MARKET PLACE FACTS
MARKS OF A WISE MENTOR Module 306 A Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
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: Marks of a wise mentor
MARKS OF A WISE MENTOR
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
The ability to readily see potential in a person • Paul took a young half-breed teen age lad and invested in him for the better part of two decades. • Tender in spirit, strongly influenced by two women in his youth, with a bent toward melancholy, Timothy was eons apart temperament wise from Paul, the warrior, pioneer. • Yet Paul saw in this young man a future leader, which of course he became. Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Tolerance of mistakes, brashness, abrasiveness, and the like in order to see that potential develop • David, while fleeing King Saul attracted around him a band the 'losers': All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him. (1 Sam. 22:2) • Over the years, he was able to develop these unlikely men into mighty warriors, who became the very stronghold of his kingdom. (See 2 Sam. 23:8-39) Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Flexibility in responding to people in circumstances • The tendency in mentoring is to clone others into our likeness as we run them down our track and interpret the will of God for them along the lines He has led us. • Secure mentors flex with circumstances. They are not in a hurry. Nor do they force conformity. • The reality is that people struggle with their marriages, get into debt, and simply have to learn some lessons in life the hard way. Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Flexibility in responding to people in circumstances • In a word, your mentoree probably is not on your timetable as it relates to his development. • Secure mentors keep their cool and are willing to wait, flex and intercede, as God does His work in their lives. He sins who hastens with his feet. (Pro. 19:2b NKJ)
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Patience: knowing that time and experience are needed for development • God, in choosing men, never seems to be in a rush. • Before commissioning Moses, the Lord orchestrated 40 years of tempering in the desert. • He dealt similarly with newly converted Paul.
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Patience: knowing that time and experience are needed for development • Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure. (1 Tim. 5:22) (See 1 Tim. 3:6,10)
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Perspective: having vision and ability to see down the road, and suggesting the next steps a mentoree needs to take
• Many younger adults are starved for exposure to people their senior in order to glean from their wisdom and experience.
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Perspective: having vision and ability to see down the road, and suggesting the next steps a mentoree needs to take
• Believe it or not, you have great wisdom, understanding and knowledge to impart to younger generations in helping them make the right decisions on the road ahead.
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Jeremiah 29:11 • For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. • They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Jeremiah 29:11 • God has plans for each one of us. Sometimes we do not understand everything. We may even have doubts and questions. But our suspicions are unwarranted. Because God has plans for each one of us! Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
Jeremiah 29:11 • PRAYER: Lord, You have plans for me. • These plans include a future and a hope. • I WILL continue to trust You. Amen.
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
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: Marks of a wise mentor
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: Marks of a wise mentor
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: Marks of a wise mentor
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
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Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor
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Marketplace facts: Marks of a wise mentor