Cultural Institute: Equipping the Church to Stand Boldly for Life: Through His written Word, God has called the church to stand boldly for life. In this Cultural Institute presentation, Joseph Parker gives insight into how the church plays an integral role in ending the tragedy of abortion.
Sanctity of Life Prayer Bookmarks: Each pack includes ten bookmarks containing a prayer based on Psalm 139.
A Prayer for the Sanctity of Life
Lord God,
I kneel before you this day as the God who created my inmost being. You know when I sit and when I rise, and you discern my going out and my lying down. You are familiar with all my ways and you perceive my thoughts from afar. Before a word is on my tongue, you know it completely. There is no place I can go from your Spirit. Whether I go up to the heavens, make my bed in the depths, rise on the wings of the dawn, or settle on the far side of the sea, you are there, in that place, with your right hand to guide me and hold me fast.
I pray this day in the name of Jesus for my nation. I ask you to remind us all that you are knitting together every baby that even now is in the womb of his mother. Teach us that each one is fearfully and wonderfully made, and that none of them are hidden from you while you are making them in the secret place of the womb. We know that there, where they are being woven together, your eyes see their bodies even while they are forming. Even the darkness of the womb is not dark to you; the night shines like the day and darkness is as light to you.
Remind us that your thoughts and purposes for every unborn baby are vast, and outnumber the grains of sand. You have ordained the days of their lives and those days are written in your book even before one of those days has come to be. I plead with you to convict us all that these precious lives need to be protected so that you may fulfill your purpose for each one of them.
We pray together for our president and all elected officials at every level, that they all will come to recognize the sanctity of life in the womb. May they come to be horrified at the thought of destroying what you are knitting and weaving together in that dark and secret place. We pray that lawmakers will be moved to protect the right of all babies to draw their first breath and to live out the days you have assigned to them.
Please bring every man and woman who has participated in an abortion to a profound place of repentance. May they bring the sorrow and the guilt and the pain of it all to you, that you may cleanse them from all unrighteousness, restore the years the locusts have eaten, and set them on a new path.
It is in the name of Jesus that we pray, amen.
