Signing Petition Against Abortion, our money making planned parenthood even richer

In this letter: A report on the March for Life . . . the petition count has crossed 500,000 signatures! . . . an update on FOCA and what to expect next -- "FOCA-by-Stealth." Dear Londa, Surrounded by over 300,000 fellow pro-lifers -- many of you! -- on Thursday, the AUL Action team and our families marched up Constitution Avenue here in Washington DC, from the base of Capitol Hill to the steps of the Supreme Court. There were so many thousands of people thronging the streets that at times we couldn't move. My eight-year-old daughter, Sarah, marched next to me, and I explained to her that we were headed to the Supreme Court so that the judges would know we believe abortion is wrong. "Mommy," she asked, "how many people will it take to overturn Roe v. Wade?" How many people indeed. My thoughts immediately went to you -- the hundreds of thousands of you who have signed the FightFOCA petition -- who have taken a public stand to say: our voices will not be silenced. The day before the March for Life the petition count reachedHALF A MILLION signatures! As I write today, the number has jumped to almost 600,000. That's partly because many people saw FightFOCA signs at the March. But it's also because so many of you responded to our call to spread the word to your churches on Sanctity of Life Sunday -- the flyers were downloaded over 20,000 times! Thank you! The success of this petition is because of YOU. The message has spread through email and through blogs and through Facebook and through word-of-mouth. Your efforts. In fact, we have been so successful that now Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, and others are saying that they aren't going to try to pass the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA). Don't believe it for a second. If your opponent gives up the frontal attack . . . you better start watching your flank. We are now seeing the abortion forces waging an incremental battle -- working to pass what we have termed "FOCA-by-Stealth." They think that if they take FOCA and repackage it and pass it in pieces and under different names . . . that we won't notice. But with apologies to Shakespeare, FOCA by any other name, smells just as bad. And as they pass the Stealth FOCA's, more babies will be killed and more women victimized by the abortion-on-demand regime. Case in point: I'm sure you've heard that the day after the March, President Obama used an executive order to overturn the long-standing ban on funding organizations that promote and perform abortions overseas. The media portrayed him as sensitive to pro-lifers because he waited till after the March -- in fact, he released the order at 5:00 on Friday -- a textbook stealth move to keep the story under the media radar. And now they've added subsidies for the abortion industry into the economic stimulus package. No surprise: Cecile Richards used to be the Deputy Chief of Staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. So it's no wonder we saw Pelosi on the Sunday shows arguing that more tax dollars for Planned Parenthood -- and fewer children -- helps the economy. Incredible. Friends, this is just the beginning. We have a lot of work in front of us. Please keep encouraging your friends to sign the FightFOCA petition. We will be using those signatures on Capitol Hill in the days ahead to argue against FOCA and ANY and EVERY piece of legislation that promotes abortion. The FightFOCA petition says to Planned Parenthood and their Congressional allies: we will not be silenced. The week before the March, my husband, Jack and I had the honor of attending the funeral of the pro-life hero, Father Richard John Neuhaus. We were all reminded that in one of his last speeches, Father Neuhaus encouraged the pro-life movement by saying, "We shall not weary, we shall not rest, until every unborn child is protected in law and welcomed in life." How many people will it take to overturn Roe? It takes you. Thanks for your work and being a part of this movement. Yours for Life, Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.President & CEO AUL Action The Legislative Arm of Americans United for Life FightFOCA.comFightFOCA@FightFOCA.com

