Expectation (Expectation)
But he's a pastor for us and he has been guiding us. Thank you for his dedication for the time. Lord that he he puts in order to get all things together and do to guide us through this morning or what he has God in his heart from you. Lord may your Holy Spirit. Be the one who guides him and empowered him to release with power. What you have placed in his heart. This morning Lord through the word that we are going to listen that we may be strengthened and perhaps some people touched and renewed, and Lord. We pray for your Holy Spirit to do what you have to do. Every time that your word is shared things. Happen. Light, overcomes Darkness. So this morning, we just pray that, that, that word will bring light to all those who listen, And will be a blessing and a transforming lives session in the name of Jesus. We pray. I mean
Morning, thank you. Say
anybody excited about Christmas. The future is in the room. Anybody excited about Christmas. Yes.
I'll tell you what. There are little children are excited about Christmas. There's an expectation in the air. There's an expectation in the ad. This is the time to talk about expectation. You know why? I don't know what you would like but right now I would say, if I'm honest with you, my expectations it down just cuz of Life thing. I maybe you've got such a thing. Mine's probably pretty low right now. Cuz I am not thinking far ahead. I'm not thinking big picture, I'm not thinking, wow, something great is going to happen. I'm just looking a few steps ahead. And the songs like the song 121 says this lift my eyes to look to the hills from whence cometh, my help with something about lifting, our eyes up that he's really powerful something. Empowering to looking further ahead. If you have a note to someone who becomes very uncertain about that, walk in somebody's broken to like somebody of an older generation is not to become uncertain on their face if they start to look at that. They're looking at that pic and I may be looking six inches or foot ahead of the Hades down and then looking at that fake thinking, I don't trip over a Paving slabs or a cab or something on the ground. So they're looking at that face and you can see videos where people who were walking with a head down walking to lampposts and these kind of things you might laugh at it. I guess, if somebody was just on my mobile 5, you think some of them, right? They should be paid more attention to the world, but for someone who's maybe an older generation is less stable enough. Sometimes we could be so much more ready for something. If you've ever seen somebody walking at speed down a payment and somebody shuffling along, there is a moment or you think it's got to be a I know you don't know who's going to get the biggest surprise. The postage walking quickly or the person is walking slow to, he's focusing quite locally. I just want to come up and see further ahead and just have some expectation. Expectation comes from looking forward, if I asked you to be expected to drive your car and look in the rear-view mirror, First, you tell me that was crazy. Only looking in the rearview mirror but that would be, it would be off to the event. And you know what? It's like when we do things off to the event, we were always playing catch-up always having to justify who we are and what we doing about expectations from Luke chapter 1 verses 26 to 38. Now, in the six-month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of gallery called Nazareth to a virgin betrothed. To a man, whose name was Joseph of the House of David. The Virgins name was married and having rejoiced in the angel said, to her Rejoice, highly favored. One the Lord is with you blessed. Are you among swimming? But when she saw him, she was trouble. He's saying, I'm considered what manner of greeting. This was then the angel said to her, do not be afraid. Mary for you, have found favor with God and behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth his son and shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the son of the highest on the Lord. God will give him the Throne of his father David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And his kingdom, there will be no ends. Then Mary says to the angel, how can this be? Since I do not know a man and the angel, the power of the highest will overshadow you. Therefore also that her T1 who is to be born will be called The Son of God in her old age. She's now the six months of her, who who was cold Byron for with God, nothing is impossible. Then Mary said, behold the maidservant of the Lord let it be to me according to your words and the angel departed from her.
I don't know what you just this story. I always find so fascinating that she was betrothed. To be married, but you never been with a man. We know what that means, and now the Angels telling her you're going to be pregnant
No Upton. When people are looking forward to having children, there's an expectation that tried to have children. That. That's the intention but she wasn't ready for the angel comes and says, you're going to Paris on the holy spirit will come upon you at in these moments. Expectations got me pregnant before she was married.
It's no good. When expectation, I'm going to be pregnant, I'm going to be carrying a joke and then This is a gift from God, the Revelation that I can just imagine her chin being on the floor guy, Gina. Most of what I read in scripture, whenever there's an angel as a chin on the floor, as people who struggle to say, do not be afraid, do not be afraid. Joanna's. Think God reminds us of this season 22. So I know what to say to each one of those listing, those between those in the room. Do not be afraid to rise today in your spirit. Let Faith arise in your walk. Let Faith arise in your expectation. Bugattis with us.
Say that again, God is with us just like God was with Mary. God Is With Us by his holy spirit.
She then says, right at the end of that scripture, behold the maid said she recognized, she was going to be subbing. In an amazing and incredible white. Let It Be. According to your word. You have spoken, Let It Be song.
I think that's, that's a real insight into faithfulness that it's a real insight into hearing God in slang. OK, Google. Let It Be, and I know I'm going to be in the middle of that carry. Child. How many times has God spoken to you? When you kind of gun did like to see that happen? But could you pick somebody else, please? Could it be somebody else? Could you bring 10 other people to come and help me to do it? I'm just imagine if Mary and said well I don't want to do on my own. Could you bring $10 to do this? How does that work? No, no go to Miracle working God, but I thought it was just one, precious lady, who was given the gift to Bethel a son and call him Jesus.
