Expectations

Hello my name is Jasper, praise the Lord.

Most of us can remember a time when we were expecting something to happen in our lives. When we were young kids at Christmastime we all expected to get the toy that we wanted. As we grew older we may have our first relationship, and we expect the girl or young man to like us. Often times we expect certain things from our job, or we may expect to be rewarded for good deeds that we've done. When we pray to the Lord we pray honestly, and we expect Him to give us what we're asking for. He is our Lord and our father, and like any good father when we do good and we're obedient, we expect our father to be good to us. Father God is no different. He wants to be good to us, He wants us to ask Him for things, He wants us to be obedient to Him so He can be good to us in return. There is absolutely nothing wrong with praying and expecting good results, but it takes strong faith. This is what pleases God. It is written "you cannot please God without faith". That is the one thing that He requires of us more than anything else. When we have strong faith in His word and we pray sincerely to Him, we should expect excellent results because He is a perfect God and He cannot lie. When He makes promises to us and we have faith, those promises will be kept. This should be a very exciting thing to know. This should be something that we can look forward to in our lives, just knowing that when we pray to God He will do what we ask Him to do, as long as we have faith in Him and are obedient to His word. So be of good cheer, for we have the Lord on our side and He will do exactly what He has promised. So I encourage you to take a good look at your faith, keep your spirits strong, and always trust in the Lord.

My name is Jasper, and He is worthy of all praise.