His Excellent Glory
by Kenneth Copeland
We live in a day where most people do just enough to get by. Rather than taking the time to do things right, they opt for what’s fastest and easiest. They take an Oh, that’s good enough attitude, and the faster they go the less excellence there is in their lives.
But, as believers, that’s not us. It’s not who we are. It’s not what we’re made of.
Excellence is in our spiritual DNA!
We’re children of Almighty God who is “excellent in power” (Job 37:23).
We’re born of incorruptible seed “by the word of God” (1 Peter 1:23).
We’ve been raised up with Jesus—His Excellency Himself—by the same “excellent glory” that raised Him from the dead and seated Him in the heavenlies (2 Peter 1:17; Romans 6:4).
Indwelt by and anointed with the same excellent Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8), we’re joint heirs with Jesus and partners in His ministry, which was and is a ministry of excellence (Romans 8:17; 2 Corinthians 5:18).
In addition, we have an excellent heritage! We have in our spiritual family tree ancestors like Daniel. Talk about someone who wasn’t content to do just enough to get by! Even as a captive living in Babylon, Daniel did such a first-class job at everything he was given to do, that the Bible says: “Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm…. So this Daniel prospered” (Daniel 6:3, 28).
One definition of the word prosper is “to excel to the highest place available,” and that’s exactly what Daniel did. Faced with extremely negative circumstances, he kept being promoted until he was second in command under the king.
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