Joyfully Expectant

In this week's video, Aglow's President & CEO, Jane Hansen Hoyt, gives insight into a word she received at the start of 2020 before the Coronavirus crisis took hold. It's an indication that God is doing something enormous that is fulfilling His desire for us in a very personal way.

Isaiah 43:19
For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

There is a season of waiting before God reveals Himself and His plans. While we wait, we can experience unspeakable joy and expectancy, but also doubt and confusion.

• What do you sense God stirring in you?
• Why can it be hard to hold onto joy and hope while we wait?

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

The sense of expectancy that's coming, or that is here, as we move towards a fresh outpouring of the Spirit - I believe God wants that for our ministry. And as I said, it's not mapped out. The future isn't mapped out, but it is promised, therefore, we step into that promise and even though it's futuristic, we can be expected and we should be. You know, I don't I don't have the exact scripture, but I think it's in Exodus 12 where they were told to be prepared to move, to be on the move, and they took their tunics, or whatever you call their - what they wore, and they put them in their belt they. They had that, am I telling this right? They put their garment in their belt so that they, I don't know what that indicated, I guess an action that was expectant and ready to be on the move. And when God said it's time, they were to move from the place where they had lived for, what four hundred years or something and be on the move into their future. They didn't know what that would look like, what it was, but it was the promised land. And God doesn't give us anything, but wonderful promises for the future. It’s nothing to dread it's nothing to think, oh you know we conjure up things in our mind of what that could be, but this is a time to be joyfully expectant. And that word expectancy or expectant was given to me at the first of the year, maybe New Year's Eve I don't remember, but it was right of close in to January 1 to be expectant. And you don't know when you're pregnant, you know you're pregnant, but you don't know what you're what is what you're having - boy, girl, twins, triplets, whatever. You're pregnant, and that's where we are. 

I was thinking of our conference theme this morning, “Come up Here”, which to me, goes along with where we are - a silent place, a subdued place, a place of waiting, but a place of expectancy. And then forgive me if I've shared some of this before, I know I have, but too bad, you have to listen again. The scripture in Revelation 4, where it says “come up here”, and we've talked about this with our theme Come up Higher. There's something God is doing that is enormous, that is fulfilling his desire for us for this next stage, next level, next period of time, next season. It's at work in us. Christi, even your move there's something in that, that God is doing in each one of you and I think God's in it in a personal way for you. Something wonderful.