What good is it for someone to gain the whole world yet forfeit their soul? Mark 8:36 How much of this life that you are living is about you? Your purpose? What about our life’s expectations and how it should turn out or how people should behave reveal otherwise. Read Matthew 4:8-9. What did Satan show Jesus? What did Satan tell Jesus that he could do for him? What would Jesus have to do to receive it? Satan offered the world to Jesus if he would bow down and worship him. It is said that Satan’s temptation reveals to his heart that what really…
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Humbling Ourselves
Is being humble into days world easy or hard? Is it popular or unpopular in our society? Humility is the first step towards God. Are you wondering how we do this? Lets go to the book of Isaiah 6:1-7- “In the yea that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the saraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, ad with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the…
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Pride
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble. James 4:6 Pride! What do we know about pride? What do we think or feel about pride? Pride is opposite of humility. Pride is a roadblock to revival. When we have pride, we are proud and cannot see where we are spiritually. We have pride, it drives us to promote ourselves and to protect our reputation. Let’s read a few scriptures on pride. Psalm 10:4 – “The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts. Psalm 31:23 – Oh, love the Lord, all you…
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Humility
For everyone who exalts himself will humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Luke 14:11 Do you know anyone who is truly humble? How was his/her humility evidence in ones life? When God is preparing for revival, He convicts His people of their sin and calls them to return to Him. In the old testament of 2 Chronicles 7:14 outlines how we must respond to if we wish to experience the revival He desires to send. “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and…
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Serving With Joy
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond servant, and coming in the likeness of men. He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,…