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EXPECTING BETTER: The Watch Letter

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Around this time last year, I had to purchase a new computer after facing some unexpected career and life changes. I named my profile for the new computer “BETTER.” Why? Because my Pastor, Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn, had recently told me that the Lord spoke “BETTER and BETTER and BETTER” over my life in every area despite the trials I was facing at home, at work, mentally, and health-wise.


He told me that no matter what it looked like, everything and every area in my life was going to get better and better progressively.


A year later, my computer is still named BETTER, but I have recently been convicted through the Scriptures, teaching, instruction, and counsel given by our pastor, and through prayer and experience. You have to let the encouragement work. What good is naming something in faith, or coming to church to hear a Word of faith and just letting it sit in your unbelief?


Over the year, as different circumstances arose, I failed to truly believe God. I stopped expecting better. For years, Chief Apostle Gunn has taught us, “Don’t just be pregnant, be expecting your deliverance.” In other words, don’t just be carrying the Word and promises of God around like there will be nothing born of it. Often, we can overlook some of the key words God gives us to hold on to because of what we see, feel and think. For a while, I had forgotten he said "progressively" BETTER. I did not hold on to that like I should.


"And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed." - Luke 17:14


When a baby is formed in the womb, a pregnant woman doesn’t see it grow; she just believes it is growing even when she may not see the progress, and when the time comes, the baby is delivered. Nature shows us how to believe when we can't see things all at once: A baby progressively grows ... they are not full term within the first trimester, but they are developing toward the hour of deliverance, when the hope of their arrival is fulfilled. With technology, we get snapshots of the baby’s development now, but imagine decades ago how much faith women had to have to simply have a knowing that their child was all right and soon to come.


“Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” — John 20:29.


In 2019, Chief Apostle Gunn recorded a message, “Not Just Pregnant, But Expecting.” Here are are a few points that really opened my eyes.


• The Lord has done unthinkable things. He made a clean thing out of an unclean thing by allowing our sin to be washed by Jesus’ shed blood on the cross. He gave love and forgiveness to people who hated and resented him. He gave us, who were dead in sin, access to eternal life.


• There is power in looking for what God has conceived in you, and for you, to come to fruition.


• Chief Apostle Gunn saw a vision of people sitting in an arena. And he saw it was New Jerusalem, and he looked and saw five throne chairs to his right and saw his granddaughter, Ally, sitting along with the rest of the saints who had thrones and were ruling and reigning with Christ. We should be expecting the manifestation of eternity with God, and that’s why we should continue to live for him, believe, strive against sin, and stand with God. (Side note: Ally, you have a future with God waiting for you, he's waiting on your "yes.")


• What is waiting for us in eternity cannot be compared to these earthly, temporal things, and we cannot allow them to make us lose our expectation of being with God.


• God has a way of bringing people out. We need to bring the promise of his eternal kingdom into our daily lives, our prayers, and studying the Word.


• We stopped looking up, believing, and expecting deliverance. Instead, we started complaining, falling away, and failing as if God fails. Instead of worrying about what’s happening now, think about how life will be with God in eternity!




 
 
 

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