Jericho Walls

Garris Elkins: "Shout 'GRACE' to Your Jericho Walls" When the children of Israel entered the Promise Land ten cities stood as obstacles in their way. The first of these cities was Jericho. In Joshua 6:2 God said, "I have given you Jericho." Jericho was a promised victory. Israel was not yet an army – they were simply a group of desert wanderers with a promise. They had no army. Their resources had worn thin from years in the desert. Their only weapon of warfare was their obedience to God. The Shout was the Focal Point The Church stands before 2009 in a similar posture. We are facing a Jericho that is standing in the way. The world systems are unstable. Financial fear is trying to lure the people of God into its fear. There are a lot of walls standing in the way of promise. God is positioning His Church to bring down those walls just as He did in Jericho. We all know the story of Jericho (see Joshua 6). This was a walled city. There was no way in. God instructed Israel to march around the city once for six days. On the seventh day they were to march around the city seven times, shout, and then they would have the victory. The shout was the focal point in the story. 1.5 million voices would rise together. This was a shout of grace. A shout that said, "Our only hope is if God shows up." This shout of grace was wonderfully desperate because Israel had no way into Jericho unless God did for them what was impossible for them to do in their own strength. That is the nature of grace. Grace releases God's favor. Favor brings the victory. When we shout "grace" at our Jericho, God releases a supernatural favor that no wall can withstand. What we miss in reading this story of Jericho is the size and dimension of what took place. The city of Jericho covered only six acres of ground. If you consider the outer fortifications the size of the entire city was only nine acres in total. At the time this event took place, the children of Israel numbered about 1.5 million people. This is the relative size of cities like Dallas, Philadelphia, Phoenix and San Diego. Try to get the image of what took place at Jericho. A city of nine acres was surrounded by 1.5 million people. Tens of thousands of people deep, as far as the eye could see, were a rotating mass revolving around only nine acres. There was no single file line of people. This was a mass of humanity. For six days no one spoke a word. For six days Israel walked around the city only once each day. On the seventh day they walked around the city seven times. This was not a silent event. You don't move this many people quietly. The sound of 1.5 million people marching was powerful and loud. The earth shook. The dust cloud alone from so many feet pounding the earth would have looked like a dust storm of all dust storms. On the seventh day, at the completion of seven circumnavigations of Jericho, 1.5 million voices rose up and shouted at the walls of Jericho and the Word says the walls of the city fell down flat. "So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city." Joshua 6:20 This was no timid shout. This was an aggressive and prolonged shout as Israel closed ranks over nine acres of land. I see people running forward and shouting with arms up and raised. 1.5 million people rushed straight ahead and closed the gap over the rubble that used to define the city of Jericho. This former obstacle vanished off the map. Shout 'Grace' to Your Jericho Walls "What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'" Zechariah 4:7 Where are your walls of Jericho for 2009? Those walls will not fall by human wisdom and reasoning. Another church program will not do it. Only the shout of grace will bring it down. The shout of grace in obedience to God was the weapon of supernatural warfare for Israel. When we shout grace we are making a statement that unless God shows up we won't be able to move ahead. In 2009, God is asking His people to position themselves in unusual prophetic postures to perform unusual acts of obedience. God is asking us to shout "grace" to the walls that stand in the way of His promise. This is not a timid shout. It is loud and without apology. It comes after days of prolonged obedience and marching in the dust. Many individuals and ministries have been on a long dusty march, but now a plan for victory is before us. The plan for this season is the same plan for victory in all of recorded history – the battle plan is always a plan of grace. The cultures we live in are waiting to see God's miraculous provision demonstrated in His people. We are the ones who possess the shout of grace. The sound of grace is waiting to be echoed in every city and every nation upon the earth. Today as you stand before the walls of your Jericho - shout out loud the word, "Grace." With that shout of grace will come the dismantling of the walls of those encampments that stand in the way of the promise. • Gather your mounting bills and shout grace over them. • Stand with your spouse and shout grace into your future. • Shout grace over a wayward child. • Assemble your ministry team and shout long and hard the word of grace to every obstacle that stands in the way of your vision and calling. • Stand on the high places of your city and shout grace over the broken and lost. Once you shout the grace of God, walk straight ahead and see the glory of God. Under your feet will be the remains of fear and impossibility. Garris Elkins Living Waters Church Email: info@livingwatersmedford.org About Garris Elkins: Garris Elkins is the Senior Leader at Living Waters Church, a Foursquare Church in Medford, Oregon. His ministry is to strengthen and encourage the Church through teaching and prophetic ministry.

Should Christians pray for Barack Obama?

