Living with Expectation - Pastor Marcus Gill!

This message comes from a difficult season in David’s life. In Psalm 62, David is fleeing from his son Absalom—a time marked by both family conflict and political turmoil. Despite the chaos, David teaches us a powerful lesson: don’t focus on people—focus on God.

Expectation means having confident anticipation for a positive outcome. When our expectation is rooted in God, it is always positive. Negative thoughts and feelings are often distractions meant to pull us away from trusting Him. What begins with God carries a positive mindset and leads to a hopeful end. We must choose to expect something good.

The Hebrew word “Quavah” means expectation—to wait and watch for God to move. It reminds us that God’s timing is perfect. He is never early, never late—always on time. Even when things don’t happen according to our will, we can trust that God is still working. It is never too late for Him to bring His promises to pass in our lives.

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Welcome to Life TV, a podcast from King Garden Bay Baptist Church, where we gather together to experience God's love, grow in God's love, and give that love back to each other.

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Psalm 62. And we're gonna go down to verse number five. And the word of the Lord reads like this: He says, My soul wait thou only upon whom? Come on, talk to me. Upon whom? My soul waiteth only upon whom upon God. For my expectation, glory to God, my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation. He's my defense, and I shall not be moved. And God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength and my refuge is in God. Amen. Now I want to take your attention back to verse number 62. This is where I want us to highlight. In your time of devotion this week, and you're reflecting upon today's service. Look back at Psalm 62, particularly verse number five, where he says, My soul waiteth vow only on God, for my expectation is from who? Him. Now, when you look at the context of this text and the history behind this text, it's believed that King David is given this utterance. He's given us this verse. But this wasn't coming in good times. This was coming in one of the difficult seasons as King David was reigning there in the land. At this particular time, David was fleeing his own territory because of the threat that his son Absalom had brought against him. He and some of the folk that decided to connect with Absalom, who was a rebellious son, were revolting against King David in that season. It was a pursuit of influence. It was a negative and evil pursuit of power from his very own son Absalom. Which, in essence, if David was king, and you've got even a family member that's warring against you for your position and for your power, this wasn't just a family battle. It was actually a political battle. It was a fight going on. And here, David is giving us this scripture to say instead of me allowing this to frustrate me, and instead of me trying to come up with my own plan and do my thing to come up out of this, I'm not gonna focus on people. I'm not gonna trust in my son who should be loyal to me to be loyal. And I'm not even gonna try to fight this battle on my own, but he says, in this difficulty, my soul waiteth only on the Lord, for my expectation is of him. Watch this. The expectation there that David is talking about, hear me, is eager anticipation for a positive result. That's what expectation is. Expectation is eager anticipation for a positive result. If you look up the word expectation, you're gonna see a lot of simple uh explanations for that word in the Webster's dictionary or online. But oftentimes in prayer, God will give me a uh a definition for a word so that I can connect it with you in terms of building your faith. And so I want you to see the word expectation as confident anticipation. Because our expectation, if it's of God, it's not negative expectation, it's positive expectation. Somebody say this out loud. Say positive expectation. Yeah, expectation isn't always good. Some folk have negative expectations for their life. They expect to be sick, they expect to be depressed, they expect that things won't go well. That's influence from the enemy. Because everything that God does is always opposite to that which the enemy establishes. Somebody say this out loud with me. Say, God is a positive God. Yeah, we have to believe that. There's nothing negative about Jehovah, there's nothing negative about our Lord, there's nothing negative about Jesus. And anytime you start to feel negative about something that God is doing in your life, anytime you begin to feel negative about something that's happening in your church, that's a sign that the enemy is trying to slowly pull you away from God. The kingdom of Satan is always gonna begin with the illusion of posity, but it will always end in something negative. This is how the enemy fools so many of us. Gets us off track. Because what the devil does, he shows us things that look good, and because it looks good, oftentimes we assume that it's from God. He creates an illusion of positively, gets us wrapped up, gets us caught up and committed to that which has been designed to distract us and pull us off course. Anything that happens with God will always begin genuinely positive, and it will always end positive. This is why, with expectation, you've got to begin your week with a positive mindset about how this week is gonna go. You've got to begin this month of April with a positive mindset about how the rest of April is gonna go. And I hope that you begin this year with a positive mindset saying, God, I'm in eager anticipation for a positive result for this year 2026 to be the best year of my life. I can talk like that because