This is the political season. Campaigns abound.
Maybe the best run campaign right now is not making headlines. Probably because it is not a political campaign — perhaps calling it one is a disservice.
Currently, Forty Days For Life is taking place in certain cities nationally, Richmond among them. It is a relatively new project which involves volunteers’ constant, vigilant, around-the-clock prayer at abortion facilities as well by congregations at Church and by individuals. It has proven to reduce abortions by changing the hearts of women who have reconsidered terminating the life of their unborn children.
Just a year or two ago, because of Forty Days For Life, abortions dropped 28 percent at a facility in College Station, Texas.
Forty Days For Life started in mid-September and will not end until November. Find out if your community has one and participate. Or at least make the end of abortion in America your constant and priority prayer through the end of the first week in November.
(There is hesitancy in recommending that — prayer for the end of abortion is not seasonal. Prayer to end the killing of the unborn is a lifetime priority.)
So pray for the pregnant women are considering ending the lives of their unborn children, for those who staff the abortion facilities, and for those in policy and judicial positions, that they harden not their hearts to the call of the Holy Spirit.
A Challenge to Pray
In 1857 Jeremiah Lamphier called a noon-time prayer meeting of businessmen in Lower Manhattan, ushering in the ‘Third Great Awakening.’ Out of this movement came a stream of revival and social reform that would touch people for many decades. This is one campaign that should not cease until Christ’s rule is seen in all its glory.
The history of this great movement is both inspiring and challenging! Let us pray!
Please join the Prayer Vigil at the corner of Boulevard and Grove. The 40 Days website has a vigil sign-up link where you can sign up for a userid and password that will allow you to see the schedule.
Pray that women have access to accurate information about preventing unwanted pregnancies. Rather than starting at the end with a ban on abortion, start at the beginning with a sensible family planning policy that teaches sexually active women (and girls) how to avoid unwanted pregnancies. The more women know, the less abortions there will be.
Like Abstinence!
Tell me, would you get on an airplane that had a 70% chance of not crashing. I think not. The failure rate on equipment we entrust our lives to has to be pretty low. Aircraft are by design as close to 100% as we can make them.
Yet most methods of preventing pregnancies have failure rates we would not accept in modes of transportation. Look up the rates yourself. Are you willing to trust your life and future health to a method that is not totally trustworthy?
Bob,
Well said!!
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