Concerning Abortion and Its Deeper Roots

Years ago, while considering what may be more deeply “at root” concerning abortion, I felt the Lord respond: “It begins in the church—when we’ve lost the joy of new life.”  Today, I feel the Lord, again, would remind us that the church is salt and has had an effect upon that which is around us.  So, concerning abortion, might we all agree in prayer for the following?

• That the church would value what the Father values—that His people would truly value life (both that which is in the natural and that which is in the spirit).

• Naturally, that His people would begin to desire children and not be inconvenienced.

• Spiritually, that His people would truly begin to take joy in the “new birth” of individuals into God’s kingdom (Luke 15:7, 10)—moved with the Father’s heart of compassion, as well as with a selfless willingness to nurture.

• That we’d break with the spirit of death and gain a spirit of adoption (Rom. 8:15)!

Even at root with the above:

• That, with one heart and one mind, God’s people would know and bear witness to the heart of our Father in heaven—who is the Father of all fathers.

• That, with one heart and one mind, we’d know and boldly profess His heart for life for all men—declaring (even unto the heavenlies) that our Father in heaven always prefers life and that He would select all His children (Heb. 12: 9; Deut. 30:19; Ezek. 18:31-32; 2 Pet. 3:9; 1 Tim. 2:4).

Concerning the issue of life, would our Father in heaven condone the act of an abortion?  Would our Father in heaven choose to abort, for some, the opportunity ever to have life in Him?  As pointless as such questioning may seem, isn’t this how certain teachings, within the church, have represented the heart of the Father?

Sadly, wrong thinking and agreements concerning our Father in heaven may have given the enemy inroads concerning much.  Accordingly, as His people (and for His people)[1], we must break all agreement (1 Cor. 5:1-2, 6-8) with distortions of the heart of our heavenly Father, we must bring down strongholds and lies that are exalted against the knowledge of God (2 Cor. 10:3-5), and we must cry out for an awakening of truth.


[1] Note: even though our own hands may be clean, the sins of a few have an effect on the many.  “When one part suffers, we all suffer” (1 Cor. 12:26); “a little leaven [in the body] leavens the whole lump (1 Cor. 5:6).”