So expectation, unexpected, on to the next scripture, please 43 verse 19 because a second or third child she wasn't even yet marriage. You wasn't even thinking of I guess you wasn't thinking about having children of that time. And I just want to say I want you to think about this particular scripture from Isaiah 43, verse 19 behold, I will do a new thing Now, it's Spring sport shop. I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Weather was nothing that will now be something where there was no child, there will be a child where there was Desert that will be Springs in the desert. I don't know how many of the people are listening to that. I have actually been deep into a desert.
But I do know from studying deserts When I Was An undergraduate that if you go deep into the desert, suddenly water becomes a very, very, very important thing.
Are camels. Camels coming to the Christmas story? The Night Before Christmas? Come out and sit on the wise men. We never managed to get camels to the open and itsy bitsy and I can, we might get long as a few times, but why? Because I have the ability to go without water for a long time and I have the ability to go for a long time. So when we read here, you know, I saw that I'm doing a new thing. Multiple spring fall Rivers. Not just a river in a desert.
And if you, if you think this is crazy, I'm just going to look into it. Google search and find out, and you will see why when it rains in the water when it rains in the desert. And when it comes and it comes very rarely stops springs for a rideable. I'm sorry, behold, I do a new thing. I don't want to declare this prophetically to die. I believe, God, sign. As we step into none the 2022. The God is going to do and what he's going to do a new thing for you, but we've got to come with hearts of expectancy. If we, if we don't listen to God and he's got to keep on knocking, on our hearts, we hold music. How do you not know it?
Expectancy when does an expectant heart when God speaks, there's a real readiness.
Let's go to the next song.
In Matthew chapter 9, verses 16 and 17, you'll get inflamed of where I'm going to with this. No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment for the patch pulls away of the Garment under is mase worth.
Nor do they put a new wine into old wineskins or else? The wineskins, write the wind. The wind is spilled and the wineskins, the ruins, but they put new wine into new wineskins and preserved.
If you want to put new wine into old wineskins, you have to spend a lot of time. Something you're putting oil into the leather to loosen up again. If you ever, you might do this happened to John, are you might step into, okay? I'm going to do a little bit more exercise.
Tell me what the first few times you do that. Do that, do that because we haven't prepared. Also, we haven't texted warm. I'm prepared our bodies for that new regime of exercise.
So if we had God saying, I'm going to do a new thing, we need to prepare ourselves. If you sent firstly. Yes, Lord, I'm ready. Whatever you want to say to me, prepare your mind will mind. So just as inflexible as our muscles, we can get stuck in tracks of tools and then I was thinking on your own Network star, start to run differently, anybody who's had a revelation and you have one of those moments when you gone If you watch some of those amazing Fields you suddenly realize how do you know you work? So you sent me realize how things grow or you seen the baby in its kind in the womb. I remember, Julia telling me about how I'm watching how babies and wombs responds to the mother smoking. Yeah, they're literally a video of a child in the in the room and then the woman inhales the smoke and let you see the child trying to get away in the room and makes me even more passionate about something. I'm not a fan of smoking. Just watch. Look at it. You know, so that Revelation that aha moment changes my thinking but sometimes new thinking hits against opening. I may have to adopt it, we have to get used to it. Let me give you an example as we're talking about expectation. When a new baby arrives in your house. So for those who had children and uncles or grandparents, when a new baby arrives, Everything Changes. It doesn't matter how much and, you know, it's on its way, you might be able to answer night boss, listen to about stuff, but then the first night, what do we do? You do you see these weary parents walking around with their eyes on a heavy? Because they struggle to sleep, even though this week 9 months of preparation, even though his or maybe even longer and 9 months of getting ready, Is that I have to change the price. Still have to change your thinking becomes essential oils for quite a few nights. That's why I'm so grateful that we just pretended to leave. Now I think it's a great thing to do things. Behold, I do a new thing and if he's going to do anything, that's get ready for.
Let's read on about new things then as we reading.
Psalm 144 new song to you. Oh God on a harp of ten strings and I will sing praises to you, David 150 songs are in the Book of Psalms and he was a great worshiper.
A great response to go, these two purse for him praise and worship.
When something new comes singing.
He gets a smaller even if you could you sing a little bit.
When do dogs like when we sing a new song? You think we got just as big a pain from God? Have you sent still smiling upon you as you sing a new song as you respond? So the news thing that he's doing think about, we know, I think, I already lost Sunday or the Sunday before lost his response was
9th, Inning song, traditional Evening Song and Anglican Church. It's a song every every Sunday evening.
