January 11, 2025 • 16 mins
We delve into the transformative practice of humility through the Four Ps: Posture, Prayer, Position, and Pride. By examining these principles, we learn to replace pride with peace and discover a deeper connection with God.
- Exploring the foundational role of posture in building humility
- The power of prayer in our lives and our relationships with God
- Trusting God with our position and circumstances
- Realizing the sneaky influence of pride
- A personal journey from despair to hope through the four Ps
- Weekly Challenge: Pondering P's
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Low Life Show, a space where we have
conversations about thestruggles of life, where we
declare war on pride and walkhumbly into renewed living with
a surrendered heart.
Where we take our past failuresand turn them into a roadmap
for you to live in peace andliving the low life.
Whether you're working throughpersonal struggles or simply
(00:22):
seeking a fresh perspective,this podcast will inspire and
equip you to live low and letGod lift you up.
I'm your host, dl the Low Life,a reformed professional dirtbag
who's here to tell you that Inow live a life of peace,
transformed through humility.
Join me, let's get low.
What's up everybody?
Welcome back to the Low LifeShow.
(01:17):
If you're new here, I'm DL theLow Life, and this is where we
get real about what it means tolive low with God, where I take
lessons learned from beinghumbled, pair them with God's
word and examples from theheroes of the Bible and walk
with you through avoiding thepain and hurt pride brings.
Last episode, we talked aboutwhy pride is the enemy and how
humility is the key to walkingin God's grace.
(01:39):
Today, we're breaking it downeven further with something I
like to call the four Ps ofliving low Posture, prayer,
position and pride.
It's a daily loop of tools thatI guarantee you'll end up
coming back to over and over asyou begin to take your life back
from pride In God humbling me.
Life was rough.
My feelings got hurt plenty.
(02:00):
So did my expectations.
Then came that piece that makesno sense as I look back in
hindsight.
I was led through a processthat birthed the four Ps.
Throughout all of it, these arethe common denominators.
These are the things thatchanged and resulted in freedom
and peace and a desire to longin his presence.
So strap in and get ready.
(02:20):
It's my hope that myexperiences through being
humbled will help you begin alife of active, intentional
humility and avoid the hurt Iwent through learning them.
(02:45):
Let's start with an instructionfrom Paul about how to be humble
.
He points to Jesus because he'sour ultimate example of living
low.
It says here in Philippians 2,in your relationships with one
another, have the same mindsetas Christ Jesus who, being in
very nature God, did notconsider equality with God
(03:05):
something to be used to his ownadvantage.
Rather, he made himself nothingby taking the very nature of a
servant.
Think about that.
This is Jesus we're talkingabout here, the very Son of God,
humble, humbling himself toserve others and doing it
intentionally, actively,consistently, willingly.
(03:27):
The Son of God, his glory,intentionally, actively,
consistently and willingly.
The Son of God, his glory, godHimself in the flesh of a man
who chooses to be humble ratherthan what any one of us would
probably do.
Something human.
If he can do that, why not us?
What makes us more special thanGod's only begotten Son?
I mean, remember he was madeflesh so he felt and met every
(03:49):
challenge we face today, andstill he chose humility.
How do these Ps relate to thescripture?
Let's get into that.
The four P's are posture,prayer, position and pride.
(04:16):
Posture is the first one.
They all feed into each otherand it becomes a loop.
But you don't want to do thiswithout starting with posture.
If you start off on the wrongfoot, you're destined to have
the wrong result.
So, when it comes to posture,humility starts with intention,
your reason why, what motivatesyou, what pushes you?
What do you see at the end andat the beginning that makes you
(04:39):
want to do this?
When it comes to serving God,do you come ready to learn,
ready to serve, or are you justtrying to check a box?
Is it something that all thecool kids are doing?
Are you looking to truly changeand live to serve and honor God
, or just to avoid Him having tohumble you Consider these
things.
Are you looking for a reward orare you trying to avoid the
consequences?
All these things matter.
(04:59):
Knowing God as God is thebeginning of forming a proper
posture.
The second piece is prayer.
The act of prayer, the conceptof prayer, the environment that
creates prayer, the reason whyyou pray, even but posture
informs all of these things.
Prayer, though.
That's where your relationshipwith Him begins.
This tells Him that you seekHim.
This tells Him that you wantHim around.
(05:20):
I mean, can you have arelationship with anyone that
doesn't require communication?
You have to humble yourself andopen the dialogue.
