Feb
24

SUPPORT 40 DAYS FOR LIFE! TODAY is DAY 8.

40 Days For Life Pensacola Prayer 2010-02-24

Today’s devotional is from Rev. Rob Schenck, president
of Faith and Action.

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DAY 8 INTENTION
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We pray for a renewal of our zeal to offer generous
help to the unborn and their families.

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SCRIPTURE
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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

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REFLECTION by Rev. Rob Schenck, Faith and Action
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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.

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PRAYER
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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.

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    1. Bob @ 2010-02-24 19:41

      I spent two chilly and windy hours at vigil this afternoon (2/24) and I noticed that about half the cars that occasionally drove by, the drivers waved – so I waved back. I think the people that work in nearby offices are aware and supportive of who we are and what we are trying to do. When I arrived, there were two cars in the clinic lot. Shortly thereafter,another car drove up and a man with a black bag (the abortionist?) entered the facility. Just before I left at 3pm, one of the two original cars left the clinic with an older woman (smoking a cigarette) driving and a young woman with her. My prayers went with the young lady with hopes that if she was a client, she would one day see the light. I am grateful for this opportunity and pray for the unborn. BobB

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