00:00 Praise Jesus Christ. Nazareth brothers and sisters Today the power of Christ Daily 13th of October 2015 Self agenda prayers empowers demons Self agenda Prayers empower demons now this is regarding motives. For God, motives is a big issue. The wrong
motives is not going to answer your prayers.

00:27 In fact, wrong motives, the demons take charge and begin to harm us. If I do things, suppose I get up this morning with the wrong motive to do this. I have a problem.

00:39 The right motive for me is Jesus told me to do this. It’s good he wants me to. He has blessed me, now he wants me to bless others.

00:49 If that’s the thing. If I say okay, if the wrong motive is how can I get up in the morning? How can manipulate people? That’s wrong motive. Motives the motive.

00:59 Even in a praying time, motives can be wrong. Praying motives can be wrong. James 4:1 3 let’s see.

01:07 James 4:1 3. I’m reading from the Amplified Bible. What leads to the unending quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your hedonistic desires? Hedonistic is simply self gratification, self pleasure.

01:28 Self is about self. Self matter comes first. Pleasure for self comes first.

01:34 Self gratification for yourself comes first. Hedonistic desires, death wage war in your body members fighting for control over you. What leads to the unending quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from self gratification, self seeking
desires? That’s the question God is asking.

01:57 True. So when there are quarrels among people, there will always be a self seeking thing. The two people want their own self seeking thing.

02:06 That is why they end up quarrels and conflicts. 2. You are jealous and covet what others have and your lust goes unfulfilled.

02:16 So you murder. Murder. You know God says if you hate your brother, it’s murder and your lust goes unfulfilled.

02:16 So you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain the object of your envy. So you fight and battle.

02:32 You do not have because you do not ask it of God. You do not ask God what you must have. You’re asking what you want of yourself and you’re going about it and you’re praying to God asking what you want.

02:46 You decided, I decide what I want. So I begin to ask what I want as I care. I don’t care.

02:52 I’m just asking God. After all, I’m only asking my father. God.

02:56 Nonsense. Bible scripture clearly says this. God’s word says this, don’t do this.

03:01 3. You ask God for something and you do not receive it because you ask with wrong motives. Wrong motives.

03:10 There’s the Bible directly telling us out of selfishness or with an unrighteous agenda. So that when you get what you want, you may spend it on your hedonistic desires. Hedonistic desires spelled H E D O N I S T I C H E D O N I S T I C. Hedonistic
desires is pleasure for oneself, your own pleasures that comes first for us.

03:40 Self seeking desires, self gratification desires. That comes first. That’s hedonistic.

03:44 Now so simply here God is telling. Look Motif, what is your motive in your prayers? What is the motive that you’re asking? Is it about yourself? If you’re self seeking, then the title says that self agenda prayers empower demons. Self seeking
prayers empower demons.

04:02 Now how does this happen? Because the devil knows that you are preaching God’s word. God’s word is when you want each of us deny ourselves and pick up the cross. That means whatever our heart wants for self seeking, self gratification, we must cut
it out.

04:20 Deny ourselves, pick up the cross and follow him. Then when we seek the kingdom of God and righteousness first all our needs are settled. That’s his promise.

04:30 So there’s nothing we can go unfulfilled. But brothers and sisters, I’ve seen this in the last 20 odd years. I tell you all kinds of things.

04:39 For instance, there are people who come to church. Their agenda actually is to sell MLM products. They may worship loudly singing and all that.

04:51 They’ll go on. And people think just because they sing loudly, closing their eyes and swaying and all that, people will think water. Oh good sister, good brother.

04:59 Okay, they are really worshipping God. No, but inside them only they will know. God will know.

05:04 And after that when they begin to talk and do around in the spirit, we also will know what is going on. They are there to make go to the church. They will join the largest church so they can have large number to sell MLM products.

05:18 You think God is not going to know this? And you think the devil doesn’t know? And the devil, now that you have given him a foothold, has a right to steal, kill and destroy. And therefore after years of them doing this, their life is still in a
mess. In a mess.

05:34 And they don’t stop to think. I’ve been doing this one, two, three years again and again and my life is still in a mess. Why your motive? And people don’t talk about motives in our prayer.

05:45 The motive must be right. Motive must be godly motive. Now take another case.

05:53 People join the Full Gospel Businessmen Association Businessmen assembly and Full Gospel Businessman group. So the group is supposed to have a businessman, Christian businessman, getting together and to promote Christ, of course. Incidentally, they
will also do business with each other.

