Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Male Pride Factor: Prayer Note #74


  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 motivationturned 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."
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Sept. 20, 2012
 
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