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February/March 2014
A Message From Good News Press
Good News Press is an outreach publication. The Christian message is often
referred to as the "Gospel," which means
"good news." Specifically, it is the good
news about Jesuswho He is, what He
has done, and what He offers. Essentially,
the message is that Jesus was God in the
flesh, that He came into the world to
reconcile humanity to Himself, and that
his salvation is freely offered to each person who will respond in faith. The Gospel message explains that salvation is only possible through the Crucifixion and
Resurrection of Jesus. Through his sacrifice, Jesus paid the price for our sinfulness (rebellion against God), thus offering us forgiveness. Then through his Resurrection He conquered death, removing
it as the penalty for our sin and replacing
it with the offer of eternal life that is only
available from Him to all those that place
their faith in Him.

10th Anniversary of Walk for Life West Coast held on Jan. 25, 2014 - Logo and Press Release Photo (San Francisco March in 2013 with 50,000 plus people)

Walk for Life West Coast held on Jan. 25, 2014

'The State of Abortion in the
United States' -- National
Right to Life Releases New
Report Examining the Current Status of Abortion in the
United States
- Today, the National Right to Life

Committee (NRLC), the federation of

50 state right-to-life affiliates and
more than 3,000 local chapters, issued
a new report, "The State of Abortion
in America." The report summarizes
key legislative developments at the
state and federal levels, finds that the
annual number of abortions continues

to decline, and shows that a majority

continue to oppose the vast majority
of abortions allowed under the doctrine of Roe v. Wade.
"While the most recent data indicate
See State of Abortion on Page 7

Marriage Must be Part of Poverty/Income Inequality

Debate - National Marriage Week Feb. 7-14, 2014
-- This week a FOX News commentary by National Marriage Week USA
(February 7-14) makes the case that
marriage must be part of the current
political debate about income inequality and how to reduce poverty.
(www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org/fo
x20140122)
"Today 53% of all babies born to
women under age-30, are born out-

side of marriage," said Sheila Weber,

executive director of National Marriage Week USA
(www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org).
"If we had the marriage rates today
that we had in 1970, we'd have 25%
less poverty."
"The decline of marriage is our most
neglected national emergency," says
Weber. "Yet the wealthy are doing a

better job at keeping marriages intact

and their children are benefitting from
the influence of both male and female
parenting influence and from enriching
educational habits in those homes."
"We must find ways to help impoverished single mothers learn more about
how to enrich their own home life;
and despite their current circumstances, to give their own children a vision
See National Marriage Week Page 7

Plan of Salvation:

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe
in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved.

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Sign the Petition - Free Pastor Saeed Abedini

American Pastor Jailed In Iran @

http://beheardproject.com/saeed
(Story below from website above)
Please sign the petition online at the
website and pray for him.
Saeed Abedini, a 33-year-old Pastor, father,
and husband from Idaho, is currently imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. On 28 July
2012, during a visit to Tehran to visit family and
to finalize the board members for an orphanage
he was building in Iran, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard detained Saeed, asserting that he
must face criminal charges for his Christian
faith. After intense interrogations, Saeed was
placed under house arrest and told to wait for a
court summons. On 26 September 2012, instead of receiving a summons telling him where
to appear, five members of the Revolutionary
Guard raided Saeeds parents home in Tehran,
confiscated many of Saeeds belongings, and
took him to an unknown location. After four
days the Revolutionary Guard informed the
family that Saeed was in solitary confinement in
the notorious Evin Prison... More of his story
at website above.

