Saturday, June 9, 2018

Abortion Workers Unsuccessful In Talking Conflicted Mother into Abortion



This young man in the photo above, Elijah, spoke to a desperate but clearly conflicted young woman as she pulled into the abortion center parking lot. He told her we had help for her. She parked and went to him. Elijah began sharing the hope of the Lord as well as some of our resources. I came alongside the two of them and went in greater depth about all Cities4Life and our partner ministries could do to help her.  Our nurse, Jennifer joined us and offered a free ultrasound.

Immediately, the abortion clinic security woman approached her as well. 
“If you are going with them,” she said, “You can’t park in this lot.”
“I was looking for information,” the woman, who I will call Sheila, said.
“Come with me,” the security woman said, “I will show you where to go. They will help you in there.” (Pointing to the abortion clinic.)

Sheila turned to me, “I will be back,” she said, “I just want some information.”
“If you go in there,” I said, “They will try to talk you into an abortion. That is all they offer. If you want information on your other options, please come with us.”

The security woman continued to assure the woman that she should go in the clinic and they would help her with information she needed. She was quite insistent. Sheila followed the security woman, but mouthed to us, “I don’t think I will do it...I just need information.”

Elijah, Jennifer, and I bowed our heads and prayed. Sheila, with slow, grievous steps, walked into the clinic.

Almost instantly, Sheila stomped back out. She came straight to us. She was livid.
“They are all about money,” she said, “They don’t care about me at all. All they want is my money. They lied to me.”

She got in her car, and parked on the curb so we could talk with her. 
“I called them today because I was overwhelmed. I just wanted to know what would happen to the baby in an abortion.”
Sheila was in her second trimester of pregnancy. What happens to the baby is appalling.
“I can tell you that,” I said. I showed her the info sheet we have on abortion procedures. Her living baby would be ripped apart limb by limb. 
Tears gathered in her eyes.
“They told me that if I came down, they would give me a pamphlet of what happens to the baby.”
“No they won’t,” I said. “They don’t want anyone to know what happens to the baby because they don’t want anyone to turn from abortion.”
“Well I went in and asked for that pamphlet. They told me they didn’t have one, and they just kept asking for my money! They lied to me! I knew I shouldn’t be here, and I am so ashamed I came!”

Let that sink in, folks. The people who schedule appointments lied to her to get her into the abortion clinic. When she arrived, the security people herded her from us with all our resources that could help. Then despite her obvious conflicted heart, the worker in the clinic pressed her to just go ahead and pay and get the abortion. Despite all that effort to insure an ambivalent mother abort and an innocent baby die, Sheila left the clinic furious over what they were doing when she had been so open about her conflicted heart.

“Do you believe in God?” I asked.
“Yes, I even told them that when I first called. I wanted to know what God might think...but they didn’t want to talk about God at all.” At this point she began to cry in earnest. “How will He forgive me for coming here?”
“Honey, everyone faces temptation. Even Jesus was tempted. But did you succumb to that tempatation?”
“No.”
“No, you didn’t. You did just what the Bible told you to do when tempted: flee from evil and Satan will flee from you. The angels are rejoicing...so is God...and so are we.”
“I should never have come.”
“No, but now you have met us and we are here to offer you a whole host of resources to help you!”

Elijah came to the car and told her he had a special scripture to offer. He read from Matthew 6: 25-33 about how God cares for the birds of the air and the flowers of the field...how much more would He care for and help her? Then Jennifer came with a “blessing bag” filled with gifts.



By now, Sheila was smiling with relief and saying she had no reason to be there except selfishness. 
“I knew it was wrong. My pastor told me it was selfishness. I love God...and look what I almost did.”

Jennifer encouraged Sheila to know she had showed strength and courage in trusting God and leaving that place. She assured her that now she would be surrounded with people praying for her and eager to help her. 
“I am so thankful you were here,” she told us, “It makes me realize there are still people in the world who care.”

Later that day, I got the following text:



She also told us that she was less interested in our help than in how she could help US
“What they are doing just isn’t right,” she said.

No, it is not.

But what Cities4Life is doing feels so wonderful and so right.  

That morning, three women chose life. And a church we had contacted is willing to provide FREE childcare with another mom we are working with who was utterly hopeless, with the cost of childcare being her primary concern. Two days ago, she felt suicidal. Now, she told me, “God is so good.”

He is. All the time.




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Matthew 6:25-34 NIV
[25] “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? [26] Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? [27] Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life ? [28] “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. [29] Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. [30] If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you---you of little faith? [31] So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' [32] For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. [33] But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. [34] Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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1 comment:

  1. Praising God for Blessing us with all of your Lights ❤������. Hallelujah ❤. God is good all the time and all the time God is good ��

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