MARKETPLACE FACTS
Experiencing God’s grace in my life Module 403 B Mario Denton Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
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.
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • How do you know whether or not you are experiencing God’s grace in your life? Here are a few indicators:
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • I am sensing His pleasure in a deep, personal way: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. (Gal. 6:18) (See 2 Cor. 13:14)
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • I am careful to credit God, rather than myself, for the life changes He is affecting in me: But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. (I Cor. 15:10) (See 1 Cor. 4:7; Eph. 3:7) Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life I am choosing not to abuse the grace of God through willful patterns of chronically sinful behavior: Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?…For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. (Romans 6:1,2,14) (See Rom. 6:15; Gal. 5:13; 1 Pet. 2:16; 2 Pet. 2:18,19; 1 Jn. 1:7-10; 2:1-6)
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • I am enjoying His restoration and renewal thorough personal knowledge of His forgiveness:
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • …In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace. (Eph. 1:6b,7) (Ps. 32:1,2; 86:5; 130:3,4; Isa. 43:25; 55:6,7; Jer. 31:34;1 Jn.1:8-2:1)
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • I am extending His grace to those around me:
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (Eph. 4:32) (See Lev. 25:35; Lk. 6:27-31,35; Rom. 1:7; 2 Cor. 13:14; 2 Thes. 3:18; Rev. 1:4,5)
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • I am engaged in getting His message of grace out to others:
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life • I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God's grace given me through the working of his power… This grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. (Eph. 3:7,8b) (See Eph. 3:2)
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Experiencing God’s grace in your life QUESTION: Are you choosing to appropriate and live in His grace today?
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
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 Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
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) Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
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. Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
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Market place facts: Experiencing God’s grace
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