Are You A Doer of the

Word? By Mark & Tinsley Baker
When you are born again, you become a new
creature. Old things are passed away and all
things have become new. You are new, your
spirit has been recreated in the image of God.
Gods nature dwells in you. Gods nature is
love. If Gods nature dwells in you, then you
are full of the love of God! We should walk
in that love, everyday! However, there is
more to being a Christian, than going around
loving everyone.
We are to do the commandments of the Lord.
James 1:22-25: "But be doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if
anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
he is like a man observing his natural face in a
mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and
immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty
and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer
but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed
in what he does."
James is writing to believers in this letter, not
unsaved people. He is telling them to be
blessed, they must do what the Word,
Gods Word, says. Yes, we must walk in love
toward everyone, our brothers and sisters in
Christ, as well as our enemies. Yet, we have to
do so much more. Lets look at what God said
to Joshua when he took over the leadership of
Israel, after the death of Moses.
Joshua 1:8: "This Book of the Law shall
not depart from your mouth, but you
shall meditate in it day and night, that
you may observe to do according to all
that is written in it. For then you will
make your way prosperous, and then you
will have good success."
Are you studying Gods Word? Is it a priority in
your life. Do you read it daily and meditate on,
think about, what you have read? Are you
speaking Gods Word in your life? Remember,
God tells Joshua the Word shall not depart

from his mouth, as well as telling him to meditate in it day and night, He is to speak scriptures to himself, to remind him what the Word
says.
Jesus says in
Luke 6:46,
that we are
to keep his
commandments if we
love Him.
Is God first
in your life,
or is your
job, your
family, your
car, money
Pastor Saeed Abedini
- the things
you worship? One way to tell what you actually
worship ( whether it is a good or bad worship)
is to look at your life. What do you think about,
talk about or worry about. If it is not God, then
you need to reorganize your thinking. God and
His Word should be first in your life. The
wonderful working of Jesus at Calvary
should be first in your life.
Matthew 6:31-33: ""Therefore do not
worry, saying, `What shall we eat?' or
`What shall we drink?' or `What shall we
wear?' "For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father
knows that you need all these things.
"But seek first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness, and all these things
shall be added to you. "Therefore do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow
will worry about its own things. Sufficient
for the day is its own trouble."
When you are obedient to God, He will bless
you. It is as simple as that.
Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all
thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding. In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths."
1 Peter 5:7: "Casting all your care upon him; for
he careth for you." Are you trusting in God
with all your heart, are you casting your cares
( worries, concerns) on Him? Or are you praying "Oh God help me, I cant make it another
day, if You dont do something."
Understand this! God has done all He can for
you! He gave His only Son to die in your place.
With that death, He purchased a new life for
you. A life full of Gods answers!
You need to study the Word and find those
answers and then claim them for yourself!
Romans 8:14: " For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God."
When you were saved, you became a child of
God! This means you have the rights and responsibility of any member of a family. It is up
to you to take advantage of these rights.
How do I do that? Go back to what God told
Joshua, read the Word, meditate on it and
dont let it depart from your mouth. Let me ask
you something - are you looking at your life and
your problems from the worlds view or Gods
view? Are you saying the worlds answers or

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Doer of the Word Contd from Page 2
Gods answers? To trust
completely in God and to
lean not on your own wisdom and experience means
looking at Gods way - not
your way! His way may not
seem logical or natural, but
Praise God thats what it is all
about! The way of the spirit, the way of God, not
the way of nature or reason!
"Well, I tried that once and it
didnt work." Can you hear
yourself saying this?
There are several problems with this: You tried.
The truth is, you were tried
by the Word of God. We
have all been there.
We need to learn from our
failures as well as our successes, and then hopefully we
wont have as many failures .
Romans 10:17: "So faith
comes from what is heard,
and what is heard comes by
the preaching of Christ."
You hear the Word, the Will
or commandments of God
and you act in faith and do
them, not try them!

Hebrews 11:1: "What is

faith? It is the confident
assurance that something
we want is going to happen. It is the certainty
that what we hope for is
waiting for us, even
though we cannot see it
up ahead ."

and not Gods!

The prophet Isaiah tells us
that Gods ways are not our
ways. Your ways are controlled by the world. And
who is the god of this world Satan, not God. So if you
think God should answer
your problems your way,
then you are asking God to
do something in a way that is
impossible for Him to do.

The Revised Standard Translation of this verse says

"NOW FAITH". Now Faith!
3.You did not pray correctly.
Faith is always, always in
James 4:3: "or you pray
the present, the now!
and yet do not receive,
So, to trust completely in the because you pray wrongability of God to answer your ly, your object being to
prayers, meet your needs, is waste what you get on
to believe now, that it will
some pleasure or anothhappen.
er."
Faith is the tangibility of hope, Another reason trusting in
It makes hope real. Faith
God did not seem to work
makes what you hope for
for you, is because when you
come about.
prayed, you ask for the
2. You gave your problems to wrong reasons. If you asked
out of selfish reasons, beGod - but - you took them
cause it was something in
back!
your favor or for your good
You didnt see the answer in only - then you need to rethe way you thought it should examine your prayers. Let
be, or in the time frame you God show you through His
thought it should happen and Word the true way to pray.
you gave up. You leaned on It is very simple, if you walk n
your own understanding
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Number of After - School Good News Clubs
Continues to Grow Since 2001 Supreme Court
Ruling in Support of Child Evangelism
Fellowship
a child. The Good News
Club helped her overcome the emptiness she
felt by her father's abandonment, she says, by
sharing with her the love
of God. She benefited so
much from the Good
News Club that at the age
of eight she led a GNC at
recess for her friends
who could not attend the
after-school club. "If there
was no Good News Club,
if I never brought that
paper [permission slip] to
my mom that this is
Photo: After-School Good News Club Meeting
something I want to be in,"
said Kayla, "it's kind of a
The number of after-school lic school principals in 28
scary thought to wonder
Good News Clubs, Bible
states. Of the principals
where my life would be.
clubs sponsored by Child
surveyed, 87.4% responded The Good News Club kind
Evangelism Fellowship, the that they had personal
of changed my whole life. It
largest Christian ministry to knowledge that after-school set the Lord in my life."
children in the world, grew Good News Clubs have
for the twelfth straight year been "a positive experience To keep up with the numsince 2001, the year the
for their school." 52.2%
ber of after-school Good
Supreme Court upheld the reported noticeably imNews Clubs around the
clubs' right to meet after
proved behavior on a part country, CEF has increased
school in public school
of the students who partici- its full-time staff to 710 to
buildings. At that time,
pate in the Good News
handle the demands of
there were 1,155 afterClubs. Said one of the retraining, screening and
school GNCs in the United sponding principals, "...the
equipping more than 25,000
States, with less than
students who are in the
volunteers who lead the
17,000 children enrolled.
Good News Club rarely
clubs. Still, the demand
By the end of 2013, there
receive discipline referrals keeps growing. Many princiwere 4225 clubs attended
to the office. Undoubtedly, pals around the country are
by 174,174 children. Also,
the club has been a sucasking for Good News
impressive is the fact the
cessful part in our curbing Clubs. Thankfully, pastors
number of children enbullying and classroom dis- and congregations across
rolled at the end of last
respect for the children."
the country are becoming
year is 11.5% higher than in
increasingly interested in
2012.
"We are grateful for the
meeting the spiritually
positive impact that afterneeds of children. Many
school Good News Clubs
have agreed to partner with
After-school GNCs, which are having on public
CEF and provide the volunrequire parental permission schools," said Mr. Moises
teers to lead a Good News
for a child to attend, offer a Esteves, vice president of
Club in their local school.
healthy mix of engaging
USA Ministries for CEF,
"We are excited about the
Bible instruction, memory
"Knowing that God loves
momentum that is growverses, songs and fun-filled them helps children to love ing," said Mr. Esteves,
games for elementary
others. Every day, we see
"There are 65,000 public
school children who are
children come to us who
schools in the U.S. What
taught that one's faith in
are spiritually hungry, who we have accomplished so
Jesus Christ is evident
know sorrow and broken- far is just the beginning."
through loving others. To
ness, and we see the gospel
see what real impact the
of Jesus Christ change their For further information
after-school GNCs are
lives." Take 18-year-old
about after-school Good
having on the public
Kayla who credits the posi- News Clubs or about Child
schools, Child Evangelism
tive direction of her life to Evangelism Fellowship,
Fellowship conducted a
her involvement in an after- please visit cefonline.com.
survey last year of 224 pub- school Good News Club as

