Your Purpose MUST be greater than yourself!

"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength," Philippians 4:13

What does it mean for a Follower of Christ in the workplace to live for a cause greater than themselves? 

Have you ever heard of Lanphier's revival? Jeremiah Lanphier was a businessman in New York City who asked God to do something great for the Kingdom with his own life in 1857.

In a small New York City church, Lanphier prayed, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" He was a man approaching midlife without a wife or family, but he had financial means. He made a decision to reject the "success syndrome" that drove the city's businessmen and bankers. 

And God took him up on his offer.

He used this humbled businessman to turn New York City's commercial empire upside down. Lanphier began a businessmen's prayer meeting on September 23, 1857. The meetings began slowly with no one arriving to join him until he was about to leave. 

Within a few months, 20 noonday meetings were convening daily throughout the city. The New York Tribune and the New York Herald issued articles on revival; this had become the city's biggest news. As a full-fledged revival, it moved outside New York's boundaries. By the Spring of 1858, 2,000 were meeting for prayer daily in Chicago's Metropolitan Theatre. In Philadelphia, the meetings mushroomed into a four-month long tent meeting. Prayer meetings were being held in Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, New Orleans, and Mobile. It was said one could travel across the nation and, wherever he stopped, find people gathering in prayer. 

Can you imagine? Thousands met to pray nationwide because one man, Jeremiah Lanphier, stepped out in faith. Who knew - with a bloody Civil War breaking out within four years - how critically our nation would need God's hand upon the lives of the 600,000 who would give their lives and whose families would soon be impacted?

This was an extraordinary move of God through one man, extra unique because the movement involved businessmen, people long- considered the least prone to any form of evangelical fervor, and it began on Wall Street, the most unlikely of all places to begin.

Imagine that!

Does God desire to do anything extraordinary through you? I am certain He does! As a one finger typist who hates all-things-high-tech, he has used me the past 13 years to reach millions worldwide with these online devotionals. I encourage you to take a step and ask God to do mighty things through you! 

Just do it!

Every blessing,

Michael Tummillo

Founder, The Church @ Work