By Sunday Joseph Adenuga
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Pride is defined by a Dictionary as having a high opinion of one's worth or possessions; when one have a very high opinion of him or herself, one is said to be proud. A conceited person who feels he or she is better than others, scorning others and disdaining other people's opinions and worth is said to be proud. Many people are proud and they do not know it. After reading through this article, you will be able see yourself and judge whether you are indeed proud or not.
When you always think yourself to be the only right fellow and all others are seeing by you to be wrong; when you feel you are the best and every other people are not as important as you, then look to it, it may be a seed of pride in you, get rid of it today before it gets rid of you. When other people's opinion is of no consequence to you and have no consideration in your heart, that may also be a seed of pride. Also you have the seed of pride when someone offends you and begs you but you refuse to forgive and forget the offense, especially when the offender has called other people to beg you and you still refused bluntly, check yourself for cleansing from the seed of pride.
Pride comes because of one's great accomplishments and success; when you excel beyond others, you need special grace to remain humble. Every time God blesses you above your equals and mates, you need to see it as a special grace, this will help to keep you humble. Some become proud because of their beauty, some because of their positions of power, some because of their parents wealth.
God's Warning Against Pride
In the Bible, the book of Proverbs 6: 16-19, and Psalm 138: 6, The Lord warns that He hates the proud one, God keeps a very good distance from the proud one, so be careful that God do not keep a disturbing distance from you. We are told in Proverbs 11:2 that pride brings shame. At the end of the day pride brings strife and unnecessary fighting because pride is not of God. He expressly commanded us never to be proud see 1 Samuel 2: 3
Many people were recorded in the Bible to have exhibited pride and faced the music in a hard way. One of them was Pharaoh Exodus 5: 2. He ended up losing all his precious soldiers, chariots and horses in the red sea. Naaman the captain of the host of Syria was humbled by a simple Word of the Lord from the mouth of Elisha, Nebuchadnezzar was sent to the bush for seven years when he became proud. The art of pride has always led to destruction from all available records of history from age to age. The fall of Lucifer who later became Satan is the best illustration of all, please see Isaiah 14: 12 - 17, Revelation 12: 7 -12, and Ezekiel 28: 14 -19
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Pride is defined by a Dictionary as having a high opinion of one's worth or possessions; when one have a very high opinion of him or herself, one is said to be proud. A conceited person who feels he or she is better than others, scorning others and disdaining other people's opinions and worth is said to be proud. Many people are proud and they do not know it. After reading through this article, you will be able see yourself and judge whether you are indeed proud or not.
When you always think yourself to be the only right fellow and all others are seeing by you to be wrong; when you feel you are the best and every other people are not as important as you, then look to it, it may be a seed of pride in you, get rid of it today before it gets rid of you. When other people's opinion is of no consequence to you and have no consideration in your heart, that may also be a seed of pride. Also you have the seed of pride when someone offends you and begs you but you refuse to forgive and forget the offense, especially when the offender has called other people to beg you and you still refused bluntly, check yourself for cleansing from the seed of pride.
Pride comes because of one's great accomplishments and success; when you excel beyond others, you need special grace to remain humble. Every time God blesses you above your equals and mates, you need to see it as a special grace, this will help to keep you humble. Some become proud because of their beauty, some because of their positions of power, some because of their parents wealth.
God's Warning Against Pride
In the Bible, the book of Proverbs 6: 16-19, and Psalm 138: 6, The Lord warns that He hates the proud one, God keeps a very good distance from the proud one, so be careful that God do not keep a disturbing distance from you. We are told in Proverbs 11:2 that pride brings shame. At the end of the day pride brings strife and unnecessary fighting because pride is not of God. He expressly commanded us never to be proud see 1 Samuel 2: 3
Many people were recorded in the Bible to have exhibited pride and faced the music in a hard way. One of them was Pharaoh Exodus 5: 2. He ended up losing all his precious soldiers, chariots and horses in the red sea. Naaman the captain of the host of Syria was humbled by a simple Word of the Lord from the mouth of Elisha, Nebuchadnezzar was sent to the bush for seven years when he became proud. The art of pride has always led to destruction from all available records of history from age to age. The fall of Lucifer who later became Satan is the best illustration of all, please see Isaiah 14: 12 - 17, Revelation 12: 7 -12, and Ezekiel 28: 14 -19
Sunday Joseph Adenuga is a pastor who believes in empowering people to become the best they were created to be, his messages of God's anointed word has brought hope to many hopeless people around the world. He is the founding pastor of Success Dimension Church, Ibadan, Nigeria.
You can be further helped and blessed through him by visiting http://successdimensionchurch.org and get linked to most of his works on the net.
Listen to some of his video messages at http://youtube.com/successgalore and be blessed of the Lord
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Listen to some of his video messages at http://youtube.com/successgalore and be blessed of the Lord
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