In 1967 Colorado and California legalized abortion.

      The ruling of the Supreme Court on the Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton court cases made abortion legal in our country but it was largely the work of Margaret Sanger that made it acceptable with the public. Through her work with, what would later be called Planned Parenthood, she convinced young African American woman that she was doing them a favor by giving them a choice to have abortion. What she didn’t tell them that she was very racist and that through abortion she was trying to get rid of their race. Though Sanger has long been dead her work lives on through Planned Parenthood and other organizations like it, most of which are set up in close vicinity of a low income or an African American neighborhood. The African American population accounts for only 13% of the total population yet they account for 32% of the abortions. Each year 458,500 African American babies are aborted, if you add this to the number that die from other causes there are 127,303 more African Americans that die yearly that those who are born.

      Psalms 139: 13-16 For You formed my inward parts; you covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

      But is goes deeper than that. God didn’t just know us or make us and never think about us again. He chose us to be in Him. He also created each of us with a specific purpose that is our own and one else in the world can fulfill that purpose but us.

Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

And in Jeremiah 29:11 God says to Jeremiah 'For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

       God loves the life that He has created in us. And because He loves us He has put laws into place that will protect us and requires justice for the shedding of innocent blood.

Gen 9:5 says And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
      

Eze 35: 5-6 “Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

       Since we know that God loves the life He created in each of us, we know that it is His will for abortion to end. But we also know that unless we do things His way, then what is done, is done in vain. For that reason it is important to know His strategy for the ending of abortion. And where better to look for direction than to His word. Matthew 5 and Romans 12 are two scriptures that give us some insight into what His strategy is.

       Matthew 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause] shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.

      Romans 12:20 Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
      

      These two scriptures teach us that God’s strategy is to come at things in an opposite spirit. One of love and not of hate and judgment. Another scripture that helps is to know what his plan is, is proverbs 31:8-9 It says Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
      

      What all this means for us is that we pray for God’s love for the babies and the mothers and fathers to be reveled. We do not come in a judgmental way toward the mothers and fathers or even the doctors and nurses but instead we use spiritual violence to defeat the spirit that is behind the issue. Paul teaches us in Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

      So when we do this it may not look like it is accomplish much in the natural. It may even look weak or foolish and make no since to us, but in the spiritual realm which is where the real battle is being fought it is doing massive damage to the enemy. The bible says that God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise
      

      Let me now take a few minuets to share with you a little about Bound4LIFE. “Bound4LIFE is a grassroots prayer mobilization movement targeting the ending of abortion, the increase of adoptions and the reformation of the government and society through spiritual awakening.” (Taken for the Bound4LIFE field manual) Our main mandate is to pray and to equip others to pray. We also commit to vote for actively pro-life candidates, and to obey what God leads us to do. One thing that you have probably seen that we do is siege abortion clinics and governmental buildings. This is where we go to the building and stand with red “LIFE” tape over our mouths, praying that God will end abortion in our land. It is not a protest but a prayer meeting. We are there to plead our case to God not to man.
      

       Ezekiel 22:30 says "I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.

      So when we stand outside of a clinic or governmental building we are doing just that, standing in the gap between God and the evil in our land and asking Him to have mercy on the babies, and mothers and fathers doctors, etc. In our silence we are identifying with the baby that has no voice to cry out for its life. As we pray we plead Jesus blood over the sins of our land because His blood is better than the blood of the babies. In Gen it talks about how Abel’s blood cried out from the ground for justice after Cain killed him. But the blood that Jesus shed on the cross speaks of better things. (Hebrews 12:22-24 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel)
      

      We have a commitment band that we wear and commit to pray a 22 word prayer every time we see the band. We do not think that there is some kind of special power that this prayer has but there is power in the unity that comes when we agree together in prayer. The prayer is simple and easy to remember and each band comes with a copy of the prayer. It is “Jesus, I plead you blood over my sins and the sins of my nation. God end abortion and send revival to America.”

      Now, some people may be thinking, how can I pray and repent for the sins of my nation if I was not one who committed the sin in the first place, and will my prayer even count? Yes they count! In fact this is a very scriptural thing to do. It is called Identificational repentance. Daniel‘s prayer in Daniel 9 is a great example of this kind of prayer.
      

      In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans-- in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
      

      And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day--to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You. O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.
      

      Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.
      

       And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
      

      Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.
      

      And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day--we have sinned, we have done wickedly! "O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us. Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord's sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name."

      If we look at the life of Daniel we see that he himself did not participate in the sins that he confessed and in fact he did remain faithful to the Lord and kept His commandments even in captivity. He would not eat the food that he knew was forbidden to him and his people. Also he daily prayed at the times of the appointed sacrifices even when the law was passed that anyone who prayed to god other that the king for 30 days would be thrown into the lion’s den. Yet he did not separate himself from these sins of his nation and instead identified himself with them as he came before to Lord to cry out in repentance for their sins. Because of his prayer God brought the entire nation out of exile. And we here in GA have a even deeper authority in our prayer in this issue because the Doe Vs Bolton case actually started here in GA. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful if abortion was stopped from one of the states it was started in!