Some have boasted over the years that they were the “Greatest!” There is ONE who IS the GREATEST! There is ONE who IS the GREATEST and that is JESUS CHRIST of ALL time! When it was time for a redeemer to come and save us, there was only ONE in Heaven who would be our redeemer, JESUS CHRIST! The first thing He did was to HUMBLE HIMSELF to become a man! He lowered Himself, and then He could be exalted!
Did you ever notice that those who brag how great they are and what a great ministry they have and the great things they are doing are NEVER the ones who have the anointing of the Holy Spirit that heals the sick, fills people with the Spirit, raises the dead, casts out demons, and brings the power of God to people? Could it be they try to lift themselves up by the bootstraps, and IT DOES NOT WORK? God NEVER BLESSES PRIDE. HE RESISTS the proud, but gives GRACE to the HUMBLE!
Humble is NOT eating self defacing pie! When you self deface, condemn yourself, think you are unworthy of God’s blessing, you are going against what God’s Word says about you! God says you are worthy through the blood of Jesus and made righteous with His righteousness. When you are humble before the Lord and have the power of God working through you with signs following it brings glory to God! One generation will praise His works to another generation! God said His people would speak of the glory of His kingdom, and talk of His power.
When you tell what God is doing that is NOT bragging on yourself, but IS boasting in the Lord, and glorifying Him! That will bless people and raise their faith to receive from God! Psalm 145: “I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation will praise your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts. I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works. And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts: and I will declare your greatness. They will abundantly voice the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.”
So, when you see someone flowing in the Holy Spirit, giving glory to God, with signs, wonders, and miracles, with the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, then you KNOW THAT YOU KNOW this person has humbled themselves under the hand of God, and He has lifted them up and they have obeyed the voice of God and are doing what He said do! Praise God!
Those who are NOT doing what God said to do, have NOT humbled themselves under the hand of God! When so-called ministers ridicule, oppose, and try to stop someone who has the anointing, then THOSE ministers have NOT humbled themselves under the hand of God, and are following the devil’s tactics!
When God is manifesting in miracle working power, the person being used by God has humbled themselves under His hand! The Apostles and all who were used by God in the book of Acts reported what God did to others! They were glorifying God, and giving praise to God as they rehearsed the works of God by the Holy Spirit! They were bragging about Jesus and what He was doing in people!
Namaan in the Old Testament was a captain that God had used as a man of valor, but he was a leper, and he went to Elisha the prophet to be healed from the leprosy! He stood at his door and expected him to come out and strike his hand on him to minister the healing he needed, but Elisha sent someone out and told him to go wash in the river Jordan, which was a very muddy river, and that he would be healed! Naaman went into a rage and went off, but someone said to him that if Elisha had asked him to do some great thing, he would have done it, but all he was asking was to go wash in Jordan. Naaman finally agreed, went to Jordan, humbled himself, and dipped seven times in the muddy river! When he did his flesh became brand new with no disease of leprosy whatsoever!
Praise God, when he humbled himself and simply did what the Holy Spirit said through Elisha then, and only then, he was made WHOLE! YOU THAT NEED HEALING, RIGHT NOW THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TELLING YOU SOMETHING TO DO SO JUST HUMBLE YOURSELF AND DO IT, AND YOU WILL BE HEALED IN THE NAME OF JESUS! GLORY TO GOD! THANK YOU JESUS! PRAISE YOU LORD FOR HEALING EVERYONE RIGHT NOW! HALLELUJAH!
Satan lost EVERYTHING and fell like lightning when in pride tried to exalt himself above God. Now doomed for eternity in a lake of fire for him and the one third of the angels that followed him … DOWN…DOWN…DOWN!
Those who choose to live for the devil and be ruled by demons, laden with sin and heavy burdens are headed straight down with him, the fallen angels, and ALL who follow pride! “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” {Proverbs 16:18}
God’s recipes for your life will work every time, but you will have to be willing to HUMBLE yourself under his hand and THEN, and ONLY THEN HE WILL LIFT YOU UP! Did you ever wonder what was going on when you tried and tried, and strained, and fussed, and fumed, maybe stomped your feet a little and got NOWHERE fast as far as the answer you needed so desperately? Has it been hard when it shouldn’t be hard? First God says to submit yourself to God and THEN resist the devil and he WILL flee from you! Those who have the power of God in manifestation have submitted themselves to God or there wouldn’t be any power in manifestation, so IGNORE those who persecute the men and women of God who are being used by God, anointed, and with true signs, wonders, and miracles happening!
