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Marketplace facts: God loves Marketplace facts: God loves work work MARKETPLACE FACTS GOD LOVES WORK Module 602 A Mario Denton

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MARKETPLACE FACTS Mario Denton Marketplace facts: God loves Marketplace facts: God loves Marketplace facts: God loves Marketplace facts: God loves To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • 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 Marketplace facts: God loves

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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.

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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?

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#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)

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#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)

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#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)

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#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)

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#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.  

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#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.

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#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)

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#6 Work affords us a platform for ministry:

“‘Come, follow me,' Jesus said, 'and I will make you fishers of men.’” (Matt.

4:19)

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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?

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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

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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)

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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.

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Let's keep the good marketplace vibes alive. Let's network.

Become a member of the Crown Companies Marketplace Coaching Forum.

 

Tel (w) + 27(0) 82 88 29903. e-mail address:[email protected]

Website:  www.crown.org.za

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

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Sources and acknowledgementCHRIST@ 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.