The Sermon Expecting Vs Believing by David McGee
Aug 30, 2015
Expecting Vs Believing (33:38)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 119:1-22; Matthew 15:22-28
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Psalm 119:1-22
1) Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to the law of Yahweh.
2) Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart.
3) Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
4) You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them.
5) Oh that my ways were steadfast To obey your statutes!
6) Then I wouldn‘t be put to shame, When I consider all of your commandments.
7) I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, When I learn your righteous judgments.
8) I will observe your statutes. Don‘t utterly forsake me. BEIT
9) How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
10) With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don‘t let me wander from your commandments.
11) I have hidden your word in my heart, That I might not sin against you.
12) Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
13) With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
14) I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, As much as in all riches.
15) I will meditate on your precepts, And consider your ways.
16) I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
17) Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
18) Open my eyes, That I may see wondrous things out of your law.
19) I am a stranger on the earth. Don‘t hide your commandments from me.
20) My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
21) You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, Who wander from your commandments.
22) Take reproach and contempt away from me, For I have kept your statutes.
Matthew 15:22-28
22) Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David. My daughter is grievously vexed with a demon."
23) But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."
24) But he answered, "I wasn‘t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25) But she came and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, help me."
26) But he answered, "It is not appropriate to take the children‘s bread and throw it to the dogs."
27) But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters‘ table."
28) Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Be it done to you even as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that hour.
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There was something that came across the Internet you know one of those things that you should read you know tells you to read them and things and most of them you discounted delete and go on but this is called ed. Grandparents. This was actually reported by a teacher that was written by a hunter was a boy he was Rhonda's it was written by one of the teachers students. After Christmas a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school one child wrote the following. We always used to spend the holidays with grandma and grandpa they used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa but Grandpa got ed and they moved to the Bateman Bay where everyone lives in nice little houses so they don't have to mow the gr anymore. They were our aid they ride around on their bicycles and scooters and they were name tags because they don't know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked center but they but they just but they must have got it fixed because it's all OK now. They'll do exercises there but they don't do them very well. There's a swimming pool too but all they do is jump up and down in there with their hats on the white hats in a buffet I'm down at their gate there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it he watches all day so no one can escape sometimes they sneak out and grow cruisin in their golf carts. Nobody there cooks they just eat out and they eat the same thing every night early birds some of the people can't get out past the man in the Dollhouse the ones who do get out bring back food to the rec center for pot luck. My grandma says that grandpa worked all his life to earn. Is ed mint and says I should work hard so I can be ed someday too when I earn my ed meant I want to be the man in the Dollhouse then I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildren. Thing. An investor. Photo folks we're fast approaching the ed meant well yeah. Hid So as we Last week we spoke about Blessed is the man and we think about sin that was in Psalm one and about how that the blessings of are kind of set there for us and how that is wanting us to receive these blessings in and as I was thinking about that and of course you don't want to necessarily preach blessing part too but we want US today I was thinking of expecting versus believing now expecting versus believing we've done this seminar this seminar we've done this on a number of years ago about expecting versus believing but it's I don't think you know and I've come to find out that many times I can say the same things are the same topic and never say the same sermon again so we'll see what happens. Expecting versus believing you believe now of course the obvious is a woman who is expecting a child. We know that in nine months she's going to have a child that's expecting believing is I believe I'm going to have a child but not pregnant yet I'm not expecting it so there's a difference between belief and expecting and we think that sometimes we think that there are synonymous that they're the same but they're not. We believe that there is a but so does the devil you know the devil knows. believes in but that belief didn't doesn't change anything of evil they believe that is capable of all things but they don't allow to have that sovereignty in their life and see in our lives there's a difference between believing and expecting believe says I believe 's promises. Expecting is I am declaring that is going to bless my life I believe that is going to do something I expect him to do something now you may think that's kind of a fine line between you know believing in expecting but if you believe you're pregnant or you are so expect NG ladies what is the difference. You know there's a big difference you're expecting you know. Did you ever dial a wrong number on the phone. What were you believing you were believing that you dial the correct number and when you got what you believed it wasn't what you expected. OK so I had that happened this morning when I came up with us. Cover this was you know praying here setting in thing