40 Days For Life Day 17

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DAY 17 INTENTION
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Pray that we choose to trust God to bring an end
to abortion soon, no matter how impossible that
may seem to others.

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SCRIPTURE
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The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought
me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the
middle of a valley; it was full of bones.

He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a
great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones
that were very dry.

He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I
said, "O Sovereign Lord, you alone know."

-- Ezekiel 37:1-3

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REFLECTION
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You and I are standing in a world today over a
field of dry bones: those who have been killed by
abortion, those who have been killed by so many
other things attacking the dignity of human life.
And God has placed us here; we find ourselves here
in the midst of this incredible tragedy.

Like Ezekiel, you and I are in a dilemma because
God says to us: "Speak and proclaim the Word of
Life. Keep doing it. Let nothing deter you."

People can say, "This is humanly foolish, humanly
impossible. How can we transform the world from
the path of death that it's on?"

Yet we choose to do the "foolish" thing rather
than the dangerous thing.

If you ever doubt that we can bring an end to this
culture of death, this destruction of the family,
this destruction of life by abortion, if you ever
think for a moment that it's impossible, then ask
yourself this: Can a man who has been scourged,
crowned with thorns, nailed hands and feet to a
cross, pierced with a lance, has died and been
buried; can such a man ever live again?

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PRAYER
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Lord, I thank You for giving me the holy dilemma
of having to choose between the foolish thing or
the dangerous thing.

Yet for me the solution is clear.

Lord, I will obey You, even if it means aiming for
a goal which, in the eyes of others, seems
foolish.

I will obey You, and will hope for the end of
abortion soon, no matter how impossible that may
seem to others. I dare not mistrust You; I dare
not doubt Your power; I dare not fail to follow
Your call. In You, who raise the dead, all hope
comes alive. Amen.

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Yours for Life,

David Bereit
National Campaign Director
40 Days for Life

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Shalom~