Watch “Arise and Shine: A Spirit of Excellence” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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there’s a real secret to business people
today that I want to talk to and all of
you sooner or later will be in some sort
of business so it’s for everybody but
God laid on my heart Wednesday night a
message that I shared if you were not
here you really need to get it because I
think it was a word from the Lord to
business people and then I want to share
this secret today from Isaiah 60 that
can change things in your life and in
your business world and you say well no
this has to do with every aspect of your
life it’s a principle a Bible principle
that will lead to success let’s look at
Isaiah 60 arise shine for your light is
come and the glory of the Lord is risen
upon you for behold darkness shall cover
the earth and deep darkness the people
but the Lord will arise over you and his
glory will be seen upon you I love verse
3 the Gentiles or the lost will come to
your light and the Kings will come to
the brightness of your rising lift up
your eyes all around and see they gather
together they come to you your Sun shall
come from afar and your daughter shall
be nursed by your side I’ll stop there
for the sake of time but verse 1 is what
I’m preaching on today arise and shine
another way of saying arise and shine a
more modern way of saying it would be
stand up and stand out God is saying in
this chapter I do not want my church to
be hid in a closet nor do I want my
people in a dark world to hide the light
that I have in them and if I had a
subtitle to this message I would call it
the spirit of excellence because the
world that the world that we live in
responds to excellence if you want to
attract the attention of other people
get a spirit of excellence what is the
spirit of excellence it’s two things
number one
do what you do well number two do what
you do well with a good attitude if you
if you do what you do well and you do it
with a good attitude a spirit of
excellence will begin to shine through
you in a dark world and you will you
will stand up and you will stand out all
you got to do in this world has become
excellent at something and you’ll stand
up and stand out in other words what I’m
trying to say to you and this is very
important
your performance determines your
platform the performance that you have
on your job the performance that you do
in your workplace determines the
platform that you will have or another
way of saying platform is influence that
you will have among people you see when
I say your your your performance
determines your platform it means people
will listen to you based on your
performance I can name you people in
sports I can name you people in business
I can name you people in education and
in medicine I can and in any any field
of life that you want to take if they
perform in excellence at their job they
have influence and a platform that other
people do not have you know if they’re
at the top of their of their field
nobody stops them from talking about
Jesus Christ when they win or they
receive awards or they achieve some
great thing nobody pulls the microphone
away because they say first of all I
want to thank the Lord Jesus Christ
because he’s blessed my life but there’s
something about their performance that
determines their platform you know if it
you can’t talk like that
you can’t talk and say those things if
you don’t win if you don’t succeed so if
they score the touchdown if they get the
award for most sales if
they achieve some great landmark in
their life then they can give God praise
because people want to know that what
their secret is but what I’m trying to
say is you know if you play basketball
of whatever it is that you do if they
miss the shot if they lose the playoff
game or if they fail at what they’re
doing nobody wants to know what your
secret is nobody cares about and it
doesn’t mean you’re not say both are
saved but one has influence and one
doesn’t does that make sense
when you arise and shine when you begin
to stand up and stand out it gives you
influence with people when you become
excellent at what you do but if you sit
on the bench and you don’t score and you
know you’re not going to have a lot of
influence it doesn’t mean that one’s
more safe than the other
it just means one’s going to go to
heaven by themselves another one’s going
to use that platform of excellence to
influence a lot of people to go to
heaven with them and you’re going to
influence people if you’re going to
you’re going to have to become excellent
at what you do you’re going to have to
arise and shine you’re going to have to
stand up and stand out and when you
stand up and stand up stand out when you
arise and you shine then God will begin
to shine light in a dark world and
people will be drawn you’re going to
have to do what you do well if you work
in the office you need to be the best
worker one of the best people most
reliable people on that job this stuff
matters because this is what excellence
and standing up and standing out is all