some guy calls me said one number is this. And I said well what number are you calling you know and he says to me Well what's your name. Wall who are you calling on is calling someone in No not here. Oh I guess I have the wrong number. You see and I there was a time we used to get a phone call every night about three o'clock in the morning you know you never knew when this person is going to call and they called you know three o'clock right on the dot. Most every morning so how do you stop someone from doing this you know people to blow. Horn in their ear blow whistles I said Well I'm glad you called. Let me pray for you and every time he called I prayed for him or her whoever it was and they stop calling you know because they were expecting to bring up an irritant yellow is your refrigerator running you know. Go jack you know those types of things it was like someone is expecting something but they didn't get what they were expecting and you see in our life is expecting us to receive his gifts and his blessing and to receive the things in our life so that we can give them away you see what gives to us is not for us to ac ulate and say let's build bigger barns the let's allow ourselves to do this in the way receive this in a way that we're able to share it with other people and that's why we tie that's why we give or our finances of our finances the Lord we are honoring with our gifts and has an expectation that if we are willing to sew into our faith into what says we are able also to reap Now sometimes we get a little off course in our thinking because we would say well you know I really don't deserve this. Well deserving has nothing to do with it. gives his blessing and His Grace you know his grace is freely given it is it is given without without strings. I'm trying to think of the another word that goes with this that we would call a person who has little morals or no morals we would call them very loose there's another word goes with that whether it's a male or female McCollum very loose. Well is very loose. Same word with His grace and His mercy to us that he is looking to the stove his favor upon his children he doesn't he doesn't whilst qualify us OK let's qualify this whether we should give them something you know if someone has a need well let's qualify the need do you really need this is this one tours this a necessity you know here can and generally that means I'm not giving it to tell you prove me that you need it but this is what's the difference between a want and then the festive season and sometimes we look at the gifts and the blessings of although those are just wants I don't really need them but is saying to us this is a need because it has more to do with how you're going to give it away rather than how that you're going to put it in your closet or in your house or in your basket and keep it you see if that gives the of give a good has given us are for us to put in our baskets then that we don't need it and it's not it's a want but wouldn't wants to bless us and he expects his blessing to expect he's looking for people to receive his blessing. He's doing it so that we can receive it than let it flow out you see the knowledge that we have new teachers you know teachers there's one here. Whatever two three four you know I told somebody other day we have five teachers or seventy I can remember that we have five teachers I think and they said wow that must be pretty hard to preaching to them. And why do you have five teachers is probably your wife that they're coming me you know but what happens was a teacher a teacher is sharing knowledge you gain knowledge so that you can share it you know you gain something in order to give it if you would. Again all that knowledge in sit in the corner and never talk to anyone never write anything what good does it do and we look at this and you see what wants to give us and we set there and say well I really don't need that our eyes are only upon self and saying to self I don't deserve that I don't need that and is saying no I want you to have this because there's somebody coming into your life that you need to give this to so we find that the wisdom and the understanding in the grace in the mercy in the forgiveness and the personal growth that we encounter is is very important because we haven't finished growing it and there are things that need to be expanded in our life that wants to bless us with so that we can share it with someone else but are sharing comes with qualifications we want to quantify do they really deserve this. Will they throw it away. Will they not appreciated if wants us to give something it's not ours to say well you know I don't think they deserve it. Well that's not ours to say wants us to have give a couple will cold water in his name we are responsible for giving if they throw it on the ground that's their responsibility but you see they will always remember someone gave them something and they gave it with those strings attached and we have and it's hard it's hard in our humanness and our old nature saw that too to think of. Freely giving to such as I have given to you. Silver and gold you know he said Peter says sober and gold have I not but such as I have I given to you. You What did the man want he wanted money. But teen or didn't have the money to give because he could have had the money. wanted you know Peter going down to the lake there in the catch another fish and get the money there and I want you to give it to so and so and you go walking through town and there's somebody who needs what you got and you give it to them but that wasn't the case. Peter had something a spiritual gift and that spiritual gift he was able to share with the man because even though the man thought he needed a physical healing knew he needed a spiritual awakening and in our life what is it that wants to awaken. What is it the government's to awaken in our life. Sometimes it's that we are not finished growing it we're not finished learning it's we're not finished in how that we can give to others and share our life and share our talents with others. is willing to allow wants to allow us to receive the blessings wants us to receive his gifting so that we can have the blessing in our life to share with other people. Well so if our Gospel is veiled it's veiled to those who are perishing and we're not tearing the gospel of Christ is not veiled to me is veil to those who are perishing and 's tonus you're not perishing so that we're always in the process of learning always in the process of growing so more nine hundred