Yes, pride is the most deadly and costly of all sins. Very few people can receive honors from the world or God without becoming conceited. Therefore even though God may want to, he often dares not operate powerfully in our lives if it were to move us to pride. Watchman Nee said that God s great work is to reduce us, that is, our ego. Prayer is where the action is and intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do and it doesn t inflate the ego.
Praise produces forgetfulness of self and forgetfulness of self is health.
Satan fears our praise more than our prayer. Praise may not always change the circumstances, but it will change us because the subject of praise is the character and integrity of God himself. Biblical Examples of God and Man Working Together Through Obedience. In the Old Testament we find God doing mighty acts in the lives of Abraham, Moses, Jonah and others. But there were acts of obedience on the part of these saints that were part of the process.