Path To The Promise: Pulling Out Puffed Up Pride
The Process helps us to fulfill our Purpose and Prepare us for the Promise
Genesis 37:1-2 (NKJV)
1 Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. 2 This is the history of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them (his brothers) to his father.
Genesis 37:3-4 (NKJV)
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
Genesis 37:6-11 (NKJV)
6 So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8 And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. 9 Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.” 10 So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?” 11 And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
Proverbs 16:18 (NKJV)
Pride comes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall
There is always a Purpose behind a Promise
#1 God has a Purpose for you
Jeremiah 29: 11 (NLT)
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
Numbers 12:6-8 (NLT)
6 And the Lord said to them, “Now listen to what I say: “If there were prophets among you, I, the Lord, would reveal myself in visions. I would speak to them in dreams. 7 But not with my servant Moses. Of all my house, he is the one I trust. 8 I speak to him face to face, clearly, and not in riddles! He sees the Lord as he is. So why were you not afraid to criticize my servant Moses?”
Psalm 103:7 (NKJV)
7 He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.
#2 Don’t Brag About It
Matthew 12:34 (NKJV)
…For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 15:18 (NKJV)
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.
#3 Humble Yourself
1 Peter 5:6 (NKJV)
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time