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Humility is the hardest virtue to come by, the hardest one to maintain, and it can only be

maintained and had by special regular prayer.

I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Welcome everyone to enjoying everyday life.

For the next two days, Joyce is going to teach on a topic that can elicit some groans. But if we want to mature spiritually, we really need this. The Bible says that God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Pride harms our walk with Christ. When our heart is

prideful, and let's be honest, all of us have this inside of us, then we just don't give God the

credit that we need to. We mistreat people, perhaps looking down on them, thinking that we're better

than they are. And it can also be

much more subtle, impacting areas in our life quietly and squelching our growth. We need to take this

issue of pride seriously. And I know that it is one that God is constantly working on in me.

So as you watch these next two days, take some notes, do some self-examination, and let God work in your life.

I think that sometimes we don't think enough about how important it is to be humble and to not let ourselves get into pride.

And I think there's a lot of ways that we can be proud and not even realize that we're being proud.

But I want to start off by telling you, and I'll read you a few scriptures,

the Bible says that God hates pride. He doesn't just dislike it. He hates it. It's impossible to have an

argument without pride. You can't. There has to be pride if you're going to have an argument all judgment

is pride all gossip is pride all jealousy is pride pride pride was the sin that caused lucifer to become satan and he works overtime

trying to get us into pride and the thing that's interesting is God wants us to be so blessed.

But a lot of times he can't bless people because they don't know how to handle it.

You know, it's interesting how humble you can be when you don't have anything.

But how important you can begin to think you are, the more you have.

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