Our Daily Manna

TOPIC: BE THE BEST ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE!

BASIC SCRIPTURE: DANIEL 6:1-7

Welcome to today’s devotional! The Holy Ghost wants you to know that nothing just happens! It is true that life is about TIME and CHANCE but you must prepare for it. Your ELEVATION this year will not be like magic because God is not a magician. One of the things that will help you to maximize your elevation this year is to be the best anywhere you are and everywhere you go. Yes! Be your best, do your best and leave the rest for God! The problem with many believers today is that we want God to do everything. No! God will not do everything for us. Truth is whatever God has given you the ability to do, He will never do it for you because He wants you to grow. Oh! That is why heaven is screaming for excellence and the best in whatever you do in life and ministry this year. EXCELLENCE! About a century ago, to be a black man was seen as a curse by others. The Black race was repelled by others. They felt that nothing good could come out of the black man.

But today the story is different as there is hardly any sphere of life that the blacks are not involved in or even controlling. Many decades ago, God raced a black Baptist minister and human rights movement leader, Martin Luther King Jnr who challenged and motivated the blacks to be the best in whatever they do and anywhere they are. Hear him: “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should Sweep streets so well that the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” Wow! Daniel was an example of a man who was his best even in a strange land of captivity. He was a captive but his mind was not held captive! He proved to his world what God could do with a mind that is renewed daily with God’s Word and he became the envy of the princes, governors an presidents of Persia.

Vs. 3 of today’s Word 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. Did you get that? Daniel was preferred- ELEVATED not because he was just a PRAYER WARRIOR, but because he had an EXCELLENT spirit! He refused to manage or accept mediocrity! He was always seeking for the best and it was noticed BY THE KING (Vs.5). Go and do likewise today and indeed this year! Be the best anywhere and everywhere! Be the best in your chosen field! Be the best in your career, Job, business, academics, etc. Develop yourself!

Buy and read books, materials and resources for where you are going or want to be in life and ministry. Someone has said: “Life is like a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” Learn from Daniel today! PURSUE EXCELLENCE in all you do! Yes! You will be the next to be preferred by men of all colors! Amen and amen!

PRAYER POINTS: Take Song 2: Standing on the promises…

1. In your own words, pray about today’s word as led now.
2. O God, I will not disappoint You on planet earth. I WILL BE MY BEST FOR YOU!
3. Spirit of excellence, FALL ON ME, possess me now and distinguish me in Jesus name.
4. Pray about today generally as you are led now.