WHAT IS DRIVEN YOU?  AND WHO IS IN THE DRIVERS SEAT?                        

This question suggests that you are being driven and not driving.  Which are you?

I have seen people that have been driven by hatred and become blind to altering fact before their eyes.  They go head long into believing they are justified in their thoughts and actions.  This leads to their destruction when they realize they stand alone in the conceptual belief.

When there are those that are driven by anger and they take matters into their own hands.  We see this in the alarming rate of homicides and the scattering awareness of suicides that are being carried out because people allow themselves to be driven to the brink by anger.

Sand when there are those driven by self righteousness.  These are they that see themselves as acting out in their own best interest and anything other than that would be unreligious like. 

Have any of these pointed to where you live and what is driving you?

1.      Hatred   2.  Anger   3.  Self Righteousness

These are not the only culprits that are driving Saints to the edge.  There are things like un-forgiveness, guilt, and foolishness.

Now let’s ask ourselves who it is that is doing the driving.  Who is driving you?

To answer is question I would like to challenge you to paid particularly to what motivates you to get up[ each day.  When you can truly pen point the reason you are engaged in life when you can narrow down our question for today.  What is driven you?

As a side note:  You can easy see if you pay attention long enough what is the motives of people you meet each day.  This discerning of character is displayed in observing not what people say, but what people do!

Jesus gives us a test.  You may call it an I-Step  in the which you must  I-step to the right side of the Lord.

Daniel 6

5.  Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

 6.  Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

 7.  All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

 8.  Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

 9.  Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

 10.  Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

 11.  Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

 12.  Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

 13.  Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

 14.  Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

 15.  Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

 16.  Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

 17.  And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.

 18.  Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

 19.  Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

 20.  And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

 21.  Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

 22.  My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

 23.  Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

 24.  And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

 25.  Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

 26.  I make a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

 27.  He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

 28.  So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Matthew 6

 1.  Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

 2.  Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 3.  But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

 4.  That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

 5.  And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 6.  But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

 7.  But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

 8.  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

 9.  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

 10.  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

 11.  Give us this day our daily bread.

 12.  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

 13.  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

 14.  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

 15.  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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