says verse one what's it say. First two words your blessed your blessed never were that came when we speak about last night last night. Last time my son they saw one. Less is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the end godly in or stand in the way of centers. Nor seated in this. Nor sit in the seat of the scornful but is the light is in the law of the Lord and is law he met it takes day and night and what's he going to be like he's going be like a tree that was planted by the waters and that is fruit is you know is going to bear fruit in his season is leaf does it with or no matter what the temperature no matter what the climate no matter what the season the last see someone one thousand were only going to do all of it is a it took it takes fifteen minutes to read through it so I'll start now reading it what verse one and one know who they're going to do that so you see you're blessed when you stay on course and someone kind of gives us that blessed is the man who Walker's not nor standeth nor sit is the idea is you don't stand walk or sit where people who are scoffers and non-believers are going but blessed is the man who stays on course. Blessed to your blast when you stay on course. What's the course won't loving forgiving believing expecting you see sometimes we get very frustrated because I've been believing. Been begun. I've been tellin I've been pe ioning for this specific saying it doesn't happen while there's a scripture in Matthew fifteen I didn't think of this when do you Jose. Probably didn't Matthew fifteen twenty two and this is one of those scriptures that when you read it for a couple times or I don't I really never quite understood what was going on I've read the commentaries on it and you know I'll read it says and behold a woman who was a Canaanite from the district. Came out and with a loud troublesome urgent cry begged have mercy on me she begged and we you know whenever you know when you read that you read it and Jesus doesn't pay any attention to her she banked and she's telling him his needs but she's begging him about his knee but he did not answer verse twenty three. He didn't answer her a word now become a cherries the different commentary state that while perhaps this is a trial like for Abraham. Whenever he was the take now your son your only son take him up and offer him as a sacrifice they quake this this this situation to something like that where is Jesus is trying to test her faith in trial at a trial of her faith and to see if she will persevere through this and then she goes on and begs the disciples as we read on here but you came he answered. Hanson her I was sent only to the law sheep of Israel to the house of Israel. Lady I have no time for you and I'm not sent to your kind I'm sent to the Jewish people. OK Now that is one of those scriptures the discount like Jesus I know there's a reason some boring hitting in all this that you're doing this but I don't see it it doesn't flow with everything else in the scriptures because he's always going you know for the woman it's a Marea the Wallace Mariya that was you know he goes to summarily must needs go to some area I've got this person there that I have to see in here is this woman who comes to him begging and Jesus says you know to keep your distance. I'm not for you and of course the woman then went to the disciples and and he this is I've said Jesus we do something with this woman or she can't leave us alone she's done it. Begging us for something that verse twenty seven she said Yes Lord and even the little pups the little well plus eat the crumbs that fall from their young master's table. Just like Abraham that what it says just or test my version I seventy five test taker son of that's what we're saying and when Jesus answered her own woman. Great is your fave. What happens in that situation she turns from begging she turns from thanking Jesus to expecting Jesus she turned from banking to expecting and what happens is in our life sometimes we get into this mode where we feel that isn't doesn't know how to need and how desperate I am and we begin to beg and whimper and whine and you know Why isn't doing this and why isn't doing that and really there's a difference between believing and expecting in him this case. Believing begging and expecting a see your blessed when you stay on course. Done all the right things. I've read the Scriptures I believe I've been going to church I've been asking to know it's asking believing that would would help me and I get nowhere and nothing happens. But wants us to expect expect that he will honor his word expect that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I expect to forgive me I expect you know if we if writes our name in the Lamb's book of life and I expect my name is in his book of life in heaven. Because believing and not receiving is like believing I'm pregnant and there's no baby. But expecting is there is a baby and there is a delivery date and so your blast when you follow his directions. What are 's directions his directions are unconditional love. His directions are you don't go off on our own tangents and have those little strange belief that we grew up with and they've still been haunting us. Things that we felt should have taken care of but didn't you see it's important that we know how that we perceive truth. Wow How do you believe how do you receive truth in your life how do you be Steve what is life and what is right. Well we are ruled by our human prescriptions. Our desire to connect with others and have others connect with us. Sometimes Well most of the times I think we don't we don't want to be isolated and an island by ourselves we like to be connected and so in our desire to be connected we can get off course. Get off the road will go off the road just a little bit to tell them what they want to hear so that they will like us. We'll get off the road and you see we don't have to go to get off the road to have them like us we need to speak the truth in love we need to have a love in our heart to the strong enough that the Word of will dwell in us richly and that we can share it with him and that there are there is a belief there is a receiving part and X.. Spectating of our life that will honor the promise that he has laid in our heart that will honor the promise that he is placed within our hearts and our lives you know I have all my one of the things you know you get these little thoughts in your head and I've had it there for a very long time. And that's why my I'm bald and can't think straight. We