502 G The individual

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MARKETPLACE FACTSModule 502 G

THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL

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.




For what are you exchanging your life? If it is not for people then you are paying too high a

price.




• When we give ourselves to invest in other people, then we are investing for eternity, but if we give our lives for an organisation, a job, an institution, a cause, or a program, then we are only focusing on the temporal.




• We must work so that we can eat, but we must not give ourselves only for that job, that paycheck, or that bonus.




• If we give our lives sacrificially for a co-worker, a person working with a customer, or another who works with a vendor, then we are exchanging our life for people.




Always put people first, and the profits will usually take care

of themselves.




• Others may say that they won’t give themselves just for a job, but they sacrifice for a church, or a charitable institution.

• Their focus may even be a school or a political cause.

• Whatever our focus is on, if it is not on people, then the results will eventually fade away.




• Governments, companies, educational institutions, and even religious organisations will all eventually end.

• But the experiences that we have with the people in those organisations will live forever.




• Therefore, although you greatly enjoy the business world, your church involvement, your community concerns and your own personal activities, youI should never put these worthy causes above people.




• Choose to invest eternally. • Business leaders are often trying to

focus on the important instead of the urgent.

• That is a huge daily challenge. • The eternal is even more of a priority

than the most profitable business deal.




• Spend time and focus your energies on that spouse, parent, child, grandchild, brother, or sister.

• Make that phone call or plan that meal together.

• Pay attention to that co-worker, friend, widow, or young child that lacks attention.




• Don’t put all your eggs in the one basket of an institution-even a good one-but spread your life and your attention to people around you.




• There are many examples of heroes who have given their lives in service for others—Mother Teresa, a favourite teacher, that neighbour who is always serving everyone else, or that co-worker who always has a smile and a listening ear.

• The greatest example of all was the Son of God.




Jesus Christ came not to establish a Kingdom on earth or to build a

religious institution, but He came to sacrifice His life for you and me.




• Jesus knew that the only things that last for eternity are the souls of people, the word of God, and God Himself.

• He knew the worth of the individual, do you?



REFLECTION TIME

Do you knew the worth of the individual



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 marketplace 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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Blessings from Mario Denton



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