Today, I told you on Sunday that today is like a appetizer for
this weekend. And you know, obviously I
recognize we're going to be here Friday night, Saturday, Saturday
night and then Sunday morning, Sunday night.
And and so being aware of that, I have it in my spirit that this
is to prepare you for. And here's the thing, you know,
obviously on Wednesday night, you want everyone on Sunday to
show up on Wednesday at the end of the day.
I don't believe there should be a drop off.
You know, now if people work during this time, that's a
different ball game. But if they do not work, I don't
care if you got you have kids, your children in sports, I don't
care if you're coming from work. And you know, when you work on,
you know, sanitation truck come doesn't matter.
Just show up because there's things God wants to impart.
But when you do come on Wednesday and Sunday, then what
that typically means is that you're really wanting to be a
disciple and that you're hungry for the word of God.
And it's amazing what God can do with hunger, what he can do with
hunger because God desires that none would perish.
Now that's a desire, but that's not going to happen.
He desires that none would perish, but that all would come
to repentance. But we know not all are going to
come to repentance. And when they stand before him
on that day, the Great White Throne Judgment, He's going to
let them know every opportunity they had to hear and hear, and
they did hear and yet didn't receive him.
Amen. So again, you know, we go
through life a lot of times, you know, and if we don't watch out,
you know, we're picking, you know, what we do, when we do,
how we do. And the reality is God's going
to hold us accountable to all the opportunities he set before
you. And did you make those
opportunities? All right, These are divine
appointments. And, you know, I could see a
service going every day. It could happen you know could
the world get so bad that we need to assemble everyday just
to keep ourselves sane and in the word and focus on the things
of God. If that's what was necessary,
sure. However, you know God does have
divine times that he wants to do things with congregations.
Obviously with us. We're doing a Kingdom rise
coming this Friday and those who are set aside time something
very specific to do some different impartation.
So tonight I want to talk to you about expecting, because
expecting is the door for more. It is a door for more.
Now you should expect every service, don't get me wrong, but
not every service is set up the same.
You know, there is a services that we do on Sunday, Wednesday,
things we do with the schools, things we do with the men on
Monday. I mean, there's a repetition and
a discipline aspect of that. And that's a part of God.
In fact, one of the keys of being a disciple is you must be
disciplined. All right.
But then there are times that God does the extraordinary.
He does things a little bit different than just the
day-to-day. He shows up in ways that are not
common. You didn't expect in you're
expecting because when you do expect, you give the Lord the
license to go exceeding abundantly far beyond what you
could think or imagine, which tells us you're thinking you're
imagining. This is why your imagination you
should cultivate because the minute I hit that scripture that
God will do exceedingly abundantly beyond what I can
think or imagine, I'm like, I need to be a thinker and I need
to be at imagine big because then it it puts God in the
position and says, Oh, you think that's something amazing.
How about this? And then all of a sudden,
something you weren't even thinking about, our imagining is
even bigger than you thought. Because I mean, how can our
finite minds even get around our creator God?
However, we should strive to want to know him, Paul said.
I want to know him. I want to know him, you know, so
we want to have a discipline and that's not a knowing him when we
go to heaven. That's a knowing him day in and
day out, knowing intimately, how does he function?
What's he doing? How can I be involved with the
work that he's doing because he wants to Co labor with me
because I'm Co laboring with him.
And there are many things we can do together, but expectation
really opens up the door for more.
So I'm going to show you this in Acts chapter 3, starting in
verse one through 5, it says now Peter and John were going up to
the temple at the 9th hour, the hour of prayer, OK.
And it went on to say that the man who had and a man who had
been lame from his mother's womb was being carried along, whom
they used to sit down every day. How many days?
Every day. So when's the hour to pray?
The 9th hour. But how many days?
Apparently every day. Something's going on at temple
every day because if nothing was going, if this guy came to the
US churches, right? I mean, you better get the
mother lode one day, you know, most.
Anyway, he went there every day at the of the temple, which is
called beautiful, OK, in order to beg arms of those who were
entering the temple. Now, why is he doing this?
