Slide 1: Pride will cost you more than you think. Slide 2: Pride looks like: “I don’t need God for this.” “I already know.” “I can handle it on my own.” Slide 3: Pride slowly hardens the heart, resists correction, and pushes God’s wisdom aside. Slide 4: But choosing humility will help you listen, grow, and depend on God. Slide 5: Before pride leads to a fall, choose humility. God can do more with a surrendered heart.
1: What you sow matters 2: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, 3: and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. - 2 Corinthians 9:6 4: God honors a generous heart
Freedom isn’t rebelling against the system
We'll never truly receive if we don't open our hands to give.
You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ - Acts 20:35
Things that quietly steal humility from your life:
What Palm Sunday teaches us about pride:
Pride is your greatest enemy, humility is your greatest friend. - John Stott
I refuse to put my hope in man-made, temporary things.
Less distraction.
A prayer to overcome selfishness:
A life lived with God at the center beats a life lived with self at the center.
Don't just make Jesus a part of your life. Make Him the center of your life.
Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. - Psalm 119:36
"The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ." ~ A.W. Tozer
We aren’t containers. We’re conduits.
Don't chase money, chase righteousness. One is temporary, the other is eternal.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. - Philippians 2:3
Don’t shine so others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see Him. - CS Lewis
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - Luke 12:34
Live in a way that puts others’ needs before your own
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others. - 1 Peter 4:10
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. - Romans 12:10
