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Spiritaul Pride
Sue Creamer:
Hi again,
Not once has it crossed my mind that you were speaking weird...!!! Please know I have enjoyed your
post and I believe there is a reason we are not in a actual room, person to person (at least for now).
The bottom line of this conversation is that God gives us what we must say when he wants it said...!! If you are communicating with your pastor about the things God has revealed to you, it is because God chooses for you to do so and the words you speak are his words..his spirit!! If your pastor is responsive, then God is doing the work through you and yes that should bring great joy, no pride involved.
I don't trust myself to say much, maybe there is that feeling of not wanting to be wrong, or offend anyone, but then I remind myself God is working with all of us and bringing us all to a likeness of mind and spirit and how can we know each other if we THINK we are so different or "weird" as you wrote. We are
clay in the master's hand.
Keep your post coming...
Peace to you
Sue Ann
CEO:
Dear 'zen
Yes, yes and yes. It is pride and for me it will be the hardest sin to break.
You described three aspects of pride - listening to the falseness of the preacher, wanting specific other's to hear and see this or that monster revelation, and my way is THE truth everyone else is ..., of which I am guilty.
I believe we do not rise above our confession and PRIDE will be hard to confess and submit to his way. Pride for me is my innermost self , when I submit fully to the Father and Son it will melt away.
Askseeknock
Charles O
insanezenmistress:
Ceo yes it does and AMEN for that.
it is hard for me to keep discribing this pride thing because as i get aware of it i start praying oh god take that away......and he does and i cant get my quesitons out LMAO......
I found a verse...... 1 Cor 4:6, 20 and 7:7 (although to marriage the words also apply to concidering yourself and others).....
i am thinking of the verses where paul talks about the hand cant say , because i am not an eye i am no good....
As for my pastor i thik he wuld be more able to receive any of the revelations i have ( brought to light by the teachings here) by seeing me growing. As i grow i get bold, i jsut want to keep the pride thing confesssed up .... afraid to handle the word wrongly and sin against god.
CEO:
Zen
Does your pastor go to you, does he initiate the discussion ? I thought not. He will grow tired of you if you continue to hold to scriptural truth and spend his time on what for him is more fertile ground. Read GODSOWN's post on his preacherman 'showdown'. It is /was great reading and ended with a very predictable result.
Charles O
YellowStone:
Hi insanezenmistress :)
Pride has many sides, atleast it seems to have for me. Many associate pride with feeling good about themeselves for having helped another. I take pride in the way God has opened my heart to him and revealed himself to me. Looking back over my life, I feel good about where I am now in my spiritual walk.
Yet, this be as it may, I am not prideful over another, neither do I feel sad they do not have the eyes or the ears for the truth that I have. (rather that were given me) This was perhaps the hardest yet most enlightening truth I have been given, and that is realizing that I am no better than any other person on this planet. Sure, I have come far and accomplished much, yet not I, but Christ who lives in me, lest I have cause to boast.
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Even though some still stumble in the dark, I can hold out my hand, but it is not up to me to make them take it.
I have also learned to love myself, not over God, but because of of God. For how foolish would I be to not love the one whom Christ loved before I was even born, enough to even die for me. One must let go of all and trust God completely to see how small and insigificant the "I" in who I am really is; yet I am not insignificant, though not because of me, but because of Christ who lives within me.
I hope this makes some sense,
All are where they need to be according to God's will.
Love to you in Christ, the Lamb.
Darren
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