If someone has started her/his own business and needs capital and investors in order to achieve his next goal, s/he should in humility and devotion offer a prayer by candlelight to the LORD just before dawn:
LORD, I’m so grateful that you have given me the courage to step outside my comfort zone and pursue this business. I acknowledge you are my provider, as well as my light and inspiration. I embrace that the LORD will provide.S/he should then recite Genesis 22:14, which is where the name "Jehovah-jireh" is found in scripture:My Lord, I desperately need financial capital to take this business to another level. The banks and other traditional funding sources have not been available. Yet, I embrace that the LORD will provide; my eyes are on you my provider: Jehovah-jireh. May it please you to prosper the finances of my business. I ask that you send generous investors who understand that the purpose of wealth and will embrace the vision you have given me for this enterprise. Help me be a wise and trustworthy steward of this business.
Help me surround myself with, and listen to, the advise and counsel of savy business people. Your Word says without counsel purposes fail, but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
LORD, I pray that you will be glorified in all of my company’s policies and practices, and your purpose will prevail in every decision. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. (Genesis 22:14)The meaning of this name, Jehovah-jireh, is "the Lord will provide," or more literally, "the LORD will see to it." To understand the LORD, a Christian will look at the power of His mighty names.
S/he should then read Psalm 4 seven times. In hoodoo practice, this psalm is associated with luck as well as with the name of power, Jehovah-jireh:
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. (Psalm 4)The person might also remember to sing songs of praise to the LORD.
I found the prayer "I Need Capital for My Business" on Useful Prayers for Owners, Developers, Investors & Lenders of Commercial Real Estate, accessed on 12/12/11, which came from Deborah Smith Pegues, Emergency Prayers: God's Help in Your Time of Need, 2008, p. 88.
Invoking the name of "Jehovah-jireh," Pegues's prayer drew on the same historical traditions and spiritual source involving the Psalms. A prayer with the same purpose as Pegues's is found connected to Psalm 4 in Lewis de Claremont's The Ten Lost Books of the Prophets, which also calls upon Jehovah-jireh to help secure loans. I therefore decided to write a similar prayer of my own focusing on securing capital for a business.
Pegues's Emergency Prayers is not a hoodoo book, but it is a book of heartfelt prayers for: comfort in the midst of pain, guidance in important decisions, resistance of temptations, help on the homefront, and financial discipline and direction.
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