I needed to get more
in touch with God’s heart regarding abortion so I began to spend time in His Presence seeking Him about abortion.
The following is what I sensed,
what I pictured, what I asked, and what a friend gave me.
Sue Rowe
14 Nov
God’s heart is dripping drops of blood, bleeding with anguish regarding abortion.
His hands are cupped, right hand over the left at waist level, catching the drops. His is looking
down watching these drops of blood from His own heart, a heart being squeezed over this issue, each drop being His love.
Oh the anguish. Oh the love. Oh the pain of the Father’s heart for the loss of His creation;
His created beings made in His image, destroying those also made in His image.
As He views this destruction, tears fall, sparkling droplets radiating rainbow
colours representing His covenant with mankind; tears as big as a basketball fall to the earth.
I wonder: could there
be a flood of the magnitude of Noah’s from these tears because of the magnitude of the abortion issue? Where
do these tears land?
Each tear is a womb of the Father’s love and mercy, the heart of God being extended to women in turmoil because
of a pregnancy. As a tear lands on, and covers, a woman, it is as soft and gentle as the flutter of a dove’s
wing. Most brush this flutter away as a minor tickle on their skin, unaware of the Father’s concern,
of His invitation to a partnership, a 3 strand rope, for this unborn. This grace, God’s hand extended
but not grasped, results in another drop of blood.
I wonder: is this judgment? What happens when His cupped hands are full?
Ps 76 comes to mind. Instead of looking it up immediately – doubt about whether I have heard
correctly – I look up the concordance at the end of my Bible. Ps 76:7-12 re judgment confirms!
Ps 76:7-12
“You alone are to be feared. Who can stand before you when you are angry?
From heaven you pronounced judgment, and the land feared and was quiet –
when you, O God, rose up to judge, to save all the afflicted of the land. Selah.
Surely your wrath against men brings you praise and the survivors of your wrath
are restrained. Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfil them;
let all the neighbouring lands bring gifts to the One to be feared.
He breaks the spirit (Amp of pride and fury) of rulers;
He is feared by the kings of the earth.”
My eyes fell on Psalm 75 on the preceding column.
Ps 75:7-8 “But
God is the Judge. He puts down one and lifts up another.
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup (of His wrath), and the wine foams
and is red, well mixed; and He pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth
must drain it and drink its dregs.”
15 Nov
In the fullness of time when the cup is full, His hands will part at the centre and some of the accumulated
blood will fall to the earth. The perpetrators of abortion will be hit by God’s wrath first.
The Father cries out,
“My children, my children.
How I long to gather these ones destined for abortion under my shelter as a mother hen gather her chicks (Matt 23:37),
but they are no more. I grieve. I mourn. Jesus, my Son, forever your
example, grew to full term in the safety of His mother’s womb. My desire is that every little one
has that privilege. But as each one is torn violently from the womb so my heart ears in response.
That tearing results in a shaking on the earth, in the depths of the earth, the womb of the earth as it responds to
the wombs of women being desecrated, to life being severed.
Deep calls unto deep (Ps 42:7) as creation responds to the
tearing of my heart. Creator and creation at all levels are one, inseparably linked, a spiritual link,
a chemical link, and emotional link.
Expect increasing shakings, increasing ripples across my creation unless this abomination ceases. (Heb
12:22-29) I am warning ‘see to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. If they
did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth – at Sinai – how much less will we, if we turn away
from Him who warns us from heaven? At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, Once
more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens. (Hab 2:6) The words, once more, indicate the
removing of what can be shaken – that is created things – so that what cannot be shaken may remain’.
(Heb 12: 25-27)
These aborted ones, so often the firstborn, now have a special place with me. They reside in ‘the
heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God’. They have ‘come to thousands upon thousands
of angels in joyful assembly’. They are ‘the church of the firstborn, whose names are written
in heaven’. They ‘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 then the blood of Abel’.
(v22-24) Such is my concern, such is my love, that I have prepared a place with me for them.”
I stopped for lunch and to watch the
midday news. One main item was an earthquake in Chile that occurred earlier in the day, 7.7 on the Richter
scale.
“The Body of Christ
must tremble in my presence. As my creation and I are inextricably linked so that when I tremble with wrath
so does creation, so my Body must be inextricably linked, joined to The Head, so when I tremble so do they. But
that process has been aborted. A separation has occurred, a severing from the umbilical cord through which
flows the goodness, the revelation, nutrients – the very life needed for the creation of my Kingdom. The
development of the process has been torn apart time after time, like multiple abortions in my Body, to my Body, so that the
seed of revival and transformation I am desiring to bring to full term has never had a chance to mature.
‘Evil has been done in my sight….My
people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways and in the ancient paths.
They made them walk in bypaths and on roads not built up….The pot, the life, I have been shaping as The Potter,
has become marred in my hands, so I will form another pot.’ (Jer 18:10, 15, 4) That
which needs to be ‘uprooted, torn down and destroyed’ will occur, and that which will be ‘built up and planted’
will also occur. (v8-9)
My new vessel will mature to full term and do all I have intended. They will
‘receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken’, and will ‘be thankful and worship me acceptably with reverence
and awe’, knowing that I am ‘a consuming fire’. (Heb 12:28-29)
This pot will be formed by the fire of God
and with the fear of God and will follow the ancient paths.” (Jer 6:16, 18:15)
The sermon at my church on 11 Nov was on God’s mercy and grace, His normal
work. Is 28:21 judgment is not God’s normal work. It’s “His strange
work…alien task.”
18 Nov
Picture. Saw in the Spirit the Lord holding a small, naked, lifeless body on His flat hands, arms
outstretched towards me. A garland of various small white flowers, with the occasional sprig of green and
cream, was around its head, like a halo.
