today's leaders

The traits our culture values in leaders are different from the traits Paul lays out for the early church. His list doesn't include "must be a great speaker" or "have a forceful personality." Too many people are given leadership on the basis of external talent but the qualities that the apostle Paul was looking for were based upon internal character.

We need leaders who value the hard steep road of character over the cheap, shallow image of self promotion. Could you handle it?

Here is a trustworthy saying; whoever aspires to be an overseer desire the noble task. Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 
1 Timothy 3:1-3

Along with that, what does it mean to have wrong motives? 
When our requests don't match our character. There are times when God is withholding our requests for money or a certain relationship because what we think is a blessing can be a destructive force in our lives. God loves us so much that He will protect us from our prayers.

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

– James 4:3 (NIV)