I’ll tell you something. There is something that you need to increase on in any walk of faith that you have, and that thing is the word “expectation.” What is your expectation? Pause. Selah. Think. What is really your expectation? What is your expectation when you get up in the morning? What is your expectation when you come to church? What is your expectation when you bring out your seed? What is your expectation when you pray to God? What is our expectation in The Carpenter’s Ministry? You need to raise your expectation. If that is all I say to you today, it is enough! I came with something to share with you but I just kept hearing in my spirit, “Expectation; My people have carefully lowered their expectation to safe, comfortable zone. Jack your expectations high.” God doesn’t operate in the safe zone. That is one thing about God that is dangerous. Dangerous people operate outside of the safe zone. Your expectations have been carefully cocooned in your comfort zones. God says,“I’m bigger than any comfort zone. I can’t be caged; I can’t be contained. You cage and you contain Me when you reduce your expectation.” What is your expectation? What is our expectation? Is our expectation in TCC really that the world will hear the Word of God from this place? Is our expectation truly that the books coming from our printing press, publishing house will become worldwide bestsellers, not because of the people writing the books, but because of the stuff inside the books? What is our expectation? Is our expectation that television from this ministry will be known worldwide, and souls will be saved, healed and delivered with the same Word we have been enjoying for twenty-seven years? What is your expectation? Your expectation will either drive your seed or kill your seed. What is your expectation? You function with expectations as a human being. When you wake up in the morning without a medical condition, you expect to put your legs on the ground and they will obey you. If you live in a house where water runs, you expect water whenever you open the tap. If it doesn’t, something is wrong. If you were expecting visitors, you clean your house extra. Expectation! Why is a pregnant woman called an expectant mother? Because she doesn’t give birth to a child and get shocked, “Eh, was it a child? I thought it would be a dog.” No! What you see and what you experience will only match or exceed your expectation. So, you determine your visitation by your expectation. What kind of visitation are you expecting from God? That is what you will experience. Somebody shout “hallelujah!” What is your expectation? You may be forty-four years old and just got married. Will your expectation be to have a child in nine months, or is your expectation that you are going to have problems because you are forty-four, so you prepare for a journey. What is your expectation? My expectation as the pastor of The Carpenter’s Church is that more and more people are going to have dreams about TCC. My expectation is that more and more people would wake up in the morning, and be guided and led by the Holy Spirit to this place. That is my expectation! My expectation is that the Word will continue to grow and grow in grace, and change lives in this place. That is my expectation! So, each time I open my Bible to study, that expectation is before me and I say, “Lord, Your grace, Your grace in greater levels and greater dimensions.” Grace in place of grace that is my expectation. My expectation is that I will hear His voice and know His voice; the stranger will not speak to me. What is your expectation? Do you expect to be promoted or do you expect to be fired? Listen to me: The greatest source of your expectation is from the wealth of the “bigness” of God that you know exists in you. The economy will not dim your expectation. What you see in your bank account should not dim your expectation. You say, “Ah, but that is unrealistic. It’s unreal.” That is the problem! “A false reality, a reality that doesn’t match up with My words,” says God. “I am the reality! It is My reality that becomes your tangibility,” says the Spirit of God. “I am the reality. The reality is not the numbers on your account statement. The reality is not how many contracts you have. The reality is Me,” says God. “For your healing, the reality is Me, Rophe. For your provision, the reality is Me, Jireh. I am your reality, quit looking at the reality you can touch and make Me your reality, and then I will become your tangibility.” What is your expectation? It takes courage to expect great things. It takes courage to believe God for the impossible. It takes courage to step out of the comfort zone. It takes courage to operate outside the box, and that is who you are. That is what is strange and unique about TCC. You operate outside the box; you dream outside the safe zone. You are like the prophet who with open eyes sees the visions of God. He doesn’t wait to be comfortably asleep. When His eyes are wide open, his physical eyes are accounting with what he is seeing but there is something greater than what he is seeing, and with eyes wide open; seeing not denying what his senses are recording, he can still see visions of God. That is who you are. That is how we will experience the bigness God spoke to us about. Today, go home and meditate on expectations. What is really your expectation? When you praise God, why do you praise Him? Is it because it is what we need to do at a particular time in the service?“You should praise Me,” says God’s Spirit, “because I

