Immediately as he said this my heart was impacted for our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Harper is a Christian and has done a lot of great work as far as his political life goes. I have heard people in the political realm say that Prime Minister Harper is one of the smartest politicians to ever be in office, regardless of what party is represented, and that gives me hope for our country. As i am reminded, i pray for various polititians, but something about Lou Engle’s cry of the heart for President Obama resonated with me.

The reality of the situation is that Canada’s laws towards abortion are worse than those of America. In Canada, it is legal to have an abortion right up until birth. I have even heard stories where doctors have pushed the baby back into the womb during the birth process just so they could still legally administer the abortion, because technically the baby is not born yet. This is sick. It’s twisted. And it needs to stop.

In the past few weeks i have been looking to re-write my prayer list. And what better time than this? As i re-write it, i will be adding certain politicians to the list, including Prime Minister Harper, on every day of the week. I will be praying that God will impact Mr. Harper so that he will change the laws of abortion that we currently have in Canada, to make abortion illegal in all respects.

Please join me in this prayer…

Shalom.

Hi, Mommy.

I’m your baby. You don’t know me yet, I’m only a few weeks old. You’re going to find out about me soon, though, I promise. Let me tell you some things about me. My name is John, and I’ve got beautiful brown eyes and black hair. Well, I don’t have it yet, but I will when I’m born. I’m going to be your only child, and you’ll call me your one and only. I’m going to grow up without a daddy mostly, but we have each other. We’ll help each other, and love each other. I want to be a doctor when I grow up. …

You found out about me today, Mommy! You were so excited, you couldn’t wait to tell everyone. All you could do all day was smile, and life was perfect. You have a beautiful smile, Mommy. It will be the first face I will see in my life, and it will be the best thing I see in my life. I know it already. …
… … … …
Today was the day you told Daddy. You were so excited to tell him about me! …He wasn’t happy, Mommy. He kind of got angry. I don’t think that you noticed, but he did. He started to talk about something called wedlock, and money, and bills, and stuff I don’t think I understand yet. You were still happy, though, so it was okay. Then he did something scary, Mommy. He hit you. I could feel you fall backward, and your hands flying up to protect me. I was okay… but I was very sad for you. You were crying then, Mommy. That’s a sound I don’t like. It doesn’t make me feel good. It made me cry, too. He said sorry after, and he hugged you again. You forgave him, Mommy, but I’m not sure if I do. It wasn’t right. You say he loves you… why would he hurt you? I don’t like it, Mommy. … … … … …

Finally, you can see me! Your stomach is a little bit bigger, and you’re so proud of me! You went out with your mommy to buy new clothes, and you were so so so happy. You sing to me, too. You have the most beautiful voice in the whole wide world. When you sing is when I’m happiest. And you talk to me, and I feel safe. So safe. You just wait and see, Mommy. When I am born I will be perfect just for you. I will make you proud, and I will love you with all of my heart.

I can move my hands and feet now, Mommy. I do it because you put your hands on your belly to feel me, and I giggle. You giggle, too. I love you, Mommy.

Daddy came to see you today, Mommy. I got really scared. He was acting funny and he wasn’t talking right. He said he didn’t want you. I don’t know why, but that’s what he said. And he hit you again. I got angry, Mommy. When I grow up I promise I won’t let you get hurt! I promise to protect you. Daddy is bad. I don’t care if you think that he is a good person, I think he’s bad. But he hit you, and he said he didn’t want us. He doesn’t like me. Why doesn’t he like me, Mommy?

You didn’t talk to me tonight, Mommy. Is everything okay?

It’s been three days since you saw Daddy. You haven’t talked to me or touched me or anything since that. Don’t you still love me, Mommy? I still love you. I think you feel sad. The only time I feel you is when you sleep. You sleep funny, kind of curled up on your side. And you hug me with your arms, and I feel safe and warm again. Why don’t you do that when you’re awake, any more?

