As am writing about this, I am so
sad crying inside because of what the church is experiencing and of the 3rd
weapon the devil is using to cause distraction, fights and division.
The final hit that the devil takes
on you is to give you pride, take you on high and make you to think you don’t
need anyone or anything, make you to look down on people, to stop listening to
their opinions. You feel like you are enough by yourself and whatever you do is
enough it doesn’t need any help. Everything that goes on without your
approval/consultation is not good enough. When you are high, you want to
control everything, you want to control how they dress. There is a difference
between advice and controlling. Prides like control and doesn’t want to share
it, it seeks for its own glory. Okay let’s get to it because it’s a lot. it’s
bad. it’s sad. its pride, the pride of life!
I have seen many Christians
leaving the church because of pride. The elder or the pastor reprimanded you
over something but because pride doesn’t want to be told what to do, it says
leave the choir, band, church, stop tithing. Pride will say nobody will tell
you anything, you have been born again for so many years, that’s pride! When
you have pride you are too high to be reprimanded, too high to be corrected,
too high to be advised, too high to learn, too high to commit, too high to
serve, too high to submit. Humble yourself!
Today pride has been modernized
and when someone leaves the church because of pride they would say” I feel in
my spirit that i should go join that other church, I feel is time for me to
leave” well is not the spirit from within but it is the pride of life found in
the world. Pride doesn’t know forgiveness, pride doesn’t know confession, pride
doesn’t know thank you.
People are killing each other
because of pride, brothers are hating each other, families are fighting over
inheritances, churches are becoming groups, men don’t want to go to churches,
believers don’t want to accept the holy spirit, church goers don’t want to
commit, they don’t want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and Fellowship
with the Holy Spirit.
Pride is the need to be seen,
heard, the need to perform, the need to be acknowledged. Pride says if the
pastor doesn’t acknowledge me, I won’t tithe’ I won’t play the instrument with
only one speaker, with people who can’t sing. That’s pride! And it needs to be
broken! Pride says you need me more than I need you. You can’t even enjoy your
phone, your car, your house because you are competing with your neighbors, your
family because of pride. You live everyday to hear someone throw a complement
at you or what you possess, if they don’t complement you, you say they are
jealous. You live to impress others.
Pride is hiding in church
groups/band/choirs in churches today, deacons’ committees and pastors. People
goes like this is how I am. When you address it, they say this is how I was
born. Well that is not how God has made you to be, that is the pride of life
and because you are in the world it means the devil can use it to attack you.
Is up to us if we allow him to win or lose. One thing for sure he was defeated
long time ago and he’s got no power on us.
Genesis 5 V. 6
God gave man wisdom, but the serpent
deceived Eve that they weren’t wise enough and pride striked. When they have
ate the fruit and God asked why did you eat the fruit. Adam is blaming Eve, Eve
is blaming the serpent, nobody wants to admit that they are wrong, everyone is
blaming someone. Pride doesn’t acknowledge when is wrong but can easily
identify others wrong doings. Today we have major ones, number ones, everyone
wants to be above and nobody wants to be a minor.
Matthew 4 V. 8
When the devil took Jesus up and
showed Him the kingdom and Glory of the world. He was throwing the last punch
“Pride of Life” the need to be in charge of everything. The devil is a fool
because he showed Him what’s already His. The devil doesn’t own anything, he
will show what God already have in store for you and will tell you to worship
him to get it, where else you can just get it by humbling yourself.
Pride doesn’t know how to wait for
God, it rather serves two masters just to be on top and avoid processes of God.
We thank God that Jesus defeated the devil by the Word and fought with the
weapon of worship. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God to avoid pride.
The bible says those who humble themselves God lifts them up. Serving God when
nobody acknowledge you is being humble you are defeating the devil that way.
V.6, devil took Jesus on an
exceedingly high mountain, where He was able to see everything. When the devil
has put you high, you see every mistake that people do. In fact, you don’t see
good in them, whenever you see them you look for bad, you are like holding the
red marker and ticking right/wrong, holy/unholy, the devil shows you all the
mistake that you end up missing God. Because whenever you come to church you
come to judge.
When Jesus was arrested and
questioned and spat on, He stayed humble and defeated the devil by being
humble. David remained humble when Saul sought to kill him. Luke 18 V. 9-14,
“for everyone who humbles himself will be exalted” Moses was the humblest man
on earth more than anyone that’s why God trusted him with His Glory.
Humbling yourself is your weapon
to defeat the pride of life.
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