I saw a shirt somewhere that had printed on it something to the effect that we were once embryos.  Yes, you and I were once one of those small, developing babies called embryos – the stage of human development in which all of the basic tissues and organs are being CREATED, until 8 weeks of gestation.  If we were aware and could remember our own development, what would it be like I wonder.  But that wasn’t the plan for us human beings – God develops us all on his own, without our awareness!

Jesus also was an embryo, developed by his Father.  That is so amazing.  Do we think on this enough?  Do think of it.  He left the glories of Heaven to come into the womb of a virgin, giving up all his heavenly power and glory and going through the same process you and I went through to become a living, breathing human being.  His conception was, of course, uniquely, totally and miraculously different.  But once begun, we must assume that He was brought into the world in the same way we were, after developing according to plan in his mother Mary’s womb. 

This is not news.  We’ve known about this on our planet ever since God began communicating with individual people such as Adam and Eve, for starters.  Christ’s coming as (first as an embryo) is spoken of all through the Old Testament, leading up to the New when he made his human appearance.  But perhaps in thinking upon how our Lord and Saviour was developed in the same manner as we were, we can draw a little closer to Him because we share this parallel history.  We share the miracle of God’s plan for birth with Him.  How grateful we should be. 

Lord, help us to ponder, although we really can’t totally understand, this reality of your coming into our world, and help us to tell others, especially those most vulnerable, about it all.  About You!

Topics:  Pray that the wonder of birth will be pondered and that this will bring new appreciation for created life and for God.
State representatives in states and in Washington, D.C. 

Out of everything God created, think of the significance of His choosing a baby to become the way to salvation.  And a baby born to poor parents at that.  Of course, we don’t know exactly how much Joseph earned for his family, but they certainly did not know anyone in “high places” in Bethlehem, thus bringing God’s son into the world in a stable. 

But, a baby.  A baby.  How incredulously beautiful it is:  a baby.  When we think of newborns, we see them as totally helpless unless taken care of—unable to walk, feed themselves, clothe themselves or communicate in any way but the most effective one:  crying!  I guess we’ll have to modify that helpless-categorization:  We see that they are not entirely helpless in that regard – loud screeching crying can produce immediate results from adults nearby! 

Instead of a swashbuckling knight, the wisest of philosophers, the most accomplished musician, God sent a baby.  What more of a model do we need to pursue the pro-life cause?  None.  Baby Jesus is the model of the universe; life through a baby.  (That’s the way life is perpetuated on our planet.  Through babies.)

Lord God, help us never relent in our efforts to save babies.  Our Saviour was once one.

Topics:  Pray for the thoughts of a child to pierce hearts hardened toward LIFE.  Pray for those thoughts to convict against abortion.

All state governors, that their thoughts will be toward LIFE, regardless of party or the work they promote

Pray as you are led directly from God or from postings on prolifeunity.com and the Prayer Pivot for Life.  Choose as led, any or all topics, events, groups, organizations, states, Pro-Life Action Calls, Prayer Action Calls, Peter and Patrizia Shinn and more.  With information about what is going on “out there,” we can pray more knowledgeably and with focus.  God hears from Heaven.  He moves valiantly in Heaven and on Earth. 

God loves the world, Planet Earth.  But how does knowing this, affect us human beings?  If God loves our planet (and, indeed, the universe and forever), does this lofty love of God have anything at all to do with our managing our lives, either in general or microscopically?

It has everything to do with all of us.  We are to look at the world and love the world as God does.  We are to have his view of the world!  As Christians, we believe in a moral Almighty Creator who actively involves himself in the workings of everything.  He tells us that not even a tiny bird’s demise escapes Him and that He totally takes care of what we call the natural world. 

As for human beings, He loved the world enough to send His Son to die for all of us.  We cannot really estimate that love-extent, but we can pattern after that love by loving everything God creates, whether in the natural world, or in the peopled world.  By loving, we care about, and care for.  We look out for—stand up for, whether it’s the redwoods in California or gorillas losing habitat.  We love and stand up for persons, from conception to natural death. 

Lord, let this view of our world and our lives bring honor and glory to our You, God, who does love the world!  Thank you, Lord. 

