Our Father has made many promises to us, and He keeps everyone of those promises. Of all those promises (all of which are for you, by the way) I am thinking of four specific promises you should trust him for.
You can first expect to be rewarded as you diligently seek the Lord. You find that promise in Hebrews 11:6: “[God] rewards those who earnestly and diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). Look that verse up, in fact, read the whole chapter and see how good He really is.
The beauty of this promise is that you can ask in faith for a token for God to encourage and rekindle your confidence. God is always on time, and he knows you need a ray of hope and good news in your testing time. Expect him to keep his promise to reward you now when you are in greatest need. God cannot lie. He said he rewards those who diligently seek him. Seek him daily and believe that this year will be your year of great spiritual blessing.
You can also expect to see evidence of a progressive miracle in your life. John Mark wrote: “All things are possible with God” (Mark 10:27).
I assure you that I believe in instantaneous miracles, but I have also witnessed progressive miracles. Progressive miracles start in unseen, quiet ways and unfold little by little, one small mercy at a time. You can expect to see God working in mysterious ways, unseen to the human eye.
After all that, you can expect to enter into God’s promised place of rest. “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God . . . make every effort to enter that rest” (Hebrews 4:9,11).
In the last few years we have seen an outpouring of incredible calamities, problems and trials. In the midst of this, the Lord wanted you to believe him to bring you into his promised rest. Yahweh never intended for his children to live in fear and despair. We need a reckless faith and trust in God in the face of fear, trouble and death itself.
Finally, we need to expect the Holy Spirit to always be in his temple. Look at what Paul wrote to the church in Corinth: “Don’t you know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies?” (I Corinthians 6:19).
The Holy Spirit lives in the heart of the believer. He is omnipresent throughout the world. I face each day acknowledging that he is here in his temple to comfort me, guide me, encourage me, anoint me, and to reveal the glory of Jesus Christ in ever-increasing revelation. I depend on him to lead me and guide me into the Truth of the Word. I anticipate His guidance and direction with each decision I need to make. He desire is for us to expect him to make his presence manifest in us, and more so each day with call on Him. He wants to bring you into unshakable faith, just as he did his disciples.
I encourage you to meditate on the promises and believe them! Lay hold of these expectations and you will see God do marvelous things in your life.