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Antiochs Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Celebration
By Connie Woods
overtones.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jrs
Deer Valleys Principal,
life and legacy, was celebrated, as well as Scholar- Kenneth Gardner welcomed the guests, while
ship Awards Presented to
Senior Pastor of Ebeneser
Antioch Unified School
Community Church, Rev.
District students, at the
Onadele gave the prayer
annual Dr. Martin Luther
invocation. This festive
King Jr. Celebration, held
event, included various
this year at Deer Valley
High School on January 20, choral performances such
as Deer Valley High
2014.
Maggie Anderson
Schools Divine Voices, the
The City of Antioch & the Antioch Church Family
nesses, high unemployment
Antioch Unified School
Choir, as well as East
rates amongst Blacks and
District in unison with its
County NAACPs Velma
its direct correlation. She
sponsors, celebrated the
and Claryssa Wilson who
attempted to inspire future
slain Civil Rights Activist,
sang the Negro National
entrepreneurship in the
Baptist Minister, and Nobel Anthem, Lift Every Voice
Black community and supPeace Prize Winner with
and Sing. Other acts perport of Black owned busistrong city, school, reliformed, were an angelic
nesses. In her somewhat
gious, and community sup- praise dance, by Nashone
controversial experiment,
port. This years event,
themed Standing Together Living the
Dream, was jubilant
and lively with a nearly
packed auditorium and
featured keynote speaker, Maggie Anderson,
author of Our Black
Year and founder of
The Empowerment Experiment. Middle and
High School students of
Antioch Church Family Choir at Deer Valley High School, Antioch, CA
the Antioch Unified
School District MLK Schol- Holmes, and the Presenta- her family bought products
arship contest were also
tion of Colors by the Anti- exclusively from African
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skit and performances. Each encouraged people to not
with awards at the end of
individual act added its own only support regular busisense of originality to the
the celebration.
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Celebration making it a
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uniquely grand experience.
Mayor Wade Harper, AntiShe believed that Dr. Kings
ochs first African-American
The keynote speech,
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Does Healing Belong To Us?
By Mark and Tinsley Baker Olive Branch Ministries
The question that many Christians have today is, does healing belong to us as it did to
the early church? There are 3
basic beliefs on the subject of
healing in the modern Christian church.
Many believe healing has
been done away
with, that it was only
for the early church
and not for us today.
This is probably the
most wide spread
belief.
Many believe God does
heal as He sees fit,
or by some special
divine act, or some
special faith.
The last basic group believes healing belongs to us as part of
the atonement of
Christ in the redemptive plan of
God, along with the
remission of sins.
These are the 3 main attitudes
toward healing in the body of
Christ today. The question
becomes if the 3rd is right,
how could the 2nd be right as
well? Many Christians have
received divine healing or
know someone who did, if this
is true, why is not healing a
part of the completed work of
our Lord Jesus Christ. Does
God play favorites? Does He
heal based on His whim? Or is
He truly no respecter of Persons as His Word says He is?
Is He truly the same yesterday
today and forever?

6. The Lord executes righteousness And justice for all

who are oppressed.
Even in the Old Testament we
see that His benefits include
both forgiveness and healing.