Should Christians pray for Barack Obama? Jim Bramlett Jan 20, 2009 Dear friends: QUESTIONS: (1) Should Christians pray for the new American President, Barack Hussein Obama? If so, (2) how should they pray? ANSWERS: Should we pray? Yes, Christians should pray even for those who may curse or mistreat us : “Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you” (Luke 6:28, NIV). Whereas Islam tells people to blow up their enemies, Jesus tells us to love our enemies. This is not to say that Obama is our enemy, but his stance on some vital issues tells us he is an enemy of God’s truths. How to pray. Yesterday, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah published a controversial article titled “Pray Obama Fails.” This is contrary to the popular mantra among some weak-kneed conservative leaders, ministers, and pundits that they want Obama to “succeed.” Hogwash! Farah makes some good points. How can we pray for Obama’s anti-biblical policies to succeed? We would have to sacrifice God’s truths. This is basically Farah’s point. His excellent article is at http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86469. But how are we to pray? I suggest the following: Pray that Barack Obama would receive the revelation that Jesus is not just another “way” but He is the only Way, and that he would receive Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, and bend his knees to Him. Pray that Obama’s abortion agenda would fail! Pray that he would, by the Holy Spirit’s help, see the value of human life and change his position on abortion, and stop giving favor to the abortionist murderers, such as radical feminists and Planned Parenthood. Pray that Obama’s plan to give favor to homosexual militants would fail. Pray that He would, by the Holy Spirit’s help, see the sin of homosexual behavior for what it is -- an abomination to God that should not be encouraged by government. Pray that Obama’s direction toward socialism and Marxism would fail. Pray that Obama would see that capitalism and a free market economy are biblical concepts that have built this great country to be what it is -- the strongest and greatest missionary sending nation in history -- and that he would reverse his tendencies toward socialism and Marxism. Pray that any deception concerning Obama’s citizenship, his loyalties, or his ties, be fully exposed and dealt with. Pray that his ties to the Marxist liberation theology, similar radical movements and racists such as Louis Farrakhan, and Islam be broken. Pray that if Obama refuses to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit on the above subjects, that God would discipline and correct him, and if necessary, stop him. Pray that God would give Obama an understanding of God’s plan for history and that we are at the end of the age. Pray that God would give Obama an understanding of Israel’s role in God’s plan and the need to support Israel against her enemies. Pray that God would bless and protect Barack Hussein Obama, and as long as he is in office give him wisdom to govern in a way that would bring righteousness and favor to the nation. The Holy Spirit instructs: “I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:1-4). Amen. Jim

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tightand bull-strong. * Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. * Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. * A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. * Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled. * Meanness don't jes' happen overnight. * Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads. * Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you. * It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge. * You cannot unsay a cruel word. * Every path has a few puddles. * When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. * The best sermons are lived, not preached. * Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway. * Don't judge folks by their relatives. * Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. * Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time. * Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none. * Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. * If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'. * Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got. * The biggest troublemaker you'll probably everhave to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'. * Always drink upstream from the herd.. * Good judgment comes from experience, and alotta that comes from bad judgment. * Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole loteasier than puttin' it back in. * If you get to thinkin' you're a person of someinfluence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. * Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. author unknown thank you Gerry for sending this