I don't have negative expectations, I have positive expectations, and because of my relationship with God, I can confidently anticipate that something good is getting ready to happen in my life. If you're with me, say amen. Come on, shout this out loud. Say, I have positive expectations. Yeah, expectation is about looking forward and not back. Only a fool trips over what's behind him. But people of faith, we move forward, we accelerate, we advance because our eyes are focused on where we're going. And I believe that I'm in a room full of people today that are excited about your next season. Come on, somebody. Excited about what's coming, excited about what's before you. I'm not expecting things to fail in my business or in my career, but because my expectation is of the Lord, I'm expecting things to get better this year. I'm not expecting my finances to go and lack because of the chaos that's happening in the world, but because my expectation is not wrapped up in uh eager politicians, selfish leadership, uh, even my own boss or whoever's in charge of writing and signing my paycheck. But because my expectation is of Jehovah, my provider, my shield, my protector, I'm looking forward to the rest of this year being one of the most prosperous years of my life. If I'm talking to you, shout amen, somebody. Somebody shout, I'm expecting great things. That word expectation uh in the Hebrew. I'll go to the Hebrew specifically because here we're dealing with an old testament text. But that word expectation in the Hebrew is the word kava. Can you say that? Say kava. No, you ain't say it with power. Say it like you know how to talk like that. Say it again. Yeah, kava. It's spelled like this for those of you who are taking notes. Q A V A H. Q A V A H. Now you know it's Hebrew because in English, anytime you have a little Q, it's followed with a U. But in the Hebrew language, that word kava, say it again. Yeah, it means to have expectation. But watch this. It is a spiritual connotation of expectation, which means that you're waiting and watching for God to move. So it goes beyond just saying, okay, kava means expectation, but kava is the expectation you have, and it's the posture you take in faith where you wait and you're watching for God to move. How many of you in the room are waiting on God to do something miraculous in your life right now, right? Yeah. Now, how many of you have gotten to the place where you're not worrying about whether or not it's gonna happen, but in faith you're watching and waiting for it to take place. So guess what anointing you're flowing in? You're flowing under a kava anointing. Oh, you're gonna use this later this week. They're gonna be like, they're smart over there at King Garden Bay. Kava means I'm waiting and I'm watching. Now, there are things that we've got to do while we're waiting and while we're watching what it is that the Lord is going to do. And I want to encourage you with this fact today so that you can leave out of here uh with joyful expectation about your next. All right. I want y'all to get back on that cruise ship and tell him I'm expecting this boat to rock right on back to Florida or wherever y'all are going from here. Are you hearing me? Uh joyful expectation. And hear me, let me say this to you. Uh, when it comes to expectation, God's timing for all of our lives is always perfect. He never fails. God doesn't move too early. God never moves late, but he always moves right on time. Y'all remember the old song, He's an On-Time God?

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Yes, he is.

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Yes, he is. He may not come when you want him, but he'll be there right on time. He's an on-time God. Oh, this is a Baptist church. I was raised church of God in Christ, but we still sung those songs. He's never late, he's never early, but he's right on time. I heard a preacher say one time, Bishop, he said, he may not come when you want him, but you'll be glad when he comes. You will not have an attitude when God shows up and does what it is that you've been asking for him to do. And sometimes our expectation, we get disappointed because we have expectation that's in align with our will. God doesn't want us living an expectation on our will because then your expectation is not of him. Or that expectation, you can also use the word hope. Your hope is not of him when you've got your own timeline for stuff. But the Lord is saying to many of you in the room today, trust me, if I was to think of him being from New York where I grew up, he'd say, I got this. Relax, you're covered by the blood, all is well and getting better. You may not see it with your natural eyes right now, but this is why you got to put on the eyes of God in this season of your life and do as the apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5 and 7 walk by faith and not by chant this out loud. Say, I see through the eyes of God. And let me say this too, for those of you in the room who may be just a few weeks older than me. You're never too old to see God bring your wildish dream into reality. It's not too late for you to build that building that you wanted to build. It's not too late for you to expand your business. It's not too late for the doctor's report to change in your life, it's not too late for that family member that you've been praying to get saved, to get saved. It's not too late for you to see something you dreamed of in the 80s becoming a reality in 2026 and beyond. Well, again, God's timing is perfect. Let me ask you a question: Are you alive? You got breath in your body, you got blood running warm through your veins? Well, here's the good news for somebody who'll give God praise, God is not finished with you yet. You ought to have expectation that you're not at the last stage