Pride Exposed

The following is truth that the Lord revealed to me concerning pride:

Pride- people have it to overcompensate.

Because they know on the inside that they have no real reason to be proud of themselves.

They are afraid. Afraid that others will see. Afraid that they are going to be found out and exposed.

They go around bragging about things they don't have. They do it to get man's glory and praise."for they loved human praise more than praise from God"  (John 12:34).

They know in their heart, however, that they are living a lie. Deceiving and being deceived by others! "while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived" (2 Timothy 3:13).

It's an illusion! A false sense of pride! And they are never going to be satisfied but just continue to be deceived by the world and be jealous! It is demonic! (James 3:15)

We must not become jealous! We must know that it is a lie!

Pride is a lie that they have told themselves so many times they are starting to believe their own lie.

Confidence is not acting like you are better than every body else and trying to make them jealous of you and want to be you. That is called idolatry.

We don't brag- bragging is only purposed for bragging about something that you have that no one else can have. But Jesus is for E V E R Y B O D Y.

So we can't brag about Him or our salvation! It is a gift from God, so that none of us can boast! (Ephesians 2:8-9) It was given to us! So how could we take credit for this?

We can have a clear conscience. We are not deceiving anyone. Even if we did have pride, it would be true. But we will not have pride. Pride in the Lord's eyes is detestable. It is for man's glory to have pride in themselves- so that they may get praise from others for the good things that they have done. But not one of us can be good without Jesus! Not one of us! In our own works we fail! We become prideful! And we miss the whole point!

It is not about having confidence in ourselves! That is deceptive and that is a lie! A FALSE sense of security it is to have confidence and pride in one's own abilities.

It is of no use! I count it all as bologna! (Philippians 3:8)

Those things count for nothing in the Lord's eyes.

It does no good but to deceive. Your own works are worth nothing to Him, your kingdom you built with millions isn't even worth as much as a penny to Him.

So many people put so much energy into boasting about something that is truly nothing!

I will not boast about my own works, I will boast about what the Lord's done for me! I can't take credit for His dying on the cross! How can we boast about something we didn't do? We can't even take credit for this! It is a gift from Him! It is nothing short of a miracle that we can believe in Him! All of our faith comes from Him! He tried to make it as easy as He can for us! But it is still impossible for us to believe on our own. So it is not our own work that we believe, but a gift from the Almighty King. He made it easy for us (His children) to believe in Him. How can we boast about this?

It is easy to believe in Jesus. He made it easy. But we can't brag about it; because it is something that everybody else can do.

Our human works and efforts are of no advantage to us!

Once He died and rose from the dead -(the impossible)- that is when He made it possible for us to believe in Him. He made it easy. How hard is it to believe that someone is the Son of God when He rose from the dead?

He died so that we may believe.

It is good to have no confidence in the flesh (in one's own righteousness). (Romans 3:10)

We cannot make ourselves righteous. We can't make ourselves right with God. That's what Jesus was for. If we were to try to make ourselves right with God, we would have to die on a cross to make it right.