Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
From 40 Days For Life: DAY 39: "I want more abortions!" she said!
This is the final weekend of this 40 Days for Life campaign ... so find your nearest vigil now!
I am in California ... where 40 campaigns are finishing strong.
A large crowd came out at night at the San Fernando Valley vigil in Mission Hills, including Bishop Joseph Brennan.
Bishop Brennan is pictured above ... along with Patti Flores, who has led 40 Days for Life here for ten years!
I also met the two wonderful directors who run the pro-life pregnancy
help center directly across the street from the abortion facility.
The shocking subject line for today's update comes from the 40 Days for Life team in Phoenix, Arizona.
When you spend a lot of time on the sidewalk in front of an abortion center, you're likely to see and hear almost anything.
"While praying alone early Friday morning, I was stunned when a woman
pulled into the drive," said Garrett in Phoenix. "She slowed her car,
rolled down the window and sneered."
"I want more abortions!" she said.
"I prayed silently for her conversion," Garrett said. "Her blunt and
callous words are a sad reminder of what many pro-abortion people
believe."
But it's good that there was someone praying that day … and that can make all the difference.
The testimony of a woman who'd had an abortion made that abundantly clear to Mark in El Paso, Texas.
She made her first appointment for an abortion and drove to the
facility, but saw volunteers praying peacefully and just kept driving
right past the facility and returned home. She made a second appointment
– and the same thing happened.
But she made a third appointment and yet again drove to the abortion
center. This time, there was no one praying, so she turned the wheel to
pull into the facility. She regrets it to this day.
"Never be tempted to stop praying in front of the abortion facility
because it seems slow," Mark said. "That's precisely when we need to
persevere and pray all the more!"
Your presence is also important because the lies that are told at
abortion businesses can have life-threatening consequences. You've no
doubt heard the one about "it's a blob of tissue and not a baby."
Jeff in Nashville, Tennessee
tells of a woman who had scheduled an abortion. She had two children
with her when she spoke to volunteers at the 40 Days for Life vigil.
"She said the saddest thing," Jeff recalled. "She said it's not a baby yet because the ultrasound wasn't clear."
The young mother is still scheduled to have an abortion. Family members
are trying to talk her out of it, but her dad is insistent because the
baby's father is a drug addict. Please pray!
In spite of all the challenges, however, Lisa in Glendale, Arizona
has a simple message for the volunteers at the 40 Days for Life vigil
there. And it actually applies to all of us: "Be encouraged!'
We should be encouraged because we carry the light of Christ to the darkness of the abortion industry.
"Take heart," she said. "The light has always been there ... the flame
is bright. It must burn with the Holy Spirit. Many of you keep that fire
burning and the evil one is desperately trying to put the flame out. We
must stand firm … to transform a place of darkness into a place of love
and peace."
So there's your invitation! Join tens of thousands of others around the world today and pray for an end to abortion.
In
this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be,
you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your
faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is
tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor and glory at the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
— 1 Peter 1:6-7
Dear Heavenly Father, we sing to You a new song, for You have done
marvelous things. Forgive us when we allow circumstances to defeat us.
You give power to the faint and You increase strength in those who have
no might. We rest in You dear Lord, and ask You to empower us again for
Your service as You work out Your plan for us and through us.
