This verse raised a deep question about our prayer life. Why do we pray? James says that a great deal of prayer is in vain because the motive is wrong.
\nGamma 3:8-18, Roam 8:26, James 4:13, Luke 14:16-20<\/p>\n
I: What Then is Motive?<\/strong> II: Jesus Continually Looked For Motives.<\/strong> III: Can One Know His Motives?<\/strong> IV: Ways We Deceive ourselves:<\/strong> V. Prayer Will Help Us Discover Our Real Motives.<\/strong> The “Squalls.” “Love lifted me.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This verse raised a deep question about our prayer life. Why do we pray? James says that a great deal of prayer is in vain because the motive is wrong. Gamma 3:8-18, Roam 8:26, James 4:13, Luke 14:16-20 I: What Then is Motive? 1. “That within the individual rather than without, which incites him to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1. “That within the individual rather than without, which incites him to action.” Latin — “motto” means “to move.” Noun “locus” means “place.” Something that moves us from place to place.
\n2. A motive is that in our experience that moves us from place or to action.
\n3. Motives can bring sickness no doctor can cure.<\/p>\n
\n1. he knew men could be as white and as filthy as painted tombs.
\n2. The men that brought the women taken in adultery. John 8:3-9
\n3. The woman at the well wanted to argue religion. John 4:1-25
\n4. “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time.” Kill and hate, adultery and a look. Matt. 5:21-22. “Speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me.” Take heed of covetousness. Like 12:13-15.<\/p>\n
\n1. The bible insists that we may not always know. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jar. 17:9.
\n2. Look around you at the professed motives of men!!
\na. Why do men vote the party ticket?
\nb. Why was that dinner engagement refused? (I’ve bought a piece of land).
\nc. Why does this person speak so well against certain sins?
\n3. We need help! “For we know not how to pray.” Rom. 8:26<\/p>\n
\n1. Compensation. (Blustering noises while scared to death. Like a big man facing a serious operation).
\na. Compensation transfers our weakness to others and then optimizes, as we see them in others.
\nb. Kidding ourselves or throwing up a “camouflage”.
\nc. Cemetery-Sleeping, while lies.
\n2. Tragedy is, stark reality will sooner or later overtake us.<\/p>\n
\n1. Sincere prayer will keep us from self-deception or self deception will keep us from prayer.
\n2. If Christ is the center of our prayer we will not pray self-centered prayers.
\n3. When we see Christ we see our own selves. (Peter)
\n4. Prayer cleanses motives.
\n5. Prayer is the cure for dishonesty; it helps us classify our motives. (The man with the paralyzed arm and the judging of the tax return figures).<\/p>\n