Oh, first of all, he's going to a place where God dwells #2 he's
going to a place where people are the probably the most
compassionate, right? In essence, he's going to God,
although he's not in the temple. And you understand, if we were
under if, if he's up underneath the thought of the law, there's
some challenges that go with being in the temple anyway.
And I'm not going to get into all the challenges that get into
that. But there were some issues,
especially if people had issues with blood couldn't even go
worship in the temple. The leprosies couldn't go into
the temple. You know, there was many things
that restricted them from being in there.
So here he is, he's going to God, he's going to the gate.
He's allowing God's people to come past him.
He obviously cannot work. If he could work, he would work,
but he cannot. So he's left to this lifestyle
of basically looking for the generosity of those who go to
the creator in heaven and earth to give to the poor.
All right, so it says when Peter and John came, right, they saw
when when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he
was asking to receive alms. So obviously he asked the
question. You have not caused you all
right? But Peter along with John fixed
his gaze on him and said. Now he, the beggar saw Peter.
He asked. And why is he asking?
Because he's expecting something.
Why is he even at the gate? Because he's like if he
expected. I never get anything when I go
to this temple. Every time I show up, no one
ever gives me a thing. I never get a thing.
Nothing ever happens. Well, there's no expectation,
you know what I'm saying? He's like, why am I going there?
He's going somewhere where there's an expectation and he is
expecting to receive. So here's he's expecting to
receive alms, right? But Peter, because that he's in
a layer of expectation. Peter moved into a Mordor
because this man's never coming to the temple with this thought
about what's about to happen. He is coming to God in provision
God's people with compassion. There's an expectation that I
will receive. I don't know where this guy's
hearts at entirely, although we probably can see it pretty
clear. The minute that happened, either
that was an instant conversion or his heart was towards God.
He just had limitations. He could not, you know, exercise
his praise as much as he wanted to in his condition.
Regardless, we see here that Peter fixed his gaze on him and
said look at us and he began to give them his attention.
Here it is expecting to receive something from them.
What's he expecting money. OK now Peter let's go on next
verse says this. Oh that's stop there five.
OK Peter then just goes on to say what silver and gold I have
none. Although he had gold, he just
saying I'm not going, I'm not giving you what you want.
I'm going to give you what you're not expecting.
We God decided to do an exceeding abundant for you today
because God just doesn't want you in the receiving mode.
God wants you to be able to not only receive, but to be able to
give because he's in a position that basically he's receiving.
Now, I'm not saying he couldn't give his arms away.
I'm just saying he's not productive in society because he
cannot work because he's lame from his mother's womb.
But God just elevated his status of life.
You know what we're talking about and not a, a Western
philosophy here. You know, in the Eastern there
was, there were classes of people, you know, and, and, and
these individuals that were beggars, you know, they were
looked down upon. God just elevated him out of
that. He was no longer limited to a
type of work. And so as a result of that,
Peter says they weren't going to have none but what I do have I
give to you in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk grabs
him and snatches his up out of the ground.
He didn't say how are you feeling?
Didn't do they said come on now try.
Can you let me let's work a little bit.
The Bible says that that he snatched him up.
Peter was so convinced he had heard God without any evidence
of what he heard, he grabs the man and snatches him up.
And when his legs came out from his cloak, they were
strengthened and hit the ground strong.
Now I'm not telling you they were Pastor Mike's legs when
they came out. They probably look more like
mine. However, they had strength to
them, right? OK, so he pulled him up.
There he is. This man received more than he
expected, but he did not come without expectation.
If you understand, here's the thing.
If, if you do not come to any service, you know, if you do not
come to service expecting, then you're getting exactly what you
came for. If you're coming with this, show
me. Let's see what you got.
You're not getting anything. You understand God does not move
on people like that because he's had plenty of religion.
People say, well, you far show me a miracle.
Do some. He's like you seek.
All you do is seek a sign. What did he say about those
people? He said, you perverse and wicked
generation, all you do is seek a sign.
Now, there's nothing wrong with science.
