401 D Life purpose

MARKETPLACE FACTS

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose Module 401 D Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

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: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • If you are out of focus or off balance in terms of understanding and living out your life purpose, here are a few practical steps you can take to get back on track

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • Set aside half a day – several hours – where you will have little or no interruption.

Ask God for wisdom and insight as you think in this area.

• Read one or two of your favorite portions of Scripture (if you don’t have a favorite read Psalm 139).

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • Reflect on your apparent current purpose. It may help to jot down some of your major activities and active passions.

Reflect on this question: In what way do I sense dissatisfaction with my life and current purpose?

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • Write out what you think your primary purpose should be. • This should relate to what you view as your gifts, abilities and skills.

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • You might consider an overall statement of purpose and then some secondary purposes related to the major areas of life: Personal life Spiritual life Family Work Finances Health Responsibility to others Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • Explore these questions: What chaos am I presently encountering that impacts fulfilling my purpose and giving me real meaning? • Is it external? Is it internal?

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • What can I do to specifically refocus my life around my purpose?

Immediately?

In a month?

In six months?

In a year?

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • One final word: Remember, you are unique, and need not meet anyone’s expectations except God’s.

• Two basic purposes seem to be universal for the Biblically-based life.

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose • First love and serve God with all your heart, mind and soul (Matthew 22:3739). • Second, make your family a primary component of your purpose whether single or married. (Mk. 7:9-13; I Tim. 3:4,5; Tit. 1:6) Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Questions that Matter 1. Why do you think it is important to have a written purpose?

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Questions that Matter 2. Use these words to evaluate your purpose statement: dynamic, memorable, powerful, unique, personal, motivating, clear, brief.

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Questions that Matter 3. Discuss Ephesians 5:15-17 in relation to this topic.

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

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: Formulating your Life Purpose

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: Formulating your Life Purpose

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: Formulating your Life Purpose

Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!

Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

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Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose

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