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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
For all the characters in my life, including those at work, I pray
Here's a secret. All good characters are flawed characters. The Bible confirms this: 'As it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one.' (Rom 3:10). If you expect to find anyone in your life besides wonderfully flawed characters, you will live a life of constant disappointment.Lord, help me make the world a better place one encounter at a time
Every single person wants to leave a legacy in life. We all, in some way, want the world to be better off for our having lived.May all of us who leap into ventures feel the reassuring presence of a protective God
People who don't really believe in the future do not shape the future. Men and women of vitality have always been prepared to bet their futures, even their lives, on ventures of unknown outcome. If they had all looked before they leaped, we would still be crouched in caves sketching animal pictures on the wall.For all of us believers, we pray
Entrepreneurs seem to be more religious in a couple of small-but statistically significant-ways. They pray more-several times a week, on average-and are more likely to believe in an engaged, responsive God who takes a personal interest in them. They attend church monthly, on average, and two-thirds say they have no doubt that God exists. But even those findings might surprise people who assume that hard-driving businesspeople are too busy or greedy to make time for religion.For that which we can't see, but feel, we pray
If we were all rational, there would be no small businesses, there would be no exploration, there would be very little innovation and there would be no great leaders to inspire all those things. It is undying belief in something bigger and better that drives that kind of behavior.Lord, may we find the fruits of the forgiveness that we give and receive
We should not be the same person the day after Yom Kippur that we were the day before Yom Kippur. We should be moving ahead, raising our lives to a higher level.Let us pray for those we witness in the workplace suffering through debilitating loses, and those who help them along that journey
Presence is noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. True presence, or 'being with' another person carries with it a silent power--to bear witness to a passage, to help carry an emotional burden, or to begin a healing process.I pray in thanksgiving for the potential that is uniquely mine to develop
All callings are, ultimately, spiritual in nature. Each one of us has unique potential--distinct, God-given gifts--with which to serve the world.For those who set an example of their faith in action, we pray
People spend their whole lives showing off the biggest and the best. Sometimes the most interesting people are just subtle.Lord, grant us all reminders of the big picture
The good news is that this earthly life is not all there is. As French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, 'We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.'Lord, let me rely on your greatness when facing whatever is keeping me from moving forward
It is our greatness rather than our littleness that intimidates us most of all.For those who hope for something new, we pray
Hope can heal us, for hope unsettles us with the passionate unrest that aims for the greatest things possible. Hope propels us toward great things, and it is imagination that gives us the entrance ticket into the hope-filled world of possibility. God is beyond all that we can ask for or imagine. We can hope in God, for God is the true fulfillment of everything for which we long and desire. God promises us that the best is yet to come.Let us look for and find beauty, happiness, faith and courage, we pray
On Tuesday, March 7, 1944, Anne Frank wrote in her journal, 'Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness. A person who has courage and faith will never die in misery.'Let us pray for all of us who find ourselves 'putting out fires' today
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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.
