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HUMILITY – OUR MOTTO

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;” Philippians 2:3-6 NIV

It is unfortunate that Christians sometimes come across as arrogant. “You think you know everything. You have all the answers. You regard yourselves as better than the rest of us,” people say. The best response might be: “We are sorry that we appear to be arrogant and nit-picking. And it may be true that we are, sometimes. But we have no reason to be proud. Christians are no better than anyone else." Any person who seeks his own glory, who looks down on others, could hardly be an instrument of peace.

You may regard yourself as incompetent, not qualified to join in prayer for reconciliation in your country. You may believe that there are others who could do a better job. But remember, it is precisely the insignificant and the incompetent that are selected by the Lord to do his work – those who do not rely on their own strength. It is to the humble that God gives his grace!

PRAYER POINTERS

ME: "Father, because of Your Great Goodness, would You make known to me and take from my heart every kind and form and degree of pride, whether it be from evil spirits, or my own corrupt nature; and that You would awaken in me the deepest depth and truth of that humility, which can make me capable of Your light and Holy Spirit.” Reject every thought, but that of waiting and praying in this matter from the bottom of your heart, with such truth and earnestness, as people in pain wish to pray and be delivered from it. – Andrew Murray, Humility.

US: Pray for the Holy Spirit to help us as the Church of God in our nation to truly humble ourselves before Him, so that together we can hear from Him and find a solution for our troubled and traumatized nation. Pray that our hearts will be truly humble and broken and that no pride or prejudice will destroy our fragile unity that is beginning to form. Pray that the Holy Spirit will help us to trust God and to trust one another in this process of reconciliation.

THEM: Pray that as we engage with the people in our nation, that our humility will break down hardened hearts and prepare them to hear the gospel and accept Jesus Christ.

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real." - Thomas Merton

Congratulations—you have just completed 7 days of journeying with God on Reconciliation and Oneness starting in your own heart and praying for your church community and your society at large. We trust that God has started a wonderful work in and through your prayers. Why not consider joining us for another 7 days. Week 2 of our One Heart Series is called Be One!