Stronghold #6 | Pride and Greed

God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Self pride is the highest insult against the glory of God. It is lived out by worshiping “the God in the mirror,“ while becoming self-reliant, hedonistic, and building our own materialistic, empire, for which we take full credit. It is living as if God doesn’t exist, or is irrelevant. Satan’s goal is to get us to manipulate others to worship and follow us rather than Jesus Christ as Lord.

Key Scriptures on Pride and Greed

• Ezekiel 28:15-17
• Isaiah 14:13-14
• Proverbs 16:5
• Daniel 4:28-37
• James 4:6-7
• 1 Peter 5:5-9
• 1 John 2:15-17

Key Scriptures on Humility and a Contrite Heart

• 2 Chronicles 7:13-18
• Isaiah 55:6-12
• Isaiah 57:15
• Isaiah 66:1-2
• James 4:4-10
• 1 Peter 5:5-11
• 1 John 2:15-17

Prayer for Repentance from Pride and Greed

Father, I stand in the gap and repent for my ancestors on both sides of my family back over three, four, and seven and ten generations and even back over forty and one hundred generations for our great pride and our pride in all its forms.

Father I repent of all my stiff necked pride and stubbornness (Acts 7:51) with rebellion;

I repent of all religious and denominational pride, all ambitious pride and the iniquity of a critical spirit with cutting words and actions and even wanting and seeking vengeance.

I also repent where I cannot be told anything for I have thought that I knew it all and I repent of my haughtiness and loftiness.

I ask where I am listening but never hearing to change my heart and open my ears to understand Your Word and Your ways for I repent for not being teachable and for being judgmental.

I repent of my over exaggerated opinion of myself, my conceit, my haughty behavior, my arrogance and even where I am delighted in my own achievements and think very little of others or have no time for those who do not have my 'stature'and brilliance.

Father, I repent where I have become intolerant of others because they lack my understanding, intelligence and capabilities and even where I have isolated myself because people are just not what I want them to be and they are just not like me.

I repent where I have wanted to change others and even taken their roles because they are not as perfect as me.

I repent of the fruits of suspicion and mistrust and self deception and where I have become legalist reveal to me and bring to death this legalism.

Father, I repent where rejection has caused me to become a perfectionist and where I have become puffed up with pride and rebellion.

I repent of myself righteousness and where I have rejected you and not obeyed Your command of love of the brethren and acceptance of the beloved and not walking in love.

I repent also where I have justified my own rebellion and disobedience to Your Word and ways because of a stronghold of the transgression of pride.

I repent also of my pride of prosperity, my furniture, my belongings, my car, my income, my business, my career and even my calling and position in the church. Also the pride of my heritage, my ancestry, my parent's lineage and achievements and even where they have instilled in me pride because of all this.

Father, I repent of my hardness of heart and my stony heart because of all my pride.

I repent where I have refused subjection and dependence upon you because of my rebellious pride. I repent where I have given honor and glory to myself instead of You because of my pride.

I repent of all mockery and scorn and foolishness, my proud looks of contempt and haughtiness and proud heart.

I repent of all disrespect, dishonor to parent and elders and disrespect for authority with arrogance and all lying.

I repent of envy, shame, strife, blasphemy and arguing. I repent of all greed, gluttony, slothfulness, idleness and all sexual sins of lust and those committed in drunkenness.

Father I verbally renounce all my pride and come out of agreement with this iniquity and where I am in a bond of pride thank you for bringing to death the pride in my life so I can remain delivered from Pride and all associated and related spirits of pride.

Father, all honor all glory and all power belongs to You, thank You for my deliverance from pride and greed in Jesus name, Amen.

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