Sunday AM Recap
January 11, 2026
Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/F3fZprX_H3o?si=FqdnBgZDt7JjP8a_
Teacher Sara Ozbun opened the service.
Stacea Kuehn led worship.
Early Childhood Worship
Link: https://youtu.be/_oLGFnIs6Zc?si=Jn4pW_kjsY_Cocrw
In The Beginning, Week 2
Message: Pastor Jeff Spangler
“Expectation”
Jesus wants to reveal the Kingdom of God to us, and He is always using stories and things from our lives to tell us about the Kingdom of God. “It’s like this…”
Last week a Word was released by our Apostle about Dream. And it’s important to have discernment in this time as we process this Word WITH THE LORD.
We serve a God that cannot be cognitively understood by you. He’s not a very big God if we can figure Him out! We have a hard time letting go…sometimes we live in “have Your way…ish.” Sometimes we like containment, we like order, but He designed us and He knows us, and we need Him to do what we agreed to do…before we understood agreement.
The longer we are here, the farther away we are from heaven. Dreams - we play and dream when we are kids, and then as we grow up we’re told those are childish things. But children are closer to heaven, and there is some CRAZY stuff in heaven.
In the things around us, God is at work, and doing amazing things, and we can’t deny these things just because we don’t understand them. As we study the Bible, as we re-study the Gospel, our perspective and understanding expands as we get older.
Let’s be a mile deep even if we are only an inch wide - not the other way around.
Psalm 5:3
Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord.
Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.
Everything is new every day. Tomorrow has its own troubles.
As Apostle Susan gave the word about dreams, God was speaking to Pastor…and he saw what God was speaking while watching his chickens.
Pastor Jeff has seven chickens. Watch nature…there is lots to learn from God’s creation.
Did you know:
Chickens can lay eggs without roosters. You don’t need a rooster for eggs, you only need roosters to have it fertilized. To get edible eggs, you don;t have to have a rooster, the chickens just lay eggs.
A hen has the ability to lay 250-300 eggs a year They have the capacity to lay at least one egg the majority of the year.
God created the chicken with every egg they will lay in their lifetime. They are released in their timing. It takes the chicken about 3 hours after releasing the yoke to have the white on it, then it goes to the chamber where it forms the shell. That process takes about 18-20 hours. She can lay an egg every 24-26 hours.
The chicken is born with all the eggs they will ever have - and we may never see all the eggs she has on board. She can’t stop the process, but she has the ability to delay it.
The Kingdom of God is like this…
There are three things we know can affect the production:
Environmental: light, heat, cold, housing, etc.
Physiological: age, genetics, breeding, molting, brooding
Management: nutrition, water supply, stress, health
God created them to follow a cycle and create something. There are things both external and internal that can impact what they were created to do.
We had a Word about Dreams. The Lord is saying: “I have placed within you some fantastic dreams. I know everything about you, and I have placed dreams within you.”
Could it be that we already have all the dreams God has for us within us?
As Pastor watches his chickens, when they are ready to produce their eggs, they get very loud and in each other's way to do their own thing. Could this be what it’s like for the Father to watch us?
“I have put things in you much like those eggs.”
You have something within you that is unique to YOU and to YOUR identity. We can’t dream each other’s dreams! We have a responsibility to release those dreams - because God wouldn’t have given us these dreams if He didn’t want to see them released!
But remember: when the chicken releases the yolk, it takes time to produce the white and the shell. When God puts a dream in you, Holy Spirit will tell you the timing and the process. It’s not right away. It’s a process and a cycle.
If you try to walk out the dream before its time, it may not be ready for distribution just yet!
Matthew 6:25-27
25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
Sometimes we get caught up in things that are not important. Don’t let the management of the production become the most important. There are things within each of us that only we can release.
The Lord has put together a cycle for these hens for fruitfulness that only they can do. And they don’t worry about where their food is coming from.
Sometimes we need to be wild at heart - just go do the work you need to do to find what you need to find,
The hen has everything she needs to do in order to do what she needs - Holy Spirit is saying “you are not going to stop the move of Jesus Christ. But I have put within you something that is unique for those around you.” There is something that has been released that is for someone else, more so than for you. Those hens aren’t going to eat that egg. It’s for others. (Don’t get hungry for your own stuff and devour it before it goes where it needs to go.)
Jesus is saying there is a cycle, an opportunity within you, and HE is in control of what you need, He has placed you here to release some things He created you with.
Romans 8:18-21
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
Creation and nature have a cycle that does things, and God has also created a cycle and things for you to do. God holds back creation so that the children of God will do the work that He created them to do.