of your life, but you ought to be saying, I'm in the greatest season of my life. God is still breathing on me, God is still working miracles. Watch this here. Return to your youth and your spirit and begin to move and strut and live your best life, expecting that these are the best days. If you're with me, say amen. So, expectation, expectation in Hebrew. Let me see if y'all was listening. What's the word? Okay, y'all with me. I love it. Kava. I'm expecting, I'm watching, and I'm waiting on God. So, here, number one, what do we do while we're living an expectation, while we're walking hope, while we're walking in expectation, while we're walking in kava, right? Number one, expectation requires alignment with God. Expectation requires alignment with God. It means to be in harmony with him, to be in oneness with him, to be in symphanos. That's Greek, but that word symphanos means oneness, harmony. Uh, to be in unity with God, it's important because you can't have expectation of him and then be in alignment with the world, or be in alignment with your own will and your own agenda. You've got to be in alignment with God, and being in alignment with God requires us, even those of us in the room that are already saved and filled with the Spirit, it requires you to have a heart of repentance daily. Alignment with God. Your mind has to be transformed for real, because some of the things that the Lord will have before us, it won't make sense if we're always operating in our flesh. The apostle Paul said it in uh Romans chapter number eight, verse number six. He said, To be carnally minded leads to death, but to be spiritually minded leads to life and peace. Our mind has to be on the things of God so that when the Lord is revealing things to us, we'll have an understanding of what it is that he's doing, saying, and speaking. And even when you don't understand it, because you're in such alignment with God, you'll trust him even if you don't understand. That's why the word says in Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, he says, Trust in the Lord with what? Some of your heart, part of your heart? No. Trust in the Lord with what? All of thine heart, and lean not to thine own understanding, but in all of thy ways acknowledge him, and he's what? He will direct your path. He can't direct your path if you're not in alignment with him. Maintain your heart of repentance. Ask the Lord, Lord, if there's anything blocking me, anything distracting me, anything in my heart and in my mind that is contrary to your will, your way, and your word, get it out of me. So that I'm not blinded by what the enemy creates to distract me and pull me off track. I have great expectations for my next season. I'm looking forward to things getting better in my life and in my church and in my family. And so I need to be in alignment with God. I need to be right where I'm supposed to be so that I don't miss the wave of glory that's been designed for me. So many people fight against prosperity. Do you not realize that the original intent for man from God was that we would prosper and have an abundant life through salvation spiritually and in the natural? But we miss that if we're not in alignment with God. So I challenge you today. Do as Paul said be ye transformed. Transformation, go through that metamorphosis. Not just a transformation on the outside, but a transformation in your heart and in your spirit. Have your mind renewed so that you can remain in position for that which God has for you. You with me? Say amen. All right. So what? Number one, expectation requires what? Come on, say that with me. Number one, everybody read. One, two, go. Amen. Number two, expectation requires connection with people of strong faith. Expectation requires connection with people of strong faith. Psalm 1, verse number 1. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of the sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. All right? Watch this here. This verse is giving us the exact blueprint on how to stay blessed. Now, why is connection important? Connection is important because it's the people in our lives who will help us to remain motivated. It's the people in our lives who will help us to be accountable, and it's the people in our lives that will uh encourage us to continue to walk with God that help to motivate our will when things get tough. I always say this, and you can write this down in your notes. You don't have to try to type all this on the screen. But the people in our lives are bridges. They're what? Yeah. The people in our lives are bridges. Now, imagine this: a bridge connects you from one place to another. And so the revelation the Lord gave me was that our relationships determine the kind of bridges we have in our life. The people in your life are the bridges who will either connect you from where you are to your destiny or they will be the bridges who connect you from where you are to your downfall. So it's important to have the right bridges in your life. Many of us are connected to some bridges that are carrying us to the wrong places. And we've got to get to the place where we allow the Lord to reveal to us the type of spirit that's within the people we are connected to. Because you'll miss out on what you're expecting if you're surrounding yourself with faithless people, negative people, fake people, people that will allow you to go above and beyond for them, but then when you call them, they're nowhere to be found. Folks that you treat like treasure, but they treat you like trash. Come on, somebody. And even the people around you that when you speak your God-given vision, they've got so much doubt that they'll try to discourage you out of what God told you. And then all of a sudden you find yourself in a hole like them. You gotta say, the devil is a liar. I've