VERDICT 2015: THE YEAR OF AMAZING GRACE
I see God releasing amazing grace this year; however, it is not for everybody, it is for the humble. I am not talking about grace that you are so familiar with--this grace is so new where your experience and walk with God is concerned. As this revelation of God's intents is so thrilling and exciting, at the same time it requires something so costly from us--and that is death to self (actually that is what humility means). This grace will enable you to be what God wants you to be, it will enable you to be your best for God, it will take over from you and you will forget the failures, disappointments, frustrations, and the struggles of the past arising from fleshly limitations. Please hear what the Holy Spirit is saying and how He wants us to walk with Him in 2015. It is a year to walk humbly with God and attract an awesome grace!
"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?" - Micah 6: 8
As a child of God, if you are proud, then you must get ready for a difficult and hard life of wars and battles with God Almighty! Pride and proud people have no place in God just as Satan has no place in God. Pride is what puts you in the same class as the devil. Pride is what makes God to put you at a very good distance from His grace and mercy and blessing. Pride is what makes God to resist you in life.
No matter how intelligent you are, beautiful you are, well placed you are, rich you are, academically qualified you are, gifted you are; unless you will learn what it means to be humble, you may live a miserable life of difficulty and hardship. All these endowments that ought to give you leverage in life will amount to nothing because of your pride that makes you to be bloated and fills you with an over inflated sense of self-importance.
For you to make most of life as a child of God, your life requires grace; and grace comes from the God of all grace through humility. For God resists the proud but He gives grace to the humble.
"Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" - 1 Peter 5: 5-6
Here are few signs of pride:
1. Rebellious attitude to God and His word. Do you always have a better idea than what the word of God says? If yes, you are proud and get ready for God's disfavor.
1. Rebellious attitude to God and His word. Do you always have a better idea than what the word of God says? If yes, you are proud and get ready for God's disfavor.
2. Does your intelligence, or any other thing you have more than others make you to look down on them and talk to them anyhow? If yes, you are proud; and unless you repent you will lose grace and fall. Pride goes before a fall.
3. Do you have a rebellious attitude to authority God set over your life (parental, civil, and spiritual)
4. Do you hate correction and rebuke? If yes, you are proud.
5. Prayerlessness is one grave sign of pride. Proud people don't pray to God; they will rather lean on their own understanding. When you bow your heart and your knees to God as a sign of total dependence and reliance on God, it is a sign of humility--demonstrating your utter helplessness if God doesn't come through for you.
"if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." - 2 Chro. 7:14
There are many more signs of pride, but I trust the Holy Spirit the Teacher to open your eyes to them all and give you the enablement to repent and adjust where necessary. O the beauty of a life ornamented and decorated by God's grace!
HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS
