Charles Stanley Joel Osteen
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When we are ambitious in regard to our ministry it is very easy to do things with the motivation of receiving praise from men. If our relationship with God is weak, we can easily shift our desires from receiving the approval of God to receiving the approval of people. We begin promoting ourselves in order that we might receive personal recognition, rather than ministering to people as the Lord directs us. Though we may think we love people, we don't. We love the praise of people. If a leader has a strong personal ambition, he will have little love for the flock of God. He will not have a servant's heart, and a leader must be first and foremost a servant. (Galationas 1:10; Matthew 6:1-21)