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(James 4:6) “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Part 3: WE MAY LET GO... BUT GOD NEVER WILL — 10. Pride (insecurity, success/achievement that becomes idolised, or habitually avoiding vulnerability)

I watched a pastor’s testimony after he travelled to Asbury University to see what was happening at their revival meetings. As he spoke, he kept wiping away tears—he said the presence of the Holy Spirit was palpable at the altar, and God spoke clearly to him about his arrogance and pride in the way he led his church.

Child of the Living God, always be open before Him. Tell Him what’s happening—(He already knows it all anyway). Pride is really just fear in disguise: we think it acts like a shield protecting us from the fear of losing status, control, relationships, or our sense of worth. But Scripture warns that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6; Prov. 16:18), and He will do whatever He can to expose those fears so we can be healed.

If you’re struggling, ask someone to pray with you. Two or more people praying together are beautiful: by humbling yourself to pray openly about your problems, you reveal your heart to others. That vulnerability breaks the ugly covering of pride, lets others feel safe to be honest too, and creates space for God’s grace and correction to work.

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Let's pray. "Heavenly Father, You've heard all the excuses before, and You know every excuse we make for what we do... help us, Lord, to be 'real' especially with each other." Amen!

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KARP (VOL I)

ADVENTURES & ANGELS

My book has finally been published …

Other than the Prologue — intentionally stopped at the moment of God’s supernatural intervention — the rest of the book is meant to introduce Karp and the people who orbit him. The scenes that follow are drawn from my life, from testimonies I’ve read and heard, and from moments that have pierced my heart so deeply I felt compelled to tell them again. There’s a truth I keep returning to, one philosophers have voiced for centuries: those who won’t learn from history risk repeating its worst chapters.

As each character opens up, we begin to see how alike we really are. The same fierce passions that drove people in the first century — greed, pride, fear, doubt, even self‑hatred — still live inside us in the twenty‑first. Yet even through that hard, unflinching lens of reality, the light of God shines: faithful, renewing, and tender to the children trapped in their private struggles.

In the opening chapters we watch Karp’s world collapse when cholera steals his family. In the aftermath, broken and vulnerable, he is kidnapped, abused, and sold into slavery. God’s protection, however, takes surprising shape: the care of a lonely, grieving spinster who becomes his mother and his refuge. That woman — a seventy‑year‑old, depressed, companionless Mary Magdalene — brings a quiet, fierce kindness that changes him.

You’ll also meet others who already occupy footnotes in Christian lore and world mythology. I’ve tried to bring them back to life on the page, not as untouchable legends but as people whose choices will challenge us. Karp helps a king rescue a kidnapped princess, works covertly with occupying Roman forces to protect islanders from marauding pirates, and faces the dark powers at the temple of Artemis in Ephesus. Through every danger and decision, he pushes us to choose the higher paths of hope and faith.

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