Topics: That more and more people will join the ranks of those of us who have God’s view of the world, that of love – especially toward our most vulnerable citizens.
Abortion providers in all states

Today we might say, “What can I give God because he’s given me so much?” Yes, what can we render unto God?  The psalmist answers, “ . .  take up the ‘cup of salvation’— which might mean different things to different people.  Perhaps it could mean being willing to do what God has for us to do.  This could make sense because the next phrase from the psalmist deals with calling upon the name of the LORD.  If we’re going to do what he has for us to do, it’s going to take some serious calls upward and inward.  Our eyes often glance up to the sky (with heaven in mind) when we think of God or want to address him.  Our eyes also should look inward, toward our hearts as we search Him deeply out.

Lord, this day we ask that we who seek LIFE on this globe will be willing to render back to you something meaningful for all your mercy toward us.  Help us to take up the cup of salvation in service.  Help us to look upward and inward as we seek your assistance as we look outward for ways to serve.  Lord, help us to then see the callings you have for us as we give back to you, as we desire.

Topics:  Pray for a heart-of-giving toward our benefactor God and the works he has for us among the peoples of Earth.
State boards of education

We must be “brought low” by the Lord, before Him.  From my personal experience, a best time for learning the things of God are when we can only look up because He has convicted us so thoroughly from our places on our backs on the floor.  When we are spread out before Him face down on our beds – it’s there we are available to our gracious and righteous Lord.

When considering the ramifications of abortion or euthanasia, we must be prone in prayer, at least in our minds, to let God convict us the most of what we are to do in the fight.  Being brought low can mean being, finally, open to Him because we have nothing left before Him in status, accomplishments, or prideful worth.  We’re low; and we’re His alone.

Lord, help us to be brought before you as the lowest of the lowest in order to be the most available of the available.  Help us to desire You, only You, and therefore to seek You alone and your guidance.  Help us to save many from this humbling position.

Topics:  Pray for emptiness before our Lord, that we may be open to Him and know His will for our personal battles for LIFE.
Unborn Cry for Justice

OK, here.  Besides dance, we have trumpet, psaltery (like a zither or an autoharp), harp, timbrel (tambourine), stringed instruments, organs, and cymbals – loud and high-sounding ones! 

There’s a lot of percussion here in cymbals and tambourine – and even stringed instruments can be considered as percussion—wherein strings vibrate as in a piano where little hammers hit them.  Perhaps plucked violin strings may be considered percussion also.

So we’re instructed to bang around a bit in making music-praise to our God in his sanctuary and in his heavens (firmament).  Inside and out.  Strikingly loud – or striking as in instruments, and loud.  Just think of if every person in the world did this at the same time in praise for the life of a newborn baby.  Perhaps the air-global would reverberate with plucked, pounding joy!  Maybe someone shaking a tambourine in Spain would move air around the globe in Maine.  Maybe a kid in Swaziland banging a drum would move air in Maryland!  Maybe . . . well, this could go on and on.

The point is, we are to be exuberant in our love of God – in noisy intentional praise.  There is nothing more praise-worthy, other than God Himself, of course, than the birth of a child made in God’s image.  Lord, we claim your victories in the birth of babies intended to be destroyed before birth.  We want to make the air move everywhere out of joy to you!

Topics:  Pray for every abortionist to see the beauty of birth and to want to praise God greatly for it. 
Stand True

Praise, praise and praise some more.  Praise, praise and more praise!  Is there any doubt?!:  We are to do this.  Praise Him!  There is no doubt about it from this Psalm, We are to praise the One who is praiseworthy.  He is the Only One.

How can we do this when things seem to go all wrong, all downhill and we’re not skiing!?  We look beyond.  We look up.  We look for Him.  Because He is praiseworthy, then just by looking beyond circumstance, by looking up, we look for Him.  No, we don’t see His physical form, although Christ came in the physical, today we must have faith though unseeing.  Perhaps we just develop a heavenly mindset.  Though temporarily rooted to Earth, we can think “heavenly.” That’s because the only Praiseworthy One is there; and yet he’s here with us.  What a plan!  Praise praises! 

Topics:  Pray for millions of praises to be said today, to our worthy God who cherishes and protects LIFE. 
Society for the Protection of Unborn Citizens in London

Pray as you are led directly from God or from postings on prolifeunity.com and the Prayer Pivot for Life.  Choose as led, any or all topics, events, groups, organizations, states, Pro-Life Action Calls, Prayer Action Calls, Peter and Patrizia Shinn and more.  With information about what is going on “out there,” we can pray more knowledgeably and with focus.  God hears from Heaven.  He moves valiantly in Heaven and on Earth.