How to make your words empower your expectations.

Proverbs 23:18: Surely there is a future [and a reward], Andyour hope and expectation will not be cut off.

The word “expectation” is from the Hebrew Word “tik-vaw”  literallymeans a cord (as an attachment or figuratively means expectancy, hope, live,thing that I long for. 

1) cord
2) hope, expectation
2a) hope
2b) ground of hope
2c) things hoped for, outcome

What you long for serves as a cord that is attached to you.It is an outcome that you hoped for. God expects us to have a positiveexpectation.

A positive expectation is called “hope” and a negative oneis called “pessimism” which leads to doubt.

Let’s start with negative expectations.

This is how it works:

·      Negative expectations often manifest frompessimism and doubt.

·      These doubts lead to hesitancy because theycreate “failure scenarios” in your mind.

·      You expect to fail, and therefore all your decisions and actions willundoubtedly lead you away from your goals and towards failure and mistakes.

·      Decisions and actions are premised from thoughts(what you decided in your mind that formed a belief of your heart) and theactions you take on the back of your decision.

·      Pessimism + doubt = hesitancy + failure scenarios= negative expectations

·      Negative expectations produce decisions andactions that push the goals away into failures and mistakes.