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Prayer Against Pride

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A fool thinks he needs no advice,

but a wise man listens to others.

Proverbs 12:15 TLB

A Talk with God

Lord,

What man or woman can truly understand pride?

Who can truly see the extent that pride has infiltrated his or her life?

How can I ever see the extent that the choices I make have been influenced by pride?

Without receiving your wisdom, I will shove your agenda the way.

Without receiving your wisdom, I will be an instrument to wound other people.

Without awareness of what I am allowing, I am doomed to experience regret.

Thank you for your forgiveness, compassion, and mercy.

Thank you for cleansing my sins and for opening my eyes to see.

Amen

Prayer for Pride

Dear Lord,

You are the Godabove all gods. Your name is Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, EverlastingFather, Prince of Peace. You sit on the throne of heaven. When YOU speak, who dare change yourplans? When YOU move, who dare stop you?

Lord, I have knowingly and I have ignorantly come against your will and your ways. I have spoken words of total surrender to you, and yet Ihave been so ready to protect myself from godly advice and godly change. I havebeen so ready to defend myself against humility.

Open my eyes to theblessings of humility. Let me not see humility as the world sees it, but in itsbeauty and fullness of joy.

I am comforted withthe knowledge that you are full of mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

Amen

by Beth McLendon and Robert A. Rohm

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Short Prayers against Pride

Lord, I will allow You and Your Word

to transform me.

Miraculous Lord,

I come to you in prayer.

Change me, Lord.

Change me from the inside.

I will cooperate with you, Lord.

I will allow you to transform me.

Amen

Change me from the Inside Out

Dear Lord,

I am so full of thoughts of me and what I want.

My selfishness pulls on me to make sure that I am taken care of.

My selfishness is driving me to ungodly decisions and actions.

I need your help to change.

Amen

A man's pride shall bring him low.

Proverbs 29:23 KJV

PRIDE

Becoming more Jesus

Prayer against Pride

Lord,

My heart beats independently of you too often.

My agenda sits on the throne too often.

Forgive me, Lord.

I am determined to become more Jesus.

Amen

More Jesus

Prayer against Pride

Almighty God,

I pray this prayer by faith:

Today, my heart will grow in love, compassion, tenderness, and mercy.

I will dwell on godly thoughts.

My thoughts will be more pure, holy, and righteous than they were yesterday.

I declare that the pull of my sinful nature is fading.

Today I give my will to you, Lord, so that you can turn my heart in whatever way you desire.

I will make your desires my desires.

In the mighty name of Jesus I pray,

Amen

I Exalt You, Lord, above everything in my life.

I exalt Thee.

God delights in me.

Loving Lord,

Your love for me is nourishing and refreshing.

Your desire for me is to help me grow.

Your Word reminds me that you take joy in me.

You actually delight in me.

And I am learning to delight in you.

Amen

The LORD your God is in your midst;

he is a warrior who can deliver.

He takes great delight in you;

he renews you by his love;

he shouts for joy over you.

Zephaniah 3:17 NET

A Thought-Provoking Prayer Against Pride

O Lord,

When I reflect on my many attempts to selfishly control circumstances in my life, I realize that I am full of pride.

Meditating on my pride is painful.

It is achallenge to move selfishness the way and look at what you are saying tome.

Give me courage as I look at me. I need your strength.

As I look, I see that pride has infiltrated mylife.

Lord, my agenda sits on the throne of my heart.

My selfishness has, at times, drivenme to ungodly decisions and actions.

As my eyes are being opened, I realizethat I will never fully see the extent of damage that has occurred throughthe influence of pride in my life.

I need your strength, and I need your mercy.

Forgive me, Lord.

You tell us that pride comes before a fall.

Without becomingmore aware of my pride, I will continue to stumble and fall.

I want the darkness.

Dear Lord, let me see.

Let me walk in the light, so that I can be aware of truth,and avoid stumbling over the footstool of pride that my actions put in front of me.

Pride is destructive.

It destroys the harmonyand unity of relationships with other people and with you.

Two-part harmony isbeautiful.

I will seek to be unified with you.

If I do not harmonize withyou, I become that clanging cymbal in 1 Corinthians 13. I become a startling sound and a noisy tool of the enemy – used to cut others down instead of building others up.

Lord, I am beginning to see the true face ofpride.

Pride mars the beauty of who you created us to be. You created each ofus to be a masterpiece, and we splatter your masterpiece with the ugly paint ofselfishness, and it mars the beauty.

There is nothing that shines so beautifullyas the love of Christ radiating my hands, my feet, my countenance, and mywords.

I am desperate to love the way you designed me to love.

Onlyas I lay down my agenda and lay down my selfish thoughts, can I receive thelove that I need in order to live life abundantly.

I need to respect your commands. I realize that I need to think you.

Lord, I need to pursue you, respect you, andrespect your Word.

Today I dedicate myself to you.

Help me to demonstrate the kind of attitude of respect foryour Word that is pleasing unto you.

In the powerful name of Jesus, I pray,

Amen

Proverbs 16:18

The CompletePrayer against Pride

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Praying for your Child

Dear Lord,

Open my eyes to theblessings of humility. Let me not see humility as the world sees it, but in itsbeauty and fullness of joy.

I am comforted withthe knowledge that you are full of mercy, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

Your love is so perfect and complete toward me and toward my child.