God uses science to declare that God's full of authority, power,
He's supreme. The point though, is when we
have expectation, it moves God not only to meet your
expectation, but to exceed your expectation.
But if you just like, well, if this is really God in this
place, let's just see what happened.
Well, you know what? You'll walk out not thinking he
was here and he's jumped all around you and you didn't even
know because God's not obligated to, to prove himself to you.
He's God. He's God.
I said he's God. So we have to keep our mindset
in this. I'm expecting God.
I mean, I'm going to tell you I've not arrived to a place
where I don't, I don't need to expect anything.
I mean, how much more? The more I discover about God,
the more I realized what I still don't know.
And it drives me to want to know and desire to know and to see
things happen, you know, and experience things happen and to
be sometimes I'm just, a lot of times I come in to just expect
God to do something in someone else's life so they know that
God meets their expectation. And if that happens, I'm like,
praise God because I know, I know that he's alive, that he
loves me, that he cares for me, that he always meets the
expectation. Now, I could technically take
this word and we could use the the term we're most familiar
with when we talk about expectation.
It's called hope, which is confident expectation.
But I'm not going to say hope today because you know, in the
church today, most of them do not know biblical hope.
It is not. Most people do not have a
biblical hope. They have secular hope, which is
wishful thinking. It may happen, it may not
happen. If it does, great.
If it doesn't, well, God knew better.
Well, God doesn't function that way.
God always does what He says He does His word.
So that's why hope biblically is a confident expectation because
when God speaks, you can confidently expect, which now
moves you over into faith that I'm going to have exactly what
he says. And not only what he says, but
he can do exceeding abundantly. It can open the door for more.
You could literally be believing God for a financial breakthrough
and God do way more than your financial breakthrough.
You know, your financial breakthrough may not be getting
a raise. It could be someone pays off
your house. Well, that'd be a pretty good
breakthrough. I mean, God's not obligated to
meet your need the way you think he's supposed to meet your need
at all. However, if we have ears to hear
got to do some awesome things in our life.
Look at this in Psalms 27 verse 14.
It says wait for and confidently expect the Lord.
Be strong and let your heart take courage.
Yes, wait for and confidently expect the Lord.
So we see here that the psalmist is saying wait for now.
This word wait is not passive. This is not passive.
If if you are a person that says you're waiting, but you're have
no attention to that which you're waiting, you are not
waiting. You have forgotten.
If all of a sudden someone's supposed to meet you and you've
gotten so busy that when they showed up, you're like, oh,
you're here. I forgot.
Well, I thought you were waiting.
Well, I am. I mean, I'm here.
No, you're not waiting. You had no attitude of waiting.
You were distracted. I mean, they could have passed
you by and you never would have known because you had no
expectation. So when we're talking about
waiting, there's an expectation. What do we call pregnant women
expecting? Right.
And there's something about it. I mean, if it was like, oh, I
didn't know I was having a baby, right?
I mean, what kind of wife would be excited about their husbands?
Like, oh, I went on the fishing trip.
I didn't, I didn't know that you were due.
I mean, hey, I'm here, right? I mean, I was just waiting on
the fishing trip. I mean, you're like, you're not
waiting. You had no expectation of what's
going on here, right? Because when you're waiting on
someone with expectation, you're standing at the door just kind
of checking, right? I mean, when I wait on my my
wife, which we do this, as you know, is I could track her, she
can track me, right? It's fun.
And so I'm like, I texted her the other day.
I said, Ah, so you went to Target instead of Walmart Right
Now the reason I check is because I'm waiting on her
return. That's the only reason, not
because I'm concerned about where she's at.
I know where she's at. She tells me she doesn't lie,
she doesn't deviate. I don't have that issue.
What I'm saying is is that sometimes she'll she'll be, you
know, tracking me and I'll give her, Hey, I'm almost I'm letting
her know why? Because there's this expectation
we're about to meet again, right.
So again, you're kind of looking today.
My wife had went out, had the dentist and I was at the house
myself in preparation. And I hit man wonder where she's
at. She's coming back.
I'm expect she should be. You know, I feel like she should
be here by now. So I was just about to pull out
where she was and there she was. I tried to play it cool, stayed
on the couch, you know, does she open the door?
But sometimes tell, tell them the truth.
Now I'll stand out in the driveway and watch her drive
down. That's called waiting on
something. There's an expectation.
I want to see it. I want to, I want it to arrive.
I want it to be in my possession.
I want it to be here where I can see it.
And you know, we if we're going to be here with God or when we
go into special meetings, you know, the set aside times that
God speaking to us, we got to say, you know what, I'm coming
with an expectation, right, I'm coming with an expectation not
oh, forgot we had a service. You're not waiting and there's
no expectation. But when you're like excited,
then you're doing. You mean, I know I could talk to
parents right now. You tell your children you're
going to Disney, they're like talking about it.
They're having a conversation, they're waiting, they're
counting down to days. They're reminding, you see,
that's waiting where we're going.
Just got to wait a couple more days and then they let you know
next day, you know, we going to Disney in two days.
I'm aware of that. That's called waiting.
So it's not passive. It's this expectation.
It's always on your mind. You're expecting something to
happen and that's what he's saying.
Wait for, confidently expect the Lord.
Be strong and let your heart take courage yes.
Wait for and confidently expect the Lord.
That means that if I'm believing God's going to give a word to me
to answer something that I, you know, need an answer for, well,
then I should come to service with a confident expectancy.
He's going to speak to me and whether he speaks to me through
a song, whether he speaks to me through the written word,
whether he speaks to me through a sentence or two.
That's have been priests, whether it comes through the
gifts of the spirit through the through the whoever ministers or
maybe even just within the congregation.
You know, it seems like the Lord's saying then you know
what, why? If you're like, I know I'm going
to get it. I know I'm going to get what God
has for me. You have to have expectation.
All right, Proverbs chapter 3, excuse me, chapter 8 verse 34
Proverbs 834 says blessed is the man who listens to me watching
daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts.
You know, a lot of times we miss God is because we're really not
waiting. Now I didn't intentionally did
not use the scripture tonight. Those who wait on the Lord.
OK, you know, can we use that a lot?
However, I do want to clarify that scripture when it says
those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength.
That word wait is where we get the word waiter.
And wait again is not passive. It means engaging and serving.
So that's not sitting in, you know, sitting in your house
waiting for God to bring it. It's you actually serving God.
You're waiting on the Lord. I'm here to serve you.
I'm your waiter. How can I wait on you?
What do you need me to do for you?
Because when I wait on you, then he'll say, why don't you just
you know what? I, I'm on one on the menu.
I just want you to sing a praise.
So you sing a praise to him. You deliver a praise to his
table. Come on.
You deliver a praise to his table.
All right. And then, you know, you deliver
what else he says whatever else. And you know what?
He'll give you the fattest tip you've ever had in your life.
I mean, it's called life changing tips because God is a
rewarder to those who diligently seek him.
So waiting on the Lord is like, I just wish you'd talk to me.
You need to go serve him. You need to go pray to him.
You need to go sing to him. You need to go worship.
You need to go exalt his name. You need to remind, you need to
remind yourself how holy, how blameless, how awesome he is.
You're bringing stuff to his table and, and even I was
talking to someone today sometimes you bring Isaiah 26 to
him. You bring your case before the
Lord Lord. I'm bringing my case to you in
essence, like a waiter. This happened to me at Black
Mild the other day. I was betwixt between two
places, 2 plates, let's put it that way.
I was betwixt between two plates, whether to eat shrimp
and crab cakes or to go on and have shrimp and fish.
And so my waiter says I'll pick it for you.
I'm like, that's cool. Surprise me.
It's going to be one of the other.
I didn't know. And he picked the shrimp and
grit cake. And I wasn't disappointed
because I didn't know which one I wanted.
I was betwixt between two plates.
He said I'll decide for you. No problem, right.
So again, you can bring things to the Lord you're bringing your
case now, Lord, we could go this way in this issue.
We could go here. All I know is your word says
this, your word says here and I'm bringing this before you.
This is what's on the menu. You tell me what you want to do
and then the Lord to give you some information.
OK, so we are we are waiting on the Lord.
But here's the thing that says blessed is the man who listens
to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorpost.
It's amazing how fast we'll go to everyone else.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with seeking advice.
There's nothing wrong with being surrounded by a multitude of
counsel. If the council live godly lives,
and I can even say it this way, the council is authorized in
your life. However, ultimately the scene
realm isn't where we go first. We need to go to the Lord.
And when we go to the scene realm to ask, it should only
start to confirm something already on the inside of us,
because that's the real direction we want.
Now sometimes it will happen that someone says the Lord will
give you the idea through someone, but it'll be confirmed
in your spirit. But again, you have to wait on
that. I know that through the
multiplicity of different things that I have to make decisions
on, I'm like, OK Lord, how in the world do you want me to
handle that one? And I go to scripture and I talk
to him and I'm like, Lord, where you at?
You know, and sometimes people are sending emails and wanting a
response and wanting this and I'm like, I don't have an answer
and I'm not letting their so-called emergencies move me.
I'm just going to hang out at the gates.
I'm going to stand by the doorposts because I know this.
When he speaks, I'll be blessed because I'm going to listen.
I'm going to do it his way. Hey, man, Hallelujah.
Just because you can go to I don't want to say things too
loud and it just all the ask me stuff.
Just because you can go there quick doesn't mean God's going
to respond to you the same way. Because God's not artificial
intelligence. He is the source of
intelligence. He's beyond intelligent.
He's wisdom, right? So don't get so conditioned that
thinking fast is the right answer.
Nothing wrong with it, I have no problem with it.
I use it myself to gain access to certain pieces of
information. But even then, I'm skeptical
because I'm like, I mean, at all the information in the world
this thing's drawing from, how many of these sources are even
right? Because I might have, I might
discredit some sources. You know, there's plenty of
things written in libraries that are false, but they're written
and AI is pulling that information, compiling it based
upon subjects. So, you know, unfortunately, I
kind of missed the old reference catalog where I could see the
book and see who it was. And then you could go track down
the individual and say, talk to me about this.
I need to know if your sourcing is right.
But I'm glad I can go to the author of the Bible that's
called, he's called the Holy Ghost, and he will talk to me.
Amen. All right, limitation.
Chapter 3, verse 25 says it this way.
The Lord is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly
for him, to those who seek him. Why aren't we supposed to seek
Him anyway? Acquire of and for and for him
and require him by right of necessity and on the authority
of God's word. Man, that's so good.
So again, let me tell you that the Lord is good to those who
wait hopefully and expectantly for him in our society today
where, you know, people can say anything they wanted to as fast
as they want to and and they can respond, you know, any way they
want to. You know, it takes a real man
and woman of God to be able to be quick to hear, slow to speak
and slow to wrath. And you know, I'm not going to
say, you know, Christians are doing a 100% great at that.
However, the Bible tells us that God is good to those who wait,
you know, and so when you're confronted with something, it's
always good to do this right. Take a step back.
Now they teach you that in the outfield as well.
When they hit in the outfield that instead of running up on
the ball, especially in softball, because the minute you
do, then you're like, it floats and it's go.
So they always tell them take a step back first and then go
towards the ball. Now, I didn't play outfield, I
played infield. And so, you know, you just took
off because it's usually coming. But with that being said, same
thing in the Spirit, you need to take a step back, stop.
Listen. Hearing is important.
Hearing is the foundation for us to have faith.
Faith comes by. So you can't rush in talking.
You got to step back in here so that you can then.
But if you step back to here with no expectation, then guess
what you're going to hear crickets, right?
Crickets. Amen.
You know, and if I was being ChatGPT ish, you know, delay
does not mean denial. I understand.
OK, Micah Chapter 7 verse 7 says, But As for me, I will
watch expectantly for the Lord. I will wait for the God of my
salvation. My God will hear me.
I'm curious in the realm of faith, you know, how many people
come to service in faith just to hear from God?
