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Joined: Dec 1999
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Ministering outside Planned Parenthood with some of my children!
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Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 15,835
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What A Fabulous Ministry! SAVING LIVES!
--RUNNING INTO LOVE~~
--"I have loved you with an everlasting love" --[Jeremiah 31:3]-- 
~~NORA was tiny, but "Bridget"--the belligerent, six-foot-tall woman glowering down at her--didn't intimidate her. Bridget couldn't even say why she had stopped at the crisis pregnancy center; she'd already made up her mind to "get ride of this...kid." So Nora gently asked question, and Bridget rudely deflected them with profanity-laced tirades. Soon Bridget got up to leave, defiantly declaring her intent to end her pregnancy.
Slipping her small frame between Bridget and the door, Nora asked, "Before you go, may I give you hug, and may I pray for you?" No one had ever hugged her before--not with healthy intentions, anyway. Suddenly, unexpectedly, the tears came. Nora beautifully reflects the heart of our God who loved His people Israel "with an everlasting love" (text). The people had stumbled into the hard consequences of their persistent violation of His guidelines. Yet God told them, "I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. I will build you up again" (vv. 3-4). Bridget's history is complex. (Many of us can relate.) Until she ran into real love that day, her belief had been that God and His followers would only condemn her. Nora showed her something different: the God who won't ignore our sin because He loves us beyond imagination. He welcomes us with open arms. We don't have to keep running. "Father God, thank You, that you understand our heart and mind. Please draw more people to Yourself. Help us to know who You might put in our path to direct them to saving a little baby's life. You formed all of us in our mother's womb. -[Isaiah 44:2] "-"For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well." --[PSALM 139:13-14] --ODB/TG
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
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