had this thought that you know if you have wisdom you have everything they say if you have wisdom you have everything well you of course you have to have Christ you know we have to have wisdom in Christ the wisdom is the application of truth and the application of truth is as the HOW that we can take what we know and convey it to other people and sometimes if you know if you haven't noticed by now I try to be very balanced you know I you know it isn't like I'm narrowing down being perfect be trying to be balanced you know you try to approach something in a very balanced position you don't you don't go off the deep end in either direction the disc Honest Abe Allen's than Sometimes that's been a fault of mine that were so balanced that we are boring you know. Were so balanced that you know we just con everything's got to be in a balance and but the believing is kind of like in this downs of everything's OK I believe this but you see expecting puts us over to one of the sides that says I'm not only believing this I'm expecting it to come into my life. I'm expecting it to be part of who I am you know in all the years I my my greatest thing is to be have wisdom because I figured Solomon he was wise and that you know he's you know everybody's desired his counsel and all that stuff and that's important stuff but he lost his way in His wisdom that that. He ended up focusing on the N. to lecture will not understanding the relational experience that he had with and we have to have wisdom enough to understand the relational experience that we have with and bring it into our everyday life that we can bring it into our everyday life and so the expectation becomes 's promise. Placed in my heart that I can use this in See this is a very real and tangible. Child birth of what has given to me and that I can use this now in furthering the kingdom of And so when wants to birth something in our lives I don't know I've never had a baby been ladies you said it's a little you know the Bible says that it's the labor. What is their labor. What's what made labour I can well work eight hours. What's labor pain you know that's a guy's perception you see what's Labor came pain you wimp you know. Oh I'm going to duck here pretty soon. Now but there is a labor pain and but there is pain in giving birth so whenever we find ourselves in giving birth painful situations perhaps we need to back up a little bit and still ask ourselves a question and my own course I am I am I lying to love through me a my allowing myself to forgive and my being a non judgement a listener Baca and you see the pain lets me know that I am berthing something it's not a pain free life you know. Take two aspirin and go to bed you know it's not a pain free life. There are paying Xin our life and sometimes we create them sometimes other people create them. Sometimes Sometimes allows them because he wants us to birth something that we don't really see it we can believe that we are on our way to heaven will just be happy and at peace. Hum And it doesn't work that way if I can find my place of peace I can find my place of peace in the midst of the storm in the midst of the difficulties I can be at peace in my heart knowing this is the way walk in it that this is the voice of speaking to me to make the application of all things are possible to those who believe believe that to leave has the idea of birthing all things are possible to those who birth expect to bring about the birth of something so we are believing for a birth and the birth that we are experiencing is the birth of 's promise into our life and we find that thought is blessed us with so many promises that won't when we feel lonely. OK will never leave us nor for sake of us we're not alone in this I'm with you always even to the ends of the Earth I believe and I expect my life to be at peace. works all things together for good to those who love are called according to His purpose that has a way it so when I look at my trials and tribulations they are creating stress and strain and heartache that up is berthing something am I still on course. Had does your Anything that I'm doing here that's not right in his sight should I be changing in how that I address these things and what I'd say about these things how I talk about them because when I'm talking about them. I am declaring the truth of what I believe and I believe that works miracles and I am expecting him to apply the wisdom of his word and the experiences of my life to help me on this path this path that I am walking and as I am walking this path I am finding that the hand of is there to go before me to go behind me. He's to the right of me he's to the left to me. He's above me he's been Ethan He's inside of me there is no place that I can go that he is not there so in this place I find the birth of peace when I am lacking if you lack anything if you lack faith let him ask of who gives to every one. Liberally and he doesn't withhold so I got I need this. Well David praying for face to receive it and to birth it in your life you see I can complain about and begged about to and beg for but what is that I take care of my own kids. I take care of the children first of Israel first go over there. Put what he's saying is that person comes back and says a he that person warships So in our worship we are adoring and when we add to or We see him for who he is. And so in our worship in our prayers we are seeing who is the provider that gives us the provision provision he speaks. Things into existence. He speaks so if we have trouble learning. Hello. If we have trouble remembering. Hello. If we have trouble you know accomplishing thing you know what we doing. Expect to be the provider. Expect him to initiate his word in a bring into reality His Spirit in our life and to birth in us and in our life something very tangible you see are our worries the ascent the feeling of aloneness we have a feeling that says and a realisation I'm alone in the midst of a group of people you know I can be in a group of people I still feel all alone. Well I can be all alone still feel like I'm connected. has birth that reality in my life and in the reality of being with others. He then opens the doors to touch other people's lives because I expected and so those are the expectations the expectation that will birth bring to life his words in my heart and in my life and so therefore I not only believe I'm expecting. Now I know I'm not expecting that you know you can tell the preachers on the level. Bubbles in the middle of a. I lost the whole sermon right there