40 Days For Life Day 1

David Beriet is sponsoring another 40 Days for Life Campaign. It will run from Good Friday to Easter. If you do something special during lent perhaps this would be something you would consider doing. If you chose to participate in these divotions you will honor God, be of great benefit to the world and bring yourself closer to God.

The prayers at the end of the devotions are some of the best examples of what it means to humble yourself and pray! May you be blessed as you participate.
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DAY 1 INTENTION
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For God's blessing upon the coming 40 Days for
Life campaign.

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SCRIPTURE--------------------------------------------------

If My people who are called by My name will humble
themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn
from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land.

-- 2 Chronicles 7:14

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REFLECTION--------------------------------------------------

Not unlike God's chosen people of Israel, we must
humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn
from our wicked ways, if we expect God to hear
from heaven, forgive our sin, and heal our land.

The need for repentance has not been greater since
the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade in 1973.
The number one cause of death in America is the
needless sacrifice of our children at the altar of
convenience called abortion. Conservative
estimates put the number of deaths at nearly 48
million.

And lest we think this is an issue outside the
church walls, 43 percent of women obtaining
abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and
27 percent identify themselves as Catholic. One in
four women has at least one abortion by the age of
45 -- both non-Christian and Christian alike.
Where was the voice of Truth -- the church?

Mary Comm of In Our Midst Ministries, Inc. sums up
the issue best as she writes, "We (the church)
have been an unintentional accomplice to the
millions of lives lost and to the multiplied
millions of lives devastated by abortion. We
didn't want them to abort. We didn't mean for them
to abort. But, because of our lack of knowledge,
because of our fear, we have continued to stand by
and do nothing."

"We, God's hands and feet in this dark and hurting
world, have been an unintentional, unknowledgeable
accomplice, but an accomplice nonetheless."

May today mark the beginning of change within the
church, as God's people, in unity, seek His
forgiveness.

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PRAYER
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Heavenly Father, we have turned our backs on you
and your principles in your Word. We have allowed
man to usurp Your role as God over life and the
number of our days.

But we come to you in brokenness and repentance
over our sin.

We cry out for Your mercy and ask you to remove
the scourge of abortion from our land. Use us as
your vessels, Lord, to bring the light of Your
Truth to our nation once again. Because of Christ
and in His Name we pray, Amen.

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Yours for Life,

David Bereit

Shalom