about if you’re the one that’s always
late if you’re the one that is always
where you know it’s not done half done
not really dependable if you’re the one
that doesn’t get along with anybody on
the job then you’re not going to have
influence in that place you see some
churches and some Christians and quite
frankly some pastors have a terrible
reputation in their community they’re
known for being late
paying their bills there they don’t have
a spirit of excellence on what they do
they’re not respected and when you know
people don’t know if they’re going to
fold up or make it or not
and that thing needs to come to an end
in the body of Christ and for all of us
we need to have a spirit of excellence
the people in the Bible that influenced
their generation were people of
excellence for example I thought about
David I thought about how that the Bible
said David played his heart listen to
this skillfully he wasn’t a he wasn’t a
giant slayer first he wasn’t some famous
King first he was a musician that was
excellent at what he did notice it
didn’t say he played a musical
instrument it said he played skillfully
and because he played skillfully his
light he began to arise and shine stand
up and stand out on a musical instrument
and the King heard about how gifted he
was in music and brought him into the
palace because he had a spirit of
excellence it took him hours and hours
and hours of practice to become skillful
on that musical instrument and that
excellence is what was the natural thing
that God used to get spiritual power
into that palace into that Kingdom and
he would eventually go to the throne
through a spirit of excellence not only
did David play skillfully and God used
his excellence to to impact multitudes
he influenced multitudes for generations
through being excellent at strumming
harp in that amazing and then Daniel I
think about Daniel you know what the key
characteristic of Daniel that’s talked
about first said he had an excellent
spirit he had an excellent in other
words he had a spirit of excellence he
had an excellent attitude and we draw
attention to the fact that you know he
he refused to eat the Kings meat he
really had a standard but the thing that
is so impressive about that story when
he and the other men wouldn’t eat what
the King offered a drink what the King
the Bible said when they
came in ten days later listen to it
their countenance was fairer they were
smarter and quicker they were sharper
than the king’s men and they were ten
times wiser I’m saying to you that the
world and the king of Pharaoh was drawn
to them first in a natural way because
they were sharper they were head of the
class if he had to come in and they’d
have been the last in the class and that
have been the slow ones and that not had
themselves together and they’re counting
it’s not fair and sharp and they were
sharp
they were the Bible said they were
sharper they were quicker I love that
than the king’s men the purpose of
making a stand is to prove that they
could do more with God than with the
king
they were quicker wiser sharper more
intelligent and more excellent than the
king’s men and their excellence put them
in a position in that nation that was a
hedonistic nation Babylon and they had
power in that nation because they were
excellent we talked about the life of
Joseph and the Bible said that God was
with him every place that he was put he
prospered they put him in jail and he
became the head of the jail they put him
in Potiphar’s house as a slave and
Potiphar put him over everything in his
household look at that excellence it
didn’t matter where you put him some of
you said if somebody just give me a
break if you can’t do it where you are
you won’t do it anywhere else you have
to do it where you are
this principle works every time you be
excellent I don’t care what you do and
you begin to stand up and you’ll begin
to stand out
always excellence will cause God’s hand
a promotion to come upon your life the
Bible said always he did what he did
speaking of Joseph with excellence since
everything he did prospered Joseph’s
Authority got bigger and bigger and
bigger and people in a place of
authority always wanted Joseph close to
them that’s that’s that
the powerful thing about excellence if
you will become excellent people of
authority will want you close to them
they will pull you in you will stand out
of the herd they will call you close to
them they’ll start asking your opinion
they’ll start asking what do you think
because there’s a spirit of excellence
on you it always happens it’s a law in
the kingdom if you want people of
authority I’m not even talking about
saved people it doesn’t matter but they
don’t care if you’re saved or not on
your job they don’t hire you to talk in
tongues and walk around praising God
they hire you to do an excellent job and
if you do an excellent job those people
are going to call you in close to them
because always people of authority are
drawn to people with excellence every
time you can give somebody all the
scripture that you want but if they come
