What is True Humility? - A Nighttime Prayer

By humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches and honor and life.

-- Proverbs 22:4 (NIV)

Please Pray:

Lord, thank You for the example of Jesus, who stepped out of ivory palaces and took up a servant’s towel.

Help me to seek the humility described—not as a performance to be seen by others, but as a quiet posture of the heart. Save me from the 'false humility' that seeks its own glory. Instead, give me the wisdom to know when to step back for others out of love, and the grace to walk confidently in the life and honor You provide.

Let my heart be stirred by Your love and Humility today. May I decrease, so that Your light may increase through me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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