THE DRIVING FORCE OF MOTIVE

♦There are Lot of "THINGS WE DO IN LIFE" that are Good and Desirable, but when they are done With "A WRONG MOTIVE",We usually end up with "WRONG EXPECTATIONS AND RESULTS."

-IN LIFE,MOTIVE is EVERYTHING, Because Motive MOVES US.It Could not be Said any Simpler and it Could not be anymore Profound.
-We are Encouraged by Apostle Paul to Always have a Regular Checkup of our Motive in All We Do as Believers in Christ.

♥2Cor.13.5msg"Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don't drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourselves regular checkups. You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you. Test it out. If you fail the test, do something about it."

-When you are Solid in Faith and you are Faced with the Test and Trials of Life,your Genuine Sincere Motive will be Revealed to All.
-Your Faith is Solid when it is Standing on What JESUS has Done for you and not on what you are Doing for Him and the Father.

⚫You Need to Always take Time to Examine your Real Motive for Doing the "GOOD AND DESIRABLE THINGS" you Do.For instance,

1.Why are you Good and Generous to People?
2.Why are you Going to Church and Serving God?
3.Why are you Living a Holy Life?
4.Why are you Tithing and Giving to the things of God?
5.Why Do you Desire to Get Married?
6.Why Do you Desire to Go to School and Learn?
7.Why Do you Pray,Fast,and Read your Bible?
8.Why are you Doing what you are Doing Right now?

-Even in the Sight of God, your "Actions and Deeds" no matter how Good they may Look,does not Impress or Move Him if Done with a "WRONG MOTIVE"

♥Prov.16.2NLT"People may be pure in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their motives."

-God Has Already Moved 2,000years Ago for your Good when JESUS Came and Died for your SINS.There is Nothing Good the Father is withholding from you now.

♥Rom.8.32 amp."He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?"

-If you are Doing the above Good things in order to Earn and Gain Something from the LORD,you are Already Late,for His Goodness has Overtaken you.

-When you Do what you Do out of your Love Response and Appreciation of What God has Done for you Already in Christ JESUS,then you will Experience and Tap into the Benefits of All Good things that are yours Already in Christ.

♥Phlm.1.6 msg"And I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it."

-The FAITH you have in His Goodness Already Shown towards you, is what Should Motivate your Response to Do Good things.

♦THE LORD is touched By your Actions and Deeds that are Motivated and Driven by your Response to His Faithfulness, Goodness and Love Already Shown towards you in the Finished Work of Christ.

-We Should not do Good so We Can provoke a Good Response from God.God is Already Good to Us by Demonstrating His Love towards Us while we were yet SINNERS.

♥Romans 5:6,8 KJV
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
[8] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

-Your Motive is What Drives your Decisions and Actions in Life.The Things We Do in Life are for a Reason,and that Represents our "MOTIVE"

⚫Motive is About "Why You Do the Things You Do" knowing that your Behavior and Action is Always Powered and Prompted by your Motive.

-Motive is the Hidden Reason or Desire that initiates,sustains and Justifies an Action.It is your Internally Justified Reason.

-Even in Criminal investigation,the Motive Behind the Crime Committed is of utmost importance to the Investigators in Determining who Committed the Crime

⚫In the Words of the late Dr Myles Munroe "LIFE DEPENDS ON MOTIVE TO GIVE IT MEANING"

-Your Motive is Actually more important to God than your Action.He is more interested in the FORCE Influencing your Decisions and Actions in Life.
-God is Love and He wants All our Decisions and Actions in Life to be influenced and Motivated by the "FORCE OF HIS LOVE"

♥1stCor.13:3CEB "If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I’ve done but I don’t have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever."

-There is no doubt that Doing Good is Good,but Doing it with the Right Motive is the BEST.

-In the World,we See Lots of People Doing Good things with a hidden Deceitful Heart motive that eventually leaves them in a State of Bankruptcy,Frustration and Regrets.

♥Proverbs 20:17 KJV
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

-We are Actually Bankrupt in Everything,if all our Decisions and Good Deeds in Life are devoid of the Right Motivation Born out of the LOVE OF GOD in our Hearts.Rom.5:5

♥1Cor.13.3msg"If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love."

-When you are Motivated in your Deeds and Actions by the "LOVE OF GOD",you will End up Doing Good even when you don't feel like Doing it and even when there is no Obvious Benefit for you in Doing it.

-THE QUESTION IS,"How do you Act and React when you are Faced with the Challenge of Loving the Unlovable and Doing Good for Someone you know does not Deserve it at all?"

♥Luke 6:32-33,35 KJV
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
[33] And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
[35] But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

-Only when you Understand that the "LOVE OF GOD" has been Shed Abroad in your Heart,can you Appropriately Respond with the "RIGHT MOTIVATION" of His Love for you to do what you got to Do that is the Right thing to Do.

-When you Respond Appropriately to Do Good and Love your Enemy,you are Giving God Access to Come in and Change your Enemy and Say "THANK YOU" to you for your Love Work.

♥1 Peter 2:18-20 KJV
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
[19] For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
[20] For what glory is it , if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it , ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

-You Don't have to Feel Good about it to be Rightly Motivated to Do what you know is the Right thing To Do.
-Learn to Respond in Love in the Worst of Times,as you keep your focus in His Love for you.

♦ EVERYTHING BOILS DOWN TO MOTIVE IN LIFE,FOR ACTION IS NOT EVERYTHING, BUT MOTIVE IS EVERYTHING.

-Always Let your Actions be Prompted with the "RIGHT MOTIVE" for the Favorable Manifestation of your Desirable Benefits and End Result.

⚫One of the Things I Find Quite Humbling is the truth that God is Greater than our Hearts and nothing happening in our Hearts is Hidden from His Searchlight and Scrutiny.

♥1 John 3:20 KJV
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

-Whenever your Heart Condemns you,be prompt to Consider your Motive and make the Necessary Adjustments.when you Get your Motives Agreeable with God and His Word,it is Pleasing to Him and it does Opens you up to All of Heavenly Resources.

♥1 John 3:22 KJV
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

-Our Receiving from the Father is Enhanced by our Getting our Motive Right in All we Do in this Life.

-As we Continue to Open up to God's Word,the more the intent, thoughts and motive of our Hearts are Exposed, purified and made Acceptable and Pleasing in God's Sight.

♥Hebrews 4:12 KJV
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

-The Motive Behind All your Actions in Life are Exposed to the Eyes of THE LORD,and that is Why we can never Mock God or Succeed in Deceiving Him.

♥Heb.4.13NLT
"Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done."

-I Encourage you to Do Good Because you are Loved and you are now the Masterpiece of God Recreated in Christ for Every Good Works.
-You are Wired to Do Good in Christ JESUS,and JESUS CHRIST Lives in you to Do Good through you.

♥Ephesians 2:10 KJV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

♦ PRAYER DECLARATION
-HEAVENLY FATHER,I thank you for Every Good things I Have in Christ JESUS,and I Boldly Declare I Have the Mind of Christ with all the Thoughts and Purposes of God Deposited in my Heart.
-My Life is Driven with the Right Heart Motive of your Love for me and Everything I Do is in Response of your Love, Kindness and Goodness of Heart Shown towards me in Christ JESUS.
-THANK YOU for Saving me, accepting me and Loving me through JESUS CHRIST MY LORD.

BE BLESSED AND PROSPER.