Give me Ears to hear, Give me Eyes to see - Truth

As I sat down today and opened up my quiet time with prayer the LORD laid upon my heart to read the first portion of Isaiah 59 and then blew me away. What He spoke to my heart is not something new to me however; it is very pertinent to what is going on in our Nation. I am here LORD, I am listening, I will obey… Here is what He shared with me:

(During the time of Isaiah the prophet there were parents sacrificing their children to idols. Today our Nation condones the sacrifice of the unborn to the idol called Choice. It is an industry that is full of lies and greed, it is corrupt and it leads the people astray – in its wake follows desolation, destruction and certainly not peace. –This is my side note).

Isaiah 59:3 – For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness. (NASB)

I have seen in our Nation a great evil called Choice (i.e. Abortion). It covers our Nation’s hands in blood. It is corrupt, this industry that tells falsehoods and lies (“it is not a baby”, “it feels nothing”) to make money never mind the destruction in its wake... The hurt, desolation, grief, guilt, and shame it reaps upon our Nation’s men and women. It tells them lies that they will be fine – that everything will be normal again (as it was before this choice) once this procedure is done. An untrue statement if I have ever heard one. This choice ends a life – no one in the Choice camp wants to admit this but it is true. And even if you don’t want to admit it somewhere deep inside you know it is true. This choice will often leave in its wake physical, emotional, and spiritual damage. It manifests itself in the lives of men and women in different ways… none the less the damage is there.

There are fathers who grieve the loss who had no choice. There are fathers who come to grieve who did. There are mothers who are led astray, who are fed lies and platitudes and who then are the ones who have to deal with the aftermath. The child is not the only victim in this sin we call Choice. Now our Nation wants to call this Healthcare!

LORD how far we have fallen from You! How can Your eyes bear to look upon this Nation steeped in sin, covered in the blood of babies?!

Verse 4 – No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies; They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

How true are these words for the abortion industry. Show us LORD the truth, open our eyes to see – our ears to hear – LORD forgive us, may this Nation return to YOU in repentance. I grieve… As I know You must grieve too.

Verse 6b – 8. Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways. They do not know the way of peace, And there is not justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

WOW! LORD wow – it is so true. Why can people not see? Are their hearts so hardened and their eyes blinded to the truth!?! Let them SEE, HEAR and KNOW – Make them understand LORD please!

This is not what I expected to hear from you today LORD – yet I know it is right and it is exactly what needed to be read and heard. As our Nation’s elected leaders refuse to listen to the voice of the people and are pushing through their agenda. It seems the abortion industry and many in D.C. are walking hand in hand – their plan – their profit. The profit of the wicked made upon the blood of the unborn. It is wickedness!

How? How can this be?! How is this healthcare? How is this even allowed? Condoned? We are speaking of lives here – babies – humans! And yet it is as if they cannot see – they are blinded to this truth…hearts hardened and peace will not be found in this. How can it, when the cries of the unborn are heard by You LORD?! You hear, You know… Just as Abel’s blood cried out to you (Gen. 4:10) so does the blood of the millions of unborn sacrificed to the idol of Choice. You see … nothing is hidden from You. LORD I cannot get over it – and nor should I be able to.

O LORD if only we would turn to You in repentance, if only we would seek redemption and You would roll away the reproach of this Nation (Joshua 5:9)! LORD if we would repent and come to You there is forgiveness without measure and redemption. There is healing to be found under Your wings… Healing for men and women who are desolate and in pain… Healing for this Nation gone astray. You offer healing to hearts, minds and more… If we would but turn to You.

Forgive us and lead us in the ways and paths of righteousness. LORD make our paths straight and light the way before us that we may not stumble and fall. If we do, You are faithful and You are there to lift us up and set our feet again on solid ground.

(Isaiah 6:9-10).

LORD awaken this Nation. Bring healing to our land. Great are our trespasses but they cannot surpass Your grace and Your unfailing love to those who call on Your Name. Call on Him!

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Please go to this link Stop The Abortion Mandate and not only watch the short video but get the facts and take action! Above all please pray!

New Gallup Poll is out...

Hello friends ~I wanted to let you know about a new Gallup poll - More Americans "Pro-Life" than "Pro-Choice" for First Time. (Just click on the title and it should take you to the article). For those of you who have been following the Life/Choice posts & the Changing One Heart for Many this is a very interesting poll. With a President who is so obviously Pro-Choice, it looks as if many Americans may be waking up to the realization of what that really means. And maybe for the first time are deciding to make a choice - a choice for life. A choice to get involved, to pray, to not sit on the sidelines any more... I hope. Our God is a mighty God, a righteous God, a Holy God & He is at work!

