Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] What's going on, y' all? I'm going to be sharing with you four practical tips in overcoming pride and success as a Christian. And I'll be sharing my bit of my journey along the way in my overcoming Pride and Success as a Christian. First thing we need to do is acknowledge God's role.
[00:00:16] Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 18 says, but you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth.
[00:00:27] Give credit to God for your achievements.
[00:00:30] Yes.
[00:00:32] So in being successful in my journey, it's easy to get prideful because you feel proud of your accomplishments. Right. It could get to the point where you're.
[00:00:48] You. You forget about God. You know what I mean? You. You forget about God and you live. You continue living your life, right? And then eventually you get to a point where you come to a valley again and you're losing everything. Nothing's going right.
[00:01:05] And you suddenly just remember, like, oh, shoot, I'm here because I'm here in this valley in which I can't explain. I'm like, why am I here? Why? What's going on? And then at that point, I remember God, or you remember God. We remember God at the valley because everything's going wrong, but when everything's going right, it's like, God, God who? You know what I mean?
[00:01:35] So learn. I. I've learned how to.
[00:01:40] To stop myself and be like, wait a minute, wait a minute. Okay, yes, I did just have a success. I did just have a win, a huge win.
[00:01:49] God, thank you.
[00:01:51] You know what I mean? Have a grateful attitude. That's one of the things that helps me, is to be grateful to God when I'm acknowledging who he is and remembering giving credit to God for my achievements.
[00:02:06] Because like I said, it can be very easy to forget about God in our. Our.
[00:02:12] In our success, in our wins. And, you know, whether it be graduating from school or having a victory in getting a bonus at work or whatever, Whatever it might be, don't forget God. Don't forget God. Be thankful. Like, have a heart of gratitude all the time. And I think that when you have heart of gratitude all the time, every day, be thankful for something like, be thankful for one thing every day.
[00:02:40] And then when those times of success come, it's easy to be thankful because you've already been practicing thankfulness or gratefulness, which is. That brings me to my next topic, which is pray for gratitude.
[00:02:53] First. Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 18, says, in everything, give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards You thank God for blessings to curb boasting. That's it.
[00:03:08] You thank God for blessings. You learn how to recognize the blessings, recognize the wins, you know, in getting a bonus check or passing that algebra class or whatever, whatever type of success you're dealing with right now or that you can remember. Like God. Thank you.
[00:03:28] Thank you, God. You know, and it. Whenever we thank God, it takes the focus off of us and, and puts the focus on the main, the. The. The. The main thing, the main person in our life, the Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, God, all that. It. When we, we focus on that in our successes, it helps us to put the focus on the. To magnify God, you know what I mean? Like, I think the psalm talks. One of the psalms talks about magnify the Lord.
[00:03:59] So when we magnify God, it gets bigger in our lives and we get smaller, you know what I mean? It's, it's a, a humble, a humbling process. Whenever we decide to magnify God in our successes, pray to God and, and pray to God and ask for gratitude. Ask for him. Ask for his wisdom in doing these things. God, how do I be GRA. Grateful in times of success?
[00:04:26] And let your Holy Spirit guide me in the right direction to be in. In this success. In my successes, help be thankful and grateful for the successes that I do have in my life.
[00:04:39] Another thing we can do, which is the third tip that I'm giving you to overcome pride and success as a Christian, is celebrate others.
[00:04:48] Romans chapter 12, verse 10. Love one another with brotherly affection.
[00:04:53] Outdo one another in showing honor.
[00:04:58] Rejoice in others successes. Humbly say the other person got the win over you. Say you got second place.
[00:05:11] Think about if are. Have we pouted in the past? Have I pouted before because I didn't win?
[00:05:17] Yes.
[00:05:18] I'm guilty of that in life. Like I, I was raised playing sports. So one of the things that I learned in playing sports is good sportsmanship. You know, if you lose, good game, great game, you know what I mean? Keep your head up high. Know that it's just a game, you know, you lost.
[00:05:39] Cool. Nothing wrong with losing, you know what I mean? I'm not saying not to strive for, for, for the gold, you know, for winning, but when, when you lose, be able to tell the, the winner, hey, good job, you know what I mean? Let you know if your co worker is doing a better job than you.
