God's Promises of
Excellence
Matthew 20:26-28
Not so with you.  Instead of whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave - just as the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as ransom.

John 14:12
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in Me will do what I have been doing.  He will do even greater than these, because I am going to the Father.

John 15:15-16
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business.  Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.  You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit - fruit that will last.  Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.

2 Corinthians 3:5-6

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.  He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant - not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.