Tag: What the Bible says about pride

Bible Verse of The Day – 1-16-18

Luke 1:37 (NKJV) 37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”

When we finally realize that the “WITH” in this scripture is KEY, we will put the brakes on when it comes to trying to do things by ourselves.

We will find a rest within ourselves and stop trying to do it all. And no, it doesn’t make us weak to do this. Instead, it makes us stronger than ever. And the things we do will have a great turn out!

We need God in all that we do. And what we do, we need to do with Him, not FOR Him.

Sometimes we may hear statements like, “Oh, I did this for God today”, or things like “We are doing all this for God”.

When we think we are doing things for God, we need to watch out. It can cause problems if we’re not careful.

Pride can set in, and it can make us think that we are better than others. Honestly, it can cause people to want to run the other way. They don’t even want to be around us because they see and hear it in us.

When we do things for Him on our own, it is being done in and through the natural man, and with natural intellect. The natural man cannot handle spiritual things on his own. Without the leading and help of the Holy Spirit he will make a mess of things in a hurry.

If we want to see God move in any situation, do what He asks, but do it with Him. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-8-18

Matthew 18:4 (NKJV) 4 Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

One of the hardest things to do in life is to remain humble. It’s a constant battle to keep pride from growing in us.

Pride is the very thing that will cause us to fall and keep us from being great in the kingdom of heaven.

Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) 18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride is the opposite of being humble, and when we’re prideful it shows. We don’t have to dig too deep to find it. It is usually seen right on the surface of man.

A prideful person usually exposes themselves quickly through their actions and their words. They tend to be rude, arrogant and full of themselves. If a humble person listens to the talk of a haughty person they will quickly find themselves getting irritated.

A prideful person will not listen or let anyone else have the floor to speak. They will not follow anyone or their instructions. They want nothing else, but to LEAD. Prideful people like to have complete control over every situation.

How do we remain humble as the child that Jesus referred to, and become great in God’s kingdom?

We stop doing whatever we feel like doing and we listen to God’s instruction. We follow His statutes and His plan for our life.

Jesus hits pride hard in this one little verse.

Matthew 16:24(NKJV) 24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

It’s the denying of ourselves and the following of His lead that destroys the pride that tries to take root in all of us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-9-17

Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) 18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. 

Pride is destructive, no matter how we look at it. 

Some people are just prideful. They know it and it doesn’t bother them. They parade it and wear it like a badge of honor. 

Sometimes, though, we can be prideful and not even realize it. We can move and do things in proud ways and never even give it a thought. It might have crept in slowly and quietly. Many times, this can be related to something we do that we have become very good at. 

Sports, studies, a trade, a hobby, our career, or even our ministry. These are all areas where pride will sneak in and live undetected for years and years. 

Many times, this pride will show up in ways that will give it away, like maybe in fancy titles. Many of these titles take time and effort to acquire, so the people who attain these levels of education or achievement display those titles as a way of showing people their accomplishments. 

But even if we have worked hard to accomplish certain things, pride is still pride, no matter how we try to dress it up. 

This isn’t to say that all titles are wrong. Not at all. But when titles become so important to us that we have trouble writing our name without the title attached, or when we feel like people owe it to us to address us using our title, we probably have a little problem brewing. 

Just as in the world, the body of Christ is also wrestling with this. Titles have taken on new importance during the last few decades. People have taken to adding titles before or after their names to deem themselves more important or distinguished, or with the hopes it will garner them some attention and help propel them to higher levels of notoriety. 

But with God, titles carry no weight. He looks at the heart of man, not at the title or the stature of the person. 

1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV) 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 

So, let’s check ourselves and ask God to show us where pride may have crept in and taken hold of us, even in some small way. 

And then let’s ask Him to root it out of us and give us a clean heart. 

Psalm 51:10 (NKJV) 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808 

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Bible Verse of The Day – 10-13-17

Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) 18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. 

Pride will be the downfall of even the most well-intentioned people, including God’s people. 

Sadly, many church leaders become victims of pride. God wants to use some of these men and women to do mighty works. But as they begin to see God’s hand moving in their lives, pride sets in and they end up straying from the path that God had set before them. 

It’s important that we remember that pride was what caused Lucifer, one of God’s highest angels, to fall and be cast from heaven. 

So, if it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. 

We need to be very careful, whether we are laypeople or leaders, not to let pride set in. We need to guard ourselves from pride and arrogance if we want to stay within God’s plan for us and continue to be used by Him. 

How do we tell if we have become prideful? 

Do we love it when people tell us how much they see God using us? 

Do we gloat about the things God is doing through us? 

Do we look down on others in the body of Christ because we feel we are better than them, or more gifted than them? 

Do we get hung up on titles that make us sound distinguished? 

This is just a short list of things we can use to check ourselves. It’s critical that we’re 100% honest about all of them. And we need to let God show us where we’re at with this. 

We encourage everyone to let God give us all a heart examination. Let Him shine His bright, holy light into our hearts and lives and show us where pride may have crept in. And then let Him root it out once and for all. 

We can’t let pride destroy us. 

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie 

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808 

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 8-12-16

Proverbs 11:2 (NKJV) 2 When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the humble is wisdom.

No matter where we are at in life, it’s always important that we remain humble and teachable.

