Prayer Partners,
40 Days for Life!
Day 14
Read some of the victory stories
Please keep praying!
Notice the story from Nashville which took place in front of the Women’s Center, right up the street!
Go to www.40daysforlife.com/nashville and come out and pray with us.
If you can’t come please keep up the prayer vigil @ home.
-----------------------------------------------------
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
-----------------------------------------------------
The 40 Days for Life vigil in Las Vegas is held
outside an abortion center that is on a cul-de-sac.
Just next to the abortion center is First Choice
Pregnancy Center. Anyone going to the abortion
facility has to drive right past this pregnancy
center first.
A young couple drove through the parking lot ...
slowly -- TWICE! -- checking out both First Choice
and the abortion center. The second time through,
one of the pro-life volunteers told them they could
get a free ultrasound at First Choice.
They accepted the offer, saw the ultrasound -- and
confirmed to vigil participants that they are
choosing life for their child.
"Our prayers were answered," said the volunteer.
"Thank you, Lord!"
-----------------------------------------------------
NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK
-----------------------------------------------------
The 40 Days for Life team in Niagara Falls is aware
of one baby that has been saved from abortion during
this campaign.
Vigil participants prayed as a young woman walked
into the abortion center -- prayed that she would
still find it in her heart to change her mind.
Then, said one of the volunteers, they watched in
amazement a bit later as the woman "literally bolted
from the facility and ran away." She wanted out of
there -- as quickly as possible.
The vigil participants tried to find out more, so
they ran after her. Before they could catch up, a
car stopped and picked her up. She did not return.
-----------------------------------------------------
DOWNEY, CALIFORNIA
-----------------------------------------------------
"We had one woman and two couples change their minds
and left the abortion site with peaceful faces," said
Patti in Downey. "Praise God for them -- and for the
young woman the previous day who changed her mind."
That's four babies saved in Downey, "and our team is
rejoicing!" Patti says the word is getting out and
more people are coming to stand and pray.
"It is our first campaign and the Lord is moving
before us," she said. "The church is opposing the
gates of hell ... and some day this abortion site
will be closed. Amen!"
-----------------------------------------------------
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
-----------------------------------------------------
The 40 Days for Life team in Nashville saw firsthand
that it pays to remain faithful and trust in God. It
was a busy day at the abortion center -- cars started
streaming into the parking lot at 7 am and volunteers
counted more than three dozen clients entering the
building.
It just seemed bleak. No one wanted to talk. No one
wanted to take any of the prayer volunteers' pro-life
literature.
Later that day, though, their prayers were answered.
"A mom and her daughter came out the door with the
young girl's ultrasound picture," said Marilyn. "She
was smiling at me and said, "You keep praying! I've
decided to keep my baby."
Marilyn then asked if they could pray together in
thanksgiving. "Thank you, Lord, that she has chosen
life," she said. "We give You all the glory!"
-----------------------------------------------------
DAY 13 INTENTION
-----------------------------------------------------
For all fathers who are terrified of being fathers.
-----------------------------------------------------
SCRIPTURE
-----------------------------------------------------
A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is
God in His holy habitation.
-- Psalm 68:5
-----------------------------------------------------
REFLECTION by Randolph Sly
-----------------------------------------------------
I had a friend many years ago who confided in me that
he was terrified of being a father. He and his wife
already had two children when this revelation came
forth. "I never knew my father," he explained, "and I
have no idea what a father is supposed to do."
We continued to share about this, as well as pray
together. He began to see he had a father's heart for
his children. His biggest problem was not a
limitation on love but not knowing how to act out
this love.
One day we talked about the verse quoted at the top
of this page. I shared that he did know his Father...
not his biological father but his Heavenly Father,
who had rescued him from a life of destruction not
many years before.
"How did your Heavenly Father guide you?" I asked. He
talked about the ways he had seen God's love offered
to him and the way the Lord had used circumstances
and the Scriptures to mold him and mature him. "Well,
the Lord wants to do the same thing through you for
your children. Be available to His love and available
to your kids. You'll do fine."
How wonderful it is to know that God takes a personal
interest in each of us, many times using His faithful
people -- the Church -- as channels of this love. No
one is fatherless who lives in the Lord. His fatherly
care begins at the moment of our conception, as it is
written, "you knit me together in my mother's womb"
(Psalm 139:12), and continues to be poured upon us
throughout our lives.
-----------------------------------------------------
PRAYER
-----------------------------------------------------
Heavenly Father, we thank you for caring about each
of us so deeply. Help us to see and know you as our
Father in heaven each and every day of our lives.
Your loving hand also rests on every child today
carried in its mother's womb. May they be born into
this world and come to know fully and personally your
endless love. We ask this through Jesus Christ our
Lord, Amen.
