During Lent we follow centuries of Christian leaders who have used this season as a time to consider the cost of the crucifix, our own human condition and the gift that is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We pray that this bible verse plan will be fruitful to your walk and further strengthen your appreciation and love for Christ through the understanding of what he came to atone for. This Lenten season plan is centered principles around business leadership in a Godly way. We pray these verses and weekly themes will create opportunities to think on your own business leadership.

May God richly bless your Lenten season.

 

 

 

Week 1 Theme “Businesses that produce goods that are truly good and services that truly serve contribute to the common good”.

Prayer Focus: Praying for the Church

February 22nd Ash Wednesday, Psalm 37:3

February 25th, Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

 

 

 

 

Week 2 Theme ” Businesses maintain solidarity with the poor by being alert for opportunities to serve otherwise deprived and underserved populations and people in need”.

Prayer Focus: Praying for Family

February 26th, Proverbs 21:13

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

February 27th, Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

February 28th, Leviticus 19:9-10

When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.

March 1st, Proverbs 14:31

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

March 2nd, 1 John 3:17-18

But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

March 3rd, Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

March 4th, Luke 14:12-14

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

 

 

 

Week 3 Theme “Businesses make a contribution to the community by fostering the special dignity of human work.”

Prayer Focus: Praying for civic leaders

March 5th, Genesis 2:15

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

March 6th, Psalm 128:2

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

March 7th, Colossians 3:23

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

March 8th, Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

March 9th, 1 Thessalonians 4:10-11

But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

March 10th, Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

March 11th, 2 Thessalonians 3:11-12

Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. 13 And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.

 

 

 

Week 4 Theme “Businesses provide, through subsidiarity, opportunities for employees to exercise appropriate authority as they contribute to the mission of the organization.”

Prayer Focus: Praying for the Marketplace

March 12th, Matthew 25:14

Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.

March 13th, Matthew 25:23

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

March 14th, John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

March 15th, Ephesians 6:9

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

March 16th, 1 Timothy 5:18

For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.”

March 17th, Matthew 24:45-47

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

March 18th, 3 John 1:8

Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

 

 

 

Week 5 Theme “Businesses model stewardship of the resources, whether capital, human or environmental, that they have received.”

Prayer Focus: Praying for the Education System

March 19th, Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

March 20th, Matthew 25:21

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

March 21st, Proverbs 21:20

Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

March 22nd, Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

March 23rd, Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?

March 24th, John 6:12

And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”

March 25th, Jeremiah 2:7

And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

 

 

 

Week 6 Theme “Businesses are just in the allocation of resources to all stakeholders: employees, customers, investors, suppliers, and the community.”

Prayer Focus: Praying for the Spiritually, Emotionally, and Physically Broken

March 26th, Romans 13:1

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

March 27th, Luke 6:31

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

March 28th, Leviticus 19:13

You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.”

March 29th, Colossians 4:1

Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

March 30th, Romans 15:1-2

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

March 31st, Ephesians 6:5-6

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

April 1st, Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

 

 

 

Week 1 Theme Continued “Businesses that produce goods that are truly good and services that truly serve contribute to the common good”.

April 2nd, Psalm 37:3

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

April 3rd, 1 Corinthians 12:24

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor

April 4th, Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

April 5th, Philippians 2:4

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

April 6th,

Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.

 

 

 

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