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Our mission is simple: to provide a quick, daily prayer specifically to businessmen and women, who, like us, find prayer to be an inspirational tool in the management of our professional lives. We do this through our Morning Briefing email prayer service.
An interview of Executive Editor Leslie Bianco in EntreWorshippers: Conversations with Artists, Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders, Change Agents, and Risk Takers who Work by Faith and Impact Culture.
http://www.entreworship.com/leslie-bianco-embracing-prayer
May my errors be a path to great wisdom, I pray.
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his bow.Lord, help me to speak with wisdom and clarity -- and to be silent in the same way.
You cannot cover up or explain wrongdoing by talking a lot. The ability to speak well and do it at length does not necessarily mean what the speaker is saying has value. W.C. Fields is credited with saying, 'If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with [nonsense].'On our ultimate future, let us pray.
In the West, people don't die; they just disappear. And as for the question of what death means and whether there is something beyond death, these topics are never, ever publicly discussed. Our culture, which prides itself on its open-mindedness and candor, shows an intense antipathy to facing the question of all human questions.For those struggling to find meaning in their work today, let us pray.
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.In honor of our mothers, we pray.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.Lord, guide me where I struggle through my life's lessons.
Recession 101: It's a test, not a final.For visible signposts along our faith journeys, let us pray.
The good life, in the most positive use of that term, is the result of a healthy desire to be successful. But on our way to becoming successful, we begin to pick up signals that tell us success is not enough.Lord, may I appreciate all that you send my way today.
The will of God is not to send us the disaster, but to send us the disaster to overcome.Please keep in your prayers those who honor human life in their professions, especially our nurses.
On a particularly difficult day a nurse prayed: 'O God, where are you? Why don't you send help?' 'I did,' God replied, 'I sent you. And as long as it takes, I will be with you whenever and wherever you honor human life.'Today I pray for the patience to allow the Lord's work to happen in me and through me.
Taken as a whole, Proverbs 16:3 (Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed) is telling us that when we genuinely devote our work to the real Boss, over time, God will transform our mind set. He'll change the way we view management and He'll inoculate us from compromising His will on the job.Help me, Lord, to replicate your generosity.
Give, and gifts will be given to you; a good measure packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.Stand firm with me today, dear Lord.
The question isn't did you fail, but did you pick yourself up and move ahead. And there is one other little question 'Did you collaborate in your own defeat?' A lot of people do. Learn not to.Whatever the message I am to deliver today, I pray it is clear.
When obscurity pollutes someone's communication, it's often because the author's goal is to impress and not to inform. The low road to impressing an audience is to make them feel inferior, by using words they won't understand.Lord, be with us as we act on our God-giving ambition to build.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.For your glory, dear Lord, we pray.
Principle One: Devote Your Work to the Real Boss. All of the work that we do in life, indeed every endeavor we pursue, is ultimately to be performed for the glory of God.Lord, hear our prayers.
God recognizes the cry of my heart as prayer. There is no doubt about it, prayer is a marvelous exchange.That we are not alone on this journey, let us give thanks in prayer.
If your life is free from clingy friends, aggressive employees, hypocritical colleagues, controlling relatives, indecisive coworkers, insensitive bosses or any other descriptions that fall under 'difficult people' consider yourself blessed, and extremely rare.Lord, teach me to appreciate your perfection through my own imperfection.
Most people I know have at least half a dozen things they're trying to do right now, and even if they had the rest of their lives to try, they wouldn't be able to finish these to perfection.As the summer season kicks off, let us truly commit to relaxing in the presence of those who love us.
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Loving and Gracious God, you are indeed the giver of all good gifts and we come together this day to seek your wisdom, guidance, courage and strength. Be with us in our deliberations and help us to be wise in the decisions we make for the good of all those who have placed their trust and confidence in our leadership. Give us insight to lead with integrity that our decisions may reflect what is right and good. Keep us from shortsightedness and pettiness. Help us to make decisions that strive to be for the good of all and guard us from blind self interest. Finally, dear Lord, grant us the humility to always seek your will in all that we do and say. All Glory be to you, loving God, now and forever. Amen.
Reverend Arthur A. Holquin, Pastor
Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano, California
www.missionparish.org
Today O God we ask for your spirit to be at work in our midst, that you might stir up in us the gifts that we need to lead this company/organization with integrity and focus to the tasks at hand. Give us the courage to not only consider ourselves; but all those who are affected by the decisions we make. Help us to remember those who labor on our behalf, our employees and vendors and all those whose livelihood is connected to this company/organization. We give you thanks for our investors/stockholders who have placed their trust in us and we ask for courage and wisdom to be good stewards of both their trust and their resources. Help us in the midst of difficult decisions to have peace of mind, trust in your guidance, and look toward the long term goals of all whom we serve. Finally we give you thanks for this company/organization and ask that you might so guide us and our decisions that we might continue to serve you and the world through the work you have given us to do. In Jesus name. Amen
Pastor Jeff Frohner
Our Savior's Lutheran Church, San Clemente
California (www.oursaviorsonline.com)
Almighty and gracious God. We your children gather here to share, for the good of this organization, and the common good, the gifts and graces you have given us. As we plan the work of this organization, help us be mindful of your charge to us to be wise stewards of this world and its resources. We are responsible not just for money or success, but for the well being of all whom we employ, and all who use our products. Guide us so we think wisely, plan carefully, and act diligently for the life of our organization. Lead us always to make choices based on your teachings; let us remember that you wish us to practice justice and walk humbly with you. With your guidance we will Lord, work to serve you as we serve each other through the various agencies of this business. We acknowledge that all we have is a gift from your almighty hand. Direct us to make only those decisions and plans that honor the law you have given us, serve those people we represent, and establish an organization that has a moral and social conscience.
Reverend Elizabeth Griffin
United Church of Fairfax/St. Albans Bay UMC
Fairfax, Vermont (www.gbgm-umc.org/fairfaxvt)
Start a "time of prayer" in silence. The time of silence should allow people to open their hearts to God and to feel what it is that they need or are thankful for (or both) that day and for any other needs that may be directly associated with the upcoming meeting. The silence should be about one minute in length. Allow another minute for people to express "briefly" prayers of petition or thanksgiving e.g. "Lord, please bless my daughter and son in law expecting their first baby." The conclusion of this time can be closed simply with words similar to the following: "Lord, we pray that you hear these and all the prayers of our hearts this day and all the prayers of all people who call on your love, aid and mercy."
Fr. Bill Watson
President and Founder
Sacred Story Institute (www.sacredstory.net)
Seattle, WA
Direct, we beg you, O Lord, our actions by your holy inspirations, and carry them on by your gracious assistance, that every prayer and work of ours may begin always with you, and through you be happily ended. Amen
From "Timeless Prayers for Busy People,"
Legatus (www.legatus.org) an international
organization of practicing Catholic CEOs,
Presidents, Managing Partners and their spouses.
