Just make our request known. Thank you for the cleansing power of prayer. I know you said that you sanctify them through thy word. Thy word is truth. I also think there's a cleaning element to prayer because as I, if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses us from all sin.
I think the walking in the light part means to include God in some way and acknowledge His presence. It just feels cleaning, cleansing to our soul to walk close to you and to approach the throne with courage and yet humility we see you as high and lifted up and amazing and brighter than us and bigger than us significantly stronger and wiser than us you can see the future you are the future you've already been there you're not nervous you're not scared you know all the facts you know all the details you count everything you name the stars, you know, all of our names, you know, our birthdays, you know, our final day, and the part that we can't comprehend, you know, all of our possible futures.
There's not just one future, you know, every which way that we could walk or should walk. And we come to you because we depend on you to help us select the right future. We want to enjoy life with you and not be living a life of rebellion without you.
And so God, you know, we live inside these mortal bodies and we get tired and we get sick and we get weary and grumpy and our chemical makeup gets a little confusing and sometimes children cry and they don't even know why they're crying and so sometimes we like a toddler we come to you and we're just tired and our physical body is wasting away but inwardly we're supposed to be renewed day by day in the spirit and we need to get a fresh washing anointing Ah, cleaning, baptism, just your presence.
The Divine Partnership
I pray you would partner with us in prayer. You promise that you would help us put into words what we can't really express properly ourselves. You would give us a comforter, someone who can better communicate than we ourselves can in prayer, help us to feel a little bit of vacation, a little bit of disconnect from this world. When we enter into your world through prayer, help us to recognize the source of power that we're talking indeed to the Creator of the universe, the one who spoke the world into existence, the one who says, "Let there be light," and we're asking Him to look at us and think about us, and we need attention.
We're very hungry for your countenance to shine upon us and just to look in our direction If you just have any kind of thoughts toward us, it says that the multitude of your thoughts really is above our number. It says if I should count them, they are more than I can process. It doesn't say that exactly, but thank you for thinking about us. More that we think about you help us not to resist you, help us to walk in humility, help us to walk and confidence and trust and reliance, dependence on you.
We can't build anything on our own. We can't hardly motivate ourselves to get going, but when we do, we know that we're plugged in and united with you and working in synergy with strong spiritual cohesion, help us to not even select our own language, settings, our own words. I pray you'd help us with our vocabulary, help us with our tone and our expressions, help us to do all things that are pleasing in your sight, even like your son, help us to mature and grow up into the full stature of what you expect us to become, help us to not remain infants for eternity, help us to get ready for graduating and walking, stepping into eternity, into your presence here momentarily, help us to have confidence.
The Bible suggests that we should have confidence before Him at His coming, and this confidence then must be based upon partnership, really, because I don't have great homework to show you. No, but if you'll work with me and help me and use me, Then we can present Effort that has evidence of co-laboring where your fingerprints are all over it.
Building with Divine Guidance
And so when we look at business ventures We're not trying to build something with our own name on it. We don't want our identity. We want your name your identity it's really unexplainable apart from you the correct people that you've brought to the team and the correct connections and then the guidance and the gentle nudge here and there. And we're trying to start everything and do everything. And we need you to give us sustained grace.
I love the one definition of grace, which I understand it's a big word and it's a very large concept, but I love the perception that grace is simply divine help, God's assistance through times of need. And we certainly have experienced need and we're very needy people and we need your assistance. We need you to help us when our vehicles break down. We need you to help us when our health has fractures and when our emotions are stirred up and confused, we need your help in so many ways.
And so you're abiding grace to help and assist us in developing anything that's beautiful. You know, you can make, I don't know how many different kinds of flowers you can make and put together so many kinds of insects and so many kinds of leaves and we just can't do that, but if you'll help us build something of beauty, we will try to deflect whatever glory or compliments get attracted by this structure that you help us put together, we'll say, well, one thing we know for sure, we didn't build it by ourselves. You know, this isn't the Tower of Abel. This isn't some kind of self-made mechanism.
