2012-07-05T15:36:19-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/request/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/an-air-of-expectancy-6645 2012-07-05T15:36:19-05:00 You know you've really prayed when you get off your knees expectantly and you go through your day looking for the fingerprints of God on that day. It may not be like I thought it would be, but there will be His surprises. Expectation is the byproduct of faith. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians%204:6&version=NIV 2009-10-08T11:53:28-05:00 When we go to God with our requests--and this passage explicitly encourages us to do so--we are to do so with a spirit of thankfulness. God doesn't discourage us from approaching him with our needs; just the opposite, he wants us to go to Him with all of our requests.