06:17 But if people come to that place, Full Gospel businessman, purposely just to do business, and Christ is the farthest thing from their heart. God knows. God knows.

06:29 He said, people worship me with their lips, praise me with their lips, but their hearts are far away. And the devil, knowing that also steals, kills and destroys. And people do not want to understand the precept of God.

06:45 Remember, there are people who set up a business and they say, I dedicate this business to God. They do not want to check whether God has agreed on the business in the first place. God is not, you see, God is the owner of the entire universe.

07:00 You think he wants your business? He doesn’t want your business. He doesn’t want business. In fact, he’s going to give me a business if I want to do.

07:08 If he wants me to do a business, he’ll give me a business and I’ll be fulfilled. But if I’m going to do a business and say I dedicate to God, I dedicate to God. Because the intention is, if I dedicate it to God, God must protect it.

07:21 Now it’s his job. That’s what they believe. That’s why they taught some of them, I dedicate my business to God, so my God must protect this.

07:29 No. Has God accepted your dedication? Has God accepted your dedication of that business? And sometimes I see them dedicating rubbish business. They get a project, a project can lead other people to sin and all that.

07:45 They still dedicate that business to God. Like for instance, take, if my talent is singing, let’s say I’m a useless singer. By the way, brothers and sisters, I sing out of tune.

07:56 But let’s say I’m a good singer and a good guitar player. And I decide, all right, I dedicate myself to God. I’m a follower of Christ.

08:06 So I will sing in the pubs. And there are many who believe this. Well, they’re sincerely wrong.

08:13 Because what happens in a pub, hey, I was a big time pub goer. I was completely drunk many times those days before I came to the Lord. This 20 odd years ago.

08:23 Now you sing, you sing, you make people enjoy. People are joyful. Yes, that’s good.

08:29 You bring joy so your heart will tell. I bring joy to people? What’s wrong with that? God wants me to bless people. God wants you to bless people with the knowledge of Jesus Christ first Jesus.

08:40 God wants us to bless People with the knowledge of Jesus Christ so their sins will live and they’ll have righteousness, peace and joy. That’s the first blessing. Oh people, joy, joy, joy.

08:51 This joy can come from the booth. La singing bottle, bottle joy. They call it La joy from the bottle.

08:57 So I sing, sing, sing, sing. People are dancing, joyful this and that. And I say I brought blessing to them.

09:04 Well, I can say what I want. What does God say? God says I am doing it because I like to do that. Because I like to do that.

09:14 I got given talent, I got a God given talent. I do this, I’m bringing people to Christ. No brother, you’re not bringing people to Christ.

09:21 You are actually making people enjoy. And any other pop singer in the world who is not a Christian can do that. Maybe can do that even better.

09:30 But you say I will sing a song. You really singing Jesus Christ song there? No, you sing Amazing Grace where there’s no name of Jesus. We are supposed to promote Jesus Christ.

09:41 So you sing Amazing Grace and everybody feels good. Everybody is swaying. At about 12 o’clock, 12:30 in the night or even 11:30.

09:49 People all topped up, ready. They are singing and swaying and saying what a feeling that is not glorifying God. We are only desiring ourselves.

09:59 It’s hedonistic. This is wrong. We are self agenda.

10:03 I want to sing in the pub, but what can I do? I don’t have any other work. If I don’t sing in the pub, I’m finished. I can’t earn a living.

10:12 So there’s self agenda. What self agenda? I just want to make a living that also cannot. What did God say? Seek the kingdom of God and righteousness first and all these things.

10:23 What is the kingdom of God? Righteousness, peace and joy. Righteousness be right in Christ. There is righteousness, righteousness, peace and joy.

10:30 And everything you need will be settled. Why don’t you believe the word, brother? Why don’t you believe the word, sister? There are others who say I set up a pub. That’s the business I dedicated to God.

10:42 Even if we didn’t dedicate to God. God says flee from all semblance of evil. Anything looking evil, run away.

10:49 God is telling us so by having a pub. People are spending money. People spend more than many people cannot afford to respect.

10:58 I didn’t realize God has given me money. So much money. The time I spend, I said I’m not going broke, I can spend.

11:04 But there are people I see come back, they have no money. They’re borrowing and spending. And then after that the Children are distraught, the wife is destroyed because bills are not paid at home.

11:16 Bills are not being paid at home and they’re not spending the time at home. I was not spending my time. I can’t blame the pub owner.

