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Prayer Targets: Pro-Life Ballots, Bush Israel Visit, NJ Hate Crimes
Dear Praying Friends,
The elections will rightly be at the forefront of the news for the next 11 months. In November, the American people will decide who will lead our cities, towns, counties, states and nation, in the critical years immediately ahead. The power, size and costs of civil government have grown far, far beyond anything our Founding Fathers envisioned. While the socialistic experiments of other nations (some driven by atheism) have been sweeping failures, many of the leading candidates for high office shamelessly market visions of vastly expanded civil government, with the power and reach to manage our children's lives, literally from cradle to grave. This year is a must pray year for God's people - a year for extraordinary prayer and crying out to God across our land for the election of God-fearing people to public office (Neh 4:14). And we must also continue to pray against unwise, sometimes ungodly legislative initiatives that seem to pour out of Congress and state legislatures. Proposals that will advance righteousness in the states need our prayer support. Every righteous initiative that succeeds lifts America and has a positive effect on us all. Righteousness exalts a nation... (Pr 14:34).
Pro-Life Ballots in Georgia, Colorado & Elsewhere - A feature in the current U.S. News and World Report entitled, "New Abortion Wars," focuses upon initiatives in various states to advance legal recognition that life begins at conception. In November, Colorado and Georgia voters are likely to be voting on a personhood amendment. NARAL and Planned Parenthood operatives will be planning massive counter campaigns. One NARAL leader is quoted as saying "The fight is coming to the states." Yet support for similar "personhood initiatives" is swelling in Georgia, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana, and Oregon. And 11 outright bans on abortion-similar to South Dakota's headline-grabbing measure in 2006-were introduced in state legislatures last year. Pro-abortion activists say that of all the states that Georgia is the most likely to pass a personhood measure, but how the Supreme Court will respond is uncertain. Some Christian leaders question whether such state initiatives are the best strategy for defeating Roe v. Wade, but all are agreed that such initiatives will draw pro-life conservatives to the polls and potentially impact the national elections, just as marriage amendments on the ballots did in 2004 (see wars).
Dear Praying Friends,
The elections will rightly be at the forefront of the news for the next 11 months. In November, the American people will decide who will lead our cities, towns, counties, states and nation, in the critical years immediately ahead. The power, size and costs of civil government have grown far, far beyond anything our Founding Fathers envisioned. While the socialistic experiments of other nations (some driven by atheism) have been sweeping failures, many of the leading candidates for high office shamelessly market visions of vastly expanded civil government, with the power and reach to manage our children's lives, literally from cradle to grave. This year is a must pray year for God's people - a year for extraordinary prayer and crying out to God across our land for the election of God-fearing people to public office (Neh 4:14). And we must also continue to pray against unwise, sometimes ungodly legislative initiatives that seem to pour out of Congress and state legislatures. Proposals that will advance righteousness in the states need our prayer support. Every righteous initiative that succeeds lifts America and has a positive effect on us all. Righteousness exalts a nation... (Pr 14:34).
Pro-Life Ballots in Georgia, Colorado & Elsewhere - A feature in the current U.S. News and World Report entitled, "New Abortion Wars," focuses upon initiatives in various states to advance legal recognition that life begins at conception. In November, Colorado and Georgia voters are likely to be voting on a personhood amendment. NARAL and Planned Parenthood operatives will be planning massive counter campaigns. One NARAL leader is quoted as saying "The fight is coming to the states." Yet support for similar "personhood initiatives" is swelling in Georgia, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Michigan, Montana, and Oregon. And 11 outright bans on abortion-similar to South Dakota's headline-grabbing measure in 2006-were introduced in state legislatures last year. Pro-abortion activists say that of all the states that Georgia is the most likely to pass a personhood measure, but how the Supreme Court will respond is uncertain. Some Christian leaders question whether such state initiatives are the best strategy for defeating Roe v. Wade, but all are agreed that such initiatives will draw pro-life conservatives to the polls and potentially impact the national elections, just as marriage amendments on the ballots did in 2004 (see wars).
- Pray for the above mentioned states. May pro-lifers aim high, and may God give us unimagined results in the year ahead. May the pro-life movement explode with new enthusiasm and effectiveness and may every pro-life measure prevail and pro-life candidates be elected to state and national office across the nation (Dt 21:9; 30:15; 2 Kg 24:4; Pr 24;10-12; Jn 10:10) .
- Pray that pro-family Oregonians will get their opportunity to say "NO!" to marriage-like homosexual partnerships. May those found guilty of subterfuge be held accountable and may those who would tamper with the constitutional process in other states be warned (Pr 17:15; 28:4; Luke 8:17; 1 Pt 5:8-10; Heb 13:4).
- May God protect our president and may He give strength, wisdom and supernatural alertness to each member of the security force tasked with his protection. May He also give the president revelation and conviction while he is in Jerusalem! May neither he nor the U.S. be found guilty of pressuring Israel to succumb to terrorist demands or self destructive compromises! As we sow support to the region's only free democracy and America's strongest ally, may God cause us to reap freedom and loyalty from our allies (Dt 6:24; Ps 16:1; 41:2; 64:1; 140:1; Joel 3:2-3a).
- Pray that God will intervene to enable New Jerseyans to challenge this unconstitutional law in the courts and to prevail. May He use this law, together with other outrageous acts against the churches in New Jersey to stir believers to cultural engagement! Pray particularly for Len Deo, the New Jersey Family Policy Council and the pastors across New Jersey (Ps 89:14; Pr 8:15; Ec 5:8; Is 9:7; Rom 1:32; Col 4:1).
- May God bless the Alexanders and their mission and believers with a like vision across America! May He move upon our nation's pastors to "weep between the porch and altar" (Joel 2:17) in 2008 and to lead their churches to become "Houses of Prayer" as Jesus said they would be. May churches across America rise to a new level of prayer and intercession that engages the culture and that brings both revival and reformation to the land! (2 Chr 7:14; Est 4:3; Joel 2:12-18; Mt 6:16-18; Lk 5:35)
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