Remembrance and Expectation

Each year we’re encouraged to create an Expansion list to pray over during the month. As you place your requests in God’s hands, expect Him to move with your faith. Writing down your prayers and vision is a timeless Godly principle. It’s declaring in faith that you expect God to deliver on His promise to accomplish more than you could ask or imagine. Be encouraged to write down your prayers. Pray that God would answer these prayers in faith. Believe that He can and wants to bless His people. For the people on your list who don’t know Him, believe they can encounter Jesus in a personal and life-transforming way.

Why not take this opportunity to look back at what God has done in the past when you’ve made room for Him?

ASK YOURSELF THIS: WHAT DO I SEE?

When King David finally saw God’s promise fulfilled to him (the ark brought to Jerusalem), he stopped and wrote a song (psalm) to thank God and remind himself and the people of all He had done. He commemorated the expansion God had brought to His people and prepared himself to remember this when the next challenge came.

Make a list with three columns and keep adding to them over the month and praying over them:

· Column 1: Thank you, God, for what You’ve DONE.

Recall the times you’ve seen God expand in your heart/life/community and give Him the praise.

· Column 2: Thank you, God, for what You WILL do.

Ask Him to stretch you into new opportunities, move into your neighbourhood and reach the people around you through His love in your heart.

· Column 3: Thank you, God, that I CAN…

Write action ideas as they come to you in your prayer times, pray over each idea, and ask God whether He wants you to act, give, speak, or wait and pray. Ask God how you can share in what He’s doing!