What Can We Do?
What an "average person" can do to fight abortion
By Mr. J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Jan 13, 2004 - 8:24:00 PM

I received an e-mail from a pro-life woman who voiced concern that she is not a public speaker or writer who can champion the anti-abortion cause. So she asked: What is it that I can do to help?

This is such a necessary question, for there are many who wonder what they can do to help rescue the unborn children. After all, it’s an overwhelming problem. The enemy is vocal and strong. Our allies are continually fighting the good fight of faith. So what can we all do to assist those babies in the womb?

We can pray. Prayer is the mighty force. It informs the heavenly Father that we depend upon Him for wisdom and strength. Prayer also unlocks our intercessory concern for another — the self-giving prayer rather than the self-serving petition.

We all can pray every day. We can pray throughout the day. We can pray with others. We can remind our believing friends to pray. Prayer moves the world — the unseen world.

Commerce moves the visible world; prayer moves the heart of God that moves the invisible world. It is the invisible world that will ultimately outlast this visible sphere. Therefore, to pray is to move into the eternities’ thrust for earthly good.

I would recommend that if you are deeply concerned about the pro-life movement, yet feel helpless as to what you can do, start with your Bible open and your heart at prayer. Read those passages that equip you to get hold of the divine revelation concerning the unborn. Share these passages with friends. Type them out and e-mail them to others. Mail them as inserts in your mailings. The Word of the Lord is an eye-opener and heart-enlarger, therefore, use that Word as one who believes in prayer power. (See below for Scripture passages relating to the pro-life position).

Then with your Bible open, bow your head and heart in humble petition before the Father’s throne. Tell God that you are crying out for the unborn, that you are sincerely concerned about their welfare, and that all those babies snuffed out in abortion murder are accepted by heaven’s angels. Then thank God that He has the last word in these tragedies.

The abortion trade kills the unborn; but God can receive every one of them into His eternal home. In that is the power. That is where your prayer of intercession locks in. In that is your hope as a pro-life believer.

So, the next time you feel helpless about this pro-life mission, pray. Pray some more. And ask others to join you in prayer. Prayer moves the heart of God. God moves the invisible world from earth to eternity.

Scriptures related to the pro-life position:

"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).

"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).

"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).

"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).

"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, bum for bum, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."

"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).

"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).