MARKETPLACE FACTS Module 502 G
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL Mario Denton Marketplace facts: The worth of the
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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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THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL For what are you exchanging your life? If it is not for people then you are paying too high a price. Marketplace facts: The worth of the
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • When we give ourselves to invest in other people , then we are investing for eternity, but if we give our lives for an organisation, a job, an institution, a cause, or a program, then we are only focusing on the temporal.
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THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • We must work so that we can eat, but we must not give ourselves only for that job, that paycheck, or that bonus.
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THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • If we give our lives sacrificially for a co-worker, a person working with a customer, or another who works with a vendor, then we are exchanging our life for people .
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THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL Always put people first, and the profits will usually take care of themselves.
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THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • Others may say that they won’t give themselves just for a job, but they sacrifice for a church, or a charitable institution. • Their focus may even be a school or a political cause. • Whatever our focus is on, if it is not on people , then the results will eventually fade away. Marketplace facts: The worth of the
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • Governments, companies, educational institutions, and even religious organisations will all eventually end. • But the experiences that we have with the people in those organisations will live forever. Marketplace facts: The worth of the
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • Therefore, although you greatly enjoy the business world, your church involvement, your community concerns and your own personal activities, youI should never put these worthy causes above people .
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THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • Choose to invest eternally. • Business leaders are often trying to focus on the important instead of the urgent. • That is a huge daily challenge. • The eternal is even more of a priority than the most profitable business deal. Marketplace facts: The worth of the
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • Spend time and focus your energies on that spouse, parent, child, grandchild, brother, or sister. • Make that phone call or plan that meal together. • Pay attention to that co-worker, friend, widow, or young child that lacks attention. Marketplace facts: The worth of the
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • Don’t put all your eggs in the one basket of an institution-even a good one-but spread your life and your attention to people around you.
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THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • There are many examples of heroes who have given their lives in service for others—Mother Teresa, a favourite teacher, that neighbour who is always serving everyone else, or that coworker who always has a smile and a listening ear. • The greatest example of all was the Son of God. Marketplace facts: The worth of the
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL Jesus Christ came not to establish a Kingdom on earth or to build a religious institution, but He came to sacrifice His life for you and me. Marketplace facts: The worth of the
THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL • Jesus knew that the only things that last for eternity are the souls of people, the word of God, and God Himself. • He knew the worth of the individual, do you?
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REFLECTION TIME Do you knew the worth of the individual
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Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the m arketplace. 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: The worth of the
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25
• “Do not m erely 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 m irror 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: The worth of the
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: The worth of the
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
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Blessings from Mario Denton
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