right. I'm expecting to give birth to that. I'm expecting to give birth to the promises that he is delayed in our hearts and that the truth of His word will speak volumes to our lives we will not feel alone we will not feel that things are. Off course we will believe and we will expect the word to keep me strong keep me safe keep us secure and we expect to go on to watch over our children to watch over the transportation to school the teachers the kids all the things that's going on in the school system. I just pray and I expect you to bless my children I expect you to bless my work I expect you to give me wisdom in the application of the truth in the understanding of my knowledge where I work and what I do that I'm able to sense your presence be comfortable enough where I am to lawyer Spirit to work through me and when I am troubled I know it's time to just wait and seek amen. Shall we stand. I won't ask how many of you are expecting that maybe I should how many of us are expecting expecting we're all expecting we're expecting to do work in our lives a man thank you Jesus for your promise your word your spiritual life your love of How that we walk this path and we know that we're not alone. Thank you Thank You . Thank you I meant. Human. There was something that came across the Internet you know one of those things that you should read you know tells you to read them and things and most of them you discounted delete and go on but this is called ed. Grandparents. This was actually reported by a teacher that was written by a hunter was a boy he was Rhonda's it was written by one of the teachers students. After Christmas a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school one child wrote the following. We always used to spend the holidays with grandma and grandpa they used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa but Grandpa got ed and they moved to the Bateman Bay where everyone lives in nice little houses so they don't have to mow the gr anymore. They were our aid they ride around on their bicycles and scooters and they were name tags because they don't know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked center but they but they just but they must have got it fixed because it's all OK now. They'll do exercises there but they don't do them very well. There's a swimming pool too but all they do is jump up and down in there with their hats on the white hats in a buffet I'm down at their gate there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it he watches all day so no one can escape sometimes they sneak out and grow cruisin in their golf carts. Nobody there cooks they just eat out and they eat the same thing every night early birds some of the people can't get out past the man in the Dollhouse the ones who do get out bring back food to the rec center for pot luck. My grandma says that grandpa worked all his life to earn. Is ed mint and says I should work hard so I can be ed someday too when I earn my ed meant I want to be the man in the Dollhouse then I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildren. Thing. An investor. Photo folks we're fast approaching the ed meant well yeah. Hid So as we Last week we spoke about Blessed is the man and we think about sin that was in Psalm one and about how that the blessings of are kind of set there for us and how that is wanting us to receive these blessings in and as I was thinking about that and of course you don't want to necessarily preach blessing part too but we want US today I was thinking of expecting versus believing now expecting versus believing we've done this seminar this seminar we've done this on a number of years ago about expecting versus believing but it's I don't think you know and I've come to find out that many times I can say the same things are the same topic and never say the same sermon again so we'll see what happens. Expecting versus believing you believe now of course the obvious is a woman who is expecting a child. We know that in nine months she's going to have a child that's expecting believing is I believe I'm going to have a child but not pregnant yet I'm not expecting it so there's a difference between belief and expecting and we think that sometimes we think that there are synonymous that they're the same but they're not. We believe that there is a but so does the devil you know the devil knows. believes in but that belief didn't doesn't change anything of evil they believe that is capable of all things but they don't allow to have that sovereignty in their life and see in our lives there's a difference between believing and expecting believe says I believe 's promises. Expecting is I am declaring that is going to bless my life I believe that is going to do something I expect him to do something now you may think that's kind of a fine line between you know believing in expecting but if you believe you're pregnant or you are so expect NG ladies what is the difference. You know there's a big difference you're expecting you know. Did you ever dial a wrong number on the phone. What were you believing you were believing that you dial the correct number and when you got what you believed it wasn't what you expected. OK so I had that happened this morning when I came up with us. Cover this was you know praying here setting in thing some guy calls me said one number is this. And I said well what number are you calling you know and he says to me Well what's your name. Wall who are you calling on is calling someone in No not here. Oh I guess I have the wrong number. You see and I there was a time we used to get a phone call every night about three o'clock in the morning you know you never knew when this person is going to call and they called you know three o'clock right on the dot. Most every morning so how do you stop someone from doing this you know people to blow. Horn in their ear blow whistles I said Well I'm glad you called. Let me pray for you and every time he called I prayed for him or her whoever it was and they stop calling you know because they were expecting to bring up an irritant yellow is your refrigerator running you know. Go jack you know those types of things it was like someone is expecting something but they didn't get what they were expecting and you see in our life is expecting us to receive his gifts and his blessing and to receive the things in our life so that we can give them away you see what gives to us is not for us to ac ulate and say let's build bigger barns the let's allow ourselves to do this in the way receive this in a way that we're