ANGER AND PRIDE
1 Samuel 18:1-16

In faith clinic, if there is any spirit that a believer needs to constantly check and reject it is the spirit of anger and pride. It is impossible to have anger and not have pride. Anger is not of God neither is pride of God. Anger and pride is a killer and it will not spare the life of any man who refuses to check himself out for spiritual treatment. If left unchecked, it will always kill. King Saul was chosen by God to be the king over the children of Israel yet anger and pride refused to spare his life. After David killed Goliath, the spirit of anger and pride in the life of Saul was activated. The Bible records, “Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, ‘They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?’” (1 Samuel 18:8) The Bible verses here say it all about what the combination of anger and pride can do in the life of any man. King Saul’s anger had a source. The source of his anger was pride that was rooted in how David was celebrated more than himself as a result of the victory of Goliath. If you are in a position to celebrate what the Lord has done or what He is doing in the life of any man but instead you have developed a reason to be angry, there is a need for you to check into a faith clinic and get help. King Saul was angry because the position that the Lord had called him to be was reduced by what the Lord was doing through David. In his anger, he began to be threatened about what would become of him in the future. Does this sound like you? This type of spirit that was in Saul is not of God and it is only meant to kill and to destroy. Saul’s demonstration of anger and pride gave place to a distressing spirit in him. “And it happened on the next day that the distressing spirit from God came upon Saul…” (1 Samuel 18:10) The distressing spirit that came upon Saul provoked his attempt to pin David to the wall with a spear. As a child of God who is called of God to a ground of ministration, whatever rises against you will not prevail. David was supposed to be afraid, but God who works in all turned the story around as it was recorded: “…Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul” (1 Samuel 18:12). The enemy will be afraid of you just as he was for David.
Prayer for today: Father, I ask in Jesus name, let that which is not of You be permanently terminated in my life while Your Spirit takes full control.