Pastor calls for God to judge Illinois for extreme
pro-abortion legislation
Fri Jun 7, 2019 - 4:32 pm EST
SPRINGFIELD,
June 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The
pastor who led the Illinois House of Representatives in prayer last Friday
admonished the chamber for advancing virtually unlimited abortion in the state,
calling on God to judge lawmakers’ abandonment of preborn babies.
Illinois
lawmakers are currently considering the so-called Reproductive
Health Act (RHA), which like similar bills in other states would codify a
“fundamental right” to abortion, establish “that a fertilized egg, embryo, or
fetus does not have independent rights under the law,” and repeal numerous
restrictions and regulations on abortion including protections for infants born
after failed abortions. It passed
the state House last week, and awaits action by the Democrat-controlled
state Senate.
The
legislation “allows abortion throughout pregnancy, up to the moment of birth,
for any reason. It allows abortions by a non-doctor in a facility that's not
inspected and doesn't have to report injuries,” Susan B. Anthony List National
Campaign Chair Jill Stanek said. Stanek is an Illinois native
and former nurse who witnessed babies being born alive and left to die in
Chicago. “It strips away conscience protections for pro-life health care
workers and forces all health insurance policies to cover abortions, including
religious organizations.”
On
Friday, Pastor Corey Musgrave of Fairfield’s New Beginnings Church devoted his
opening prayer to the sanctity of life, Illinois Review reports.
Musgrave had been invited to lead the prayer by Republican state Rep. Darren
Bailey.
“God,
we thank you for the ability to choose our own direction, even though those
choices have consequences,” Musgrave said. “All throughout Your word, it is
clear You have given us a choice [...] so God, I confess here today that I have
not always made the right choice, and I thank you for being a merciful God that
forgives and restores when we turn back to You.”
“This
state has decided to go its own way apart from you,” he continued. “Lord, You
have told us those things which You hate, and among them are hands that shed
innocent blood.”
“So,
God, we have made our appeals to the leaders of Illinois this week on behalf of
those innocent babies who do not yet have a voice,” he declared. “We have been
a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves as You have commanded us.
Those appeals were denied, but we have one final appeal left and that is to the
courts of Heaven.”
Musgrave
asked God to “rise up...and judge Illinois for the
sanctioned destruction of the innocent unborn. For when Your judgements are in
this state, the inhabitants of Illinois learn righteousness. In this House I
pray for justice to roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty river.
In Your judgement I pray that You would remember mercy for we know that You, oh
God, do not want anyone to be destroyed.”
Several
female Democrats in the chamber turned their backs to Musgrave during the
prayer, Tristate Homepage reports.
The pastor said later that those who took offense misunderstood his message.
“The word judge or judgement some people misconstrued...as wrath or I
wanted God to do something bad, no,” he said.
“The definition of judge is to make a decision and
my prayer is to God you have to make a decision on this because we are
hopelessly divided as a nation on this issue.”
“I don't have hatred for anyone,” he
added. “I love the mother that had to make that
choice and is dealing with it or the legislators that put this in.”
Democrat
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who vowed
in January to make Illinois “the most progressive state in the nation when
it comes to guaranteeing women’s reproductive rights,” has said he intends to
sign the RHA into law.
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The church leaders from various denominations
marched to Parliament on Wednesday to support their members who appeared before
Parliament to put forward arguments against the legalisation of abortion.
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SPRINGFIELD - Pastor Corey Musgrave of the
New Beginnings Church in Fairfield, Illinois led the Illinois House in prayer
Friday, asking God to judge the state for its abortion policy:
So, God, we have made our appeals to the leaders of Illinois this week on behalf of those innocent babies who do not yet have a voice. We have been a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves as You have commanded us. Those appeals were denied, but we have one final appeal left and that is to the courts of Heaven.God Almighty, I make an appeal to Heaven today, to You the perfect judge, the One who presides over Heaven’s court.I ask you to rise up, oh God, and judge Illinois for the sanctioned destruction of the innocent unborn. For when Your judgements are in this state, the inhabitants of Illinois learn righteousness. In this House I pray for justice to roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty river. In Your judgement I pray that You would remember mercy for we know that You, oh God, do not want anyone to be destroyed.I ask this in the name of Your son, the one who died for a sinner like me, the one who was appointed to judge the living and the dead. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2019/05/before-illinois-house-fairfield-pastor-asks-god-to-judge-illinois-for-abortion-policy.html
Illinois Pastor’s Fiery Prayer Calls on God to Rebuke State
House for ‘Sanctioned Destruction of Innocent Unborn’
By Will
Maule
Author
June 5, 2019
In light
of the passing of an Illinois bill that openly repeals the state’s ban on
partial-birth abortion, a local pastor has gone before the State House to
rebuke the state for its sins.
