Day 19 Prayer Focus for Back to Life Walkers 4.04.12

From Back to Life –

Prayer Guide for Day 19 – Wednesday, April 4

ADOPTION: AN ANSWER TO ABORTION

“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.“you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” – James 1:27; Rom 8:15b

• Worship the Lord, the father to the fatherless, who adopted us as His own children • Repent for our lack of response to God’s call to care for orphans • Pray for a release of the Spirit of Adoption, awakening the Church to her responsibility

to pure and undefiled religion: the care of widows and orphans. • Pray for a tidal wave of new adoptions so sweeping that abortion is no longer in

demand in America.

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WORSHIP

• Worship and thank the Lord, for through His Son Jesus, we were given the Spirit of Adoption, making us His own children so that we can call Him Daddy and enjoy every blessing of His house. (Deu 14:2; Rom 8:14-17; Eph 1:3-8; Gal 4:4-7; John 16:14-15)

• Worship the Lord, the father to the fatherless, who calls us to share in the joy of adoption with Him, and beautifully knits together adoptive families (2 Cor 6:18; Psa 10:14; 68:5-6; 82:3-4; Pro23:10-11; Isa 1:17; Mal 4:5-6; Hos 14:3; James 1:27)

REPENT personally and on behalf of our nation for…

• Our lack of compassion for unwanted children, leaving thousands upon thousands in the foster care system, just waiting to be adopted. (1 Jn 3:16-17; Mat 18:10, 12-14, 14-16; Exo 34:6; Mat 9:35-38)

• Repent personally and corporately for our lack of response to God’s call to care for for the orphans and widows (includes single moms in crisis pregnancy) (Deu 27:19; Job 31:14-17; Isa 1:23; Zech 7:8-10; Rom 2:13;Jer 22:3; James 1:27; Isa 1:17)

• Repent for preferring our own comforts to giving of ourselves for the benefit of others (1 Jn 3:16-17; Phi 2:3-7,19- 21; Rom 12:10; Mat 25:45; Job 31:14-17; Jam 1:27; Phi 2:3; 2 Tim 3:2)

INTERCESSION

• Pray for a release of the Spirit of Adoption resulting in a wave of new adoptions for the multitude of orphaned children in America and for those that are yet to be born. (Gal 4:6-7; Rom 8:15-17; Mal 4:6)

• Call forth the Church in America to take responsibility for every unwanted child, resulting in the mobilization of a massive adoption movement so sweeping that abortion is no longer in demand. (Gen 18:19; Deu 11:19; Eze 36:36)

• Pray that love and compassion would transcend all else and compel us to embrace these unwanted children, care for them, protect them, and help bring them to a personal knowledge of Abbaʼs beautiful heart. (James 1:27; Pro 22:6; James 1:5; Gal 4:6; Rom 8:15-17; Gen 18:19; Isa 54:13)

• Ask God to break through into the adoption processes of this nation and make them easy for good Christian families to adopt. (Est 7:3; Isa 43:19; Mark 1:3; Luk 3:4-6)

• Pray that adoption agencies would be successful in finding loving Christian families for babies that are placed in their care. (1 Sa 1:27; Isa 54:1; Jer 31:17; Gen 22:17;24:60; Psa 115:14)

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we pray. Amen.