This document discusses the importance of humility and grace in the Christian faith. It provides several examples from the Bible where people were exalted by God when they humbled themselves, such as Daniel who prayed daily. The document contrasts humility with pride, noting that one must humble themselves before God to receive grace. It encourages behaviors like prayer, forgiveness, and avoiding boasting to cultivate humility before God.

2. For the law was given through Moses;
grace and truth came through Jesus
Christ.
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All over the world this gospel is bearing
fruit and growing, just as it has been
doing among you since the day you heard
it and understood God's grace in all its
truth.

3.  Appropriately, the free unmerited
love and favor of God, the spring
and source of all the benefits men
receive from him.
 GRACE also means receiving God's
blessings we don't deserve.

4. 1. The Grace of God in our
Salvation.
2. The Grace of God in our Total
Development and Transformation.
3. The Grace of God in our Calling
to Serve in the Ministry.
4. The Grace of God in our Times of
Needs and Prosperity.
5. The Grace of God in our Humility

6. 1Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves,
therefore, under God's mighty hand,
that he may lift you up in due time.

7. Matthew 23:12
For whoever exalts
himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles
himself will be exalted.

8. Jonah 2:8
Those who cling to worthless
idols forfeit the grace that
could be theirs.

9. NOTE:
GOD GIVES GRACE TO THE
HUMBLE AND
WE HUMBLE AND BECOME
HUMBLE BY GOD'S GRACE.
MEEKNESS IS NOT A SIGN OF
WEAKNESS
IT TAKES A LOT OF STRENGTH
AND COURAGE TO BECOME
MEEK AND HUMBLE

10. Daniel 10:12
Then he continued, "Do not be
afraid, Daniel. Since the first day
that you set your mind to gain
understanding and to humble
yourself before your God, your
words were heard, and I have
come in response to them.

11. DANIEL PRAYER
MAKES US
HUMBLE.
DANIEL PRAYER
IS 3X PRAYING
WITH
THANKSGIVING
DAILY ON OUR
KNEES

12. Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel learned that the
decree had been published, he
went home to his upstairs room
where the windows opened
toward Jerusalem. Three times a
day he got down on his knees and
prayed, giving thanks to his God,
just as he had done before.

13. NOTE:
PRAYERLESSNESS IS A
FORM OF PRIDE THAT
SHOWS YOU CAN MAKE OR
DO IT WITHOUT GOD.
NEGLECTING TO PRAY IS
NEGLECTING TO HUMBLE
YOURSELF BEFORE GOD.

14. Philippians 2:8 And being found in
appearance as a man, he humbled
himself and became obedient to
death-- even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:9 Therefore God exalted
him to the highest place and gave him
the name that is above every name,

15. Hebrews 3:15
As has just been said:"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your
hearts as you did in the rebellion.“
NOTE:
DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD'S VOICE IS REBELLION

16. GOD BREAKS DOWN THE STUBBORN PRIDE
Leviticus 26:18
'If after all this you will not listen to me, I will
punish you for your sins seven times over.
Leviticus 26:19 I will break down your
stubborn pride and make the sky above you
like iron and the ground beneath you like
bronze.
Leviticus 26:20 Your strength will be spent in
vain, because your soil will not yield its
crops, nor will the trees of the land yield
their fruit.

17. 1Peter 5:5 Young men, in the
same way be submissive to
those who are older. All of you,
clothe yourselves with humility
toward one another, because,
"God opposes the proud but
gives grace to the humble.",

18. NOTE: WE HUMBLE AND BECOME
HUMBLE WHEN WE ACCEPT
CORRECTIONS AND REBUKES
Titus 2:15 These, then, are the
things you should teach.
Encourage and rebuke with
all authority. Do not let
anyone despise you.

19. Psalms 51:3
For I know my
transgressions, and my
sin is always before me.

21. Matthew 6:14 For if you forgive men
when they sin against you, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Matthew 6:15 But if you do not forgive
men their sins, your Father will not
forgive your sins.
Matthew 18:35 "This is how my
heavenly Father will treat each of you
unless you forgive your brother from
your heart."

22. 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.

23. (CEV) Be friendly with everyone. Don't be
proud and feel that you are smarter than
others. Make friends with ordinary people.
(AMP) Live in harmony with one another; do
not be haughty (snobbish, high-minded,
exclusive), but readily adjust yourself to
[people, things] and give yourselves to
humble tasks. Never overestimate yourself
or be wise in your own conceits.(1)
(NLT) Live in harmony with each other. Don't
try to act important, but enjoy the company
of ordinary people. And don't think you
know it all!

24. 1Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace
of God I am what I am, and his
grace to me was not without effect.
No, I worked harder than all of
them--yet not I, but the grace of
God that was with me.

25. James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift
is from above, coming
down from the Father of
the heavenly lights, who
does not change like
shifting shadows.

26. Jeremiah 9:23 This is what the LORD
says: "Let not the wise man boast of
his wisdom or the strong man boast of
his strength or the rich man boast of
his riches,
Jeremiah 9:24 but let him who boasts
boast about this: that he understands
and knows me, that I am the LORD,
who exercises kindness, justice and
righteousness on earth, for in these I
delight," declares the LORD.

27. 2Corinthians 10:17
But, "Let him who
boasts boast in the
Lord."[3]

28. James 4:13 Now listen, you who
say, "Today or tomorrow we will
go to this or that city, spend a
year there, carry on business
and make money."
James 4:14 Why, you do not even
know what will happen
tomorrow. What is your life? You
are a mist that appears for a little
while and then vanishes.

29. James 4:15 Instead, you
ought to say, "If it is the
Lord's will, we will live
and do this or that."
James 4:16 As it is, you
boast and brag. All such
boasting is evil.

30. CHALLENGE TO MAKE A
COMMITMENT TO HUMILITY
1.) DO THE DANIEL PRAYER
2.) ALWAYS APOLOGIZE
3.) ALWAYS FORGIVE
4.) NEVER BOAST ABOUT
YOURSELF BUT BOAST IN THE
LORD