Be the Best I

Tuesday 2 January
READ: Matthew 5:13-16  
MORE LESSON: Isaiah 2:2-4   

There is a difference between being the best and being your best. To be your best limits you to your ability which may not be good enough. Your best may not be the best attainable height. But when you are the best, it means you are at the peak of what is attainable. God's desire is for us to be the best in everything we do. A mediocre mindset is never God's intention for His dear children. This is why He has given us the Spirit of love and a sound mind to the end that we will be the best.

God is expecting us to be above par in every aspect of our lives, be it physical, spiritual, economic, academic, marital, political and other wise. God's plan is for the world to look up to us as examples in whatever we are or are doing. Matthew 5:14 says, You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden: Matt 5:14-16 (NKJV). A light shines and sets the pace. In the same way God wants us to shine and teach the world what to do using Kingdom principles by being tiptop in whatever our hands find to do. The world cannot experience the excellence of our Father if we do not show forth His praise, But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light: 1 Pet. 2:9-10 (NKJV).

Therefore, whatever we do or become, we are invariably telling the world that that is who our Father is and that is what is obtainable in His kingdom. It is quite unfortunate that the Church has descended so low as to be copying the world instead of the world to imitate the Church. We are in the time when the Church must rise to her position and be unsurpassable. The Bible says, ...The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever: Rev 11:15.

This will only happen when the Church influences the world with the Kingdom lifestyle. But how can the world copy us when they tend to be doing better than us? I challenge you today to rise and be the best in whatever you do. Do not relax until you get to the top of your calling, career and ministry. Invade the world systems with the Kingdom lifestyle and take up territories for our King. Be the best.

Prayer/Action
*Ask the Lord to make you the best.
*Ask that the Spirit of excellence rest upon you.
*Pray against the spirit of mediocrity.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
January 2018, you shall be the beginning of strength and excellence shall last from start to finish, in the name of Jesus.