Make a thorough examination to see if you are puffed up or in pride. Haven't I said that pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall? I speak particularly to those who are gifted and are ministering according to those gifts. You can no longer deem yourselves superior, for I am tearing down idols in My Church, says the Lord, and those who set themselves above others or allow themselves to be set up will come down. Set a watch at the portals of your heart, for if you do not repent of this pride your gift will be relegated to the realm of the flesh instead of operating by the power of My Spirit. I am calling those who are humble to come up higher, and I will not tolerate condescension. Luke 14:7-11 So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them: "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him; and he who invited you and him come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. For whoever exalts himself will be abased, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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