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Friday, January 15, 2021

#Pray4ppl #Pray4ProtectionofInnocentLife

Life Support Prayer Calendar

Dear Prayer Team Member,

In January, many churches mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade with a worship service focused on the Sanctity of Human Life. In her Call to Prayer this quarter, Executive Director, Deborah Hollifield expressed both the spiritual evil behind abortion and our hope in God's Sovereignty over death in this way:

"It seems that expectant mothers and their children have always been targets of The Enemy. The destiny of Eve’s offspring was pronounced in the Garden (Gen. 3:15). Mary and the preborn Jesus were plagued by scandal and an arduous journey, to be quickly followed by a flight into exile.

And yet…

We know that every step taken from the stable to the cross was part of a journey that looked for all world like a Death March – was, in truth, a journey that would end the March of Death for all the world.

As we pray during these first months of the new year, remember that things are not falling apart, they are falling into place. Take heart, Believer! Christ holds the center!"

Call to Prayer: "Christ holds the center!"

Matthew 2:16-18 (MSG)

Herod, when he realized that the scholars had tricked him, flew into a rage. He commanded the murder of every little boy two years old and under who lived in Bethlehem and its surrounding hills. (He determined that age from information he’d gotten from the scholars.) That’s when Jeremiah’s sermon was fulfilled:

A sound was heard in Ramah,
weeping and much lament.
Rachel weeping for her children,
Rachel refusing all solace,
Her children gone,
dead and buried.