👹👹PRIDE DESTROYS 👹👹
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April 29, 2023 at 4:15 pmPride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall,” (Proverbs 16:18 New International Version) is one of the 33 sayings in Chapter 16 of Proverbs, many of which remind the reader that wisdom and modesty are to be preferred over pride and wealth”. Are you prideful? Gods Chosen OneGA🤲🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:21 pmIf we are too proud about ourselves or something, we will probably meet with failure or disaster. When we are too self-important or conceited, something is sure to happen to make us look foolish. Help us lord to be humble at heart and to value relationships in Jesus name GCOGA 🤲🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:23 pmPride causes people to reject help they need from others. Prideful people refuse to listen and learn. There are many things we cannot do for ourselves. But pride brings destruction by deluding us into thinking that we don’t need any help, we can do it ourselves. When you feel like you are all that and that you know it all; think again. May God keep us humble and faithful. Amen GCOGA 🙏🤲🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:25 pm6 tips to Overcome Your Pride if you are prideful: Be Aware. While pride shows you sufficiently value yourself and your accomplishments and it helps you work toward what you deserve, it’s dangerous in large quantities. … Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously. … Ask the Right Questions. … Be Open-Minded. … Listen, Don’t Talk. … Put Your Business First. May God help us evaluate ourselves and live for Him GCOGA 🤲🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:26 pmLittle But Powerful Ways To Shatter Your Ego Kill the addiction to approval. … Seek out praise for others. … Write down or declare your purpose each day. … Let go of the false power of anger. … Spend time alone in nature. … Leverage the Law of Attraction. … Be still. … Use irritation from others as a mirror for yourself. Amen GCOGA 🙏🙏🤲🙏🙏🙏🤲
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April 29, 2023 at 4:28 pmGive people permission to point out pride in your life. Pride deceives the mind. … Focus more on God than you do on yourself. When pride is pointed out, our first reaction can be introspection. … Pray. Prayer is a posture of humility towards God. … Remember to pray to God to reveal yourself to you 🙏🙏GCOGA 🙏🙏🤲🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:31 pmWhatever path we choose becomes increasingly ominous because Scripture is clear, “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18 ESV). When we stay fixated on our way, then we lose sight of what God wants to do in us and through us. The antidote for pride is humility – meekness, submissiveness. Lord, help us to live a life or humility for the glory and honor of your name. Amen 🤲🙏🙏🙏🙏Gods Chosen OneGA🤲🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:42 pm5 Steps to Overcome Pride Are you struggling with a form of pride? We have outlined a five-step process to help you change and heal in this area of your life. Take all the time you need with each of the steps included below. Step 1: Adopt a Correct View of God When you have a distorted view of who God is, you will not give Him the reverence and respect that is due to Him. As a result, your arrogance will be free to develop until you suffer the consequences of your pride. Consider some truths about God that will help you with your pride problem: God is infinitely superior to us. He is absolutely perfect and we are not. How can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman be pure? God is more glorious than the moon; He shines brighter than the stars. In comparison, people are maggots; we mortals are mere worms. (Job 25:4–6) God has supreme authority over us. He determines our eternal future. How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and He is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, “He didn’t make me?” Does a jar ever say, “The potter who made me is stupid?” (Isaiah 29:16) If you tend to think too highly of yourself, focus more on the greatness of God. Undertake a Bible study on the nature of God, especially His majesty and power. Ask God to reveal Himself more clearly to you. GCOGA 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:43 pmStep 2: Revise Your False Beliefs God wants His people to be living examples of His love to others. Yet pride is the single greatest obstacle to loving people. Reflect on your attitudes with the help of the questions that follow. Do you think you are better than others? What gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift? (1 Corinthians 4:7) Do you think that you are indispensable? By the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. (Romans 12:3 NIV) Do you think that your accomplishments and position entitle you to special favor? It’s not good to eat too much honey, and it’s not good to seek honors for yourself. (Proverbs 25:27) Such beliefs are all self-centered, self-appreciating, and degrading to others. Yet your identity in Christ is not to be one of