The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur: Building Your Business With Less Stress and More JoySample

Does God really care about my business? About money? Bills? The emails that spill out of my inbox like an erupting volcano?

It turns out the God who numbers the very hairs on my head wants to be actively involved in every single thing I do.

As I asked God for ways to invite him into my moment-by-moment business life, he revealed to me a strategic prayer process that I would like to share with you today.

B.R.I.E.F Prayer

Business-Related: Abandoning our default mindset of if it’s going to be, it’s up to me, we invite God into our daily work, seeking his supernatural presence, purposes, and power.

Relevant: Exchanging our typical global requests, “Bless this business, Lord,” for our granular reality, such as “Help me to be humble and self-forgetful in today’s meeting with Bob,” we ask God to work in and through every specific attitude, activity, and engagement of each particular day.

Inside out: Shifting our prayer focus from a results-only orientation, we pray in cooperation with the way God most likes to work—from the inside out:

• In us

• In our relationship with him

• In our relationships with others

• In our relationship with our business

• The results our work has in the world

Expectant: Acknowledging that God is always at work, even when things are not what we’d hoped, each day we watch for his moment-by-moment movement, trust his promises, and celebrate his answers.

Frequent: No longer compartmentalizing our relationship with him to discrete times of the day, we practice the presence of God throughout each day, ceaselessly interacting with him as we partner with him to change the world.

This became a strategic, business-related, interactive prayer process through which we really can enjoy God’s presence and power all through the workday. 

Today I would like you to take a moment and consider how it might look for you to partner with God daily using this prayer strategy?