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Two and a half hours at the Abortion Clinic
Today was a peaceful and calm day at the abortion clinic, that is during my prayer time. I spent time listening to David Crowder Band and Leeland, worshiping and praying alternately. Towards the end I met another volunteer from Little Flower. She was very sweet and I had a chance to tell her the news of everything that happened earlier today.
Early this morning, during the abortion hours, we had a turnaround! A woman chose not to get an abortion today and one of our volunteers, who goes to Olive with me, gave her a ride back home. Praise the Lord! Please pray that this will be a permanent decision for life!
God Bless you all. Thank you for your prayers!
30 Minutes at the Abortion Clinic
It seems that no matter how long I’m there at the clinic, God is using me. Today I only spent 30 minutes at the clinic!
I got a late start and didn’t get out nearly as early as I wanted to. I’ve been using Ray Comfort’s 180 Gospel tracts. They’re really great! Here’s what they look like.
They’re on sale now! 100 tracts for $2! You can’t beat that!
Anyway I love these tracts because they present the issue of life with a fresh perspective! They’re very engaging and really test your intelligence of past events, while incorporating today’s issues. Plus at the end they weave in the gospel in a clear and precise way.
So today in my 30 minutes at the abortion clinic, I had a chance to pray, to chat with some other vigil volunteers, and to share this tract with the volunteers and a man leaving the abortion clinic!
The abortion clinic is set up in such a way that it is impossible to do very much sidewalk counseling. The area where we’re legally allowed to pray is about 30 yards from the door and 5 yards from the CLOSEST parking spot (no one parks there if they can help it). So outreach is very difficult.
I’ve found that walking up to the driveway when a car is leaving is much more effective. By this time they’ve seen that we, or sometimes just me, are non-violent and are not condemning. I believe that they see our compassion, but by the time they let their guard down they’re already in the door.
So as a man left the parking lot today, I cautiously approached his truck with the 180 literature outstretched in my hand. He slowed his truck and rolled down his window. I introduced myself, handed him the tract, and asked why he had come. He answered almost inaudibly, but seemed emotional. I asked him if he would pray with us to end abortion, because no one WANTS to get an abortion. Nodding, he responded very quietly in the affirmative and drove away.
Please pray with me that God will change this man’s heart towards the issue of life and that he will not counsel his wife or girlfriend to have one, but first and foremost please pray for his relationship with Jesus, that if he doesn’t have him, then he will, and if he does, then it will be strengthened.
Thanks guys and God bless you all!
45 minutes at the Abortion Clinic
Hello readers and followers! It’s been a good long while since my last post. I have been very busy!
I’ve started volunteering and helping to coordinate a local non-profit called 40 Days for Life. 40 Days for Life is a non-denominational, international, peaceful prayer vigil outside of abortion clinics. Each vigil lasts 40 days and they are held twice a year. The focus is on reaching out in compassion and mercy through prayer and offering real resources and help to everyone affected by abortion, family members, pre- and post-abortive mothers and fathers, and clinic workers.
Feel free to visit our website 40daysforlifepensacola.com for more info!
I wanted to take this time to explain what a typical day for me is like praying at the abortion clinic.
Usually there are no mothers at the clinic. They only come on Tues morning, Thurs afternoon, and Fri early morning. Most of my time is spent alone with God on the grass or on my yoga mat. This is some of the most special time. I turn some Jesus Culture on, spend time seeking the Lord’s face, then gradually become bold in my worship and prayer, singing so that others can hear me (that’s a big deal for me!).
Today was rough for me as I haven’t been out to pray in over 2 weeks. I have been battling discouragement because I haven’t seen very many Protestants catch the same fire and urgency that I have about this issue.
I was praying for God to encourage me; I was praying that God would send me someone to pray with today- and He did, but not in the way that I thought. He’s tricky like that sometimes 
As I was worshiping I noticed some men working on the surveillance cameras outside of the clinic. After a little time past they started to drive away. As the reached the driveway I approached their car with one of Ray Comfort’s 180 tracts about WW2. They slowed and rolled down their window and took the tract. They abruptly told me that they didn’t support what was going on at the clinic, but were just working on the cameras. Before they left, I asked them if they would pray with me to end abortion- they agreed.