We can be the CEO of a major company or we can be jobless and without a place to live. No matter what our position or situation in life, humility is a critical attribute that we always need to pursue.

Sometimes we can get ourselves into some pretty deep trouble when we get prideful. We may not even know we’ve become proud or haughty, but God will always be willing to give us an attitude adjustment when we need it!

And let’s just say that it’s much better for us if we recognize our pridefulness and make the adjustments ourselves than for God to have to do it for us.

And pride can creep into our lives in such subtle ways that we might never believe it if someone told us that we’re proud.

So let’s do some inventory of our life today. Have we become prideful or boastful about anything lately?

Are we holding our heads high because of some of our accomplishments or because of our financial status?

There can be many, many things that we get prideful about. But none of them is worth us getting into hot water with God and causing Him to have to rebuke us and correct us.

Let’s check ourselves and root out that terrible thing called pride, before it causes us to fall.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 9-14-15

Isaiah 14:14 (NKJV) 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’

What would cause someone to ever dream of saying something like this? How could anyone ever want to or think that they could ascend above God and make themselves like Him?

One word; pride.

Pride is one of the most destructive things that we can deal with as human beings.

Most sin is the result of pride. We don’t want to humble ourselves under the hand of God or submit to people in leadership over us. So we do whatever we feel like doing.

Pride will cause us to make some crazy decisions and it will never, ever lead us to anything good.

Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) 18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Lucifer was at the throne of God, serving Him as a head angel. Yet, in his pride, he thought he could rise above God and be like Him. He even managed to convince a third of the angels that he could do this.

The end result wasn’t good.

Pride can be very subtle and sneaky. It won’t always rear its ugly head in obvious ways, like it did with lucifer. Most times it’s so sneaky that we don’t see it creeping in until it’s done serious damage.

But it’s never too late to change. It’s never too late to repent, humble ourselves and ask God to help us to get back on the right track. And it’s never too late to make things right and learn from our experiences.

Today, let’s ask God to show us where we might have become prideful. Even in the littlest of ways. Let’s repent and let Him help us to get rid of that haughty attitude and proud spirit, before it does more damage in our lives and the lives of those around us.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 5-7-15

Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) 18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride is a terrible thing and sometimes we can be blinded and not realize we’re walking in it.

We were invited out to dinner after a church service one day. We decided we were going to pay for everyone’s dinner. After dinner was over we went up to the cashier and took care of the bill without anyone else knowing what we had done.

We didn’t think anything of it at first. But later, after the bill never came to the table and everyone was wondering why, we noticed that the Pastor who had invited us to dinner had a disappointed look on his face, only to find out that he had wanted to be the one to pay for our dinner. Because of our pride, we ruined something good that he wanted to do for us.

On the ride home afterward, the Holy Spirit spoke one word to us; pretentious.

We’d heard the word before but never paid much attention to what it meant. So the moment we got home, we looked it up, just to be sure.

Pretentious: having or showing the unpleasant quality of people who want to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or important than they really are.

Ouch. We felt terrible. We knew it was not our place to do what we did. We gave pride a place that day.

How do we watch out for pride? We watch our actions.

It’s up to us to recognize it, and to shut it down by making a change in our actions. Or we can expect destruction to come.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 3-4-15

Micah 6:8 (NKJV) 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

In the verse above there is a lot to take in. There’s a lot of “meat” there. But, today, let’s take a look at the last part; to walk humbly with your God.

Humility and pride; two complete opposites. To be humble means to drop our pride. That’s a big deal and it can take a lot of work and effort for some of us.

Pride is a killer of so many things; relationships, opportunities, careers, friendships and many more. But most importantly, it can kill our walk with God if we’re not careful.

Proverbs 11:2 (NKJV) 2 When pride comes, then comes shame; but with the humble is wisdom.

God wants us to walk before Him humbly. If we are to ever build a relationship with Him, we need to let Him show us where we’re carrying pride and then let Him help us to lay that pride down.

He will show us everything we need to know if we let Him. It might hurt a little at first. Heck, it might even hurt a lot, but our hurts will heal once we get past ourselves and let God work in us, to mold us and shape us into who He made us to be.

The less we fight Him on this, the less it will hurt. And the less we resist, the sooner we can get ourselves fixed up and moving in the direction He wants for us.

Remember; it’s better to get right with God than to always be right!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-30-15

Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV) 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride is something we all wrestle with in one way or another.

Some types of pride can be easy to spot. But other types can be more subtle and harder to pinpoint.

Either way, contrary to what the world teaches us, pride isn’t good and can destroy us if we don’t recognize it and deal with it.

This isn’t meant to beat anyone down for being prideful. Like we already mentioned, we all wrestle with it to some degree at some point in our lives.

But sometimes we need a gentle reminder to cause us to check ourselves and see where we’re really at.

Pride is sneaky and can creep up on us without us really seeing it for what it is until it’s too late. And sometimes we do see it, but don’t think it’s a big deal.

But it is a big deal! No matter how small it may seem, we need to see it and take care of it.

Pride really does lead to destruction. We’ve seen it and we’ve experienced it firsthand.

Sincerely, genuinely ask God to show us where pride might be rooted in us. And then ask Him to uproot it and get rid of it.

We might not like how it feels at first, but letting God take it voluntarily hurts a lot less than letting it stay and then destroying us sometime down the road.

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