Saul in the New Testament was running around thinking he was doing God a religious service! He was NOT helping Christians, but was doing everything he could to persecute Christians, breathing out threats, throwing them in prison, consenting to their death, etc. He was a Pharisee and was controlled by “religious demons” that hate the truth, hate Jesus, hate true believers, hate the anointing, and who want to destroy the move of God and turn people away from God! Prayers went up from believers and God answered! One day on His chariot to more against Christians, Saul found out God’s recipe for his life that would make him whole!
Jesus appeared to Saul and SUDDENLY His light shone brighter than the noon day sun! The power of God knocked Saul right off his chariot and he fell to the ground under the power of God. Saul said to Jesus: “Lord, Who are you?” Jesus answered: “I AM JESUS WHO YOU ARE PERSECUTING!” Saul had a choice instantly to humble himself, admit he had been wrong, repent and go with God, and do what HE says, or rebel and do what “he” wanted to do in pride and disobedience!
He smartly humbled himself and repented, and gave his life to Jesus 100% He finally met the GREATEST…JESUS CHRIST! God had Saul seek Him on the backside of the desert for a few years, time to get the dross out of his life as He sought the Lord. God made him Paul, the Apostle and he wrote much of the New Testament by the Holy Spirit, and helped many with signs, wonders, and miracles, in demonstration of the Spirit and Power of God! He had been a Pharisee of the Pharisees, very high up in their religious spirit and wrong beliefs, persecuting Christians, opposing the move of the Spirit, and doing all he did against Jesus Christ! He called himself “chief sinner” in his past before he was saved and Spirit filled, and called!
Here is a lesson for sure, that your past does NOT dictate your future in God, and it is NOT held over your head! So, don’t you hold your past against yourself since God does not hold anything against you! The gifts and calling of God are not something he goes back on, and what is the will of God is NOT to be second guessed! Paul’s new life in Jesus with all the miracles and manifestation of the Holy Spirit started when God spoke to him, Paul listened and humbled himself, and obeyed God!
When you humble yourself under the hand of God, then you will do what God says to do, and He will lift you up! When God lifts you up, you have been LIFTED far above it ALL! The devil hates when we learn to humble ourselves under the hand of God for he knows then God is lifting us up and there is nothing the devil can do about it, and he will be crushed right on out by the power of the Holy Spirit!
2 Chronicles 7:14 says “If MY people who are called by my name will HUMBLE themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land!” This is very powerful and as we humble ourselves and pray, seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways, then He will hear from Heaven and forgive our sins and heal our land! Praise God, our God reigns! We need to admit when we have missed it and been wrong, for then the Lord can heal us so we can get it right and walk in the power of the Spirit of God where all the blessings are!
It is NOT wrong to tell of all the miracles, signs, and wonders God does for when we share these things they glorify God and raise people’s faith and bring people closer to the Lord! When you truly humble yourself under the hand of God then your soul will BOAST in the Lord! You will brag on Jesus and what He has done and is doing! Psalm 34:1-3 says, “I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together! Praise God, it is high time to boast in the Lord!”
“God is great and greatly to be praised!” {Psalm 48}
As we humble ourselves under the hand of God, He will lift us up, and when God lifts you, you HAVE been LIFTED INDEED, far above it ALL! This year will be a year of the POWER OF THE MOST HIGH, THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT! The Holy Spirit will flow from your inner most being freely as you humble yourself under the hand of God!
- “He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.” Psalm 25:9
- “God saves the humble.” Psalm 18:27.
- “God opposes the proud, but gives GRACE to the humble.” James 4:6.
- “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” Proverbs 11:2.
- “Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.” Proverbs 18:12
- “Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven!” Matthew 18:4 says.
When we truly humble ourselves then we allow the Lord to lift us up and take our place in the kingdom of God in authority and in His power as we live and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit!
Do not let the devil brow beat you and tell you that you are unworthy of what God is doing and showing! The devil is a liar and the accuser of the brethren, and robs, kills, and destroys! I bind every inroad the devil has had against every person right now in Jesus name, and loose every person from all demons of pride and destruction, and all the oppression entourage that was set against you! The greatest thing for 2022, is to humble yourself under the hand of God and see the power of God go to work in your life.