Expectation

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of His inheritance in the saints. ~ Ephesians 1:18

So that you will know the hope… The Greek word for hope means to expect, either good things or bad. An expectation is the mode of transportation for action. The world calls this self-fulfilling prophesy. If your expectation is, “They will never change and I will still have to do all the work,” then your subconscious is going to speak to your mind and tell it this expectation over and over and you will begin looking for examples that prove this point. Then, you will begin collecting these thoughts in your head until your thoughts turn to words and you tell that person everything you’ve been thinking about them, tearing down in them any shred of confidence he/she had left, which leads that person to have the expectation, “No one expects me to do anything with my life, why bother.”

The Bible says that the power of life and death are in the tongue, but the tongue gets its orders from the mind. With this in mind, what expectations do you need to change for your life?

And we take every thought captive to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:5