Comments on: Signs of pride and humility http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/ Part of this complete breakfast. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:36:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Spencer Ephraims http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2695 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:27:44 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2695 Most often i don’t even realize when i act in pride. It’s now getting to my nerves. I don’t like it.
Thank you for providing this useful admonition.
More grace for your good job.

]]> By: Bishop Sharon Mc Clain, PhD http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2508 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:38:27 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2508 Brother Dave:
I thoroughly enjoyed your post. I am using it for a segment of our church service on this National Day of Prayer 1/30/2011. If you are ever in the Philadelphia, Pa. area, the doors of the church are always open to you Christ Missionary Crusade Fellowship Church, 3901 Market Street, University Square Apartments – Chapel. Bishop Edgar Shaw is Overseer.

]]> By: Tina http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2079 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:07:29 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2079 I just read your post and thanks for your reply… The next day I actually attempted to talk to my father civilly and it diditn go horrible wrong and , I felt like my heart was more open to him. I have been praying for that my heart woudl be open to my father again ( that took me a couple of days to get to that point though.). So thanks for your sincere prayer bro, cause I believe God answered it :-) Thank God for intercessory prayer!!!

]]> By: Dave http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2075 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:26:51 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2075 Hi Tina, thanks for sharing your story. I’m sorry to hear it…what happened to you is awful. I found myself praising God to see you forgive the man who raped you.

Since I don’t know you and I don’t know much of your life story, I really can’t say much. That is something that your pastor is better equipped to do. But it is clear that you are angry at your father. You may not be at the point where you can trust him (and he simply may not be trustworthy), but it is important to show mercy toward him. God has shown mercy to you and me even though we haven’t done a single thing to deserve it. (Matthew 18:21–35)

I’m praying as I type this that God will help you see more clearly how merciful he has been to you in sending Jesus Christ. He endured the most shameful, humiliating treatment anyone has ever experienced, and he was betrayed, rejected, and abandoned by all of his friends. He did it for you. He knows what you’ve gone through. May the Holy Spirit strengthen you to love your father the way God has loved you.

]]> By: Tina http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2074 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:04:46 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-2074 Hey !
So pride, my Pastor says its like bad breath; everyone knows you have it except you. I knwo I can be prideful and unreceptive at times and I constantlt pray that I dont get spiritually prideful. I talk to God everyday and I fast ona regular basis. I have a good solid relationship with God.

My father on the otther hand is in rehab center in another state for cocaine. Im not talking to him on a regular basis because he lies.

Well long story short I was raped at gunpoint a little over a year ago and Im still healing from it. My mom was going out of town and I just cried before she left because I didnt want to be alone, I get scared sometimes, not all the time but once in awhile( what happened to me was very random). It was in the newspaper google: rape deacon chesterfield.

Anways soem how my freak out got to my father and he just started texting me out of the blue “to talk”. I didnt want to talk to him but he just kept texting in calling. finally he sent a little prayer , like the ones they give you in rehab to say . It made me so made. I dint want to hear any of his crap or have some crack head dead beat father of mine tell me I shoudl pray like Im not doing that already. He recently got saved( legitmately) and it is wise advice to tell some one to pray when they have an issue. generic but sound.

However when my father tells me or ask me ..”did you pray about it ” “well pray about it ” or sends me a prayer through text message .. it makes my blood boil. I get so angry I cry.

Am I being prideful about accepting advice from him.

Id ask my Pastor but Ihave already bomboarded him with a long email of questions on a different subject.

]]> By: Princess Michiru http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1943 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:59:03 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1943 Thank you very much, Dave.

I have joined a church that accepts me, and that is really helping me to sort myself out.

The LORD reigns over this new Church, and it is like the balm of Gilead in a dry desert.

]]> By: Dave http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1940 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:27:13 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1940 Hi Michiru, I’m sorry to hear about your experiences with this cult. Believe me, if they were really Bible-based, it wouldn’t have been a wilderness you were stumbling in (Psalm 1).

A blog isn’t really the best place to work through these things, but I’d point you to a few passages in God’s Word to think through: Psalm 118:5–9; Jeremiah 17:5–8; 2 Corinthians 12:9. As you’re reading them, ask who deserves our confidence—God, or people (including yourself)? Whose opinion of you really matters—God’s opinion, or other people’s? Should your goal be to build confidence in God, or confidence in yourself?

I hope this helps you. I’m praying that the Lord would encourage you and restore your trust in him!

]]> By: Princess Michiru http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1939 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:41:48 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1939 I have come back to the Lord, after 4 years of stumbling in the wilderness.
I was just curious about a question regarding pride.

Is it a sign of pride to call yourself by the title of ‘Princess’ ?

I only did it to give my self-confidence a boost, after having it shot to pieces by a Bible-based cult.

What areyour thoughts on this, Dave?

Kind Regards,
Princess Michiru

]]> By: kurt http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1696 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:58:24 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1696 My pride study and as well as my desire to be humble has led me here. I constantly want to teach people or let people know something I just learned even before I have full knowledge. At first it may seem like a caring attitude. But I have come to believe its my pride wanting me to say “look everyone look what I know” It seems selfish at first to keep knowledge from someone but unless The Spirit has turned that knowledge to wisdom, I have no business boasting of that which I know. ‘even a fool seems perceptive when he holds his tongue’ A WISE MAN LISTENS, A FOOL IS CAUGHT IN HIS FOLLY. BLESSINGS TO ALL, THANK YOU

]]> By: hiddentreasures http://banannery.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1627 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:22:33 +0000 http://banannery.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/signs-of-pride-and-humility/#comment-1627 Thanks, Dave, for that study of Zephaniah, an often overlooked Minor Prophet. Your outline has given me a feramework on which to hang a further study of that book.
May God bless you and use you mightily for His glory.
A brother in Christ,
Mal Bicker

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