EPISODE 610 – A CRUCIAL ROOT OF STAGNATION
Apostle Benjamin Nana Amissah AnsahCHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
Beloved, this is a fruitful week for you.
Step out with that conviction and a bear fruits unto Christ. Shalom Aleichem!
Tuesday, 24th September, 2024
A CRUCIAL ROOT OF STAGNATION
“For though you are lofty and exalted, you stoop to embrace the lowly. Yet you keep your distance from those filled with pride.”
Psalm 138:6 (TPT).
One of the things that causes unfruitfulness, limitation, STAGNATION and resistance to progress in the believer’s pursuit of purpose is PRIDE.
Pride is a limitation.
A proud man is always resisted. Anytime you act with pride, what you are saying is you are good without God. To be proud towards God means you deny or reject God’s resources.
The proud don’t esteem God’s word and despise the wisdom of God. Such a stand makes you become one who is in opposition to God.
Such a position makes you attract God’s resistance.
Without God, you can do nothing. Your boast must not be in yourself but in God’s grace. Thus, to refuse to be humble or to submit to God is to do without God.
God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. (James 4:6)
God doesn’t resist the proud because He wants to be in control. This is how God resists the proud:
“For though you are lofty and exalted, you stoop to embrace the lowly. Yet you keep your distance from those filled with pride.” Psalm 138:6 (TPT).
In as much as God loves everyone, He doesn’t force His grace into places where His supply is not accepted. God doesn’t automatically dispense Himself to people. The strength of God is given to those who acknowledge Him.
To be humble is to realize that by your own strength, you cannot prevail. It is in this state that faith in God finds pure expression.
Imagine attempting to jump from the ground floor to the 50th floor of a skyscraper without any aid.
You need to submit yourself to know that you don’t have enough capacity to get to that floor without aid. To climb to the highest floor of such a building you will need an elevator or a staircase. To deny the provisions made is to remain on the down floor. You cannot be lifted by your strength. Technically, it is not the elevator which has limited you. Your limitation is your refusal to accept that you need the elevator.
Technically it is not God who resists the proud. It is his pride that serves as resistance.
“A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honour.” (Proverbs 29:23)
Just in case you keep realizing you are not making progress or any great thing you attempt to do, you experience resistance, check your pride.
Humble yourself before the Lord and He will exalt you.
Be humble also towards those the Lord has set over you.
Through humility, Jesus obtained all dominion and authority over all things (Philippians 2:5-7).
God doesn’t give authority to the proud. God gives authority to the humble.
Through humility, you receive more and more grace. And the Lord elevates you to the highest peak of glory.
Hallelujah!
DIG DEEPER
(Isaiah 2:15-22; 1 Peter 5:5; Psalm 40:4; Luke 1:48; Exodus 18:11; Philippians 2:13; Habakkuk 3:19)
WE PRAY
We pray that we shall exercise the wisdom to walk in humility and to acknowledge the Lord’s supply unto us for greater works.
BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
Matthew 12 – 14
DECLARE THESE WORDS:
— I submit to the Lord and His word.
— I refuse to be proud.
— I acknowledge and boast in the ability of God.
— My confidence is in God’s supply and not in my own wisdom.
— I don’t reject God’s grace and goodness towards me.
— I esteem the strength of God supplied to me, above my own abilities.
— I have absolute dependence on God and not my efforts.
Oh thank you Lord Jesus!
I take grace to be humble.
Any iota of pride is crushed in me.
In Jesus name!
I take Grace to be humble.
Thank You Lord Jesus.
Hallelujah!!
I give myself to the word of God
I don’t reject the supply and resources of the Lord
I don’t reject God’s grace and goodness towards me.
To be humble is to realize that by your own strength, you cannot prevail. It is in this state that faith in God finds pure expression.
Hallelujah!!
Thank You Lord
I submit whole fully to the counsel of the Lord in the name of Jesus
Oh Lord I trust in you completely!
Not anything but GOD!
HEYAAA
It is always God says and nothing else!
For in him is life!
His words are gold to me.
I cannot be proud
I bring every pride in me and about me under the authority of Jesus!
Jesus is the only one that has dominion over my ways not my SELF
Only Jesus!!
I cultivate the spirit of Humility in me towards God, his word, his instructions,his assignment and to all who he has set over me and to men as well
Glory be to God for his word.
Thank you father. I humble myself always in the name of Jesus.
Thank you Lord Jesus
I am humble
I refuse to be proud, in the name of Jesus
I acknowledge and boast in the ability if the Lord in the name of Jesus
I refuse to be proud
I submit myself to the supply of God’s Grace
I exercise the wisdom to walk in humility
The machaira blessed me a lot
It made me understand that mostly what causes people to actually not fulfil purpose is pride
I refuse to be proud
Gloreeey
Thank you Apostle sir
What a package today
I absolutely depend on God and not myself
Pride resists the progress of the individual who carries.
This is very interesting to me.
So really God does not actually resist the proud realistically but the pride in the person does.
Whenever, I notice i am not making progress, I have to check my pride.
Thank God for Machaira
I refuse to humble.
I submit my longings,cravings and desires to the good pleasure of the Father’s will.
I refuse to proud.
I submit my longings,cravings and desires to the good pleasure of the Father’s will.
In today’s machaira, i learnt that God doesn’t give grace to the proud but to the humble. Therefore, I submit myself to God and to the leaders He has set over me.
I refuse to be proud.
I submit my longings,cravings and desires to the good pleasure of the Father’s will.
I grow in humility. I submit to the word of God.
I ultimately rely on God to do his work.
I take grace.
Through humility, Jesus obtained all dominion and authority over all things (Philippians 2:5-7).
I COPY GOD!!
I don’t reject God’s grace and goodness towards me.
I’m full of Humility!!
Thank you Lord JESUS!
I remain humble!!
I submit to God wholly
I refuse to be proud
In as much as God loves everyone, He doesn’t force His grace into places where His supply is not accepted. God doesn’t automatically dispense Himself to people. The strength of God is given to those who acknowledge Him.
To be humble is to realize that by your own strength, you cannot prevail. It is in this state that faith in God finds pure expression.
Technically it is not God who resists the proud. It is his pride that serves as resistance.
This is a blessing.
I am humble in the name of Jesus
Thank you Lord Jesus🙏🙏🙏
Through humility, more grace is supplied to me.
I humble myself.
Thank you Jesus. I’m humble
I take grace to be humble
Pride is very sneaky and one can walk in it without knowing so I will run a daily check to see if all line are falling in pleasant places
I give due reverence to who ever God has set over me and take what ever they tell me serious if only its according to Gods word
Thank you Jesus for a word like this
Hallelujah, God is my all dependency
Favorite punchline: In as much as God loves everyone, He doesn’t force His grace into places where its not accepted….
The strength of God is given to those who acknowledge him…
Thank you Lord Jesus
I acknowledge the ability of God
I refuse to be proud
My dependence is solely on God, not my efforts
Thank you Apostle
It is not that actually resists the proud, pride itself is the resistance.