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FOREWORD
Thank you for taking the time to invest in prayer and study with our guide. Our prayer is that these devotionals will inspire and motivate you to pray and fight for justice on a deeper more personal level.
This is how we start our year, every year — crying out to the God of justice on behalf of those in danger of, or already experiencing, the horrors of human trafficking. Throughout redemptive history, the LORD God has been attentive to the cries of the oppressed, near to the brokenhearted and saving the crushed in spirit. Jesus Christ personally identifies with those who are poor, naked, hungry, sick and imprisoned (Matthew 25) – all of which describe the experience of human trafficking.
The Holy Spirit is now present in the world, seeking the lost, shining Light in darkness, healing broken hearts.
In the ultimate wisdom of God, a vital means by which God’s will is accomplished (on earth as in heaven – where there surely is no trafficking) – is through prayer. As humans join in the intercessions of our Great High Priest, who ever lives to intercede for the world for whom He died, we also join with the Holy Spirit, who groans in intercession, longings for redemption to be fully realized on planet Earth, groans from the heart of God. This is our privilege and responsibility – be aware of the brokenness of the world, we pray for a heightened awareness of human trafficking – and cry out by faith for the mercy and power of God in heaven to touch planet Earth in the darkest places imaginable.
As you read the daily scriptures included here, may your heart be stirred to cry out in prayer — Kingdom of God, come! Will of God be done! On Earth as it is in Heaven! As we seek justice together.
Janet Munn
Colonel
Director
International Social Justice Commission
The Salvation Army