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Grace Over Pride: Aligning the Heart for Kingdom Work ... English

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A clear call to humble ourselves under God’s hand shapes the path from pride to grace, from resistance to favor. We move from David’s prayers to Noah’s obedience to see how God aligns, appoints, and empowers those who lower themselves.

• being clothed with humility as command and practice
• David’s prayers in Psalms 51 and 139 as a blueprint for repentance and alignment
• dividing the unity of the flesh to unite with the Spirit
• why God resists pride and gives grace to the humble
• Noah finding favor and building beyond his expertise
• the pathway to divine appointments and kingdom alignment
• corporate prayer as action to humble ourselves now

Oh God, we humble ourselves under your mighty hand; search us, try us, align us with your kingdom


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Praise the name of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We're just gonna have everybody come in this area here if we can kind of squeeze in as much as possible.

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We're gonna let's have a seat. Go ahead and have a seat.

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Jesus. We're standing up.

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I think so. Are we standing up, Brother Robinet? Okay.

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Amen. God is so good, Amen. Amen. It's an honor to be a part of this team.

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It's an honor to say part of this equipo.

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In this group of people, this group of apostolics. Amen. I'm just so excited for what God has already done and what he's going to do. Amen. Turn to 1 Peter chapter 5. Starting in verse 5.

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In the verse.

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It says, likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. It says, All of you be subject one to another. And be clothed with humility. For God resisteth the proud. And he gives grace to the humble. Verse 6 says, Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God. That he may exalt you in due time. And if I could this morning, I want to speak on this topic, the clothing of humility. And that is why you are here, amen. Because you desire an apostolic ministry. But there is an order to God that cannot be rejected or ignored. And he requires his vessels and his people. In Psalms 51, David prays a prayer that we all know so well. It was a prayer of repentance and a humble prayer. He said, Have mercy upon me. He said, Cleanse me. Purge me. Make me. He said, Create in me a clean heart, O God. And renew a right spirit within me. He said, Cast me not away from thy presence. Don't take your Holy Spirit from me. He said, Restore unto me the joy of my salvation. Amen. And uphold me with thy free spirit. And then in verse 13, he says, Then will I teach transgressors thy ways. And sinners shall be converted unto thee. If we want to minister to sinners, if we want to see the multitudes converted, amen. Our hearts have to be right before God. It has to be God's will first. Then I. He said, Then will I teach transgressors thy ways? Another prayer of David in Psalms 139. He said, Search me, O God. And know my heart. He said, try me.

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Examiname.

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Test me. He said, Search me, O God.

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He said, and know my thoughts.

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He said, God, would you see if there's any wicked thing in me? He said, Would you test me and try me and search me? He said, lead me. Guia me in thy way everlasting. Brothers and sisters, our hearts and our thoughts have to be right with God.

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They have to be able to start alineados con el Señor.

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They have to be in subjection, in alignment with the kingdom. The Bible says that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

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Amen. And the house of the flesh must be divided.

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The house of your flesh must be divided. There cannot be unity in your flesh. That veil in your life has to be rent into twain. The Bible says, James said it this way the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. He was saying, the Holy Ghost is jealous. When we are unified with our flesh. And when we are unified with our flesh, we are not unified with the spirit. Amen. And these distractions of the flesh become attractions of the flesh. Amen. And this cannot be if we are going to be in alignment with the kingdom of God. And these prayers that we read about in Psalms come from a man of God who understood and understands that he needed to keep his heart right and humble. He says you need to subject yourself one to another. And you need to be clothed with humility. It means to fasten or gird oneself to. He said, God resists the proud. I don't know about you. But I already have enough resistance. We have resistance in the flesh. The world around us is resisting us every day.

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And the last thing we need is for God to resist us.

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Kingdom work cannot be done when God resists us. But Peter said, God resists the proud. But he gives grace to the humble. He gives favor to those who are humble. He gives a little extra. A little extra that's out of the ordinary to the humble. To those who are willing to lower themselves.

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Put themselves understand into subjection.

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There is a grace that comes from God. In Genesis chapter 6.

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In Genesis chapit there was great sin.

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There was corruption. There was violence. And God had a plan to destroy the earth. And he had repented that he had even made mankind. But in Genesis chapter 6 and verse 8. It says, But Noah found grace. In the eyes of the Lord. There was something in the heart of Noah. That God took notice of. Because God gives grace to the humble. Noah with this favor from God. He built an ark. He built something that he had never seen before. He built something that he had never even imagined before.

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He had no experience.

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He didn't understand the concepts of shipbuilding. The concepts of naval engineering. He wasn't a shipwright.

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But with the grace of God, he built the ship right.

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It was to the saving of his family. And to the preservation of mankind. If we want to do something for God, be a part of the building of the kingdom. The building of an ark. To the saving of his people. We need the grace of God on our side. We need the supernatural favor. And the supernatural strength of God on our side. And I desire for that grace to be multiplied. I want to grow in grace. I want to go before the throne of grace. But the pathway for that favor is that we must. We have to, there is no option. We have to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God. He will make the appointments before kings. God will do the arranging. He will do the aligning. And we need the grace of God. We need the help of the Lord. Amen. If we're going to be a part of the building of the kingdom. So I feel this morning. I wonder if we could all just stand here. We could just grab a hold of the person next to us. Amen. And I wonder if we could just the word humble. Amen. It's a verb.

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It's a verbo.

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It's an action item.

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It's an action.

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And it means to make yourself lower. It means to render yourself less. Amen. And it's very easy to do. When we look at how big and great God is. I wonder this morning, can we pray a prayer of humbleness? Let's ask God to search us to try us.

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In the name of Jesus. We humble ourselves today. Under the mighty hand of God. Oh search me to death. God try me, oh God. You know the thoughts and the intense and my God will be right before you, God. I need your grace. Oh God, I submit myself to the alignment of the kingdom.

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