Keeping Our Motive Humble

Keeping Our Motive Humble

 

Mark 11:23   ²³ For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

In the natural it would seem impossible to move a mountain into the sea.

So Jesus was using this illustration to show that God can do the impossible.

Luke 1:37 says, for with God nothing shall be impossible.

God will answer prayers, but not as a result of your natural mental thinking.

God works in the supernatural spiritual realm and with faith He manifests things prayed for into the natural physical realm.

You must not pray with selfish motives.

Your request must be for the good of Gods kingdom.

To pray effectively you need faith in God.

Not faith in the thing of your request. If you focus is only on your request and it comes from a selfish motive it may be refused.

James 4:2-3   Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

James is saying…You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it.

You are jealous for what others have and the fact that you don’t possess it.

So you fight and quarrel to take it away from them.

The reason you don’t have what you want is you don’t ask God for it with belief.

When you ask sometimes you don’t get it because your motive is all wrong.

Some of the time you want things for your own pleasure. Instead of going to God to see what he wants for your life.

John 14:12-14   Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

¹³ And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

¹⁴ If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

When Jesus says we can ask for anything, we must remember that our asking must be in His name.

There is no magic formula, or abra cadabras or plan B. it is only the name of Jesus.

If we are sincerely following God and seeking to do His will, then our prayers will be in line with what he wants, Then he will grant them.

John 15:7   If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

We try to be good, honest people and do what we feel is right.

But Jesus says that the only way to live a truly good life is to stay close to him.

That is what happened under the Mosaic Law. If you did good you were blessed, if you did bad you got cursed. Duet. Chapter 28

Thank God we are not under the law anymore. We are under Gods mercy and grace.

When we pray in line with Gods word, He will do what His word says he will do.

He has to. His word is His covenant, and he is bound by His word.