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THE RIGHT TO LIFE–AND TO TAKE LIFE

STATE MEASURE 1 –  CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM Vote YES___ or NO _X_  Amends California Constitution to expressly include an individual’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which includes the fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.

If Gov. Newsom and California legislators have their way and Prop. 1, the Constitutional Right to Reproductive Freedom, passes next month women (and men, if our country continues to go insane) who have abortions in California will find themselves in an unparalleled, even Machiavellian, conflict of interest.

They will continue to possess their own Constitutional right to life but they will also be handed a separate and equally powerful right–to deny the right to life to others. The right to life AND the right to take it away. They will have absolute sovereignty, the power of capital punishment, over the next generation for the offense of being conceived, of interfering with their convenience.

Never mind that American men and women already have “reproductive freedom.” They are free to engage in sex. But that right ends after participation in consensual sex, because the natural consequence of unprotected sex is often the formation of a new life. Once the visible “spark of life” shows conception has taken place, there is a unique new being to consider, a very separate individual from the mother, with his or her own DNA in every single cell as it divides according to design. From then on there are TWO bodies, one a divine and gracious gift granted to the woman whose own body is designed to receive and give it sanctuary.

The lucky women of today, whose mothers let them live, will be allowed to snuff the unborn women of tomorrow, depriving them of all their Constitutional rights and the rights of their future generations by overriding their fundamental right to life.

Like the slave-owners of yesterday, today’s women have choice over those whose very lives are helplessly dependent on them, the captives in their wombs. Like the slaves of yesterday, the unborn have no voice. And like the slaves, all of those captives are alive and all of them are human.

Many of these unborn, in fact the majority of them, are female. They are the women of tomorrow. But, ironically, because this proposition appears in an election before they have a chance to vote on it, their ballot is being cast for them.

Today’s women will vote for both of them.

What choice do you think those women of tomorrow would make if they had a vote?

Jessica Renshaw lives in California. Author, GIANNA: Aborted and Lived to Tell About It (Focus on the Family, 1995) and COMPELLING INTERESTS: A novel about abortion from the hearts of people on both sides (Amazon, 2016)

PRAY FOR AN ELECTION DAY MIRACLE

Heavenly Father, we come to You today in Your Son’s Name and ask You for an election day miracle!

Lord, You know that there are many factors that could determine the outcome of the elections this year. You know what those factors are far better than we ever could.

However, Father, we claim Your promise today that says, “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

We humble ourselves before You today, Lord, and we turn from our wicked ways. We have asked You to forgive the sins of our nation, and of all the people in it. We have been praying and seeking Your face. Therefore, Father, we ask You to work an election day miracle this year and heal our land.

Father God, let good and righteous leaders be elected and seated in office in every jurisdiction in America this year.

Let every wicked and evil politician be removed from office in these elections. Let every legal vote be counted properly, honestly, and with correct protocols. Let every true, registered, legal voter be permitted to vote. Let no illegal or false votes be entered into the count at all.

Also, Father, we pray that You would protect these elections from fraud of any kind. Let every plan for fraud be prevented and laid waste before it is ever implemented. Let righteousness be exalted in these elections, Lord, and work a miracle on behalf of Your people.

Father, we desire revival in America in every sphere—including the areas of politics and the government of the land.

And Lord, we remind You of Your Word that says You have laid up those things for us which eye has not seen, nor ear heard—things which would not have entered into the heart of man, except that You have revealed them to us by Your Spirit. Since You promised these things, Father, we ask for a miracle of the election of righteous leaders—a miracle of shocking proportions. Let the world wonder at the things You do this year on behalf of Your people who pray.

You have placed these prayers, dreams, and visions in our hearts, Father; You are revealing Your desire to us by Your Spirit. Therefore, Father, we partner with You in our prayers and by our faith in You. And we ask that Your Kingdom would come and Your will would be done on earth, and in this year’s elections, as it is in Heaven.

Father, Your Son Jesus told us “that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.”

We draw on His promise to us right now, Father. We are praying in agreement for righteous leaders to be elected and seated in LITERALLY every office in the land THIS YEAR. We are agreeing in prayer for every ungodly leader to be dethroned and removed from office. And we ask that You would do this, Father, for Jesus said You would.