selfish ambition and pride but rather one of self-denial and grace-filled humility. Allow Scripture to inform your views of yourself, other people, and life in general so that you will not be proud in a sinful way. GCOGA 🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:44 pmStep 3: Repent of Your Sin The hardest thing for a proud person to do is admit that he or she is wrong. Are you prepared to do that? If so, give your type of pride a specific name (conceit, vanity, or whatever). Then pray the following prayer (or a similar one of your own making) in faith that God will forgive your sin and empower your obedience. Insert the name of your particular type of pride in the blanks. God, I know I have sinned by my pride I am sorry for the pain I have given to You and to the people around me. Please forgive me for my sin. Wash away all of the pride from me. And by Your Spirit, give me the strength to sin no more in this area but instead to live in humility. In Christ’s name, amen. If you have harmed others with your sin, apologize to them. Seek reconciliation and offer restitution where appropriate. Amen 🙏 GCOGA 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:45 pmStep 4: Defend against Spiritual Attacks Pride is easy to slip back into after you have repented. You can even become proud of your humility! Be certain that the world, the flesh, and the Devil will do all they can to pull you back into your sin of pride. The values of the world system are topsy-turvy, including promoting pride as a positive thing. The world system gives us messages like “You should think highly of yourself” and “Try to keep yourself in the spotlight.” Overcome the world by inviting God to transform your thinking so that you come to agree with Him about the importance He places on humility. Your flesh (sinful nature) craves the good feeling it gets when you inflate your ego and selfishly seek attention from others. So remind yourself that your sinful nature is actually already dead. Cooperate with the Holy Spirit, who seeks to magnify God, not God’s creatures. Satan will lay opportunities in your path that will make it easy for you to exercise your pride. Resist his schemes by putting on the whole armor of God. Especially use the “belt of truth” (Ephesians 6:14) by reminding yourself that God is the one who deserves honor, not you. Spiritual attacks will never cease. So remain alert. The power of God is more than enough to defend you against spiritual attacks so that you may continue to live in a way that is consistent with your repentance. Amen GCOGA 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:47 pm5 Steps to Overcome Pride Step 5: Flee Temptation You will never fully be able to escape temptations to be proud. But you can significantly reduce these temptations—and thus improve your chances of remaining free of pride—if you will take specific steps to avoid temptation. Focus on your relationship with God. Strengthen your devotional life. In particular, focus on giving God glory and humbling yourself before Him. Latch on to God’s promises. Search the Scriptures for truths about pride and humility, then memorize the verses that you think can best help you to resist pride. Recall these verses whenever temptation arises. The following are a couple of verses you might want to memorize. Anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matthew 18:4) Humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time He will lift you up in honor. (1 Peter 5:6) Establish safeguards. Make changes in your lifestyle that will reduce your temptation to be prideful. Be bold here! Be creative! These are a few possibilities to get your thinking going: • If you tend to look down on people of a lower social class than your own, volunteer to serve some of society’s down-and-outers. • If you are proud of your looks, get rid of the clothes or makeup that you think flatter your looks the most. • If you like to show off by driving up in a flashy car, trade it in for a vehicle that is more modest and practical. • Ask a trusted Christian friend to hold you accountable in your commitment to not be prideful. Expect victory. Do not focus on your failures of the past but rather on God’s ability to give you lasting victory over pride. Believe that He will implant a more humble attitude in your heart—for good. And give Him the praise in advance! GCOGA🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:49 pmPride vs. Humility Have you bought into the “all about me” attitude that’s prevalent in our culture today? Even if you haven’t done it consciously, do you sometimes act that way? Do you always want to be first in line? Are you rude behind the wheel, trying to get ahead of everyone else? Do you want to have a better house, car or other possessions than those around you? Pride can rear its head in all kinds of ugly ways. Pride’s family of behaviors includes conceit, self-righteousness, boasting, selfish ambition, showing off, vanity, and impatience. These can be replaced with humility. Discover how to overcome pride in its various forms through time-tested insights that really work! Help us lord to live humbly for you in Jesus name. Amen Gods Chosen OneGA🙏🤲
