September 4. Attitude Of Expectation Or Possibility.

As a leader, there is a value proposition that you lead your team in. Your purpose, which sets the stage for value, could be your strongest expectation filter. When customers know your purpose, they begin to set their mindset towards expectations of being in a relationship. They begin to expect and receive results.

When the results achieved are above expectations, extreme value is received. When results can only be delivered to what you give in return for money, the transaction is more of a commodity. Those expectation filters can be pretty low. Low expectation filters provide the lowest value, if any.

These expectation filters are therefore important. Where are your customer and client expectations being best served? Where do you have expectation filters for your team and where are they set? When our attitudes about the minimum expectations are aligned, the value is protected for clients.

If our attitudes are not aligned with expectations, we will be sure to find interruptions of service. Where are expectations not being met for you, your team or your clients? Like the air filter on any type of machine, our expectations filters need an occasional check and maybe even a replacement.

Maybe your team is ready to change the attitude of expectation for an attitude of possibility. What is the first thing that you can do about it in the next seven days?

Brothers and sisters, what expectation filters might we have placed in our way to connect to Jesus? Are our filters based on some rule or law? The two words that are connected in my mind are expectations and possibility. Can you imagine what God wants you to discover, the level of love, compassion and relationships that are possible?

We read, “What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not already done? When I expected sweet grapes, why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes?" Isaiah 5:4 NLT. It might be possible that our expectation levels have restricted ourselves from the discoveries that God wants to share with us.

Have we set our expectations merely on grapes instead of wine or the blood and sacrifice of Christ? Where have you set your expectations? These restricted attitudes of expectation are real limits. Are they safe, ordinary and low? Maybe today, we can look at raising our expectations to the level of discovery that God wants us to experience.

Who might help you do an attitude reset? How might you raise the expectations? What is the first thing that you can do about it in the next seven days?

Let us pray, Heavenly Father, your expectations are clear and we come to you through Christ. We allow ourselves to be distracted. Life gets in the way of love. Entertainment gets in the way of the everlasting. Competition gets in the way of compassion.

Today, we pray for a reset. Send the Holy Spirit to us now, in this place, and may our expectations take us directly to a new level of discovery with you. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen,