S.2 EP.12 - When I’m Feeling…Prideful

Mar 21

Unmask the deceptive nature of pride and its separation from God. Carla shares personal encounters with pride and offers tips on restoring humility. Discover the sin of pride, its comparison trap, and the call to self-denial. Overcome pride through awareness, repentance, embracing humility, and avoiding positions that foster pride. Serve and love others well by humbling oneself.

Key Takeaways:

- Carla talks about the importance of speaking about pride as it is a universal human sin.

- Pride is when we think highly of ourselves or judge ourselves to be better than other people. Pride causes us to rely on our own self-sufficiency.

- Pride ultimately causes us to elevate ourselves above God, like Satan did.

- There’s an aspect of comparison in pride. Ask yourself “Who gives you the right to judge others or yourself?”

- The call of Christ is not self-ambition, but self-denial.

- Carla shares some recent battles with pride and how she has worked to glorify God during the humility of the process.

- Your calling is to serve and love others well and you cannot if you are puffed up in pride!

How to overcome pride:

Be aware and be honest. You cannot tackle a sin in your life unless you call it out. Replace the lies of pride with truth.
Repent. Lay it before Jesus with a humble heart and seek forgiveness from others your pride may have hurt.
Take a posture of humility. Stop comparing and competing! Try to look like Jesus and celebrate others!
Avoid positions that cause pride. Be in a position of humility and servanthood.