got to get around some people that are gonna motivate me, speak life to me, push me, be real with me, but also they will celebrate with me when the Lord blesses me. Amen. Now I'm not in my flesh when I say this, but I'm just gonna vent. I'm gonna say it for you. I'm so tired of being connected to secret haters. People who say one thing in your face and they text in something else about you to somebody else. That's the total opposite of what God gave you. I'm so tired of folk coming to Pastor's anniversaries, saying one thing out of their mouth, and they talking about they with you forever, and by the next Easter, they're gone. This is why you got to be careful about who you allow to spend too much time in your house. Because everybody that you invite to your house that you call a friend, you be wondering why a negative spirit is lingering in your house. You had a secret hater up in there. But I want to speak this over those of you. I plead the blood of Jesus over every one of you who've been dealing with fake people, been dealing with liars, been dealing with folks that are just taking advantage of you. They're in your space, they're throwing roots, they're trying to practice their witchcraft. The blood of Jesus cover you. May God expose them and may He connect you with destiny helpers that will be happy to see you prosper and celebrate what God is doing in your life. If you're with me, say, Amen, somebody. Tell your neighbor right now, look at somebody and say, I love seeing you blessed. Come on, turn to somebody else because they didn't mean it. Look at somebody else and say it again. Say, I love seeing you blessed. So, what's number two? Everybody read it out loud. One, two, go. What kind of faith? What kind of faith? How many strong faith people in here say, Woo! All right. Number three, expectation requires a high work ethic. Expectation requires a high work ethic. I know we want to believe that God can do everything and he can, but it doesn't mean he will. Just because God has a plan doesn't mean he does all the planning. Just because God has a blessing in store for you doesn't mean that he's gonna let you shake a tree and that blessing is just gonna fall. Growing up, my parents used to tell me, Marcus, money doesn't grow on trees. My father told me, Marcus, if you don't work, you don't. The Bible tells me in uh James chapter number two, verse number 26 as a body without a spirit is dead, so is faith without what? Work is what? Take this down in your notes. You can have all the faith in the world, but if you don't work your faith, you give your faith a funeral. Because without work, your faith is what? Dead. Write this down. Your work ethic today must match the level of your desired outcome for tomorrow. Low work? Well, let's go back. No work, because some folks are out of no work place. They don't do nothing. Let's talk. No work. No outcome. Low work. Low outcome. Some people think this is good. But I don't like it. Average work? But great work. Excellent work. Are you hearing me? Many of you in the room, you get ready to turn up in your work after this message. Where you've been lackadaisical, lazy, inconsistent. I speak of fire in your spirit today. And I even declare for many of you, because it's not your fault, it's not really your mind, but there's so many things happening around you sometimes in life that your energy just drains you and you just don't feel like doing nothing. But I pray for you right now, those of you who will receive it, that supernatural energy, divine strength, would be granted unto you even at this moment by the power of God. May a supernatural impartation take place right now while I'm praying for you. And may God give you strength to get up and produce like never before. If you receive that, just wave your right hand and say, I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it. Strength in Jesus' name so that you can work, so that you can produce, so that you can build that which you see in your vision. Expectation is good, but while you're expecting, you've got to work. Use your hands, work and build. Show up. Come on, even when it comes to the church. Don't let just a few people work on Cain Garden Bay Church. Don't let just a few faithful do all the work, do all the hustling, do all the building, do all the witnessing. You be a part of the work. Don't sit on the sideline, but get in the game. Ooh, it got quiet on that one. If I told you you're getting ready to get a new house, they'd be shouting up and down the aisles. But when I say work, you should get excited because work turns to winning. Are you hearing me? Work, witness, evangelize, build the kingdom. Tell your family members and friends and co-workers, use social media and tell them I'm working in my church, and I want you to come and help me. I want you to be a part of what God is doing in the kingdom. And when you bless the house of God with your work, all of your other work outside of the house of the Lord will prosper even the more. Are you with me, somebody? So, number three, faith, what? Uh-oh, it's gone. Faith requires what uh expectation requires what? A high work ethic. Number four, expectation requires words. Expectation requires words. What am I saying when I say words? That which you speak has to be in alignment with that which you expect. You can't say I'm expecting healing in my body, but you telling everybody you're so sick. That ain't faith. That's the enemy pulling you over into that negative side of things. Saying, I'm so sick is a negative declaration. But when you say I'm healed, that's a positive declaration that's in alignment with the kingdom of God, in alignment with God's plan for your life. You gotta be very intentional about how you speak. Don't say, Oh my God, I'm broke, I'm poor, I've never had nothing, I live in