Posted on 03/04/2009 6:13:52 AM PST by Faith
40 Days for Life consists of 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion,
40 days of constant, peaceful vigil outside abortion centers and Planned Parenthood offices
and 40 days of active pro-life community outreach.
Your community may be participating in this prayerful vigil.
If so, please join others in your area
or unite with thousands across America
during the 40 days of Lent
in praying for an end to abortion in this nation.
We pray for a renewal of our zeal to offer generous help to the unborn and their families.
SCRIPTURE
If I have despised the cause of my male or female servant when they complained against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes, how shall I answer Him? Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?-- Job 31:13-15
REFLECTION by Rob Schenck, Faith and Action
The ground is level as we stand before God.
Job lived with an awe provoking sense of God's expectation of him, particularly regarding his obligation to care for the weak and needy.
He knew that in God's economy everyone stands on level ground when it comes to our status as God's creatures. Because of that central truth, we must take care of each other.
Job also knew that he didn't deserve any of the good things God gave to him. Instead, those blessings came to Job from God's benevolent heart.
As an extension of that knowledge, Job instinctively linked his obligation to be generous to others to God's kindness toward him.
As in Jesus' parable of the unmerciful servant (Matthew 18:23-35), Job knew that it is an egregious sin to deny to others what we enjoy ourselves.
He actually calls down on his own head severe condemnation and even punishment should he fail to share with others out of his own abundance (see verses 16-23).
Proverbs 3:27 reads, "Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so." Some things are so obvious that we don't even need to pray except to ask of God forgiveness and the power to do what so obviously needs doing.
PRAYER
God, forgive us when we try to explain away the obligation we have to help others who need help.
Enable us to not devalue them because they are in the circumstance that they are in, but to see them for what they are, those, who like us, were formed by your hand in their mother's womb. Amen.
Were it not for Your grace, we ourselves might be the ones in need of rescuing from a death in the womb. Help us to recognize our responsibility to defend those who cannot defend themselves, for as we do this unto the least of these, we do it unto You. Grant us the strength to stand against evil in any form. In the Name of Jesus Christ, who died that all might have life, Amen.
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Amen.
Dear God our hands are bloody. Benighted peoples in Africa and various island communities carry out child-sacrifice to this very day - but their hands are clean next to ours.
Our countrymen sacrifice children to their Gods! What blacker evil could there be? How dare our generation stand in judgment of so-called Dark Ages long gone, while our hands drip with blood?
Help us Father to witness to the truth, and to turn back the worship of Moloch. Help us to fast and pray, and speak the truth without fear. + This we ask in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, Our Lord. Amen. +
Prayers up for the unborn.
Prayers up
Amen to your powerful prayer! Thank you for posting it.
prayer bump!
Our Master of Grace, we Ask for Hearts that Care Deeply for the Helpless among us. Please Fill us to Overflowing with Jesus' Great Love. May we Stand for and Help those who have No Voice. Please Help our Prayers to be Fervent, and On Fire.
O Lord Jesus, how we Cry to You for Grace! Save our America, and Forgive her Heinous Sins. May Leaders Come Forward who will Work Toward Abortion's End. Please Rescue us, Your Majesty, from the Judgements we So Richly Deserve.
Thank You, our Father, for Hearing the Prayers of our Heart. In Jesus' Name, for the Glory of Heaven's King, amen.
Posted on the FR California state message board: Wed.
40 DAYS for LIFE - Day 8 (Pray to End Abortion) (Mar 4, 09) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198899/posts
40 Days for Life campaign is now under way! More than 130 communities in the United States, Canada, Australia and Northern Ireland are hosting 40 Days for Life events through April 5.
There are 19 Cities / many locations listed for California: http://www.40daysforlife.com/location.cfm
+ + + (FR CA board): http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles?location=53
Example: See Post 10 above on CA board...
GREAT idea CC!
God Bless and Amen.
Posted the article on the IOWA board.
Fwiw - If / when a new thread is posted, it would be nice if someone would come back to this thread and post a link to the new thread.
MountainFlower had to go to work, & sent mail asking for the text. I went ahead and Posted to the South Dakota messaage board
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles?location=88
I included three additional links at athe bottom:
For the Newest FR 40 DAYS Thread / Info: 40 DAYS for LIFE - Day _?_ ; Click on the FR Keyword: 40daysforlife = http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/40daysforlife/index
FR Keyword: prolife = http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prolife/index
Pro-Life E-mail Campaign (USCCB) = (oppose FOCA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199832/posts
Three additional links: FR Keywords: 40daysforlife, prolife, And "Pro-Life E-mail Campaign (USCCB)" = (oppose FOCA)
FR State Message Boards "40 Days" Bump! = South Dakota, Iowa, and California
Some how I missed this thread when it started. Please add me to your ping list and thank you for this thread.
God Bless You
Thank you, Computer Central; I just Posted it on the Texas Board. God Bless!
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