A devo from Niki

So, I have a post from Niki... who is our prayer warrior... ENJOY!!! 


Be humble

Psalm 145:14: The Lord upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.



Be humble. This is something God told me awhile back. Be Holy, be humble, be helpful. The Holy part is earlier verses of Psalm 145 and now verse 14 is the humble part. It is so hard to be humble. I hear the kids argue over who is to blame for something and no one chooses to just stop the chatter and say sorry. Repentence, forgiveness. Prayer. For me, the ultimate expression of humility is prayer. To pray means to yield my thoughts to the Lord, to reveal my inner self and my agenda and my frailty. To pray means to not proudly assume I can handle it, but to willingly say, "God, you handle it. You do a better job". It is in prayer that I can beseech the Holy Spirit to change me, to prune me, to transform me. It is in prayer that I can stop the chatter in my head and say sorry, to repent and be forgiven. I don't know how else to practice being humble. It is not in my nature to be humble so only when I am bowed down am I rightly positioned before God. He can't lift me up or hold me if I am not bowed down. He wants to hold me up when I fall. He promises to hold me up when I am bowed down, on my knees, humbled before his might and power.



God's enemy is satan and his great separation from the Lord was pride. He wanted to be equal to God. I don't want to share the same great separation from the Lord. I loathe my pride. I loathe it in others, especially my children and family. I will fight pride every time I taste it and I only know how to do that in prayer. My horizontal words barely scratch the surface of it, but my vertical ones, heard by the Holy, magestic, God and King who is worthy of my praise....God will work it out in me, to be humble.



“Father God, may be fall on our knees in prayer and humility and be filled with you so that we can be holy, and be humble and then be helpful. Position us to be used by you.”