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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 fi rst-class job at
POINTS
TO GET
YOU
THERE:
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As a joint heir with
Jesus, you have the
potential to live and
walk in the excellence
of that glory.
(2 Pet. 1:17)
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Your spiritual
heritage is one of
excellence that
includes people
like Daniel.
(Dan. 6:3)
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The knowledge
of how to operate
in the excellence
of God's glory is
already within you.
(2 Cor. 4:6)
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Like the
Apostle Paul,
you can press
into this
knowledge.
(Phil. 3:14)
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You have within
you the glory of
God that raised
Christ from
the dead.
(Rom. 6:4)
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.
by Kenneth Copeland
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 defi nition 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.
If Daniel could do that under the Old Covenant,
what can we do under the New Covenant?
Shouldn't we, as believers, also be prospering and
being promoted to the highest place available in
whatever sphere of infl uence to which God has
called us?
