Quotes about Expectation

When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?

When we become certain that God is going to work in a particular way, He will never work in that way again.

You cannot serve the Lord"—but you can place yourself in the proper position where God's almighty power will flow through you. Is your relationship with God sufficient for you to expect Him to exhibit His wonderful life in you?

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life— gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. This is generally expressed with a sigh of sadness, but it should be an expression of breathless expectation.

If Jesus Christ is only a teacher, then all He can do is frustrate me by setting a standard before me I cannot attain.

Be ready for the sudden surprise visits of God. A ready person never needs to get ready—he is ready.

If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

Remember, waiting isn't just about what you are hoping for at the end of the wait, but also about what you will become as you wait.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.

Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.