MARKETPLACE FACTS
GOD LOVES WORK Module 602 A Mario Denton Marketplace facts: God loves
Marketplace facts: God loves
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 market place practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
Marketplace facts: God loves
Just a thought: To catch fish, you have to go where they hang out. Is there a better place to "fish" than where you spend 40 to 60 hours of your week? Marketplace facts: God loves
God loves work: He loves us to work! Here are the six reasons why:
Marketplace facts: God loves
#1 God is a worker: • Just take Genesis 1 and 2 in creation. • When God finished His creation, He saw that His own work was “good”. • (Check out Deut. 11:1-7; Psa. 111) Marketplace facts: God loves
Marketplace facts: God loves
#2 Before the fall, God created us to be workers: • Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed…The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” (Gen. 2:8, 15) (See Gen.1:26-29) Marketplace facts: God loves
#3 Work enables us to meet our family and personal needs: Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.� (I Thess. 4:11, 12) Marketplace facts: God loves
#4 Work makes it possible for us to give to others: “He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.� (Eph. 4:28) Marketplace facts: God loves
#5 Work gives us pleasure and reward, thus easing life's pain • Then I realized that it is good and proper for a man to eat and drink and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labour under the sun during the few days of life God has given him --for this is his lot.
Marketplace facts: God loves
#5 Work gives us pleasure and reward, thus easing life's pain • Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work--this is a gift of God.
Marketplace facts: God loves
#5 Work gives us pleasure and reward, thus easing life's pain •
He seldom reflects on the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with gladness of heart.”
•
(Ecc. 5:18-20)
Marketplace facts: God loves
#6 Work affords us a platform for ministry: “‘Come, follow me,' Jesus said, 'and I will make you fishers of men.’” (Matt. 4:19)
Marketplace facts: God loves
Fishers of men
Marketplace facts: God loves
So again:
To catch fish, you have to go where they hang out. Is there a better place to "fish" than where you spend 40 to 60 hours of your week? Marketplace facts: God loves
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: God loves
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: God loves
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: God loves
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
Marketplace facts: God loves
Blessings from Dr Mario Denton as the Africa: Continental Programme Director - Marketplace
Let's keep the good marketplace vibes alive. Let's network. Become a member of the Crown Companies Marketplace Coaching Forum. Â Tel (w) + 27(0) 82 88 29903. e-m ail address:mario@crown.org.za Website: www.crown.org.za Marketplace facts: God loves
Sources and acknowledgement CHRIST@ WORK NEWSLETTER • •
Copyright Notice FCCI- Limited permission to copy without altering text or profiteering is granted subject to inclusion of this copyright notice. Copy is limited to member and/or FCCI small group use.
•
The “Facts of the Matter” is also available through the Internet: www.factsofthematter.org. R. Dwight Hill. Slides compiled by Mario Denton. Please commit yourself to inform us of the results regarding the effectiveness thereof should you wish to use this material.
• •
Marketplace facts: God loves