<< Week 43 >>
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Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
No Pride in Heaven
"God doesn't want anyone to go to hell. God doesn't want to destroy any nation or any family or any person. He wishes that everyone would just repent and come to heaven."
~ Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
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For all that the world can offer us—the gratification of our flesh, the allurement of the things of the world, and the obsession with status and importance —none of these things come from the Father but
from the world.
— 1 John 2:16 (TPT)
DISCUSSION:
The Spirit of God wants us to understand that we need to die to our agenda. We need not be prideful and think that we can just push what we want because it's not about our will. It's about His will. Jesus displayed the will of the Father. He said, "I don't even say what I want to say. I only say what my Father says. I don't speak any words on my own. When the Spirit of God comes, the Spirit's not going to speak on His own; It's only going to speak what the Father says." Jesus understood submission and the line of command.
Jesus said, "no one knows the time when the Son of God will return except the Father." In Heaven, everything has an order and a plan. There's a chain of command, and the Father is in charge. He's given all the authority and the name above all names to Jesus.
• In Heaven, there are no questions, but here on Earth, we have all these questions because we judge things by how we deal with them here.
• We can't figure out how the Trinity is three in one. Each person of the Trinity is one. Each of these parts has its own expression.
• Jesus was obedient and came back, succeeding at salvation.
• The whole plan was made before man was thought of in the Earth.
• God, Himself was not diminished when He sent His Son to the Earth to die in the flesh and go to the belly of the Earth for three days. It didn't diminish Him at all.
• He offered up His Son to show us, and there was no pride. There was no problem between the Trinity because it was all planned out.
• The problem is with us when we try to figure it out.
• When Jesus was on the Earth, He would do things that would make the disciples question what He was doing, and Jesus wouldn't stop going in the direction He was heading.
• The disciples judged Him based on their prideful way of looking at things instead of submitting to Him.
• We have to know that God and Jesus may know something that we don't know, and we need to be humble about it.
• There's no pride in Heaven, and we need to die to our own agenda.
In what ways will you lay down your agenda and pride and realize He is your source for all the answers in life?
PRIDE AND HUMILITY
James 4:6 (TPT): But he continues to pour out more and more grace upon us. For it says, "God resists you when you are proud but continually pours out grace when you are humble."
Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
There are many things this world will offer us to try to pull us away from who God is and His plan and purpose for our life. Don't be obsessed with the way of the world, and don't be fixated on what the world says you need.
• To keep the flow of grace going in your life, you need to stay humble.
• He's going to resist you when you're proud. The word resist means to push back. We don't want to be pushed back by God.
• We need His continuous help. He resists the problem, but He gives grace to the humble.
• People who aren't humble and are judgmental are lacking in grace.
• God doesn't want anyone to go to hell. God doesn't want to destroy any nation or any family, or any person.
• He wishes that everyone would just repent and come to Heaven.
• It's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance, according to the apostle Paul.
• The Lord understands that you want to protect yourself, but you're going to have to stop defending yourself. Your pride gets hurt, and there's a part of you that doesn't want to be wrong and for things to work out for you.
• No one likes to fail or be wrong.
• Staying humble is how you receive the grace of God, and humility helps you work through situations in life.
• If you submit to grace and you rely on God's mercy rather than try to defend yourself or try to push yourself forward, you will see the favor of God in your life.
1. In what ways do we resist God's will, and how is it that God can resist us? How do we resist what the world offers?
2. Discuss: What it means that there is no pride in Heaven.
3. Discuss: How you can get into the flow of favor and the grace of God.
4. How do you purposefully walk in humility to bring in God's grace? What changes will you make individually to remain humble?
5. What new thing did you learn today about humility?
PRAYER:
Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you so much for favoring us. And I thank you, Lord, that you smile upon us and you understand our weaknesses. You understand what we're going through. And we just ask you, Lord, that you would just help us to flow in that grace and that we could see that flow and forgiveness and not caring about what people think and just caring about what you think and submitting to you and seeing things just work out in our lives and smooth out.
Father, I just thank you for your provision and helping people. Thank you for the power, the resurrection power that ignites everyone's spirit right now. All our friends all over the world, warriors getting touched by the fire of God and being ignited in passion and righteousness and justice inside their spirit Lord, just rising up and not being afraid. Not being afraid to be wrong, Lord, because you're going to help us. You're going to help us be right in Jesus' name. Thank you for the flow of favor right now. We just speak favor over Warrior Churches and warriors all over the world.
Lord God, thank you for the impartation now in Jesus' name. Amen.
