MARKETPLACE FACTS
Lead your family with dignity Module 303 G Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
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: Lead your family with dignity
Most Valuable Asset • What is the most valuable asset that your firm possesses? • Is it your technology, trade secrets, credit line, or customer base? • Is it your exclusive product line, production capabilities, available case, or unique equipment? Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Most Valuable Asset • While all of these are important,
most of us would say that our most treasured possession is our people or our leadership. • However, there is another asset that may be even more important as your business matures.
Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Most Valuable Asset • A good name or reputation allows
your firm to attract quality leaders, excellent employees, key customers, and financing.
Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Most Valuable Asset • Proverbs 3:4 tells us that we should desire the favor of both God and Man. We are reminded that a good name is more valuable than great riches (22:1). • Ecclesiastes 7:21 explains that a good reputation makes the day of our death even better than the day of our birth.
Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Most Valuable Asset • In business and in life your name is a treasured possession. • Paul writes in I Timothy 3:7 that we should look for leaders with a good reputation with those outside of Christ’s body. • Are you a leader who understands what influence that your firms name or your name can have in your community or industry? Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Most Valuable Asset • Do you realize that few of us as leaders or as firms finish well? • Our name is something of rare value and we must endeavor to present it to God as one that seeks to glorify Him. What are you doing today to protect and elevate the name on your business card? • What is the most valuable asset of your company? Protecting my name
Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
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: Lead your family with dignity
A new commandment I give unto you That you love one another as I have loved you That you love one another as I have loved you By this shall all men know that you are my disciples If you have love one for another By this shall all men know that you are my disciples If you have love one for another Â
Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
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: Lead your family with dignity
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my marketplace by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
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Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity
Blessings from Mario Denton
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Marketplace facts: Lead your family with dignity