EP 65 Our Motives Matter: Why We Do What We Do

Thankful Homemaker: A Christian Homemaking Podcast

Marci Ferrell: Christian Homemaker, Wife, Mother and Grandmother

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been kind to someone outwardly, all the while you were harboring bitterness or anger towards them on the inside? What about thinking the best of others? I fight a critical spirit, and it's an area I continually pray for the Lord to work in my heart to not judge the motives of others. God's work of sanctification comes about by continuing to change us more into the image of Christ. Our motives need to be brought into obedience to God's Word if we desire to see real change in our lives. As we take this time to spend in the Sermon on the Mount and in 1 Corinthians 13 my hope is it will get us pondering and asking the Lord to search our hearts and more specifically our heart motives on why we do what we do and how we judge the motives of others Head over to ThankfulHomemaker.com for full show notes Join Thankful Homemaker for access to the Free Library of Resources Follow ThankfulHomemaker on Facebook, Pinterest & Instagram Subscribe to the Podcast on Your Favorite App

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and
0:11.3	blessing to each other and the role God has called us to as women.
0:15.0	I'm so thankful you stop by.
0:17.0	So grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit
0:20.0	as we talk about how God's word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.
0:27.0	Hello friends, I'm Marcy Farrell from thankful homemaker.com and today's podcast, it's episode 65 is getting us thinking about our motives.
0:38.4	I keep this running list in my planner of possible podcast topics and this one got on the list
0:45.6	when I was going through a study by Jen Wilkin on the sermon on the mount.
0:49.6	Excellent study to go through and do with a group or on your own and I highly recommend if you do it that you get those additional video or even the audios to the series and again I'll link to all that but but week six in her study was titled righteousness and it was dealing with our motives matching our outward obedience.
1:11.0	So we worked through Matthew 6 versus 1 through 18 where it dealt with our
1:16.4	motives behind giving, praying, and fasting. Seeking the approval of others is
1:22.0	probably safe for me to say that is an area that we all struggle with and we probably continue to do so.
1:29.0	We can be really good at putting on a good front, all the while on the inside our attitude is not matching our outward
1:38.0	behavior. Have you ever been kind to someone outwardly all the while you were harboring bitterness or anger towards them on the inside?
1:49.0	What about thinking the best of others?
1:52.0	Personally, I fight a critical spirit.
1:54.8	It's an area I continually pray for the Lord
1:57.7	to work in my heart to not judge the motives of others. So we're going to dig in here and discuss a bit of the
2:05.5	sermon on the mount in Matthew chapter six and our motives to impress others with our
2:11.6	spirituality or our generosity or our seemingly
2:16.6	self-denying life of fasting but we're also going to touch a bit on how we can be so quick to judge the motives of others
2:25.7	thinking we know what's in their hearts. So as always this is a podcast episode
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