503 A Tough Times

Market place facts: What do you do?Market place facts: What do you do?

MARKETPLACE FACTSModule 503 A

What Do You Do When There Is No Solution To Life's

Insolvables?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 marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.



What Do You Do When There Is No Solution To Life's Insolvables?

• What do you do when you are numbed and paralyzed by pain that seems to have no end?

• And no solutions? What do you do when the problem is with you 24/7? That is, you go to bed with it and you get up with it?




• Lamentations 3:32, 38:

Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love…Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? (See Job 2:10)




• Just how are we to respond when life crushes in on us?

• How are we to react when the pain level approaches the unbearable?

• What do we do when we come up blank in terms of answers?




• Turn inward? • Grow angry? • Try to manipulate a solution? • Turn away from God?




• No, the answer lies not in reacting to the problem or in trying to 'fix' it, but rather in stepping back and finding that secret haven in the very bosom of God as we wait for his timing and solution. James calls us to patience in the face of suffering. (5:10).




• Can we grasp the fact that it is often in these agonizing times of life that God does his deepest work in us?

• And yes…through us. Peter and Jesus spoke of it, and Jeremiah, and David, experienced it in the crucible of their own great agony:




• Peter: …Now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed…. Jesus: How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings…. (I Peter 1:6b,7; Matt. 23:37b)




• Jeremiah: I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.’ (Lam. 3:24-26)




• David: Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you. I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the foe…My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. (Psalm 61:1-3; 62:1)



Questions that Matter (for discussion)

1. Discuss Joel 2:28 and answer: "Is

God capable of restoring

loss?"




2. How has God

brought grief to

your life?




3. Someone said, "When you are angry, you are always angry with God." Do you

agree?





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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