[Salvation]

Today’s email from Shawn Carney:

It’s Monday!

Mondays are the BEST days during the campaign. Monday
means that it’s time to report the number of saves.

So here’s some good news to start your week!

Thus far in the current 40 Days for Life campaign,
there have been ...

... 253 babies saved from abortion — that we know of!

It’s the “that we know of” part that gives me the
greatest hope.

Who knows but the Lord Himself how many lives have been
saved because Planned Parenthood can’t find an
abortionist in Columbia, Missouri, where a 40 Days for
Life vigil is going on?

Abortions have not taken place there since January!

Who knows how many lives have been spared because Golden
Gate Health Care closed its abortion centers in San
Francisco and San Mateo, where 40 Days for Life vigils
have been held?

They locked the doors right before this campaign began
— and have thus far not been able to re-open!

The bottom line is that PRAYER WORKS! Thank you for all
your prayers — and thanks to our all-merciful God for
these glorious blessings!

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SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA

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A couple had been struggling with their decision
regarding their unplanned pregnancy, and after
discussing it for a few weeks had decided to have
the abortion.

“They actually walked past the abortion center at first
because they didn’t know exactly where it was,” said
Patti. But because of that, they also walked past the
four people who were praying outside as part of the
40 Days for Life vigil.

They eventually found the entrance and went it.

But they walked out a short time later and had a message
for the people praying: “We didn’t do it!”

They said the sight of people praying was the sign they
were looking for to help them decide to keep their baby.

“This baby was saved just because of a peaceful and
prayerful presence,” said Patti. “Praise God!”

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SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN

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Michigan is taking an abortion center owner to court —
the owner of the facility where the 40 Days for Life
team in Southfield is holding its vigil.

According to media reports, the owner has been accused
of operating without the proper license. The state says
the center still performs abortions, even though its
license expired last summer.

It’s not clear yet what the state will do. So please
keep the Southfield team in your prayers as their vigil
outside Womancare of Southfield continues.

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PENSACOLA, FLORIDA

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“We must praise God at all times,” said Ernie in
Pensacola.

One day recently, several 40 Days for Life vigil
participants reported that eight moms left the American
Family Planning abortion facility — on an abortion day
— without having abortions.

“We don’t know exactly what was going on to make all
these parents leave the facility at one time and not
go through with the abortion,” he said, “but we must
all now pray that they may choose life for their babies
and not return.”

Above all, Ernie said, “we know that God is working
marvelous deeds among the staff and clients of the two
abortion facilities here in Pensacola, and we know that
it is your persistent, peaceful, prayerful presence in
front of these two places of death that is making all
the difference!”

The same goes for every other 40 Days for Life vigil
location as well — in nine different countries, all
around the world!

[Salvation]

Day 27 - April 4

 

Intention:

We pray for the gift of openness to children.

Scripture:

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

-- Genesis 1:27-28

Reflection:

God's intention is that we multiply and fill the earth.

One of the most pernicious lies that sociologists have foisted off on the public is that the earth is becoming overpopulated. What kind of a sadistic god would create the earth and human creatures on it, only to have them literally reproduce themselves into oblivion? The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our divine Creator, has commanded us to multiply and fill the earth and far from letting the population get out of control, He has, in fact given his human creatures a dominical role over all the lesser creatures. The "birth control" movement, which had its beginnings with Margaret Sanger in the early years of the last century, has led, in many parts of the world, to a birthrate that is drastically below the normal replacement rate.

God's Word assures us that children are a blessing, that they are a reward of faithfully trusting and serving God and that they are the crown of their parents' old age. The spread of the contraception mentality that has so permeated our culture is, undoubtedly, a factor in the ready acceptance of abortion. God's commandment to multiply and fill the earth has never been withdrawn. May He help us to accept the gift of children and give him thanks for every baby who is born into the world.

Prayer:

Father of mercy and grace, we thank you for the gift of our children. Grant that every fiber of our being may rejoice when a new baby, our own or any else's, is born into the world. Help us to welcome them as we would welcome you, for whenever a new baby is conceived, another life to bear your image and another voice to praise and worship you, is beginning. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.

Rev. Ben Sheldon
President Emeritus, Presbyterians Pro-life and National Pro-life Religious Council