Yah Hates Pride Month
This is the last week of June and marks the last week that many countries will celebrate Pride month Halleluyah!
This message is not intended to highlight or focus on homosexuality, instead it is a rebuke of the spirit of pride in all expressions.
I recently heard a popular pastor say that gluttony is satan’s favorite sin. Based on scripture I would have to disagree and say that I believe that pride is satan’s favorite sin.
The reason being is simply because I know how much Yah despises pride and because satan seeks to rebel against Yah, it only makes sense that he would partake in the things that Yah hates.
Pride is what led satan to rebel against Yah from the beginning. Satan was so prideful that he wanted to be like Yah and exalted higher than Yah.
What is pride?
Pride is defined as- a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.
The word of Yah tells us in Ezekiel 28:12 that satan was “the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty”. It goes on to say in verse 17 that satan’s “heart became proud” on account of his beauty and that he corrupted his wisdom because of his splendor.
Unfortunately this describes a lot of people on the earth today. Many people are walking in pride due to how they look, what they know, or what they possess.
In this crooked generation, we are constantly being conditioned to exalt, magnify, and glorify ourselves, especially via social media. We are being taught to measure our worth based on how many people like us or support what we do and say.
This conditioning is all rooted in pride and the fruit of pride is rebellion.
Rebellion against the Most High God Yah.
Yah tells us to humble ourselves, while satan tells us to worship ourselves. And the sad truth is that the worship of ourselves is really worship unto satan, the father of pride.
Here are scriptures on how Yah views pride:
Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame, But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.
Proverbs 16:5 Everyone who is proud and arrogant in heart is disgusting and exceedingly offensive to the Lord; Be assured he will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall
Isaiah 2:12 For the Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning Against all who are proud and arrogant And against all who are lifted up, That they may be degraded.
Proverbs 29:23 A man’s pride and sense of self-importance will bring him down, But he who has a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 13:10 Where there is strife, there is pride,
but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
Psalms 10:4 The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts.
Proverbs 27:2 Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;
an outsider, and not your own lips.
James 4:6
He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
Proverbs 8:13 To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech
Romans 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
Proverbs 21:24 The proud and arrogant person—“Mocker” is his name—
behaves with insolent fury.
Proverbs 21:4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.
Proverbs 16:19 Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed
than to share plunder with the proud.
With all of this overwhelming rebuke of pride from Yah’s word how can we as His creation and children ever justify pride?
If we are submitting to Yah’s word we can not operate in the spirit of pride at all!
Not for our looks, possessions, talents, intelligence, sexual identity, or our capabilities.
During this month of June, when pride is being celebrated and glorified as something good, when it is indeed a sin in Yah’s eyes, be sure to pray that the Holy Spirit will humble you in every way.
Pray and ask Yah to cause you to see yourself the way He does and not through the lens of the world and it’s culture.
Pray that you will put on the mind of Christ, sharing in His humble obedience to our Heavenly Father.
We, the body of Christ, rebuke the spirit of pride and all of its works, and all of its fruit. We reject the antichrist doctrine that tells us to worship ourselves or anything and anyone other than our Elohim Yah.
We put on humility in everything we do, say, think, and feel.
We are not proud of ourselves, but we boast only in our Elohim.