I’m 21 weeks old today, Mommy. Aren’t you proud of me? We’re going somewhere today, and it’s somewhere new. I’m excited. It looks like a hospital, too. I want to be a doctor when I grow up, Mommy. Did I tell you that? I hope you’re as excited as I am. I can’t wait.

…Mommy, I’m getting scared. Your heart is still beating, but I don’t know what you are thinking. The doctor is talking to you. I think something’s going to happen soon. I’m really, really, really scared, Mommy. Please tell me you love me. Then I will feel safe again. I love you!

Mommy, what are they doing to me!? It hurts! Please make them stop! It feels bad! Please, Mommy, please please help me! Make them stop!

Don’t worry Mommy, I’m safe. I’m in heaven with the angels now. They told me what you did, and they said it’s called an abortion.

Why, Mommy? Why did you do it? Don’t you love me any more? Why did you get rid of me? I’m really, really, really sorry if I did something wrong, Mommy. I love you, Mommy! I love you with all of my heart. Why don’t you love me? What did I do to deserve what they did to me? I want to live, Mommy! Please! It really, really hurts to see you not care about me, and not talk to me. Didn’t I love you enough? Please say you’ll keep me, Mommy! I want to live smile and watch the clouds and see your face and grow up and be a doctor. I don’t want to be here, I want you to love me again! I’m really really really sorry if I did something wrong. I love you!

I love you, Mommy.

Every abortion is just…

One more heart that was stopped.

Two more eyes that will never see.

Two more hands that will never touch.

Two more legs that will never run.

One more mouth that will never speak

While my attention has been focused elsewhere as of late, the issue of abortion will always be close to my heart, and i continue to read more about this issue all the time.

The picture says it all.

Jesus, we plead your blood over our sins and the sins of the nation. God, end abortion and send revival to North America.

I wrote earlier in the post “The Wrestling Match” about a stirring. Something from within me that was warring in me.

But that wrestling match has ended.

And out of it came something i could never have guessed would show up.

The Roaring Lion.

A new blog. One that will receive more attention than this one.

I am not lost on the irony that for a long while i have been authoring a blog called “The Silent Siege” and how God has now brought me through that silence to now proclaim loudly, as though a lion roaring, the things on my heart.

The Roaring Lion can be found at www.jasonkehler.wordpress.com.

Preacher and teacher Corey Russell says,

“Wanna get my eyes opened. That’s why Paul prayed that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened. The eyes, like never before, this generation especially, the church, Jesus says, “If your eyes are good, your whole body is good.” Jesus says, “Where your eyes go, that’s where you go.” We are in a fight for the eyes, and that’s why beloved I am declaring an all-out assault: That it is time to begin to call forth a turning, Psalm 119:36-37, “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things.”

Some of us are so stuck on so many PG movies we have no appetite for real pleasure. So many are so stuck on so many ”GOOD THINGS” we have no appetite for REAL THINGS… We’re so jaded by all the sitcoms that have sex stringing through them that our eyes are so defiled that we don’t even recognize a small affair here; a small fornication here, a small homosexual relationship here. WE ARE GETTING OUR SENSES DULLED. Psalm 13, “enlighten my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death.” Beloved right now the church is sleeping a sleep of death. Our faculties are shot. Our prophetic senses are shot. The spirit of revelation is absent in the land, and we don’t know any different. I’m here to sound an alarm: It’s time we begin to see something different, because if we don’t see, we die. Without vision you perish, Amen! You don’t get vision you die. Once the gates are shut, you die.

That’s why the all out fight says I’m fighting for my eyes. Psalm 119 says, “Open my eyes that I might see wondrous things from your laws.” All wonder restored to the church. Eyes Opened, and we declare an all out assault against the power of immorality. This is the spirit of Jezebel that is teaching servants, and seducing servants into immorality. It’s the spirit of Jezebel that waters everything down and begins to dull our senses to the power of immorality. I call a generation to something higher.”

 Is he so wrong?

What do you think?

