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Pride [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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I want the family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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coming through. I'm so glad that you're here again. Amen with me,
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and we could go ahead and get the Word of God, first thing,
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first thing in the day, first thing in our hearts, first things in
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our mind, to start our day off. I think if you start your
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day off with the Word of God, meditate on the Word of God during
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the day, as you're working, as you're cleaning, as you're exercising,
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as you're being a home worker or a mom or dad or a caretaker,
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whatever the case may be. Put the Word of God inside of you,
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amen, and I only have it inside of you. Meditate on it,
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Amen, and then apply what you learn from the Word of God into real
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life, into our life. Right, and then you will see the results
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of trusting in God. We just went through a five part series of the
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results of trusting in God, and we see that the word of God is
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beneficial to us. Amen. It's beneficial to our soul, mind, body,
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physically, emotionally, spiritually, health wise, everything that is good.
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I believe that the Word of God is so good to us and for us
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and works through us, that it will benefit us to put Him first.
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Put the Word of God first in our lives daily, daily. Don't ever
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let up, don't get your foot off the gas, Amen, keep on
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going forward. Today we're talking about something that I believe that really hurts us
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a lot as believers. Even if you don't believe. Pride has the word
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I in the middle of the word. Right, if everything is about you
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and everything is about me, and our pride and arrogance is to the tilt,
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like to the level of wow, and then we need to change the
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way we think. I suggest that I know a lot of people say I'm
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not prideful, I don't have pride, I'm humble. Well, if you
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don't have pride and you're humble, Amen, you don't have to force nothing.
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Pride shows up when you least suspect it. Pride shows up when you
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think that you're humble, and your pride is just like out of control.
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We can't be that way. We have to be people of humility as people
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of God. Let's be humble, man. Humble is the new strength that
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we have. Right. Being humble is the new thing for a Christian.
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Right is a new life. We have a humble life, and men,
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the Bible says to live quietly and humbly as we walk among others and as
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we work this thing out that we call Christian living. Amen. But the
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Nando God bless you, my brother, God bless you as well. Welcome
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to the morning, DeVos, cause you see you. Simple pride only brings
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only negative results. Sinful pride. Right, because you could be proud and
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we could boast in God. We're going to see that in the scripture in
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a couple of minutes. We could boast in God all day. That's not
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being proud or arrogant. That's being mindful of who God is in your life
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and in my life, and what God has done in our lives. But
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simple pride brings only negative results. I don't want to be around negative people.
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I don't want to be that negative person. I don't want to be
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that guy that's always about me and what I'm doing. Look at me,
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look at me, look at me. Listen. When I was in the
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world, I had enough for that, right, being in an in crowd
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doing things that the world did, that you would be considered popular or whatever
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the situation is. I had enough for that. I know where that led
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because I lived that life before. Shot to thirteen, verse ten. It's
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going to be our starting point, and I'm gonna hit you with a couple
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of other scriptures to get you thinking about you know, this whole thing about
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pride. Yes, there's a community that prize themselves in pride and they celebrate
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their month. Amen. But I'm not necessarily talking about them, talking about
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people who are dealing with pride, and yeah, that's the sort of pride
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too. It is. They blatantly tell you it's pride, But there's I
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in the middle of the word pride. As long as you're thinking about yourself
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only, amen, there's no room for others, right, So listen Proverbs
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chapter thirteen, verse ten. If you have any questions, comments, concerns,
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prayer requests. Now's your chance. Don't hesitate to leave it on the
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live chat. Also, if you're listening as Soul Winners with a z do
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place there to connect with me as well. If all else fails, you
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could always email me at radio at so Winners with a z that org where
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any of your questions comments concerns the prayer requests. But right now we're going
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to get into some prayer. After we pray, we'll shut us out for
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like sixty seconds, and then when we come back after the sixty seconds,
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we'll get right into pride. Right this, this whole concept and this whole
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life of complaining about being about yourself. Pride is a dangerous thing, man.
