Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– Proud people are annoying, right? They are those who always think they are better than others and never get tired of flaunting their accomplishments. Worse, they can be aggressive if you outshine them—they would not accept defeat. – Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– As you do not like prideful people, you have to be careful not to be like them so others would not be annoyed with you as well. You have to evaluate yourself from time to time to make sure your feet stay on the ground – Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– Permit me to use this moment to write a little about my experience with fellow instrumentalists specifically keyboardists. I discover the kind of pride inhaled in this instrumentalist and it has called an alarm from so many areas in the Church of God. Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– I met an instrumentalist that once told me do you know who I play for! I play for this famous and big-name gospel minister, and you play for this minister that is just coming up, we are not at the same level. I don’t even have to talk with you.

– They can’t shake hands with you, you can’t exchange numbers with your fellow instrumentalist, not even pleasantry, and you even want to sit the same sit with your mentor or the music ministers. Huuuummmmnnnn I wonder that is why most instrumentalist ends up in the ministry not even able to even have a bicycle, nor even a car, house even if there do there live a hard life still. We have inherited a bad attitude of pride that will never take us anywhere. Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– One among many questions I ask myself about this instrumentalist is that because you play for this famous music minister that that made you be the person. The capital letter “NO”. You are only operating under such grace of the person and until you drop the pride and go to God in the secret place to review who you are, the said grace will disgrace you one day.

– Then when I tried shaking hands with him he look at me and reject it, I laugh and after his boss minister and went straight to him to greet him, we exchange pleasantry with excitement and the so-called keyboardist was in shock.

– Recently met some fellow keyboardist in a program, and coming up to play for a Minister he upon coming up to the stage he remove the adapter of the keyboard went off, why his reason was that so this guy can suffer to do settings on the stage, some will save the beat then when you are coming to play they will scatter the beat.

– One of my experience was after that the said keyboard was Motif xf8 which sometimes take 3-5mins to boot up before setting and imagine a 5-10mins time ministration given to the minister, and the time is reading already, I felt so much pain, disappointed and embarrassed on the stage, I wanted reacting but I didn’t so after the keyboard boot up I set it up and play, then after the ministration, I told the guy, I hope you are happy with your acts, he smiles. Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– One of the keyboardists one day, try to remove the adapter one day before I climb the stage to play and the adapter was not in good sharp before, and it was cut off, I ended up trying to fix up the adapter on stage till the ministration finished. I was like woohoo why are a human being like this, even in the church? What sort of competition nor what can I refer this to? And another form of fishy acts. Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– And there are some Music Ministers that will not even allow their instrumentalist to play for another instrumentalist. I kept asking myself if we meant it that we are offering worship to God or if we came to show up. Thank God for the kind of Mentor I have “Min. Sarah Bawa”,.

– I can remember several programs that we went for that the church didn’t have a keyboardist or keyboardist disappointed that she will say, Joe, A.B, Wisdom go and play for them, most times she will have another program outside and I am the only one with her as her keyboardist and she will still tell me to stay back and play for the church not minding her side of the ministration the place she is going next. Woohoo an l, or we need to learn and adjust. – Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– Instrumentalist now have their fans and fellow ministers there cheer up to play for and others they sit to watch and even help to spoil things for and laugh at when she sang off key or the sound or instrument goes bad. I went for a meeting recently and the lead guitarist played for all the ministers and when one of the ministers came up to sing since she is not his fan, he drop the lead guitar and went to sit down,   Waooooo I think this is an error and this is alarming and I think it’s right time we get things right before we miss it all.

– Whatsoever one sow that shall he ripe. The body of Christ is one, so I what you are doing is unto Christ then such attitude and mindset of competition are not supposed to be found in you.

– See my fellow instrumentalist before we can unveil the dimension God has for us before we can open another phase, of our lives we need to drop pride. No wonder the bible said in the book of 1 peter 5:5-6, James 4:6-7, that God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. – Keyboardist and Pride Issue

– A famous gospel minister once told me on stage one day when I met him on stage and was privileged to play for him in that program, I was running all d whole scales, chords, and progressions for every song to please him and impress him….he smiles and walk down to me during his ministration and speak to my ear that young man calms down, and allow the holy spirit to use you, you are a good keyboardist I know and I had all you have been playing since but if you don’t calm down for the holy spirit to use us today nothing will happen, we will only entertain the audience and go.

