trusted God, but didn’t trust his own abilities. He had faith in God, he just didn’t have faith in Gideon.(faith in himself) Gideon was building a history with God. 

Judges 6:38-40

Gideon used a fleece. (Old Covenant) You have Holy Spirit living inside you!

Judges 7 starts out with Gideon rallying an army of 32,000 men and God saying that’s too many. 22,000 go home, leaving 10,000 too many, gets it down to 300, that’ll work! 

Judges 7:9-15

That’s a crazy dream! And interpretation!

Psalm 71:14-21