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Simple pride brings only negative results. Last time I checked. I don't
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think anybody wants to have that negative vibe in their lives continuously over and over
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again. Man, It's it's not a good look. It's not a good
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thing, man. So let's get into it. Let's pray. Father,
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I thank you Lord God for today, and thank you Lord God for keeping
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me humble and for humbling my brothers and sisters in Christ. As well.
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I pray that we will remain humble knowing that you are God and we are
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not, knowing that with you we could do all things, but without you
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we could do nothing. I pray Lo God a hedge of protection of our
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minds, of our bodies, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Thank you,
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Lo God for the hedge of protection over our lives, our ministries, our
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families, our marriages, our relationships, our dwelling places, our workplaces.
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Everywhere where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. Thank you so
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much, Lord God for being mindful of us, for protecting us, guiding
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us, and guarding us. I pray Love God, that you would continue
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to do the very best in us, the very best work, and we
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would be willing to have your work be done to us so that we could
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work, You could work through us. Thank you, Lo God for preparing
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the wait where there seems to be no way. Thank you Lo God for
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providing when we are in need. And thank you Lo God for humbling us
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if our soul or our mentality tries to go to the pride. Thank you
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Lo God that you will help us through this. I pray Lo God that
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you would continue to teach by way of your Holy Spirit, show us in
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your word what you want us to learn today. And Jesus name, my
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praise is by faith. And all those who agree we say amen and amen,
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and we move forward. Let's take a minute, man to shut us
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out, help me shut us out. If you know people right now that
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are not on social media platforms like that, it's okay. Send them the
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link. Lie that someone is with a Zeta Orgy or so winners with a
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Zetra Orgy so they could see everything that's happening on the so Win's ink and
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Celebritial network. I'll be right back and man, they men, we're back.
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Man, sixty seconds to share out to man, I got a lot
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of groups. If you know of a platform or an app that helps you
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share this out one button, man, that would be great. Let me
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let a brother know. And man, I've been looking around. I haven't
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seen nothing yet. Maybe the app developer out there right now that's listening,
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we'll be like, oh, I could do that. Man, I'll be
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the first one online to download that app. So let's go for it.
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I'm finding a code so as you can see, I'm struggling with my voice,
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but we're gonna keep on moving forward, So let's go for Let's see
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what the word a guy has for us today. I'm gonna put it on
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the screen for those who are watching, for those who are listening, No
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worries, no, don't worry on the screen, so that when you don't
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miss any detail or any point that I'm trying to make, and most importantly,
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you won't miss the word of God that we're gonna read right now.
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Now, Amen, let's go for it and put it on the screen.
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There you go, pride eyes in the middle of that word. So that
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should be an indicator of what we should be careful. If you live on
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yourself, about yourself, and be about yourself only, then you're not letting
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nobody else into your life, and you're all about yourself. And it's hard
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for you to love others when you only love yourself. Right Proverbs thirteen ten,
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the Bible says, through pride and presumption come nothing but strife, but
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skillful and godly wisdom is with those who welcome well advised counsel. Read that
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again, because this is good. Proverbs thirteen cent Through pride and presumption come
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nothing but strife, but skillful and Godly wisdom is with those who welcome well
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advised. It's to counsel man, listen. If we could get this today,
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right now and apply this, that pride issue will be out the window
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and God will could be continuously working on us on our lives through his word,
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through his people. Amen. If we are around people who are wise
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and around people who love God, Amen, we won't fail. We'll have
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an upper hand or inside hand, or we'll just be benefiting off and reaping
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off the fact that we're surrounding ourselves with wise counsel, with people who know
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the word, love the word, apply the word, and are about that
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life. If you're on the other team, that means that you don't believe
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in Christ, you don't believe in God, and you're in the world and
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you're selfish and you're arrogant and you're prideful, you're not gonna notice. No
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one's going to tell you. And if people are telling you you're good,
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you know so much about yourself and prideful that you're not gonna want to hear
