Adapted from Anointed for business

In the late 1990s there was an executive in a large European telecommunications firm who for the first time heard a message that his ministry was in the workplace. He began to realize that in fact he was a God’s Ambassador to his place of work.

Convinced of this, the next day he went to work before anyone else was there and walked through his department and stopped at each desk and prayed that God would bless that employee and work in their life.  He then decided that he would continue this habit each and every day.

Soon enough something began to happen.  The spiritual climate began to change.  Sick leaves and conflict levels in his department became dramatically lower than in the rest of the company.

The CEO asked this Christian executive if he had an explanation and he could only say, “It’s God!” and he went on to explain about his daily prayer routine for the employees of his department.

This Christian worker gained favor in the eyes of his non-Christian boss.  When it was decided to construct a new corporate headquarters, the Christian executive was put in charge of the project.  From the time they started to dig until the building was complete the prayed over everything. 

The project department that kept accident records approached the executive with a perplexing problem – there had been so few accidents.  They checked the records for underreporting or tampering and could find none.  Could he please explain how this happened?  “It’s God!” he said and he again explained the power of God, prayer, and his daily routine.

At the building dedication, he was asked to speak and he used the opportunity to give the glory to God and to bless all of those in attendance.

God had even more to do.  The CEO asked the Christian executive if he felt like God had a direction on how they should approach a bid for a very important contract.  The executive prayed and felt like they should speak about the environmental merits of their company at the oral presentations for this bid.  There were 2 weeks of silence after their presentation.  The executive wondered if he had right.  The call came.  They had won the bid.  The deciding factor?  They were the only company with an environmental plan.   The project gained $1 billion for the company.  Needless to say this executive’s favor increased even further in the eyes of top management.

In 2001, this executive was giving a lecture on “Future Solutions for Energy Scarcity” to more than 100 industry professionals at an international forum. (note- Christians can be leaders in their field professionally as well!).  Near the end of his presentation he spoke about the need for people to be responsible stewards of God’s creation and quoted from the book of Genesis.

Framing such an appeal with biblical principles is not politically correct and predictably resulted in mixed reactions.  The  discussion continued after the presentation in the hotel bar.  The discussion got so intense that everybody agreed that the executive should speak further on this right away. 

The group went back into the auditorium where this workplace believer spoke further about God the Creator, our stewardship of the earth, and Jesus and salvation.  Unbelievably, this resulted in requests for prayer from the audience.  This desire for prayer grew until he ended up praying for every person in the room.

This was not a revival meeting but a convention of more than 100 high-ranking energy executives from several nations.  Where did this flood of spiritual activity start ???  At the headwaters was a simple daily prayer routine of praying for and asking a blessing on the employees in his department.

What would 5 minutes of daily prayer over the desks in your department do in your place of work?  Who could say?  But the river could flow.  “He who is faithful in little things, will be faithful in much.”  How big is your God ?