Changing One Heart for Many – Week 1
If you're just joining us, please read about and consider joining our prayer team.We begin our pledge to prayer tomorrow. A pledge to stand in the gap for the unborn, the voiceless. We pray for a change of heart for our new president.Friday's USAToday states the following:WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday quietly ended the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. Liberal groups welcomed the decision, while abortion rights foes criticized the president. For the rest of the story, click here.This is what we're up against: Three days into his presidency, Obama addressed the ban on abortion...
36 Years – A Challenge for Change
If you have arrived here from a button on someone's blog, this prayer team is being hosted during 2010 by Tammy at Not Mine But God's Story. You can read all about it here, and I hope you'll consider joining us! Thanks for stopping by!There was a lot going on in 1973. OPEC doubled the price of oil. The Watergate tapes were released that year. To the great relief of the United States, the Vietnam war finally ended. But there was also a law decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, that has affected far more lives than even the Vietnam war - a mind-blowing 50,000,000+ U.S. lives to Vietnam's 58,000. 36 years ago today, Roe v. Wade was passed into law, legalizing 1st and 2nd trimester abortions.I...
The Heart of a Country
I awoke early this morning, thoughts of the inauguration on my mind. I found myself imagining what might be happening at this hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If they've even been to bed yet, what must it be like to awaken there on this first day...especially for this president, the first black man in power in that White House?All history-making, tradition and fanfare aside, it begins today: the keeping of promises made, the unfathomable challenges to which he now lays claim. Half the country will awaken this morning infused with fresh hope for a brighter tomorrow, while the other half braces for "change" they do not welcome. The division in that last statement burdens me, but its truth...
Heart Beat
A heart beat. One after another after another. It's what counts off the seconds of our days and accelerates at the thought of a loved one. It's the pulse of our emotions and the first thing we check to determine if a person's alive. In fact, it's one of the very signs of life, not only in living, breathing humans outside the womb, but the tiny, living humans inside the womb.These tiny little lives make my own heart beat a little faster with the want to make their silent voices heard. As we celebrate the Sanctity of Life this weekend, join me, won't you, in the plea for their case? Their heart beats are worth it; they are the miracle of life.
What Obedience Can Bring
I believe I've had an out-of-body experience.You know what I'm talking about; the kind where you step back from a situation and view it as if from outside yourself. Mine occurred on Saturday, during the prayer conference, as I watched myself worship with 350 other women in my home church...as I watched myself soak in some incredibly simple, yet so profound, principles that will radically change my prayer life...as I watched myself cry as woman after woman made their way past me to pray at the altar.Saturday was a culmination of a bunch of could-only-be-God moments. It was the outcome of immediate acts of obedience on Debbie Williams' part and my own. You see, on April 2, 2008, Debbie was...