tion knowledge that comes

from the entrance of His
Word. I believe healing for the
body is the legal right for every child of God, but just because we have the legal right
to something doesnt mean we
are partakers of it, does it? I
My question is has God
changed in His attitude toward want to be a partaker of everything the Word of God tells
healing the sick?
me is legally mine, dont you?
Malachi 3:6. "For I am the
Lets look at how we can not
Lord, I do not change; thereonly know the truth but walk
fore you are not consumed, O in the reality of it.
sons of Jacob.
Our faith can only be based on
The Lord God Himself says I
what the Word of God says. It
do not change. Arent you glad is sufficient for our faith. We
can not have true faith outside
He doesnt?
of the Word of God. Faith
I think it is fair to say if the
starts where we know and
Bible teaches divine healing, it
would be safe to teach even if understand the Word of God.
we didnt know of one single
There are reasons God's peocase of healing. But at some
ple dont walk in His promises.
point in time we have to come
They can be out of Gods
to the realization that Gods
perfect will for their
Word is true. We have to
life.
believe in the divine truth of
Gods Word.
Not judging ourselves as
the Word makes it
Exodus 15:26. and said, "If you
clear we should.
diligently heed the voice of the
Lord your God and do what is
Weak
in faith.
right in His sight, give ear to
His commandments and keep
Ignorance of what the His
all His statutes, I will put none
Word says. If you
of the diseases on you which I
dont know the
have brought on the Egyptians.
truth, you cant be
For I am the Lord who heals
made free, can you?
you.''
God said through the Prophet
Exodus 23:25. "So you shall
Hosea; Hosea 4:6 My people
serve the Lord your God, and are destroyed for lack of
He will bless your bread and
knowledge:
your water. And I will take
sickness away from the midst God's people are destroyed,
not because God doesn't care,
of you.
(If he didnt care Jesus would
If the attitude God had tonever have come) but because
Lets take a look at the Word wards healing was for the
we dont understand.
children of Israel to be whole
of God for the answers to
That is a very sobering
in the Old Testament, how
these questions!
much more now? Good ques- thought. Maybe we need to
Psalms 103:1. Bless the Lord,
tion. If this was true then, and get more knowledge!
O my soul; And all that is
it was true according to His
Sickness and disease originally
within me, bless His holy
Word, how much more now! I came from spiritual death,
name!
believe we need to get some
spiritual death came as a result
light on this subject. The
of sin. God told Adam in the
2. Bless the Lord, O my soul,
Word teaches the entrance of day that you eat there of you
And forget not all His benefits: his Word gives light, and unshall surely die. We know
3. Who forgives all your iniqui- derstanding to the simple. (Ps. Adam did not die physically
ties, Who heals all your dis119:130.)
that day.
eases,
If I can get understanding of
Disease would never have
4. Who redeems your life
His will, and that will cause me come on mans body if Adam
from destruction, Who
to be able to receive the truth had not sinned. Gods attitude
crowns you with lovingkindand reality of His Word then I towards sickness is the same
want it, dont you? Because
ness and tender mercies,
as it is toward sin. His attitude
knowing the truth is what sets is the same today as it was in
5. Who satisfies your mouth
you free and makes you
with good things, So that your whole. Im not talking about a the Old Testament. He never
changes does He? Christ came
youth is renewed like the
mental ascent to the Word,
to reveal Gods attitude toeagle's.
Im talking about true revelaward man. If we want to see

Gods attitude toward man in

action, all we have to do is
look at Jesus! Jesus was
Gods will in the flesh. Jesus
came to reveal the Fathers
will toward man.
John 14:9. Jesus said to him,
"Have I been with you so
long, and yet you have not
known Me, Philip? He who
has seen Me has seen the
Father; so how can you say,
`Show us the Father'?
Jesus plainly taught that oppression is of the devil.

As we have seen oppression

is of the devil, and Jesus
came to destroy the works
of the devil didnt He? Jesus
came to destroy sin and
Jesus came to destroy oppression which is a result of
sin.
John 10:10. "The thief does
not come except to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy. I
have come that they may
have life, and that they may
have it more abundantly.

