An Excellent Spirit - Week 2, 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. 02:08 Sometimes people want the results that they see, through characters in the Bible, and so they try to imitate their actions. But, their actions are really just a byproduct of these core values. And it was the humility of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednago that really caused them to be promoted. 03:21 Humility is just dependence upon God. Like, Jesus was meek and lowly in heart, yet he said, ‘I can do nothing without my Father, except what I see my Father do.’ (John 5:19) He was 100% dependent upon his father. 03:57 The last thing I talked about, was that you have to not compromise. 05:19 In every other instance in Scripture, it talks about Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father (Colossians 3:1). But, when Stephen, the first martyr of the New Testament church, was stoned to death Jesus stood (Acts 7:55-58). And, I believe that the significance of that was that Jesus was honoring Stephen. 07:16 I said at the beginning of this teaching, that this could be called a study in faithfulness. This excellent spirit is just talking about a faithful spirit. A person who is consistent, who doesn’t fluctuate because they’ve got a moral foundation and commitment to God. They aren’t promoting themself. They’re humble before God, and they don’t compromise. 08:31 The average person will come out against you, because your excellence makes their mediocrity stand out and look bad. And rather than them choose excellence, it’s easier for them to just try to make you mediocre. 10:05 Once you come to the Lord, we ought to be living an exemplary life, so that people couldn’t accuse us. 11:30 Daniel was a guy who was so faithful that they said, if we’re going to find anything against him, it’s going to have to be concerning his relationship with God. (Daniel 6:5) 14:30 But, Daniel, it said that he couldn’t pray or ask a petition of any God, except Darius for thirty days. He could have kept his windows closed and he could’ve prayed to God. (Daniel 6:10) 15:45 Did you know just meditating on the Lord is prayer. (Psalm 5:1) Just in your mind, talking to God in your heart is prayer. 17:25 There’s a lot of Christians that just think, ‘Well, I’m gonna keep serving the Lord, but I’ll just do it privately at my home, I’ll do it at my church. Out in the workplace, in school we can’t mention Jesus. We can’t do these kind of things.’ That’s wrong. 19:59 There’s a difference between submission and obedience. Submission is an attitude of the heart that is voluntary. Obedience is something that you can force a person to obey. You can torture them, you can threaten them, and you can get compliance in actions, but you can’t force a person to submit. Submission is totally voluntary. 22:18 I’m going to submit to the authority. I’m not coming against the authority, but I will not obey an ungodly command. That’s exactly what Daniel did & 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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