by Ray Viola | Mar 5, 2024 | Devotionals
Pride is perhaps the gravest sin in humans. It overestimates self and underestimates God and others. The Bible tells us quite a bit about this ugly sin. For one thing, God hates pride and arrogance in any area of life, whether it is spiritual pride (like the Pharisees...
by Ray Viola | Apr 11, 2022 | Devotionals
After Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines in 1 Samuel 13, the Scriptures tell us that Saul blew the trumpet! He wanted the accolades of the people; he was seeking power and fame. Remember another time how David was used to win a battle over the Philistines,...
by Ray Viola | Dec 17, 2021 | Devotionals
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Pride is the enemy of genuine fellowship and healing. Pride refuses to confess any weakness or easily...
by Ray Viola | Dec 12, 2021 | Devotionals
In the fourth chapter of the Book of Daniel, the Holy Spirit has a message for the king of Babylon. His name is Nebuchadnezzar. The king was probably the most powerful man on the face of the earth. He, like so many people, believed that his success was the product...
by Ray Viola | Apr 30, 2020 | Devotionals
Esther 5.11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. Like the religious fraud in the temple in Luke...