You have to be the one to makethe first move.
It's not about fancy words.
It's about talking to God,being open to his correction and
letting him know that you knowyou're nothing without him.
It's seeking him as a solutionfor everything.
(05:40):
The next thing is position.
When it comes to position, it'severything that you think.
It is, starting with status andtitle to physical location, gps
, global Positioning System.
God places us where we need tobe, even if it doesn't look like
what we imagined or it's notwhat we want.
Living low means trusting himwith your position, with your
(06:05):
status, with your title, withyour class, with your placing,
your environment.
It means being willing to bethe least and the last, even if
your title says big dog.
It's service to the needs ofothers before your own.
And then, trusting and knowingthat God has you, the last one's
pride.
When we get here.
This is when we circle back andwe reevaluate our posture.
(06:27):
We begin back in prayer, webegin back to check our position
and ensure that we are trustingand knowing that we're where we
need to be.
Pride is the enemy, becausewhen you start walking like this
, it's not going to like thefact that you're getting rid of
them, so he'll find every doorto sneak back in.
When you're aware and you'releaning on God, you can fight it
(06:48):
.
It's hard to self-explanatory,but in this context, this is
where your challenge comes from.
This evaluation of this step ofthe peas.
This informs your strategy onhow you're going to take back
your life and take back yourpeace.
Now I invite you to walk withme to the beginning.
Let me take you back in time tothe moment God began this work
(07:08):
and what he walked me through toget here the birth of the four
Ps.
(07:47):
Imagine this You're a poor inthe hood, always hopeful, though
Innocence Prevalent, evident.
You could be without a glassand you still had a glass that
was always half full, hopeful,family unit was intact, your
(08:10):
parents loved you, you hadsiblings, best of buds, you had
loving people around you pouringinto every bit of your being.
So you didn't notice thecircumstance.
You didn't notice that lifewasn't ideal or perfect.
Everything seemed like it wasperfect.
Rock bottom was cloud nine toyou.
(08:34):
So you took every challenge asjust an opportunity to explore.
You didn't have to back downbecause there was no
confrontation in it.
You were innocent.
You lived a life of fortune.
Things always seemed tonaturally go your way, like you
had the Midas touch.
You could touch anything and itwould turn to gold.
Everywhere you went, people hadsomething to compliment you
about, it seemed, and you wereeasy to talk to, even when you
(08:57):
didn't listen.
And you could tell people knewit, but they never seemed to
mind.
They would just smile, seemedlike you couldn't lose, even if
you tried.
This started at an early age andgrew you into a proud and
arrogant person.
You walked around like you ranthe world.
Nobody could tell you anythingyou didn't already know.
You lacked compassion becauselife began to be all about
(09:21):
people making you feel good.
You were the only thing thatmattered.
Then things take a turn.
Death starts knocking and, oneby one, the people you love the
most are gone in the blink of aneye your relationships.
They feel less and lessvaluable.
Not that you valued them, butyou feel less valued in that
(09:42):
they become distant, the onesthat are closest to you.
They're hurt so they can't callto you, they can't comfort you,
they can't tell you that lifeis going to be better.
Every relationship seems to befractured.
Everyone is looking forguidance so that you can't get
it from them.
You're lost.
(10:03):
You can't find your direction.
You feel neglected, in outcasts, in exile in your own home even
.
And those compliments you usedto get they start to be
offensive.
A new picture of you begins toform, because these compliments
are now insults.
It's like your life had beenbackwards the whole time.
Your circle of people startspulling back, becoming less and
(10:26):
less dependable for your everyneed.
What would your next move be ifyou had nobody to lean on?
It's not a place I would wishfor anybody to be lost or
confused, restless in everysituation, using all the energy
you have just to fight the noisethat never stops in your mind.
(10:47):
Thoughts just flow endlesslyRegret, guilt, shame and then
they're topped off by rage andself-blame.
You say things to yourself likeif only I had done this, if
only I had done that, I shouldhave been better at this, if
only I could have.
And then it seems like itbegins to start quieting down.
(11:10):
But that's when it's theloudest.
What good are you?
Why are you even alive?
Do you really even matter?
Nobody else will love youwithout strings.
It's not real.
You're not lovable.
You don't even love yourself.
(11:31):
Then you find yourself with agun to your head and every
intent to pull the trigger.
What would you do if, in onefell swoop, everything came
crashing down?
If, after a life of success andpraise, you began to lose in
every way possible?
How would you feel?
