Life

Have you ever watched a video of an abortion? (I know this seems *way* off topic, but in the grand scheme of things, I assure you, it’s not.) I am forever marked by it. My knees will henceforth be ever prostrated before the glorious mercy seat in intercession that abortion would end. The womb was created to be the cherished place where a child is nurtured and formed by our Father’s hands, but of late it has become an unsafe house where there is no reciprocation of love from the bearer of the rejected bit of tissue, which thing awaits uncaring metal clamps and suction.

Though the child is without the faculties to give audible voice to the great pain of starvation or of dismemberment, he or she is not totally without expression – babies in the womb feel pain just as they would outside the womb, and react much in the same way. Can you imagine condoning and performing the same procedure to a child of the same age who was birthed naturally? What makes a person a “person”?

Jesus, release vivid dreams to the women who have scheduled abortions of what will take place in that room, both naturally and spiritually. Send to them the Comforter to bring them hope and love; send to them a godly couple who would joyfully adopt their baby. Make it known to them that they are far from being cornered into needing to abort their baby, and then produce for them the open door of escape. Pour out the spirit of adoption upon Your church, Jesus. Together we ask this in Your name that the Father would be glorified. Amen.

Realigning my Heart

I spent most of my entire day praying short prayers that God would give me His heart for the lost – for the hopeless, the compromising, and the hard of heart. I’d find myself wandering off track, and by these quick prayers I’d be suddenly thrust back on focus. This caused me to walk out my entire day in prayer. Surely this is what Paul meant by “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17)? If it is, then this is not beyond our reach! It’s actually quite simple and revitalizing. A posture of prayer can be maintained throughout the day (whatever the day holds for us) because our Father desires that we never be without Him. It is by His grace, but He is not stingy to give us this grace – we must but ask, and it is ours freely. To be honest, today was the first full day where I have prayed continually, but knowing what I now know (that this isn’t something only available to but a few), I do not want another day to pass where I deviate from the posture of prayer. My inheritance is to be a house of prayer – a resting place for God – and so as I have been given this promise, and have today obtained it, I will embrace this as a lifestyle, obtaining it daily, that on that Day I may receive the promise in full. Jesus, give me a burden for the lost – that they too may obtain and receive this glorious promise!

White for Harvest

34 … “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.” (John 4:34-38).

Here Jesus sows into one woman’s life, who then evangelizes to her entire city of the Christ (vv.28-29), and when the city stops everything and seeks Him (vv.30, 39), Jesus releases His disciples to bring in the lost and reap souls that they did not labor for. Do this at the St. Patrick’s Day outreach Father, in Jesus’ name! Let there be many waterpots left behind (v.28); forsaken, that they may draw from the deep well of the Spirit and never thirst again for anything less than living water.