MARKETPLACE FACTS Module 303 A
TRANSFORMING LEADERS Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
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 market place practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Transformed leaders • Change families, companies, institutions, cities, and nations. • They become agents of divine change.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Transformed leaders • If we help leaders become transformed by the living Christ, then they spark change in the society around them.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Transformed leaders • This change occurs when God mixes the factors of His Word, His Spirit, His children, and the divine circumstances of daily life.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Untransformed leaders • Can be change agents for evil. In I Kings 21 we see King Ahab, Queen Jezebel, and a landowner named Naboth.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Untransformed leaders • Naboth was falsely accused because the “elders and leaders” of the city followed evil leadership and became part of a plot of deception, murder, and stealing.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Untransformed leaders • Throughout history such leaders have lacked integrity and courage, and they are plentiful in our businesses, governments, and cities today.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Characteristics • Deuteronomy 8:2 shares with us four characteristics of the kind of leader for which God is looking. • These characteristics are humility, proven character (tested and tried), a heart for God, and obedience to God’s commands. Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Obedience
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Characteristics • Courageous leaders such as Nathan, Elijah, Esther, Daniel, and John the Baptist exhibited these characteristics, as did Moses, Gideon, David, Solomon, Mary, Isaiah, and innumerable others.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Characteristics • God is looking for men and women who will not sell out for money, pleasure, or power. • The world will only be transformed as leaders are changed by the Holy Spirit when they surrender their will to God’s will. Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Transformed leaders • This process cannot take place without the Word of God (solid Biblical teaching), the accountability of peers (small groups), a vital daily relationship with Christ, and a life of prayer and humble dependence upon Him.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Transformed leaders • Christ is at work in and through the leader in order to use him or her as one tool to transform the society. • As Paul writes in Colossians 1:27 “Christ lives in you!”
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Transformed leaders • The vision is clear. • The difficulty is surrendering our will to His will and keeping focused on the objective. • As we seek Him (Matthew 6:33) and delight ourselves in Him (Psalms 37:5), He empowers us to be transformed and see that same transformation in others.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Looking for that one leader What about you?
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Habakkuk 3:19 Isaiah 57:14 • The Lord says, 'Let my people return to me. • Remove every obstacle from their path! • Build the road, and make it ready!‘
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Habakkuk 3:19 Isaiah 57:14 • God is a God of restoration. • His constant call to each of us is: 'Return to Me!‘ • He will remove the obstacles and make it possible. • You and I must just respond and return to Him. Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Habakkuk 3:19 Isaiah 57:14 • PRAYER: Lord, it is my desire to return to You. • I have taken my own road and done my own thing, but I realize that You are the One I need. Amen.
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
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 Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
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) Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
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. Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Transforming leaders
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