Prayers for pride and humility
Success is going to my head
For a heart that bends low enough to learn.
Also for success · promotion · praise · getting proud · recognition · self-made · achievement · fame · status · forgetting god · taking credit
and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches. But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
A prayer
Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.
Lord, things are going well, and I can feel my heart shifting. I start to believe I built this myself. It was you who gave me the ability, the open doors, and the people who helped.
Keep me grateful and grounded. Let praise pass through me to you instead of settling on me. Protect me from the pride that made King Uzziah forget who put him there.
Not to me, Lord, but to your name be the glory. In Jesus' name, Amen.