Topic:  Expectation As The Second Ingredient Of Faith

Expectation is having God as a real person in your heart before you have a chance to wonder where He is. Expectation is possessing God and His love before you receive them. Expectation is where you own something in your mind and heart before you own it in the physical world. If we expect something bad to happen it usually does. If we expect something good to happen, it usually does. If we expect nothing from God, we will receive nothing. A little book, long out of print, called "Expectation Corner", tells of a king who prepared a city for some of his poor subjects. Not far away he constructed a large storehouse where everything they needed would be supplied if they would only send him their requests. There was one condition, however. The subjects should constantly be on the lookout for his messengers so when the messengers came with the gifts in answer to their urgent pleas, the subjects would always be found waiting and ready to receive them. One faithless subject, not actually expecting to get what he asked for, never watched for the messengers or the delivery. One day he was taken to the king's storehouse; and there, to his amazement, he saw scores of packages that had originally been made ready for him. The messengers had come to his door, but because he was not looking for them, the king's gifts never satisfied his needs. Sometimes God brings us blessings and we do not see them, simply because we are so unbelieving and insipid in the way we ask for his heavenly favors. Many persons miss their desired blessings because they close themselves in the gloomy chambers of doubt. How much better it is to be stationed in the faith-illumined section of the garden of prayer called "Expectation Corner".

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