A Prayer to Treasure the Sanctity of Life – Your Every day Prayer – January 19

A Prayer to Treasure the Sanctity of Life 
By Lynette Kittle

Bible Studying: “But You, Lord, are our Father. We’re the clay, You’re the potter; we’re all of the work of Your hand” – Isaiah 64:8

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Every January, American Christians rejoice Sanctity of Life Day, put aside to commemorate God’s priceless present of life.

America’ fortieth President, Ronald Reagan, first issued the nationwide proclamation on January 22, 1984, setting apart a day to honor life and bear in mind the tens of millions of lives ended by way of abortion. It’s additionally a day to decide to praying for and defending life at all ages and stage.

As believers in Jesus Christ, we’re known as to day by day select life over demise, as Deuteronomy 30:19 urges, “Today I name the heavens and the earth as witnesses in opposition to you that I’ve set earlier than you life and demise, blessings and curses. Now select life, so that you just and your kids could reside.”

Our selecting begins by way of the phrases we talk about life to ourselves, associates, household, neighborhood, and the world at giant. Proverbs 31:8 urges us to “Converse up for individuals who can’t communicate for themselves, for the rights of all who’re destitute.”

We Are Known as to Be Life Influencers

Whether or not we predict so or not, what we communicate and write about life influences those that hear and skim our phrases. As a result of they do, it’s very important we assist life within the methods we talk. Proverbs 18:21 reminds us that “The tongue has the facility of life and demise, and those that like it will eat its fruit.”

Sadly, these days, some Christians imagine they’ll assist scientific theories over biblical reality, however in essence, they’re rejecting their Creator, God, and the place life actually started for people.

Genesis 1:27 describes “So God created mankind in His personal picture, within the picture of God He created them; female and male He created them.”

Fairly than embracing and cherishing how our superb Creator shaped us in His picture and breathed His breath of life into us, they as a substitute change Him in His place with random, creator-less choices, the place life is devalued, thought of nugatory, and simply disposable.

However as believers in Jesus Christ, we’re known as to imagine what Genesis 2:7 data as happening at the start of the world as we all know it, by our very private hands-on God.

“Then the Lord God shaped a person from the mud of the bottom and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the person turned a dwelling being.”

Sanctity of Life Stays

As we speak, high-profile voices in our present-day tradition are unabashedly talking out, even celebrating abortion. Praises for the advantages of killing unborn infants are boldly proclaimed, renamed, and disguised as girls’s healthcare and copy rights.

Some people are giddy shouting the rewards of disposing of undesirable infants, pushing continuous relentless efforts to affect and persuade society that it’s their human proper, working to justify deathly decisions and acquire public approval and assist.

However God had a life deliberate out for every child murdered, as Psalms 139:16 describes, “Your eyes noticed my unformed physique; all the times ordained for me have been written in Your ebook earlier than one among them got here to be.”

As effectively, societies at the moment are selling assisted suicide, together with euthanizing those that have bodily and psychological disabilities, numerous sicknesses, and the aged.

However Isaiah 46:4, lets us know that God doesn’t have a look at people in the best way the world does, assuring us, “Even to your outdated age and grey hairs I’m He, I’m He who will maintain you. I’ve made you and I’ll carry you; I’ll maintain you and I’ll rescue you.”

Bear in mind We Are Fearfully and Splendidly Made

Though the world tries to devalue our value and alter the picture of who we’re, Psalm 139:14 reassures who God says we’re: “I reward you as a result of I’m fearfully and splendidly made; Your works are great, I do know that full effectively.”

It doesn’t matter what males, girls, and governments could inform us, let there be little doubt in our hearts and minds who created us, the One who shaped us with His personal hand and has known as us priceless in His sight. Psalm 8:4-6 describes our value to God.

“What’s mankind that You’re conscious of them, human beings that You take care of them? You have got made them a bit of decrease than the angels and topped them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of Your arms; You place the whole lot underneath their ft.” Psalm 8:4-6 

Let’s Pray:

Expensive Father,

Our hearts are crammed with overflowing gratitude at the moment to You and for Your present of life to every one among us. Thanks for fearfully and splendidly designing every one among us by Your hand, in Your picture, knitting us collectively within the womb for Your pleasure and Your glory. Lead us at the moment and every single day to cherish and honor the breath of life You breathed into every particular person. Soften the hearts of those that are hardened to the lives round them, deeming the weak, helpless, and frail as nugatory. Change their minds, their considering, and their outlook to see life because the treasured present from You. Restore the great thing about the sanctity of life to our nation and to our world.
In Jesus identify,
Amen

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Lynette Kittle is married with 4 daughters. She enjoys writing about religion, marriage, parenting, relationships, and life. Her writing has been printed by Give attention to the Household, Choice, As we speak’s Christian Girl, kirkcameron.com, Ungrind.org, StartMarriageRight.com, and extra. She has a M.A. in Communication from Regent College and serves as affiliate producer for Soul Test TV.

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