Spirit of Arrogrance

For the past couple of days, I have been pondering how even in the best of Christians, there is an area that we overlook when it comes to dying to ourselves and totally trusting the Lord.

So I ask you, is the Spirit of Arrogance what is keeping us from having total freedom in our relationship with the Lord? Our healing? Our break through?

Arrogance is defined overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors. Arrogance is one of the seven chief features, or stumbling blocks. Its positive pole is pride; its negative pole is vanity. It is a fear of being judged.

Now think about what happens to a person when they ask the Lord to come into their lives. Then as they begin allowing the Lord to change them, they begin questioning His gifts, or what they believe they should or should not have to give up. They do not want to become too radical. Being perceived as being “too religious” is an issue for them.

Then as we become comfortable with out walk with the Lord, something is placed in our life by the Lord to see if we will trust Him totally. But instead of trusting we question.

Yesterday, the Lord, put in a prayer warrior’s spirit to have a mother stand in proxy for her daughter who had been suffering for years with migraine headaches. The headaches had been getting worse since her husband had taken a position in a local Church they attended. At the end of the service the mother went to her son-in-law to let him know that there where those there who wanted her to sit in proxy for her daughter to receive healing.

To her dismay and the others ready to pray, he said no. He wanted her to at a certain place, in a certain spot, and did not want anyone to even go to her home and pray for her. We did not lay hands on her mother, but we as a group prayed for her. We had to be respectful of the husband’s authority.

As I drove home, I thought long and hard at the scenario. Instead of taking an opportunity to pray, he wanted it in the manner he wanted it in. Arrogance? Wanting to control where and when his wife received her healing. Arrogance?

So many times over the years I have seen this same wanting to “control” how and when the Lord moved.

Let’s look at a second scenario. How do we handle receiving The Gifts of the Holy Spirit? Lord, it’s not that I don’t want what ever you have, but I don’t want to be “radical”. What if someone “hears” me? What if someone thinks I am weird, a fanatic? Arrogance?

Don’t think I have totally learned this lesson. As of this weekend, I wanted to put my ducks in a row instead of trusting that God’s Hand as in control of a situation. The good news is He was in control; the sad thing is I went through an uncomfortable conversation that could have been avoided, if I had not had the arrogance of thinking I had to help my Abba Father with another plan if He failed to get the job done. Ouch!! I have learned this lesson very well!!

Now, let me ask you, what if when Jesus went to the cross, he questioned whether or not it cause people not to like him? Or it would be painful? He would have to choose a different life style?

No instead he went to the Cross; He gave it all for us. And it was on that Cross He bought not just our life, but He bought our Healing and gave us the most powerful life we could have, if only we would take the gift.

Our arrogant thinking is more worried about what we want and how we want it than being humbled and appreciative of all the gifts, the healing and love and mercy He has for us. We want it with conditions! We are telling our all Holy, all Loving, all Forgiving Abba Father, we don’t want it His way, we want it our way. Arrogance?

This made me take a deep look at myself and how I have in my own spiritual life have not just allowed the Lord to override my “arrogant self” but wanted it done in my way and my time and the way I wanted it.

Jack Taylor wrote in His Book “Keys of Triumph Living” - “Let the Christian play it safe and there is no glory. He can live clean, be moral and efficient, stand out for all to see, and even be “dedicated”, but there is no glory. He is impressive but not miraculous; but he learns the secret! It is Christ in him that is the hope of glory! He takes death to himself and chooses to let the death-life principle become operative in his live. As he dies to himself, Christ begins to live through him. The agony he fears and the tragedy he faces gives way to a victory he shares.”

If this man had gone ahead and allowed his mother-in-law to stand in proxy, would his wife be totally healed at this very moment? I the young couple had truly allowed the Holy Spirit to truly dwell in their lives without worrying how it would affect their relationship with their friends, would their marriage have had greater victory?

All I know is we must stop allowing the Spirit of Arrogance to keep us from experiencing total Freedom in Kingdom Living with our Abba Father.

So take a minute and just look at what you are holding on to, refuse to do or let go of and yes trying to “control” a situation because of the Spirit of Arrogance.

It is well worth giving it all to Him and letting Him have total control of your life. Who cares more about you than Abba Father? No one.