Research suggests that on average, people in the U.S spend about $8 Billion dollars a year, just on cosmetics. More than 10 Million women, and about 1 Million men have cosmetic surgery of some kind every year. Over $10 Billion is spent every year on plastic surgery, with about $1.2 Billion being spent on liposuction. More than $1.1 Billion is spent on breast augmentation surgery, and a single botox injection can cost as much as $400.

These people want someone else’s nose. They want their hair to look like someone else’s. They want to have the washboard abs that a movie star has.

Fashion is another area altogether. In the U.S. over $22 Billion is spent on clothes per year, on average. One season certain colors are popular, and then they’re not. So people get rid of clothes soon after they buy them, because they are not longer “in”. Closets are overcrowded with clothes that people don’t wear, and when those certain styles come back into season a year and a half later, they go out and buy entirely new wardrobes, instead of just digging through the pile in their closets, where they would find the same things.

It’s not hard to find these numbers. Just google it.

The vast amounts of money people spend on cosmetics, surgery, clothes, etc. every year is incredible.

And why is this?

Because they want to belong. They want to feel needed. They want to be a part of something.

But here is the thing that drives all of this. Here is the reason behind the reason people spend so much money on this stuff, and so much time in front of the mirror lamenting who they are:

Are you ready for this?

They believe a lie that Satan has been telling them.

It’s true. Satan has been lying to people about their bodies for so long, that the world has bought into the idea that they are not good enough.

Let me tell you another Truth.

God did not make a mistake when he made you. God did not make a mistake when he formed the human frame.

I want you to think about this for a minute…

God formed the human frame with his bare hands. We see in the creation account in Genesis 1 that when God created stuff, he spoke it into existence, “Let there be Light” and there was light (I know i’m stepping on a line here, with this whole creation thing, but just ignore the whole creation vs. evolution thing here please, that’s not what this is about).

Then in Genesis 2:7 it reads, “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”

God formed the human frame out of dust, got low to the ground, on his hands and knees as it were, and breathed life into that frame.

How glorious the human frame is. How wondrous is the creation that God took time to get his hands dirty in the dust for.

But there is a greater revelation of Truth here that needs to be understood as well.

If you read the gospels, Jesus promises a helper to guide Christians. John 14:15-21 reads:

15 If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He wil give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

19 A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Becuase I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, adn I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

And John 16:5-15 reads:

5 But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sine, and of rightouseness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of rightousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and delcare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.”

Now, before we get to far ahead of ourselves here, i fully understand that these passages are loaded with everything theological. There is a lot of stuff in these passages that people have written vast amounts of books on. That’s not what we’re here for today.

What i want you to notice from these passages, in light of what Genesis says about God forming us, is this: God lives in you.

Yes, you read that right.

Almighty God, who created the universe, and everything in it, lives in you.

What kind of creature would it take to house the living God? What kind of being is capable of carrying in it, all the power and excellencies of Almighty God?

The Human Frame!

Sometimes i don’t think we pay enough attention to this great revelation. Our reaction is, “Yeah, i’m a Christian,” when our reaction should be, “HALELUJAH! I’VE GOT THE LIVING GOD LIVING IN ME, SPEAKING TO ME AND GUIDING ME. WHAT JOY TO KNOW THAT HE LOVES ME SO MUCH, THAT HE CREATED THIS FRAME, A FRAME THAT BREAKS DOWN, GETS HURT AND BLEEDS; HE CREATED THIS FRAME TO BE WITH ME!”

The power and greatness of God alone should make us explode. But instead, He designed us in such a unique way that can house His Spirit.

And i say unique for a reason. You are unique. No one like you in all the world. And don’t give me any dopple-ganger talk. What a crock. You are unique. God designed you specifically to be you.

Don’t try to change it. Don’t buy into the lies of Satan that say you have to change something. That you need surgery or something to be prettier, to be more physically appealing, to be more accepted.

You are accepted. You are physically appealing. God designed you to be that way for a reason. Believe his Truth instead of the devil’s lies.

I read this recently on the Focus on the Family’s site, http://www.focusonlinecommunities.com/blogs/Finding_Home/2011/06/02/the-church-of-oprah

The Church of Oprah