Humility.

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”    

                                                                                                            James 4:7(KJV).

 Functioning in a great anointing requires humility. What is humility? Humility refers to been selfless. It also means been self sacrificing. It also refers to yielding to authority. It refers to been teachable. Humility is seeing yourself within the context of God’s mind or His Word. The bible says in Romans 12:3(GW), “Because of the kindness that God has shown me, I ask you not to think of yourselves more highly than you should. Instead, your thoughts should lead you to use good judgment based on what God has given each of you as believers.”

When Jesus met John the Baptist in Matthew 3:14, John said to Jesus, “I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?” But Jesus answered and said unto John the Baptist; “Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.” Matthew 3:15. Then, Jesus submitted to John’s baptism. From this context, we see humility as submission to God’s program. In other words, you can say humility is a selfless and self sacrificing attitude of submission to constituted authority or God’s program.

Humility is a very important virtue in your life that every one of us has to develop because a life of humility would attract God’s grace to your life. The bible says in 1 Peter 5:5, “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”     

Pride would choke and block God’s grace from functioning in your life. So at such a time as this, it is important that you examine yourself in other to make sure that there is no room for pride to block the blessings that God is releasing to you in this season.

PRAYER

Father I ask that you purge my heart of every seed of falsehood that has entered into my belief system. I submit wholeheartedly to your will and your program for my life in Jesus Name. Amen.

Ephesians 5:21, Daniel 4:30-37, Job 40:12, 1 Peter 5:6.

DOING THE WORD

Entrust yourself to God, submit yourself to God’s program. Even when it looks belittling to you, remember it is only a positioning for greatness.