REASONS WHY YOU MUST HUMBLE YOURSELF (PART 6)

 In this series of our quiet time, we shall study seven reasons why a believer should humble themselves before the Lord and continually live with a disposition of humility in all that they do.

Scripture: Job 41: 1, 34

6. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord because pride is essentially satanic and demonic 

Scripture: Job 41: 1, 34

“Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? … He beholdeth all high things: HE IS KING OVER ALL THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE.”

 

Job 41: 1, 34 

All proud people have a king and that is Satan. Satan is the king of all the children of pride. You must decide to humble yourself so that Satan will not be your king and ruler. Once you walk in pride you live and walk under the rulership of Satan himself.

 Pride is essentially demonic and satanic. Satan fell out of heaven through presumption, arrogance, and pride. In pride, he lifted himself up against God! Lucifer exalted himself against the throne of God and threatened to ascent to replace God in His throne. This was the most outrageous manifestation of pride ever.

But God cast Satan out of heaven and showed him that he was nothing but a rebellious branch, puffed up and swelled up for no reason. This evil puffing up and swelling up is what affects the entire human race, Human beings feel so big and great without having any good reason to. Today, large sections of the human race foolishly say that there is no God.

Unfortunately, we the ministers of the gospel also become swollen when we achieve the little bitty goals in the ministry. Most pride has no foundation. Pride is mostly idiopathic (without a known cause). Ministers of the gospel swell up and attack their spiritual fathers who raised them. Associates swell up and attempt to ascend into the chair of the leader. Soldiers rise up and attempt to rise up and attempt to remove legitimately elected heads of state. These things happen because people swell up and see themselves as bigger than they really are.

The words ‘pride’ and ‘Satan’ are virtually synonymous. Satan is a spirit! But pride is the attitude and speech that is caused by the presence of Satan!

Anytime you see pride in an individual, you are recognizing the presence of a very evil spirit- Satan! Satan is the originator of pride. That is why God hates pride and opposes anyone in whom He detects this pride!

 

Credits: Excerpts from

Formula for Humility: Child or Servant

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills

 


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