by you and see your life all messed up
your kids look crazy they’re not clean
you don’t know how to balance your
checkbook always in a brokedown
situation all the time we all go through
tough times but all the time something’s
wrong that’s not excellent that’s not
standing up and standing out but when
they see you and you got your stuff
together you got your family together
you got your blessings together and you
you get you’re sharp you’re great you’re
excellent you’re excited you’re
enthusiastic about life and about what
you do I guarantee you people in
authority will notice it and they’ll
raise you up every time first Kings
chapter 10 the Bible said that the Queen
of Sheba came from halfway around the
world to see Solomon’s house that he had
built his own personal house the Kingdom
and the temple that he had built and the
Bible said the thing that caused her to
come and what’s so astonished her I love
this it’s the scripture said when she
saw how happy his servants let’s say it
another way when she saw how
enthusiastic his employees were when she
saw the joy that they had
serving and working when she saw thee
the it even talks about the attire that
they had on how clean how sharp they
were when when she saw how happy the
people were the servants were
enthusiastic and joyful and then the
scripture said when she saw the building
that he had the buildings that he had
built proverbs 24 and 3 says wisdom is
known by the house that it builds wisdom
builds a house how wise are you and I’m
not talking about the square footage of
your house I’m talking about those under
your authority how are they doing
because wisdom builds a house and the
people under your covering prosper if
you’re building it wisely your children
not but they won’t go through things but
if you build that house wisely whoever
is under that house is going to do well
eventually cuz you keep praying and
leading them in truth I’ll come on and
praise God that’s the truth the last
thing that the Queen of Sheba saw was
his ascent to the throne of God the
first thing she saw was the grounds and
the buildings and the servants and how
sharp they were and how how classy and
how excellent everything how
enthusiastic and happy and joyful they
were in that something we want to make
it so spirit on fighting demons maybe
you ought to just been be happier on the
job and and be upbeat and be sharp and
it would be amazing how God would cause
your life to start influencing people as
you just arise and shine in a dark world
it’s got to be something that gives you
the right and the authority to be
listened to and the fact that he met her
Solomon did in the natural world first
and it gave a platform because his
performance determined the platform not
just anybody could reach the Queen of
Sheba she had it all and there’s people
in the business community that a
preacher like me will
never ever reach but you know what
there’s people in this room who work
excellent if you will be excellent if
you will arise and shine stand up and
stand out you can reach them because
they don’t care about a preacher but
they watch you and you’ve got your
family together and you’ve got your
marriage together and theirs has fallen
apart and they may be making millions of
dollars but they see you doing it right
and they’ll the Bible said then she came
and asked Solomon quote the hard
questions in that something once she saw
his performance it gave him a platform
and then he didn’t have to chase her
with a Bible and track and say you need
to get saved he just did what he did his
is his business did what it did and the
Bible said that she started asking him
the hard questions hey how do you hold
your marriage together
hey how do you do that hey hey listen my
wife had a bad x-ray with I’m not a
religious man but but but but but I
noticed there’s a difference in you and
well I don’t know how to say this but
would you pray tell will ask the man
upstairs to help me in my family they’ll
start asking you the hard questions sad
that’s how it happens
you don’t earn the right to be listened
to because of your failures you earn the
right to be listened to because of your
successes the queen of sheba couldn’t be
reached by just anyone if she would have
showed up at Solomon’s house listen and
they were pitiful and broke down weeds
were growing up all in the flowerbeds
and half done rinky-dink dirty tired
unenthused people standing around what
do you want what what just hip go in
yourself I’m not going to open the door
there’s no there’s no one can you
imagine can you imagine if she’d have
shown up and and the stuff the shutters
broke down the houses broke down the
everything the people looked jacked up
messed up standing around with attitudes
and and you know just just on a
cigarette break outside and just you
know you know what I’m talking about
that stuff matters stuff matters no
glory no joy I promise you she wouldn’t
have asked the hard questions it’s time
to rise and shine it’s time to stand up
and stand out verse three said when you
do when you become excellent at
something then the lost shall come to
