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Expect Something Good to Happen!
by Joyce Meyer
Sometimes
when you’ve had a series of disappointing things happen, you can get in the
habit of expecting more of what you already have.
I
used to be like that.
My motto was, “If
you don’t expect anything good to happen, then you won’t be disappointed when
it doesn’t.”
But
this isn’t how God wants us to live!
Because
I was sexually abused as a child by my father, I grew up and became an adult
who was really negative.
Even
after I had a strong relationship with God, I still struggled with this for a
while.
Then
one morning, I was standing in the bathroom and I remember noticing this evil
presence around me.
It wasn’t new...I realized I had always felt it. It made
me think, What bad thing is going to
happen next?
I asked God what this feeling was. He spoke to my heart and said, “Evil forebodings.”
Later, I found Proverbs 15:15,
which says, "All the days of the
desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings],
but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances]" (AMPC).
Once
I read this verse, I realized what it meant. An ‘evil foreboding” is the fear of something bad happening when
nothing was going wrong.
Then
I looked back and saw how it affected me at different times in the past...
For
example, the night Dave asked me to marry him, he said he needed to talk to me
about something. I actually thought he was going to break up with me because I
always expected the negative!
That’s
exactly what Satan wants you to do. He wants you to expect something bad and to
become fearful of the “what ifs.”
Fear is
the opposite of faith,
and it takes faith to accept anything good in our lives.
When
I was expecting something bad to happen, my expectation was from Satan.
If
we are not careful, this expectation will open the door to Satan’s evil plans
for our lives by waiting for bad things.
But
when we expect good things, we open the
door to God’s plans (seeLamentations 3:25).
God can’t wait to
be good to you...
God
is good. Everything He does is good and wonderful.
In
fact, God wants to do something outrageously wonderful in your life every
moment of every day...but you
have to be ready and expect it to happen.
Isaiah 30:18 (AMPC)
says it perfectly: “Therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting,
looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up,
that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you… Blessed (happy,
fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect
and look and long for Him…”
God
is looking and longing for someone who’s waiting for Him to be good to them.
God wants to be good to you, but you have to be expecting Him to move in your
life!
Today
is your day to start believing something good is going to happen to you!
God
is working in your life right now, and when you get your breakthrough, it will
be the result of what God has been doing for a long time.
I’ve
gotten into a habit of saying something almost every day of my life, and I
encourage you to do the same.
Declare: “God is good, and something good is going to happen to me
today!”
Whether
you see it or feel it or not, keep praying and expecting because God is longing
to be gracious and good to you!
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