able to share it with other people and that's why we tie that's why we give or our finances of our finances the Lord we are honoring with our gifts and has an expectation that if we are willing to sew into our faith into what says we are able also to reap Now sometimes we get a little off course in our thinking because we would say well you know I really don't deserve this. Well deserving has nothing to do with it. gives his blessing and His Grace you know his grace is freely given it is it is given without without strings. I'm trying to think of the another word that goes with this that we would call a person who has little morals or no morals we would call them very loose there's another word goes with that whether it's a male or female McCollum very loose. Well is very loose. Same word with His grace and His mercy to us that he is looking to the stove his favor upon his children he doesn't he doesn't whilst qualify us OK let's qualify this whether we should give them something you know if someone has a need well let's qualify the need do you really need this is this one tours this a necessity you know here can and generally that means I'm not giving it to tell you prove me that you need it but this is what's the difference between a want and then the festive season and sometimes we look at the gifts and the blessings of although those are just wants I don't really need them but is saying to us this is a need because it has more to do with how you're going to give it away rather than how that you're going to put it in your closet or in your house or in your basket and keep it you see if that gives the of give a good has given us are for us to put in our baskets then that we don't need it and it's not it's a want but wouldn't wants to bless us and he expects his blessing to expect he's looking for people to receive his blessing. He's doing it so that we can receive it than let it flow out you see the knowledge that we have new teachers you know teachers there's one here. Whatever two three four you know I told somebody other day we have five teachers or seventy I can remember that we have five teachers I think and they said wow that must be pretty hard to preaching to them. And why do you have five teachers is probably your wife that they're coming me you know but what happens was a teacher a teacher is sharing knowledge you gain knowledge so that you can share it you know you gain something in order to give it if you would. Again all that knowledge in sit in the corner and never talk to anyone never write anything what good does it do and we look at this and you see what wants to give us and we set there and say well I really don't need that our eyes are only upon self and saying to self I don't deserve that I don't need that and is saying no I want you to have this because there's somebody coming into your life that you need to give this to so we find that the wisdom and the understanding in the grace in the mercy in the forgiveness and the personal growth that we encounter is is very important because we haven't finished growing it and there are things that need to be expanded in our life that wants to bless us with so that we can share it with someone else but are sharing comes with qualifications we want to quantify do they really deserve this. Will they throw it away. Will they not appreciated if wants us to give something it's not ours to say well you know I don't think they deserve it. Well that's not ours to say wants us to have give a couple will cold water in his name we are responsible for giving if they throw it on the ground that's their responsibility but you see they will always remember someone gave them something and they gave it with those strings attached and we have and it's hard it's hard in our humanness and our old nature saw that too to think of. Freely giving to such as I have given to you. Silver and gold you know he said Peter says sober and gold have I not but such as I have I given to you. You What did the man want he wanted money. But teen or didn't have the money to give because he could have had the money. wanted you know Peter going down to the lake there in the catch another fish and get the money there and I want you to give it to so and so and you go walking through town and there's somebody who needs what you got and you give it to them but that wasn't the case. Peter had something a spiritual gift and that spiritual gift he was able to share with the man because even though the man thought he needed a physical healing knew he needed a spiritual awakening and in our life what is it that wants to awaken. What is it the government's to awaken in our life. Sometimes it's that we are not finished growing it we're not finished learning it's we're not finished in how that we can give to others and share our life and share our talents with others. is willing to allow wants to allow us to receive the blessings wants us to receive his gifting so that we can have the blessing in our life to share with other people. Well so if our Gospel is veiled it's veiled to those who are perishing and we're not tearing the gospel of Christ is not veiled to me is veil to those who are perishing and 's tonus you're not perishing so that we're always in the process of learning always in the process of growing so more nine hundred says verse one what's it say. First two words your blessed your blessed never were that came when we speak about last night last night. Last time my son they saw one. Less is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the end godly in or stand in the way of centers. Nor seated in this. Nor sit in the seat of the scornful but is the light is in the law of the Lord and is law he met it takes day and night and what's he going to be like he's going be like a tree that was planted by the waters and that is fruit is you know is going to bear fruit in his season is leaf does it with or no matter what the temperature no matter what the climate no matter what the season the last see someone one thousand were only going to do all of it is a it took it takes fifteen minutes to read through it so I'll start now reading it what verse one and one know who they're going to do that so you see you're blessed when you stay on course and someone kind of gives us that blessed is the man who Walker's not nor standeth nor sit is the idea is you don't stand walk or sit where people who are scoffers and non-believers are going but blessed is the man who stays on course. Blessed to your blast when you stay on course. What's the course won't loving