A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jellyjar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even the total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back doorand made her way 6 blocks to the Rexall Drug Store with the big Red Indian Chief sign above the door. She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention, but he was too busy at this moment. Tess twisted her feet to make a scuffing noise. Nothing. She cleared her throat with the most disgusting sound she could muster. No good, finally she took a quarter from her jar and banged it on the glass counter. That did it!'And what do you want?' the pharmacist asked in an annoyed tone of voice. I'm talking to my brother fromChicago whom I haven't seen in ages,' he said without waiting for a reply to his question.'Well, I want to talk to you about my brother,' Tessanswered back in the same annoyed tone. ' He's really, really sick... and I want to but a miracle.' 'I beg your pardon?' said the pharmacist. 'His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him now So how much does a miracle cost?' We don't sell miracles here, little girl. I'm sorry but I can't help you,' the pharmacist said, softening a little. 'Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn't enough, I will get the rest. Just tell me how much it cost.' The pharmacist's brother was a well dressed man. He stooped down and asked the little girl, 'What kind of a miracle does your brother need?' ' I don't know,'Tess replied with her eyes welling up. I just know he's really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation, but my Daddy can't pay for it, so I want to use my money.' 'How much do you have?' asked the man from Chicago 'One dollar and eleven cents,' Tess answered barely audibly."And it's all the money I have, but I can get some more if I need to.' 'Well, what a coincidence,' smiled the man. 'A dollar and eleven cents---the exact price of a miracle for little brothers.' He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said 'Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and meet your parents. Let's see if I have the miracle you need.' That well dressed man was Dr. Carlton Armstrong, a surgeon, specializing in neuro-surgery. The operation was completed free of charge and it wasn't long until Andrewwas home again and doing well. Mom and Dad were happily talking about the chain of events that had led them to this place.'That surgery,' her Mom whispered. 'was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have cost?'Tess smiled. She knew exactly how much a miracle cost..one dollar and eleven cents...plus the faith of a little child. In our lives, we never know how many miracles we will need. A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation of a higher law. I know you'll keep the ball moving! Here it goes. Throw it back to someone who means something to you!A ball is a circle, no beginning, no end. It keeps us together like our Circle of Friends. But the treasure inside for you to see is the treasure of friendship you've granted to me. Today I pass the friendship ball to you. Pass it on to someone who is a friend to you.MY OATH TO YOU... When you are sad.....I will dry your tears. When you are scared.....I will comfort your fears. When you are worried.....I will give you hope. When you are confused.....I will help you cope. And when you are lost...And can't see the light, I shall be your beacon....Shining ever so bright. This is my oath.....I pledge till the end. Why, you may ask?....Because you're my friend. Signed: GOD author unknown to me.

Prayer Request

This is from my friend who is a missionary and runs an orphanage in China. She needs prayers from all of us. She is a member of Wall Street Christian Church. Subject: Need serious help Dearest Friends, We really need you to help spread the word that we need your prayers at this time. Zhang Jun phoned last night and the govt. is really angry because they said this was the third time that we were told that a mother is teaching the children....and that we had to get to the bottom of this and deal with it . Our advesary may be the old man Liu who is known to be a 'game player'. But nevetheless this is God's work, has always been His and now we really need His wisdom and help. Forgive me but even here I must take care what I say. This is a very serious dangerous threat at this time. Everything in the home is simply wonderful but our enemy will never stop trying. Thanks for getting this out to anyone who would pray for us. Lots of love, Jane and all of us with SANCS

God's Wings

God's Wings - A little something to put things in perspective... After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park , forest rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the base of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bird with a stick. When he gently struck it, three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother's wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wings, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise. She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon her babies. Then the blaze had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had remained steadfast...because she had been willing to die, so those under the cover of her wings would live. 'He will cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you will find refuge.' (Psalm 91:4) Being loved this much should make a difference in your life. Remember the One who loves you, and then be different because of it. Send this to people that I wanted God to bless and I picked you. Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have. You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special. To realize the value of a friend...is to lose one. Author unknown

