Here's another "out of order" post worth writing about:
This morning as I was going through "back paperwork" in my journal, in search of material for something in particular, I happened upon "this log entry" for January 23, 2009. Interesting! I hadn't recognized the significance of the prophetic word that I was awakened with early that morning and it's connection to the headlines in the NEWS that very day. Take a look:
Friday, January 23, 2009:
Awakened hearing two words:
Emaciate: To make lean through loss of flesh
Emancipate: To set free, as from parental control, from slavery, or from a ruling habit.
The January 23, 2009 News: Obama to Reverse Abortion "Gag Rule" - By Sidoti and Matthew Lee - Associated Press Writers - CBNNews.com - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortions, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
The move, long expected in the Democratic president's first week in office, will be welcomed by liberals and criticized by abortion rights foes.
The policy bans U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of U.S. Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. It is also known as the "global gag rule," because it prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that even talk about abortion if there is an unplanned pregnancy.
Reinstated And Reversed Since 1984
Also known as the "Mexico City policy," it has been reinstated and then reversed by Republican and Democratic presidents since GOP President Ronald Reagan established it in 1984. President Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but President George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.
The Democratic official and senior U.S. official who disclosed the plans did so on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt Obama's announcement.
Obama was expected to sign the executive order at a low-key event, one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press All Rights Reserved
I wonder what it would have been like for all of those little lives taken (loss of flesh, so to speak, or emaciated) to have known the air of emancipation! Wouldn't you think that one having experienced the bonds of "slavery" and standing as a representative for the "liberties" of the entire human race, would have some sense of camaraderie over the plight of these innocent, defenseless, voiceless, helpless, silenced, dead, beings?
Emancipation? Respecter of persons?
I love the thoughts of God which He watches over and performs:
(Is anybody really watching?)
Matthew 18:14 - Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Acts 10:34 - Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons ...
John 10:10,11 - The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Jeremiah 2: 34 - Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head; for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Matthew 18:10 - Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
One man having authority can determine the outcome of generations to come! My prayers for President Obama and his family, for our nation, for the world at large: God, help us to consider what we "put our hands to"! May it be a choice unto LIFE and LIBERTY for ALL! A PROUD LEGACY! A legacy of EMANCIPATION!
Romans 5:6-21 - For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love towards us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us ... For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life ... Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned ...For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ ... Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound; that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
The jest being: "Look what one man did in each case! Look at the long-term effect. And take note of the LOVE motivation factor."
Proverbs 29:2 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Romans 8:19-25 - For the earnest expectation of the creature, waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God ... For we know that the whole creation, groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now ... because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God ... and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body ... For we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (Again, looking for "liberty" for ALL!)
Matthew 25:40 - And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Genesis 4:8-13 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. and the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not; Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand ... And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Amazing how things take so long to change! How much more change will we see? Will those changes be unto good or otherwise?
It's so hard for me to fathom that it was thirty years ago that the Lord gave me a prophetic song about "abortion". Harder yet for me to imagine is that thirty years later, here we are, still engaged in the same battle - little change!
I, as a Christian, did not know the heart of God over this matter of abortion. One day while in a large gathering, the Lord quietly spoke to me, and called me to silently slip away into an upper room in our home - alone. The moment I stepped into the room, His overwhelming presence met me. I fell to my knees. He spoke to me, "Get up. Go and get a pen and paper and come back to this same place." I did. Once upon my knees, the second time, I immediately saw a little embryo in my mind's eye. Then the words flowed. Following that song, I knew His opinion on the "abortion issue" and I wept. I never questioned again, where I should take my stand.
God loves us all. He is the giver of all of life. For each of us, having been given life, doesn't it only make sense that we should desire to give life to others?
Life is a GIFT - to BE PROTECTED, VALUED and GENERATED!
For those who have taken life, by whatever means, there is forgiveness! Once again, by the One whose desire is always LIFE! And that for EVERY ONE!
Izzy
There is forgiveness, only because there is sin!