So, are you ready to sing a new song? Sing Praises. Maybe with the strings, maybe with the drama, maybe just on here on acapella, but let's be ready to sing. I think about some more new things to is we going to look at Psalm 40 verses 3, because where is that song come from. He has put a new song in my mouth. Praise. Do you agree? Now that song is not just to chew its words as well. When God puts the song in our hearts, then there's something more about speaking and saying something. I've asked people about the number of people in the last month or so whether they've done some thinking about, OK, Google, tell me about it, alright? If you trying to go to feel what you feel about special person, you like your mom, your dad husband-wife, child daughter,
I didn't have you spoken it out. What shape does it? Take my love you. Is it true? You're the most precious thing in my world. I love you with all my heart. And what is it? Speak it out. And see what comes out. Open your mouth and I will fill it. When I sit down drawer, it affects your wife expression. Sing it if you want to.
Because you know what, it becomes something more than just a mushy. So it becomes a time for me. What should be something that's expressive is something that gets out there. Doesn't mean that you have to go. Tell the people scripture talks about the religious folk such a kind of night to be seen to be worshipping. Jesus told us in in, in the Lord's Prayer, just go through some of my 12 ones. We've got private was hoping some of the most precious times I've ever.
Norton's in crowds of hundreds and thousands. But just me and God He has put a new song in my mouth. Put a new song in my pencil. He's put a new song in my spirit. It down because you know what it will become something more when you read it again it will come back to you if that's true. Sometimes, you won't agree with what you read music.
You look at the words, you think I need to write more cuz I've run out of words.
Miss going to look at another scripture about noon, it's a new songs. Galatians 6:10, as we have opportunity, let us to get to old, is specially to those who were in the household of faith. You know what God wants to do new things through us. But just to us through us, he wants us to be the custodians of his grace and his mercy. God has one plan. I am not plan is the church. You just have a plan B after church be or another name and he's planning to the church. He's his way, he's handling action through you and made. You think, sometimes that will mean that you and I are the Agents of change you and I are carrying to caring. The reason resource carrying the capacity carrying the right words to somebody else into the air, like we speak God's Comfort exultation and strengthen to others and that she's on the light for them.
No, that's what I believe the gifts of the holy spirit for their for turning on the world as God speaks through us to others. Please help sister stop to realize that we are men and women of fight a scripture would say to us.
You don't have to have a PhD in in the Christian faith to get a prophesied. In fact, I believe if I think about my already woke as a Christian, I believe I prophesied before I spoke in tongues. I didn't know about that time but I smoked for the word that was encouraging to somebody and he's only with deeper understanding, I realize what that was. So let me encourage you to speak it and share it. If God is speaking to you in and you share it with someone else, please do it, as God leads you to. Especially in the House of Fun in the church in Joshua chapter 3 verses 15 and 16. I miss you sis. I do things with clothes then. And I supposed to board the ark came to the Jordan and the Feast of the priests aboard, the ark dipped into the edge of the water for the Jordan was overflowing its banks during the time of harvest.
And the waters which came down from Upstream, Stood Still, and Rose up in a heap, very far away at Adam, and the city that was beside the return. So the water down into the sea. If Arab are the salt sea filed, a castle and the people pop over to the opposite Jericho,
As they stepped into the Jordan, the water is piled up but they required to step into the water, like believe they stood on the side of the thing would have happened. I had to show Fife. I had to take a stack of 5. I had to take a step into something.
About what you would like when you if you got to the seaside this time of year where you just look at the wife, something cool. That's nice or what do you still want to paddle and you take the shoes off and Okay. And It's the power lead on the one underneath. Thanks.
It when you go and you look at the water, that's nice. You stand at attention. So why do you still think? I still want to get my feet wet and then you do in the water when it's cold?
That's one in carriages that's not have that kind of attitude to take you to set up a fight. Close asking you to crossover step into it, step into it, with five, step into it with confidence that into it, with boldness. And let's see. And if we weren't expecting people, and I believe he will do more things. Because, actually, once we've done something with something, something that goes to the people, we, we felt, we should share it with them. Because what should we do? We need to take a step of faith. In a time of expectation expectancy, we need to take a step of faith. And see I called will do a new thing. Let me try.
father, as we look forward to assignment celebration, we celebrate, and remember, your arrival here, enough, we celebrate and remember the gift of the son, your son Jesus Christ, but you sent as an agent of change to our world, As a sacrificial lamb on, I'll be home. Play father, as we journey into the season. I've been to looking towards Christmas Lodi heart's, already with expectation. A hawk's already with expectancy. Play Father, do whatever it is. You need to do in our lives. Father, if you want to renew our a connection, father, if you want to start a new relationship. If you want to move us into the Fields, New Seasons new and father, a lot of expectations as we ready.
For speak to us, O Lord. Speak through us.
Help us to know what is on your heart. Are your people for this church running me, Christian Fellowship for the town of a government for the nation, for the people, we spend time with her friends in for a family. All the help us to be people who have ears. That will hear a mouse that will speak a to be men and women of action, it will take steps and bring you glory.
Bryson the goat signs. Behold, I do a new thing.
Legends Springville. Jesus name, amen.
