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Revelation chapter 3, verse 17.

For you say, I am rich. I have prospered and I need nothing.

Not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

These are penetrating words from Jesus to his people specifically the church and Laoticaia who were a self-sufficient people or so they

thought they thought they had it all together. They thought they had all that they

needed. You say, I am rich. Jesus says, I have prospered. I need nothing. It's a pretty potent picture

of pride in Revelation chapter 3, verse 17, a people who think they can do it on their own, a people who think

they have all they need, a people who were prayerless, who were not pursuing God, who were

prideful before him. And it makes sense, doesn't it? Like, prayerlessness is pride. Whenever we don't pray, when we are not a prayerful people,

it is because we have become a prideful people. We are convinced that we can do things on our

own. That's why we're not praying. A praying people

know they need God's help. A praying people are pleading for God's provision. A praying people

are pleading for God's provision in our own lives and others' lives. And when we don't pray,

when we are prayer less, we are prideful.

We are basically saying with our lives, I am rich, I have prospered, I need nothing,

when the exact opposite is actually true.

Like we need Jesus.

We need his help.

We need his provision.

We need his power, his strength, his wisdom.

We need his perspective.

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