Thank You, Abba Father. We love You and we bless You. We give You all the praise in advance for healing our land, for we believe it is done for us now, in the moment we ask. Thank You. In the name of Your holy and precious Son Jesus we pray, amen and amen.

Huh? “Love your neighbor”–by killing your baby?

In time for next month’s general election, California Governor Gavin Newsom is welcoming pregnant women from other states to come kill their babies here. That’s an act of love? Love for whom? the desperate moms who want other options you won’t give them, Gov. Newsom? For those babies’ grieving fathers and grand-parents who are helpless to intervene? Or the babies you’re slaughtering as blood sacrifices on the altar of Molech?

Response from Pastor John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church, a non-denominational church in Sun Valley, California since February 9, 1969 and author known for his internationally syndicated Christian teaching radio and television program Grace to You:

September 29, 2022

Governor Gavin Newsom 
1021 O Street, Suite 9000 
Sacramento, CA 95814

Sir,

Almighty God says in His Word, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (Proverbs 14:34). Scripture also teaches that it is the chief duty of any civic leader to reward those who do well and to punish evildoers (Romans 13:1–7). You have not only failed in that responsibility; you routinely turn it on its head, rewarding evildoers and punishing the righteous.

The Word of God pronounces judgment on those who call evil good and good evil (Isaiah 5:20), and yet many of your policies reflect this unholy, upside-down view of honor and morality. The diabolical effects of your worldview are evident in the statistics of California’s epidemics of crime, homelessness, sexual perversions (like homosexuality and transgenderism), and other malignant expressions of human misery that stem directly from corrupt public policy. I don’t need to itemize or elaborate on the many immoral decisions you have perpetrated against God and the people of our state, which have only exacerbated these problems. Nevertheless, my goal in writing is not to contend with your politics, but rather to plead with you to hear and heed what the Word of God says to men in your position.

“Let all kings bow down before Him, all nations serve Him” (Psalm 72:11).

“He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God, is as the light of the morning when the sun rises” (2 Samuel 23:3–4).

“It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, for a throne is established on righteousness” (Proverbs 16:12).

What God said to Cyrus is a truth you should take to heart: “I am the LORD, and there is no other; besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other” (Isaiah 45:5–6).

In mid-September, you revealed to the entire nation how thoroughly rebellious against God you are when you sponsored billboards across America promoting the slaughter of children, whom He creates in the womb (Psalm 139:13–16; Isaiah 45:9–12). You further compounded the wickedness of that murderous campaign with a reprehensible act of gross blasphemy, quoting the very words of Jesus from Mark 12:31 as if you could somehow twist His meaning and arrogate His name in favor of butchering unborn infants. You used the name and the words of Christ to promote the credo of Molech (Leviticus 20:1–5). It would be hard to imagine a greater sacrilege.

Furthermore, you chose words from the lips of Jesus without admitting that in the same moment He gave the greatest commandment: “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30). You cannot love God as He commands while aiding in the murder of His image-bearers.

Psalm 50:16–19 speaks to people who pervert the Word of God for their own sinful ends:

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recount My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?
For you hate discipline,
And you cast My words behind you.
When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
And you associate with adulterers.
You let your mouth loose in evil
And you harness your tongue for deceit.”

My concern, Governor Newsom, is that your own soul lies in grave, eternal peril. “Each one of us will give an account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12). One day, not very long from now, you will face that reality. Nothing is more certain. “It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). You will stand in the presence of the Holy God who created you, who is your Judge, and He will demand that you give an account for how you have flouted His authority in your governing, and how you have twisted His own Holy Word to rationalize it. As you look over the precipice of eternity, what will your answer be? When you look ahead of you and see that nothing awaits you but eternal misery—the just punishment for your sins—what will all the clever rationalizations and political talking points avail for you then? And by then it will be too late for any remedy or redemption. “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31).

My plea to you, Sir, is that you would not let it come to that—that you would not go to that day of judgment apart from receiving forgiveness and righteousness through faith in Christ alone. In Psalm 50, after rebuking the wicked for uttering God’s words in a profane way, Scripture makes this promise: “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver. He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies Me; and he who orders his way, I shall show the salvation of God” (Psalm 50:22–23).