I mean, what layers on a consistent basis Are you in
expectation? I expect to hear something from
the word I've not heard before. I mean, is there that in you?
Is there that you know? I mean, are you in the
expectation of we earnestly desire spiritual gifts and we
know that you move on the body as it pleases.
You can be me today and I expect it can be me.
If it's your will to be me and I'll move, I'll yield.
But if it's not, I'm expecting it nonetheless.
Now again, God doesn't have to do it, but if the expectations
not there, then why is He doing anything right now?
When it comes to other meetings, other meetings are not better.
They're just designed to do what they're ordained to do.
Do you know how many believers run from conference to
conference to conference to conference to Holy Ghost
meeting, the Holy Ghost meeting, the Holy Ghost meeting?
Because they're trying to get in this little bubble thinking
that's the expression of God, which that is a expression, and
many of them miss this expression of day in and day
out. You need both aspects, Both.
This is why we have specific services throughout the year on
different things, whether it's a marriage conference, you know, a
workshop we would call whatever we call it, or parenting, or,
you know, something to do specific with men or something
to do specific with women. You know, we do a men's meeting.
It's designed specifically for the male.
And we should expect something different in that service than
just what we would have when we are here together like this.
Yet expectations should be in everything.
And here's the thing, the greatest struggle you'll have in
our special meetings is to expect from Apostle Marcy and I,
because it's pretty easy to expect from a guest minister,
because the guest minister, you don't hear them every day.
So your expectation is based upon my communication.
You need to receive the gift of God.
I want you to pull on them. I wouldn't want you to come in
and be skeptical. Well, I've never heard.
That's irrelevant. You're not hearing, doesn't
matter. The same principle will apply.
I am going to take everything that I hear, put it with the
Word of God, and receive what's of God.
That's pretty simple principle. So it doesn't matter whether
you've heard them or not. You should expect that you would
hear God through them. Now, you already know that we're
going to vet them before we really let them in the pulpit
anyway. So we're really not going to put
somebody in and go like, I don't know what they're going to say
either. And if it's bad, we'll clean it
up. I mean, I, we don't bring people
in like that, OK. I mean, we already have some
kind of relationship. There's something the Holy Ghost
has already, you know, done. And I'm not saying that people
can't make mistakes. I'm just saying that, you know,
you, you purposely do that. But because they're not our
vocal cords, then all of a sudden the expectation of
someone that you have no relationship becomes greater and
more things can move in those services simply because of a
greater expectation of the unknown person.
This is why the traveling minister is pretty it can be
dangerous for them because they live off.
They live off the expectation the pastor has given about them.
They don't have to establish any credibility themselves with
anyone. They have borrowed reputation.
But yet the people will then elevate their voice even above
their own pastors. Oh, I'm preaching better than
your Amen. But that's OK.
This is the tough deal because again, most of the time they
don't come in with a message of correction anyway.
They come in with something, you know, that's edifying,
encouraging, and then, you know, things can happen because the
body's expected and then things happen.
And then all of a sudden we have such a great service with them.
Can't wait till they're back yet.
The one that is laboring over your soul day in and day out.
Do they get crumbs of your expectation?
Hallelujah. I'm glad that's not in this
house. And if there is, just look at
your name or say get it right. I'll have to slap you because
you need a good spanking. Hallelujah.
Amen. No, that's why Hebrews says to
obey those who give watch over your soul.
And again, they're not obeying you to tell you what to do with
your life. They're the obedience that you
are to obey us. The word says this.
You should apply this to this, and that's what you're obeying.
You're not obeying their every whim.
That's foolishness. OK, so Micah again said, But As
for me, I will watch expectantly for the Lord.
I just want us to really ratchet up our expectation because
again, Apostle Marcy's doing Friday night, you know, and I
would hate for us like, well, we'll wait till Saturday because
we always get to hear her. But you don't get to hear what
she's going to do Friday night, nor in the environment of that
particular anointing of that meeting because how she
ministers here. But again, if you come with the
expect, well, she's probably just going to preach like she
does on Sunday and Wednesday, Guess what?
