A young lady in our fellowship was clearly promoting herself and people were beginning to distance themselves from her. I spoke with her and asked her if she could see that she was being proud. She acknowledged that she knew she was. I suggested that it would be wise to stop it. She agreed. The next time I saw her she was working harder and more committed and trying as best she could to be “gooder”.
I shared with her that her strategy for removing her pride was actually cementing her pride because the motive for working harder was really to be liked again by everyone who was struggling with her pride, and also trying to avoid getting into more trouble. She wasn’t addressing her selfishness, she was reinforcing it.
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Tags: elevation, good, pride, surrender
Jesus came to earth 2000 years ago and showed Himself to the human race. Our international date system confirms it and every religion recognises that He existed. To Christians, He came as God in the form of man to relate to His creation and die for all of mankind. You could feel Him, walk with Him and talk with Him. But why has He left? Why doesn’t He show Himself now? Why can’t you touch Him and speak face to face with Him as the people could then? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: authority, cross, elevation, envy, lose, position, pride, repent, second coming, surrender
The modern church teaches that you can’t love your neighbour until you love yourself. The Bible teaches the opposite. The Bible teaches that if you want to be a genuine disciple you have to hate yourself (Luke 14:26,27,33).
The twelve disciples served Jesus in love with themselves. They proved this when they told the children to go away; they proved it when they asked for thrones next to Jesus, they proved it when they wanted to call fire down from heaven; and they proved it when they deserted Jesus at the inquisition.
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Tags: elevation, envy, faith, false church, good, humility, love, repent, sin, surrender
As a child, if you blame the authority, with bitterness in your heart, for being unfairly treated and for your hurt feelings, you’ll initiate a spirit of resistance against authority. If you allow this hurt to fester, you’ll generate a permanent pattern of defiance with an inner heart of …
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Tags: authority, blame, elevation, feelings, Lie, manipulation, pride, separated, surrender
In Mark 5 we read the story of the man possessed by 2000 demons. When he saw Jesus he ran and worshipped Him. It is not only possible to worship Jesus with demons in you, the reality is that most church people do this, because most church people
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Tags: authority, blindness, correction, elevation, envy, false church, good, humility, Lie, lying spirits, position, sin, spirit, submission, surrender, truth, worship
Faith is relying on God no matter what’s happening around you or to you. You can’t be saved without faith. It’s a gift from God; it can’t be self-manufactured, and it grows by
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Tags: envy, false church, good, Lie, obedience, Pharisee, repentance, rich young ruler, sin, suffering, surrender, temptation, truth, two truths, wait
Q. What’s faith?
In simple terms … faith is relying on God no matter what is going on around you or to you.
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Tags: authority, feelings, humility, love, rich young ruler, sabbath, saved, sin, suffering, surrender, temptation
God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble, 1 Peter 5:5
Most people think humility is being nice, polite and not being proud about yourself, but humility is not a human trait, it’s a Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: envy, forgiveness, love, pride, repentance, sin, surrender
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