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When we lift ourselves up, God is very capable of bringing us down.

He invites us to humble ourselves under his mighty hand.

But if we don't, he will do it for us.

And that is probably one of the most painful things that we can go through emotionally.

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

Tonight I'm speaking about pride and humility.

Now, Andrew Murray wrote a book simply called humility, and I recommend it.

It's a small book, but it's very, very, very powerful.

People don't really understand how dangerous pride is and how powerful humility is.

Now I'm going to say it again.

We don't really fully realize how dangerous a haughty spirit is and how powerful humility is.

Now, here's just a couple of things he said.

Pride, well, first, there is nothing so dangerous as pride.

It's natural to us.

It is insidious and yet hidden from our sight.

You see, people that have a problem with pride, the last thing they're going to do is face and admit that they have a problem with pride.

That's why it's difficult to sell any kind of resources with the word pride on them

because people who need them would not want anybody to see them pick it up lest somebody think

they needed it.

Pride is behind all lack of love, all indifference to the needs of others and their feelings and their

weaknesses. It is the source of all hasty and critical judgments. All manifestations of temper,

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