*If the 40th Anniversary shall be more than 40 Shilohs put together in impact.
The questions you should ask yourself are:
*What has God done before in Shiloh?
*What can the God that did this thing in Shiloh, do in 40 Shilohs put together?
*What am I expecting from among this list?
ENGAGING THE POWER OF EXPECTATION FOR ENTRY INTO OUR PROMISED LAND
-Everyone of us shall enter in the name of Jesus Christ.
By introduction, we were told according to scriptures that faith is the substance of things hoped for and that the word ‘Hope’ there translates to Expectation (Hebrews 11:1). So faith according to scriptures, is the substance of things expected. Without expectation, there will be substantiation. Faith is the substance of things expected.
Now what is expectation? This morning, I will like us to see expectation as consciously conceiving in your heart what God declares with His mouth. To consciously conceive in your heart what God declares with His mouth. This is the condition of delivering any divine mandate. This is one condition that must be met before any divine agenda is ever delivered whether it be answers to prayers or fulfillment of prophecies as has gone before us that we are entering our Promised Land beginning from this 40th Anniversary Prophetic Feast. To see it delivered in your personal life, one condition that must be met is the condition of expectation and that means to conceive, to agree to become pregnant with the seed of God’s spoken Word. That is the only hope of delivery.
Matthew 21:22
“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, BELIEVING, that is what you shall receive”: Expecting.
That scripture means all things but it also means only the things. All things you shall ask, believing. Among all the things, only the ones that you believe or expect shall be delivered in your life.
No one ever arrives at a future he cannot see….we have always heard from our father in the faith, this is true because it is just like in child birth. No woman ever delivers a child without first conceiving a child. The man might be intact, the woman intact, but without the process of conception, even Mary that delivered without man, did not deliver without conception; she needed conception first before delivery. Without conception or expectation which is to carry consciously the spoken Word and nurture it in your spirit man, you may not deliver it.
Hebrew 4:2
“…but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with ‘expectation’…” – remember the word ‘faith’ has been transcribed as expectation in this exhortation. The Word preached to them is the same Word that is benefitting us, is the same Word that profited us. It’s the same Word of prophecy ‘that we are entering the Promised Land’ was spoken to the 12 tribes of Israel but we have heard God’s servant tell us that there are these two and half tribes that could not conceive what God was saying. What they were seeing was more real to them than what God was saying. But we know that what we see is temporal. Do you agree with me? Whatever you are seeing is temporal, what God is saying is eternal because He was, He is and He will be. So the things we are seeing came after Him, when He speaks, He speaks the end from the beginning.
These two and half tribes could not see what God was saying. The things they were seeing deceived them and by that they lost out, they couldn’t enter the Promised Land because their expectation was punctured.
I want you to pray, “In the name of Jesus, as we approach this 40th Anniversary Prophetic Feast, your expectation and my expectation shall be intact.”
Jehoshaphat:
Jehoshaphat and the whole Judah prayed answer expectant prayer and God stepped into their affairs, a prophetic Word came forth and led the way to their desired victory. Church Gist. God stepped in, a prophetic Word came but first of all their expectation, their conception was intact.
2 Chronicles 20:3-4
Not an empty fast, not a vacuum fast
“…to seek help of the Lord” – Their intercession was steered towards this expectation: help of God, help from God and if you look at his prayers, you could see a man that was conceiving. He was reminding God His Word, he was reminding God His ability. He knew that God can deliver them from these people they cannot save themselves from. He went to God in prayers, in fasting and expectation; that brought about his delivery.
2 Chronicles 20:17-20
God whom they prayed to, remember when they went to God in intercession, they went for help. Look at the answer they got: God said, “you shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourself, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord, O Judah and Jerusalem. Fear not, don’t be dismayed, tomorrow go out against them; for the Lord will be with you”, which means the Lord will help you. They went to pray with the expectation of help, they got exactly what they expected from God. They asked for help and God said, “I am going to help you, I am going to take over this battle.”
-I want to believe God, as you set your expectation right, this 40th Anniversary shall deliver to the full.
There is a scripture in Jeremiah chapter one verses 11 and 12:
“…I will hasten my word to perform it” – expectation is different from wishing, it is different from thinking. People say that the Bible has provided, that God can do exceedingly, abundantly, above all what we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). That is correct but not when you think outside His Word. Expectation is Word based. Expectation is thinking through the mind of God. Church Gist. Expectation is seeing through the eye of God. No matter the circumstances around you or in you, your expectation must be in line with the Word of God. You see when you study the scripture, it is explained that the word, ‘almond tree’ is a figurative speech. It’s like saying that somebody is growing like an ‘Agric fowl’.
When you say, “this guy is growing like an ‘Agric fowl’,” the first thing that comes to mind is that he is growing with speed. Or to say, “these people are growing like they are eating fertilizer”, it is figurative.
The word, ‘almond tree’ there means exactly ‘hasten’ in Hebrews and Greek. It’s a figurative word of expressing hasten. So it meant that God’s Word or God’s mind was to hasten performance but He was checking the heart of Jeremiah:
What are you seeing? What is your expectation?
And when Jeremiah said, “I am seeing men growing like Agric fowl”
God said, “you have seen My mind and I am going to hasten My Word to perform it.”
Meaning that what he was thinking, what he was seeing was exactly in line with the Word of God.
Now the question is this, what are you seeing?
God has spoken many things concerning this 40th Anniversary prophetic feast, one of it is this:
That it shall be more than 40 Shilohs put together in impact.
The question you should ask yourself is this: What has God done before in Shiloh?
Now the question is this: What can the God that did this thing in Shiloh do in 40 Shilohs put together?
Then the last one which is the key question: What am I expecting from among this list?
Nobody can do this for you just like no woman can conceive for another woman. You must sit down with the Word of God, sit down with the Prophetic lines and pick and fix in your spirit man. Get pregnant.
The testimony we heard is a testimony of expectation. Far away at ‘Auchi’, somebody passed on but you see the Word had been planted in the heart of this young man (documented testimony). He said, “my Prophet said we are not burying anyone this year, the circumstance notwithstanding, death notwithstanding, mortuary notwithstanding.” He went there with expectation and prayed. Now he said, “the God of Bishop David Oyedepo”: expectation, conception, ripe pregnancy and the delivery was intact.
You can’t be pregnant with one child and give birth to two. If you want two, you must be pregnant with two. If you want triplets, the conception must be with three. So it is time to sit down and conceive.
The good news is this, there is no limit to what God can do: if you can conceive it, God can deliver it.
I have never seen a case where people go to the hospital and the midwife says, “well the babies are too much. I am not trying to deliver three babies.”
If you can conceive it, God can deliver it.
-Come this 40th Anniversary, you will return testifying.
We must keep speaking the reality of our expectation. Expectation is not complete until it is verbalized. We must therefore keep on speaking the reality of our expectations.
Mark 11:23
-As you build up your expectation, the good news is this, God will not under perform, rather He will over perform because He is more than able.
I believe God strongly for us a Commission, collectively and individually, we shall return with our expectations. Not one of our expectations shall be cut off.
Begin to express your expectation before the God of all possibilities. Speak to Him with faith in your heart. These are my expectations from this Prophetic Feast, make sure He is hearing your voice. Make sure He is seeing your heart, pray this morning, a prayer that must be answered. Let God hear your voice, let God see your heart.
Our Father we give you glory, our Father we give you thanks in Jesus awesome name we have prayed.
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