Petitions for Life

Please take a look at this weeks post on Changing One Heart for Many. You will find four links on there... Actions you can take to do your part. One is the petition against FOCA, one is stating you do not want tax payer money to fund abortions and one is stating that Doctors should have the freedom/choice to not perform abortions. There is also a link for Red Envelope day!

Check it out & have a blessed day!

For the Hurting

This post is for anyone who has been hurt by abortion, be you woman or man... Take a look at today's post on Traveling the Road Home. We can become so focused on the unborn and their rights that many times we forget those who have been hurt and scared by this ... especially the men. There are resources available for you if you have been through such a situation and desire healing ... & more. Even more if you turn to Jesus, as cliche as that may sound... He is there with open arms!

Please take a look at the post and watch the video!!!

Changing One Heart For Many

I hope you will join us tomorrow (Monday) morning in prayer ... Please look for the widget on the right side of my page that says "Changing One Heart for Many" it will take you directly to the blog or click here. The post is already up with the prayer and updates for tomorrow, so check it out!

Also take a look at the two newspaper articles she has on the post! One of them is a disturbing story of a botched 23 week abortion in FL and the investigation that is going on... The baby girl was born alive and well I will let you read the rest (click here). The other deals with decisions that President Obama has made on this issue already, those he is facing and how he is trying handle them (click here).

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. (Rom. 12:12)

Change for Life

It must be God, & heavy on His heart because every where I turn this same subject (Life) keeps coming up... I was on a fellow blogger's most recent post and it directed me to this blog and the Challenge for Change post - Check it out & start praying! If you decide to not check out the blog, check out this video - it is an ad that was suppose to run during the Superbowl but was rejected by the network.

My heart goes out to these women who are suffering with past choices... I am not here to condemn them... As I mentioned at the bottom of my last post, my heart & prayers go out to them... if you are someone that has been hurt by this issue and you desire prayer please leave me a comment... you can leave it anonymously or ask me not to publish it and I won't, but I will be praying for you. Again I am not here to condemn you... and remember that if you are in Christ there is no condemnation - He has forgiven you your sins... when you repented and came to Him, He removed them as far as the east is from the west... and there is nothing that can separate you from His love. My point in all of this is for the present & the future lives ... that can be impacted & saved. And to pray for those who need it.

May His will be done -


Ps. Also check out the article in the USA Today about Obama reversing the US funding policy on abortion

Woe to those who call evil good

As I write this post, I am trying to hold tears back from my eyes ... my heart is heavy and I am overwhelmed with sorrow. Early, early this morning I woke up for no other reason than God wanted my attention... What came to mind was the plight of the unborn. The Holy Spirit brought several things to mind and I wrote them down... I sit here now to put all of this to words. Before doing so however I went to a website that gives you all the information on abortion... how it is done, how many, etc... Grief, sorrow, and tears now flow as I think of these precious little ones.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness... Isaiah 5:20a

There are many arguments out there for women to have the right to choose... but the question is what are they choosing? The choice they have been given is to choose to give life or to take a life. You can call it what you want and try to cover it up in many ways to make it seem like something it is not... for in the end the truth is bold - when you take a life, you commit murder. As a Christian we are commanded by the LORD our God: You shall not murder. Exodus 20:13. Once our country believed this... they honored the ten commandments... however times have changed and so has this country - sadly not for the better.

For all of us that are alive, we were once a cluster of cells developing with our own unique DNA into the person we are... Did you know that by day 20 of our life our heart, brain, spinal column, and nervous system were almost complete and our eyes began to form. And by the 22nd day our heart began to beat. We are all uniquely created by God... and it is there in the womb that God forms us... He knows us and He sees us. Just as He knows and sees and forms these babies. God does not make mistakes, we do. And in this country we have made a great travesty... for "we" now call what is evil good (choice) ... Since when did it become ok to murder a child, to take their life, to cause them pain and death... How twisted has our thinking become that we can say this is ok. When is it ok to take a life for convenience sake, because we don't feel ready or want to deal with "consequences" and so on...(let us remember there are alternatives to abortion!). If what was done to these babies was done outside of the womb or even days after birth, we would all be up in arms saying "oh how horrific, how could someone do something like that to a baby?!" I could go on and on here but I think you get my point. (see Psalm 139:13; Jer. 1:5; Isa. 43:6, etc.)

