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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS Mario Denton Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our handsTRANSCRIPT
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MARKETPLACE FACTSModule 402 B
THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO
OUR OWN HANDSMario Denton
Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our handsMarket place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands
Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our handsMarket place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands
Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our handsMarket place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands
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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THE CONSEQUENCES
Market place facts: Taking God’s timing into our handsMarket place facts: Taking God’s timing into our hands
THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
Living as we do in this now environment, learning to move with God on His timetable does not come easily. Or naturally!
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• In Genesis 12 God promises Abraham an heir and a great nation. A significant period of time later (Genesis 15), Abraham complains that the heir has not been forthcoming.
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• Sarah picks up on Abraham’s frustration and decides to take matters into her own hands. Following is a chronicle of her foolish impatience due to her lack of faith:
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• She angrily blames God - "Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children…So she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children."
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• She superimposes her plan over God’s - "…[Sarai] said to Abram, ‘…Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.’"
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• She violates others - "Abram agreed to what Sarai said…Sarai…took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived…Sarai said to Abram: ’Your servant is in your hands,’ Abram said. ‘Do with her whatever you think best.’ Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her."
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• She despises and blames others - "When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. Then Sarai said to Abram, ‘You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me…’"
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• She is responsible for producing a long term "solution" with dire consequences – God said, "[Ishmael] will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers." Thus the birth of the Arab people and the on-going, mutually hostile relationship between them and Israel over these many centuries.
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• In our impatience to see God act, it behooves us to understand that He sovereignly chooses His own appointed time. (Psalm 75:2b) The frustration for us lies in the fact that God’s timing usually does not mesh with ours. …With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. (2 Peter 3:8b)
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• As we wait for the fulfillment of His promise and will, we need to learn to rest in the fact that it is His intention to make everything beautiful in its time… (See Hebrews 11:11-13)
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING GOD’S TIMING INTO OUR OWN HANDS
• So…my fellow pilgrim, are you and I choosing – amidst the madness of our micro-second, warp speed culture - to step back and rest in the character and promises of our Sovereign God, as He wisely accomplishes His will in His time?
If not, are we willing to live with the inevitably dire consequences?
+Genesis 16 – Selected; ++Ecc. 3:11b
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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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