If you are full of sin or sickness, you're not walking in

When people were delivered the more abundant life of
from the oppression of Satan, their bodies were made God are you?
whole; in other words their You can be set free from
bodies were healed. Some
both. I am not saying or imwould say Jesus delivered
plying that if you have sickthem not healed them, but
ness in your body that it is
the Word of God says Jesus because you walking in sin,
healed those who were opor don't love God, or are
not sincere in your belief,
pressed.
not at all.
Acts 10:38. "how God
anointed Jesus of Nazareth
I know what it is like to be
with the Holy Spirit and with sick and need healing. I bepower, who went about
lieve we have a part to play
doing good and healing all
in this.
who were oppressed by the
We have to receive it and
devil, for God was with Him. truly acknowledge it. In my
This verse of Scripture says
own experience it took nearthat oppression is of the
ly 1 1/2 years before I could
devil, not God. Jesus came
fully receive the Word on
and healed ALL that were
this subject. When I did I was
healed. Just as we have to
oppressed of the devil.
receive and acknowledge
Luke 13:16. "So ought not
that Jesus shed His blood for
this woman, being a daughter us so that we can have eterof Abraham, whom Satan has nal life, we must receive and
bound think of it for eighteen acknowledge that Jesus body
years, be loosed from this
was broken so that we can
bond on the Sabbath?''
have healing for our bodies.
Being a daughter of Abraham Faith comes from knowing
is another way of saying she and understanding the Word
is a daughter of Gods Cove- of God. If you have never
been taught along these lines,
nant.
you can not truly have faith
Jesus said Satan has bound
in this area of your life. Faith
this daughter of Abraham.
comes from hearing and
God didnt bind her, Satan
hearing the Word of God.
bound her 18 years. Jesus
Whether it is for salvation or
came to loose her, didnt He? for healing.
Jesus was revealing Gods
will toward mankind and His A good place to start is the
Passover. There were no sick
will toward sickness and
among the children of Israel,
Satan. You will not find a
not one sick person. They All
single instance in the New
partook of the Passover
Testament where God was
glorified by one of His people meal. They were all delivered
being sick, No Not One! He out of the bondage of Egypt.
was glorified when His peo- And they were all healed.
ple were healed and set free This was a type of the comfrom satanic oppressions.
ing Christ and our redemp1 John 3:8. He who sins is of tion.
the devil, for the devil has
He told His disciples how to
sinned from the beginning.
partake of the Passover meal.
For this purpose
Mt. 26:26. And as they were
the Son of God was manieating, Jesus took bread,
fested, that He might destroy blessed it and broke it, and
the works of the devil.
gave it to the disciples and

said, "Take, eat; this is My

body.''
27. Then He took the cup,
and gave thanks, and gave it
to them, saying, "Drink from
it, all of you.
28. "For this is My blood of
the new covenant, which is
shed for many for the remission of sins.
He told them to take and eat
His body, and to drink His
blood. They had to partake
didnt they, He offered it to
them, but they had to partake of it. He told them to
partake. It is God's will that
we partake. That is something He will not do for us.
They didn't understand this
at that time. Later Peter
looking back at Calvary said
in; 1 Peter 2:24. who Himself
bore our sins in His own
body on the tree, that we,
having died to sins, might live
for righteousness by whose
stripes you were healed.
Peter was quoting Isaiah the
53rd chapter. If you will get a
concordance and look at the
Hebrew you will see this was
talking about physical healing.
It is not my purpose to place
condemnation on anyone
who is sick, God forbid. My
purpose is to encourage
people to reach out and
receive for themselves. Jesus
did not come to condemn
the world but that through
Him we might have life and
have it more abundantly. I
want people to look these
things up for themselves, and
see what the Word of God
has to say on this subject. I
have seen God's healing
power work in me and that
of my family and others as
well. I could share many
marvelous testimonies of
healing. Testimonies can
encourage, but our faith has
to be based on what God's
Word says, not on
someone's testimony. Let's
look on
Romans 6:14. For sin shall
not have dominion over you,
for you are not under law
but under grace.
Thank God for His grace.
According to Gods Word,
we are saved by grace, and
by grace we can defeat the
devil. As a matter of fact we
are told to resist the devil.
James 4:6. But He gives more
grace. Therefore He says:
"God resists the proud, but

