Sermon Tone Analysis

What To Expect From God

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Genesis 1:1

Genesus

Genesis 1:24

Introduction

We serve a God who only does BIG things!

I can’t help but notice in the scriptures of our Bible that any time God comes into the picture, you’re going to see Him do something BIG!

And I also want you to understand that the very nature of our God is goodness!

Genesis 1:

It wasn’t that He looked on this light that He had just created and said, “In my opinion, I did a pretty good job on that there light.”

No!

He created the light, and when He was finished with it, He “saw the light, that IT WAS good.”

It wasn’t opinion.

It wasn’t His own review of the creation.

IT WAS SIMPLY A FACT, and it still is today: WHATEVER GOD DOES - IF GOD DOES ANYTHING - IT IS GOOD!

You need to be rejoicing today, because you have found yourself in this exact same God’s sanctuary today, and because of that, something GOOD is getting ready to happen TO YOU!

Can I tell you something right now?

If we would get the right picture of God in our mind, and we would truly understand His good and powerful nature to do BIG things, there won’t be another boring day in our lives!

There won’t be another dry church service!

Our praise and our adoration will come so easily because we understand the possibilities that are before us!

Body

In the very beginning of the existence of creation, the Bible says that there was darkness and chaos.

There was no order - there was, as the Word so uniquely says, “darkness upon the face of the deep.”

And the Bible so profoundly yet simply declares that God still moved and spoke in the midst of that darkness.

I’m not so much interested or concerned with today where the word is going.

All I need to know is where the word has come from!

Because if it has come from the very heart and mind of almighty God, the creator of everything we have seen, and even all that we have not seen, then it does not matter the chaos, it does not matter the confusion, it does not matter the darkness, it does not matter the void or the emptiness!

For when God begins to move on the scene, and when God begins to speak,

Order comes where there was chaos!

Color comes where there was darkness!

And fulfillment comes where there was emptiness!

So it does not matter where the word of the Lord is going - it only matters where it has come from!

Because when it has come from God, it has the ability to change ANY TYPE OF ATMOSPHERE!

Psalms 33:6-9

Something we have to understand today is the power of our God!

He is the CEO of everything in heaven, in earth, and below!

And He only simply has to speak … and it’s done!

He does not need to repeat it … He just needs to say it once!

He does not need to lift His voice … He just needs to say it!

And for God to speak is for God to do.

And we find something that Hell is afraid of now, and even back in the very beginning of the inaugural moments of scripture and creation:

Everything that God says, He sees.

And there is nothing that God SAID, that He did not SEE!

I don’t know what that does for you today, but when I begin to think back over everything that God has spoken over my life, and I begin to recall to my mind, and bring forth hope, as the prophet said, I begin to realize: God said this, and God said that, and God spoke this, and God spoke that...

And everything that God SPEAKS and everything that God SAYS… He sees.

For God to speak is for God to do.

So I want to ask you today:

What is it that God has spoken over your family?

Over your health?

Over your mind?

And you might be saying today, “I don’t believe that I’ve ever heard God speak to me.

I’m not for sure that I’ve ever heard the voice of heaven.

I don’t know that there’s a word for me.”

Can I tell you today that every time you open this book, from Genesis to Revelation, every chapter and every verse, is God speaking directly TO YOU!

So in case you didn’t realize, He has spoken peace over your mind!

He has spoken healing over your body!

He has spoken hope over your soul!

He has spoken things over you!

Plans over you!

Dreams over you!

And destinies over you!

I believe that there are some of us here today, who perhaps you have come into the house of God searching for a new word for your life.

You need direction from God and you are awaiting another divine statement from the glory world.

And this is not meant as a rebuke today, but is meant as a reminder of the power of God’s spoken Word:

You do not need to hear a new word - you need only to hear the original word again!

And again!

The Psalmist David said He spoke once, but I heard it twice!

All God needs to do is to say something one time - either through the man of God, or the Word of God - and you’ve just got to make up in your mind to hear the prophecy again!

To hear the word again!

Over and over in your mind!

Over and over in your ears!

Because God didn’t have to repeat Himself.

He didn’t say, “Let there be light...

I said, let there be light!”

He didn’t have to get angry.

You see, your kids don’t have to eat the cereal if they don’t want to.

They don’t have to get out of bed the first time you tell them if they don’t want to...

But God is the CEO… and the creator in chief of all things in heaven and in earth and below!

And all He has to do is speak!

And the Bible tells us today that the demons believe and tremble!

And it ought to be today that you and I can believe and triumph when we understand everything that He has said - WE CAN SEE!

He has said it, and I haven’t seen it yet… but there’s going to come a moment - maybe right here right now in this moment - when what He has said WILL COME TO PASS!

But if you’re interested today in being touched by God (and I certainly hope you are), and you’re wondering what to expect from Him, I’ve got some information for you today that ought to make you rejoice:

He’s only got to speak to you or touch you ONCE - if it’s just by the hem of His garment… And it is so...

And it WILL be GOOD!

I believe just one touch today would raise you up in your faith, brother!

I believe one touch or just one claiming of his word might heal you, sister!

The Power of Expectation

Can I tell you today that there is simply something in the atmosphere in this church.

I don’t know entirely how to explain it, but there is something that is beginning to take place that is different.

Maybe you have sensed it or felt it… maybe not.

But I can most assuredly tell you that something is changing in the atmosphere.

And faith is beginning to rise high and God is beginning work and move in very unique ways.

This is not “church as usual”.

There is an anticipation that has started here.

Camp Meetings and Conferences

These meetings many times have extremely powerful moves of God like what we’ve been seeing.

There are reasons for this.

Number one: prayer.