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VivienneJ
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That’s a challenging and thought provoking list.
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Johann_du_Toit
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I started to give to the Church’s Soup kitchen every week. I gave mince and mielie (corn for americans) rice last week and hopefully again this week. I know it’s not much but it’s a start.
My friend and former sponsor for confirmation also suggested becoming an altar server.
My friend and former sponsor for confirmation also suggested becoming an altar server.
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IsaiahSpirit
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So it’s up to us to imitate God’s merciful love by helping and praying for those who persecute us, and those who don’t love us back.
Prayer
Gracious God, loving our enemies seems like one of most difficult things you could ask of us. Please remind us that this is how you love and that if you ask it of us then you will give us the grace to do it. This we ask through Christ our Lord, Amen.
source: 40daysforlife.com/media/day13.pdf
40DaysForLife.com
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Day 13 intention
We pray for the strength to love those who do not love us.
Scripture
But the Lord said “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in the night and perished in the night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and much livestock? Should I not be concerned about that great city?”
— Jonah 4:10-11
Reflection by Dennis DiMauro
God doesn’t value people and things like we do.
Jonah loved a shade tree more than an entire city of sinful people. We love our dogs more than a terrorist. We love our cars more than a beggar on the side of the road. And sometimes, we love our money more than a child growing in a desperate teenager’s womb.
But God isn’t like us. Genesis 1 tells us that humans were the capstone of God’s creation.
We were created on the sixth day after God had completed the land, the stars, the plants and the animals. Therefore, His love for us is greater than His love for a plant, an animal, or any other created thing.
And the book of Jonah tells us that He loves even the most sinful people and seeks to bring them into His merciful arms. And it’s a love that seeks to touch all of his created children: that desperate teenager, the baby growing in her womb, even tyrants and terrorists.
So it’s up to us to imitate God’s merciful love by helping and praying for those who persecute us, and those who don’t love us back.
Prayer
Gracious God, loving our enemies seems like one of most difficult things you could ask of us. Please remind us that this is how you love and that if you ask it of us then you will give us the grace to do it. This we ask through Christ our Lord, Amen.
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Prayer
Gracious God, loving our enemies seems like one of most difficult things you could ask of us. Please remind us that this is how you love and that if you ask it of us then you will give us the grace to do it. This we ask through Christ our Lord, Amen.
source: 40daysforlife.com/media/day13.pdf
40DaysForLife.com
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Day 13 intention
We pray for the strength to love those who do not love us.
Scripture
But the Lord said “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in the night and perished in the night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and much livestock? Should I not be concerned about that great city?”
— Jonah 4:10-11
Reflection by Dennis DiMauro
God doesn’t value people and things like we do.
Jonah loved a shade tree more than an entire city of sinful people. We love our dogs more than a terrorist. We love our cars more than a beggar on the side of the road. And sometimes, we love our money more than a child growing in a desperate teenager’s womb.
But God isn’t like us. Genesis 1 tells us that humans were the capstone of God’s creation.
We were created on the sixth day after God had completed the land, the stars, the plants and the animals. Therefore, His love for us is greater than His love for a plant, an animal, or any other created thing.
And the book of Jonah tells us that He loves even the most sinful people and seeks to bring them into His merciful arms. And it’s a love that seeks to touch all of his created children: that desperate teenager, the baby growing in her womb, even tyrants and terrorists.
So it’s up to us to imitate God’s merciful love by helping and praying for those who persecute us, and those who don’t love us back.
Prayer
Gracious God, loving our enemies seems like one of most difficult things you could ask of us. Please remind us that this is how you love and that if you ask it of us then you will give us the grace to do it. This we ask through Christ our Lord, Amen.
Printable devotional
To download today’s devotional as a formatted, printable PDF to share:
40daysforlife.com/media/day13.pdf
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awsiukiewicz
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consider making the Stations of The Cross every day…I am attempting to do that…and also I make every attempt and have been successful in praying the entire Rosary each day. in addition of course to abstainance and fasting…Pax DominiTake a look at this thread currently discussing the same topic: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=943848
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IsaiahSpirit
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sources: 40daysforlife.com/media/day19.pdf
40DaysForLife.com
She responded with “Hello!” and then added, “Thanks for what you do,” as she continued to walk by. Then suddenly, she stopped, turned and said, “Thanks to you my son is alive.”
(…)
Vigil participants were asked to “please intensify your prayers and fasting for unborn babies, mothers … and especially for those who do not recognize the supreme gift and dignity of every life!”
