PRAYING HANDS

There are hands that help and comfort,
Hands that plan and teach,
Hands that rest and hands that strive
For a goal just out of reach,
Hands that grasp and hands that give,
Hands that work and play,
Friendly hands and loving hands
That soothes life's cares away.
But praying hands are dearest
In the sight of God above
For in their sweet and earnest clasp
Are reverence and love.
No hands can do an unkind act
Nor cause another care
Nor sin against Our Father's love
When they are clasped in prayer.
Author Unknown

Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."
Isaiah 30:21

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
Author Unknown

Remember upon the conduct of each, depends the fate of all.
Alexander the Great

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne

Gracious God, touch me with your quiet voice of calm and grace. Live in me and energize me that I may not only touch life, but be touched by it. You know the secret plan for the world using me and my hands, help me to listen. Open my heart so that Your love can be extended through me to others. Give me faith to tackle the impossible. Renew my Spirit, so I will use my time wisely and accomplish all that you have planned for me to do. Amen

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn

The strength of the team is each individual member. . .the strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

The Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught.
Proverbs 3:26

Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an “I” in “team.” It is the same “I” that appears three times in “responsibility.”
Amber Harding

Sure there’s no “I” in ‘team,” but there is a “me”!
Author Unknown

The ratio of ‘We’s’ to ‘I’s’ is the best indicator of the development of a team.
Lewis B. Ergen

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
Bill Bradley

Let love and faithfulness never leave you . . . write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:3

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno

It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together.
Lloyd Dobens

If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben

Dear Lord, remind me each day that you are at work within me and around me. Help me not to be concerned about who does your work, but rather that your work gets done. Show me what is most important and take me where I am needed most. Amen

Team means Together Everyone Achieves More.
Author Unknown

Many hands make light work.
John Heywood

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford

God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.
Hebrews 6:10

Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
Doug Smith

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, “Your end of the boat is sinking.”
Hugh Downs

A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.
Norman Shidle

Three things I’d say to a team to help hold them together
If anything goes bad, I did it.
If anythings goes semi-good, then we did it.
If anything goes real good, then you did it.
Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant

"I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them," says the Lord.
Isaiah 42:16

Father, please work Your will in my life so that others will see You as the Workman. Amen
Author Unknown

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.
Author Unknown

Getting good players is easy. Getting them to play together is the hard part.
Casey Stengel

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Proverbs 10:4

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teamwork divides the task and multiples the success.
Author Unknown

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision; the ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie

It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
Philippians 2:13

Dear Lord, Before I awaken this morning you are with me. As I open my eyes, I thank you for the gift of this new day. May I take this certainty of your presence with me into all this day can hold – help me not to waste the day, but to learn from all that it brings. Open my eyes to see your divine touch in all things. When I am frightened, give me strength. I bundle my fears of what this day may bring, and place them in your hands. Be with me now as I arise. Open my heart to love, to trust, to hope, to share, to give, and to the call of the needs of others. Give me an awareness that is constantly opening all of my senses to search for the hidden joys, the tiny discoveries of your gift of life. Come unto me now and shepherd me through this day. Help me to do all things for you. Amen.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
Psalm 18:30

None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard

He who walks with the wise grows wise.
Proverbs 13:20

Teamwork doesn’t tolerate the inconvenience of distance.
Author Unknown

Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder. . .teamwork can be summed up in five short words: “We believe in each other.”
Author Unknown

Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the Godly to slip and fall.
Psalm 55:22

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry
Author Unknown

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
Vince Lombardi

Today is a new day Lord, show me the way to walk it. Help me to walk step by step with you. Guide me, inspire me in the way I should go. Thank you for all the opportunities that will come my way. Help me to give love so generously that it becomes a part of who I am and a reflection of who I serve. Amen.

I appeal to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.
1 Corinthians 1:10

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Knute Rockne

Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
Dennis Kinlaw

A successful team beats with one heart.
Author Unknown

The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah 58:11

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H. E. Luccock

Help me to take stock of your gifts to me, Lord. Remind me that it’s not what I do, but my doing that ultimately matters. Help me to slow down, to be silent, so I can hear you and do your will, not mine – to let you guide, instead of trying to control. In your hands, each day will bring its own gifts. I know that the best is yet to be. Amen.

A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together.
Author Unknown

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: if one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the [one] who falls and has no one to help him up! . . . Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

In union there is strength.
Aesop

The Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
Isaiah 59:1

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts, but team work dynamites.
Jim Kwon

Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
Colossians 3:13

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Author Unknown

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
Kenyan Proverb

If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
James 1:5

Thank you, Lord, for the blessings of this day and for remaining at the center of it. I know that you have work for me to do. May I always see your grace above and beyond any challenge – always remembering that the darkest clouds have brilliant silver linings and that the glass is not half-empty, but almost full! Thank you for the challenge of each and every day. Each day, I discover new gifts you offer me, and the list of reasons to be thankful grows. Stir me into vision and action and to recognize when to wait and to understand when to move. Help me to recognize your presence in this nudge to movement. Assist me to be a good team player not worrying about the yesterdays or the tomorrows. Help me to see what I can accomplish, if I only put my trust in you. May I never forget that a gathering of two is really a fellowship of three as you are always there with us. Amen.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone . . . and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
Sandra Day O’Connor

Some people come into our lives
and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same.
Flavia Weedn

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Meade

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro

I see your hand, Lord, in everything around me,
And in every aspect of my life, I see your will….
I see your plan, Lord, in all the years behind me.
And in the days and years to come, I’ll trust you still.
Jeremiah 29:11

Those who trust in the Lord for help
will find their strength renewed.
They will rise on wings like eagles;
they will run and not get weary;
they will walk and not grow weak.
Isaiah 40:31

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13

Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands.
Protect them as they protect us.
Bless them and their families for the selfless acts
they perform for us in our time of need.
I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.

You go no where by accident.
Wherever you go, God is sending you.
Wherever you are, God has put you there.
He has a purpose in your being there.
Christ who dwells in you has something
He wants to do through you where you are.
Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.
Richard C. Halverson, Chaplain of the United States Senate


O God, help me to touch someone today with my eyes,
my words, my smile, my voice, my laughter, Your word.
Change my life, so I can make a difference.
Let my actions bring someone closer to you.
Help me to make Christmas last all year.
Help me to use my gifts for Jesus.

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