An Excellent Spirit - Week 1, Day 4 - The Gospel Truth

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Andrew Wommack’s daily TV program: Gospel Truth To subscribe to Andrew’s email newsletter: http://www.awmi.net/youtube-subscribe/ In the Book of Daniel, Israel is in captivity in Persia under King Darius. In Daniel 6:3 the Word of God says, "Then this 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." This excellent spirit in Daniel and his three friends is also known as faithfulness. Joseph was faithful and David was faithful. In this series we're going to look at faithfulness and it's characteristics. Faithfulness grants promotion from God. All of us would love to be promoted so let's learn what it means to have an excellent spirit... 00:09 Andrew continues teaching on having An Excellent Spirit. 01:54 Daniel and his three friends refused to change. So one of the things that made them have an excellent spirit was that they maintained their identity. They didn’t let this world conform them to their way of thinking. 03:46 The story goes on that after ten days, they ate nothing but this vegetable diet with water, and at the end of ten days, they had actually gained weight. They looked fatter and actually better than the people who were eating the king’s meat. (Daniel 1:12-15) 05:54 It says that in the latter times, which we’re in the latter times, some people would give heed to these doctrines of devils. And then it begins to list what some of them are. (1 Timothy 4:1-3) 08:34 It was all about his relationship with God. It goes back to identity. This is the first point that I believe, that gave Daniel an excellent spirit. He knew who he was, even though he had been taken out of his homeland. He’d been taken from the temple, and from the Jewish worship. They didn’t have any of those things going for them (Daniel 1:1-8). And they had tried to change his name, and they had tried to educate him, and to make him a Chaldean. He retained his relationship with God, and his identity with God. 09:20 If you don’t know who you are in Christ, and what you have in Christ. Then, you will be cowed into submission. You will be coerced into compromise. And I’m telling you, that that is not an excellent spirit. 11:21 I’m telling you, that there’s another part to you. That’s the spirit man. That’s the part of you that got changed. And in the spirit, you are absolutely awesome. In the spirit, you can see the dead raised, blind eyes opened, deaf ears opened. In the spirit, you can draw on wisdom and knowledge that is far, far, far beyond your experience. 12:04 There is a new you on the inside, that is limitless. That has the ability to do anything. 15:00 I just, honestly, could not get it. But, you know what I did? I had an excellent spirit, that Daniel was talking about (Daniel 6:3). I did this as unto the Lord (Ephesians 6:7). I said, “God, if I am going to work this job, I am going to be the best employee this guy has ever had.” I started praying in tongues and asking God for wisdom. And God just showed me. I don’t even know how. I just gained this wisdom to develop pictures. 16:44 On the inside, “I can do all things through Christ…” (Phillipians 4:13) 18:02 He says, “How do you know these things?” And I finally just told him, “Look. The truth is I just pray in tongues, and I ask God for wisdom. I don’t know how. God just tells me.” 19:07 They stayed true to their relationship with God. They drew on that relationship. And, that is one of the very first things that give you an excellent spirit. You’ve got to find out who you are in Christ. What Christ has ordained for you to do. You’ve gotta find out your purpose. And then, you’ve got to do that with your whole heart, as unto the Lord, and not unto man. (Ephesians 6:6-7) 20:56 By the grace of God, I can guarantee you, I preached to those five people like they were five thousand people. I gave them the whole thing. Amen. I gave it everything I had. And, I really believe that that solidified this excellent spirit, on the inside of me, so that I’d give it everything I had. 22:11 If you only know yourself by what your parents have said, what your ex has said, what your bosses have said in the natural realm, if you only know yourself in the natural realm, but you don’t know what your full potential is in what God really called you to do, then the first step in having an excellent spirit is to find out who you are, to get direction from God, to see things spiritually and not just physically/naturally & links to next video ============================================ Andrew Wommack Ministries http://www.awmi.net/ https://www.facebook.com/AWMinistries https://twitter.com/andrewwommack https://instagram.com/andrewwommack/ https://www.pinterest.com/andrewwommack/ ======================================================

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