Expectation

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Day 7

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Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him.

Luke 8:40

Summary

It's day seven of our Acclimate journey, which also means it's day one of Passion 2025. This generation is gathering from all over the world to join us this year, traveling in cars, buses, vans, and planes to Atlanta, Georgia, to participate in what’s about to take place at State Farm Arena.

As we head into these next few days together, we want to focus on this last word: “expectation.” Expectancy is simply “a strong desire that something will happen.”

I want you to think about this as you make your way here: What are your expectations? What are you believing for? What are you longing to experience?

Our hope is that each of us would center our expectations around a strong desire to meet with Jesus. A lot of great things are going to happen at Passion 2025, but what we want more than anything else is to have an encounter with Jesus.

The Gospel of Luke provides a great picture of this—it's a story about Jesus leaving a crowd that did not want him to stay on one side of the Sea of Galilee, so He crossed the sea and returned to the other side. Verse 40 describes the scene as He stepped onto the shore to the adulation of an expectant people. We hope this is the attitude we have heading into Passion 2025.

We're not here for the people on the stage or those to our left and right. We are eager to welcome and receive Jesus, with longing and expecting. So, in these last few hours, raise your expectations and set your heart on the hope of an encounter with the one whose name and renown we are gathering for, Jesus.

Prayer:

God, I thank You for this opportunity, for every student and leader who is on their way, and more than anything, I ask You to come and meet with us.

Allow me, by Your grace, to have an encounter with You that would mark my life forever. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

Scripture References

16For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.

23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,

25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

12Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

13Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

2I have seen you in the sanctuary

and beheld your power and your glory.

3Because your love is better than life,

my lips will glorify you.

4I will praise you as long as I live,

and in your name I will lift up my hands.

1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

2Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

3And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy, holy is the

Lord

Almighty;

the whole earth is full of his glory.”

20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

40Now when Jesus returned, a crowd welcomed him, for they were all expecting him.

Passion Conferences

Rooted in the confession of Isaiah 26:8, Passion exists to glorify God by uniting students in worship, prayer and justice for spiritual awakening in this generation. Since the first gathering in 1997, Passion has had the privilege of encountering millions of students and 18-25 year olds, a sea of young people whose lives have been transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit. Their voice is getting louder as they rise, united as a generation, bringing hope and light to the world.