11:22 I’m not blaming the pub owner or the singer. That was my own choice. So I take full accountability for the mess I made myself in Jesus name I declare it.

11:31 But God will still deal with the child who calls himself a child of God, a disciple of Christ or a Christian. And you want to own a pub and God will still deal with you. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? That’s
what God is saying.

11:48 What does the profit as believe in God? So what I want to do, I want to know how to run pubs. Not true. If you know how to run pubs, you got management skills.

11:58 Hey, you got great business skills. You know how to run pubs. Take the skill and God will take you to a nice good thing and manifold more will be blessed.

12:08 You know why here problem. You’re running the pub. And the devil says, the self agenda.

12:12 And he’s empowered. He came to steal, kill and destroy. And he’s stealing, killing and destroy.

12:17 So I see. I know friends who’ve been doing this for years. They’re still broke, running pubs, trying to make ends meet, some here and there.

12:26 But actually if they just went to Christ, they say they are Christians by the way. If they just went to Christ and said, lord, you have given me so many talents, I will use it. You give me a business, Lord, you give me.

12:40 He will make your path straight. He says, and I give you a business where you’ll shine, brother, because God wants you to shine. But if we depend only on the skills we think we know our mind says, I only know how to run pups, so where can I go? I
will run pups.

12:54 God will forgive me. God will understand. Even though a lot of lives are destroyed, the Word says offenses will come, temptation will come.

13:03 But woe to the one who bring the temptations. Brother, please brother, if you are listening to this, don’t get upset with me. Examine the word of God, what I’m saying.

13:14 Woe to the one through whom the temptations come. But God wants to bless you. He wants to take you out of there and make you salt and light.

13:21 And you are shining light. He wants to make you a wonder to many. And then people say, hey, this fellow was running a pub before, you know, but now you see he’s a great businessman.

13:30 Then you say, Jesus Christ, of Nazareth settled me. Brothers and sisters, today is a wonderful day to know this thing. Now for the other agendas.

13:39 Let us say woman is praying for the husband to be saved. Husband to be saved, you know. But actually in her heart it’s because the husband, remember I was adulterer.

13:49 So in the heart she’s afraid the husband is adultering somewhere and then he may not support her. So the actual agenda is not that he should be saved. The actual agenda is that he must support her.

14:04 Money is going off. If he gives money, I can live well, I can live better. That’s the agenda.

14:09 So he’s spending money on the other woman. If he gives money to me, I’ll live well. So I better pray for him to become saved.

14:17 God will know how to save people. Now, the same thing pastors who go to pray for. Suddenly a rich person came to be ministered and you’re praying.

14:31 This way some pastors will get extra prayers, extra sound. Stand there, go in the house, go around. Oh, casting out everything in the name of Jesus Christ.

14:40 Oh, putting oil on the windows and all this. Going around making this big show for this rich fellow. Why? So the rich fellow will maybe give a big blessing.

14:50 God will know the agenda. You be humble and do what God wants us to do, brothers and sisters. So this agenda, the motive is a big issue.

15:01 And then we pray. We better find out what God wants us to pray. We pray according to his word.

15:06 We pray on our own self. Wrong motives, nothing would happen. We are going to mess up brothers and sisters today.

15:12 Motive. Now, when these motives are wrong, the devil has a right against you. Against me? Why? He’s got a foothold.

15:22 God said, do not give the devil a foothold. The devil goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour you swallow. So we give a foothold with our own self.

15:32 Angela, prayers empowers the devil and our life will be a mess. Now there are others. For instance, they tithe because they’ve been told, if you don’t tithe, the devourer will devour your thing and you will not prosper.

15:46 That’s Old Testament, New Testament. God says, you come to Him. He gives you power over the devourer.

15:51 He gives us power over Satan. I can cast Satan out in the name of Jesus Christ. My power over Satan doesn’t depend on whether I tithe or not.

15:59 But I have to give. In the New Testament, there’s a giving law God has put for us to prove that we are real children of God and we care for others and we give. But if you give.

16:09 Oh, if I give, I can give hundredfold. Oh, God said, yeah, if you want to give 100 fold, I’ll give you. But if you’re giving purposely for that, not for an altruistic good agenda, then the devil is used to make us brothers and sisters.

16:24 Brothers and sisters today, knowing this, cast everything out. In the name of Jesus Christ. Let us walk with the right motive.

16:26 In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen.