Your burden has been laid before the Lord and we join you in prayer for all who suffer under the spirit of abandonment and for the precious unborn who are despised and rejected.
We are reminded of the tender mercy of our God of whom it is written, The tender mercy of our God has visited us, Luke 1:78. It was great tenderness on God's part to think of sinful man at all, and His method of showing mercy is always Divinely tender, powerful in its force and feminine in its tenderness. He does not sell mercy, He gives it. All God's mercy to a sinner is gratis. He acts because He will have mercy on whom He will have mercy and He will have compassion on whom He will have compassion.
You have quoted the sure word, Though my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me, Psalm 27:10, and Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne, Isaiah 49:15. Though earthly ties are broken, though wife is forsaken by husband, husband by wife, children left alone without house or family or friend to give refuge, the God of our mercy goes before us, Psalm 59:10. His mercy forestalls us. While we are yet speaking He hears, while we are yet seeking He provides.
Christ is the true City of Refuge, as the cities appointed in Numbers 35. Wherever there were byroads and turns, there were signposts plainly visible upon them, Refuge, pointing the way where the guilty and the pursued might flee and be preserved. So we lift up that word still, Refuge, Refuge. Sinner, this is the way, walk therein and you shall be saved. He preserves all those who flee to Him for mercy. There is no other salvation, for it is through Jesus Christ alone, whose blood cleanses from all sin, that we have peace with God.
We pray now for those little ones, the innocent unborn, aborted or miscarried, despised by father or mother. We entrust them to the care of Him who formed them, asking in His sovereign compassion to receive them. And we pray for those who have taken part in the shedding of innocent blood, that the Lord in His overtaking mercy would meet them even in the desert by the well, as He met Hagar, and call them by name, and turn their faces in the opposite direction, making them new creations in Christ. For the first thing God's mercy will do is to give new loves and new hates and bring the soul to repentance and faith.
We pray for every abandoned one, for the sister and brother betrayed, for the friend forsaken, for children left alone, for those without shelter or family to support them, that they may find not only earthly shelter as God provides, but the eternal shelter in the wounds of Jesus, a refuge from the stormy blast. May those who have not obtained mercy obtain it now, for God has said, I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to them which were not my people, You are my people.
O Lord, show Thy tender mercy to the brokenhearted and to the guilty. Forgive sin through the blood of Jesus shed on Calvary. Gather the forsaken into Thy family. Provide refuge for the homeless and comfort for those who mourn. Let Thy mercy go before them and overtake them, and keep the unborn in Thy everlasting care. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and our only refuge. Amen.