[00:05:59] Say they get employee of the month or whatever, and you know that they deserve it because you work alongside there and they're kind of your work, buddy. Like, dude, you, congrats. You know what I mean?
[00:06:10] We can scroll through social media and that's a whole different monster, man. But anyway, you see somebody like throwing out, hey, you know, like right now, it's graduation season.
[00:06:21] It's May 25th right now.
[00:06:23] People are graduating all over the place.
[00:06:25] Or do we take the time? Hey, congratulations, Congrats, you know what I mean?
[00:06:32] And it, once we, once we have the thought of like, oh, I wish I was doing it. What are you doing? You're putting the focus back on yourself and taking it off of, you know, honoring somebody else. Give honor to somebody else, to your co worker, you know, to your, your, your friend.
[00:06:47] Good job, dude. I, I seen the hard work you've been doing and you know, great, great work. You know, you, you, you, you worked hard for that. You earned it. You know what I mean? Celebrate others. The last thing in overcoming pride and success as a Christian is stay grounded. O, this is huge.
[00:07:06] Jeremiah, chapter 9, 23, 24.
[00:07:10] The Lord says, do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
[00:07:16] Let him who glories.
[00:07:19] Excuse me.
[00:07:21] Let him who glories glory in this that he has understanding and knows me.
[00:07:29] Oh, that's power.
[00:07:31] Reflect on your dependence on God. Yes. Wow, this is a, this is very humbling. And this word comes up a lot. I noticed in this little pride series that I'm doing here on all these videos on pride, humility, the word humble humility comes up.
[00:07:50] Reflect on your dependence on God. When overcoming pride and success as a Christian, God always tethered back to the main source, which is God.
[00:08:02] I was out, I was reading the Bible to my daughter earlier before she went to bed. I'm recording this at night and I was mentioning to her that, you know, God created everything. He created the humans, created earth, all this.
[00:08:22] And it reminded me of that scripture. Like, how can the clay tell the potter, basically whose boss? You know what I mean? How can the clay be telling, like the person that's forming it? Hey, I'm the boss. That doesn't make any sense because the potter is forming the clay that's he's the one, that he's the creator, the original creator. So we have to tether back to the original creator, the, you know, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jacob, you know, Jesus his father.
[00:08:57] Stay grounded. Reflect on your dependent dependence on God. Like God created. Just remember that God created humans.
[00:09:04] He created everything. The mountains, the winds, the waters, the sun and the moon. You know, I always come back to psalms too. Like how the psalms are how God's majesty, like how the earth sings praises to his name. You know, how that, that imagery that it has in psalms, like that the winds and the mountains declare his glory, you know, that's how we. That's one of the ways how I remember that God is God, you know, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
[00:09:40] That's the beginning. That's the Proverbs, chapter one, verse seven, which is how I'm taught to believe. That is the main thesis behind the book of Proverbs, right? The thesis is the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We want to start on this path of wisdom.
[00:09:58] We start with the fear of the Lord. And the fear of the Lord to me is like a reverence for who God is, a remembering of God being the creator and of the, you know, of everything, of the universe, of humans, of animals, plants, everything. So when we, when we always tether back to God being the center, being the, the main focus, of course we can be humbled, like, because he's the creator.
[00:10:28] Like what human can create mountains?
[00:10:32] What human can create the winds, create the sun in the sky.
[00:10:38] Impossible, right? Only God can.
[00:10:41] Only God can do those things.
[00:10:44] So here's a key takeaway to overcoming pride and success as a Christian.
[00:10:50] Here's a practical tip. You can journal three ways God enable your success each week to keep pride in check.
[00:10:59] So journal, I mean, it doesn't have to be exactly this. You can journal, journal one thing every day, like that you're thankful for that, that you can thank God for that humans can't do or whatever, you know, journal three ways God enabled your success each week to keep pride in check.
[00:11:18] Ah, prayers to you guys. If you have. How do you. How have you.
[00:11:22] Let me know in the comments. How have you overcome pride and success? What's some of the ways that help you?
[00:11:29] Here's another video right here that might be helpful. Thanks a lot, you guys, for watching, for listening. Have a good one. Bye.