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National Marriage Week Contd from Page 1
"We must find ways to help
impoverished single mothers learn more about how
to enrich their own home
life; and despite their current circumstances, to give
their own children a vision
that marriage can be in
their future aspirations, because marriage brings greater financial stability, better
health, and brings the greatest advantageous way to in
turn raise their own children," says Weber.
"We need for ministries,
non-profits, schools and
churches to find ways to
serve fatherless boys, who
may not be getting any messages that marriage can

even be an attainable goal

for them. The pendulum
has swung too far away
from the historical cultural
norm of dutiful manhood;
we need a radical change of
message, thinking and habits
to raise the next generation
of young men. Of course,
women also need some
new messages -- that forestalling sexual intimacy and
childbearing until marriage
provides them a healthier
future and is best for their
children," said Weber.
Today's BreakPoint by Eric
Metaxas features "The
Truth About Marriage and
Poverty" and encourages
involvement in National

Marriage Week USA. Listen

at player.subsplash.com/5e301aa.
National Marriage Week USA
(Feb. 7-14) is a campaign to
increase marriage education
nationwide and provides the
only online national marriage
calendar to list and locate any
and all marriage classes all
year. To list or locate an event
(it's free) -- click National Calendar at
www.nationalmarriageweekus
a.org. Sheila Weber, its executive director, has been a guest
on more than 500 radio and
TV talk shows. For interviews,
contact Sheila@nationalmarriageweekusa
.org. (Christiannewswire)

State of Abortion Contd from Page 1

"While the most recent data indicate a decrease in the annual
number of abortions, tragically,
more than 3,000 unborn children
are still killed every day in the
United States under the legal
doctrine of Roe v. Wade and Doe
v. Bolton," said National Right to
Life President Carol Tobias. "As
we observe the 41st anniversary
of the twin decisions that legalized
abortion in America, the pro-life
movement remains committed to
restoring legal protection to unborn children and providing help
and support to their mothers."

abortions can be traced to prolife legislative efforts at the state

and federal level that have raised
awareness about the humanity of
the unborn child These laws not
only encourage life-affirming alternatives to abortion, they seek to
inform and empower women
facing unexpected pregnancy.

"Laws enacted at the federal and

state levels have helped immensely in reversing the disturbing
trend established by Roe and
Doe," observed Tobias. "As just
one example, it is estimated that
the Hyde Amendment, which
As noted in the report, on the
prevents the use of taxpayer dolbasis of the most recent reports
lars to fund abortions in the Medifrom the U.S. Centers for Disease caid program, has saved well over
Control and by the Guttmacher
one million unborn children since
Institute (originally founded as a
it was first enacted in 1976."
special research arm of the
Planned Parenthood Federation of The report also discusses NationAmerica), National Right to Life
al Right to Life's major legislative
estimates that there have been
priority, the Pain-Capable Unborn
more than 56 million abortions in Child Protection Act. The legislaAmerica since 1973, the year that tion breaks new ground in the
the U.S. Supreme Court legalized fight to protect mothers and their
abortion on demand.
unborn children by acknowledging
the large body of scientific eviThe report also observes that
dence showing that unborn chilafter reaching an all-time high of
dren are capable of feeling excruover 1.6 million in 1990, the num- ciating pain by at least 20 weeks
ber of abortions performed annu- after fertilization and recognizing
ally in the U.S. appear to have
that states have compelling interdropped to around 1.1 million a
est to protect these pain-capable
year.
unborn children.
This drop in the annual number of As discussed in the report, the

NRLC model legislation has now

been enacted in 10 states. In addition, a federal version of the bill
has been introduced, and National
Right to Life has declared it to be
the organizations top legislative
priority for the current Congress.
"Abortion remains widely available. But after years of being told
that abortion was 'the best
choice' or 'their only choice,'
women are learning that there are
alternatives to abortion that affirm their lives and the lives of
their children," added Tobias.
"The bottom line is simple: the
right-to-life movement is succeeding because even after 41 years
and more than 56 million abortions, the conscience of our nation knows that killing unborn
children is wrong."
The report is available from the
National Right to Life Communications Department here:
www.nrlc.org/communications/sta
teofabortion
Founded in 1968, National Right to
Life, the federation of 50 state rightto-life affiliates and more than 3,000
local chapters, is the nation's oldest
and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of
the pro-life movement, NRLC works
through legislation and education to
protect innocent human life from
abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide
and euthanasia. (Christiannewswire)

