Anointed for Business

The marketplace - the combination of business, education, and government - is to a metropolis what the heart is to the human body. Through these three arteries flows the life of a city. Without the marketplace a city cannot exist in the same fashion that a body cannot live without a heart. Today millions of men and women have been called to ministry in the marketplace. They are stockbrokers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, farmers, receptionists and much more. Unfortunately, many of them feel like secondclass citizens when compared to those who serve in a church or missionary context. They often fail to rise to their God appointed position because they are derided as “untrained and uneducated”. This is not a new thing. Peter and John would say, “Welcome to the club.” This is what businessmen- turned-ministers were called by the religious clique in the book of Acts. It is about time that those called to serve in the marketplace be validated as full fledged ministers because the last revival, the one prophesied by Joel and quoted by Peter (Acts 2:17-21), will happen all over the city and not just inside a building.