your light and the brightness of your
promotion or your rising god wants to
raise up people in the business
community he wants to raise you up in
your field whether you’re a roofer or a
mechanic or a carpenter of whatever you
do in business and computers why don’t
you say god I want to stand up and stand
down
I want a rise and shine give me a spirit
of excellence so that my light will
shine in a dark world and people will be
drawn to my god I can tell them my
secret now that you asked me not that I
chased you down and I badgered you to
death
with with the Bible my testimony you
start asking me the hard questions well
that’s when you know you’re like shining
wherever you are
I wrote this down last Saturday I
Wednesday night boy you really need to
get Wednesday night because I covered a
whole nother aspect of what I’m sharing
but isn’t it interesting when God sent
his son to the earth he did not place
him in a priest home now had that been
me if I was going to send my son to
redeem the world I’d have put him in a
religious atmosphere Ida needed a third
of fourth generation Baptist Pentecostal
something I need some kind of church
atmosphere that this child is raised in
God didn’t do that you know what God did
God put him in a business environment in
that something I want him to know how to
do business with excellence I want him
until he’s 30 years old to deal with
orders and deal with billing and deal
with lumber and deal with hammers and
nails and working with his hands for 30
years he never preached a sermon or did
one that I can find one big spiritual
thing for 30 years what did he do he
worked in a business and I’m saying to
you that this is an hour when God is
saying we’ve got enough crosses in the
church Jesus drug his cross down the Via
Dolorosa which was the business district
of Jerusalem he didn’t take a back
street he drugged the cross because he
was saying I want my cross in the
secular business world and you don’t
have to carry the cross literally you
just do what you do with excellence a
rise and shine stand up and stand out be
excellent in what you do and be
excellent in your attitude and when you
do your light will shine Matthew 5 said
that you’ll be the light of the world
because folks when are we gonna ever get
it the people you work with
don’t care
about who your preacher is or your
church but they will if they never read
the Bible they are reading you wow
that’s pretty good somebody write that
one down I don’t know where that one
came from that that’s all right turn to
somebody and say if they never read the
Bible they are reading you but if you’re
in this room today and you need a change
in your life everything I’ve been
preaching is predicated upon one thing
Jesus needs to be Lord of your life
you’ve got a dream in politics or
whatever it is God’s Word to you today
is a rise and shine stand up and stand
out go forward begin with excellence but
it all has to be built on Jesus Christ
if you get in his will he will exalt you
if you use these Bible Princesses every
time he’s no respecter of persons but it
starts with making him Lord if you’re in
this room and you would say pastor pray
for me I need Jesus to be Lord of my
life and normally we call people down
I’m not going to do that this morning I
want to speak a blessing over businesses
and over business people but before I do
that I want to give you an opportunity
to receive Jesus if you’re in this place
and you’d say pastor pray for me I’m not
right with God and I know that’s what
that’s the main thing that needs to be
that needs to be changed in my life pray
for me if that you boldly raise your
hand right where you’re standing on a
seat god bless you god bless you god
bless you keep your hand up high don’t
be ashamed about there there there there
there beautiful here god bless you sir
god bless you god bless you god bless
you anybody in the balcony let me see
your hand I see hand way up there all
over the side I see those hands anyone
else anyone else if you see anyone with
their hand raised gently put your hand
on their shoulder right now gently put
your hand on their shoulder
that’s so incredible that’s so
incredible
everybody in this room pray this prayer
I see hands all the way in that far
corner I love it it’s awesome how many
of you believe Jesus died for you say
this prayer Lord Jesus thank you for the
cross and the blood that you shed I
receive what you did for me your blood
pardonez all my sin I am forgiven
I am cleansed and right now I dedicate
my life to you I want to stand up for
you I want to stand out for you I want
to arise I want to shine again I want to
be a light in a dark world and lord I
ask you for spirit of excellence
let it come upon my life let it come
upon my work let it come upon my
attitude give me an excellent attitude
and I thank you Father that I am
forgiven and that I am changed in Jesus
mighty name amen and amen give the Lord
a great praise God has given us an
opportunity to reach nations right in
the city of Jerusalem and we’re almost
there
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