After they had driven away I was reminded of Pontius Pilate who refused to condemn Jesus, but who also didn’t stand in the way of the people. Was Pilate as guilty for not taking a stand as the people were who demanded that Jesus be crucified? If abortion is wrong, which it is, is it also wrong not to take a stand against it and to “wash our hands” of the innocent blood being shed?
After this encounter, I was overcome by the blood of the innocent children spilled at the clinic and began to weep. After about 10 minutes a man on his bike came by to see if I was o.k. I told him that I was, and, not wanting to miss an opportunity to talk to him about why I was there, dried my eyes and got out a 180 WW2 tract to give to him. I explained that the tract draws a parallel between WW2 and abortion, while also sharing the gospel.
Turns out that this man grew up in the church that I now attend. He has stopped going since, but I had an opportunity to encourage him to return and get plugged in. He was very encouraged from talking to me and I was very encouraged from talking to him.
Wow! What seeds God has planted! 45 minutes and two conversations! That didn’t even happen my first two weeks praying! It goes to show that there is power in specific and expectant prayer!
God bless you all for reading this! Feel free to comment with anything! ‘Spress yourself!
Uncovering the Truth about China
Over the past month I have been researching China’s human rights, specifically dealing with unwanted and vulnerable children. My search started by looking up “orphanages in China” on Google. I found this article, “In a Chinese Orphanage” and started reading.
The article mentions a documentary called, “The Dying Rooms” which I promptly looked up. The documentary was made in 1995 and is about abandoned baby girls who are neglected in orphanages and ultimately left to die in “Dying Rooms.” The film is heart-wrenching. I have the video below if you would like to view it. I like to call this a terrible but necessary wake-up call, a call to action.
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED
After viewing all four parts of this video something broke inside of me. God is taking me to China sometime in the near future. My life goal now is to help remedy this and other situations around the world where children are abandoned.
I have reason to believe that these issues have not significantly improved even though this documentary is 17 years old. I cannot name the source I talked to but have learned this information in my research: The condition of unwanted and vulnerable children has gotten slightly better and the People’s Republic of China has gotten better at hiding the injustices that are happening.
The problem is that children are still being abandoned because of the one-child policy, especially special needs children. Because China is a communist nation, workers in the orphanages do not necessarily choose that line of work. In my experience working with children, if you don’t have a heart for children (especially special needs children) then your “work” will suffer. Because, ultimately it’s not supposed to be work. Your “job” is to love and nurture. How do you unconditionally love a child, as a parent would, when society says that they are worthless? By the world’s standards this is impossible, but all things are possible for those who trust in Jesus Christ.
So here is my hope- that we would pray! I have listed some prominent people in this fight. Please pray that the orphanages would continue to be revolutionized and that the one-child policy would be abandoned so that innocent children are not.
China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs- They run the custodial institutions for orphans and abandoned children.
Chen Chuanshu- Director General of the General Office
Yu Jianliang- Deputy Director General of the General Office
Hu-Wen Administration (China’s leadership)- that they would repeal the one-child policy
Here are some links-
http://www.halfthesky.org/en/news/journal/978 -A resource from the People’s Republic of China. Read with discretion.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/01/01/death-default -A report from the Human Right’s Watch from 1996 about the condition of orphanages in China
http://www.amityfoundation.org/ -”Christian group working to promote education, social services, health, and rural development”
Please comment- I will try to answer any questions you have.
Malnourished children do not cry...
This week, as G8 leaders sit down together at Camp David, those of us concerned about environmental issues and the effects of Climate Change on the world's poorest of the poor, hope media attention will not be focussed on what our current leaders are wearing or eating, or which pop group has been flown in for their entertainment. Many careers are built on starring in these meetings; many a fat-cat becomes fatter on prestige.
Great post about children in Africa. Good read! Raise your awareness of the horrors going on in the world around us. Wake up! <3
The Number 666 according to Muslims
My Sunday School has been talking about Revelations lately and I had seen this somewhere in the past. So I wanted to post about this relatively unknown topic. It is enlightening and something to be mindful of in days to come.
The Number 666 according to Muslims.
The Deist who claimed to be an Atheist
Had a conversation with a self-proclaimed atheist today who was actually a deist. He did not antagonize or belittle me thank God, but we had a good conversation. I’ve been mulling it over since then. One thing he said is that he couldn’t believe in a God that made people to send them to hell. He justified this with the sovereignty of God for already knowing the future and said that God should have made us with a disposition to choose good instead of sin.
