Open Heaven 8 January 2022 – The Spirit of Excellence

Open Heaven 8 January 2022: [Saturday] Devotional By Pastor E.A. Adeboye – The Spirit of Excellence   

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Open Heaven 8 January 2022 TOPIC: The Spirit of Excellence

Memorise: 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. Daniel 6:3

READ: Daniel 6:1-3 (KJV)

1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;

 

2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.

 

3 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.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 25-26

Open Heaven 8 January 2022 MESSAGE:

There is a link between dominion and excellence. This is the reason we shall be discussing the spirit of excellence today so that our dominion may not only become a reality but that it may also be everlasting.

Read: Open Heavens 7 January 2022 – Prayers For The New Year  

What is excellence? To understand what excellence is all about, we must appreciate the good. However, excellence is far better than very good not to talk of good, fairly good and fair.

 

As a matter of fact, the good level may not be good enough at another level. However, when we talk of excellence, it is hardly misunderstood.

 

What happens when the Spirit excellence envelopes an individual? To start with, the one with the Spirit of excellence knows no impossibility.

 

Open Heaven 8 January 2022 – OPEN HEAVEN FOR TODAY

When the writing that spelt the judgment of Belshazzar could not be interpreted, the queen-mother advised that Daniel should be consulted.

 

Why? The Bible says: Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. – (Daniel 5:12)

 

Daniel was able to do the impossible because an excellent spirit was upon him. The Spirit of excellence makes the possessor see the invisible.

 

Joseph also possessed an excellent spirit and so, he saw the seven years of plenty and seven years of famine a long time before they happened (Genesis 41).

 

A person with an excellent spirit will understand what others around him may not understand as found in Daniel 7. Daniel was made to understand what the entire realm did not because he possessed the Spirit of excellence.

 

A man with the Spirit of excellence succeeds where others fail. Beloved, you need the Spirit of excellence to succeed in life and it can only be found in Jesus Christ.

 

The Holy Spirit is the excellent Spirit and His presence upon us gives us power to do exploit (Acts 1:8). Give your life wholly to Jesus Christ so He can fill you with the Spirit of excellence.

Open Heaven 8 January 2022 PRAYER POINT:

Father, please fill me afresh with Your Spirit of excellence, in Jesus’ name.

Open Heaven 7 January 2022 HYMN: ROCK OF AGES, CLEFT FOR ME

1. Rock of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in Thee!

Let the water and the blood,

From Thy riven side which flowed,

Be of sin the double cure;

Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

 

2. Not the labours of my hands,

Can fulfill Thy law’s demands;

Could my zeal no respite know,

Could my tears for ever flow,

All for sin could not atone,

Thou must save and Thou alone.

 

3. Nothing in my hand I bring,

Simply to Thy cross I cling

Naked, come to Thee for dress,

Helpless, look to Thee for grace,

Foul, I to the fountain fly

Wash me, Saviour, or I die.

 

4. While I draw this fleeting breath,

When my eyelids close in death,

When I soar to worlds unknown,

See Thee on Thy judgement throne,

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in Thee.

Open Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical Churches kleinanzeigen in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.