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Most people that write about prolife and abortion issues have have no personal knowledge about what they are writing or saying, only the passion of trying to save unborn children – which I do commend them for. However, just know that I have personally been inside of an abortion clinic, saw the conditions, dealt with the staff and suffered the procedure. What I have to purport is not arbitrary or flippant; it is the stone cold truth.
Salvation Help
Dear Lord Jesus, I realize that I am a sinner and have broken your laws. I understand that my sin has separated me from you. I am sorry and I ask you to forgive me. I accept the fact that your son Jesus Christ died for me, was resurrected, and is alive today and hears my prayers. I now open my heart’s door and invite Jesus in to become my Lord and my Saviour. I give Him control and ask that He would rule and reign in my heart so that His perfect will would be accomplished in my life.
The Book of Ecclesiastes is a summation of a life lived in vain but ultimately knew his folly and got his mind back. Solomon said, “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die…” Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, NKJV
According to GOD, we have a right to LIFE.
In God’s own time and the season He chooses is when our lives are determined and purposed – whether you call Him God or not. The reason I say that is because way too many people ‘believe’ one thing or another whether it’s truth or not. Truth is not a matter of opinion, just a matter of acceptance.
So, let me say it again, “In God’s own time and the season He chooses is when our lives are determined and purposed.”
People love to hear themselves talk. They say things that have no meaning; no true determination of anything other than the vanity of their abstract way of thinking about Life to others. As I mentioned earlier, anything other than truth is opinion, or vain interpretation and utterance.
Being rather outspoken of things that the world deems circumspect, I am smart enough to check my sources…namely the Word of God, not worldly publications or pious lackadaisical ‘spiritual’ leaders. The subject of Life and the right to live it is plainly explained to all of us ignorant bible-thumpin’ Christians in the Bible – this isn’t rocket science, the big bang theory or even the theory of evolution…just plain truth straight from the mouth and heart of GOD.
My right to cross the street supersedes the right to LIFE. The unborn take a back seat to the unemployables occupying parks for free on my dime. The unborn die every day without so much of a whimper from the general public but people complain out loud about gas prices. Where have our sensibilities gone?
A time to be born, and a time to die…determined by GOD, as it was always supposed to be. Today, about 4000 unborn babies died from abortion. And it never made the news.
The Church and the United States of America needs to get their mind back and get back to the basics of human LIFE and fundamental necessity, as GOD meant it to be. We are a people that have lost their way but we can get our mind back, just as Solomon did….let’s start with the right to LIFE and the LIBERTY to live it.
Much of the American public believes that the issue of Life is a matter of opinion, not fact. Too many people see Life as a choice to be born or not, whether because of health reasons, financial circumstances, etc. The fact remains that Life is not by accident or circumstance, but ordained by One mightier than you or me.
We cannot change the color of the sky to suit us, then how is it we think we have the audacity to assign Life to those we think are more worthy and death to those who are not?
The humanistic world does not believe in God, but knows that there is a god-like ethereal being that they can call on when they need a new house or car; they suppose that because they do not worship or ‘believe’ in God or a god out loud that their deeds done in secret are not being remembered, accounted or even considered. How great is the chasm between the truth and an assumed belief to benefit yourself.
God is Lord of all, whether you believe in him or not.
All this being said, Life and death are haphazardly thought of because there is no outward sign of belief in God – an abortion is a blessing to an out of work single woman; euthanasia is prescribed because the quality of Life is dictated by well meaning family members that don’t want their loved one to suffer. I would say that the Life decisions they make are an advantage to themselves, not the person in need. In any event, someone dies.
Let me be the first to let you know that no one needs or wants your God-less opinion or assumption of what you think others need to have value and quality of Life.
To summarize: We don’t need a bunch of well meaning God haters to make laws that govern when we can and cannot have Life. The fact is that abortion and euthanasia is murder, not quality control.
The question is, “…If God is for us, who can be against us?” Turns out just about everyone who does not believe that Life has been and is foreordained before the foundations of this world.
Each one of us has a separate purpose and function; no one is left out, “For there is no partiality with God”, AND, “Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.”
Election Day has come and gone and sadly, unborn Life is still at risk. Mississippi, which has some of the strictest anti-abortion law in the United States struck down the Personhood Amendment. Fingers are getting pointed toward who dropped the ball but the reality is this: The Church failed.
I get lambasted (off-handedly, I might add) by Personhood people because I support the Heartbeat Bill, which is incremental law. I kind of get why they are holding out for Personhood; we all want to see all unborn Life protected at every stage from conception. But what this last election in Mississippi has proven is that incremental law works, going for the gold does not.
The differences are clear – the Heartbeat Bill will protect life from a detectable heartbeat until birth. I know that means that not all unborn Life is protected (yet), but if you bear with me (and some of you have, thank you very much) you’ll understand why this bill would have prevailed in Mississippi. Personhood, if INTERPRETED incorrectly, which it was, will fail every time because according to Planned Parenthood who spearheaded the attack, it will impede a woman’s right to contraception and in vitro fertilization.
What did Planned Parenthood do? They went after the Church and it worked.
First, I don’t care what you believe…unless it’s coming straight from the Bible. In other words, just because you couldn’t have children does not mean you manipulate the hand of God to get what you want with in vitro fertilization. That is not how the God of the Bible works. There is no gray area; He’s God, you’re not. Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars on something God hates, why not adopt children that are here and need you NOW?
Second, contraception has never been sanctified by the Church at large or God. It was accepted as a dismal fact that women in the Church will use contraception anyway and Pastors could not change it no matter how hard they preach and teach against it. Ladies, you cannot control the hand God. Life was meant to glorify Him, not get around Him.
Third, PRIDE. Planned Parenthood hit you where you are weak…your own pitiful ego.
PRIDE.
“These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.” Proverbs 6:16-19, NKJV
Christian woman were targeted by Planned Parenthood and they caved. I truly have to wonder if that woman is a Christian if they would actually consider in vitro and stand in the middle of the abortion fight not knowing where to turn.
Personhood was played well – a nice black eye for the Church. The innocent blood of unborn Life will be on the hands of Christian women that believe the lie that they can do what God does. You don’t believe in abortion? Neither does God. But you voted against it anyway.
As we walk the halls of our lives and ministries, meandering without seeing, we think we have no effect on those our ministries focus on. Those of us in Ministry want instant results, just like anyone else. We use our eyes way too often and forget to open our bibles and hearts to an immutable God that will guide us to those that need LIFE saving Salvation and encouragement.
Truth is what everyone seeks; truth about whom we are, truth about where we’re going, truth about LIFE. Is there an end to the whirlwind? Is there peace? Is there an absolute TRUTH?
In everyone’s day-to-day LIFE, we tend to focus on what is negative because it’s what we SEE with our eyes. We ‘see’ what is set before us with our eyes only – it’s our perception and discernment that needs to be honed:
“I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” John 14:6-7
Without perception, how could we come to know Him? And without discernment, how can we have truth in Him?
In Prolife ministry like KeepLifeLegal, we know that to save unborn babies, we have to try to change the heart of the mother and the abortionist to accept that LIFE is from God, not by accident. In evangelistic ministry, much is the same; to be saved you have to change your heart and accept Jesus Christ as Savior.
Pastors and Ministers: Today you may help change or save someone else’s LIFE, or maybe they’ll surprise you and change yours.
In the city in which I live, there was a ‘pride’ parade this past Saturday. It was typical; drag queens in their best dresses and false eyelashes, rainbows everywhere, same-sex couples with their ‘kids’, in-your-face signs to incite anger to rage, straights nodding in approval ‘because they ain’t hurtin’ nobody’. Now, the conservative Republican in me says ‘Get out of my government’…but the Minister that I am says ‘WAIT A MINIUTE…..was that gay man carrying a CROSS???’
Yes, he was. Did you know there are over 234 known ‘gay churches’ in the state of Ohio (only 11 in MS)? Most of these ‘churches’ are from denominations that are known for espousing the Gay Agenda and the Abortion Agenda; United Methodists, Presbyterians, United Church of Christ, Episcopals, United Campus Ministries, Lutheran, Catholic, MCC…but a Quaker, Baptist and Mennonite church? WOW. That’s bad enough but these churches are teaching children in Sunday school and youth groups. It’s one thing to do something stupid enough to make God use the word ‘abomination’, but indoctrinating innocent, ignorant children in church and in school of your perversion?
There is no question that some of Gay America believe themselves to be Christians. Not too far from where I live there is a ‘church’ that is ‘pastored’ (yes, I said that sarcastically) by two men professing to be married to each other WITH CHILDREN. That being said, when others see this debacle, they believe it to be correct because these men call themselves Reverend. NOTHING can be further from the truth.
“Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent. But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans*, which I also hate.” Revelation 2:4-6, NKJV
The abomination of homosexuality has been taught from Genesis through Revelation. The Gay Church instead tries to compartmentalize sin to make THE sin of homosexuality redeemable: ‘Is this relationship based on, and operating in, My love or not?’ (gaychurch.org). God hates the SIN of homosexuality (THE BIBLE), it goes against everything He has ever created. What the homosexual community does is emulate straight relationships and families to blend into what they truly want: to be normal. To be normal, ‘Christian’ LGBT’s has to give up their grievous sin and go back to the first love, fellowship with Jesus Christ.
Jesus said we cannot serve two masters (Matt 6:24); you cannot be gay and a Christian – it is impossible. Chapter 1 of the book of Romans says very clearly that ‘the men left the natural use of a woman’ committing what is shameful. Thus, ‘knowing the righteous judgment of God’ they have chosen what is ‘deserving of death’ (separation from God) as well as those that nod in approvement of such vile things.
This so-called Gay Church is dangerous; it sucks in grieving LGBT’s and their families as well as the local, approving community and progressive legislators. The Corinthian Church struggled with much sin and immorality that defiled the Church:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1Corinthians 6:9-10, NKJV
*The Nicolaitans taught Israel ‘to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality’; a group of anti-law practitioners who supported a freedom that became self-indulgence particularly in sexual laxity including all forms of immorality including homosexuality. Incredibly but not surprisingly, the Nicolaitans were of a Gnostic sect.
I don’t often write about post-abortive fathers simply because I’m not one, but I do know men that are. Men are funny creatures; they keep a lot close to the vest, maybe because of shame or they really don’t know how to share something so personal they don’t understand; perhaps because their partner/spouse at the time of the abortion didn’t tell them until after the abortion? The latter happens much more than you’d think.
Abortion is supposed to be about and for women, right? According to the law, it is. But there was never an amendment to allow a man to be in the decision making process and that was by design. Women wanted to be more powerful than men being able to hold their unborn child hostage.
A famous rock star ‘came out’ about the abortion he and his girlfriend had back in the ‘70’s. If I read it correctly, it was a saline abortion which is maybe the most heinous way to end a life, “You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated.” He knew it was a son. Apparently he witnessed this awful thing and he suffered with post-traumatic stress for years. I can let you know this: Abortion is something one never forgets. Ever.
Some of us mark that tragic event with alcohol or drugs or whatever even though the “American Psychiatric Association assures us abortion is a safe procedure with no negative effects on a man’s or a woman’s mental health.” (National Review, 5/4/11)
Post-abortive men and women can’t make sense of the fragments of their lives and when you have ‘experts’ calling us liars, it moves you further and further into the hole that’s been dug for you by Roe v. Wade and Hell itself. We deal with propaganda from the ‘abortion agenda’ daily and I TAKE IT PERSONALLY.
King David grieved for his child that died as a result of sin, “And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” 2Samuel 12:22-23, NKJV
David had comfort in knowing he would see his child again one day in Heaven. It was his reassurance that God did love him and his child and that His Will is Perfect.
