Remaining Healthy
Week 3 - Healthy Expectations
August 25th, 2024
Pastor Kyle Johnson
Being healthy means
Healthy expectations are
Healthy expectations are
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? —James 4:1 (NIV)
Expectations of
- Expect that He is
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think… —Ephesians 3:20 (ESV)
- But not
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. —Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV)
- Still we can and
Jeremiah 12
Expectations of
- Healthy expectations don’t
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? —Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)
- And leave
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. —1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV)
- Give people an
What are your expectations?
How can you be more effective in making them healthy?
Notes:
Discussion Questions:
1 – How often do you think about your expectations? Do unmet expectations ever catch you off guard?
2 – Read James 4:1. What is the cost of not thinking through or communicating your expectations?
3 – Read Jeremiah 12:1-7. Do you approach God with your real expectations? Do you also maintain an openness to His plan?
4 – Read Luke 10:1-3. What kind of hope does Jesus have for His followers? How can that impact our expectations of others?