504 A Noah's ark

MARKETPLACE FACTS Module 504 A

Everything I Need to Know About Life, I Learned From Noah’s Ark Mario Denton Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various market place facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the market place.

• Adapt and benchmark your market place practices and principles discussed in this series.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Everything I Need to Know About Life, I Learned From Noah’s Ark

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

One: Don't miss the boat.

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

One: Don't miss the boat.

• For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

While people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (I Thes.

5:2,3) (See Matt. 26:42-44; 25:1-3; 2 Pet. 3:10; Rev. 16:15)

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Two: Remember that we are all in the same boat.

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Two: Remember that we are all in the same boat. • We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6) (See Rom. 3:9-12,19,23; 11:32)

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Three: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Three: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

• Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately…as wise (sensible, intelligent) people. (Eph. 5:15 Amp. See Gen. 41:28-36; Prov. 6:6-8; Prov.

30:25; Matt. 25:1-13)

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Four: Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Four: Stay fit. When you're 600 years

old, someone may ask you to do something really big.

• But the godly shall flourish like palm trees and grow tall as the cedars of Lebanon.

For they are transplanted into the Lord's own garden and are under his personal care. Even in old age they will still produce fruit and be vital and green. This honors the Lord and exhibits his faithful care… (Ps. 92:12-15a) (See Prov. 14:30; 15:30; 16:24; 17:22; I Cor. 6:19, 20; 1 Tim. 4:8) Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Five: Don't listen to critics: just get on with the job that needs to be done.

• We stand true to the Lord whether others honor us or despise us, whether they criticize us or commend us. We are honest, but they call us liars” (2 Cor. 6:8 Living). (See Neh. 4:1-3; Ps. 141:5; Acts 8:24; Gal. 4:16)

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Six: Build your future on high ground.

• Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. (Matt. 7:24,25) Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Seven: For safety's sake, travel in pairs.

• And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two…. (Mark 6:7a) (See Gen. 2:18; Ex. 4:14-16; Num. 11:14; Prov.

27:17; Acts 13:2; 1 Cor. 12:18-21)

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Eight: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.

• It is dangerous and sinful to rush into the unknown. (Prov. 19:2 Living) (See Ephesians 5:14-17)

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Nine: When you're stressed, float a while.

• Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.’ (Mark 6:31) (See Gen. 28:11; Psalm. 55:7; Jer. 9:2; Mark 3:7; Luke 5:15,16) Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Ten: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

• Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these ‘nobodies’ to expose the hollow pretensions of the ‘somebodies’? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. (I Cor. 1:27-29 The Message) (See. Mt. 4:18-22) Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

Eleven: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.

• See Genesis 9:12-16

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

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: Learning form Noah’s ark

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: Learning form Noah’s ark

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: Learning form Noah’s ark

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

Market place facts: Learning form Noah’s ark

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