I Choose Joy - Understanding the Power of Expectations, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
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Summary
Do you feel like quitting today? In your most honest conversations, do you feel like giving up and just saying to God, "I'm done"? If you need to know how to hang tough in really tough times join Chip as he reveals how you can not only survive tough times but, believe it or not, experience joy!
KEY #4: Expectation
- What are my expectations? -Philippians 1:27-30
What does God expect?
- Consistent conduct -Philippians 1:27a
What does"consistent conduct" look like?
- Stand firm = Don't give up
- Contending = Don't give in
- Not frightened = Don't shrink back
What can we expect from God?
- 2 Gifts = Granted: a privilege or "gracious gift" AND Struggle: Conflict, suffering, persecution
Six possible reasons we suffer:
1. My sin --Galatians 6:7-8
2. Others' sins --Psalm 49:1
3. Spiritual attack --Job, Ephesians 6
4. Fallen world --Luke 13
5. Spiritual disicipline --Hewbrews 12
6. Spiritual development --2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that your joy and your happiness is largely connected to one very specific word? |
| 0:09.8 | It's called expectations. |
| 0:12.5 | What you expect, whether they're met or not, can make all the difference in the world. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's discover what God says about our expectations. Don't go away. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. The mission of this daily program is to intentionally |
| 0:33.6 | disciple Christians through the insightful Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:40.4 | And we're nearing the end of his series, I Choose Joy. |
| 0:46.3 | For these last two programs, Chip will reveal the key to enduring our most challenging circumstances and actually experience genuine joy through them. |
| 0:50.3 | If that sounds too good to be true, settle in to learn why it's absolutely possible. |
| 0:55.5 | Grab your Bible and go to Philippians chapter 1, verse 27, and listen in for Chip's Talk, |
| 1:00.9 | understanding the power of expectations. |
| 1:04.8 | If you haven't lived very long, you may not know this, and if you live it very long at all, |
| 1:09.5 | you do. Life is hard. You know, |
| 1:13.0 | life is hard. For some of you, you've been through some really, really hard things, and they can be |
| 1:18.3 | hard relationally, family-wise, emotionally, financially, health-wise. And here's the thing, |
| 1:26.2 | not to discourage you, but it's going to be hard. Your future, |
| 1:30.8 | it's going to be hard. But what I don't want you to think is that choosing joy is about willpower. |
| 1:37.9 | If I just have stronger willpower, that's not how it works. What we've learned in this series is that you can choose joy when something happens when you get these windows of perspective. |
| 1:51.8 | When you begin to see life not through the human lens, but from the divine lens. |
| 1:56.9 | Look on the front of your notes by way of quick review. |
| 1:59.7 | When you're going through a difficult time in a relationship or finances or your health, one of your kids, |
| 2:05.4 | or you're sick of being single or sick of being married, you know, you can turn inward and it gets from bad to worse. |
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