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THE DAUNTING EXPERIENCE OF AGING

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.



Ecclesiastes 3 • Life has its seasons (1-8):

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die… (etc., etc.)



• Behind it all, God has an eternal – often fathomless plan (11a,c, 14a): He has made everything beautiful in its time…yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end…I know that everything God does will endure forever…



The mystery of life• Amidst the mystery of life, with the imminence of

death before him, man is to enjoy his lot and his assigned toil while he can (12, 13, 22): I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil--this is the gift of God…So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will happen after him?



• Ultimately all mankind will face God’s judgment (17a): God will bring to judgment both the righteous and the wicked... +



Day by Day• "Day by day and with each passing

moment, strength I find to meet my trials here. Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause for worry for fear. He whose heart is kind beyond all measure gives unto each day what He deems best. Lovingly, it’s part of pain and pleasure, mingling toil with peace and rest…



Day by Day• Help me then in every tribulation so to

trust Thy promises, O Lord. That I lose not faith’s sweet consolation offered me within Thy holy word. Help me Lord, when toil and trouble meeting, e’er to take, as from a father’s hand, one by one, the days, the moments fleeting, ‘till I reach the promised land.



• + In the New Testament, for the believer, judgment "has nothing to do with justification, which is credited to the Christian fully and forever through faith in Christ; instead, it refers to what we have done with our lives as Christians." (cf. 1 Cor. 2:11-15; 1 Cor. 5:10). Adapted from NIV Study Bible notes, page 1768



Questions that Matter

1. What is a disadvantage of looking back on your past

history?




2. What is the value of looking back on your past history?




3. What can you do to increase enjoyment of your current

status?



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!



Sources and acknowledgementCHRIST@ WORK NEWSLETTER

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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. 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


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