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Friday, 19th July, 2024
GOD GIVES GRACE 5 — Remain Humble
“But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:6 (Berean Standard Bible)
We have looked at the reality that, God gives grace abundant.
As part of the previous discussions we also noticed;
- The Grace of God is not only God’s means of bringing us into Himself, however, Grace also is God supplying Himself as our inward ability and influence.
- It takes more and more grace to accomplish the Lord’s assignment.
- Grace is immeasurable and unlimited. It is basically how much you can take that matters.
- While grace is God’s ability supplied to you, IT TAKES FAITH TO RECEIVE GRACE. Faith brings you into the enjoyment of Grace.
Faith is mostly associated with boldness. However, Faith is also a matter of being humble.
It takes humility to acknowledge God. It takes humility to receive God’s word and to act on it.
One of the things which causes limitation and creates 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 which serves as a 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
Isaiah 42 – 45
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.
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