So there is salvation for those who repent. Christ purchased full redemption for all who will turn from wickedness, forsake their evil thoughts and actions, and trust fully in Him as Lord and Savior.

Our church, and countless Christians nationwide, are praying for your full repentance. Please respond to the gospel, forsake the path of wickedness you have pursued all your life, turn to Christ, ask for forgiveness, and use your office to advance the cause of righteousness (as is your duty) instead of undermining it (as has been your pattern).

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. (Isaiah 55:6–7)

Governor Newsom, “now is the acceptable time, behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

For the Master,

John MacArthur Pastor-Teacher

DOUBLE FEATURE FROM JOHN 10:10 PROJECT

SHARPSHOOTER

Over the past 25 years, several of our films and videos have explored the wonder and significance of the biological engineering that’s so apparent in every living organism. The molecular machines that facilitate skills and abilities like avian flight, butterfly metamorphosis, and firefly illumination also present compelling evidence for the existence of a supernatural Designer.
     Last week we premiered SHARPSHOOTER, a new John 10:10 Project video that showcases the mind-boggling array of systems and devices that enable a small fish to stalk and capture its prey. If you missed it, here’s another chance to watch and be amazed. And be sure to share it with your kids and grandkids. They’ll love it.

The second half of this week’s double feature explores the talents of another superbly gifted organism that few people know anything about. ABSOLUTELY AWN-SOME showcases the stork’s bill, a remarkable plant that actually drills its own seeds into the soil. Again, the machinery involved is incredible.

ABSOLUTELY AWN-SOME

We thoroughly enjoy producing and sharing these videos with you. I never tire of taking magnified looks at the extraordinary engineering and details that call out to the world, “Yes…there is a God.”

Lad Allen Producer/Director Illustra Media & The John 10:10 Project Lad@illustramedia.com

Dems ‘Shadow Campaign’ to Control the 2020 Election

“In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes…an informal alliance of left-wing activists and business titans…in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy…”

In a remarkable 23-page article which ran in Time magazine on Feb. 4, 2021, the Left admits their deliberate and successful conspiracy to steal the 2020 election.

Of course they don’t call it “stealing” the election. They call it “saving” the election. Their title was “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.”

They not only admit it was a conspiracy, they describe it in detail–and brag about it.

“The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election—an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted… Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors…”

How did this “extraordinary effort” to keep the election “free and fair, credible and uncorrupted,” play out? What were the means they used to justify these noble ends?

• In violation of state election laws, they sent out ballots (from obsolete names on voter rolls) to unknown multitudes of people who had not requested them, including residents of nursing homes incapable of understanding them, as well as to the addresses of former residents who had moved out of state or were deceased.
• They encouraged illegal ballot harvesting, paying volunteers to collect filled-in ballots from non-profit organizations and drop them in unmonitored, privately funded drop boxes throughout certain cities at times when they would not be noticed.
• They refused to require identification for voters.

Back to the Time article: “Their work touched every aspect of the elections. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.“

