Company of Prayer - Daily Prayers

For those who use their business expertise to advance the lives of others, we pray

admin — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:05:08 +0000

DFID, the UK Government aid organization, launched a new program to promote entrepreneurs across Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Zambia, and Malawi and help companies develop business models that benefit the poor. Large companies are encouraged to work with smaller ones to establish their distribution network. An example is Coca Cola. More than 2,600 small distribution businesses have been formed, creating direct employment for more than 12,000 people and generating more than $500 million in revenues throughout East Africa.

– Andreas Widmer
Making Business Work for the Poor

Today I pray for the patience to allow the Lord’s work to happen in me and through me

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:05:50 +0000

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 mindset. He’ll change the way we view management and He’ll inoculate us from compromising His will on the job.

– Michael A. Zigarelli
Management by Proverbs

For defenders of God’s greatest gifts, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we pray

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:03:03 +0000

You in the armed forces have the difficult task of keeping ‘chins up’ when you know that separation from friends and loved ones, dangers of sea, air and land and death itself must be faced. In a way, though, the difference between this new life and the old is only one of degrees, not of kind; and successful service anywhere requires faith.

– Elam J. Anderson, former President, University of Redlands
Strength for Service to God and Country

Stand firm with me today, dear Lord

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:05:50 +0000

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.

– John Gardner
from a 1993 speech

Whatever the message I am to deliver today, I pray it is clear

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:05:10 +0000

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.

– Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, and Jon Warshawsky
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter’s Guide

Lord, be with us as we act on our God-giving ambition to build

admin — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:01:33 +0000

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

– John D. Rockefeller

For your glory, dear Lord, we pray

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:01:43 +0000

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.

– Michael A. Zigarelli
Management by Proverbs

In honor of our mothers, we pray

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 04:04:38 +0000

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

– Abraham Lincoln

Lord, hear our prayers

admin — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:07:03 +0000

God recognizes the cry of my heart as prayer. There is no doubt about it, prayer is a marvelous exchange.

– Macrina Wiederkehr
A Tree Full of Angels

That we are not alone on this journey, let us give thanks in prayer

admin — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:03:23 +0000

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.

– Les Parrot
High-Maintenance Relationships