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April 29, 2023 at 4:52 pmSELF QUIZ: Self-Test Are You Proud? The following self-evaluation quiz will help you determine whether you have a tendency toward pride. Do you spend more time thinking about yourself than about God or about other people? Do you make yourself the center of most conversations? Do you compare yourself with others often, judging yourself favorably? Do you take credit for your own looks, intelligence, or ability? Do you try to make sure that others are aware of your personal gifts or possessions? Do you think you deserve more of this world’s good things than other people do? Are you willing to pursue your selfish goals even if it means others are hurt in the process? Do you think God must be pleased with you because of how ethical or religious you are? Do you ever think you do not really need God or other people? Gods Chosen OneGA🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:53 pmPride: It’s All About Me: If you are conceited, vain, or self-righteous, you probably want others to know how great you are. There are different ways you can do that. Three key terms for these strategies are boasting, showing off, and selfish ambition. GCOGA
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April 29, 2023 at 4:54 pmBoasting may come in an obvious form or it may be more subtle. If someone openly proclaims to you how much money he is making, there is no mistaking what is going on. The more sly boasters have perfected the art of dropping names and letting slip what they have accomplished or purchased or experienced. But this artfulness is really no different from more transparent forms of boasting; it is all meant to impress. Scripture takes a realistic view of boasting. “When people commend themselves, it doesn’t count for much” (2 Corinthians 10:18). We are told in God’s Word that if we want to boast, we should learn to boast about the right thing. “This is what the LORD says: ‘Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lord’” (Jeremiah 9:23–24). GCOGA
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April 29, 2023 at 4:55 pmBut in addition to attracting attention to oneself with words, a person can do the same through actions. That’s showing off. Showing off may be pardonable in children. Every parent has heard a child cry, “Look at me!” and has indulged her by watching as she performs a cartwheel or him as he rides by on his two-wheeler. But in grown-ups, showing off is not so cute. What is displaying one’s intellect except showing off? What is clowning around so that the attention stays riveted on you? What is making sure others see your new car or fancy clothes? All this is the equivalent of calling out to the world, “Look at me!” Is this acceptable behavior in God’s eyes? Hardly. “Don’t try to impress others,” He instructs us (Philippians 2:3). GCOGA 🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 4:55 pmAlso, we are not to let selfish ambition determine how we live our lives. Certain types of ambition might be good, such as striving to do well at work in order to be able to provide for your family better. But selfish ambition is the single-minded pursuit of what you think you deserve, regardless of what it might cost others. The man who becomes a workaholic because he wants others to see him as a success, even though the overwork makes him a stranger to his family, is selfishly ambitious. The church member who pursues a leadership position on a church committee because of the prestige it carries, not out of a desire to serve, is selfishly ambitious. GCOGA
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April 29, 2023 at 5:13 pmOur society applauds hard-charging, “self-made” men and women. But if that go-getter quality is actually an expression of selfish ambition, it is foolish and ungodly. “If…you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind” (James 3:14–16). If you need to think less of yourself, begin the spiritual healing process now by allowing the Holy Spirit to help you identify ungodly pride in your life and replace it with Christ-like humility. Gods Chosen OneGA 🙏🙏
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April 29, 2023 at 7:55 pmIt’s true, God hates pride. Pride is an ugly thing. Thx for the well laid out INFO. — Definitely much to prayerfully consider…
BLESSINGS! In Him. ❤
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April 29, 2023 at 10:50 pmDear Lord, we ask for Your guidance and discernment to help us understand where we are prideful. Please help us to acknowledge our pridefulness and to turn it into humbleness! We want to have a heart and mind like Jesus Christ and to shine His light throughout the world! We cannot do that with a prideful heart, oh Lord! We need Your help to keep humble in all circumstances in order to do what is good and forthright. In the gracious and precious name of Jesus Christ, amen!🙏🏿🙏🙏🏿🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨❤️❤️
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April 30, 2023 at 7:25 amAmen
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