His presence in this place; His presence is here. He deserves the highest praise. You deserve the biggest praise. Glory be to the Most High God. Glory be to the I am that I am; Ehie Asher Ehie. Glory be to You, Ehie Asher Ehie. Glory be to Your name, Ehie Asher Ehie; I am that I am. Jehovah is Your name; Elyon is Your name. El-Shaddai is Your name. Adonai is who You are, and You are the one we glorify. You are the One we magnify. You are the One we lift our voices to. Ehie Asher Ehie. You are the awesome God. Faithful and true is who you are. Jehovah, covenant keeping God. The One we can rely on, our backbone, our strength, the Strength of Israel, who is our God. I am that I am. The One whose arm is always outstretched to bless and to favour. Oh! You are the mighty God. Elyon! El-Shaddai! Jehovah! Adonai! Ehie Asher Ehie! Nissi is Your name; Tsidkendu is who You are. We bless You. I said we bless You oh! You, You, You deserve the highest praise. You, You, yes You, Lord. If we had a thousand tongues each will it be enough to praise Him? But with the one we have we will shout Your praise. With the one tongue we have, we will shout Your praise. With the legs we have, we will jump and praise You, Covenant Keeper, Big God. Praise Him beyond today; praise Him into tomorrow. Praise Him beyond today, and praise Him into tomorrow. Show me what you see in your tomorrow by your praise. I said show me what you see in your tomorrow by your praise. Show me what you see in your tomorrow. What do you see in your tomorrow? Show me by your praise. Show me. Show me by your praise. Ehie Asher Ehie! Remember that you show Him what you see in your tomorrow by your praise today. That is a word from heaven. Show Him what you see in your tomorrow by your praise today. God is doing mighty things in TCC. I wish you could see. I wish you could see the kind of bomb you are sitting on; a good bomb. I wish your eyes would be opened to see what you are sitting on top of each time you come into church and sit in one of these orange or grey seats. I wish you would begin to imagine and understand what you are sitting on, the number of souls you are sitting on, the number of lives, books you are sitting on. I wish you could see. “Open up your earsand listen,” says God.“Open up your ears,And Listen.Listen to my heartbeat,” says God.“Past the noise,Hear my voice.Speaking to you,Revealing to youYour tomorrow, Full of My bigness,All laid out for you.” “Lift up your eyesAnd look.Look beyond the veilPast the shadows.Lift up your eyes and look,Look up to the hillsInto the heavensOpened wide for youFull of My bignessAll laid out for you.” “Reach out your handsAnd touchDepths previously unknown to you.Stretch forth your handsThrough the clutter,Past the crowds,To Me.My hands outstretchedFull of My bignessAll laid out for you” I hear you ask Me:“Where is the way, show me?”And I answer you today,“Open your ears andFollow Me.” I hear you ask Me:“Where is Your help, promised me?”And I answer you today,“Lift up your eyesSee Me.” I hear you ask Me:“Where is Your favour, just for me?”And I answer you today,“Reach out your hands and takeTake from Me.” I hear you ask Me:“Where is Your glory, promised me?”And I answer you today,“Lift up your voice andPraise Me.” Dream those dreamsThat come from MeWake not from themDream those dreamsThat come from Me Dive into the deepBreak through every layerUnfathomable depthsRevealing hidden treasuresIn store for you See those visionsThat come from MeReason not about them.See those visionsThat come from Me. Fly, fly,Fly high beyond the skies.Shatter every ceilingUnreachable heightsReleasing a deluge of the rainIn store for you I hear the Lord say:“TCC the vision is big.I have told you that I am big,I have declared that I am big in you.TCC the vision is big.It is big;You have but scratched the surface.So open your earsAnd hear Me.Lift up your eyesAnd see Me.Reach out your handsAnd receive from Me.” “Before the foundation of the world,From your very inception,Even from your birth,I have set you and you and you apart,To be a spectacle,To be My showpiece;To be supernatural in all you do.To show MeIn all of My bignessTo your generationAnd those yet to come.” “So open your ears,” says God’s Spirit,“And hear Me.Lift up your eyesAnd see Me.Reach out your hands.(Everybody reach out your hands as an act of faithReach them out)Reach deep into unfathomable depths.Reach deep into the treasures of the ages,Hidden for you, not from you.Reach deep by faith,Reach deep past the clutter.Reach deep past the noise,Reach out your hands.And even as you reach them out now by faith.So are you reaching them out to Me.Reach out your hands; reach out your hands.Stretch forth your hands,Stretch forth your hands beyond the clutter,Stretch forth your hands beyond your reasoning.Stretch forth your hands,Break through the limitation.Shatter every ceilingReach out.” “TCC, reach out,Reach out and take.Receive from Me,Reach out your hands and take what is yours.” “Run with the vision,Fly high like the eagle.Do the impossible,Walk on water.Dance with MeInto the many tomorrows,Full of My bigness,Laid out just for you,” says the grace of God. Lift up the hands of those who are chosen. Lift up chosen hands, lift up set apart hands, lift up sanctified hands, lift up supernatural hands and worship Him. Just worship Him. Tell Him, “Father I receive Your Word. I receive every single Word. I will not fear, I shall not fear, I cannot fear. I will not fear; I shall not fear. I will not fear. I hold unto Your Word, the anchor of my soul. I hold on to your Word, the light