We know that you, father, you love your son and you're all one and you're all in cohesive union there in eternity past and eternity future. And so your son was a very creative carpenter on earth and He built and crafted things. And I believe He did all things in accordance with divine guidance and divine grace and divine assistance and divine wisdom. He was filled with the spirit of craftsmanship, accomplishment, productivity, and even the motion of His hands was guided by your heart somehow.
I pray that your spirit would help us recognize how close you are. You know, I love the verse says, "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thine heart." That is the word of faith, which we speak that, if thou shalt confess, which means it's like God spooned the word already into our mouth. It's like we have the concept right there knocking at our heart and we just need to reach out and hug it with our heart and receive the truth. And so you are the truth.
The Purpose of Business
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to work together, grace, to co-labor, striving together for the faith of the gospel. Help us to see business as a tool and not an end of service. Thank you for motivators, things that will move us to action because we as humans tend to operate on the sluggish side. Thank you for money even though it can become so impure and crumpled up and It can become a bad master and a bad motivator, but thank you that we have a Heavenly Father who allows us to exercise wisdom and discernment and the proper use of money as a resource to be a blessing to others, help us to not have sticky fingers or be greedy or develop into people that make poor decisions in business because were money driven, but help us to be spirit driven and help us to be others driven, help us to live a life that is a conduit of blessing to others, help us not to have misperceptions in any area.
Please give us boldness and Encourage by your presence to perform in business today. With our structures and dreams, please attract to our team and give us cohesion when it comes to implementing these goals and dreams and outlines. I pray that each person on the team would feel valuable, specifically by you, that they would know that their name matters and their middle name matters and their last name matters and their family lineage matters to you and who they're becoming is conforming to the image of your son and your purpose and your dream and your goal for each of these precious names in our zoom call today that you find them worthy of consideration and that and that you have gifted each of them.
Help them to identify the gift as not their own, but it is a precious treasure to hold in their hands and help them to use the gift as an expression of gratitude. Back to the giver. Help us to appreciate the fact that you're the giver of gifts and that we did not gift ourselves in this manner, but each of us have a very unique valuable contribution that we can make to the betterment of others by this divine interweaving of souls and so that small things become significant when touched by your presence and that Our little efforts are not little at all, and that our perspectives and opinions and personality can all work together in concert and harmony with your spirit to build something that's magnificent and far beyond what one person could achieve.
Working in Unity
Help us to work similar to what you've infused into nature, this lattice of frequencies that the ant colonies work on, where everyone's just encouraged and committed to the success of the team. Same with the bees. They work in sequence and harmony and everybody's got a role and a place and they're just really more concerned about the the entire output than they are from self, help us not be self-absorbed, but to be in service to the king, help us to see you as worthy. You know, it says, "We have in heaven a master," and that word has been really drugged through the mud in modern times, but in your case, it's a good word. We have a boss who loves us and wants the absolute best for us and has given us opportunity to serve.
You know, we don't begrudge the fact that we have to get out of bed and do something. We appreciate sleep. We like rest. We like time off and entertainment and reading books. But help us to want to produce something of value. For you and for others, please give us good, deep work ethic. It's not just admirable in society, but it's highly advisable. As far as a life use case, you know, we have energy, we have intellect, we have certain time, and we should fill it up for the glory of God and the good of others.
Help us to use what you've given us to give it back to you in some meaningful way, which you said the way to express love is to love your brother as yourself, love your neighbor, love your family. Help us to love more than just ourselves. Give us so much love that we can't carry it and we're spilling it all over the place and we have a big bucket jug and we're just sloshing love all over anybody that comes close to us. Help us to be so filled with your spirit that other people think that we're a little bit different.
The Final Blessing
I pray you'd bless our business ventures and all the various directions help us not get agitated or easily frustrated with each other, but to work with the oil of the Holy Ghost, protecting us from becoming confused. You're not the author of confusion. Give us clarity, distinction, vision, singular focus to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Thank you for the purifying effect of your word in scripture. Help us to clean ourselves up and get ready for the day. Help us to clean our soul with scripture, listening to it, being around it, being around people who appreciate it.
We love you. Please give us a good day, give the team a good night's sleep, a good rest, good dreams. Thank you for being such a good giver to us, being so productive. Help us to reciprocate and appreciate and to model the pattern that you've given us for how to live.
In Jesus' name, amen.
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