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MARKET PLACE FACTS Mario Denton Market place facts: Lasting investments Market place facts: Lasting investments Market place facts: Lasting investments Market place facts: Lasting investments To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism. Market place facts: Lasting investments Market place facts: Lasting investments
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Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
MARKET PLACE FACTS
Module 201 CLASTING INVESTMENTS
Mario Denton
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
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.
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Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
• As an old man, Solomon agonized over the futility of his investments:"When I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun ...so I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me ...A chasing after the wind" (Ecc. 2:11,17)
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
• Do your investments parallel Solomon's?
• Or are you making the kind of investments that will outlive you, lasting for eternity?
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
• If you want:A one year return on your investment, plant grain.
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
• If you want:A ten year return on your investment, plant a tree.
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
• If you want:An eternal return on your investment, plant people.
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
• It is God s intention to destroy everything physical, including your earthly investments
• The day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away ...and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (2 Pet. 3:10)
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
Can we therefore grasp the fact that only God, His Word, and
people are eternal?
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
God: Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. (2 Pet. 3:8) (See Psa. 102:12; Eph. 3:21; 2 Pet. 3:8)
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Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
His Word: Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. (Psa. 119:89) (See Psa. 119:152, 160; Matt. 5:18; 24:34; 1 Peter 1:25)
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Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
People: Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan.12:2) (See Matt. 25:46; Rom. 2:7,8; 2 Thess. 1:5-9)
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
Consequently, the only investments that will withstand the coming holocaust will be those made in the lives of people.
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Just How Lasting Are Your Investments
• God regularly places individuals in our path with whom He desires our investment: The person at the club.
• That neighbour across the street. • A business associate. • A relative. • Someone in distress.
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QUESTIONS:
As you encounter these people, are you blithely brushing past them to fulfill your agenda?
Or are you viewing each one as a divine appointment?
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QUESTIONS:• Are you responding to the prompting
of the Spirit by graciously and determinedly investing in their lives for the purpose of bringing Christ to them?
• Or building Christ in them? • Even when it means altering your
pre-determined schedule?
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The answers to these questions
• Are determined by whether we are living for the temporal, or investing in the eternal.
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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 market place by: …..
• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately.
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Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
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Sources and acknowledgementCHRIST@ WORK NEWSLETTER
• Copyright Notice• © 2005 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.
Unauthorized use of FCCI, Christ@Work, Crown Companies, their trademarks or logos is strictly prohibited.
• 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
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments
Market place facts: Lasting investmentsMarket place facts: Lasting investments