Here are 12 ways to be a light in the marketplace.

Today, as “ministers in the marketplace”, we are faced daily with stark choices – whether to work God’s way, and make Godly decisions based on excellence and integrity, or to work the world’s way, and bow to expediency and compromise - the “short cut to a quick buck”. This tension is unrelenting and ubiquitous – the temptation is always there, and we have a never-ending battle to do things the right way for the right reasons – God’s way.

What exactly does favor do? Favor is the affection of God towards you that releases an influence through you so that other people are inclined to like, trust and cooperate with you. The oldest book of the Old Testament is Job. As such it is the first real insight into favor and how it operates. In the very first chapter we read about the phenomenal blessing that is on Job's life, declaring: “This man was the greatest of all the men of the East” (Job 1:3).

The faith at work movement is now entering a new phase of expression. However, to understand this new phase it is helpful to review the history of this movement.