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Pray the word with David

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Platt is a resource

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from radical.net. Second

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Samuel chapter 22, verse 28,

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you save a humble people,

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but your eyes are on

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the haughty to bring them down.

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This is one of many places

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in the Bible, where we

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see a version of this reality

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that God opposes the

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proud, but gives grace

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to the humble. God saves

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the humble and his eyes

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are on the haughty, the

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prideful, the arrogant to bring

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them down. And we see this

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so many places in scripture.

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God is clearly saying

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to us on a continual

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basis. Pray for humility.

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cultivate humility in your life.

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And humility plays out in

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so many different ways. There's

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no way that in these

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couple of minutes I could

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summarize them all. But humility

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is a posture before God

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and others that says ultimately,

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God whatever is most glorifying

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to you and good for

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others. So humility says, I

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want your glory, not my

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own. I want your ways, not my

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ways. I want your plans to

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be accomplished, not my plans. I

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want your purposes to be accomplished.

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I want people to see you.

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I want people to glorify you.

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And so, yes, that plays out

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in us giving glory. God when

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good things happen in our lives,

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but it also plays out with

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us saying, God, I trust that

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when things don't work out the

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way I would plan them, that

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you are good, and your wise,

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and your plans are not just

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higher, but better than my plans,

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and wiser than my plans, or

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my desires. You think about humility

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is what we need to fight

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against sin. Sin at the core

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is saying... My thoughts are better

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than your thoughts of God or

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my desires or my actions. What

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I want to do is better

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than what you want me to

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do. It's humility that is at

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the core of holiness and it's

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pride that's at the core of

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sinfulness. Of every sin, pride is

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at the core of that sin.

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And when we're walking through hard

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days, what does humility say? Gotta

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trust you. God I honestly would

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not plan things this way but

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I trust again your plans are

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better than my plans so I

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trust in you and I will

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follow you and I will trust

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you as I walk through this

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even when I don't understand humility

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says I trust in you and

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all of that just in relationship

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with God and then in relationship

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with others to love others as

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ourselves to put others interests above

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our own to think of others

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before ourselves not to be plotting

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to gain advantage over others, but

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instead to plot to bring advantage

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to others. Oh, we could keep

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talking a long time about this,

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but let's just pray. God, we

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pray for humility. God, we pray

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for humble hearts before you, knowing

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that you save humble people. This

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is really good for us. and

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glorifying to you and good for

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others. So God we pray for

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the grace you give to the

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humble. We pray for grace to

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be humble. Help us by your

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spirit in us. Jesus we praise

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you for your humility and we

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praise you for your presence in

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us. So help us we pray.

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to walk in a spirit of

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humility, in your spirit, before you,

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O God, help us to please

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send because we're humbly trusting in

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you and humbly walking with you.

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Help us to glorify you in

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a John 330 kind of way.

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May you become greater in our

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lives today? May we become less.

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God, we pray you'd help us

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to humbly love and serve and

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care for others, to look to

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others' interests above our own. Oh

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God, we pray that you would

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make us humble knowing that will

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be best for us, it will

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be best for others, and it

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will be best for bringing you

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glory. God, help us, we pray

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to walk humbly with you. And

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oh God, we humbly intercede. Right

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now, stand in the gap for

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the belala people of Chad. God

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for 280,000 Muslim men, women, and

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children speaking the Naba language, God

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we pray for the Bilala people

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of Chad to be reached. The

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good news of the one who

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was in very nature God, yet

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did not consider equality with God

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something to be grasped, but made

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himself nothing, taking the very nature

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of a servant, being made in

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human likeness, and humbled himself and

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became obedient to death on a

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cross, for their salvation. God, we

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pray that the humility of Jesus

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would spread to the belala people

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of Chad, that your salvation might

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spread through humble. servants, your church

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humbly saying we'll do whatever you

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want us to do to get

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the gospel to good news of

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your love to them. Oh God,

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we pray for humility and the

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great commission for obedience to however

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you want to use each of

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our lives for the spread of

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the gospel to the Bilala and

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thousands of other people groups like

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them. We pray for humility, oh

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God, in Jesus' name. your word

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in 22 verse

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28. Amen. 28. Amen.