THE PROPHET DANIEL RECORDS THE DOWNFALL OF THE GREAT BABYLONIAN KING, NEBUCHADNEZZAR. ONE DAY, THE KING LOOKED AROUND AT ALL HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED AND ARROGANTLY STATED:

"IS NOT THIS GREAT BABYLON, THAT I HAVE BUILT FOR A ROYAL DWELLING BY MY MIGHTY POWER AND FOR THE HONOR OF MY MAJESTY?" (DANIEL 4:30)

WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING THESE ARROGANT WORDS, A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAID, "KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, TO YOU IT IS SPOKEN: THE KINGDOM HAS DEPARTED FROM YOU" (DANIEL 4:31). THAT SAME HOUR, THE ONCE GREAT KING LOST HIS MIND AND BEGAN TO ACT LIKE AN ANIMAL, EATING GRASS UNTIL "HIS HAIR LIKE EAGLES' FEATHERS AND HIS NAILS LIKE BIRDS' CLAWS (DANIEL 4:33).

FATHER GOD, I PRAY TO AWAYS KEEPS MY EYES ON YOU, AND TO NEVER BEGAN TO FOCUS ON MY ACCOMLISHMENTS. I GIVE THANKS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE. IT IS NOT "I", BUT IT IS YOU. PROTECT ME FROM HAVING A HAUGHTY SPIRIT. I PRAY TO ALWAYS BE APPROACHABLE, AND TO HAVE A OPEN HEART FOR ADVICE THROUGH GODLY COUNSEL.

I PRAY FOR THE HEARTS OF MY PRAYER WARRIORS. LET THEM NOT FORGET WHERE YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM FROM. PROTECT THEM FROM SELF-SUFFICIENCY WHICH IS BROUGHT ON BY SELF-DECEPTION. AS I HAVE BEEN CONNECTING WITH THESE PRAYER WARRIORS I SEE HOW YOU ARE MOVING IN A POWERFUL WAY. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL DESTORY SATAN'S EVIL ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK ANYONE OF US. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY. AMEN. LET US PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER! HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

Amen Dawn so true I pray you have a blessed & protected day also. We are hanging in there & trusting the Lord & His promises...We are the head & not the tail above & not beneath because we, His people deserve His best & Restoration amen IT IS WHEN EVERYTHING IS RIGHT THEN WE SHOULD WORRY GB!

Amen!

Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.

This cancerous, lethal, and destructive quality, probably more than any other negative quality, has brought down more kingdoms, toppled more empires, caused more wars, destroyed more marriages, ruined more friendships, and led more criminals into our jail systems than all of the other negative qualities combined and put together.

The spirit of pride has to be the absolute king of all the negative and destructive qualities that can enter into our personalities – and no one is safe and immune from it. All Christians, young and old, super saint or not, have got to keep a sharp eye on this negative quality, and do everything they can not to let this spirit get a foothold and grip into their personalities and mindsets.

If God is all-powerful and there are no other Gods in existence, then anyone with half a brain can deduce that God cannot be defeated or overthrown. But Satan obviously was blinded by something else from being able to see this simple and logical truth – and that something else was probably the spirit of pride and arrogance that he had operating in him by the time he started to reach this point of no return. I believe this is why God is telling us in this particular verse that the spirit of pride will come right before the fall – as pride is what will start to blind you as to what the real truth of a matter is.

You have all heard many preachers talk about Joseph going from the pit to the palace. Saddam Hussein managed to do just the opposite. In a matter of just a few days, he literally went from the palace to the pit.

Saddam Hussein, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and all the rest of the despotic and evil dictators who have ever ruled on this earth will all go down as major history lessons for all of us showing us what pride, arrogance, and a haughty spirit can do to a person and his life.

It will first completely destroy a person’s soul and spirit, and then it will eventually destroy and ruin the rest of what life they still have left. And then for many of them, they will end up being cast into the most horrible place imaginable when they die and cross over – hell itself, and then eventually into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone after the Millennium has taken place, where the Bible says that the smoke of their torment will ascend forever and ever.

Be blessed.

Thank you for this reminder.

Holy Father, thank you that you love us enough to forgive us. Help us to walk in obedience to your will. Although the world calls us to other things. AMEN.

