Anticipation

ZChurch Message for May 23, 2026 (full service:    • Anticipation  )

Remember the feeling of knowing something wonderful was coming? You could smell Grandma’s fried chicken and apple pie before dinner ever hit the table. The sounds from the kitchen, the warmth in the house, the growing excitement — anticipation arrived before the meal did.

Pastor Larry shows us how anticipation renews our strength, sharpens our attention, and awakens expectation for what God is preparing ahead of us. Faith begins to rise when hope returns. Anticipation is more than emotion — it’s often the first sign that God is about to move.

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Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

1 Peter 1:8-9  8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Luke 22:41-44  41And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, 42Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. 43And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Hebrews 12:2  2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Proverbs 29:18 KJV Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Philippians 3:13-14 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

Hebrews 6:19 KJV Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;