I was reminded last night of the Israelite children who were killed/sacrificed in the Old Testament. They were burned to idols, slaughtered to these idols... this was sin against God and detestable in His sight. In Ezekiel when He talks about these things He calls them His children and that is what they are ... we all are, children of God... and woe to him who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD and calls what is evil good and good evil. (See 2 Kings 16:3; 17:7-9, 15-17, 31; Jer. 32:35; Eze. 16:20-21). And that is what is going on today, children are being sacrificed to the idol of (choice) self... we esteem our lives, our goals, our wants, etc. more than we esteem life.

We cannot hide sin from God... He knows what is upon our tongue before we even say it; He knows our hearts and minds, nothing is hidden from Him. Jesus said: "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Matt. 5:28 - did you catch that... he didn't commit the physical act but in his heart he sinned... What is in our hearts that we can say in this country (and around the world) that to take the life of a child is ok, it is justifiable? How? How? HOW is it!?!

The Enemy has blinded many to truth & their eyes are closed & their ears don't hear and their hearts are hardened... So that they call what is evil good; they call it choice yet the unborn have no choice or voice except for ours. How I pray that hearts would be softened, that eyes would be opened and ears would hear and that this nation would turn in repentance to God ... that life would once again be sacred and that we would put an end to this sin called abortion! We would tear down the idols of self and greed... and would agree with God that this is wrong (sin).

Sadly, it is not only the unborn who are hurt by abortion... but even the women who so many fight to give this right to are hurting, and some have been killed physically while others are dying on the inside... They need hope... They need forgiveness, they need love, but most of all they need Jesus! Not the cultural Christianity but the real thing... they need a Savior, they need to know He is waiting with open arms to love and forgive them, to heal the wounds and to bring them to Himself. He is present!!! He is waiting!!! For in Christ there is no condemnation.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Rom. 3:23

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! Rom. 6:1-2a

(See Rom. 6:1-14)

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Life in the Womb

Methods of Abortion

Idols of Self & Greed (statistics)

Lord have mercy and I pray that you would open up the eyes of those who are pro-choice, that you would soften their hearts ... Lord God, I entrust all to you knowing that even if there is not justice upon this earth for these little ones, there will be justice for them one day... For we will all have to stand before you and give account... Again I pray for mercy and repentance now Lord!

I ask that you my brothers and sisters in Christ would PRAY and walk faithfully & in obedience!!! That you would do all that is within you to honor, obey and glorify the Lord...

He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8

Walking in the Light

There are times that I get so upset or should I say angry about the way things in this country have changed ... taking prayer or God out of almost everything they can, abortion (which is really murder but they call it choice - which I have to say that except in the cases of rape, these women had a choice and they choose not to abstain... as in all life with certain choices come consequences... but this is the wrong way to deal with those consequences... after all we are talking about life, the life of a small baby. Even animals have more rights and protection in this country than an unborn baby). It is so sad!

On from those things to things like not saying "Merry Christmas" or "Christmas Tree" ... all these things and more have got me going... it is almost laughable because we are hated because we are viewed as intolerant... when it is those who hate us who are intolerant of Christians (not that there are not modern day Pharisees out there mind you) ... you can believe almost anything in this country and it is ok... well, unless you are a devout Christian. The irony...

But as I pause to reflect I remember what scripture tells me and why should I be so shocked...

Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

- 1 John 3:13

18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He who hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’ - John 15:18-25

"Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. " - Matt. 5:10-11

16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”

- John 3:16-21

1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self–control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God– 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. - 2 Timothy 3:1-5

We have been told ... why do we expect to be loved, respected, to have justice... When our Lord and Savior who was blameless, pure, without sin did not receive these things from the world. Yet when you look at his example, how He reacted and what His actions were, what does that say to you?

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

- Matt. 5:43-48

Now I am not saying that we do not stand up for what is right and speak truth... Jesus did these things... Let's remember Him in the Temple driving out the money changers declaring "My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’ ” Matt. 21:13.

He always spoke truth to the Pharisees, and we are told to look after, protect, defend, help the "helpless" (widows, orphans or modern day - the unborn)... However we should check our agendas at the door and seek to do God's will and to do these things in God's way... To ask what will bring more glory and honor to God? What will show the world truth in love?

Let us also remember forgiveness, mercy and love... Anyone can come to Christ and be saved... their sins forgiven and walk in the light... a child of God, loved and cherished - ANYONE! It does not matter what sins you have committed - in Christ you become a new creation... a new person, cleansed, free, loved!

Hummm - things to ponder, things to believe, things to live for... choices to make!