{"id":9124,"date":"2025-11-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2015-11-02T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T21:00:58","slug":"wrong-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wrong-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong motivation"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n\r\nGreetings to you, dear readers, on this wonderful day! God does new things every day, and His mercies are renewed every morning!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe have been talking about the fact that many people have wrong motives in this life. We have marked out two types of motives: materialism and love of money. We saw that these two things are essentially very close; the difference is that one focuses on things, but the other one \u2013 on money. Let\u2019s look at some more wrong motives, for example:\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u00a0Spirit of competition<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSome people are moved by the desire to prove to others what they can do. Those that are moved by this spirit can\u2019t be still if they see someone else doing better than them. These people continually try to prove something to others, because they compare themselves to others all the time. They live according to someone else\u2019s schedule since they do not have their own. The word of God said this is a wrong attitude:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abFor we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise\u00bb\u00a0(2 Corinthians, 10:12).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nIt is not wise to compare yourself to others. You will never become what God has designed you to be and discover you calling in God if you continually compare yourself to other people. We are so different, and every one of us has been called to do something else; so we do not need to compare ourselves to others. We must get to know God and what He wants for each one of us to do. We should not do what others do. Of course, I can learn something from other people and they can serve as a source of encouragement to me. But I must not be led by the spirit of competition, because this spirit steals our joy.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA person that is led by the spirit of competition is not able to rejoice in the success of others. They usually humiliate others and belittle their accomplishments so that they would look better comparing to them. A person that is free of this spirit is able to rejoice in the success of others and even help them to get establish in life.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAgain and again we should check what it is that controls and motivates us! If you are irritated by the success of other people and are not able to rejoice with them, then you are led by the spirit of competition.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAnother wrong motive in this life is:\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDesire to be accepted<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nOften people are willing to do unwise things in order to be accepted, to impress others and to gain their approval. Often people say polished, puffed-up phrases to please others and to be praised and accepted by them. They follow the crowd and are ready to lie, instead of standing for the truth and righteousness because the latter sometimes can turn out to be a very lonely position. They are afraid of rejection, so they do what is popular and pleasing to the crowd. So often these people – whether they are our relatives, friends, co-workers, and neighbours \u2013 want to shape you after the image they have created in their minds. If you are moved by the desire to be accepted by others, then you will be continually working to match the image they have created for you.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nApostle Paul had said by the Holy Spirit that if you are a people pleaser, then you won\u2019t even become a servant of God. If you want to please people, then you won\u2019t be able to please God:\r\n\r\n \r\n
\u00abFor do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me if not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother\u2019s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood\u00bb\u00a0(Galatians, 1:10-16).<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nStrive to please God and seek His favour!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWe will continue tomorrow!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nGod bless you!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spirit of competition .\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSome people are moved by the desire to prove to others what they can do. Those that are moved by this spirit can\u2019t be still if they see someone else doing better than them. These people continually try to prove something to others, because they compare themselves to others all the time. They live according to someone else\u2019s schedule since they do not have their own. The word of God said this is a wrong attitude:","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34622,"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-9124","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-6147156-1024x682.jpeg",1024,682,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/author-en\/"},"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\/9124","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40260,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/40260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}