Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
One way to keep down a spirit that tries to exert itself by making itself better than others is by deliberately making yourself of "no reputation."
The apostle Paul said ... Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Phil. 2
Even praying is an humbling experience for our flesh wants to think we know what to do ... We don't need to pray, says our flesh ... Basically we humble ourselves when we turn to God and take issues to God asking Him what we should do.
To make yourself of no reputation would be to stop trying to exalt yourself before other humans.
People exalt themselves in many ways: by clothing, by possessions, by positions, through college degrees ... everything done to make themselves above other humans. We see this all the time and most of us have done this. To deliberately give up making yourself look good is a different direction.
Jesus did not try to make Himself look good. Isaiah even said Jesus was "despised".
He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Isaiah 53
It may seem hard to give up our achievements and to stop doing things that cause us to achieve on this earth.
But what is really hard is the attempt to achieve. To be set on fire by those around you with a desire to outdo them is a very hard yoke. To attain reputation among men and then to hold onto that reputation is a terrible burden.
Thus Jesus urges us to take HIS yoke instead ... for HE is meek and lowly in heart ... desiring only to do the will of God and to please God which is opposite to trying to please men and gain advantage among men.
So to control pride, the easy way is to deliberately make yourself of no reputation.