Dear prayer warrior friends, thank-you for answering the call to pray for our precious pre-born children. Far too many decades have gone by where their cries have gone seemingly unheard, little ones in the womb who have been crying out in silent pain, crying out for someone to hear them. However, it has been a silencing of not only our children, but also mothers who have found themselves in dire situations. Often surrounded by chaos, they have been presented with a choice. A choice that has been cleverly disguised as a simple answer, a ‘gentle’ solution, wrapped in bows and butterflies, it seems fitting as the best solution, only to discover that what lies behind that veil and those layers of ‘choice’ is a different kind of silencing. A womb without life, and years of overwhelming weightiness of grief and shame. However, here and now, an army is rising. You are an answer to those cries, responding to be their voice. For the next 50 days, we invite you to posture your heart towards heaven, lean in to the heartbeat of the Father and hear His pulse on this issue. Prepare to feel His heartbreak, but also prepare to be filled with His roaring courage over you as we rise up as one voice for them.
A call to action
Each day, we will be sharing a devotional or a prophetic word, insights or a live stream video from one of our contributors or Nate and myself. With each new day, we will highlight a specific prayer point, and on some days, a call to action. We will update you in advance with details about the live-streams. We invite you to ACTIVELY pray, and VOCALLY speak, search the scriptures for your own revelation from the Father for each particular days prayer point. This is a time for us to ENGAGE heaven and DISMANTLE hell. We do that through the weapons of our warfare – which we know are not carnal- but MIGHTY THROUGH GOD to pull down strongholds.
One voice
Abortion at its very core is a stronghold over the Nations. The Holy Spirit first gave me the imagery of Goliath a number of years ago when He spoke to my heart saying ‘The head of Goliath is in the United States with Roe V Wade.’ Our focus in this prayer movement is to fix our gaze on our MIGHTY God. It is only through Him that we can see this overturned. So together, we will raise up one voice, one shout and proclaim the VICTORY, for HE alone is LORD. With one voice we will decree as David did to Goliath:
“You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head.”
It’s a KAIROS moment
Why 50 days you might ask? I felt the number 50 has been highlighted to me repetitively when it comes to this matter. The legislation of Roe v Wade was discreetly and craftily brought into effect on January 22 nd 1973. Exactly 46 years ago. I felt the Spirit of God impress upon my heart to pray and fast for the 46 days in solidarity, in repentance on behalf of the Nations for these 46 years of innocent bloodshed. I then felt that the remaining four days of this prayer movement were a representation of the coming four years. I believe we are in a Kairos moment of time to see this overturned, and I am pressing in and believing God to see not only the legislation of Roe V Wade abolished within the next four years, but also to see a wave of adoption rise in its place. These 50 days will end on the last day of the feast of Purim, the feast that celebrates the emancipation of the Jews from the hands of Haman through Queen Esther. It is time for a generation of Queen Esthers and King Davids to arise.
The two instances we see in the Bible where the enemy tried to eliminate infant children, were in cases where emancipation was coming, first with Moses, the emancipator of the Israelites, and then with Jesus, the emancipator of mankind. Now, I believe, the Spirit of God, the testimony of Jesus, is rising up through an entire generation to emancipate an earth that has fallen into deep darkness. It is the time of His great outpouring, and the enemy is scared. How scared must an enemy be to kill off helpless children first, and convince the people that is their right and empowerment? Evidently, terrified. These children carry within them, a weighty glory, and it is our responsibility to be their voice.
What is your role?
Today, I invite you to simply ask God “what is my role in this?” I believe that if you know what your role is, the next 50 days will be all the more significant as you will be praying from a place of intentional purpose. You might be thinking at this point though, ‘What can I possibly bring that is significant?’ Just remember, Queen Esther felt the same way. You and God are a majority. He might be speaking to your heart about committing to a fast in the next 50 days, or impressing to your heart to sow or volunteer time into your local pregnancy centres. Perhaps He is preparing your heart to adopt. Or could it be that He is wanting you to speak out more through social media and your own sphere of influence, maybe even in the political arenas as a righteous armour bearer for truth? I encourage you to ask Him to lead you to a scripture that is your prophetic weapon for this in prayer.
We would love for you to share, if you feel led, what it is that you believe the Holy Spirit is impressing upon your heart. What is your role?
Day Two.
20 years ago, when I was just fourteen years old in Junior High School, I was asked to complete an assignment researching a social justice issue of our time. We could choose anything we were drawn to and we were to present our findings and arguments for our cause to our class in an oral and visual project. I still don’t know why I was drawn to the subject of abortion, or what gravitated me towards it, but as a young fourteen-year-old girl, I never expected my findings to leave me curled up in my bedroom crying and weeping. I don’t remember my assignment, or the speech I gave, but I remember the books. Back then, we didn’t have access to the Internet the way we do now, and so I had to scour the library for books, for informative and factual books. I’m actually thankful we didn’t have social media then, because it allowed me to determine right from wrong on my own and discover what was happening behind closed doors with facts, not opinions. I remember vivid and horrifying imagery being sprawled out on my bedroom floor, and it overwhelmed me, but its impact upon my heart and mind has been forever lasting.
I am convinced it was the Holy Spirit who led me to this discovery. Like a gentle whisper in my ear, He guided me at the right time of my life, when I was not too young to be exposed to these horrors, but not too old to be swayed in another direction, to uncover something that was hidden from plain sight. In the years that followed however, I moved away from the topic. Not out of ignorance, but out of fear and the overwhelming sense of ‘what can I possibly do to change this?’ I discovered very quickly how easy it was for someone to eliminate you from their life over the topic, and so, silently, it was placed in the background, on the top and dusty shelf of my heart. It was not until a short number of years later where I was forced to pull it down from that shelf and blow away the dust. Abortion came knocking fast and heavy at the front door of my world. I had a dream one night that my sister was pregnant with a beautiful baby, but in the dream, the enemy was after the child. When I awoke, I knew immediately that my sister was pregnant, and she was considering abortion. The circumstances that surrounded her were not ideal in the least sense of the word. Chaotic would best describe her situation. Drugs, alcohol, abuse. You name it. Who would want to bring a child into that scenario? She had every reason to
