1 Kings 12:1-19

There is such a thing as appropriate pride.

Appropriate pride, always esteems and promotes

, rather than esteeming or promoting to self.

Always remember

of everything you have and everything you accomplish (Acts 17:24-28; 2 Cor. 3:4-5).

God hates pride sinful pride

everything it touches.

Pride

.
A lifestyle of pride in one generation gives way to lifestyles of pride in the next generation.

Pride does not

.
Your inability to listen devalues the other and prioritizes you.

Pride considers one’s own ideas as

to others.
When you are locked into your own ideas only, you forget there are different perspectives to consider.

Pride poisons

.
More often than not, a lack of compassion is born out of the prideful belief that the other is not worthy.

Pride is obsessed with

.
Pride tries to prove you’re better, faster, stronger, smarter or tougher than the other person.

Pride

and causes

.
Pride, however, always separates, always drives a wedge, always lifts self and pushes others down.

God Says: If you exalt yourself, I will humble you; if you humble yourself, I will exalt you!