SEEDS OF DESTINY 20TH JULY 2020 – UNDERSTANDING EXCELLENCE AND DISTINCTION
To exist in distinction or excellence is to stand out in life or live an outstanding life. A call unto excellence is a call unto an outstanding life.
SCRIPTURE: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Matthew 5:14.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: To exist in distinction and excellence is to stand out in life or live an outstanding life.
The Scriptures make it abundantly clear that as children of God, we are destined for the top (Matthew 5:14-16, Deuteronomy 32:13, Isaiah 58:14). We were created to exist at the realm of excellence and distinction in whatever we do. Therefore, it is very important to understand excellence or distinction.
Now, the question is, what is distinction? What does it mean to exist in distinction or excellence?
1. To have excellence or distinction means to stand out in life.
To exist in distinction or excellence means to live an outstanding life. Joseph stood out from his brothers by the way he lived (Gen. 37:2). When people exist in distinction or excellence, they stand out in their family, class or place of work. To exist in distinction or excellence is to stand out in life or live an outstanding life. A call unto excellence is a call unto an outstanding life. To exist in distinction or excellence is to live an outstandingly enviable life.
2. Excellence or distinction means existence as a generational illumination.
To exist in distinction or excellence means to exist as a
generational illumination. When you exist in distinction or excellence, there is something about you that lightens your world. Once you step into a place where there is darkness and depression, light appears because you are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14); you are a generational illumination. To exist in excellence or distinction is to exist as the light that gives hope to the people around you.
What is my counsel to you? Make up your mind to exist in excellence and distinction. Make the choice to stand out in life and be a generational illumination.
Remember this: To exist in distinction or excellence is to stand out in life or live an outstanding life.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Make the choice to stand out in life.
2. Exist as light, revelation or illumination to your generation.
PRAYER: Thank You Lord for Your purpose for my life. I receive Your Grace to stand out in life and be an illumination to my generation, Lord in Jesus’ Name.
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: DEFINING EXCELLENCE OR DISTINCTION (PART 3)
QUOTE: God’s Servant, Bishop David Oyedepo has said that those who strive for excellence do not strive with people. Culled from “21 FOOLISH THINGS PEOPLE DO” by Dr Paul Enenche.
DAILY READING: Isaiah 43-45
AMAZING FACT: The world’s smallest Bible can fit on the tip of a pen. It is called Nano Bible, which is 1.2 million letters of the Old Testament etched on a silicon disk.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION/WORD: Go ahead and take your place at the top in Jesus’ Name.