forgiving believing expecting you see sometimes we get very frustrated because I've been believing. Been begun. I've been tellin I've been pe ioning for this specific saying it doesn't happen while there's a scripture in Matthew fifteen I didn't think of this when do you Jose. Probably didn't Matthew fifteen twenty two and this is one of those scriptures that when you read it for a couple times or I don't I really never quite understood what was going on I've read the commentaries on it and you know I'll read it says and behold a woman who was a Canaanite from the district. Came out and with a loud troublesome urgent cry begged have mercy on me she begged and we you know whenever you know when you read that you read it and Jesus doesn't pay any attention to her she banked and she's telling him his needs but she's begging him about his knee but he did not answer verse twenty three. He didn't answer her a word now become a cherries the different commentary state that while perhaps this is a trial like for Abraham. Whenever he was the take now your son your only son take him up and offer him as a sacrifice they quake this this this situation to something like that where is Jesus is trying to test her faith in trial at a trial of her faith and to see if she will persevere through this and then she goes on and begs the disciples as we read on here but you came he answered. Hanson her I was sent only to the law sheep of Israel to the house of Israel. Lady I have no time for you and I'm not sent to your kind I'm sent to the Jewish people. OK Now that is one of those scriptures the discount like Jesus I know there's a reason some boring hitting in all this that you're doing this but I don't see it it doesn't flow with everything else in the scriptures because he's always going you know for the woman it's a Marea the Wallace Mariya that was you know he goes to summarily must needs go to some area I've got this person there that I have to see in here is this woman who comes to him begging and Jesus says you know to keep your distance. I'm not for you and of course the woman then went to the disciples and and he this is I've said Jesus we do something with this woman or she can't leave us alone she's done it. Begging us for something that verse twenty seven she said Yes Lord and even the little pups the little well plus eat the crumbs that fall from their young master's table. Just like Abraham that what it says just or test my version I seventy five test taker son of that's what we're saying and when Jesus answered her own woman. Great is your fave. What happens in that situation she turns from begging she turns from thanking Jesus to expecting Jesus she turned from banking to expecting and what happens is in our life sometimes we get into this mode where we feel that isn't doesn't know how to need and how desperate I am and we begin to beg and whimper and whine and you know Why isn't doing this and why isn't doing that and really there's a difference between believing and expecting in him this case. Believing begging and expecting a see your blessed when you stay on course. Done all the right things. I've read the Scriptures I believe I've been going to church I've been asking to know it's asking believing that would would help me and I get nowhere and nothing happens. But wants us to expect expect that he will honor his word expect that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I expect to forgive me I expect you know if we if writes our name in the Lamb's book of life and I expect my name is in his book of life in heaven. Because believing and not receiving is like believing I'm pregnant and there's no baby. But expecting is there is a baby and there is a delivery date and so your blast when you follow his directions. What are 's directions his directions are unconditional love. His directions are you don't go off on our own tangents and have those little strange belief that we grew up with and they've still been haunting us. Things that we felt should have taken care of but didn't you see it's important that we know how that we perceive truth. Wow How do you believe how do you receive truth in your life how do you be Steve what is life and what is right. Well we are ruled by our human prescriptions. Our desire to connect with others and have others connect with us. Sometimes Well most of the times I think we don't we don't want to be isolated and an island by ourselves we like to be connected and so in our desire to be connected we can get off course. Get off the road will go off the road just a little bit to tell them what they want to hear so that they will like us. We'll get off the road and you see we don't have to go to get off the road to have them like us we need to speak the truth in love we need to have a love in our heart to the strong enough that the Word of will dwell in us richly and that we can share it with him and that there are there is a belief there is a receiving part and X.. Spectating of our life that will honor the promise that he has laid in our heart that will honor the promise that he is placed within our hearts and our lives you know I have all my one of the things you know you get these little thoughts in your head and I've had it there for a very long time. And that's why my I'm bald and can't think straight. We had this thought that you know if you have wisdom you have everything they say if you have wisdom you have everything well you of course you have to have Christ you know we have to have wisdom in Christ the wisdom is the application of truth and the application of truth is as the HOW that we can take what we know and convey it to other people and sometimes if you know if you haven't noticed by now I try to be very balanced you know I you know it isn't like I'm narrowing down being perfect be trying to be balanced you know you try to approach something in a very balanced position you don't you don't go off the deep end in either direction the disc Honest Abe Allen's than Sometimes that's been a fault of mine that were so balanced that we are boring you know. Were so balanced that you know we just con everything's got to be in a balance and but the believing is kind of like in this downs of everything's OK I believe this but you see expecting puts us over to one of the sides that says I'm not only believing this I'm expecting it to come into my life. I'm expecting it to be part of who I am you know in all the years I my my greatest thing is to be have wisdom because I figured Solomon he was wise and that you know he's you know everybody's