Day: September 4, 2023

Pride vs Humility

” God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble”1 Pet 5:5

In Isiah 14:12-15 speaks about the fallen angel Lucifer. In verse 13; it says that I will rise my throne above the stars of God

In verse14; I will make myself like the most high. It was just a thought and the angel who was with God fell into the pit ( HELL)   

Proverbs 16:18 warns

          “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT YOUR THOUGHTS

In I Samuel we see a series of stories about David’s flight from Saul, and Saul making every effort to kill David. Inspite of David knowing that Saul is hunting for him to kill him.

David show KINDNESS to Saul; we see David’s HUMILITY before Saul in 1Sam 24: David spares Saul’s life we find David’s  HUMILITY in the following discussions.

I Sam 24: 8 David calls Saul ” My Lord the king and bowed with his face to the ground and did obeisance Verse10 we find David spares Saul’s life said “I will not raise my hand against my lord for he is the Lords anointed”

Verse 11 David again calls him ” My father” in all the above verse we see David lifts king Saul thou Saul is not good to him. But in verse 14 David calls himself a A dead dog? A single Fleo? David Humbles himself before Saul

” Humility is a choice; its not a chance” James 4:10 says

Humble yourselves before the lord, and he will lift you up. II Chronicles 7:14 says

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 hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Luke 18:9-14 speaks about the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector.it speaks about pride of Pharisee and humility of tax collector.

Story:

There was a scientist who discovered “CHLORO FORM ” his name was James Simphon, in his last talk before his death his students asked him a question, what is your greatest discovery in your life? He answered my biggest discovery in my life is that “I discovered that I’m a sinner and Christ died for this sinner.

Do you want to be great in heaven? Mathew.15 says. ” Those who humble himself is called great in heaven” John the Baptist said

” He ( Jesus) should increase

I must  decrease “ he also says

I’ m not worthy to untie his sandals . Are we like him? Many times in life we steal Gods glory and claim it as our glory .We intentionally express our Pride in words, deeds, and in our body language. All our proud acts goes unrecognised by us. We fail to realise our pride in our behavior. We are not conscious of our acts. When we are not recognizing, realizing or conscious of our pride in our daily life scenario’s. How can we repent for them, and shift to humility for this we ask the help of Holy spirit

Prayer:

Holy spirit fill me and guide me. Help me to choose to be humble, for I know you guide the humble in what is right and teach them your way , Amen .

Sol.Annapurereddy Balareddy

`Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty Zechariah 4- 1

When I was praying for Daniel academy (DA) in a meeting organized by Sis.Neha and discussing to find new writers for DA, The Lord inspired me to write this message for DA.  When the coordinators of DA reach out to soldiers to write a message for DA there are a few stumbling blocks we find from the answers given by them. I had the same within me when I was first told to write a message for DA.

1. The first common answer is I don’t have any revelations

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed. He wrote down the substance of his dream.Daniel 7:1

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris Daniel 10-4

These are the visions and revelations given to Daniel at his bed and during a work by the river and he wrote it. The same way God gives us visions and revelations to us and inspires us to write. The Lord speaks to us any time. One time when I was riding a bike to purchase some things The Lord spoke to me and revealed a lot of things. I was amazed to see God speaking to us in different times. It is not only during our bible meditation times or during our prayer The Lord speaks and not always it is related to our intellectual or how well we know the scriptures. It is by His grace He reveals us and teaches us.

• The second common answer is I don’t have time to write.

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. Ephesians :1.18

The above verse talks about the prayer from Apostle Paul for the people to understand the glorious riches and inheritance from heaven and the people to be enlightened by it. We are all in a busy world running for our daily things and writing down something requires time to allocate from our daily routine. But when God grants us a revelation or vision it enlightens and makes us thrilled. In spite of all our scheduled things we find time to write down God’s message. We will be thrilled to share these amazing revelations from The Lord to others. Some times it will be burning inside of us to share to others.

But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones.I am weary of holding it in; Jeremiah 20.9

• The third common answer is I don’t know much about the scriptures

When I started for DA I didn’t know much about the scriptures. But I started to ask God all the things I didn’t understand in the Bible and by His grace, He taught me one by one. Today a lot of teachings from the scriptures scratch only the surface of it and many take only the literal meaning of it. The surface is good but the real Gold, silver and diamond are hidden underneath and God reveals to us ordinary people rather than famous preachers and pastors. We see out of all the old testament people Daniel was the only one who saw the full image of Jesus Christ in Daniel 10-4 to 6 compared to all old testament prophets and people of God. Such a great blessing was given to Daniel. Let us get these unknown and unheard revelations and write it down for the Glory of God.

When you commit to write for DA the gift of The Holy Spirit “message of wisdom” the same gift which was given to our Lord Jesus Christ when he taught the word of God will be given to us by His Grace. Remember “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty”

Sol.Leo