Life In the Blood

LIFE IN THE BLOOD John 6:53-58 (NKJ) 53) Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man & drink His blood, you have no life in you. 54) "Whoever eats My flesh & drinks drinks My blood has eternal life, & I will raise him up at the last day 55) "For My flesh is food indeed, & My blood is drink indeed. 56) "He who eats My flesh & drinks My blood abides in Me, & I in him 57) "As the living Father sent Me, & I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will live because of Me. 58) ."This is the bread which came came down from heaven -- not as your fatehers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever." 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 16) The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the Blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17)For we, being many, are one bread & one body; for we all partake of that one bread. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 12) For as the body is one & has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13) For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body -- whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves of free -- & have all been made to drink into one Spirit. Just as water is two-fold meaning so does the Holy Blood. Now with water you can use it for washing, that cleanses. And if we use it for drinking we become refreshed & revived. Knowing the FULL POWER of the Blood of Jesus; we must be taught by Him what the blessing of drinking His blood is. Just as we know about the difference between washing & drinking. That is necessary & pleasant to use water for cleaning. It is much more necessary & reviving to drink water. Now without the cleaning or cleansing it isn't possible to live like we should. And we all know we would die without drinking. We need water to sustain life. Now if we went with-out drinking the blood of the Son of Man. we wouldn't be able to have eternal life. We couldn't have it at all. Jesus spook of this to the Jews & under Moses Law there were severe penalties. It doesn't sound very good to us either. Jesus had to make them & us to understand the truth behind the salvation by the blood. The blessing in fellowship with the blood of Jesus gives us more than cleansing or sanctification; The BLOOD places us in a new relationship with God. The blood also do something in us; are we not entirely renewed within. Does not John 6 53 say Most assuredly, I say to you unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man & drink His blood, you have no life in you. God was distinguishing between two kinds of life. A natural life of body/soul. That they needed a New Life, a heavenly life. Now the natural life must be feed with water & bread. The New Heavenly Life must be nourish by heavenly food & drink by Jesus Himself. Eternal life is the life of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ came to earth to reveal eternal life in the flesh & communcated it to us in the flesh. This is symbolical of flesh & blood of our Lord Jesus Christ is the food by which etrnal life is nourished & sustained in us; My flesh is meat indeed, & my blood is drink indeed. This brings us into perfect union with God. The Scripture offers the holy mysterious expression, "to drink the blood of Christ. Drinking means a deep, true grasping in our spirits by faith understanding the power of the blood. If you have a transfusion of blood it can either kill you or save your life. In Son of Man it can & does save your life. You need to nourish & sustained it. Get into the Word of God the Bible. It gives you life. Worship Him, Praise Him. Believe in the Blood and what the Blood of our LORD Jesus Christ has for us. In Jesus Christ Name, Rev. Londa Picard

I'm Sorry

I've just gotten my computer up & running. I'm so so sorry. Thank you for being so patience with me. I couldn't get on line to get in to say it would be down. I'm so sorry. I hope it is up and running correctly. My first try since I've gotten it fixed

Sin Forever Conquered Hebrews 10:9 -10 (1611 KJV) 9) Then said He Low, I come to thy will (O God:) He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second 10) By the wich will we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Go back and reread those verses. In nine He taketh away the first Adam & Aniamil blood to replace it by Jesus Christ Our Lord & His sanctification through His Blood. What else does ONCE FOR ALL MEAN? Because the offering of His Body was His Surrender of Himself to do the will of God, And by that will WE become sanctified. Jesus Christ perfect OBEDIENCE in which He gave/surrendered Himself freely, so that God's Holyness would be accomplished in Him. The meritorious cause of our salvation , at the same time, is the power by which sin was forever conquered! By one man & the shedding of His shedding of His blood put the power of sin and of the devil under our feet. It is also that same sanctification of Jesus blood that it may be created in our own hearts !! Hebrews 2:11 (1611 KJV) It is a faithful saying; for if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him. We both receive from the one Father & we share in that sanctification. Jesus is that sanctifier. We must lay hold of these facts to understand & experience what that sanctification by the blood actual mean: That sanctification is the s & purpose of all the whole suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ sufferings. Jesus blood was & is the fruit & means of blessing! His sanctification of Himself has the chracterist of those suffering & laid its power & blessing for us, Jesus was foreordained to be the redemption. His will to glorify His holiness in victory over sin by the sanctification of mankind after HIS OWN IMAGE. We must be consecrated to God!! And the Holy Spirit, the Holy God as Spirit, reveal in us the redemption that is in Jesus. This continues to be the main reason & purpose with Him. As the Holy Spirit, His is the Spirit of holiness!! With this pardon, cleansing from sin all have value & points toward sanctification. God no longer see's our sins but the blood of Jesus. We are marked by the precious blood of Jesus! meaning with Jesus & us we are now undivided consecration to a life wholly for God. Jesus blood is the promise & the power for us to abiding in Him & have sanctification by the blood of Jesus to have sin conquered for us that we can over come by His blood! To draw close to God. Now he who believes & hea the Lambs blood, gives himself up to believing worshop of & intimacy with the Lamb, & was bought with His blood will experience a sanctificaion beyond what we can imagine through that blood. The Lord Jesus will do this for him We will also need to grow in His knowledge to enter into the full blessing that is prepared for us! So start inquiring earnestly what the essential connection is between the blessed effect of the blood & sanctificaion. That our Lord Jesus Christ will work out in us by His blood! Love In Christ Jesus Rev. Londa Picard