MARKETPLACE FACTS
THE LIFE OF JONAH Module 303 B Mario Denton Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
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.
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • Jonah running away from God, running in the opposite direction (1:3). • As leaders, we can run but not hide. • God will get our attention.
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • Not money, position, power nor pleasure can shield us from God’s sovereignty. • We can give Him our attention voluntarily, or He will get it another way.
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • When we miss the presence of God, His is not the one who has moved (2:4). • When profits and success turn to losses and failures, we must go to our Father to find hope. (2:7) • As leaders we must often give hope to our followers but the source of this hope must rest in the power of the risen Christ. Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • Jonah was just one leader, but he saw a city transformed with Gods power. (3:8) • As you seek the presence of God, He wants to use you to be transformed and to impact your company and even your city. Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • Jonah sulked and became suicidal (4:3,8) because things did not go his way. • His pride allowed him to wallow in self-pity.
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • How soon he forgot the deliverance of God and the graciousness of Gods provisions. • The only thing worse than undergoing trials is the challenge of becoming complacent in prosperity and comfort. Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • The greatest lesson that we can learn from Jonah is found in the last few verses of the book. • Jonah’s worldview had shrunk to the small circle of his own life. • He got angry over just one “plant” and questioned Gods decision (sound familiar?). Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • We get so concerned about our business, our car, our pet, out hobby, our finances, our reputation, our comforts, and our projects. • But we do not use our time, resources, or influence to meet the needs of the people around us (employees, peers, vendors, clients, competitors).
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • God was far more concerned about the people of Nineveh than He was for one plant. • How concerned are you for Gods working in and through the lives of the people surrounding you?
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Lessons from the Life of Jonah • Do you sense God’s concern for those living in spiritual darkness in your sphere of influence? • Jesus Christ wants to love people through you in your workplace.
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Focusing on People
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the m arketplace. 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: The Life of Jonah
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25
• “Do not m erely 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 m irror 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: The Life of Jonah
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: The Life of Jonah
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
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Marketplace facts: The Life of Jonah
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