October 21.
An Excellent Spirit

Daniel 6:5

We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

Daniel superseded most people because he’s about the only one in the Bible other than Jesus the Christ with whom you can’t find anything wrong. Daniel was the character in whom they could find no fault. Daniel had an excellent spirit. Sometimes we take this too lightly, but it is very important to have an excellent spirit. You can have a Ph. D. and degrees all over your wall, but if you have the wrong spirit you won’t go very far. You can be attractive, overflowing with beauty and charm, but if you’ve got a nasty spirit then you are really ugly. It’s hard to be around cantankerous folk and people with nasty spirits and nasty attitudes. If you’ve got a nasty spirit you ought to erase it.

I’ve seen it over the country. I know pastors that you can’t touch. They preach good, but you can’t touch them. They’ve got nasty spirits, nasty attitudes. So whoever you are, watch yourself, because if you ever get down, the folk you thought were with you will go the other way. You can lose your fancy possessions over night along with your so-called friends. However, a pleasing attitude and a nice disposition will draw folk. You know where you are now, but you don’t know where you are going. A good spirit will make folk want to hang around you. So if you have a nasty spirit, straighten it up while you can.

I shake hands with everybody. If they don’t come to shake, I go them. The person I might not want to touch might be the one that gives me a helping hand. And if they can’t say anything else about me, they can say, “Well he was nice. He did have a good spirit. He did have a good attitude.” A good spirit will carry you a long ways. I know pastors that can’t preach a tap. And you can’t get in the church because there’s so many folk. He has a good spirit. He’s a good man. He’s always trying to do something kind.