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You Get What You Expect

by Daniel N Brown

Expectation is the key to receiving. Whether you're expecting
good, or bad, you are sure to receive it.

Have you ever heard it said that you don't get what you want, you
get what you expect?

Expectation is the key to receiving. Whether you're expecting
good, or bad, you are sure to receive it.

When we pray we are always asking God for good things. No one
asks Him for negative circumstances, but yet, that's what many
people get. The reason is because even though they are asking God
for good things they are, at the same time, believing something
altogether different. In fact, maybe just the opposite of what
they are actually praying for.

It does no good to pray without expecting God to answer. The
Bible says, "Without faith, it is impossible to please God, for
he who comes to God must believe that He is God, and that He is a
rewarder of those who diligently seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6).

Jesus said in Mark11:24, "Whatsoever things you desire when you
pray, believe you receive them and you shall have them."

What is it that you desire? Whatever dreams you have for your
life, they will always include abundance and prosperity, for God
is an abundant God. He wants you to experience abundance and
prosperity in your health, your relationships, and your finances.
Every area of your life! He wants you to be happy and enjoy your
life to its full because it is a gift.

Before you can experience God's best you must first believe Him
for His best. Why can't some people believe? Many things can keep
one from believing, but the biggest factor that keeps one from
believing is fear.

Fear is a common problem from which none of us is immune. It is
an acquired disease because we weren't born with it. It is very
contagious and is passed around from one person to another. Fear
will impair your normal functioning and keep you from making
positive and long lasting changes in your life. It will also
cause you to make weak and irrational decisions that will make
you sell out your future for the sake of today. Fear will
completely steal your peace, your joy, and your very life.

Fear is obviously a tool the devil uses to attack your thoughts,
which causes you to choose the words you speak. The words you
speak are what create your experience because they are the proof
of your true beliefs. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34).

Proverbs 4:23 says, "Guard your heart with all diligence because
out of it flow the issues of life." If you allow the enemy to
control your thoughts and emotions, he can indirectly control
your words. Your words are what shape your life more than any
other thing. If he can control your words, he then can control
your life. Don't be controlled by the adversary for he is the
father of lies (John 8:44).

Put your faith in what God says...

~ "Give attention to my Words, for they are life to those who
find them and health to all their flesh" (Proverbs 4:20-22).

~ "My people are destroyed by lack of knowledge, but you should
know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (Hosea 4:6,
John 8:32).

~ "I am the Lord Who teaches you to profit and leads you by the
way you should go" (Isaiah 48:17).

God wants the best for you! He said, "Ask, that your joy may be
full" (John 16:24). But, before you ask, make sure you are going
to expect to receive from Him.

I see a lot of good people pray to God, asking something from
Him, and never doing anything on their part to bring it to pass.

God will do His part, for sure, but we are required to do our
part as well. What is our part? Believe, expect, confess, and
anything else that could physically be done on our part for
"Faith without works is dead" (James 2:20).

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