18 – Pride / Leviathan

Bible Verses

Job 41:1 – “Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?” (NKJV)

Job 41:33-34 – “On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear. He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride.(NKJV)

Proverbs 16:18 – “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” (NIV)

Isaiah 27:1 – “In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword—his fierce, great and powerful sword—Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.” (NIV)

Discussion

Pride and arrogance are represented by Leviathan in the Bible, as said in Job 41:33-34 that he is the king of pride over all his children. He is referred to as a creator of chaos, a twisting serpent that causes division and confusion. His pride causes deception, twisting of truth, and a resistance to God and His truth. Pride is also the sin that expelled Lucifer from heaven. The book of Isaiah 14:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:12-17 both tell the story of pride found in Lucifer and the resulting desire to be exalted above God. In Revelation 12:7-9, it talks about the war in heaven where Michael and his angels, fought against the dragon. The great dragon, the ancient serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down out of Heaven along with his angels.

Prayer

Father God, Please forgive me for any way that I have been prideful or arrogant. I repent and renounce and break every generational curse of pride, arrogance, rebellion, self-exaltation, and deception. I repent and renounce the dragon (Satan) and every source of his demonic power, the beast of the sea and all forms of the Antichrist power, the devil, Lucifer, Leviathan, and any other symbolic beast or demonic power that causes chaos or strife and is an enemy of God. I thank you, God, for making my crooked paths straight, for keeping my heart humble and my eyes fixed on You. I ask for the fear of and reverence for You only, God, to come upon me, and that You alone, God, will get all the honor and all of the glory. In Jesus’ name, Amen.