Pride vs Humility
Your life is either going to succeed or fail based on your ability to walk in humility, rather than pride.
All throughout the scriptures we see that God blesses the humble, and opposes the prideful.
If you’re going to fulfill God’s will in your life, it is only done by walking in the spirit of humility.
I Peter 5:5-7 NKJV
When God promotes you, no man can stop it.
When God’s hand is upon your life, there is no weapon that is formed against you that will prosper.
People who try and promote themselves are always exhausted trying to keep up, but when God promotes you his spirit leaves you refreshed.
Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God: the first thing you have to be convinced of is that God’s hand is mighty!
Pride is a sinful, arrogant, haughty, self reliant attitude or spirit that causes a person to have an inflated or puffed up view of themselves. Those who are proud tend to think of themselves as better than others, and look down on others with contempt.
Before you get busy, looking at other peoples pride, we need to at first examine our own pride.
Pride is cancer to the soul.
Pride is the only disease that makes everyone else sick besides the person who has it.
The spirit of pride is self reliant, not God reliant.
The spirit of humility wants all the glory, and all the credit to go to God, and not to themselves.
The spirit of pride says look at my talent. Look at my intellect. Look at what I have built and I have done. The spirit of humility says look at my God look at my maker. Look at the one who forgave me look at the one who called me look at the one who equipped me. Look at the one who changed my life.
Humility is seeing ourselves as we truly are, nothing apart from God. Humility is often characterized as genuine gratitude, a lack of arrogance, and a modest view of one’s self. A humble spirit is a grateful spirit.
In a narcissistic society, people think narcism wins.
A humble spirit looks at everything you have, and realizes these are just gifts from a great God, who allows us to steward them for His glory.
1.) Kill your pride or your pride will kill you.
At the root of all devastation is pride.
Colossians 3:12-17 ESV
The only thing that continually looks good on anybody is humility.
If you don’t clothe yourself in humility, pride will destroy your future.
Philippians 2:5-11
Sin is the disease that leads us into pride.
Just because it may have been the way you were raised does not make it right.
Your gift to the world isn’t how great your are, your gift to the world is telling them about how great your God is.
Ezekiel 28:17-18 ESV
Get your eyes off of yourself and off of others and get your eyes on God.
2.) Your future hinges on your humility.
The future is as bright as the promises of God!
1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Proverbs 4:18 ESV
James 4:13-16 ESV
Wisdom and humility are the keys to becoming who God called you to become.
Mark 10:45 ESV
Proverbs 16:18 ESV
Pride has killed more marriages, and more relationships, and brought more distance between people than anything.
Pride is the invisible muscle in your neck that keeps it stiff.
Humility bows in worship, pride stands tall in bad religion.
3.) Develop a friendship with God.
We develop humility through a relationship with Jesus.
The closer you get to God, the more you grow in humility.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s the ability to think more about others.
Pride can’t think about anybody but themselves.
The only people God ever turns away are the prideful. But the humble he invites to come follow him.
Exodus 33:11 NKJV
The Glory of God will make you humble
