PRAYER OF BUSINESSMAN

Almighty Father, Thank you for the business You have enabled me to begin And sustain. Enlighten my way In leading and inspiring people Engaged in the business organization, Industry, and communities that I serve. Allow us the mastery of your will For the role you would want This business to play In you divine plan. Provide us all the resources, Human and material, for this enterprise. Sustain us financially For growth and development, And keep us humble with our successes And innovative and creative In our endeavors Help us in...

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PRAYER OF BUSINESS PERSONS

Lord Jesus, I am a business person, engaged in commercial enterprises. I have to work hard to earn my salary and I do not always remember to put my Christianity to work in the marketplace. Please forgive me for this, and help me in the future to keep the public interest ever in mind. I know I cannot change the world by myself, but I can try in my own little way to be more honest, more truthful and more trustworthy in my business life. Help me, Lord, for I cannot do it without you. Amen....

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PRAYER OF THOSE IN AUTHORITY

O God, you have given me the great responsibility of being in authority over my fellow-men. Help me always to act fairly and justly; as well as mercifully. Help me to know when to enforce discipline and when to mitigate it. Help me never to be guilty of prejudices or favoritism for any man. Help me to remember that people are always more important than things, and that men are always more important than machines. Keep me from exercising my authority in harshness or tyranny, and help me also from being afraid to exercise it at all. Let my presence...

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PRAYER OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES

O Lord, you are the God of Hosts. Strengthen us who are members of our country's armed forces. Make us prepare so well to defend our country that we will eliminate the need to do so. In serving our country may we be rendering service to you. Make us loyal to our loved ones in spite of separations of every kind. Keep us devoted to your Church in spite of the pressures of our duties. Help us to lead others to you by the example we give to our comrade-in arms. Amen....

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PRAYER OF ARTIST

Spirit of God, creative inspiration of all that we do which is beautiful. We thank you for painting, sculpture, music, drama and literature and all the endeavors which point us beyond ourselves. We thank you for every enrichment of our humanity and for the dedication which so naturally follows. Amen. Almighty God, you are the divine Artist. I come to you with complete humility. I thank you for the talent you lent me. I thank you for the skill that you made me learn. I thank you for the vision of art that you made me see. And most of all. I thank...

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PRAYER OF ABIATORS

O God, I thank you for giving me the power to travel higher than the clouds and faster than the wind across the sky. Give me a fit body, a clear eye, a steady nerve and a mind able to make instant decisions. Protect me in my journeying, and bring me always safely to my flight's end; and help me, as I journey far above the clouds in the vast spaces of the sky, to feel your presence near. Through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen....

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PRAYER OF ARCHITECTS

My Father God, Thank you for my talents and vocation To be an Architect, Your co- creator of homes, buildings, Cities, and the world. Out of infinite Love for us, You created an unfinished world So that we may continue creating it And in this way Continue creating ourselves To be the perfect, fulfilled, and happy Human beings you meant us to be. We know only love Gives value to our project And not its size So give us plenty of it. We know that creativity and smart work Are what we need To build our masterpiece of form And function...

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