We received a much needed and encouraging word from Wil and Ank in the Netherlands.

…”A couple of weeks ago, we had a house church meeting here in our home. During the worship the Lord came and spoke to different people.

What He said to me, was: “Expect the unexpected”.

At first, I did not fully understand what He meant, because I thought ‘How can you expect something that you did not expect?!’

Later in the week, when I had time to ask the Lord about it, He gave revelation.

I want to encourage you with this: There were expectations, hopes in your lives, but they did not come to pass, yet. You thought ‘Well, I must have missed it’ or ‘Maybe it’s not His will for me’, or whatever could be the case. And you forgot about it.

I feel the Lord wants you to know that He hadn’t forgotten about it and He wants you to start hoping and expecting again, even those things that seems to be impossible! Things you do not expect anymore.

Ask the Lord to rekindle those expectations again, to bring them to your mind, so you can start expecting again, because He wants to do so much more now!

I looked up the word ‘expect’ in the dictionary and this is what it says:

‘regard something as likely to happen, believe something will happen’.

And the word ‘unexpected’: Surprising or strange things are likely to happen. It surprises you, because you did not think it was likely to happen’.

Often times in the Bible the word translated as ‘expect’ is also translated ‘hope’. So expectation and hope go together. The word hope means a favourable and confident expectation and has to do with the unseen and the future.  Without hope, there cannot be faith and we receive from him by faith.

Romans 4:18, speaking about Abraham: ‘Contrary to hope, he believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken “So shall your descendants be”.

Notice: The Lord gave Abraham a promise.

That promise produced hope.

Abraham then believed that hope. He expected that God would fulfil His promises.

Verse 21 says Abraham became fully convinced that what He had promised, He was able to perform.

Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is confidence, a complete trust,  in what we hope for.

Concluding: ask the Father to bring back to your memory the things He promised, the expectations you had that were from Him, so you can expect the unexpected to happen!”…

-Wil and Ank