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Marketplace facts: Are you a slave to money?Marketplace facts: Are you a slave to money?

MARKETPLACE FACTS

Module 201 EARE YOU A SLAVE TO MONEY?

Mario Denton

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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 market place practices and principles discussed in this series.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.



Are You A Slave To Money?

• No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

• You cannot serve both God and Money. (Matthew 6:24)




Perhaps the following questions will help clarify your

answer:



Are you chronically anxious over money matters?

• Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.



Are you chronically anxious over money matters?

• Are you not much more valuable than they?

• Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? (Matt. 6:25b-27) (See Mark 4:19; Lk. 12:25,29; 2 Tim. 2:4)



Do you see yourself, rather than God, as your provider?

• You may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.’ But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth… (Deut. 8:17,18a) (See Dan. 4:30; Isa. 45:7; Matt. 6:33; 2 Cor. 4:7)



Your priorities

• Are your priorities – as it relates to acquiring resources – in balance with other responsibilities (God, family, etc)?Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint. (Prov. 23:4) (See John 6:27)



Are you chronically struggling with the issue of debt?

• Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law…The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender…The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously. (Rom. 13:8; Prov. 22:7; Ps. 37:21) (See Rom. 13:7)



Do you harbour a desire to be wealthy?

• People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.



Do you harbour a desire to be wealthy?

• For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

• Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (I Tim. 6:9, 10) (See Gen. 13:10-13; 2 Kings 5:20-27; Prov 28:20-22)



Are you sacrificing your integrity to get ahead?

• The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud.

• Ephraim boasts, ‘I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.’ (Hos. 12:7,8) (See Lev.19:35,36; Prov. 11:1; Amos 8:5,6; Micah 6:10,11)



Are you personally self-indulgent, but miserly when it comes to helping others who are less fortunate than you?



…The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.' Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I'll say to myself, ‘You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry…’…If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? …A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him. (Luke 12:16b-19; I John 3:17; Prov 28:22) (See Ps. 112:9; Prov 17:5; 22:9; Isa. 58:7; Jer. 22:16; Luke 12:16-20)



Are you secretive and unaccountable in the area of

finances?



Overall reflection and final answer




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



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)



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.



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



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• The “Facts of the Matter” is also available through the Internet: www.factsofthematter.org. 2003 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.



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Blessings from Dr Mario Denton as the Africa: Continental Program Director - Marketplace


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