Doers of the Word contd from Page 3

It is very simple, if you
walk in love then what
you pray for will not be
self-serving, but giving,
meeting all needs not
just yours.

to break them. It makes it

impossible not to trust
God and lean on Him,
because when His love
pours out of you - You
will put Him first in
Your life!
Remember when you
throw a pebble in a small Let me leave you with a
pond, it makes many ripfew thought:
Put God first in your life.
ples, not just one.
Meditate on Gods Word.
What you pray for will
Learn how it will impact
affect others as well as
your life and answer you
yourself, it always does.
needs. Pray for others,
not just yourself. Loving
The key to being a "doer
means getting your eyes
of the Word" is love.
off your needs and on to
Love is the glue that
someone else needs. The
holds it all together.
Word tells us to pray for
It is the power that
each other.
activates faith and generosity. It is the fulfill- Put what you learn into
practice. Everyday, one
ment of all the previstep at a time. In everyous commandments.
thing give thanks.
You wont have to try to Pray without ceasing. Rekeep the Ten Command- joice evermore! Amen!
ments when you have
If you want to know for
Gods love in you. Gods
sure that you are a child
love makes it impossible
of God, then I would like

to invite you to earnestly

pray this prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, I
come to you in the name
of Jesus. Your word says,
"and the one who
comes to Me I will by no
means cast out." (Jn.6:37),
So I know You wont cast
me out, but You take me
in, And I thank you for it.
You said in your Word,
"whoever calls upon the
name of the Lord shall be
saved.'' (Ro. 10:13).
I am calling on Your name,
So I know You have saved
me now, You also said,
"that if you confess with
your mouth the Lord
Jesus and believe in your
heart that God has raised
Him from the dead, you
will be saved. For with the
heart one believes to
righteousness, and with
the mouth confession is
made to salvation." (Ro.10:9,10).

Healing Contd from Page 6

gives grace to the humble.''
7. Therefore submit to
God. Resist the devil and
he will flee from you.
When we are submitted
to God He gives us the
grace to resist the devil.
But we have to do the
resisting, God will not do
that for us, and when we
resist the devil he will flee.
Gods Word is on the line
and he can not lie. He will
watch over His Word to
perform it. It shall accomplish that which it was sent
to do. It will not return
void!

over him, anointing him

with oil in the name of the
Lord.
15. And the prayer of faith
will save the sick, and the
Lord will raise him up. And
if he has committed sins,
he will be forgiven.
We see that healing and
the forgiveness go hand in
hand. I'm not here to start
an argument, but to start
an encouragement. I know
that's not proper grammar, but I hope you take
my point.
Remember Jesus said to
the paralytic man who
came for healing, be of
good cheer your sins are
forgiven you. Then He
went on to say

your bed, and go to your

house.''
7. And he arose and departed to his house.
8. Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God
who had given such power
to men.
Jesus forgave the mans
sins, and then to prove it,
He Healed him. You will
notice the result was that
people glorified God.

If you have already made

Jesus Christ the Lord of
your life then thank God, I
It is not the will of God
would like to encourage
the Father that any one of
His children to have sickyou to also accept Him as
ness or disease--None!
your Healer. He is both
rd
Remember the 103
you know? Find out for
Matthew
9:2
And
behold,
Psalm. Vs.3. Who forgives
they brought to Him a
yourself that He is both.
all your iniquities, Who
paralytic lying on a bed.
heals all your diseases.
Acknowledge Him as your
And Jesus, seeing their
You can not separate
savior and the forgiver of
faith,
said
to
the
paralytic,
them, Jesus paid the penal"Son, be of good cheer;
all your sins and also
ty for both, so why not
acknowledge Him as the
enjoy them both? They are your sins are forgiven
you.''
freely given, and given at
healer of your body; Who
an incredible cost.
6. "But that you may know forgives all your iniquities,
that the Son of Man has
James 5:14. Is anyone
power on earth to forgive Who heals all your diseasamong you sick? Let him
es.
sins'' then He said to the
call for the elders of the
church, and let them pray paralytic, "Arise, take up

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