I responded that God made us to love Him and to give us an opportunity to know Him and that this was incredibly worthwhile.
But one thing he said was completely illogical. He questioned free will itself and the need for it. He said that God should not even have made the concept of free will or a concept of no free will.
This kinda stumped me. So I want to logically think this out. Here is my process.
1 Corinthians 14 says that God is a God of order. He designed this world for a reason. Frankly I cannot imagine a world without a concept of free will. If there is no concept of free will then there isn’t free will. No concept=no free will. God created life and the rules and physical laws that govern our lives and our world. No free will= no choice whether to love God or not and if we don’t have a choice then how is it love? After all love is a choice!
I guess my final conclusion for future conversations with said deist is that the question of free will and whether or not it should or shouldn’t exist is futility. The fact is that it does exist. One can be mad at God for one’s own skewed perspective but that’s not gonna change the fact that we have free will.
In the end, this deist was creating excuses out of anger to push away a God who he never fully understood (who can ever fully understand Him?), a God whom he never learned how to relate to.
Please pray for my friend the deist that he would encounter God and place his life in the hands of Jesus Christ.
Thank you all for reading!
Come Awake
There are times, times when
Lips quiver and purse
Furious yet still and silent
Deceptive they cry out!
There are times, times when
Eyes flutter and close
Burning yet calm and careful
Delusive, the deluge breaks!
There are times, times when
You scream! Unable to hold anymore
Lips and eyes open.
Aware and awake- speak out!
Necessary and painful,
We learn about the world
Injustice upon injustice
The only thing left to stand on-
Christ.
Christian vs. Secular music aka Thoughts From an Ex-Legalist
So for the past two or three weeks I have been listening to almost all Christian music. There was a time where that was forced on me and shoved down my throat. I was told that if I loved God then I should only listen to Christian music. I was taught (falsely) that Satan was a worship leader in heaven before he fell and that all secular music was his instrument to attack us.
My family, whom I am intensely loyal to, had a major falling out with this church. As a result of this and many other things going on in my life I fell away hardcore from my walk with God. As God brought me back to Him I was determined to research all of the claims of my past church for myself before returning to any of them. I was determined not to let my personal holiness interfere with my outreach to the lost. In fact to this day I am still very leery of anything that remotely resembles legalism.
All that to say- I have recently decided to return to this habit of listening to all or mostly all Christian music. This has been a very big step for me. As I have gradually started to put more importance on the content of the music I listen to, I’ve noticed some changes in my life. I am very picky when it comes to music and major chord after major chord just kinda gets on my nerves. As a result I get tired of the Christian radio station very easily. I’ve had to go out and purchase some actual cds *gasp* (I’m very frugal w my money lol).
I have no ipod, my netbook has no CD drive and my car only plays CDs so my music selection is almost always limited. But lately I have been so busy, waking up extremely early, that I usually forget to get into the Word before work, etc. Listening to Christian music has really made a difference in my days. Since my schedule has changed, so has my relationship with God- though I would venture to say that it has grown stronger. Although I don’t spend time in the Word in the morning, I find another time for it during the day. Since I have a long car ride to work everyday, I have taken to listening to some encouraging Christian music, worshiping God, and praying in my car. (Sometimes I wonder what passer-byes think of this crazy charismatic girl with her hands raised and knee on the steering wheel 
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My walk has really grown deeper since changing my listening habits. I am happier, more at peace, more confident in His love, and I handle conflicts better. It has kept me focused and centered on Christ in my busy times. Now when I get bored of the music I’m listening to or my limited selection I try to remember how blessed I am to even have a car and to have the ability to hear music. It keeps me humble and content.
I by no means think it is a sin to listen to secular music and I would never ever judge someone’s walk with God based on that, but I have noticed a change in my life as a result. I want this to be an encouraging post. If your walk has been struggling and you’ve been super busy lately, why not spend the extra cash to get something you’ll like that’s encouraging?
My suggestions are David Crowder Band, Andy Mineo (Christian rap), Jesus Culture, Kim Walker, Wavedude (Christian electronica!), Brian and Jenn Johnson. Enjoy! Lemme know what you think!
Bless you all! Remember to seek His face on this National Day of Prayer! <3
