The problem with pride is we’re the last one to know we’re prideful. It’s a secret sin. A secret to us. Everyone else is well aware that we have it, and others roll their eyes when we put it on display.  If we don’t allow the Holy Spirit to shine His light on our heart, then pride will ruin everything it touches within our life. So pray this prayer with me, read the passage below, and let’s ask the Father to remove the pride from our life.  Be sure to check out our other prayers and resources at RoyalPerspectives.com.

Prayer

Father, You hate pride, so deliver me from it.  Never let me be convinced that my fortresses are my strengths. You’re my strength and my security.  You’ll destroy the things we place our faith in, so let us walk in humility and reliance upon You.  Father, don’t let me hinge the security of my heart on houses and nice things- this will only cause me to pervert justice. Lord, I don’t want to oppress the poor because I have a competitive spirit. Give me a humble attitude that will take the time to love everyone!  Restrain my pride in seasons of victory.  These victories didn’t come from my strength, they came from Your gracious hand.  How foolish of me to take pride in something given to me by Your grace; even my natural talent came from You. I renounce and repent of all pride in my heart and mind, because if I don’t, oppression will come upon me.  Father, I look to You in humility because I can’t walk this out without Your help. I pray this in the mighty name of Jesus, the true humble servant.

Amos 6: 8-14

The Lord God has sworn by Himself, the Lord God of hosts has declared: “I loathe the arrogance of Jacob, And detest his citadels; Therefore I will deliver up the city and all it contains.” And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die. 10 Then one’s uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will answer, “Keep quiet. For the name of the Lord is not to be mentioned.”For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments. Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, You who rejoice in Lodebar, And say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?” “For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts, “And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath To the brook of the Arabah.”

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