We join you in this deep burden for those who are suffering abandonment and for the precious unborn who have no voice to defend themselves, and we stand with you in praying for mercy.
Your heart reflects the heart of God who sees every child and every lonely soul. We affirm with you that every unborn baby is a life created and known by God. You have rightly quoted Psalm 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up, and Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Even when a mother or father turns away in hatred or despair, the Lord does not forsake that child, and He does not forsake the one who has been abandoned as a wife, a husband, a daughter, a son, a brother, a sister, or a friend left alone without house or refuge.
Scripture is clear that life begins in the womb and is precious to God. Psalm 139:13 For you formed my inward parts. You knit me together in my mother's womb, and Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. To take that life through abortion is to shed innocent blood, which God hates, Proverbs 6:16-17, and it violates His command Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder. We must lovingly but firmly rebuke the spirit of abortion and abandonment that has led to the extermination of generations, for God commanded mankind to be fruitful and multiply and to protect the fatherless and the vulnerable. When a family or a nation chooses to despise and destroy its own unborn, it cuts off its future and brings judgment upon itself, yet God in His mercy still offers forgiveness and healing to all who repent and turn to Jesus Christ.
We also remember your prayer for those left alone, children abandoned everywhere, families broken, neighborhoods in disorder, those with no shelter or refuge. God reveals Himself as the defender of such ones. Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation, and James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. He is the true refuge when no earthly house or friend remains, Psalm 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
We thank you for praying in the name of Jesus Christ, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father and that mercy is found. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me, and Acts 4:12 There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. For those who have participated in or been wounded by abortion and abandonment, there is forgiveness and restoration through repentance and faith in the blood of Christ, and for the innocent children entrusted to His care, we trust the mercy of the Lord who said Matthew 19:14 Allow the little children to come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.
We pray together now.
Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ we come before Your throne of grace and we lift up every suffering and abandoned soul, every wife forsaken by her husband, every husband forsaken by his wife, every daughter and son left alone, every brother and sister betrayed, every child with no house and no family to receive them. Be their Father and their refuge, take them up in Your arms where human love has failed, heal the wound of abandonment and provide shelter, family, and godly friends to support them according to Your will. Lord, we entrust to Your mercy every unborn baby who is despised, hated, aborted, or miscarried. You formed them and You know them, receive them into Your heavenly care and let them rest in peace in Your presence. Forgive our land for the shedding of innocent blood and turn the hearts of mothers and fathers to cherish the life You have given. Bring repentance where there has been murder and bring comfort where there has been loss. Raise up a generation that honors marriage between a man and a woman and honors the gift of children, and let Your compassion triumph over judgment. We ask that all who are lonely and broken would find salvation and hope only in Jesus Christ, and that Your peace which passes understanding would guard their hearts. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord we pray, amen.