(04-20-2012 03:32 AM)Dawn1 Wrote:  THE PROPHET DANIEL RECORDS THE DOWNFALL OF THE GREAT BABYLONIAN KING, NEBUCHADNEZZAR. ONE DAY, THE KING LOOKED AROUND AT ALL HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED AND ARROGANTLY STATED:

"IS NOT THIS GREAT BABYLON, THAT I HAVE BUILT FOR A ROYAL DWELLING BY MY MIGHTY POWER AND FOR THE HONOR OF MY MAJESTY?" (DANIEL 4:30)

WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING THESE ARROGANT WORDS, A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAID, "KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, TO YOU IT IS SPOKEN: THE KINGDOM HAS DEPARTED FROM YOU" (DANIEL 4:31). THAT SAME HOUR, THE ONCE GREAT KING LOST HIS MIND AND BEGAN TO ACT LIKE AN ANIMAL, EATING GRASS UNTIL "HIS HAIR LIKE EAGLES' FEATHERS AND HIS NAILS LIKE BIRDS' CLAWS (DANIEL 4:33).

FATHER GOD, I PRAY TO AWAYS KEEPS MY EYES ON YOU, AND TO NEVER BEGAN TO FOCUS ON MY ACCOMLISHMENTS. I GIVE THANKS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE. IT IS NOT "I", BUT IT IS YOU. PROTECT ME FROM HAVING A HAUGHTY SPIRIT. I PRAY TO ALWAYS BE APPROACHABLE, AND TO HAVE A OPEN HEART FOR ADVICE THROUGH GODLY COUNSEL.

I PRAY FOR THE HEARTS OF MY PRAYER WARRIORS. LET THEM NOT FORGET WHERE YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM FROM. PROTECT THEM FROM SELF-SUFFICIENCY WHICH IS BROUGHT ON BY SELF-DECEPTION. AS I HAVE BEEN CONNECTING WITH THESE PRAYER WARRIORS I SEE HOW YOU ARE MOVING IN A POWERFUL WAY. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL DESTORY SATAN'S EVIL ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK ANYONE OF US. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY. AMEN. LET US PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER! HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

(04-22-2012 08:10 AM)Dawn1 Wrote:  

(04-20-2012 03:32 AM)Dawn1 Wrote:  THE PROPHET DANIEL RECORDS THE DOWNFALL OF THE GREAT BABYLONIAN KING, NEBUCHADNEZZAR. ONE DAY, THE KING LOOKED AROUND AT ALL HE HAD ACCOMPLISHED AND ARROGANTLY STATED:

"IS NOT THIS GREAT BABYLON, THAT I HAVE BUILT FOR A ROYAL DWELLING BY MY MIGHTY POWER AND FOR THE HONOR OF MY MAJESTY?" (DANIEL 4:30)

WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING THESE ARROGANT WORDS, A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAID, "KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, TO YOU IT IS SPOKEN: THE KINGDOM HAS DEPARTED FROM YOU" (DANIEL 4:31). THAT SAME HOUR, THE ONCE GREAT KING LOST HIS MIND AND BEGAN TO ACT LIKE AN ANIMAL, EATING GRASS UNTIL "HIS HAIR LIKE EAGLES' FEATHERS AND HIS NAILS LIKE BIRDS' CLAWS (DANIEL 4:33).

FATHER GOD, I PRAY TO AWAYS KEEPS MY EYES ON YOU, AND TO NEVER BEGAN TO FOCUS ON MY ACCOMLISHMENTS. I GIVE THANKS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE. IT IS NOT "I", BUT IT IS YOU. PROTECT ME FROM HAVING A HAUGHTY SPIRIT. I PRAY TO ALWAYS BE APPROACHABLE, AND TO HAVE A OPEN HEART FOR ADVICE THROUGH GODLY COUNSEL.

I PRAY FOR THE HEARTS OF MY PRAYER WARRIORS. LET THEM NOT FORGET WHERE YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM FROM. PROTECT THEM FROM SELF-SUFFICIENCY WHICH IS BROUGHT ON BY SELF-DECEPTION. AS I HAVE BEEN CONNECTING WITH THESE PRAYER WARRIORS I SEE HOW YOU ARE MOVING IN A POWERFUL WAY. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL DESTORY SATAN'S EVIL ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK ANYONE OF US. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY. AMEN. LET US PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER! HAVE A BLESSED DAY!