Ministry at the Market Place

Monday Motivation: Ministry at The Market Place

Purpose puts value on what ever we do. The essence of our endeavors is defined by its purpose. Purpose must have eternal value to be worthy of life's pursuit. Life's pursuit which takes over 60 percent of your daily life all through your life must have impact on your eternity, if you dare to believe in Christ.

If there is eternity to prepare for, then you and I can't afford to spend 60% of our lives on what to eat, wear, drink, drive and live in which will perish with the use! It won't make any business sense not having impact on our life after now.

God knows that what to eat, wear, drink, drive, live in will become the ultimate preoccupation of the world, it'll be what the world seeks daily.

He knows that life will be programmed and wired around producing such and acquiring them and in so doing, make any other thing irrelevant even if of higher purposes.

And so He organized to meet them by sending people into those work places to show them what's possible beyond the cocoon of production, consumption and consummation of death in which they had locked themselves up.

Unfortunately, those sent too can't differentiate between themselves and those they are sent to, as they scramble to outdo those they were sent to in producing and acquiring these stuffs oblivious of the purpose of their being there.

Matthew 6
24. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

31. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32. (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.


When He commanded us to go into all the world to preach the gospel to everyone, He wasn't sending only one person to all the world, neither was He sending everyone to same places, He was sending each one to his or her own world equipped and to be further equipped by those sent to be at the forefront of preaching the Word.


Ephesians 4
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ...

So, the believer is to be equipped because he or she has been sent into his or her world, a world that comprises basically of neighbours, friends, work colleagues, relatives and acquaintances.

And out of those people and places, that particular place that engages you and your time the most will be the place of greater priority. That's your work place and engagements!

The believer is to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth serving God and not mammon, seeking the kingdom of God and not what the world seeks at the work place.

This may not always be possible by erecting a podium of preaching at your office even if the company is yours but we know that the lifestyle of Christ from the word of God in attitudes, in deed, in our choices and in words as we relate and interface with the world is as potent as the Word of the gospel that inspire them, if we are purposeful, while waiting for the opportunity and the open door to share the faith through preaching.

1 Peter 3
 1. Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
2. when they see your respectful and pure conduct conversation coupled with fear.

God didn't put us where we are just for the sake of it. He did so that we can represent Him and through us bring many into the light of salvation. Let's align with that purpose and pursue it till God's will is done and so give our lives the meaning it was meant to have.

More grace to you, have a purposeful and wonderful week!

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