Warrior Prayers...Day Six

Prayers for Day Six…

I want to be able to whole-heartedly give God all of the glory for anything good in my life and in my sons’ lives.  But it is a struggle.  As soon as someone compliments one of my children, pride in my parenting skills begins to swell.  That is never good because God loves His children too much to let them wallow in arrogance.

If there was ever a man who had reason to be prideful, it was Jesus. But…”, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,  but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Phil. 2:6-8)  If our goal is to mold our sons into the image of Christ to the glory of the Father, then we must teach them that pride must be put to death daily.

C.J. Mahaney defines pride as “when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon him.”  In contrast, William Farley defines humility as “the capacity to see myself in God’s light, in the context of his holiness and my sinfulness.”

It is simple.  God is everything.  We are nothing. 

Commit to praying the following prayers for your sons or grandsons today.

Pride

May __________not have a haughty spirit, for pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18).

May __________be lowly in spirit and obtain honor, for one’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor (Proverbs 29:23).

Lord, make __________turn from doing wrong and keep him from pride (Job 33:17).

Lord, please break __________‘s proud spirit (Leviticus 26:19).

May __________take advice and gain wisdom, for with insolence comes nothing but strife (Proverbs 13:10).

May __________not be a “Scoffer” the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride (Proverbs 21:24).

Lord, give us the pleasure of taking great pride in__________, being filled with comfort (2 Corinthians 7:4).

Let __________test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor (Galatians 6:4).

Let not the foot of arrogance come upon__________, nor the hand of the wicked drive him away (Psalm 36:11).

Let __________talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from his mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed (1 Samuel 2:3).