MARKET PLACE FACTS
Module 201 C LASTING INVESTMENTS Mario Denton Market place facts: Lasting investments
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments • As an old man, Solomon agonized over the futility of his investments: "When I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun ...so I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me ...A chasing after the wind" (Ecc. 2:11,17)
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments • Do your investments parallel Solomon's? • Or are you making the kind of investments that will outlive you, lasting for eternity?
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments • If you want: A one year return on your investment, plant grain.
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments • If you want: A ten year return on your investment, plant a tree.
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments • If you want: An eternal return on your investment, plant people.
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments • It is God s intention to destroy everything physical, including your earthly investments • The day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away ...and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (2 Pet. 3:10)
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments Can we therefore grasp the fact that only God, His Word, and people are eternal? Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments God: Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (2 Pet. 3:8) (See Psa. 102:12; Eph. 3:21; 2 Pet. 3:8)
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments His Word: Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. (Psa. 119:89) (See Psa. 119:152, 160; Matt. 5:18; 24:34; 1 Peter 1:25)
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments People: Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan.12:2) (See Matt. 25:46; Rom. 2:7,8; 2 Thess. 1:5-9)
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments Consequently, the only investments that will withstand the coming holocaust will be those made in the lives of people.
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments • God regularly places individuals in our path with whom He desires our investment: The person at the club. • That neighbour across the street. • A business associate. • A relative. • Someone in distress. Market place facts: Lasting investments
QUESTIONS: As you encounter these people, are you blithely brushing past them to fulfill your agenda? Or are you viewing each one as a divine appointment?
Market place facts: Lasting investments
QUESTIONS: • Are you responding to the prompting of the Spirit by graciously and determinedly investing in their lives for the purpose of bringing Christ to them? • Or building Christ in them? • Even when it means altering your pre-determined schedule? Market place facts: Lasting investments
The answers to these questions • Are determined by whether we are living for the temporal, or investing in the eternal.
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Market place facts: Lasting investments
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Market place facts: Lasting investments
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Market place facts: Lasting investments
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Market place facts: Lasting investments
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Market place facts: Lasting investments
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Market place facts: Lasting investments
Market place facts: Lasting investments
Market place facts: Lasting investments