Then you're not pulling on something different.
But if you say, you know what, we're in a different meeting.
We're in Kingdom rise, there's a different impartation.
And so, Lord, I don't, I expect something beyond our regular
church services. I expect an anointing and
impartation of revelation. Something's going to happen.
I expect that Pastor Apostle Marcy is going to minister
something most likely under the prophetic.
She's going to move over into that prophetic role and I'm
going to pull on the prophetic in her life because that these
meetings would be set up for that.
And I expect, Lord, that she's going to say things that she'll
openly have to admit. I did not study this.
It just came up in my spirit. The reason these things come up
in the spirit is because the congregation has the
expectation. Now, I can tell you this, two or
three people can do this and change an environment.
It can happen with just a couple.
What would have happened if everybody here shows up Friday
night and brings that kind of expectation?
Then you go ahead tomorrow, call the ones that you know normally
you hang out with and see at church and say, hey, aren't you
excited about you're going to be there Friday, right?
Look, man, you're going to have to be expected.
I'm telling you, it's going to be and you go ahead and build
theirs up, right? Because again, this, I'm not
hyping you. This is I'm reading scripture.
This is not hype, this is you in your spirit saying I have a
godly expectation and godly expectation makes a demand on
something, but it will open the door for the exceedingly
abundant. I mean, don't you want to leave
Sunday night and and have your mind blown with what God has
done? I do, I want that.
I want my mind blown on what God has done.
Glory to God I believe in that He can speak through me like
he's never spoken through me before in that setting and it be
life changing. Oh Hallelujah Psalms 53 I'm
almost done two more verses. I'll probably get you out early
so you have no excuse. Say you held us there till, held
us hostage on Wednesday night till 10:00.
Psalms 5 and three says this. And the new living translation
says listen to my voice in the morning.
Lord, each morning I bring my request to you and wait
patiently. I mean, I'm, I'm hoping that
you're praying out your expectation so that Friday,
Saturday or Sunday, it's met 'cause I do believe God will do
something in this small sliver of time because of the anointing
of this particular service. Hallelujah.
You know, God can do, God does amazing things, period, period.
He does amazing things. Should we expect, right?
But again, all these scriptures that I have read today is not
hype. It's a godly something that God
wants us who are in covenant with Him to be in this position
in our heart, in our heart. Not impress me.
That's a religious person. All right, I'll believe it when
I see it. That's a religious person.
You know, you just sit back and let's watch and see what
happens. No, cause again, like tonight,
obviously we did worship different. 2 reasons, one
because I let our worship team and I said we are way too, God
is way too talented to do worship the same way all the
time with the exact same instruments.
I mean did you see the cello people?
We had a cello on the platform. This is amazing, you know, I
mean all these awesome instruments that are out there
and we've relegated in the Western culture to just, you
know, guitar, bass, drums, keys and all these other instruments
are out there. You say, well, we're past
orchestras. God's not past orchestras.
No, I I believe he loves all those sounds and we just don't
have the talent base apparently to have them in.
And if you have can play another instrument, you're like, well,
well, I play the trumpet. Why you holding out?
And we might not have you play every song with the trumpet, but
we will make some arrangements so that you can bring your gift.
There's no reason why trump is we, you understand, God is not
coming back with electric guitar.
And I heard the sound of electric guitar from heaven.
It's not a bass. It's not even the drums,
although it will sound like Thunder.
So it's probably kind of God's Thunder, right?
Thunder and lightning. However, it will be a trumpet
the trump will sound. And that we don't even have a
Trump. I would hate for you to miss it
because you don't know what they sound like anymore.
All right, Thank you, Christopher.
I like you. He's with me.
OK, So the expectation of these meetings, I mean, it's all on
you because I know what I'm going to be doing on Friday
night. I know what I'm going to do on
Saturday. I'm talking about when I'm
sitting, hearing. If something moves me, I'll
stand. Something makes me want to jump,
I'll jump. Something makes me want to
dance, I'll dance. Doesn't matter if I just sense
it should happen. I'll do it even if I don't feel
it Doesn't matter because it's that OK.