Today’s devotional is from Carmen Pate of Alliance Ministries.
Day 19 intention
Pray that when those representing Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups see volunteers for 40 Days for Life, they see ambassadors of Christ, and may each volunteer be consciously aware at all times of Whom we
represent.
Scripture
I beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness, and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love.
— Ephesians 4:1b-2
Reflection by Carmen Pate
When Carol Everett, a former abortionist and post-abortive woman, was asked what turned her heart from death to life in Christ, she said, “Unconditional love,” shown by a man who prayed daily for her in front of the
abortion clinic where she worked.
He told Carol that God had sent him because there was someone in there that God wanted out.
She left 27 days later and now serves as Christ’s ambassador to help others.
We too have been sent by Christ as an ambassador to love unconditionally those God seeks to get out of their bondage and sin.
What a high calling it is — much higher than any presidential appointment to another country.
In his book, Fishers of Men, Dr. Sumner Wemp describes what it means to be an ambassador of Jesus Christ, the King of Kings:
• God has chosen us (John 15:16)
• We are sent into a world that is not our home (1 Peter 2:11)
• Our walk must match our talk (1 Timothy 3:7)
• We must abide in Him for daily instruction (John 15:5)
• Know our purpose — to seek and to save that which is lost (Luke 19:10)
• We are to reconcile others to God with His authority (Matthew 28:19-20)
• Do not let kindness and truth leave you (Proverbs 3:3-4)
• Our service is to be grounded and rooted in love (Ephesians 3:17)
Pray that we each will walk worthy of the calling with which we were called!
Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, we are humbled that you have called us and appointed us to be ambassadors of Christ in a world that is not our home.
We pray that your Holy Spirit will empower us to walk worthy of the calling. We pray that Your unconditional love will flow through us to those who desperately need Your saving grace.
In the name of Christ who is worthy, Amen.
Printable devotional
To download today’s devotional as a formatted, printable PDF to share:
40daysforlife.com/media/day19.pdf
40DaysForLife.com
She responded with “Hello!” and then added, “Thanks for what you do,” as she continued to walk by. Then suddenly, she stopped, turned and said, “Thanks to you my son is alive.”
(…)
Vigil participants were asked to “please intensify your prayers and fasting for unborn babies, mothers … and especially for those who do not recognize the supreme gift and dignity of every life!”
Today’s devotional is from Carmen Pate of Alliance Ministries.
Day 19 intention
Pray that when those representing Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups see volunteers for 40 Days for Life, they see ambassadors of Christ, and may each volunteer be consciously aware at all times of Whom we
represent.
Scripture
I beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness, and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love.
— Ephesians 4:1b-2
Reflection by Carmen Pate
When Carol Everett, a former abortionist and post-abortive woman, was asked what turned her heart from death to life in Christ, she said, “Unconditional love,” shown by a man who prayed daily for her in front of the
abortion clinic where she worked.
He told Carol that God had sent him because there was someone in there that God wanted out.
She left 27 days later and now serves as Christ’s ambassador to help others.
We too have been sent by Christ as an ambassador to love unconditionally those God seeks to get out of their bondage and sin.
What a high calling it is — much higher than any presidential appointment to another country.
In his book, Fishers of Men, Dr. Sumner Wemp describes what it means to be an ambassador of Jesus Christ, the King of Kings:
• God has chosen us (John 15:16)
• We are sent into a world that is not our home (1 Peter 2:11)
• Our walk must match our talk (1 Timothy 3:7)
• We must abide in Him for daily instruction (John 15:5)
• Know our purpose — to seek and to save that which is lost (Luke 19:10)
• We are to reconcile others to God with His authority (Matthew 28:19-20)
• Do not let kindness and truth leave you (Proverbs 3:3-4)
• Our service is to be grounded and rooted in love (Ephesians 3:17)
Pray that we each will walk worthy of the calling with which we were called!
Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, we are humbled that you have called us and appointed us to be ambassadors of Christ in a world that is not our home.
We pray that your Holy Spirit will empower us to walk worthy of the calling. We pray that Your unconditional love will flow through us to those who desperately need Your saving grace.
In the name of Christ who is worthy, Amen.
Printable devotional
To download today’s devotional as a formatted, printable PDF to share:
40daysforlife.com/media/day19.pdf
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IsaiahSpirit
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“The whole Law is fulfilled in one word, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’” -Galatians
a lot of daddies and mommies need a cold drink of water in Jesus’ Name
every Lent and every Autumn and all year.
