It’s Wednesday, Here’s a healthy thought to get you going.
Let’s stay with the thought of Daniel and His excellent Spirit again today.
Daniel 6:1 -5 (NKJV)
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; 2and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss. 3Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. 4So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him. 5Then these men said, “We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”
Living an excellent Life will stir others up.
· When you choose to live an excellent life (let Gods life flow through you) it will always cause a reaction in others. Some will be motivated and challenged to up there game and live at a higher level but as we see with Daniel others will be annoyed because it challenges them but they don’t want to deal with challenge.
· Look at verse 4 Daniel living an excellent life challenged the other leaders and instead of seeing Daniel as a great “pace setter” they turned nasty and tried to set Him up to bring him down.
· Why could they not have any joy easily setting Him up? Verse 4 says “because He was faithful” when they brought His life under the microscope they could not find infection why, because excellence went through to the bones of who he was, His faithful lifestyle made sure that there were no corners that could let him down, wow that inspires me how about you? It says there was no error or fault in Him!
· When you read on in the story you see that they had to resort to setting him up according to His prayer life because there simply was no ammunition they could use, why because He was a man committed to excellence which meant all the banners were straight and the little things taken care of.
· Living from an excellent Spirit sets you up to be blameless and people have to resort to lies and set ups to catch you out, this is how God would have us to live.
· They eventually set Him up according to His prayer life because they knew that he prayed 3 times a day, that’s amazing they set him up in accordance to His faithfulness, they could set him up in this because they knew he would not miss his prayer time (excellence and faithfulness).
· It’s all good, they did set Him up but God had His back and what was meant to bring Him down ended up getting Him lifted higher, that’s what happens when you live a God filled excellent life, everything you enemy throws at you only gets you promoted.
Hope your challenged by Daniel, I am, today again live in such a way that you motivate some to up there game and aggravate others any response is better than no response.
Bless ya
Andy
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
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Andy Elmes
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