Team:
"Some Pursue happiness - others Create it." Ralph Waldo Emerson
MANAGE EXPECTATIONS OR IT WILL MANAGE YOU!
Have you ever been in a situation where you didn't live up to expectations?
Why is it important to Manage Expectations?
Because Circumstances Start Controlling our Mood and Behavior.
MANAGE EXPECTATIONS OR IT WILL MANAGE YOU!
I'm talking about that Motor in our mind that is constantly reminding us of how we have fallen short.
That motor that says, "you will never make it!"
That motor that says, "you are guilty!"
That motor that makes you paranoid.
Why does this happen? Do we Expect to much out of ourselves? Do we focus on what everyone else Expects of us?
MANAGE EXPECTATIONS OR IT WILL MANAGE YOU!
Friends, Expectations can destroy us if they are not managed properly.
"For whatever was written before, was written for our learning, that we, through the endurance and comfort of the scriptures might have EXPECTATION" (Romans 15:4).
Here Paul is saying we can have Great Expectation of what God wants to do in our lives.
When you are in the proper frame of mind nothing can stop you.
To be in the proper frame of mind we need to be Learning. We Learn by Reading and Listening to the Word.
Jeremiah 29:11 tells us we can live in Great Expectation when we realize God is for us and not against us.
Too many Self Righteous Churches these days Point Fingers and Find Faults in everything we do.
The Religious people did this in Jesus's day and Jesus rebuked them. Jesus pointed out how their Finger Pointing and Fault Finding was Hypocritical.
MANAGE EXPECTATIONS OR IT WILL MANAGE YOU!
In John 8 we read about a beautiful young woman that was thrown in to the Temple after being accused of adultery. By the way what happened to the guy? What a tragedy!
The Religious Leaders were expecting Jesus to say, "stone her!"
They were so wrong! Jesus was not the Jesus they thought He was. This Jesus was forgiving and graceful. This Jesus picked her up and helped her back on her feet.
Jesus looked around and began writing in the sand. One by one the Judgmental Religious Finger Pointing Fault Finders walked away. There was Silence in her life at last!
No more Accusations! No more Faults! Total Forgiveness! Freedom! No more Slavery to Expectations of others.
Total Silence! The Accusation and Expectation Motor was turned off at last!
Finally, this young woman was at Peace from all the Expectations of the World.
Finally she was free to live in the Expectation of what God was going to do in her life.
Do you let the World's Expectation Manage you? Have you been a victim of Accusations? It hurts doesn't it?
All of us have been in this situation. We don't know the full story because God wants us to focus on Forgiveness not the reasons behind everything.
Jesus said to the Young Woman, "Where are your Accusers?"
MANAGE EXPECTATIONS OR IT WILL MANAGE YOU!
The Word says that it is God's Goodness that leads us to Changing our Behaviors and moving on to God's Great Expectations, Thoughts and Plans for our lives. Jeremiah 29:11
When we realize all that God did for us and the pain He went through for us we will be on our way to Forgiveness.
MANAGE EXPECTATIONS OR IT WILL MANAGE YOU!
The Good News for us is that Jesus took False Expectations and nailed it to the Cross!
"Anyone in Christ is a New Creation! The Past is Gone! All Things are New!"
Now you are Free to let God Manage your Expectations just like He did with the Woman in John 8.
Where are your Accusers Now? They are gone! Listen to the Silence!
Just like Elijah heard a still small voice so can we when we focus on Jesus!
MANAGE EXPECTATIONS OR IT WILL MANAGE YOU!
LEAN ON HIM!
Just Go Win the Day!
Rick
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