This is where I was when Godbegan to form the low life
within me Lost, ashamed,grieving, depressed, suicidal.
(11:59):
The lowest level of rock bottomis rock bottom.
It's where the four Ps wereborn In the midst of death,
failure, loss, grief and livingintentionally near suicide.
Let's take some time and haveyou consider your own life and
your walk with God.
What are your intentions?
(12:19):
What motivates you to dokingdom work?
Are you seeking blessings andrewards?
Or are you seeking Him becauseyou know that you're less and
he's more?
Do you know that you're smalland he's all?
Or do you think it's the otherway around?
What's your reason for whateverit is you do, and then ask
(12:41):
yourself this In all thosesituations, is God consistently
in view or does he somehow looklike you?
Now let's take our pause forthe cause Weekly challenge.
(13:18):
This week, I challenge you topick one of the Ps Posture,
prayer position or pride,because, assuming that you're
hearing this, you are alreadywalking with God.
Then spend some time with thatPondering, contemplating,
thinking and inquiring of Him.
Find out where you're really atand then journal it.
(13:39):
It can look like a bunch ofdifferent things, the way that
you do this.
However you choose to do it.
You can be writing things down,you can be talking or thinking
in prayer.
You can be conversing withsomebody that you trust.
You could even be sitting insilence waiting to hear.
I can tell you the bulk of mybest prayer and analysis time
comes just by sitting incontemplation.
(14:01):
Remember one thing do not putany pressure on yourself.
Let God do the work.
He's the one that lifts all theheavy stuff.
And remember the four Ps are acontinuous cycle.
It's a strategy for an ongoing,progressive work of intention.
It's not a one time and it'sdone.
It's a tool that helps me, eventoday, maintain God's peace.
(14:24):
These are weapons in the realwar that we fight, the war on
pride.
Now that we know them, makesure you come back next week as
we take a deep dive into postureand we get into our very first
parable, the parable of thePharisee and the tax collector.
Now let's pray Father, we thankyou for always providing a way,
(14:44):
for always being God and fornever minding getting dirty just
to save us for meeting us inthe middle of our mess.
Continue to teach us to let goof pride and lean on you in
every aspect of our lives.
Bless the listener and helpthem take one more step closer
to you this week.
In Jesus' name, amen, thank youfor tuning in.
(15:05):
See you on the next one.
Until then, stay low, stayblessed and stay ready for the
next week's episode of the LowLife Show.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Peace, welcome to the live you're alive.
Outro Music.
Welcome to the Low Life Show, a space where we have
conversations about thestruggles of life, where we
declare war on pride and walkhumbly into renewed living with
a surrendered heart.
Where we take our past failuresand turn them into a roadmap
for you to live in peace andliving the low life.
Whether you're working throughpersonal struggles or simply
(00:22):
seeking a fresh perspective,this podcast will inspire and
equip you to live low and letGod lift you up.
I'm your host, dl the Low Life,a reformed professional dirtbag
who's here to tell you that Inow live a life of peace,
transformed through humility.
Join me, let's get low.
What's up everybody?
Welcome back to the Low LifeShow.
(01:17):
If you're new here, I'm DL theLow Life, and this is where we
get real about what it means tolive low with God, where I take
lessons learned from beinghumbled, pair them with God's
word and examples from theheroes of the Bible and walk
with you through avoiding thepain and hurt pride brings.
Last episode, we talked aboutwhy pride is the enemy and how
humility is the key to walkingin God's grace.
(01:39):
Today, we're breaking it downeven further with something I
like to call the four Ps ofliving low Posture, prayer,
position and pride.
It's a daily loop of tools thatI guarantee you'll end up
coming back to over and over asyou begin to take your life back
from pride In God humbling me.
Life was rough.
My feelings got hurt plenty.
(02:00):
So did my expectations.
Then came that piece that makesno sense as I look back in
hindsight.
I was led through a processthat birthed the four Ps.
Throughout all of it, these arethe common denominators.
These are the things thatchanged and resulted in freedom
and peace and a desire to longin his presence.
So strap in and get ready.
(02:20):
It's my hope that myexperiences through being
humbled will help you begin alife of active, intentional
humility and avoid the hurt Iwent through learning them.
(02:45):
Let's start with an instructionfrom Paul about how to be humble
.
He points to Jesus because he'sour ultimate example of living
low.
It says here in Philippians 2,in your relationships with one
another, have the same mindsetas Christ Jesus who, being in
very nature God, did notconsider equality with God
(03:05):
something to be used to his ownadvantage.
