End of Abortion

 

END OF ABORTION

 

INTRODUCTION

One of the scourges of Western Society and certainly places like China in the East is the issue of Abortion.  How a people could become so heartless and lacking in compassion that they agree to a procedure that dismembers their child and rips it from the womb.   We will be praying today for God’s justice to come and to end this wickedness in our midst.  We are not going to hate on those that are doing this.  Some of them are convinced that the fetus is just a lump of flesh.    However, we can pray for a change of their hearts and a change of the law.  As usual, we will begin with our Faith Builder verse of the day.   As a reminder to everyone, all scripture references are from the ESV (English Standard Version of the Bible.

FAITH BUILDER VERSE:  

MATTHEW 7:7-8  

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

As usual, we like to begin our prayer time with a time of Thanksgiving.   We believe that an attitude of thanksgiving mixed with our faith is how we enter the Throne Room of our heavenly Father.

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

PSALM 136:1

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,

    for his steadfast love endures forever.

 

PRAYER TOPIC:   End of Abortion

There are those that are convinced that abortion is acceptable because the unborn child or fetus, is not really a child or a human being yet and because the scriptures don’t mention abortion –it is acceptable to dispose of the fetus.   A quick look at the scriptures make it clear the child is a human being.  That’s God’s perspective on it.   Therefore it is a crime to murder a child.   Let’s see what the word of God says about it.

First of all, the child in the womb, is God’s work.  Scripture  confirms this.   This is the Word of God.

PSALM 139:13

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

ISAIAH 44:2

Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

ISAIAH 44;24

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

JEREMIAH 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Next, in the law, we see how seriously the Lord takes the issue.  There is even a penalty for harming a child from the womb.  Life for Life is what Exodus tells us.  We are not under the law, and it is our desire for everyone’s salvation.  But God considers the harming a pregnant woman, such that it kills her child, murder.

EXODUS 21:22-25

22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm,[d] then you shall pay life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

John the Baptist’s birth gives us another example that an unborn child is a human being.

LUKE 1:12-16

12 And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, 15 for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. 16 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God,

Notice that Gabriel, in his announcement of John the Baptist, said he would be filled with the Holy Spirit even in his Mother’s womb.   He was filled with the Holy Spirit before he was born.   God does not fill lumps of flesh with the Holy Spirit.  He fills people with the Holy Spirit.

We get more evidence of this When Mary came to visit Elizabeth still in Luke Chapter 1.

LUKE 1:39-44

39 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, 40 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, 42 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy

The ’unborn” child recognized that Jesus was present in his mother Jesus.  He had awareness.   He leapt for joy.  He experienced joy.   This was not a lump of flesh but a real live human being.

Prayer Points

Heart Change for Mothers considering abortion and their salvation.

Heart Change for Health Care officials involved in the abortion industry and their salvation

Prayer for God to provide Parents with the resources they need to raise and nurture their child.

Change of the laws to make abortion in all of its forms illegal.

PRAYER FOR THE LOST:

Our focus as we pray for the lost this podcast is the nation of Somalia.

Somalia has a population of over 14 million souls.  About 99 percent of them are Muslims.

We will pray for God to send laborers into his harvest- raise up Apostles, Evangelists, Prophets, Pastors and Teachers.   We will pray that the Lord save the lost in Somalia and that a mighty move of God sweeps through the nation.

PRAYER FOR LISTENERS

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