MARKETPLACE FACTS
BEGINNING AGAIN Module 404 D Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Beginning again
Marketplace facts: Beginning again
Marketplace facts: Beginning again
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.
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Do you love new beginnings. • Every day we have another chance to start fresh again. • Every week we face a new set of challenges. • Or once a month we have an opportunity to look at the income statement, bank balance, or calendar and make changes. Marketplace facts: Beginning again
Do you love new beginnings. • We all love the newness of a new car, a new house, or new clothing, even though we realise that the newness quickly fades away. • However, a new relationship, a marriage, or a birth is a special kind of new beginning. • Each brings with it the promise of hope and the fear of disappointment. Marketplace facts: Beginning again
The Bible says that God’s mercies are new every morning.
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Begin again. • God wants to help us begin again. • He wants to give us a fresh start. He promises to give us a new heart and a new spirit. • He wants to renew our mind, our strength, our knowledge, and our inner person. Marketplace facts: Beginning again
Begin again. • He wants to do this each day if we will only look to Him for guidance and direction through His word and prayer. • He wants us to have a second chance in the land of beginning again. Marketplace facts: Beginning again
Begin again. • Have you ever made a mistake as a parent, on the job, in your finances, or in relationships? • Of course, we all have! • Well, we can learn from those and start again.
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Begin again. • We never know how long we have on this earth. Life is brief, or more like grass than trees. • Death is universal, the Psalmist tells us to learn to number our days. • The time is short, life is fragile, and we must redeem the time. Marketplace facts: Beginning again
Begin again. • We don’t have time to grieve over the past, or to worry about the future; we only have today.
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Begin again. • So let us journey to the land of "Beginning Again" and start down the road of a new year with all of its hopes and dreams and fears. • In the cycle of life we are given a few chances to start over. • Don’t miss the opportunity to start fresh again. Marketplace facts: Beginning again
Some questions for you to ponder
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Question 1 What areas of your life would you like to start again? Why?
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Questions 2 What are some new books that you want to read this year (or old one to re-read)?
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Question 3 What new places do you want to visit, or old places to re-visit. Have you scheduled these yet?
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Question 4 What old friend would you like to have a meal with? When will you do it?
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Question 5 Who are the people with which you want to schedule regular time? Why?
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Question 6 What regular or special times will you schedule with your family?
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Question 7 How often will you review your finances? What changes do you need to make?
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Question 8 What are your physical "goals"? How will you attain them?
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Question 9 9. What dreams do you want to follow this year?
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Question 10 What old harmful attitudes do you want to discard? How will you do that: Who will help you?
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Question 11 What are some of your spiritual needs? How will you meet them? Who will help you?
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Question 12 What times will you set aside each day, week, and month, during the year to assess your progress and refocus your energies and thoughts? Marketplace facts: Beginning again
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: Beginning again
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: Beginning again
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: Beginning again
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
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Blessings from Mario Denton
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