AM: I don’t want to go to that event…

Betty: When do you get in that part? Does it feel like it comes across that it’s too good to be at that kind of thing? 

AM: No, I just don’t like going…

Betty: Because the word I got was arrogance. See, I noticed the Lord is really working to try to help you recognize wherever your arrogance is hiding, so that you keep pulling it up, looking at it, owning it, and taking responsibility to pray to God to be healed of it. Because it’s very important. The Lord is repelled by arrogance. And you’re gonna need to be really close to the Lord if we enter into rough times. So, you really want to pray that that arrogance leaves you. Then, the honest part of you that knows it really is dependent on Jesus can come forth and call for the help that you need at a time of need. Pray, “Lord, anywhere that I have given refuge to arrogance, please help me to repent of hanging on to it.” 

There’s a part of deception that almost feels that being arrogant is being strong. And on the contrary, it makes us weak in the strength of Jesus. Because Jesus is repelled by arrogance. It’s like a false god. It’s the part of us that opens to false gods. So, you really want to cry out to be delivered from any ownership to that. I got the image of the parable of Pharisee (Luke 18: 9-14). Jesus talked about him. He stood there thanking God that he was not like this Publican. That’s the picture I got. So, can you say, “Lord, if there is a part of me that acts that way, even though I am not conscious of it, I want to let it go for healing. Please detach me from it and all the deceit it caused me to pick it up. I renounce it.  It’s like arrogance has its own falsehoods that it plays inside of us. And then we give it refuge. But we really need to let go. It’s not a friend. “Jesus meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like unto Thine.” Can you say, “Lord, in any way I have negative bondages going over into any of my children, I ask for pardon. Please cut these negative bondages and help us to relate to each other out of the abundance of  our health rather than out of our weakest parts. If you can, image withdrawing anything negative and in bonds that have come out from you looking for somebody else to take responsibility for something that you don’t want to own. Can you say, “Lord, please help me not to project judgments upon those I love. If you want healing, help me to recognize it as such and cooperate. But help me not to put myself above another. as though they’re inferior to me. I don’t know fully where this arrogance comes.”