Deliverance From Self-Centeredness

Changing Your World Podcast with Creflo Dollar

World Changers Church International

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We have all felt the temptation at one time or another to think of ourselves as the center of our own little universe. This is because we live in a culture that encourages a self-centered mindset. Contrary to popular opinion, however, this kind of thinking is not something we should fall into. Self-centeredness and pride fool us into thinking that we, and our own needs, matter more than everyone else and their needs; the result is that we hurt others. To be self-centered is to be constantly focused on our own perceived importance and what others think; this comes out either through arrogance or shyness. Instead of being proud and self-centered, we should instead embrace a humble mindset, using Jesus Christ as our example. Genuine humility is agreeing with the truth, regardless of others’ opinion; God can only use us when we reach this point.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Creflo Dollar, and this is the Creflo Dollar Ministries podcast.
0:05.0	I want to thank you for joining us today, and I sincerely hope this word encourages you,
0:10.7	builds your faith, and above all else helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.
0:17.6	Enjoy the message.
0:18.8	If you have your Bibles this morning, go with me to the book of,
0:24.4	I want to start off here in 1 Corinthians, chapter 13, verses 4 through 5.
0:30.0	And I want to talk about something, because there are questions going around right now about
0:34.1	why are people doing what they do, or why are people not doing what they should be doing?
0:41.1	And there's an issue that we want to bring out. I've shared this before, but it seems very
0:47.5	timely to share it now. The issue of self-centeredness, the issue of being self-centered, and what
0:56.2	that causes, and what happens when you begin to really take hold of self-centeredness because
1:05.0	it seems like everybody in our country is really taking hold of that quality, which is something
1:11.2	that we should not want to have. So we're going to talk about self-centeredness,
1:16.8	and I'm going to show you how self-centeredness is the key to grief, the key to grief, a sense of
1:25.6	loss, a pain, hurt, and a sense of loss that occurs as a result of, excuse me, self-centeredness
1:34.1	being evolved in our life. Now, every one thinks that a teaching about self-centeredness
1:46.1	doesn't apply to them, that it always applies to somebody else and not to them.
1:52.8	And so you have a self, I have a self, everybody has a self, and you have a self and self is
2:03.7	something you have to deal with. Self is something that you're going to be dealing with for the rest
2:11.7	of your life, the only way that you stop dealing with self is you die. So that's something that we
2:18.7	all have in common, everybody has a self, but our culture has become self-centered, and self-centeredness,
2:30.0	and what I mean by self-centeredness, I want you to imagine a circle, and you're the only one
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