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The 16 Basic Desires Inherent in Man
(includes Spiritual families)

  1. Acceptance – Desire for approval
  2. Power – Desire to influence
  4. Order – Desire to organize
  5. Curiosity – Desire to learn
  6. Tranquility – Desire to relax
  7. Social Contact – Desire for friends           12. Eating – Desire for food
  8. Vengeance – Desire to retaliate                13. Independence – Desire for self-reliance
  9. Honor – Desire to be/for loyalty               14. Family – Desire to raise children
10. Idealism – Desire for justice                     15. Saving – Desire to collect
11. Physical Activity – Desire for fitness         16. Romance – Desire for sex

Common Questions

        1. Is there a hierarchy of needs?
No single hierarchy is common to man because each individual has his or her own hierarchy of needs.
        2. What happens when fellowships, friends, family, or romantic partners have totally different Desire Profiles?
They try to impose their desires on each other (everyday tyranny).
        3. Why do some parents and children never stop quarreling (includes Christian “families”)?
Parents/leaders assume that their goals are best for their child, which produces enduring quarrels that can damage relationships.
        4. What is the motivational basis of depression?
All personal desires are weak, except acceptance, vengeance, and tranquility.
        5. What about the desire for Morality?
The desire for honor promotes loyalty to traditional codes of ethics, and personal idealism motivates humanitarianism.
        6. What is the motivational basis for anxiety disorder?
Tranquility and acceptance are high (do not feel tranquil or accepted.
        7. What causes interpersonal blind spots?
Looking at others in terms of ones own motivation, not the other persons motivation.
        8. How can this information be used to teach people to be leaders, teachers, or to just “get along with” others?
Identify the hidden motivational forces that threaten the success of their lives and interactions with others.
All of the above can be expanded on quite extensively, given some serious thought.

Burdens
Do as you are taught, not as your teacher does. Do not pick up the "burdens" some leaders try to load you with. Be humble (Ma 23:1?12).

Clean up from within. Be aware of the proud religious folk who try to "burden" you with loads they will not carry. See if the one who teaches you is teachable himself. See if the one who teaches you will allow you to go on with God or tries to stop you. See if they lay traps verbally to oppose you and your experiences with God, or if they will help you (Lu 11:39?54).

Bear one another’s burdens with an eye toward learning so that you can teach other hurting people. Do not "attack" one another, but support one another (Gal 6:2-6).

An example of one who "has it all together" and will not do the two things that would heal him; let others unload his burden and humble himself. (Eye of needle = a small gate within a large gate). A camel must let others unload him, and then must get on his knees to crawl through the small gate (Ma 19:16?26).

Form tight "covenant relationships” with others who are determined to walk with God for the mutual benefit of all (Eccl 4:9?12).

Communicate until you reach a place of agreement. Be willing to change your mind or have it changed. Don't expect the other person to change their mind; but not from a personal position of "peace at all costs" or from a position of "I'm right, do as I say" (Amos 3:3).

Why are covenant relationships so necessary?
"Lees" is the sediment in the bottom of a wine vessel. In order to filter out this sediment, a second vessel or jug is first covered with a cloth then the wine is poured from the full vessel to the empty one. The cloth filters out the sediment while the pouring enhances the wine by stirring and aeration. This pouring from vessel to vessel is done several times during the fermenting process so that the result is truly fine wine. We need to be poured from vessel to vessel (person to person) in order to come out "truly fine" (Jer 48:11).

The Lord will search out, with His searchlight, those who remain "settled on their lees" and receive no purification or enhancing by being poured from vessel to vessel. We all contain sediment. And just as the wine cannot empty itself from vessel to vessel, neither can we (Zeph 1:12).

We are chosen vessels of God, just as Saul was (Acts 9:15). God can make us either a vessel unto honor or dishonor; the choice is ours (Ro 9:21?24). We should know how to possess our vessels in honor and sanctification (set apart), as a chosen vessel (1Th 4:4?8). Clean ourselves up so we can help other hurting people clean themselves up so the devil stops winning (2Ti2:19?26). We are the vessels of the ministry (He 9:21).

One Thing and Another
Listening is one thing, hearing is another.
Hearing is one thing, doing is another.
Reading is one thing, comprehending is another.
Wisdom is one thing, understanding is another.
Acknowledging is one thing, obedience is another.

Author: W S Jordan

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Author: W S Jordan