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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 guidance, Lord, in planting, asking, seeking, knocking and cutting the cord, we pray.
God will not do what we can very well do ourselves; he will not make a harvest grow without our planting the seed. But there must be the preparation for God's help through the asking, the seeking, and the knocking. Millions of favors are hanging from Heaven on silken cords--prayer is the sword that will cut them.Lord, I want to look up.
You can know the whole world and still be lost in it. So many people are in pain--no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of our own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.Lord, I recognize that now is an opportune time to reconsider the fortune that I seek.
A candle throws its light into the darkness. In a nasty world, so shines the good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune you need.May our travels lead us to the realization that all of our unique abilities are intentional, let's pray.
We can go our whole lives completely unaware that we are like God in some way that no one else is.Increase in me, Lord, the virtue of courage.
I've never met a prayerful coward. Virtue is bold, goodness is not fearful and prayerful leaders are courageous leaders. And courage, like every other virtue, is contagious.Teach me to know you, God, and show me what you see in me.
You know, Lord. You knew yesterday who I would be today, and you know today who I will be tomorrow. Maybe I don't need to know myself as well as I thought.For all of us struggling with the answers to our prayers, let us pray.
God is great, but sometimes life ain't good, and when I pray it doesn't always turn out like it should, but I do it anyway. I do it anyway.Let us pray.
Prayer is as essential to the inner life as breath is to the body.Lord, may we continue to find our way to prayer.
Pray as you can, not as you cannot.Lord, may we all, in our own way, advance the freedom of others.
According to the Journal of the Continental Congress, our flag calls us to a moral character marked by heartiness and valor (red), purity and innocence (white), perseverance, vigilance and justice (blue). Its stripes remind us of the courage of our Founding Patriots who refused to be silent in regard to their just claims to liberty at the Boston Liberty Tree. This is because the flag of the Sons of Liberty was one of the first to use stripes to represent our states. In essence, they lived out the verse that is on our Liberty Bell, 'Proclaim liberty throughout the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.' (Lev. 25:10)For those in my life who have modeled God, the Father, I wholeheartedly pray.
By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.Let us keep in our prayers today those dealing with disappointment.
In a world that applauds accomplishments and celebrity, it is easy to assume that God values us more highly when our ambitions and goals have been fulfilled. Thus, when we fail or are unsuccessful, we not only disappoint ourselves, but we may fear we have disappointed God.Lord, let's talk.
Having survived the Great Depression and two world wars, he was no longer thrown by headline events. He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand. He prayed. He chatted with God. He watched the snow outside the window. And he cherished the simple rituals of the day.That I honor my God-given strengths, even when I am feeling my human weaknesses, I pray.
I try to live in such a way that when I die and my Maker asks, 'Did you live the life I gave you?' I can honestly answer yes.As the first day of summer is upon us again, may the season avail us to some much deserved solitude, let us pray.
Be still and know that I am God.Lord, steer me toward your truth.
Life is difficult. In the hasty confusion of our days, we easily lose sight of basic truths. When we manage to make real contact with a basic truth, sometimes we are inspired to act upon it, and thus may change our lives radically and permanently.Let us pray for each other as we seek the Almighty through prayer.
Prayer is a communication between God and mankind, not a scientific formula in which everything is certain. Nor is prayer an 'open sesame' guarantee to open the doors of the universe to give you anything you want. Prayer is not magic. It is more than that.Lord, help me to see the hungry.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody. I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.That grace be granted in all that I do, including my chosen career.
I'm living proof grace wins every time. No more lying down in death's defeat. Now I'm rising up in victory. Singing hallelujah, grace wins ever time.Let us keep in our prayers parents and children with increased time together this summer.
My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment, do not let them out of sight. When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.Remind me again, Lord, that your plan for me is bigger than my own for myself.
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.Lord, look over our families as we spend more time with each other this summer.
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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.
