Praying for Your Business

Many of you read my blog Embrac­ing Uncer­tain­ty back in July. I received more feed­back from that blog than any oth­er I’ve writ­ten over the years. While much of this feed­back was relat­ed to the sub­ject mat­ter, some was relat­ed to the week­ly prayer meet­ing that I start­ed, where we focus on pray­ing for our busi­ness­es and the con­struc­tion indus­try as a whole. 

We have con­sis­tent­ly had 4 indi­vid­u­als on the call, and as many as 6, each Fri­day morn­ing. We keep the con­ver­sa­tion and prayer time to 30 min­utes, and are pray­ing for you all. 

I’m a firm believ­er that God delights in hear­ing prayers, and, even bet­ter, He also enjoys answer­ing prayers. 

The Anti­dote for Anx­i­ety and Division

There is still a lot of uncer­tain­ty in the months (if not years) to come. Our nation, our church­es, com­mu­ni­ties, and even friends and fam­i­ly mem­bers are divid­ed now more than I’ve ever seen before. Add the uncer­tain­ty of this being an elec­tion year and throw COVID into the mix, and it’s all too easy for anx­i­ety and fear to take hold of our lives. 

I can real­ly only change myself. 

This is where I have been chal­lenged to pray more dur­ing this time. Each time I get on and off calls with my clients and talk about the pos­si­ble shut­downs dur­ing this com­ing win­ter, I hon­est­ly don’t have the right answers. I’m not able to tell my cus­tomers they will be just fine and we’ll be able to mar­ket our ser­vices — nev­er fear! No, I can­not say that to them. 

So what can I say or do? 

I have been still help­ing my clients plan and strate­gize for sev­er­al sce­nar­ios. We are begin­ning to strate­gize about a pos­si­ble shut­down and how to weath­er that storm. We are also devel­op­ing win­ter plans in case a shut­down does not hap­pen, and plan­ning for ways to keep their employ­ees busy dur­ing the cold­er months. 

Final­ly, I am praying. 

I am com­mit­ted to pray­ing for my cus­tomers. I tru­ly believe it is the best thing I can do for them. I am putting them into God’s hands and ask­ing that He would pro­vide for their needs, give them wis­dom, and help them to press through the uncer­tain times ahead. 

My Advice?

Here’s my hum­ble advice to you all read­ing this blog: do not weath­er this storm on your own. Now is the time to seek the Lord. If you are not into pray­ing, I am hap­py to pray for you. Just shoot me an email and let me know how our con­trac­tor prayer time can pray for you, your fam­i­ly, or your com­pa­ny. If you wish to join us 11:30 – 12 (EST) each Fri­day, let me know. I’ll send you the Zoom information. 

Jesus said in Matthew 11:28 – 30, ​“Then Jesus said, ​“Come to me, all of you who are weary and car­ry heavy bur­dens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am hum­ble and gen­tle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the bur­den I give you is light.”