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it. I was there before I know what I'm talking about. People used
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to tell me something, what are you doing? I was like, what
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do you mean, oh man, listen, you did this, You did
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dad, your wife left you, all this before Christ and I'm looking suit
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at them. It said, I'm okay, I'm all right, because I
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was so full of pride and I wasn't allowing White's counsel. And I was
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telling people that I was okay, even though I was dying inside, even
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though I was hours frustrated, I was angry, ours just dying literally,
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but I didn't want to hear it, because when you're full of pride's all
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about you. It's all about me, right. But when you allow God
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to work through his work, through his life, through what he did with
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his life through Jesus, Amen, and you apply that knowledge, understanding and
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wisdom, and you allow others into your life and they giving you a wise
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counsel, You're not going to live in that strifeful life. You're going to
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live humble, quiet lives. And I don't mean not talking, I mean
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quite not responding the way you used to respond when situations will arise. So
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some power that we have it's called meekness, and meekness people think that means
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weakness. That's why a lot of people going around thinking that Christians are weak
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and we're soft. Being christ follow us far from being soft and far from
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being weak. We have power under control, Holy Spirit, power under control,
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and we are actually if we were, if we were in rogue,
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we could become dangerous. That's why I see a lot of preachers out there,
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and a lot of evangelists, a lot of people who are yielding the
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word of God for their own benefit. They're very dangerous people. They're deceiving
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people, having them believe it's all about the preacher, all about them,
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all about their ministry, all about their church. Because they're using something so
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powerful to manipulate minds and manipulate people. But they're gonna have to answer to
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God for that, right, and that's for another topic another day. But
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they gonna have to answer to God for them. But it's dangerous. So
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we are literally the most dangerous people in the world when we go rogue.
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Right, And that's why I think the only reason why a lot of followers
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and believers go rogue is because they fill themselves up with pride. And pride
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never leads to nothing good, hey man, at least it's something that's going
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to tear us down, not build this up. Humility is pleasing to God,
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but he hates sinful pride Proverbs eight thirteen. He is another one.
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To fear the Lord is to hate evil. To fear the Lord, to
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reverence and respect him, love them, put them first is to hate evil.
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Why because God is good, He's not evil. Right. I hate
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pride and arrogance, evil behavior, and perverse speech. We have to learn
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to hate what God hates, and people are like what God hates. Yeah,
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God hates Sind hates perverse speech. God hates pride, God hates arrogance,
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God hates evil behavior. God hurts perverse speech. So if we don't
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know these things, then we're not gonna know how to guard our own hearts
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and minds through Christ, who gives us the strength to get what he wants
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us to do. Done, See how point it is, and just dive
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into the Word of God for yourself. So that way, you know,
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you get this arm of God on right, you got this weapon of love,
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you got proof, and you got the Word that's alive and active daily
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in your life. Not just something that happened thousands of years ago, that
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was written thousands of years ago, and it's irrelevant. No, the Word
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of God is relevant every single day. Every single time I pick up this
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word, I'm like, yeah, that's for me, and I'm grabbing that.
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I'm gonna apply it right. Without the word man, I'm gonna go
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rogue. I'm gonna go buck wild. Without God humbling me, Without his
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spirit, I'm nothing, hey man. But with him can do all things.
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By the power of Christ. James shot the four verse six. But
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he gives us more grace, more grace. That is why Scripture says God
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opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Pride that's gonna lead
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you to the fall. God resists the people who are prideful. I don't
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want to be resisted by God. I want I want to submit to God,
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resist the devil and watch his people fleet and his angels and his power
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that he's trying to, you know, devise plans over my life. I
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want that to go away. There's people inviting the enemy into their situations,
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that're praying to him that asking for his power and this, that and the
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third Why Because they're deceived already and they're so arrogant to feel full of pride
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and think it's about what they need and what they want and what they are
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entitled to. And God is saying, well, I'm not in that.