lack. No. Those are words that are in agreement with what the enemy wants you to believe about your life. Somewhat what your bank account may say right now. Don't ever declare, I'm broke, I'm in lack, I have nothing. No, you gotta talk with expectation for what's coming. If you're in alignment with God, you've been connected with people of faith, and watch this, you've been working your vision. After a while, your account is gonna change. So don't say I'm broke, declare, say I'm rich in Jesus' name. Declare Psalm 112, verse number three, over your house and over your family and over your church. Say aloud, wealth and riches shall live in my house. Are you hearing me? There's a there's a blessing on your words. Don't speak that my children have lost their mind, and I just don't know what to do with them. No, decree and declare my sons, my daughters, my grandchildren, my nieces and nephews, they're gonna be saved. They're covered under the blood of Jesus, they'll be spirit-filled, they're gonna get it together. I'm speaking life, I'm speaking strength over their mind. I'm canceling every assignment from the enemy. I'm breaking all the witchcraft over their life, and I'm declaring that distractions will not work. You gotta dismantle the distractions and decree and declare, my children and my children's children will be saved by the power of God. Somebody shout, use your words. Somebody say this out loud. Say, I am committed to speaking life. Yeah, things in your life that aren't working that you need to work, don't say it just ain't working. No, declare, this is working, it's getting better, it's gonna change. God is turning it around. I'm ready for the blessing, I'm ready for the newness. I'm not gonna be in doubt, but I'm living in faith. I know who I am and whose I am. Shout amen, somebody. Matter of fact, speak this over your body right now, and if you got faith, because I feel God's power so rich. If you got any pain in your body, I dare you lay hands on yourself and just declare, I am healed in Jesus' name. Speak that. Say, my body is strong. No, y'all not saying it with power. Say it, my body is strong. Say my mind is alert. Say, I know who I am. Say, I've been chosen to represent the best of God's blessings. Now declare this, say what I'm believing for. It won't be long before it manifests. Say, it's my time now in Jesus' name. Now give them praise for what you declared over yourself. Because your words have power, your words have authority, your words bring forth change, your words can shift the atmosphere. Are you hearing me? And so, lastly, number five, wait, let's go through all of them real quick. Number one, say it with power. Go. That light looks good. I need to take a selfie right now. Number two. Number three. No, we gotta read number three one more time. I want you when you say hi, say hi and hold it. Ready, go. And then number four, now, number five, this is where it gets kind of fun, but it takes a whole lot of faith. Number five, expectation requires patience and praise. Patience and praise. Now, why am I yoking patience and praise together? Because while you're waiting for that which you're expecting to manifest, David here is waiting on God to move, but he's moving away from trouble. He's believing God for deliverance, he's taking refuge in him while he's on the run, trying to shield himself from a fake spirit in his son Absalom and those that decided to revolt against King David along with him. So he's on the move, he's transitioning while still waiting on God for total deliverance from this particular situation. But in order for David to actually get through this successfully, one thing that we learn about him is that he had high levels of patience and he also had high levels of praise and expectation. David here had to wait on the Lord, something that most of us have a very, very, very hard time doing. Patience is necessary because if you don't have the spirit or the gift of patience, you try to rush God. You'll try to be the Holy Spirit yourself instead of letting the Holy Spirit move in his timing. Patience will have you making decisions that will crush your business because you were just in a rush. It's something that I've learned in my life. You can take note of this and apply it to your relationships, apply it to your business, apply it to ministry, whatever it is that you have before you. But anything you rush into, you can rush into misery. Rushing leads to misery. Rushing creates mistakes. There's some mistakes that some of us would have never made had we just waited and taken our time with some things. I'm not getting to nobody's business. My grandfather used to say, amen, lights back in the day. But patience is a what? Virtue. It's one of the characteristics of the fruit of the spirit. That when you demonstrate the ability to have toys and trust God, it's proof of your trust. It's proof of your intentionality to lean on God's will and God's plan for your life when you don't try to make things happen on your own. We have God in us, but we are not God. And so anything in your life right now that you may find yourself incidentally forcing, get to a place even this afternoon in your prayer time on Sunday evening to say, Lord, I'm taking my hands off of it. I can't fix people, I can't fix my coworkers, I can't fix my spouse, I can't fix my children. The old song says, All in his hands. I put it all in his hands. Your patience is true proof of faith. Now, with patience, it don't mean sit still, be bothered, and wait, worrying. But patience and praise goes together. Because while you're saying, I'm putting it in God's hands, you're not putting it in his hands to worry, you're putting it in his hands to praise and advance for what it is that he's going to do in the near future. While you're waiting on the Lord, I say this