Morning by Morning, May 3 - May We Choose Life!
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Let Your Word be my will and Your Spirit be my guide, as I entrust my day into Your plan. ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is currently deliberating a major abortion case challenging the 1973 precedent of Roe v. Wade. No doubt there’s great war in the spiritual realm after nearly 50 years of the principality of death claiming vast legal right to “steal and kill and destroy” in our land (John 10:10; Ephesians 6:12).
Death is our “enemy” and not our friend (1 Corinthians 15:26). And death is empowered when we embrace death in our souls and in the soul of our land, when we bow down to it and allow it and its culture of death to rule and reign instead of You (Romans 6:16). But You came that we “may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10).
Your Word calls us to “Choose life” and reject death, to choose obedience to Your ways and reject the ways of the world, the flesh, and the devil. Just as You declared to the people of Your Covenant before they entered their Promised Land, so You continue to declare to us before we can fully enter ours:
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying Him, and holding fast to Him; for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob” (Deuteronomy 30:18-20).
By the power of Your grace, may we choose life -- in our hearts, in our courts, in our laws, and in our land. And life begins in the mother’s womb. Your spoken word creates life, just as Your written Word affirms life. Your hands knit that life together, created by God with certain inalienable rights to live out his or her identity, purpose, and destiny as a child of God of infinite worth:
“For it was You who formed my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are Your works;
that I know very well!” (Psalm 139:13-14)
There’s no life You do not love (John 3:16). There’s no sin You will not forgive (1 John 1:9). And there’s no curse upon the land You will not break by the power of Your blood and authority of Your name when Your people who are called by Your name turn to You in repentance and prayer to forgive our sin, to cleanse our soul, and to heal our land (2 Chronicles 7:14).
The land is defiled by sin (Leviticus 18:24-30). But the land is cleansed by Your Blood. “Through (Jesus Christ) God was pleased to reconcile to Himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the Blood of His Cross” (Colossians 1:20). In our hearts and in our land, we cry out with all creation in “eager longing” to “be set free from its bondage to decay” from the consequences of our sin (Romans 8:19-23).
Today I join all who pray for an end to the sin of abortion and its stain upon our land and the soul of our nation. And at the same time, I join in prayer for the healing of mothers’ hearts who made a choice to end a life in their womb. I pray for the forgiveness of sins of all involved, as hearts turn to You in the cleansing of repentance and the freedom of deliverance (James 4:7). I pray for the peace of every soul, every child’s life that was ended on earth at the hand of sin, that we now entrust into the grace of Your embrace (Ecclesiastes 12:7). I pray for the forgiveness of Your people who are called by Your name in Your church who allowed it to happen, whether by complacency or compromise, throughout these last 50 years, until she found her courage and her voice to stand up and speak out to say “No! No more! Not again! Never again! We renounce death and we choose life!”
In this dawning of a new day in our land, we say “No to death” and we say “Yes to life!” We humble ourselves in the agreement of prayer that the highest Court in our land would come into agreement with the highest Court of Heaven (Daniel 7:26).
The Decree of Heaven is for Life! And in Your Final Decree, death will be forever destroyed: “Then death and hell were thrown into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:14).
So in our souls and for the soul of our nation, we pray this day, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). We say this day, “We choose Life.” In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be moved in prayer and intercession for our nation to Choose Life and reject death, that the Lord may forgive our sin and heal our land, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy Hays | Messiah Ministries
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