Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth explains a common temptation.

We may be trying to share the glory of God.

You ever try to do that?

Maybe not intentionally.

But taking credit for something that really belongs to God.

So somebody tells you, you know, they see you in a restaurant with your kids.

And it's one of those rare times when your kids are just model kids, you know, they're perfectly behaved. And someone comes up and says, you have such great kids. I'm so impressed. Well, you know, you can handle that graciously, and I assume you would. But in your heart, do you take any credit for that? Yeah, we sure have been doing a good job with these kids.

Of course, the last three days, they've been killing each other, you know.

But are you quick to give God, glory for what he's doing in your kids' lives?

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, September 21st, 2016. Pride is utterly destructive, and it can also be

very subtle. The most respectable-looking person may be racked with it. What exactly is pride? Let's look

more closely as part of Nancy's series, The Lord's Prayer. As we've said over and over again

during the series on the Lord's Prayer, if nothing else, this prayer reminds us that our prayers

and our lives should be God-centered rather than man-centered,

God-centered rather than self-centered. And as we come to this last sentence, the epilogue,

the conclusion, the doxology, the benediction of the Lord's prayer, we see that in spades.

For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

And at any given point in our lives, we are either living that way or we're living as if those things belong to us.

Is it really yours is the kingdom or am I living as if mine is the kingdom?

The issue there is who's the master? Who gets

control? Am I trying to do this on my own? Live the Christian life. Be a mom, serve the Lord,

do the things God's called me to do. What am I depending on? Who am I depending on? What is the

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