“This one represents the millions aborted especially over the last 30 years; the innocent, heart
throbbing – but who hears this heart in the noise, distractions, busyness of life? Whose ears are
tuned to the cries of anguish that can be heard in the Spirit? Not many are hearing.
But there is coming a day,
a time, a season, when I will unblock the ears of people all over the earth to hear the cry of the unborn. Their
cry, like a whimper, has reached a crescendo that cannot be ignored.
As I heard the cry of my people when they were enslaved in Egypt (Ex 3:7) and
I was concerned for their suffering, and I then acted to bring down Pharaoh and set them free, so I am about to act ‘with
an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment’ (Ex 6:6) regarding the principalities and powers behind abortion.
Even as I spoke to Moses, I am speaking to
you and others like you, whom I am raising up to execute my judgments with your outstretched arm and the rod of authority
I am vesting in you. The way will be opened up. Even as I brought Aaron to help so I
will release your brothers and sisters in Christ to help you. All will be provided through my bountiful
supply because my heart yearns for this day of change, of reversal of the laws of man, and a return to the laws of heaven,
the ancient paths, the highway of holiness.”
The implications of this are too big to grasp, they almost take my breath away. I sense
He’s holding this baby to me. Will I take it? The picture of Him holding the baby
out to me keeps coming before me. He’s looking directly at me waiting for a response.
This is huge.
“Sue,
I am placing this little one in your care. This one represents the abortion issue, all the naked truth
that is going to be exposed.”
I pray in tongues for several minutes and emotion rises in me. I cannot refuse this ‘commission’,
this offer of partnering with my Father, the Father of all mankind who abhors bloodshed and murder.
I agree. Father, I receive.
I sense the transference of the baby into my hands. They tremble slightly.
“Hold this one close to your heart.
What’s close to my heart needs to be close to yours.”
I prayed: Enlarge my heart Lord, my capacity, my understanding, my authority.
May your mercy, love and compassion fill my heart. May your grace, the hand of God to provide, guide,
direct through your active presence with me, may the empowering presence of God enable me – all these be my portion
and cup. Keep me in the womb of Yaweh where all tenderness and kindness lies hidden, where I am safe. (Lam
3:22-24)
The
sermon at Gateway this morning was on mercy and compassion being in our gut, the place of deepest emotion, and that we would
be branded with this as Jesus was.
Soon after this time with the Lord, I walked around the lake with a friend. She had
felt she had to show me a couple of pages from Derek Prince’s book “Power of Proclamation”, especially the
section called “The Rod of Moses”.
“Look at the example of Moses when God called him to go back and be the
deliverer of Israel out of Egypt….Moses had lost all the self-confidence that he’d had at age 40 and said, ‘Why
me Lord? I can’t do anything. How can I do it?’ In His
every-practical way, God said to Moses, “What is that you have in your hand?’ Moses said it
was a rod, just like every shepherd of the time would carry. He didn’t think there was anything particularly
special about his rod. But the Lord said, ‘Throw it on the ground.’ When
he did, it became a snake and Moses ran away from his own rod.
There was a potential in that rod that he had never imagined or anticipated.
Then the Lord said, ‘Pick it up by the tail.’ Everyone who deals
with snakes will tell you that you should never pick up a snake that way. But Moses obeyed God and the
snake became a rod once again. God said to him in effect, ‘Now go with your rod, it is all
you will need. You can do the whole job with that one rod’.
The entire deliverance
of Israel out of Egypt was achieved by that rod. Every time Moses wanted God to intervene, Moses stretched out his rod and
God intervened. The result was that Moses wrested the rulership of Egypt out of the hand of Pharaoh.
That authority was symbolized by the rod in his hand….one shepherd’s rod, the very thing he didn’t
think had any significance when he first held it in his hand.”
“Learning to Tremble at God’s
Word” (15th Nov
word included “the Body of Christ must tremble…”)
“Moses got frightened and threw the rod on the ground….Before
we can be effective in proclaiming we have to learn to be afraid of the Word of God….learn to tremble at the Word of
God. After Moses trembled he took hold of the rod in faith.
Is 66:1-2 ‘Who will God respect?
He who is of a contrite spirit and who trembles at my Word.’
John 12:47-48 The Word of God will judge
us….we should tremble at it.’
Ps 149:6-9 We will execute the written judgment by proclaiming the Word of God where those judgments
are already written in scripture….we announce the decree of God.
Moses stretched out his rod,
he exercised authority. We take the written Word and stretch it out in any situation where the authority
of God needed….We send the Word on our breath.”
Thus God confirmed very quickly His word to me.
Later my friend forwarded an Elijahlist
email, a word by Taffie Furr..
“As God’s Anointed, we are to birth what is of the Spirit….Those who have been
commissioned by God to be His anointed leaders, called to carry His presence, will not be allowed to keep
alive anything that has been birthed out of the flesh. God is calling forth a Bride that is pure…A
Bride that conceives and gives birth to only what is of her Husband’s seed and not of another.”
25 Nov
Asked the Lord whether there
was anything else He wanted to say re abortion and His heart.
Psalm 53 came to mind.
NIV note: “A testimony concerning the folly of evil men.
A psalm to be used in a time of affliction when the godless mock. The basic thought is that God
overwhelms the godless who attack His people. V5 is in the past tense perhaps to express the certainty
of their downfall. They fell victim to fear when, humanly speaking, they were not even threatened.
God’s curse fell on them rather than on Israel. Over the battle field of their defeat, their
bodies were left unburied like something loathsome. God despised them as they had despised Him.
Psalm 14 is a similar psalm.”
God is mocked by those who agree with abortion. Their downfall is certain.
This psalm reassures me that God will act on my behalf against those who disagree with me.