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I resist the proud. The Bible says God opposes the proud. He opposes
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the proud. Hey man, And if God is against you, and if
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you're a prideful person, you ain't winning that battle. Man. As a
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matter of fact, God loves you so much that he'll let you go about
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your way without him, you know, giving you the SmackDown, because who
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could challenge God? Who could have really verse God? I know a lot
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of people, you know that they have a small understanding of who God is.
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They think it's God verse the devil. It's not the God versus devil.
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The devil's defeated already since the jowayne good morning, God, bless you.
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Welcome back to the morning devo. So God opposes the proud James four
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six, but gives grace to the humble. Now, when you get this
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grace from God, it's over the top grace, like man, if it
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wasn't for God. Right, you start thinking about all the things that God
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has done in your life. But that's the grace of God. I start
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thinking about before I started serving the Lord, even before I acknowledged him as
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my Lord as my savior, even before I served him and believed in him.
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He showed me grace. You know, it's crazy. Even the devil
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is experienced the grace, is experiencing the grace of God, right, Isn't
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that crazy? God could have annihilated him when he was in heaven and he
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became prowderful and envious of God. Instead of that, he showed grace,
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kicked him out of heaven and let him come down to this place that we
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call earth and let him run it for a little run the world's system for
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a little bit. But he's defeated. The enemy's defeated already. But that's
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the act of grace. He could annihilated all the third of the angels that
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came out of heaven, the devil, he could have just eradicated all that.
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But because he's a God of grace, right, he showed the devil
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who's on top, right, and he showed him grace. And that grace
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I think is really bothering the devil. I said, man, why didn't
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he just get me in? Now I'm gonna wreak havoc and all that devil's
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on a leash. You can only go as far as the Lord allows him
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to go right. So think about it. We're not prideful. If you're
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prideful, Amen, I pray that you would put the pride down, humble
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yourself and let God work in your life and through your life, and submit
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to God is just the devil and the devil of fleet. That's my prayer
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for all those people who are full of love of pride, or they're living
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the mantra of pride, or they are so arrogant that you can't even read
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the scripture to them, put that down. God is opposing you, not
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me. People think that Christians are going around opposing everything that is not biblical
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or anything that is simple, not understanding that it's God that's opposing the proud,
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not us. We're just following suit. We're just following the leader,
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Amen, And we're humble. So if we're humble, Amen, you'in't gonna
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hear the arrogance coming out of our mouths. Although the Gospel message is gibberish
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to those who are perishing, the Bible says those who reject the gospel message,
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this is hate speech. I don't know why we were surprised. Well,
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the day is coming on where they're gonna be calling us haters, and
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they're gonna say what's good is evil and what's evil is good. Those times
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are here. A man, it's just gonna get worse and worse and worse.
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But if you're prideful, it's gonna be worse for you. If you're
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humble, Amen, And God gets grace to the humble. Simple pride brings
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only negative results Proverbs sixteen eighteen. I know I'm hitting you with a lot
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of verses. Usually not want and do that, Amen, Or usually I
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just hit you with the one verse. But this is important for us to
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just know that there's several verses that we can meditate on, but our main
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versus Proverbs thirteen ten. Pride only breeds quarrels. Wisdom is found and those
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who take advice. Arbar sixteen eighteen says pride goes before destruction, So you'll
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see pride moving towards destruction. Humble people, we don't go towards destruction.
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We go towards life. Right. The only people who are being led to
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destruction are people being deceived and people who are just arrogant, and people who
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think it's all about them. And you can't even talk to them. They're
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unapproachable. But those people are living in pride, and simple pride brings only
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negative results. Robert sixteen eighteen. Prize goes before destruction. A haughty spirit
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before a fall hearty spirit is like a spirit that is arrogant. Right,
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I'm better than you type of spirit. I don't need God type of spirit.
