Dutch Sheets tells us, “God, the light of the world, is forever trying to get
fallen humanity to alter their course. Arrogant humans, who have chosen to captain
their own lives, usually charge on to their own destruction.
This pride factor also answered my question
of why, regardless of where I went in the world, I found more women saved than men.
I knew it couldn’t be because they were smarter! The reason is that this root of
pride is stronger in men than in women. Most men at least; some of us in the
ultra-humble class no longer have a problem with it.
The reason pride is stronger in men is that which was strongest in us in a pure form
before the Fall became strongest in a perverted form after the Fall. The motivation
in men that found its greatest fulfillment in covering, nurturing, protecting and
caring for—
Leading from a servant motivation—turned
inward at the time of the Fall.
The desire to lead became a desire to dominate
or lord over, a giving nature turned into a getting nature and a secure humility
was transformed into an insecure pride. To see how we men were supposed to cover
and lead, we need only to look at Jesus, who led and walked in amazing authority
and power, yet from a pure serving motivation.
Why are
these things true? The pride factor in men”.
Prayer Note #74- The Male Pride Factor, taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer (p. 167 )
The next Prayer Note on 9/25- Praying
for the Lost: Prayer Note #75
Tomorrow’s
post: Preconceived Ideas by Shonda Savage Whitworth
Today’s
treasure truth #21: If you are “born again”, you are blessed coming in and blessed going out. (Deu. 28:6)
Our
thought for today: Act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.
"God is waiting in the silence—
Oh, to know that He is near!
Earth recedes and heaven opens,
God is waiting, God is here. —O. Smith
God is always available to hear
the prayer of His child."
OUR DAILY BREAD
Sept. 20, 2012
So You Plan to Marry
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