PRETENSION

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Today’s message as authored by David Abankwah, under the auspices of God’s inspiration, and narrated by Cassidy, is entitled as PRETENSION

And the key text is taken from the epistle of James, chapter 3, and its verse number 5, The New King James Version Of The Bible

And I Quote

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles!

Now the exposition

Pretension is the quality of behaviour, or speech in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth. To boast is to be pretentious. Anyone who boasts carnally and not in the Lord, does not always say the truth of who he is, what he is not, what he has and what he has not, but creates a false appearance of communication. Jesus Christ who is body of the unseen God, left us an example, to follow in a way as to eschew pretension. Even though He was God, He didn’t boast carnally to be as equal as God, or to claim the position of where God the Father was, but, took upon Himself the flesh of mortals to save us.

The aim of boasting, is to exaggerate who a person really is. The tongue is normally the substance for making boastful claims. It is a potential deceitful organ, that can be used to undergo pretentious operations. Look at how a guy becomes pretentious, when he wants to commit fornication or adultery. To deceive the lady, the vibes he usually uses, are not always the truth. They can tell the woman he is from an honourably family, or even tell her the things he does not even have. He can even promise her something more valuable, than what he can afford with the intention of spicing the proposal. Let our yes be yes and no be no, because, what is above this is pretention.

In such a demand for her as his beloved, he can use every pretentious means to get her but, such people can’t preach to win souls. During the last supper, Peter became pretentious. Jesus Christ told them the truth, concerning the offence his arrest would bring to them, but Peter being pretentious, said that he alone would stand by him all times, be committed or loyal to him even to the point of death. Before the altar, married couples vow serious commitments to their spouses, to stay with them for better and for the worse. But when the challenging times come, they falter and divorce. How pretentious many married couples are, when they are before the altar of marriage.

Be careful of the circumstances you find yourself in. If you don’t take care, it will lead you to make pretentious claims, promises, swear oaths, or make pledges all in the name of making a point, which you think you can fulfill some day. In merry times, don’t allow your tongue to promise things, you know you don’t have the means of its provision. In difficult times, don’t make promises of commitment and loyalty, if you know you can’t fulfil them. Don’t allow your tongue to influence you. Dominate what comes out of your mouth. The choice of words you use, will make or unmake you. When you lose someone’s trust, it will be very difficult for you to get it back again.

Prayer Diary
1. Lift up prayers to desist from chronic acts of creating false appearances to deceive people.

2. Lift up prayers for the perseverance of being with people through their hardest times without leaving them.

3. Lift up prayers to be patient amid adverse circumstances, that influence you to make decisions, or make choices in a hurry that are not the will of God.

4. Lift up prayers to live a life of truth or realness, so you won’t deceive them and lose their trust at the same time.

5. Bind every evil spirit of pretension that makes you live a life of hypocrisy.

6. Declare that: ‘I am delivered from the character, habit, mindset, destiny, and spirit of pretension. I am now living a life of truthfulness, everywhere I find myself in the name of Jesus Christ.’

Quote
One bitter truth is worth taking than thousands of sweet lies

Further Scriptural Reading On This Message: Matthew Chapter 26, and its Verse Number 31 to 33

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