Day 14: What Next?

Today is the last day of prayer for those enslaved around the world.  Thank you so much for taking the time to pray!  Hopefully you have also learned a lot.  Would you take some time to pray today about what you will do about the issue of slavery?  Will you commit to continue praying?  Will you keep current with the news on trafficking?  Perhaps you will make it a point to write to various political leaders or write a letter to the editor in your local paper.  Maybe you will begin talking about this issue with your friends.  Perhaps you will be more careful about what items you purchase - looking to see if slaves have been used in the process or not.  Or maybe you will even volunteer at an organization dedicated to helping free slaves.  

Whatever it is, would you pray about how God might use you in the future?  And would you pray that many people would rise up to continue what has begun - freeing slaves and working to help them heal?

Thank you so much for the time you have already committed to this cause!  May God bless you for it.

"Why, O LORD, do you stand far away?  Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?...

"[The wicked] sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. ... The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.  He says in his heart, 'God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.'

"Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.  Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, 'You will not call to account'?  But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.  Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none. ... 

"O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more."

 ~ Psalm 10