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40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 8 - 4000 American Babies Killed Today in Abortion Clinics
http://www.40DaysforLife.com ^ | February 24, 2010 | Faith

Posted on 02/24/2010 12:24:38 PM PST by Faith

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What can YOU do to truly help transform the heart of this nation?
BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF PRAYER!
Pray for God’s help in ending abortion, and in establishing a culture that supports life in America.
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.

"They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters... and the land was polluted with blood. Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and He abhorred his heritage; he gave them into the hands of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them. Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power. (See Psalm 106:37-43)

Your community may be participating in this prayerful vigil.
If so, please join others in your area
or unite with thousands across America
in these 40 days during Lent
as we pray for an end to abortion in this nation.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 40daysforlife; abortion; pray; prolife
DAY 8 INTENTION

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 Rev. 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.

The Sienna Group

1 posted on 02/24/2010 12:24:39 PM PST by Faith
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To: Salvation; juliee; wagglebee; NYer; kingattax; Jen4life; Pegita; Kitty Mittens; narses; ...

Holy God,

Only when we return to those things that You hold dear will there be peace and blessing in this nation. You have set before us the choice of life and blessing, or death and destruction. May we choose to honor that which You love. May we choose life and choose it abundantly. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.


2 posted on 02/24/2010 12:25:32 PM PST by Faith
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To: Faith

2 Peter 3:9

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”

May it be, Merciful Father, that this day the Power of the Holy Spirit will be so overwhelming on all who assist in the death of the innocents ... call them out from darkness into light, and save them for Jesus sake, Amen ...


3 posted on 02/25/2010 5:05:06 AM PST by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word ...)
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To: Faith

Imagine the outcry if 4000 people died in Toyotas in one day!


4 posted on 02/25/2010 5:08:29 AM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: Pegita

Thank you for the beautiful prayer, Pegita.


5 posted on 02/25/2010 8:10:58 AM PST by Faith
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To: Fresh Wind
Imagine the outcry if 4000 people died in Toyotas in one day!

There is such truth to your statement. Thank you for caring about these precious lives that are being lost, along with all their potential for goodness and blessing.

6 posted on 02/25/2010 8:12:34 AM PST by Faith
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To: Faith
Pinged from Terri Dailies


7 posted on 02/27/2010 12:31:57 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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