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Marketplace facts: Formulating your Life PurposeMarketplace facts: Formulating your Life Purpose
MARKETPLACE FACTS
Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
Module 401 DMario 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.
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• If you are out of focus or off balance in terms of understanding and living out your life purpose, here are a few practical steps you can take to get back on track
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• Set aside half a day – several hours – where you will have little or no interruption.
Ask God for wisdom and insight as you think in this area.
• Read one or two of your favorite portions of Scripture (if you don’t have a favorite read Psalm 139).
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• Reflect on your apparent current purpose. It may help to jot down some of your major activities and active passions.
Reflect on this question: In what way do I sense dissatisfaction with my life and current purpose?
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• Write out what you think your primary purpose should be.
• This should relate to what you view as your gifts, abilities and skills.
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• You might consider an overall statement of purpose and then some secondary purposes related to the major areas of life:Personal lifeSpiritual lifeFamilyWorkFinancesHealthResponsibility to others
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• Explore these questions: What chaos am I presently encountering that impacts fulfilling my purpose and giving me real meaning?
• Is it external? Is it internal?
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• What can I do to specifically refocus my life around my purpose?
Immediately?In a month?In six months?In a year?
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• One final word: Remember, you are unique, and need not meet anyone’s expectations except God’s.
• Two basic purposes seem to be universal for the Biblically-based life.
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Practical Steps for Formulating your Life Purpose
• First love and serve God with all your heart, mind and soul (Matthew 22:37-39).
• Second, make your family a primary component of your purpose whether single or married. (Mk. 7:9-13; I Tim. 3:4,5; Tit. 1:6)
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Questions that Matter
1. Why do you think it is important to have a written
purpose?
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Questions that Matter2. Use these words to evaluate
your purpose statement: dynamic, memorable, powerful, unique, personal, motivating,
clear, brief.
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Questions that Matter
3. Discuss Ephesians 5:15-17 in relation to this topic.
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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
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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