40 Days For Life

40 Days For Life just kicked off this week. It's a peaceful prayer vigil taking place all across America and Canada; together Christians are crying out to God around the clock in front of Planned Parenthoods in hundreds of cities until October 31st for the end of abortion in our land. 40 days for life in the midst of 365 days of death by abortion.

We attended a kick-off event here in Billings where various pastors from various churches spoke on the spiritual warfare to be waged in these next 40 days. We lit candles, and walked in the September dusk to the front of Planned Parenthood. Its sign glared at us in the night, but its light was nothing to the light of each heart. The prayers started. And they continue...

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. - 2 Chron. 7:14

Let's be the generation of Jacob, "the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face." - Psalm 24:6

Let's pray the Lord will say to us what He said to King Josiah:

"Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you," says the LORD. - 2 Kings 22:19

Recall what the King of Judah did: "And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech." - 2 Kings 23:10

The Molechs of our day are the false gods Convenience, Affluence, Fear, and Self. And children are sacrificed to these every day through the fires of abortion. Little image-bearers of God are being destroyed by the father of Lies who hates the image they bear.

So let's cry out to God for those whose cries may never be heard, for repentance and revival starting in our own hearts, for the deceived women seeking abortion, for the cowardly men leading these women, and the priests of the temples of death to be given grace and repentance. For light and truth to triumph over the darkness and lies of modern-day child sacrifice. For God's glory to wave over the death mills and turn them into havens of life. For each of us to see ourselves more clearly, and our own need for God's grace.

May it be.