Rather, he made himself nothingby taking the very nature of a
servant.
Think about that.
This is Jesus we're talkingabout here, the very Son of God,
humble, humbling himself toserve others and doing it
intentionally, actively,consistently, willingly.
(03:27):
The Son of God, his glory,intentionally, actively,
consistently and willingly.
The Son of God, his glory, godHimself in the flesh of a man
who chooses to be humble ratherthan what any one of us would
probably do.
Something human.
If he can do that, why not us?
What makes us more special thanGod's only begotten Son?
I mean, remember he was madeflesh so he felt and met every
(03:49):
challenge we face today, andstill he chose humility.
How do these Ps relate to thescripture?
Let's get into that.
The four P's are posture,prayer, position and pride.
(04:16):
Posture is the first one.
They all feed into each otherand it becomes a loop.
But you don't want to do thiswithout starting with posture.
If you start off on the wrongfoot, you're destined to have
the wrong result.
So, when it comes to posture,humility starts with intention,
your reason why, what motivatesyou, what pushes you?
What do you see at the end andat the beginning that makes you
(04:39):
want to do this?
When it comes to serving God,do you come ready to learn,
ready to serve, or are you justtrying to check a box?
Is it something that all thecool kids are doing?
Are you looking to truly changeand live to serve and honor God
, or just to avoid Him having tohumble you Consider these
things.
Are you looking for a reward orare you trying to avoid the
consequences?
All these things matter.
(04:59):
Knowing God as God is thebeginning of forming a proper
posture.
The second piece is prayer.
The act of prayer, the conceptof prayer, the environment that
creates prayer, the reason whyyou pray, even but posture
informs all of these things.
Prayer, though.
That's where your relationshipwith Him begins.
This tells Him that you seekHim.
This tells Him that you wantHim around.
(05:20):
I mean, can you have arelationship with anyone that
doesn't require communication?
You have to humble yourself andopen the dialogue.
You have to be the one to makethe first move.
It's not about fancy words.
It's about talking to God,being open to his correction and
letting him know that you knowyou're nothing without him.
It's seeking him as a solutionfor everything.
(05:40):
The next thing is position.
When it comes to position, it'severything that you think.
It is, starting with status andtitle to physical location, gps
, global Positioning System.
God places us where we need tobe, even if it doesn't look like
what we imagined or it's notwhat we want.
Living low means trusting himwith your position, with your
(06:05):
status, with your title, withyour class, with your placing,
your environment.
It means being willing to bethe least and the last, even if
your title says big dog.
It's service to the needs ofothers before your own.
And then, trusting and knowingthat God has you, the last one's
pride.
When we get here.
This is when we circle back andwe reevaluate our posture.
(06:27):
We begin back in prayer, webegin back to check our position
and ensure that we are trustingand knowing that we're where we
need to be.
Pride is the enemy, becausewhen you start walking like this
, it's not going to like thefact that you're getting rid of
them, so he'll find every doorto sneak back in.
When you're aware and you'releaning on God, you can fight it
(06:48):
.
It's hard to self-explanatory,but in this context, this is
where your challenge comes from.
This evaluation of this step ofthe peas.
This informs your strategy onhow you're going to take back
your life and take back yourpeace.
Now I invite you to walk withme to the beginning.
Let me take you back in time tothe moment God began this work
(07:08):
and what he walked me through toget here the birth of the four
Ps.
(07:47):
Imagine this You're a poor inthe hood, always hopeful, though
Innocence Prevalent, evident.
You could be without a glassand you still had a glass that
was always half full, hopeful,family unit was intact, your
(08:10):
parents loved you, you hadsiblings, best of buds, you had
loving people around you pouringinto every bit of your being.
So you didn't notice thecircumstance.
You didn't notice that lifewasn't ideal or perfect.
Everything seemed like it wasperfect.
Rock bottom was cloud nine toyou.
(08:34):
So you took every challenge asjust an opportunity to explore.
You didn't have to back downbecause there was no
confrontation in it.
You were innocent.
You lived a life of fortune.
Things always seemed tonaturally go your way, like you
had the Midas touch.
You could touch anything and itwould turn to gold.
Everywhere you went, people hadsomething to compliment you
about, it seemed, and you wereeasy to talk to, even when you
(08:57):
didn't listen.
And you could tell people knewit, but they never seemed to
mind.
They would just smile, seemedlike you couldn't lose, even if
you tried.
