A. Confess your faults & inabilities & humble yourself before God:

JAM 4:10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

1PE 5:6. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

B. Ask others to pray for you to overcome pride:

JAM 5:16. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

MAT 18:19. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

MAT 18:20. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

C. Examples of humbling oneself before the Lord:

2SA 24:2. For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

2SA 24:3. And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

2SA 24:4. Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

2SA 24:8. So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

2SA 24:9. And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

2SA 24:10. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

JOB 40:1. Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

JOB 40:2. Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

JOB 40:3. Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

JOB 40:4. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

JOB 40:5. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

JOB 32:1. So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

JOB 35:2. Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

JOB 42:1. Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

JOB 42:2. I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

JOB 42:3. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

JOB 42:4. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

JOB 42:5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

JOB 42:6. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

PSA 51:1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

PSA 51:2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

PSA 51:3. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

PSA 51:4. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

DAN 4:33. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

DAN 4:34. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:

DAN 4:35. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

DAN 4:37. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

1SA 9:21. And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

2SA 7:18. Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

1KI 3:7. And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.