My childwill work to sabotage your plans for his life if he does not begin tounderstand what self-centeredness does to a person’s life. I pray thatselfishness will become distasteful in my child’s mouth.

Lord, I pray that my child will pursue you and respect you.

I will be contentedin the fact that you have heard my prayer, and that you are lovingly ready tohelp my child and me walk the path of humbleness.

Amen

by Beth McLendon and Robert A. Rohm

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Praying for the Destruction of Your Enemies

Prayer To Keep Me From Spiritual Pride

Have you ever prayed for someone’s complete to ruin? That God would destroy them and wipe them off the face of the earth.

It doesn’t seem very Christian does it?

Nevertheless these kinds of prayers are recorded in the Bible and especially in the Book of Psalms.

Prayers that call for the death and destruction of others are called imprecatory prayers. You may not have given much thought to this kind of prayer before, and I hope that you never need to.

Before the war started in Ukraine I also had not thought very much about the place of imprecatory prayers in my own life and in my theology. War, however, has a way of shaping your thinking and calling into question certain ideas.

They Are Inspired

We can’t just write these Psalms our Bible, Jesus himself considered them inspired and he never apologized for them, corrected them, or indicated that they do not teach truth.

Jesus quoted from at least two imprecatory psalms; Psa 35 and 69 (Joh 2:17 and 15:25). The Apostle Paul and Peter also quoted from Psalm 69 (Acts 1:20 and Rom 11:9).

An Example

For a good example of what an imprecatory prayer looks let’s look at Psalm 69.

Psa 69:22-28(22) Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.(23) Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.(24) Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.

(25) May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.(26) For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.(27) Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.

(28) Let them be blotted the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

There are many texts in the Bible that talk about God’s judgment but an imprecatory prayer does more than just talk about God’s judgment it calls for God to bring judgement on someone.

But Jesus Said Love Your Enemies

One of the biggest problems Christians have with imprecatory prayers is that Jesus’ words seem to contradict the idea of praying for the destruction of your enemy.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Mat 5:43-45

Some claim that imprecatory prayers represent David’s sinful desire for revenge and thus we should not copy him. Others claim that Jesus revoked this type of prayer when he told us to love our enemies in Matthew chapter 5.

I don’t believe that either of these solutions work well. Neither Jesus nor any of the other New Testament writers specifically correct the imprecatory prayers of the Old Testament. In fact there are some New Testament texts that also seem to be imprecatory in nature.

For instance, in the book of Revelation, those martyred cry out to God and say,

“They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
(Rev 6:10)

Different Contexts

Where Does that Leave Us?

We know we are supposed to love our personal enemies and pray for them as Jesus commands us, but what if we find ourselves in a different context, one that looks more David’s context?

Can or can’t we pray David did against our enemies?

Here are some principles that I see in the imprecatory prayers that may help you decide if you should pray for the destruction of your enemies or not.

1. It should not be about personal revenge

In every instance of an imprecatory prayer in the Bible it’s clear that it’s not simply personal revenge and pride on the line. While the offence takes on a personal nature this is simply because the author is the representative of an entire nation.

You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah.
(Psa 59:5)

Imprecatory prayers are never against the neighbor down the street who doesn’t you and has called you a few bad names. Instead of personal revenge imprecatory prayers are about just retribution against an evil enemy who has come against another nation and against God.

2. It’s about stopping evil

A common theme you can see in the imprecatory prayers is that of stopping evil short so that it can not continue destroying the lives of the innocent. These prayers are directed at evil men who have the power to take thousands or even millions of lives.

Here’s and example from Psalm 109

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth! For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
(Psa 109:14-16)

Let’s face it, war is the handy-work of Satan and he enjoys the death and suffering that it brings. Unfortunately no one suffers more in war than the innocent. Often the quickest and most effective way to end the killing of innocents is by taking out the evil man/men who are in charge.

That’s what an imprecatory prayer is about!

3. It’s about honoring God

Above all the imprecatory prayers show a desire to see God honored and glorified. God is called upon to bring justice against men who do not honor him or worship Him. The psalmists call upon God to restore his fame, to defend his name, their deepest desire is not for revenge but for God’s glory and honor.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake!
(Psa 79:9)

Reminders for Us

I believe the imprecatory prayers were the right thing at that time in that situation for those who prayed them, thus they are righteous and inspired prayers.

On the other hand I cannot tell you whether or not you should ever pray an imprecatory prayer. My suspicion is that few of us will have the exact circumstances that David had when he prayed these prayers.

Nevertheless, imprecatory prayers serve to remind us of two things.

1. Sin is worse that we thought

First they remind us of the awfulness and terribleness of sin. The reminder us that sin always brings destruction and death, that sin always against God, and that it is often the innocent who suffer because of sin. They remind us that sin causes all of war.

We underestimate sin, we underestimate the consequences of evil, we underestimate its power to destroy, and we underestimate how much is offends our holy God!

2. We aren’t concerned enough about God’s honor

Second he reminds us of our responsibility to honor God in all circumstances.

In individualistic Western cultures is easy to focus only on your personal responsibility to honor God, yet we all live in nations cities societies families who are also called to honor God.

Our desire to bring God glory should be set so deep within our hearts that when we see that someone not honoring God it bothers us!