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"The pride of your heart has deceived you..." Obadiah 3 Pride. The thing that most people do not think they have, but they really do. The deceitful thing about pride is that it fools us into thinking we are okay--we have arrived--we don't need anyone's help or even God's help. But pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18). When you have pride, you decide that you don't really need to watch where you are going or what you are doing, so inevitably, you will fall. You will fall and great will be your fall because you were too prideful to admit you needed the Lord. To admit you couldn't do this on your own. I Corinthians 10:12 says, "Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall." Often, everyone else can see pride on a person but that person. We all see pride in each other but somehow miss it in our own hearts. Why? Because it is deceitful. If you knew pride was there and realized ...

Amos 7:1-3 THUS the Lord GOD showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king's mowings. And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: "O Lord GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand,For he is small!" So the LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said the LORD. In this season of revelation where God is revealing things to us through dreams and visions, we must remember that these things are not given to us to feel cool or tell your friend you had a cool dream/vision. God is giving us these dreams and visions because he is searching for a person to stand on the wall and stand in the gap-- to pray and to intercede for the situation that you have been made aware of (see Isaiah 59:16 and Ezekiel 22:30). Use the revelation as direction in your prayer life. As God reveals something, PRAY! He is looking for an intercessor. He is looking for a pra...

I have always struggled with intimidation. I was especially intimidated when leading praise and worship or speaking in front of a crowd. Recently, the Lord has shown me that the reason I would always hesitate in leading praise and worship or speaking in front of crowds when asked was because I was intimidated. Then I realized that of course the enemy wants to keep me intimidated, because then I won’t fulfill the calling that God has for my life. So many people within the church as a whole walk around intimidated. Whether it is because they are afraid of failure, afraid someone else could do it better, or afraid of being mocked, afraid of being replaced, or afraid of trying something new, so many of us are too afraid and intimidated to truly walk confidently in our calling. I came to a realization. It is NOT about me! If it was about me, I would have a reason to be intimidated. If it was about me, then there is a possibility that I can screw something up. If it was about me, then someon...