Pray and Fast to STOP Illinois FOCA
Posted by Eric Scheidler (March 18, 2010 at 3:42 pm)
The regular session for approving new legislation in the Illinois House of Representatives ends in just nine days, on March 26. If we can prevent HB6205 from coming up for a vote by that deadline—like we did last year—we will have effectively beaten the bill.
We’re already storming Springfield with our calls and visits, so now let’s storm the gates of Heaven with our prayers that this bill will never pass.
I invite you to join me in a “novena”—nine days of prayer and fasting—for that very intention. I’ve drawn up a simple prayer that each of us can pray each day:
Our Father in Heaven,
Thank you for the gift of my life, which began at the moment of my conception in my mother’s womb. Please have mercy on all who do not respect your gift of life, especially here in Illinois.
The lives of your unborn children are under greater threat right now in Illinois because of HB6205, the Reproductive Health and Access Act.
I join my prayers with those of others throughout Illinois that you do not allow HB6205 to be passed by the Illinois House of Representatives during this legislative term.
In your great kindness have mercy on our state and spare us from the scourge of this bill. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
We’re in the home stretch, now, and we need God’s help more than ever.