MARKETPLACE FACTS
WHO WILL WIN Module 505 A Mario Denton Market place facts: Who will win
Market place facts: Who will win
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: Who will win
Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You
• As you enter the concrete jungle of deadlines, cash flow crunches, failed expectations, re-shuffled priorities and an uncertain market economy, who will win.
Market place facts: Who will win
Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You • Your Advocate, the Good Shepherd assures you of His peace and provision
• Your Adversary, Satan, however aims to capitalize on the worst the concrete jungle can deliver in order to destroy you
Market place facts: Who will win
Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You
• A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. (John 10:10 – Msg)
Market place facts: Who will win
Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You • Jesus, your Advocate however, promises His provision: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
• For starters, your Adversary, the "thief" will take pains to play on your fears that your needs won’t be met.
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Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You • Your Advocate however, will direct you to restful replenishment: He makes me lie down in green pastures.
• Your Adversary will attempt to drive you to the point of exhaustion.
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Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You • Your Advocate however, will escort you into an inner calm: He leads me beside quiet waters.
• Your Adversary will seek to jumble your mind and emotions, as you respond to the multiplex of market demands.
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Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You • Your Advocate however, intends to usher you into opportunities for spiritual renewal: He restores my soul.
• Your Adversary will try to distract you from carving out private times alone with the Good Shepherd.
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Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You • Your Advocate however, will direct and enable you to do what honors him most:
• Your Adversary will seek to blur your sense of direction.
He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Market place facts: Who will win
Market place facts: Who will win
Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You •
Your Advocate however, promises you his consolation as you anticipate the unknown: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort m e.
• your Adversary will work at playing on your fears as to what lies beyond.
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Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You • Your Advocate however, assures you of his provision, protection and blessing: You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
• Your Adversary will undertake to produce in you a sense of uncertainty, surrounded as you are by a hostile and dangerous world.
Market place facts: Who will win
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Market place facts: Who will win
Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You •
Your Advocate however, offers you his favor and welfare here on earth, as you live in anticipation of your eternal hope: Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
• Your Adversary will strive to paralyze you with a dread of the future.
Market place facts: Who will win
Who Will Win? Your Advocate Or Your Adversary? It's Up To You
Market place facts: Who will win
QUESTIONS that MATTER 1. Which of these advocacies has been most meaningful over the years? Think of one incident and share with the group. Market place facts: Who will win
QUESTIONS that MATTER 2. Which of these do you need most right now? What is your next step?
Market place facts: Who will win
QUESTIONS that MATTER 3. If you share this advocate/ adversary issue with a new believer, how would you communicate reality without raising fears? Market place facts: Who will win
QUESTIONS that MATTER 4. Today, as you enter the concrete jungle, are you willing once again to surrender your life to His Lordship so that He can shepherd you into a life of peace Market place facts: Who will win and rest?
Market place facts: Who will win
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 Market place facts: Who will win
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) Market place facts: Who will win
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: Who will win
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
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