– Who I was weak in my body with that word, I tell you Mr. flesh disappear, I was energized in my spirit and allow the holy spirit to flow the way it wants, trust God what happen and his move in that meeting was something I couldn’t still imagine if I was the one who plays the keyboard that night.

– After the meeting, we became close and had an invitation after some years together and he told me do you know that the keyboardist who plays for me doesn’t play two keys out of the 12 keys on the keyboard? I was shocked, he further said do you know that he didn’t even play more than do, fa, so, la, and other simple notes like just re, mi, I was like how possible? With this kind of famous Music Minister you are?

– He said yes, and he plays very well in every meeting there went, the move is more than any other skillful keyboardist. I ask him Sir what is the secret he told me, this young man will go to the secret place to fast and pray for Every meeting there will go the young keyboardist says he preferred going to the secret place to commune with God than to only go and rehearse the songs for ministration.

– Tears flow from my eyes I felt a deep challenge to me. He told me that he had a lot of offers, free offers from different keyboardists to play for him, good keyboardists but he turn them down, one of it reasons was because of Pride. Finally, he said to me then that Joe sees “Skills may fail you and disappoint you but you see this God he can never fail nor disappoint you, when you run to him in prayer and with purity he goes before you always, in all your activities.

– Most often and always when ever i am on the keyboard before and i played, and another minister came with his keyboardist and want minister i leave the settings, not just thank i ensure i hold the chord for the keyboardist to ensure the flow doesn’t seize and lot more just to ensure everything goes well, but often surprise when i see some keyboardist and other instrumentalist behaving in the opposite way.

– I have to speak this way because growing up as a young boy i discover one of the thing that do not make me associate much with people is because of their pride and arrogance because i have hated pride people with passion, especially those once that are pride and still arrogant, i learnt the keyboard myself back then in 2016/2017 not because i want to become a musician but because of the so called pride and arrogance of some so called keyboardist who feel without them the church i attend then cannot have a good service, them tend not to teach anyone how to play, they come to the church anytime there like, they sleep with ladies around and once the pastor or anyone said it, they wont come to the church the next day again the pastor and the elders of the church have to go and beg him to return back to church. i was so pained and challenge so i had to manage to learn the keyboard to occupy that space if not music was not my calling but i see they is need to occupy a void space in the church because of the pride of these keyboardist.

– See you know why if you don’t drop the pride and follow God diligently it will fail you? Is that the God we serve is just, he is not proud, the only place you can succeed it’s in the secular world because the devil is a proud, arrogant slave so you can easily work and flow with him but my God in heaven resist pride.

– So choose where you belong to. Define your identity instead of wasting your time so seek fame or any other thing in Christ with pride because God takes you to a concert or program one day and will disappoint you.

– Forget about your skills, position, and wealth if you don’t have Jesus you are rubbish I said it. Lots to say about all this, but I think I have mentioned a few points that we can point to address these issues in our contemporary society and the body of Christ.

– I know the skills are good but it is better if I have God minors more skills than have skills, minor God. Although having both skills and God in you will yield more results but first work on yourself then the skills can even be gotten better.

HOW DO YOU CONTROL PRIDE?

1. Do not compare yourself with anyone else.

2. Do not compete against anyone.

3. Acknowledge the strength of others.

4. Encourage those who are weaker than you.

5. Admit your mistakes.

6. Be willing to apologize if you have done wrong.

7. Practice sportsmanship.

8. Do not let appreciation get into your head.

9. Do not envy others.

10. Be content and thankful for what you have.

11. Put others before yourself.

12. Do not demand attention and respect.

13. Treat others how you want to be treated.

14. Serve others.

15. Do not think highly of yourself.

16. Do not boast about your achievements.

17. Let others notice your strengths or positive traits.

18. Submit to the authorities set above you.

19. Associate with those who are weaker or ‘lower’ than you.

20. Always thank those who help or serve you, even in small things.

My Counsel:

God Exalts the Humble

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