What does the new law say?
The
“Reproductive Health Act” permits abortions up to nine months and also requires
insurance companies to provide coverage. Many have interpreted the bill as even
more extreme than the New
York “late-term” abortion provision that was passed at the start of the
year, which many coined as unadulterated “infanticide.”
In addition to the late-term allowance, the Illinois bill also provides no abortion coverage exemptions for churches, religious nonprofits, or pro-life individuals and small business owners.
What did the pastor say?
Speaking
before the Senate House, and utterly disgusted by the new law,
Pastor Corey Musgrave, of the New Beginnings Church in Fairfield, did not hold back.
Pastor Corey Musgrave, of the New Beginnings Church in Fairfield, did not hold back.
“God, we have made our appeals to the leaders of Illinois this week
on behalf of those innocent babies who do not yet have a voice,” he declared. “We
have been a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves as You have
commanded us. Those appeals were denied, but we have one final appeal left and
that is to the courts of Heaven.”
Musgrave
continued: “God Almighty, I make an appeal to Heaven
today, to You the perfect judge, the One who presides over Heaven’s court. I
ask you to rise up, oh God, and judge Illinois for the sanctioned destruction
of the innocent unborn.”
“When Your judgements are in this state,” Musgrave said, “the
inhabitants of Illinois learn righteousness.”
The
pastor went on to pray that “justice would roll down
like water and righteousness like a mighty river,” referncing Amos 5:24.
“In Your judgement I pray that You would remember mercy for we know
that You, oh God, do not want anyone to be destroyed,” he said. “I ask
this in the name of Your son, the one who died for a sinner like me, the one
who was appointed to judge the living and the dead. In the name of Jesus Christ
I pray. Amen.”
“This has nothing to do with health care,” Staver added. “This
a crime against humanity.”
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And when they
had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God
with boldness. – Acts 4:31 (ESV)
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Pastor Who Torched Illinois Legislators with Viral Pro-Life
Prayer Now Has Message for America
By
Shaun Hair
Published
June 10, 2019 at 12:03pm
Pastor
Cory Musgrave took the nation by storm after a video showing him praying
before the Illinois House went viral.
Musgrave
was asked to pray at an Illinois legislative session after being invited as
Republican state Rep. Darren Bailey’s guest.
The state
had recently passed the “Reproductive Health Act,” a bill that repealed the
state’s ban on partial-birth abortion. Because of the bill, Illinois residents
can now abort their babies up to the ninth month of pregnancy — and force
insurance companies to pay for the procedure.
Musgrave,
standing only feet from the Illinois lawmakers, prayed a fiery request: “God
Almighty, I make an appeal to Heaven today, to You the perfect judge, the One who
presides over Heaven’s court.”
He made
it clear that he was referring to the abortion bill, saying, “I ask You to rise
up, oh God, and judge Illinois for the sanctioned destruction of the innocent
unborn.”
Musgrave’s
prayer, which lasted just under four minutes, stands out as a striking display
of courage that all those who value innocent life should seek
to imitate.
I had the privilege to speak with Musgrave after
the video caught the attention of The Western Journal. He told me that since
the prayer, he has received emails and phone calls from all over the world and
that “almost all of it has been positive.”
But the conversation took a serious turn when we
discussed the issue at hand.
Disregard for life isn’t just an Illinois problem,
Musgrave said. Americans in general are having a “huge issue taking
responsibility for their actions.”
Abortion is a “spiritual issue” because
“fundamentally, God is the creator of life,” he said. “And God takes seriously
the killing of innocent life.”
“Abortion is ultimately a selfish act,” Musgrave
argued, because “we are sacrificing kids for our own convenience.”
He isn’t interested in letting people of faith off the hook.
“This is is a very serious topic that most Christians don’t take
seriously enough,” Musgrave said.
Musgrave noted that Republicans are also to blame for historically not
fighting hard enough for the pro-life part of their platform.
He called out former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner for signing HB 40 in 2017. The bill greatly expanded the use of
Illinois taxpayer dollars to pay for abortion procedures.
The Republican Rauner lost the governorship the following year to
Democrat J.B. Pritzker.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/pastor-torched-illinois-legislators-viral-pro-life-prayer-now-message-america/
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The
town hall meeting with state legislators overflowed with nearly a thousand
outraged pro-family citizens.
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Corey Musgrave Prayer
Published on Jun 2, 2019
Southern
Illinois pastor prays for Illinois and urges legislators to stand up for the
lives of unborn children
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuPYFGwcs4Y
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