all the time don't worry and wait, worship and wait. Hope is heightening. Hope is about leveling up. Hope is about knowing what's to come in your future. And one thing that I've learned in my almost 40 years of living is that there's no need to complain while I'm waiting for God to move. That's not expectation. But one of the greatest signs of a person who has expectation is how you behave joyfully while you're still in the middle of your way. Peace is not after storms, peace is not for good times. Peace is for while you're in the storm. And God gives you peace in the storm so that you can maintain a spirit of victory before your total deliverance, before things actually change and get better. David even said in Psalm 34, and I'm getting ready to wrap up with this. He said in Psalm 34, while he was in a cave, while he was on the run, while he was with other refugees and they were searching and wondering what's next, where we're gonna go. They weren't in a church service, but they were in a cave. What I can imagine to be maybe a cold and dark place and even a fearful scenario because they were on the run. But David didn't say, We're gonna complain in this cave, we're not gonna worry in this cave, we we're gonna, we go, we're gonna we're gonna fuss in this cave. He said, No, I'm gonna bless the Lord at all times, and his what his praises shall continually be in my mouth. He said, My soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. And as a way of encouraging the others that were in trouble in that cave with him, whom I believe were also waiting on the Lord in expectation. He said, Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us do what? Exalt his name together. Let me tell you, when you should be crying, but you decide to praise, you confuse the devil, you throw the enemy off. Instead of complaining, praise eliminates complaints. Praise sets an atmosphere for miracles. The Bible also tells us that the Lord does what? He inhabits the praises of his people, which means that when you praise, he shows up. And when God shows up, he brings miracles, he brings healing, he brings joy, he brings financial increase, he brings strength, he brings power, but most importantly, he brings his glory that is designed to empower us and sustain us for life. I'm gonna ask a question. I want to know how many of you in the room are with me, but how many of you in the room say, you know what? I'm expecting some amazing things to happen in my life the rest of this year. Come on. I'm expecting big things to happen in my life, in my home, in my family, in my church, in my nation. Well, if that's you, let's give God a quick one-minute praise in advance. Stand up on your feet. If this was your word, if you got this word today, come on, jump on your feet and give the Lord a great Shabbat praise if you can. A high praise, an elevated praise. But something good is getting ready to happen in your life. Amen. How many of you received that word today? Who's been encouraged? Somebody say, Kava. I'm expecting great things. Not too long, I was in the airport, uh, on the plane, and I'm getting ready to say a quick word of prayer and to take my seat. But I was in the airport and our flight was delayed. In fact, I was already on the plane, getting ready to head to DC. Our flight was delayed 30 minutes, not bad. Then it was delayed an hour, okay. Then it got up to about an hour and a half, and I started wondering. Then it got to two hours. And I said, Okay, what's up? Because I had a connecting flight in Charlotte. And many of you know you hate a delayed flight on the first leg because you can quite possibly miss your connection. Well, the flight attendant came up the aisle, she asked me, said, You wanna get off this flight? We'll change you up so that you don't miss your connection. I said, No, I think we'll be all right. She said, You sure? I said, Yeah, I'm gonna trust the process. So we definitely took off late. Got to Charlotte, and my flight was already on its final boarding call. And if y'all have ever been to the Charlotte airport, that's a pretty large airport, and they don't have no train for you to try to get there quick. You gotta walk. And so I went from A all the way to E. And I'm moving, I'm hustling. A couple of people recognize me, and I stop, take a little selfie. I gotta go. And I hate that because then you kind of feel kind of arrogant. But I said, I'm late, y'all. You just gotta just trust me. And I'm still moving, I'm moving, I'm moving. Somebody'll say hi, I gotta go. Moving. And I get to the gate and the doors open. And the lady said, Are you Mr. Gill? And I said, Yes, ma'am. She said, I thought so. She said, We heard your plane was arriving late, and we decided to wait on you. Now, but hear the words that got me shouting, Bishop, Pastor Dr. Mike. She said these specific words. She said, We refused to allow you to miss your connection. And I'm giving everybody in this room this word. When you live in expectation and you trust God's timing, no matter what it looks like on your clock, I'm here to encourage you. God will not let you miss your next big connection. Whatever's necessary for you to get from where you are to where you're trying to go. Don't worry. Just live in expectation of him and know that he's got you, and the outcome will always be greater than you even prayed for. Amen? Because he's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think. All according to the power that worketh well in us. The expectation, the kava that works in us. I love you so much. Thank you so much for allowing me to share today. Have you been blessed? Have you been encouraged? You are blessed, you're highly favored, and every day of your life is a day of victory in Jesus' name. Love you so much. God bless you.

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