An Excellent Spirit - Week 2, Day 1 - 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. 02:21 A great attitude is when you know who you are in Christ, you know God has a purpose for your life, and you refuse to compromise, you refuse to change, you stay true to that identity. That is part of having an excellent spirit. 03:06 In the spirit, you have an unlimited potential, and you’ve got to find out who you are in Christ. 05:08 You need to know your limitations. You don’t need to have an inflated opinion of yourself, but you need to know who you are in Christ and that through Christ, “I can do all things” (Philippians 4:13). 07:01 People with a perfectionist spirit, that are judgmental of anybody that doesn’t measure up to their standards, they are always proud people. They are arrogant people. But an excellent spirit is a humble person who has very high standards, and anything you have obtained to, you recognize it’s God that helped you do it. 07:50 God gives more grace to the more humble, but He resists the proud. 10:25 The closeness, the intimacy that many people desire to have with the Lord, humility is a key to it (James 4:8, Psalm 138:6). 11:52 Pride isn’t only arrogance. Pride is just independence, you thinking you can handle it on your own, not being God-dependent. 12:24 Jesus was 100% dependent upon His Father. That’s humility. It is humility to depend upon God, and if God tells you to do something, you just do it. 14:22 You shouldn’t lean under your own understanding, but you just trust the Lord. 16:46 You’re always, always, always better off to just obey God. That’s humility. 19:20 Humility can be defined in many different ways, but it’s just dependence upon God. It’s a death to yourself, and putting God ahead of yourself. If you know that God tells you to do something, you just salute and say “yes sir,” and you do it. 20:19 Part of an excellent spirit is a humble heart, a humble attitude. 21:43 The key to promotion is having an excellent spirit, which includes your identity in the Lord (knowing who you are and what you are called to do, you stick with that), and it’s also humbling yourself before God, and submitting your wisdom to God’s wisdom, and always following Him regardless of what the consequences are. 22:49 There’s a difference in getting it (information and material on an excellent spirit) broken up in little thirty minute segments and just sitting and soaking in this & 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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