502 C Anxiety

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MARKETPLACE FACTS

ANXIETYModule 502 C

Mario Denton

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Overall purpose of this series on Market place

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.



Anxiety

• Anxiety seems to be the mantra of most business and professionals who fail to see God rather than themselves as their provider.

• Jesus, who clearly understands our inclination toward stress as it relates to material matters stated



Anxiety• 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?…But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. (Matt. 6:25b,33)



• Nowhere in the Scriptures are we told to take a cavalier approach toward things material.

* Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds.(Prov. 27:23)




* 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)




* For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘If a man will not work, he shall not eat.’ (2 Thess. 3:10)



• But what Jesus does warn us about in Matthew 6:25 is the danger of being wound so tight over material issues that

* We are driven by fear to the point that we can no longer enjoy the inner rest Jesus promises us (John 14:27).



• But what Jesus does warn us about in Matthew 6:25 is the danger of being wound so tight over material issues that

* We are so entangled with our daily affairs that we loose sight of the eternal.



• When we are driven to this state of mind, our priorities inevitably become eschewed, often at the irrevocable expense of other important areas of our life.



Bryan Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, offers this

penetrating illustration.



• "Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air.

• You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit, and you’re keeping all these in the air.

• You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls…are made of glass.



• If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered.

• They will never be the same. Understand that and strive for balance in your life.

• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift.

• That’s why we call it…the Present."



QUESTION:• When you are old and gray, and looking back

over your life, will you be living with the regret that you allowed the rubber ball to gain priority over the other important, more fragile balls? Based on your current practices, what do you think your answer will be then?

Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. (Jonah 2:8)



Questions that Matter

1.What 'balls' are you juggling? Which one is most likely to be

dropped right now?




2. As you see it, why is work considered a rubber 'ball'?




3. How do you prevent being so consumed with gaining the material that your pursuit of

God might become secondary?





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. 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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