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Speaker 1: abide in Christ.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to this Abide meditation. My name is Jonathan. Does

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Speaker 2: your pride hinder your trust in God? Maybe that question

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Speaker 2: has never occurred to you. Take a deep breath and

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Speaker 2: slowly release it as you think about that question. Keep

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Speaker 2: breathing deeply, letting your neck and shoulders relax. Feel your

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Speaker 2: heart rate begin to grow slow and steady. Listen to

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Speaker 2: what God might be saying to you in your heart.

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Speaker 2: In the Book of Daniel King nebeca nezar was disciplined

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Speaker 2: by the Lord because he believed that everything he had

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Speaker 2: accomplished was due to his own great power and majesty.

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Speaker 2: Because of his pride, God caused him to become like

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Speaker 2: one of the beasts, eating grass in the field like

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Speaker 2: an ox. That certainly worked, because in Daniel four, verse

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Speaker 2: thirty seven, the king says, now I nebucon Nezzar, praise

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Speaker 2: and exalt and glorify the King of Heaven, because everything

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Speaker 2: he does is right, and all his ways are just,

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Speaker 2: and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

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Speaker 2: Take a moment and reflect on this verse. Do you

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Speaker 2: recognize the power of God's help and healing in your life?

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Speaker 2: Do you let pride cloud your faith? Humble yourself before

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Speaker 2: God and let him lift you up. The proverbs are

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Speaker 2: full of warnings against pride, but Nebeknezer wouldn't have paid

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Speaker 2: any attention to Solomon's ancient writings. Yet we have them

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Speaker 2: readily available to us, especially this one. Pride goes before destruction,

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Speaker 2: a haughty spirit before a fall. Father, God, rescue me

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Speaker 2: from my pride. I might not think I have an

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Speaker 2: issue with it, but anytime I give myself credit for

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Speaker 2: something and forget about you, I'm falling short of your glory.

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Speaker 2: In you, I live and move and have my being

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Speaker 2: as Acts seventeen twenty eight says, So I know that

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Speaker 2: while you gave me all my gifts and abilities, only

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Speaker 2: in you are they made complete and only for your glory?

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Speaker 2: Should I be using them not my own? May it

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Speaker 2: be so, Lord, Amen. As we talk about pride today,

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Speaker 2: take a position of humility. If you're able, perhaps lying

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Speaker 2: face down on the ground or just kneeling before God.

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Speaker 2: But even if you can't, humble your heart as you

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Speaker 2: breathe deeply. Where God has revealed pride in your heart,

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Speaker 2: confess that to him. Now ask him to teach you

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Speaker 2: to recognize when pride is getting in the way of

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Speaker 2: your faith, and to trust Him and his sovereign control.

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Speaker 2: Having a right view of yourself is an important characteristic

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Speaker 2: for your spiritual growth. As both Peter and James quote

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Speaker 2: from Proverbs thirty four, God resists the proud, but gives

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Speaker 2: grace to the humble. Lord, you are worthy of all

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Speaker 2: our praise. I don't want to just brush off people's

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Speaker 2: compliments like they don't matter. But I don't want to

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Speaker 2: take full credit for myself either. Help me to see

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Speaker 2: how thinking I'm all that can hinder my faith in

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Speaker 2: You to accomplish through me all that you want to do.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get in the way of your

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Speaker 2: purpose and your plan for my life. When everything's stripped away,

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Speaker 2: you remain. I am grateful in Jesus' name, I pray Amen.

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Speaker 2: Doing frequent heart checks will help you keep a rain

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Speaker 2: on your pride. Ask yourself, am I doing this for

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Speaker 2: my own acclaim or God's? In whom do I trust?

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Speaker 2: Until next time? May you abide in Christ