Whatever expression God wants to have, we want.
And it's not. We're not making it happen.
We just have an expectation that anything can happen.
According to scripture, not what's not scripture.
So don't come up and be throwing up and saying, you know, we're
getting rid of demons. That's we're not doing that.
That kind of stuff was all wrong.
OK, but we want to come with great expectation.
All right, Last scripture is this Luke chapter 8 verse 40.
Oh, I was saying the band. Second reason is that we have a
new stage design that we're unveiling for Kingdom Rise.
And I'm letting you know it is our last stage design in this
sanctuary. I will not do another one
because the new one is the new sanctuary.
So if I want you to get bored with it quick, so we can go on
to to the to the next conquering territory.
All right, Luke chapter 8 verse 4 says this.
The Williams translation says now as Jesus was returning, the
crowd welcomed him for they were all expecting him.
Are you expecting God to move? Are you expecting God to
manifest when apostle Apostle Joshua Adams begins to are you
expecting now in order to have an expectation, you have to be
somewhere you can't expect and then not arrive.
See here says now Jesus was returning.
This is after he ministered to some people.
He gets in a boat and he goes to the other side.
When he gets to the other side, he casts the devil out and then
he won't let the guy come back with him, but go tell everybody
about what he's done. When he shows backup, people are
waiting on him, meaning this not in 124 hour period.
But what's happened is, is that they were ministered by him.
They couldn't get enough. And so they were always, he
went, he's going to come back and they kept coming to the
shore. Waiting is a rival and when he
showed up, two things happened. Jairus's daughter was raised
from the dead and the woman with the issue of blood.
In this account, Luke was healed from her infirmity.
Expectation opened that door, something greater than they
could even imagine because Jairus just wanted her daughter.
His daughter healed. He wasn't even believing for her
to be raised from the dead because when he was told she was
dead he sunk emotionally and Jesus had to say only believe
right now. The one with the issue of blood.
That was a whole nother ball game.
Jesus didn't even know she was around till after she touched
him and then power left him. Do you understand?
That's pretty powerful. Number one, it shows the
humanity of Jesus that He was all God, but also all man, and
He was functioning as a man, anointed of God, of which God
withheld from him. This woman coming.
He did not let Jesus know. So Jesus was ignorant of the
fact a woman is pressing through the crowd with a blood problem.
He did not know this as Jesus in the flesh, but when she touched
the hem of His garment with what expected if I just touches him.
I mean, I need some people in this room tonight say if I just
touches him. If I just touches him.
You got to come with some. I mean, because some of you may
be in situations that it's that desperate if I just touches him
right. Don't don't disregard the power
of God. Don't come in, you know, because
she could have said, well, if he's really a man of God and
he's really, and God talks to him, they got to tell him my
address and he'll show up at my house.
Did not happen. She heard he was in town because
of all the commotion. She said, oh, I've heard about
him because he had just been in the community and this man can
change me and I'm not waiting for him to come.
I'll get to him. And if I just touches him, I'm
going to be healed. And she touched it.
Power left him. Not only did he have power to
heal her, he still had power, more than enough power to raise
a girl up. Oh my gosh.
I mean, you can't pull power. He's like, I got to sit down and
and and get not just keep pulling on the power.
He'll have enough power for you. Kelsey have no power for you,
Matt. You have no power for for you
and you and you. I can just go around Wayne.
He has no power for you. Just pull the power out.
I mean, y'all, we all can just touch his him all weekend long.
You can do a Friday night, you can do a Saturday morning.
You can do a Saturday night. You do a Sunday morning, do a
Sunday night and he'll still be releasing power at your
expectation. So don't let King the Kingdom
rises for us and there will be some guests in the room, but
man, pull on. Don't miss this opportunity
because power is ready to come, revelations ready to come,
change is ready, transformation an anointing different than just
our services that can become such a marker in your life that
you'll set up a spiritual memorial and say it was on this
day that God said this and changed the course of my life.