Excellency

1. What Is Excellency
•Excellency means fineness, brilliance, superiority, distinction, quality & merit. So, when we talk of personal and financial excellency, we mean the above description in our personal & financial lives.
•For one to have excellency, they have to decide to have excellency, they choose to be exceptional. There has to be some shifting or difference in thinking and or attitude.
•Excellency has to do first with one’s attitude or thinking before it manifests in the outside.
•Excellency also starts in one’s spirit but has to go through the decision and or thinking process
•So, you do not wake up one morning with the anointing of excellency, you have to cultivate that attitude or spirit
•Excellency denotes being or doing things in an extra ordinary way, outside the nom.
•Excellency is being outside the ordinary or outside mediocrity!
•For one to pursue excellency, there has to be some conviction in their spirit that they are not ordinary, they have to sense something great in their heart or spirit
•Excellency is worked for, it is not automatic, it is developed.

2. Examples

i) Joseph

Gen 39:2 But the Lord was with Joseph, and he [though a slave] was a successful {and} prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Gen 39:3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all that he did to flourish {and} succeed in his hand.
Gen 39:4 So Joseph pleased [Potiphar] {and} found favor in his sight, and he served him. And [his master] made him supervisor over his house and he put all that he had in his charge.
Gen 39:5 From the time that he made him supervisor in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the Lord's blessing was on all that he had in the house and in the field.
Gen 39:6 And [Potiphar] left all that he had in Joseph's charge and paid no attention to anything he had except the food he ate. Now Joseph was an attractive person and fine-looking.

Gen 41:38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find this man's equal, a man in whom is the spirit of God?
Gen 41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Forasmuch as [your] God has shown you all this, there is nobody as intelligent {and} discreet {and} understanding and wise as you are.

To separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e. (generally) understand.
Attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, skilfull, can skill, teach, think, understand, make to understand, understanding, cause understanding, get understanding, give understanding, have understanding, view, wise, wise man, deal wisely.

•Pharoh says there is none like Joseph in the above qualities, so, Joseph deplayed some excellency!
•As a slave Joseph showed excellency to the point of being promoted “General Manager” in Potipher’s house
•In prison Joseph displayed excellency to the point of being made prison supervisor
•So, it does not matter the conditions or where you are, excellency will be seeing in your life.
•If you have excellency in your life, situations around you cannot change you
•That is why to prosper and succeed in life cannot be stopped by situations.
•Corruption cannot stop the spirit of excellency!
•Joseph was distinguished among the other slaves, prisons and everybody in Egypt


ii) Daniel

Dan 1:8 But Daniel determined in his heart that he would not defile himself by [eating his portion of] the king's rich {and} dainty food or by [drinking] the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might [be allowed] not to defile himself.

Dan 6:3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
Dan 6:4 Then the presidents and satraps sought to find occasion [to bring accusation] against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault, for he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him.

•Daniel was not alone but among many Jews that were taken captives
•He purposed or determined not to defile himself with the king’s food, excellency is a determination
•Excellency saw Daniel being promoted in Babylon
•Also Daniel’s promotion went across all the kings that he served, they all noticed his excellency, if you excellent, your promotion or success will not depend on individuals. Everybody that you interact with will notice. Change of leaders, managers, etc will not deter you if you have the spirit of excellency!
•I have seen people in work environments that gain favor with managers by slandering others, etc, that kind of promotion will not last, with change of management you also go!
•Excellency will preserve you even in adversity, Daniel had plots and mischief plotted against him but he prevailed.
•Even in the Babylonian “University” Daniel showed excellency and was 10 times more intelligent than the rest. (Daniel 1v20)
•I have problems with people who claim excellency and success only in spiritual matters or in church activities but that same excellency does not reflect in their everyday lives!
(For more on Daniel, refer to my notes about Daniel)


iii) Caleb

Num 14:24 But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
MLB Numbers 14:24 But because My servant Caleb has a different attitude and has wholeheartedly followed Me, I shall allow him to reenter the land on which he once set foot, and it shall always belong to his descendants.


•God says Caleb’s got a different spirit, the other version says, “different attitude”!
•Caleb followed God fully and refused to be like the rest because he had another spirit / attitude, he had the spirit of excellency!

Josh 14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout out the land. And I brought him a report as it was in my heart.
Josh 14:8 But my brethren who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.
Josh 14:9 And Moses swore on that day, Surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be an inheritance to you and your children always, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.
Josh 14:10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while the Israelites wandered in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Josh 14:11 Yet I am as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so is my strength now for war and to go out and to come in.
Josh 14:12 So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke that day. For you heard then how the [giantlike] Anakim were there and that the cities were great and fortified; if the Lord will be with me, I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.
•You do not loose the spirit of excellency because you grow older!
•Excellency will give you confidence and then boldness. It will strengthen your faith. When in sin or deceit, it is difficult to exercise faith,

Ps 137:1 BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we [captives] sat down, yes, we wept when we [earnestly] remembered Zion [the city of our God imprinted on our hearts].
Ps 137:2 On the willow trees in the midst of [Babylon] we hung our harps.
Ps 137:3 For there they who led us captive required of us a song with words, and our tormentors {and} they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Ps 137:4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

•Israel could not sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land, they hung their harps!
•You also or faith cannot work in a foreign land, lack of excellency will rob you from fully exercising your faith

3. Rewards or results of excellency

i)Prosperity & success
ii)Promotion
iii)Favor
iv)Confidence, boldness & faith efficiency