The post-abortive man feels less of a man because he can’t control the loss of a child or the decision he made for his partner/spouse. What he needs to do is understand that his child is nestled with the Father. Since the loss of my child through abortion, I have not been comforted with booze or any other deliberate sin although I tried. But I am comforted by God’s forgiveness and that my child is with Him…and I will see her one day because of God’s mercy.
Minutes become hours, hours become days, days become months, months become years. My abortion, even after 33 years, will never leave my thoughts. My journey with this abominable decision has been up and down, mostly down until I came to know Jesus Christ as Lord. Until that day in December of 2001 I was under the convictions of my own mind, inspired by the pit of Hell. Satan demanded my life; Jesus demanded only my belief in His finished Work at the Cross. I found that to be much more palatable than an eternity of a living Hell.
‘For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for LIFE; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.’ Psalm 30:5, NKJV
But can my sin be forgiven? Not only has my sin(s) been forgiven but they have been forgotten! My sin will never be held against me ever again! Jesus died for ALL of my sins, not just the wimpy ones.
I have days where I honestly wonder if I will ever get over my own sin. I sometimes can’t seem to put one foot in front of the other and hate getting up in the morning. Abortion always has at least two victims. My child is in Glory, thank God – but I’m still here baring the offense. But God is good!! His promises are sure.
‘For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.’ Jeremiah 29:11, NKJV
I am the Woman at the Well, going about my daily grind thinking about a life I can’t get out of the way of. It seems like a path that is set out for me, it’ll be all that I know. But Jesus is at the Well waiting for me…ME!! I am a sinful woman that has only known an idolatrous religion and lived life like it didn’t matter. But Jesus is at the Well waiting for ME!! Look at me…I’m so unworthy. But Jesus is at the Well waiting for ME!! And I will exalt Him to my peers and neighbors for He is good and He forgives ME!!!
I am restored because I know Jesus – but I need a shot in the arm now and then, I am human and I do grieve and hurt for what I did in my old life. I go to my Bible and read the Promises that God has given me because I believe in Him and not a world that still seeks to destroy me.
I thank God for his Mercy and His Son, Jesus Christ – my Lord.
‘Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.’ Psalm 106:1, NKJV
Continuing with my last post Abortion & Faith in the Church, I asked the question ‘Is the Church ProLife’? NO. There never was a question about Life in the distant past; abortion was never sanctioned even in ‘dire circumstances’ but in the last 38 or more years, it has become a quagmire of relevancy in the Church.
Finding a completely PROLIFE denomination is like trying to swim in a tar pit….you get close but not quite.
Catholic Church: “The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil.” Here’s the problem – the Catholic Church relies on writings other than the Bible to validate their stance on Life. While I am glad of their stance, the Catholic Church’s reasoning with ‘saints’ and other 1st and 2nd century writers instead of the infallible Word of God leaves me empty.
United Church of Christ: “The United Church of Christ has affirmed and re-affirmed since 1971 that access to safe and legal abortion is consistent with a woman’s right to follow the dictates of her own faith and beliefs in determining when and if she should have children…..The United Church of Christ is one of the founding faith groups of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, formed in 1973 as the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights.”
Lutheran – Missouri Synod: “The sin of willfully aborting a child, except in those very rare situations where it may be necessary to save the life of the mother, is a sinful act, totally contrary to the will of God…..While the emotional arguments for abortion in these [rape & incest] situations might seem compelling, the fact of the matter is that it is wrong to take the life of one innocent victim (the unborn child), and further burden the life of the other victim of these horrible situations, the mother. It is indeed a strange logic that would have us kill an innocent unborn baby for the crime of his father.” Well said.
Judaism: “Reform Judaism understands the original position of the Talmud wherein is described the notion that an abortion should be performed only for the sake of the life of the mother, and even as late as the moment before the head of a baby emerges from the birth canal. However, Reform goes beyond this narrowly defined period and gives sanction to its members (and all others for that matter) to elect to terminate a pregnancy when confronting other circumstances: as a result of rape or incest; when through genetic testing, it is determined that the child to be born will have a disease that will cause death or severe disability, and the parents believe that the impending birth will be an impossible situation for them; and other circumstances.”