This started at an early age andgrew you into a proud and
arrogant person.
You walked around like you ranthe world.
Nobody could tell you anythingyou didn't already know.
You lacked compassion becauselife began to be all about
(09:21):
people making you feel good.
You were the only thing thatmattered.
Then things take a turn.
Death starts knocking and, oneby one, the people you love the
most are gone in the blink of aneye your relationships.
They feel less and lessvaluable.
Not that you valued them, butyou feel less valued in that
(09:42):
they become distant, the onesthat are closest to you.
They're hurt so they can't callto you, they can't comfort you,
they can't tell you that lifeis going to be better.
Every relationship seems to befractured.
Everyone is looking forguidance so that you can't get
it from them.
You're lost.
(10:03):
You can't find your direction.
You feel neglected, in outcasts, in exile in your own home even
.
And those compliments you usedto get they start to be
offensive.
A new picture of you begins toform, because these compliments
are now insults.
It's like your life had beenbackwards the whole time.
Your circle of people startspulling back, becoming less and
(10:26):
less dependable for your everyneed.
What would your next move be ifyou had nobody to lean on?
It's not a place I would wishfor anybody to be lost or
confused, restless in everysituation, using all the energy
you have just to fight the noisethat never stops in your mind.
(10:47):
Thoughts just flow endlesslyRegret, guilt, shame and then
they're topped off by rage andself-blame.
You say things to yourself likeif only I had done this, if
only I had done that, I shouldhave been better at this, if
only I could have.
And then it seems like itbegins to start quieting down.
(11:10):
But that's when it's theloudest.
What good are you?
Why are you even alive?
Do you really even matter?
Nobody else will love youwithout strings.
It's not real.
You're not lovable.
You don't even love yourself.
(11:31):
Then you find yourself with agun to your head and every
intent to pull the trigger.
What would you do if, in onefell swoop, everything came
crashing down?
If, after a life of success andpraise, you began to lose in
every way possible?
How would you feel?
This is where I was when Godbegan to form the low life
within me Lost, ashamed,grieving, depressed, suicidal.
(11:59):
The lowest level of rock bottomis rock bottom.
It's where the four Ps wereborn In the midst of death,
failure, loss, grief and livingintentionally near suicide.
Let's take some time and haveyou consider your own life and
your walk with God.
What are your intentions?
(12:19):
What motivates you to dokingdom work?
Are you seeking blessings andrewards?
Or are you seeking Him becauseyou know that you're less and
he's more?
Do you know that you're smalland he's all?
Or do you think it's the otherway around?
What's your reason for whateverit is you do, and then ask
(12:41):
yourself this In all thosesituations, is God consistently
in view or does he somehow looklike you?
Now let's take our pause forthe cause Weekly challenge.
(13:18):
This week, I challenge you topick one of the Ps Posture,
prayer position or pride,because, assuming that you're
hearing this, you are alreadywalking with God.
Then spend some time with thatPondering, contemplating,
thinking and inquiring of Him.
Find out where you're really atand then journal it.
(13:39):
It can look like a bunch ofdifferent things, the way that
you do this.
However you choose to do it.
You can be writing things down,you can be talking or thinking
in prayer.
You can be conversing withsomebody that you trust.
You could even be sitting insilence waiting to hear.
I can tell you the bulk of mybest prayer and analysis time
comes just by sitting incontemplation.
(14:01):
Remember one thing do not putany pressure on yourself.
Let God do the work.
He's the one that lifts all theheavy stuff.
And remember the four Ps are acontinuous cycle.
It's a strategy for an ongoing,progressive work of intention.
It's not a one time and it'sdone.
It's a tool that helps me, eventoday, maintain God's peace.
(14:24):
These are weapons in the realwar that we fight, the war on
pride.
Now that we know them, makesure you come back next week as
we take a deep dive into postureand we get into our very first
parable, the parable of thePharisee and the tax collector.
Now let's pray Father, we thankyou for always providing a way,
(14:44):
for always being God and fornever minding getting dirty just
to save us for meeting us inthe middle of our mess.
Continue to teach us to let goof pride and lean on you in
every aspect of our lives.
Bless the listener and helpthem take one more step closer
to you this week.
In Jesus' name, amen, thank youfor tuning in.
(15:05):
See you on the next one.
Until then, stay low, stayblessed and stay ready for the
next week's episode of the LowLife Show.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Peace, welcome to the live you're alive.
Outro Music.
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