{"id":2334,"date":"2006-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.gleeckit.com\/2006\/07\/09\/empty-pride\/"},"modified":"2006-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T00:00:00","slug":"empty-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=2334","title":{"rendered":"Empty Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Empty Pride< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2Kings 5:1-15<\/p>\n<p>His first name is Naaman, but his middle name should be \u00d2Empty Pride\u00d3. He was sent to Elisha for healing <b><i>2Kings 5:1, \u00d2Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of <\/i><\/b>< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><b><i>Syria<\/i><\/b><b><i>, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to <\/i><\/b><b><i>Syria<\/i><\/b><b><i>. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.\u00d3<\/i><\/b> His great and honorable status was in the eyes of his master, not in the eyes of his affliction (leprosy). Naaman\u00d5s status does not extend to Elisha, or the Jordan River. What about you? Are you Naaman-ing yourself in any way? All that the empty commander needed was to go and take a dive seven times in the Jordan River, and wipe off the \u00d4but\u00d5 in his life. <b><i>2Kings5:1,1 \u00d2Naaman became furious, and went away and said, \u00d4indeed, I said to myself, He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.\u00d5\u00d5\u00d5<\/i><\/b> As a leper, he could have been a beggar on the street. A wise saying states, \u00d2Beggars are not choosers.\u00d3 His status was a cloud to him; he could not see beyond his nose. When your shoulder is beginning to rise above your head, it is an indication that you have moved to a ground of self destruction. Pride is a terrible cancer, and it will deny your deliverance; destruction will have its reign. <b><i>Proverbs 16:18, \u00d2Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.\u00d3<\/i><\/b> Watch out, you have not arrived until the King of Kings arrives to take over for everlasting life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empty Pride< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> 2Kings 5:1-15 His first name is Naaman, but his middle name should be \u00d2Empty Pride\u00d3. He was sent to Elisha for healing 2Kings 5:1, \u00d2Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of < ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=2334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empty Pride<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}