Plowing Through Pride
Breaking up our way of thinking
November 6, 2019

Empowering the believer with revelation on kingdom partnerships causing them to dominate on new levels of faith. Preparing the believer to respond to the leading of Holy Spirit in fulfilling the mission of God in the earth.

…Sow for yourselves according to righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God); reap according to mercy and loving-kindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, to inquire for and of Him, and to require His favor… —Hosea 10:12 (AMPC)

Hard Soil

When given free will, authority, and a little success it is common to

  • Our soil becomes hard when we say: I did that!
  • Not only does it happen on earth but its So common even heaven dealt with it

    When the seventy-two disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him, “Lord, even the demons obey us when we use your name!” “Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning! —Luke 10:17-18 (NLT)

    When we walk with someone for a long time, we begin to the value they bring to our life

  • Whether married couples, friends, children, employees or employers. even with people who serve God, our soil becomes hard when we think: I’m used to it*

    How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground—mighty though you were against the nations of the world. For you said to yourself, “I will ascend to heaven and rule the angels. I will take the highest throne. I will preside on the Mount of Assembly far away in the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.” But instead, you will be brought down to the pit of hell, down to its lowest depths. —Isaiah 14:12-12 (TLB)

    How have I put myself ahead of God (taken the lead role) and found myself on the wrong path or even worse, in a hot mess?

    When we become common with God we for Him and everything concerning Him.

  • Our soil becomes hard when God becomes: No big deal!

    Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, followed by his disciples. On the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue. Many people were there; and when they heard him, they were all amazed. “Where did he get all this?” they asked. “What wisdom is this that has been given him? How does he perform miracles? Isn’t he the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters living here?” And so they rejected him.
    Jesus said to them, “Prophets are respected everywhere except in their own hometown and by their relatives and their family.” —Mark 6:1-4 (GNT)

    How do we break up the ways of thinking that keep us “proud and puffed up and forget[ting] Him”?

    —Deuteronomy 8:14 (VOICE)

    For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, —2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NKJV)

    1. C

  • Redefine how I fight
  • Abandon the carnal and use spiritual weapons for spiritual warfare

    2. C and

    3. C every argument, reasoning or conclusion contradictory to God’s word

    4. C , leading each thought by force into the obedience of Christ

  • The mind is the battlefield
  • Spiritual weapons are designed to capture every thought and make it obey Christ

    For though we walk in the world, we do not fight according to this world’s rules of warfare. The weapons of the war we’re fighting are not of this world but are powered by God and effective at tearing down the strongholds erected against His truth. We are demolishing arguments and ideas, every high-and-mighty philosophy that pits itself against the knowledge of the one true God. We are taking prisoners of every thought, every emotion, and subduing them into obedience to the Anointed One. —2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (VOICE)