MARKETPLACE FACTS
SUSTAINING YOUR WALK Module 306 B Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
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: Sustaining your walk
Remember Jesus’ instruction? • …Don't worry about tomorrow… Today's trouble is enough for today. (Matt. 6:34b) • The following questions will prove helpful in ascertaining whether or not we are on the right track.
Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What are your goals? • That is, what do you want most in life? • Is it all about you and your career, impressing your peers, proving to yourself that you can ‘make it?’ • Is your life all about the here and now or are your goals primarily about things eternal? Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What are your goals? • Consider Jesus’ word of caution, And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process? • Is anything worth more than your soul? (Matt. 16:26)
Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What do you think about? • What captivates your thoughts, emotions and passions? • That which dominates your thought life determines your very essence.
Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What do you think about? • As (a man) thinks within himself, so he is. (Prov. 23:7b) • Is that a comforting truth in light of Jesus’ warning, There is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. (Luke 8:17) Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
How do you spend your money? • Do your spending habits reflect selfish indulgence or sacrificial generosity? • For example, does your check book indicate a genuine concern for the less fortunate (Prov. 19:17) and a genuine concern for the advancement of the Gospel? Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
How do you spend your money? • Do you harbour a secret desire to be rich? • Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be. (Matt. 6:21 NLT)
Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What are you pursuing? • How, for example, do you spend your leisure time? • Are your quests wholesome and honouring to Christ? • Were he to show up would he be pleased? • Would you be comfortable or embarrassed? • Who are your friends? Who are the people you hang out with? Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What are you pursuing? • Do they inspire you toward a life of nobility and excellence? • Do they raise the bar in terms of your thinking and aspirations? • Or do they cause you to slog along in mediocrity? Solomon reminds us, Whoever walks with the wise will become wise; whoever walks with fools will suffer harm. (Prov 13:20) (See Heb. 10:24) Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What grabs your attention? • Whom and what do you admire and appreciate? • Is it the beautiful people who have ‘made it’ to the top or is it the ones who have sacrificially invested their lives for the Kingdom of God? (The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive!) Don't try to act important, but enjoy the company of ordinary people. (Rom. 12:16b NLT) Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
What amuses you? • How about your humour? • Is it uplifting, gracious and disciplined or dark, degrading and off-colour? • It is incomprehensible that Jesus would tolerate debased humour. • Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful… (Eph. 4:29b NLT) Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
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!' - God is a God of restoration. - His constant call to each of us is: 'Return to Me!’Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
Isaiah 57:14 • He will remove the obstacles and make it possible. You and I must just respond and return to Him. 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: Sustaining your walk
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: Sustaining your walk
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: Sustaining your walk
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: Sustaining your walk
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
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Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
Marketplace facts: Sustaining your walk
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