Daily Rhema: BECOMING MORE HUMBLE

1 Peter 5:5-6 NIV
In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.

Humility is submitting to the will of God when your soul (will, mind and emotions) and body do not feel like it; in particular when it makes you smaller than you think or know you are.

The two greatest examples of humility are seen in the incarnation and crucifixion of the Lord Jesus.

The Lord Jesus has set a very high standard of humility for us. If being God, He humbled Himself so that the will of God to save us could be done, who are we, created men, not to humble ourselves to do the will of God when we do not feel like it?

Why is humility so critical NOW?
We are living in the perilous end-time in which iniquity is abounding and causing the love of many to wax cold.

In order to overcome this abounding iniquity, we need abounding grace. Greater grace will give access to greater measures of life, power, wisdom and exaltation, which will only come through increase in humility (Prov. 11:2).

How do we become more humble?
1. By saying it with our mouths and praying to release the power of God to cause our wills to become more humble (Deut. 30:14).
2. Fasting: Psalms 35:13 KJV: … I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
3. Practice:
i. Taking lower positions in interpersonal interactions so that the will of God can be done (Luk.14:7-11).
ii. Staying small in your own eyes: you will stay small in your own eyes when you always see yourself as God sees you and not as men see you. Measure yourself by the divine standard rather than by human standards (1Sam. 15:17).

Philippians 2:5 AMPC
Let this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: [Let Him be your example in humility:]

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