{"id":9113,"date":"2025-11-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2015-10-28T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:52:57","slug":"what-drives-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/what-drives-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What drives your life?"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n\r\nWelcome, dear friends!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGrace and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ be multiplied unto you!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe are still continuing our talk on strategic living. We have said that strategic living demands that we understand the essence of life itself. Such understanding helps us to live a purposeful, strategic and right life before God.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nToday I would like to talk about \u201cWhat drives your life?\u201d\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThere are many things that drive people\u2019s life, motivate them and influence their system of values.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMany believers are driven by wrong motives today. In order to live strategically you definitely have to ask yourself these questions: \u201cWhy do I do what I do?\u201d, \u201cWhat are my secret motives?\u201d, \u201cWhat values influence my life?\u201d, \u201cWhat affects my decisions and my choice?\u201d, \u201cWhat is driving me in the spending of my money and time?\u201d, \u201cWhat drives my life?\u201d\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLet us go through some list of few wrong things and motives that drive people\u2019s life nowadays. You have to get rid of those things in order to live your life the right way. If you want to make a real impact on this world, want to be used by God, want to fulfil your calling in God, then you have to get rid of all kind of wrong values and wrong motivations.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMaterial success or materialism<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the first wrong things that drive the life of many people today.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMaterialism prompts people to obtain more and more, better and better things. Such desire is not evil by itself, so God supports it. He doesn’t oppose our desire to possess the best things. However, the motives that drive you to obtain more and better stuff are more important. Being driven by wrong motives materialism becomes an idol that destroys people\u2019s lives today. Being driven be materialistic motivation, people are having the attitude of only obtaining things instead of sharing. Their philosophy is what can I get from life instead of what can I add to life.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe value and the impact of your life are measured by what you can share, not by what you can receive or take from life.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFor example, as a church member, it is what you can contribute to the development and the building up of your church that should be more important to you than focusing on how much you can get from this church. Your impact and influence will depend on your ability to give and not your ability to receive. It is those who share much that are truly rich and blessed, not those who receive only. We need a correct understanding of the word \u201csuccess\u201d.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAccording to materialism success is something great in size and quantity, while according to God success is a totally different thing. One who can make others rich is truly a successful person even if he has not accumulated much material things.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen I was doing my studies in the city of Minsk I had a friend (today he is a pastor in Germany), who loved to obtain things. He purchased a lot of good stuff, later he blessed other people with many of those things. Two years before we started a new church in Minsk, he bought music instruments \u2013 drums, loudspeakers, etc. For two years those instruments were stored in his house before he handed them over to the church as a gift. He was buying many good things, but not just for himself,- he bought them with the consideration of blessing other people. Many people driven by materialism even use their ministry to God only as a tool to make money for themselves. Ministry for them is an opportunity to make money on God. Nevertheless, a desire to share, not the desire to receive should be your true motivation to serve God.\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abHe said to them, \u201cBeware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man\u2019s life doesn\u2019t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.\u201d\u00bb (Luke 12:15).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nThe person Jesus addressed the above statement to was a man who came to Jesus trying to use His influence to resolve a question related to inheritance. Jesus immediately recognised the root of the problem in the hearts of those people \u2013 materialism, the desire to get more and more. Therefore, Jesus warned them to be careful, for a man\u2019s life doesn\u2019t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nExamine your heart! Please check what are the motives driving your life today! Materialism is living your life solely for yourself. Those who are driven by materialism desire to appear important and successful in the eyes of the other people.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOne day, when I was a pastor in Minsk, another pastor approached me with the question: \u201cDo you have a car?\u201d My reply to him was I don\u2019t have a car. \u201cWhat about God’s blessings in your life?\u201d he asked me then. I told him that God had blessed me. \u201cIf you say God has blessed you, why did He not give you a car then?\u201d he said. That was the way he was thinking that time. Thank God, today that man has a different way of thinking. Thank God for teaching and transforming us daily through His word. According to the way that pastor was thinking, if God blesses you and if you think you are successful in life, then you must have things such as a car and not just ordinary one, but a posh one.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHowever, I had a different mindset. God has nothing against granting his servant a car, but it doesn’t indicate how successful that servant is. I have never measured my success by the amount nor by the value of my possessions. Things do not express how much blessed I am. I am blessed because I am a child of God and I am completed in Christ who is the Head over all principalities and powers.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nServe God with a pure heart, not expecting anything in return. Share your talents with others, then God will definitely bless you!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGod bless you abundantly!\r\n\r\nRufus Ajiboye, pastor","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are many things that drive people\u2019s life, motivate them and influence their system of values.\r\n\r\nMany believers are driven by wrong motives today. In order to live strategically you definitely have to ask yourself these questions: \u201cWhy do I do what I do?\u201d, \u201cWhat are my secret motives?\u201d, \u201cWhat values influence my life?\u201d, \u201cWhat affects my decisions and my choice?\u201d, \u201cWhat is driving me in the spending of my money and time?\u201d, \u201cWhat drives my life?\u201d","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pexels-photo-3787149-e1640371511731.jpeg",928,524,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40257,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions\/40257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}