desired his counsel and all that stuff and that's important stuff but he lost his way in His wisdom that that. He ended up focusing on the N. to lecture will not understanding the relational experience that he had with and we have to have wisdom enough to understand the relational experience that we have with and bring it into our everyday life that we can bring it into our everyday life and so the expectation becomes 's promise. Placed in my heart that I can use this in See this is a very real and tangible. Child birth of what has given to me and that I can use this now in furthering the kingdom of And so when wants to birth something in our lives I don't know I've never had a baby been ladies you said it's a little you know the Bible says that it's the labor. What is their labor. What's what made labour I can well work eight hours. What's labor pain you know that's a guy's perception you see what's Labor came pain you wimp you know. Oh I'm going to duck here pretty soon. Now but there is a labor pain and but there is pain in giving birth so whenever we find ourselves in giving birth painful situations perhaps we need to back up a little bit and still ask ourselves a question and my own course I am I am I lying to love through me a my allowing myself to forgive and my being a non judgement a listener Baca and you see the pain lets me know that I am berthing something it's not a pain free life you know. Take two aspirin and go to bed you know it's not a pain free life. There are paying Xin our life and sometimes we create them sometimes other people create them. Sometimes Sometimes allows them because he wants us to birth something that we don't really see it we can believe that we are on our way to heaven will just be happy and at peace. Hum And it doesn't work that way if I can find my place of peace I can find my place of peace in the midst of the storm in the midst of the difficulties I can be at peace in my heart knowing this is the way walk in it that this is the voice of speaking to me to make the application of all things are possible to those who believe believe that to leave has the idea of birthing all things are possible to those who birth expect to bring about the birth of something so we are believing for a birth and the birth that we are experiencing is the birth of 's promise into our life and we find that thought is blessed us with so many promises that won't when we feel lonely. OK will never leave us nor for sake of us we're not alone in this I'm with you always even to the ends of the Earth I believe and I expect my life to be at peace. works all things together for good to those who love are called according to His purpose that has a way it so when I look at my trials and tribulations they are creating stress and strain and heartache that up is berthing something am I still on course. Had does your Anything that I'm doing here that's not right in his sight should I be changing in how that I address these things and what I'd say about these things how I talk about them because when I'm talking about them. I am declaring the truth of what I believe and I believe that works miracles and I am expecting him to apply the wisdom of his word and the experiences of my life to help me on this path this path that I am walking and as I am walking this path I am finding that the hand of is there to go before me to go behind me. He's to the right of me he's to the left to me. He's above me he's been Ethan He's inside of me there is no place that I can go that he is not there so in this place I find the birth of peace when I am lacking if you lack anything if you lack faith let him ask of who gives to every one. Liberally and he doesn't withhold so I got I need this. Well David praying for face to receive it and to birth it in your life you see I can complain about and begged about to and beg for but what is that I take care of my own kids. I take care of the children first of Israel first go over there. Put what he's saying is that person comes back and says a he that person warships So in our worship we are adoring and when we add to or We see him for who he is. And so in our worship in our prayers we are seeing who is the provider that gives us the provision provision he speaks. Things into existence. He speaks so if we have trouble learning. Hello. If we have trouble remembering. Hello. If we have trouble you know accomplishing thing you know what we doing. Expect to be the provider. Expect him to initiate his word in a bring into reality His Spirit in our life and to birth in us and in our life something very tangible you see are our worries the ascent the feeling of aloneness we have a feeling that says and a realisation I'm alone in the midst of a group of people you know I can be in a group of people I still feel all alone. Well I can be all alone still feel like I'm connected. has birth that reality in my life and in the reality of being with others. He then opens the doors to touch other people's lives because I expected and so those are the expectations the expectation that will birth bring to life his words in my heart and in my life and so therefore I not only believe I'm expecting. Now I know I'm not expecting that you know you can tell the preachers on the level. Bubbles in the middle of a. I lost the whole sermon right there right. I'm expecting to give birth to that. I'm expecting to give birth to the promises that he is delayed in our hearts and that the truth of His word will speak volumes to our lives we will not feel alone we will not feel that things are. Off course we will believe and we will expect the word to keep me strong keep me safe keep us secure and we expect to go on to watch over our children to watch over the transportation to school the teachers the kids all the things that's going on in the school system. I just pray and I expect you to bless my children I expect you to bless my work I expect you to give me wisdom in the application of the truth in the understanding of my knowledge where I work and what I do that I'm able to sense your presence be comfortable enough where I am to lawyer Spirit to work through me and when I am troubled I know it's time to just wait and seek amen. Shall we stand. I won't ask how many of you are expecting that maybe I should how many of us are expecting expecting we're all expecting we're expecting to do work in our lives a man thank you Jesus for your promise your word your spiritual life your love of How that we walk this path and we know that we're not alone. Thank you Thank You . Thank you I meant. Human.