• In Detroit, they recruited disproportionate numbers of Democrats as poll workers, training them to harass and intimidate Republican poll watchers and challengers. Democrats would not let Republican poll watchers and challengers get close enough to watch the processes they were appointed to watch. According to eyewitnesses who recorded videos of this, they even had police and “men in hoodies” escort them from the room, to the cheers and applause of Democrats. Once out, Democrats physically blocked the doors so Republicans could not get back in to do their job.
• They insisted on counting every vote, however suspicious, rather than every legal vote.
• They dialed down the “signature-matching” feature on tabulation machines to “low,” so they could not only not match signatures, they could not distinguish a signature from a scribble.
• Poll workers assigned to copy information to fill in ballots for military personnel overseas or to re-do ballots illegible in some way. filled them all out for Biden.
• Multiple ballots, all in the same handwriting, listed the same address—sometimes a vacant lot or a cemetery. Many had birth dates of 1900.
• Cardboard boxes full of ballots–pre-marked for Biden–which had been photocopied on local copiers were brought to the back door of counting centers after dark and run through counting machines. In NV, ballots were brought across the border from other states. A taxi driver delivered boxes of ballots to a polling center, saying they had been given to him in New York to deliver to Wisconsin.
• At Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, a time stamp showed 46,442 ballots were counted between 11:15 pm Nov. 3 and 12:03 AM—after poll workers had officially been sent home. Surveillance cameras show that during this time four recognizable poll workers brought suitcases out from under the tables and ran thousands and thousands of ballots through tabulation machines, all pre-voted–with only 21% for Trump, who had led by a huge margin before the counting “stopped.”
• Multiple “mail-in” ballots were delivered which had never been sent through the mail, had never been creased or folded.
• Stacks of ballots were run through counting machines multiple times.
• Suspiciously high voter turn-out (86-91%) was discovered in MN and WI. In 7-8 Wisconsin counties more votes were recorded than there were registered voters. One drop of over 100,000 ballots consisted of 100% for Biden and 0% for Trump, statistically impossible.
• In 24 states, including all 6 contested swing states, they used Dominion voting system software, originally designed to rig Argentinian elections, and so easy to hack an 11-year old girl did it in 10 minutes. In at least one state Dominion programmers fixed the machines to record votes not in integers but fractions—so that a single vote could be counted as .3 or 1.3 of a vote.
• Dominion computers were plugged into the internet via ethernet cables during tabulation, which, among other abuses, allowed ITs in Frankfurt, Germany and Barcelona, Spain to tamper with the American presidential election, even flipping tallies of votes.
• In the swing states, time stamps show impossible numbers of ballots run through tabulation machines at one time. These ballots were pre-marked for “Biden” (only Biden) with uniform precision as by a machine.

Again, from Time: “They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.“

• When Americans went to bed late at night after the 2020 election, President Trump was leading by so many tens of thousands of votes in the swing states, by a margin too big to close. IN AN UNPRFECEDENTED, UNACCOUNTABLE MOVE, THE MEDIA DECLARED VOTE-COUNTING WAS BEING STOPPED AND WOULD BE RESUMED THE NEXT MORNING. The nation woke up the morning to the weirdest, most bizarre and brazen switch in its history. The president’s substantial, comfortable lead had been swallowed up and passed by a few thousand votes in every battleground state, putting Biden in the lead. This in spite of Trump having swept the “bellwether” states and having far-outstripped the opposition in drawing popular crowds to his pre-election rallies.
• On the night of January 9, 2021, FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN AMERICA CEASED TO EXIST, as far as social media was concerned. Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, etc. removed or labeled “false” uncounted videos and articles using the words “election integrity” or “steal” or “President Trump” (or even “Wuhan lab.” Some of these almost exclusively conservative, Christian and pro-life sites and blogs had hundreds of thousands of followers. They simply vanished overnight.

They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction.

• Twitter muzzled the President of the United States. Social media “creatively” edited him and slandered him, declaring every claim that came out of his mouth “proven false” before they would even have had time to check his facts.
• Spurious “fact-checkers” declared as “mis-“ or “disinformation” anything that questioned or disagreed with the Democrat party line.

After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.

Case in point: January 6, 2021. The faux coup they claim President Trump instigated on that day covered up the real coup that had just taken place.

• On January 6, Congressional leaders deliberately and unaccountably kept police protection to a minimum at the Capitol before an historic occasion where expectations of larger crowds and higher tensions required heightened police presence.

At 9:15 that morning, newspapers were already on the streets announcing a “break-in” at the Capitol that wouldn’t happen for another 3 hours. During President Trump’s speech at the other end of Capitol Hill, media would report his comment that his followers should “fight like hell” (against the stolen election) but not that he urged them, as he dismissed them, to remain peaceful. (Those present reported a spirit of relaxed, friendly fellowship among them as they strolled leisurely the half-hour walk to the Capitol. No anger, no signs of weapons or aggression.)

The interruption of the break-in provided an excuse for Democrats to forego the presentation by legal dueling electors of the evidence of fraud during the election in the battleground states and to rush straight to certifying the original electors who had chosen Biden before the facts of the fraud had surfaced.

Meanwhile those familiar with Antifa and other militia tactics in communist countries were recognizing those tactics and communication among individuals breaking windows and urging others into the building and then disappearing among the crowds.

Arrests were made with few actual charges and those accused waited a year for their Constitutional right to a “speedy trial.” Capitol Hill became an armed fortress, with militia (vetted to exclude Republicans) on guard for weeks to keep the American public away.

‘The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,’ says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program.”

“This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election,” the article in Time magazine goes on, “based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster…

 “That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream—a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.”

That’s just the first five pages—of 23. Not our words; these are from the donkey’s mouth. A “paranoid fever dream” indeed, one from which we are still trying to wake up.

Aren’t you grateful so many people went to so much trouble to keep your vote from counting–to “ensure that democracy in America endures”?

Published by IFApray.org August 18, 2022

Writer Jessica Renshaw is an intercessor and author of GIANNA, ABORTED AND LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT, the true story of a baby born alive during a legal saline abortion (Focus on the Family, 1995, Gold Medallion finalist) and COMPELLING INTERESTS: A NOVEL ABOUT ABORTION FROM THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES.

GOD’S GALLERY (Another triumph from the John 10:10 Project)

GOD’S GALLERY

It has been said that “nature is the art of God.” When looking at our planet from 200 miles above its surface, the truth of that observation comes into magnificent focus. This unforgettable video is a celebration of Earth’s natural beauty and the artistry of its Creator—as photographed by the astronauts of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

NEWTON’S GOD (The John 10:10 Project’s latest triumph)

Sir Isaac Newton. The name is on every shortlist of “the greatest scientific minds in history.”  By the age of 25, Newton had laid the foundations for his monumental discoveries of the laws of motion, principles of optics and light, and the invention of calculus. More than three centuries later his discoveries still influence our daily lives in countless ways. But Newton’s significance extends beyond the physical realm, for he viewed his work as an extension of his deep, abiding faith in the Creator of the universe. Celebrate this extraordinary life and the bond between science and faith in this memorable short video.

TO CELEBRATE THE NATIONAL VICTORY OVER ROE V. WADE…

I am offering a free copy of my pro-life book, COMPELLING INTERESTS: A NOVEL ABOUT ABORTION FROM THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES to anyone who wants one.

Just email me at hiddeninjesus@gmail.com and give me your name and shipping address. I will order a copy sent to you from Amazon and it will take a couple of weeks.

You can read more about the book on this blog (type “Compelling Interests” into the Search box to your right) or look it up on Amazon.

Yours for Life,

Jessica Renshaw

POEM: Joy is a shared thing

I wrote a poem about anger. A friend in the Los Angeles Police Department. read it and told me “What I need is joy. Write me a poem about JOY!” So here is:  

JOY IS A SHARED THING 

For Lt. Barb  

Joy is a shared thing—  

anticipation on both sides  

merged in the “at last!” 

Joy is the first glimpse of the returning prodigal;  

Joy is finally finding our way home. 

Joy is in the arms of the Shepherd  

and in the heart of the grateful lamb. 

Joy is the stayed hand  

and our substitute in the thicket

Joy is body language:   

a puppy leaping   

at the invitation: ”Walk?”

It’s electromagnetic connection:   

a baby wriggling all over  

at his mother’s smile,  

the sparkle transmitted from her eyes   

reciprocated in his. 

Joy is endorphins dancing. 

Joy is letting go of the trapeze  

of our own understanding  

and grasping the bar of His “I’ve got you!”  

Joy is expecting punishment  

and getting pardon,  

opening a dreaded door  

and finding a friend. 

Joy is eyes meeting,  

hands meeting,  

lips meeting. 

Joy is taking up where we left off,  

the endless wait ended. 

Promises kept. 

Joy is a gift from an undisclosed admirer 

Joy is being the undisclosed admirer.

Understanding  

and being understood.  

Forgiving   

and being forgiven. 

Joy is seeing the Face of the One   

in whose image we are made.  

Joy is His painting a sunset just for us  

and our receiving it with, “I love You, too!” 

Joy is the heart responding  

to the sound of its Savior’s voice;  

being alerted by one’s name 

to the command, “Come forth!”  

and to affirmation: “Well done!” 

Joy then is what gets us through now,  

the comfort to come that makes all this bearable.  

                                      –Jessica Renshaw  c) 2022