This world is falling into decay and is far from the Garden of Eden. Jesus is coming back to put things in true order. He’s holding back because He wants the workers to come reveal the things that need to be revealed for ALL to benefit. Sometimes we suffer and have challenges - FOR THE GLORY.
There are things that slow down or speed up the egg production - our dreams can be like that. God is saying “I’m about to do some things that are extraordinary - THROUGH YOU.” For what purpose? For you? NO - it says for those around you. Those and them who do not yet have the revelation.
Chickens are usually nervous about anything new - but when one chicken is brave enough to break through, they will all follow. Story of the “flock block” when it was first presented, the chickens flipped out in fear and ran off. All followed suit. Finally, one of them ventured out because she wants to eat everything…and once she was brave enough to try it, the others followed. Except Crazy Alice. They had a choice…join in the feeding, or stay in their fear.
Sometimes we are like that. Sometimes we are not the bold one that will go try the new thing.
Most of them have eaten on it - but Crazy Alice can’t do it. She’s only hurting herself. She’s missing out on some beneficial things.
Back to Romans 8 - Paul is talking about a glory yet to be revealed. It WILL come forward. Release the dreams! It’s gonna come forward!
What is my expectation of those dreams? Apostle asked in her message: “what is your expectation?”
Title: Expectation.
We need to define expectations of our dreams. What are your expectations? Romans 8 says the glory will be revealed, even in our suffering. So ask: "what is on the inside of me for the purpose of YOUR glory, Lord?” He’s given YOU something to set them free. Enslavement all around us. YOU have the things that they need to be set free.
Expectation:
act or state of expecting (anticipating)
Strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future
Do you have a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future about Jesus Christ?
The Pharisees had expectation - but it was a specific expectation about what Jesus was coming. What do you pray about Jesus? What Jesus are you expecting? It may be different than how you think it will be.
Setting correct expectation is important. If I set an expectation, and it doesn't materialize, what does it do to my faith, my attitude? We often set our expectations like the man who set his house upon the sand. We think we know…but we don’t know.
Jesus said the storms of life will come and expose our expectations. Do the chickens brag on what they’ve created? Sometimes we are like the prize chicken with the best production - and then all our feathers fall off and we feel picked on, when God is just saying “I’m doing a new thing! It seems like suffering - but I have a plan to prosper you and not harm you, even though it feels like harm!”
The chicken will never be quite like she just was. We can’t go back.
It’s the children of God that must reveal these things. God has put a dream in all of us equally - the child of God and the heathen. But if you hold back and slow the process, there are those who won’t be set free.
Expectation often involves three things:
Hope
Probability - you’ve been designed for YOUR dream, and you are the only one who can deliver that
Duty - you have a duty to deliver, to work hard and make things happen
What are you doing about duty? Probability? Hope?
Now let’s look at the Hebrew:
There are three words that mean expectation in Hebrew. We will talk about two - it’s on you to go search out the rest!
The one we mostly know is the Hebrew word for hope: Tikvah - an expectation of hope. Jeremiah 29:11, hope like a cord that is woven together, that is strong, a hope built on something tangible.
The word in Romans 8 for expectation is: tzipiya
Tzipiya - “tzee-pee-yah”
In Romans 8, it says “eager ‘tzipiya.’ “ This is eager anticipation - expectation of anticipation. Anticipating that something will happen.
“Hope is not a strategy” - you have a duty, a work to be done. You can’t just hope something into happening. This “tzipiya” means “I stand in anticipation for that which will happen.”
When the hens go into the nesting box, they are anticipating that the egg is about to come out. That process takes 10-15 minutes. This thing has taken 26 hours to get through their body, and in about 15 minutes, chaos will ensue and they will release what they’ve been building.
You have a dream. God has placed something in you that is unique to you. He is the creator, and He is holding back creation waiting for US to release what He has put in us - and if we don’t release it, the results will not be the same.
People are looking for answers…and if they don’t get it from you, they will get it from somewhere else.
You have something to release, and we’d rather they get their solutions from us - from the LORD - than elsewhere.
Our Founding Fathers called it “the laws of nature and nature’s God.” The things that we see are human expectations - the laws of nature make sense to us. But it’s ALL subject to nature’s God. We have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness because we have a supreme God that has given us these rights.
YOU have a dream inside of you, and you can slow it down, but you can’t stop it. The revelation is now - “I have something in you FOR THEM, not you - but you too will be blessed! For your Father in heaven knows exactly what you need.”
Back to Psalm 5 - in the morning, come and give what you have to give, faithfully, with hope, with eager anticipation. Set our expectation in anticipation.
It’s time for the children of God to be revealed.
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