O Lord,
Through all Your Intercessors,
in a special way through Joseph & Mary,
in continual prayer,
since Nov. 1, 2014 a little over 4 months ago,
I and family continue to pray for Anthony whom
we Spiritually adopted. Help us to persist for
nine months, for his family to protect his little life.
Amen.
40daysforlife.com/media/day21.pdf
40daysforlife.com/
That child is known by God and, as
such, has being.
Prayer:
Lord God, we confess that in You we
live and move and have our being.
Because You are, we are.
May we find grace from You to affirm
the being of every human and may we
labor to make this truth known to the
world around us. Amen.
a lot of daddies and mommies need a cold drink of water in Jesus’ Name
every Lent and every Autumn and all year.
O Lord,
Through all Your Intercessors,
in a special way through Joseph & Mary,
in continual prayer,
since Nov. 1, 2014 a little over 4 months ago,
I and family continue to pray for Anthony whom
we Spiritually adopted. Help us to persist for
nine months, for his family to protect his little life.
Amen.
40daysforlife.com/media/day21.pdf
40daysforlife.com/
That child is known by God and, as
such, has being.
Prayer:
Lord God, we confess that in You we
live and move and have our being.
Because You are, we are.
May we find grace from You to affirm
the being of every human and may we
labor to make this truth known to the
world around us. Amen.
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IsaiahSpirit
Guest
Intention:
That we may realize the generational
impact of abortion.(…)
What a tragedy of gargantuan proportions
that babies, planned and endowed
by the Creator, with distinct and
unique personalities and with, perhaps,
a future and destiny intended for
greatness, have their lives snuffed out
by cruel abortionists before they ever
see the light of day! May our prayers
that the dreadful scourge of abortion in
our land may vanish be as fervent as
Isaac’s were for Rebekah.
Prayer:
O, God, you formed us in our mother’s
womb and planned a unique and special
life and purpose for each of us, and
we do thank you. Grant that we may
pray and work for an end to abortion,
especially in these 40 days, so that no
unborn baby you have made may fail to
achieve your divine intention for him
or her because of intentional abortion.
We pray this for the sake of your Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
That we may realize the generational
impact of abortion.(…)
What a tragedy of gargantuan proportions
that babies, planned and endowed
by the Creator, with distinct and
unique personalities and with, perhaps,
a future and destiny intended for
greatness, have their lives snuffed out
by cruel abortionists before they ever
see the light of day! May our prayers
that the dreadful scourge of abortion in
our land may vanish be as fervent as
Isaac’s were for Rebekah.
Prayer:
O, God, you formed us in our mother’s
womb and planned a unique and special
life and purpose for each of us, and
we do thank you. Grant that we may
pray and work for an end to abortion,
especially in these 40 days, so that no
unborn baby you have made may fail to
achieve your divine intention for him
or her because of intentional abortion.
We pray this for the sake of your Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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IsaiahSpirit
Guest
May Reverends & Faithful,
All of Us pray for souls and the needy and
The poorest of the poor.
www.40daysforlife.com
for JESUS’s Living Children and those who have gone before us in His Friendship …
Pre-Birthed, born into human Life at the Instant of Conception fully Devoutly Aware Man Child or Woman Child and all His Birthed Living Children to a natural falling asleep to New Life in Him,
May we end the agony in This, His World, for He Gives the Power of All Resources at our disposal, time, talent, & treasure which we have in abundance. Every last bit should be used to ardently, earnestly, resolutely Defend the Life of Every Child of His…
May JESUS,
As Intimate Personal Companion,
Fill your hearts to exceedingly overflowing,
For Charity of Neighbor.
Amen.
All of Us pray for souls and the needy and
The poorest of the poor.
www.40daysforlife.com
for JESUS’s Living Children and those who have gone before us in His Friendship …
Pre-Birthed, born into human Life at the Instant of Conception fully Devoutly Aware Man Child or Woman Child and all His Birthed Living Children to a natural falling asleep to New Life in Him,
May we end the agony in This, His World, for He Gives the Power of All Resources at our disposal, time, talent, & treasure which we have in abundance. Every last bit should be used to ardently, earnestly, resolutely Defend the Life of Every Child of His…
May JESUS,
As Intimate Personal Companion,
Fill your hearts to exceedingly overflowing,
For Charity of Neighbor.
Amen.
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Faith1960
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Wow! That’s awesome. You’re very talented.
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