Sunday kicked off 21 days of prayer and fasting for Amy and I as well as our IHOPE community and various Houses of Prayer around Iowa. The focus of our prayer and fasting is very simple - the ending of abortion in America. Specifially, we are praying for the passing of some legislature by the Iowa Congress that would ban late term abortions in Iowa. Currently there is no such law in place and there is a man who wants to move his abortion practice from Omaha (where it is now illegal) to Council Bluffs. We are asking God to frustrate these plans and outlaw late term abortion in Iowa.
Over the course of the next few weeks, Amy and I will be posting about the topic of abortion. We realize that this is not God's will for our children, but we confess to being rather ignorant of the issue in general. So, this time will also be a time of educating ourselves and sharing any pertinent information with you. One statistic that I have found absolutely appaling is this - in 2011 there will be (approximately) 1.3 MILLION abortions. In actual figures that looks like this 1,300,000 or 1 abortion every 24 seconds. That is mind blowing to me, but rather than getting on a soap box, I want to offer you an invitation. Will you pray with us? We know that God hears our prayers and that He will move on our behalf and on behalf of the infants who are being aborted, but He still wants us to pray anyway. The more people we get praying, the more effective we will be at keeping late term abortion at bay in our state. Thank you.
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