Church of God in Christ: While there is no actual position on abortion in the COGIC that I could find, I did come across this nugget – regarding the 2008 election, Rev. Dr. Clenard Childress writes, “Bishop Blake released the ‘fowls of the air’ himself by amending his insightful message with the age-old pro-abortion cliché: ‘I could never vote for a Republican because they don’t do anything for the child once they are here.’ And continued to say, ‘…it was coming from the presiding Bishop of the largest Pentecostal Denomination in America, with a membership of over 6 million people, Saved, Sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost, it was somewhat disturbing. How could the leader of such a prestigious and historic denomination, give such a jaded reason for support of the party which promotes Planned Parenthood, and advocates for the most destructive device in the African American Community since our inception: Abortion! Abortion is a modern day holocaust directly responsible for over 16 million African American deaths since 1973!”
Mormon: “Human life is a sacred gift from God. Elective abortion for personal or social convenience is contrary to the will and the commandments of God. Church members who submit to, perform, encourage, pay for, or arrange for such abortions may lose their membership in the Church…..Those who face such [rape & incest] circumstances should consider abortion only after consulting with their local Church leaders and receiving a confirmation through earnest prayer.”
Let me reiterate…this is not an exhaustive list. Be aware that there are satellite churches of these denominations that are more prolife and more prochoice then their denominational position papers articulate. It’s like trying to hit a moving target. The Church needs to put the issue of Life back in the pulpit.
It seems like there is no real position on the issue of Life being completely protected. You have to wonder, if the Church won’t protect Life, who will? Activists and advocates that care about just one single person whose tiny life is in the balance.
Abortion is an act of murder – Exodus 20:13, “You shall not murder.”
Abortion is the shedding of innocent blood – Proverbs 6:17, “These six things the LORD hates..…Hands that shed innocent blood.”
Abortion brings heartache and regret – Psalm 51:3, “For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.”
Abortion stops a Plan of God – Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Abortion encourages sin – Ecclesiastes 8:11, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
The New Covenant makes it all real simple! Jesus said, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’.”
A recent article from David Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics, wrote (in part) these three points regarding American Culture, the law and abortion:
The collapse of any cultural assumption that sex is to be reserved for marriage and that marriage is the best context in which to conceive and raise children,
The devolution of male-female relationships from a striving for a mutual lifetime covenant to short-term use of one another for individual sexual and emotional needs,
The overall transition from a focus on doing what is right to an emphasis on my rights.
Cultural problems cannot be solved through legislation; these issues need to be addressed at home and in the Church…“but the legal struggle is actually a distraction from the unresolved cultural and moral issues that have created it.” I could not agree more.
But who is at fault? How did this nation get this demoralized? When you take God out of the equation, you have nothing. So many things brought us here, such as teaching evolution, taking prayer out of school, and women working outside of the home.
Yes, I said it: Women working outside of the home. The biblical God-given role for women has been treated as an anomaly, almost a thing to be laughed at. But look at the result – more and more children out of wedlock, abortion is ‘normal’, kids rule the home, some women don’t know who the father of their child or children is. Women got liberated alright, liberated of having a husband, a father for their children…essentially the tail is wagging the dog.
Truly, this desensitizing of America has become an entitlement issue of the hugest magnitude. Women are being raised to be ‘I’m every woman’ instead of learning how to be a wife and mother. I, too, was a victim of this. The world has made women a dehumanized commodity instead of the beautiful creation that God made her to be for her husband.
Women need to liberate themselves from this filthy world we live in and let God be God in our lives. He alone brings Glory to sufferings and afflictions.
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
My right to cross the street supersedes the right to LIFE. The unborn take a back seat to the unemployables occupying parks for free on my dime. The unborn die every day without so much of a whimper from the general public but people complain out loud about gas prices. Where have our sensibilities gone?