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There's people out there like that, man, And I sit back when
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I meet these people and I'm quiet. Man, I'm like, man,
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it has to be a reason why they got to this place. Man,
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it's not. I don't think people just are born and wake up one day
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and be like, I'm gonna hate God, I'm gonna hate everybody. I'm
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gonna be arrogant, I'm gonna be pride for it's gonna be all by myself.
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Even though I see little kids when they're playing with toys, they always
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fight for the toy, the one toy that no one is playing with.
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As soon as a kid grabs them one toy, Now all the kids want
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that toy. And what are they arguing? What are they saying to each
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other? They saying that's mine. I know in us as humans, we
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have that already triggered in us already. It's in us. This thing about
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that's mine. I deserve that, I want that, I need that.
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I know we have that. But that's why God offers us a regenerated life.
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He offers us a rebirth. Amen. And we are born again,
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and then we become God calls us to be. We become humble, quiet.
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Right. We live quiet lives. Not that we don't speak, as
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we do speak, and we do have a voice. As a matter of
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fact, the words we speak out of our mouths that are from the scriptures,
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Amen, activate our faith right, break down strongholds. Our prayers are
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being heard by God, and when he responds, Amen, things are going
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to happen. So I'm not saying be quiet, like, don't say nothing.
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I'm just saying a quiet life. You know what I'm talking about.
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Like what we used to do before when we were presented with situations. We
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don't do it that way tomorrow. We do it according to the wisdom and
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the love and the grace of God and his word. Isaiah chapter two,
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verse eleven. The eyes of the arrogant man will be humbled, and the
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pride of men brought low. The Lord alone will be exalted in that day
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Amen, there's no there's no you verse God. Now, Like, I
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literally knew a guy he got saved, and he was so full of zeal,
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right, and everybody's like trying to help him out. He was like,
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you know, God needed me in his kingdom. He literally said that,
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he believed that. He said God needed to save me for this world.
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And of course he was young in the faith, so we kind of
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like used to listen to him and be like, okay, and then unfortunately
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and hopefully he's back. But unfortunately he became prideful in his salvation because he
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thought the salvation was benefiting the kingdom of God, that God needed him,
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and he became prideful even in that way of thinking. And then that pride
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led him to fall and deceiving spirits got into him or around him, and
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now he's living an alternate life. But that's what happens when pride comes.
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Pride leads to destruction, humility leads to life. God opposes the proud,
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but he is drawn to the humble. Amen. So we could choose.
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We know the truth now, right, we could choose. We could choose
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between being prideful and being humble. Listen, being humble. It wasn't easy
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for me, amen, because I was so full of pride and arrogance.
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It was all about me. But that when God, God took hold of
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my life, it took a whole of my heart and transformed my mind and
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transform my heart. It was getting easier and easier, and I started understanding
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way a harsh word against a harsh word only going to lead to more harsh
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words. But a harsh word versus a word of encouragement, the enemy can't
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get grab that, and we become who God wants us to be, and
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we become more humble and humble every day. What's up, brother ed Anthony
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to rodo God bless you, my brother. Welcome back to the morning.
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Devo. Listen, I'm out of time. I just noticed the timer.
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I'm over time here. I knew that was gonna happen because it's a big
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topic. But Amen, the scripture we had today was Proverbs, or was
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it the main one? Proverbs thirteen, verse ten. So take Proverbs thirteen,
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read that whole chapter for yourself. Simple pride brings only negative results.
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Who wants to live a negative life? I don't. I don't think you
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don't either. So look in the mirror and see if you are living a
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pride for life or a humble life. A man pride and humility, pride
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and humility. There's a choice we have to make. Either relive pride for
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life or you live a humble life. I pray that you would choose to
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be humble and be quiet, but speak Amen, speaking in love. God
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bless you all. Gotta keep you all, or remember always that God is
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good. Please