Pride!
This is probaly the greatest enemy of faith of them all, and can manifest in ones life in any number of ways; thinking you're better than others, looking down on others, blaming everybody but yourself including God for your shortcomings and failures, being braggadocios, thinking you don't need anyones help including God's, and believing any success you've achieved in life is all your own doing just to name a few.
When we are pridefull our faith is nipped in the bud, won't get God's attention and He will not respond to our faith. In fact, if we are pridefull we're probably not operating by faith at all!
James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5 tell us that God resists the proud. But even more than that, Proverbs 6:16 tells us there are 7 things God hates and are an abomination to Him, with pride being right at the top of the list in verses 17-19. Now one definition of abomination is extreme disgust and hatred. So if God resists and has extreme disgust and hatred toward pride, do you think your faith will be effective when you are being prideful? Absolutely not!
Therefore humble yourself and submit to God in order to rise about the enemy's deception of pride. Then your faith will be strong and effective, and the future good you are expecting from God will manifest in your life!
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