FAITH CAPSULE: A selfish-minded one is not with a mind for God. 

One that is doing good in help for others is doing good to provoke the hand of God to gain the favor of God.
One with the mind of God to do good, to help others, is doing indirect good for self.
It is good to keep others in prayer, actually praying for self indirectly.
The word of God encourages, “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” (James 5:16)
One with a mind for God does not hold to self, not taking to mind confessing trespasses to another, giving way to pray.
One given to self does not to God to experience the goodness of God.
There is no way to describe one giving to self than calling such a selfish or self-centered one. 
Who are you before God?
Are you selfish or one-minded for others to the glory of God?
Are you mind-full of God or mind-full of yourself, living as a self-centered soul?
A selfish-minded one lacks consideration for others and looks to profit more than others. 
A selfish-minded one is not with a mind for God. 
The character of a selfish one is about self and will not give self to what benefits more to other than self.
Selfish-mindedness and self-ambition are like birds of the same feather.
The word of God speaks against self-ambition, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.” (Philippians 2:3)
Think about yourself to answer if you are selfish. 
Ask God to flush out any trait of selfishness in your system.
Selfish-minded is not of God.
The character of a selfish-minded one is of sin before God.
James 4:17 identifies, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not to do it, to Him it is sin.”
A selfish-minded will hold to selfishness in place of the need to do good.
Is selfish-minded your character, your way of living life?
Who are you before God?
Search yourself, and know to live life by answering to the word of God consistently.
Make it a desire to do good for yourself favor indirectly by doing God for others.
Mordecai and Esther deny selfishness by giving themselves to their people when the Jews are about to be destroyed by the conspiracy of Hamman.
Out of selfishness, Mordecai discovered the evil plan of Hamman and sent his message to Esther in her comfortable location.
Out of selfishness, Esther responded to Mordecai for the sake of the Jews:
“Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!” So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him.”
Mordecai and Esther put themselves away to provoke the deliverance of their people, the Jews.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live for God, not yourself.