HEARING FROM HEAVEN
(1) 2 Chron. 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
(2) Humble - Few of us are big enough to become little enough to be used of God
(3) Strong's Hebrew Number 3665 To be humble, be humbled, be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under, be brought into subjection
(4) 1 Cor. 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
(5) 1Cor. 1:26 Amp. For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise, according to human estimates and standards; not many influential and powerful; not many of high and noble birth.
I. Why (1) 1 Cor. 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
(2) Humble - Submissive to the will of God
(3) To be bowed down; applied to the humbling or mortifying the proud; to a wicked person being humbled for his sins by repentance
(4) Webster's - To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride of; to reduce the arrogance and self dependence of in a religious sense, to make meek and submissive to the Divine Will
(5) Philip. 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
(6) Philip. 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
(7) Philip. 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
(8) Philip. 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
(9) John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
(10) Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself. It is not thinking of self at all |