Sunday’s prayer vigil had a message: ‘Yes to Life’
Published 9:31 am Wednesday, February 2, 2022
State Representative Matt Lockett, House District 39, Representative Kim King, House District 55 and Rep. Dan Fister, House District 56. (Submitted photo)
Rev. John Moriarty, Rector Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington. (Submitted photo)
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A recent Prayer Vigil for Life had a message: “Yes to Life.”
Held Sunday at Faith United Community Church, in Nicholasville, the event honored the sanctity of all human life from the womb to the tomb.
It provided an opportunity for pro-life supporters who were unable to attend the national March for Life on Jan. 21 to gather locally to pray for an end to abortion and to pray for the United States of America.
Abortion is the fruit of what has been sown for a long time, said Greg Williams, president/CEO of Love and Lordship Ministry, who served as the keynote principal speaker.
“When I was asked to speak on ‘Reaping What We’re Sowing,’ it became immediately evident that people were beginning to hear the message that abortion is the fruit of what has been sown for a long time,” he said.
His Lexington-based ministry presents a “Biblical approach to relationships, sexuality, marriage and family and the impact we are called to have in and through Christ’s Church,” the organization’s website says.
“We desperately need to continue to stand and vigilantly fight against the evil of abortion and the taking of innocent life but we must look and work at deeper levels,” Williams said. “God has told us in His Word (Galatians 6:7-9) — ‘Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. Let’s not become discouraged in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not become weary.’
“We can’t paint an apple orange and call it an orange and that’s what we’ve done for so long in our culture and even many of our churches,” he continued. “We tell people what they want to hear and they keep coming back but they Law of the Harvest tells us plainly that the fruit will reveal the seeds that are sown and God is faithful and will not be mocked.”
Williams noted that abortion is the fruit of the seeds of sexual immorality and relational brokenness.
“We must continue to stand and fight as in the Vigil for Life and many other events and groups that do so,” he said. “However, as long as our education, media and government continue to push and promote ‘porn as education,’ then these are the seeds that will continue to bring the destructive fruit of sexual immorality, broken lives, relationships and families. We must stand against these lies.”
He called for the community do more than teach and preach and to build relationships of accountability. Citizens were urged to model these relationships and share them with others.
“God never intended for communities and systems to guide us but to protect what we are sowing and building in our hearts, homes and relationships,” Williams said. “Only when we change hearts and homes in marriages and families … and then in the churches, will we begin to see good seeds sown and the good fruit of loving relationships and homes, as well as strong churches that can stand against the lies, deception and bad seeds of porneia and sexual immorality and subsequent bad fruit of brokenness, disease, and abortion.”
Other activities during the vigil include a Legislative update by State Representative Matt Lockett (R, District 39).
“The number of abortions are rising in Kentucky, a trend that we don’t want to see,” he said. “This prayer vigil raised awareness of the issue and made a call to people of all faiths to pray for the end of this atrocity in the United States.”
Lockett said he remains optimistic that the US Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade.
“I am optimistic that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. If they do so, they will probably send the issue back to the states to be decided on a state level. In Kentucky, we have worked hard to ensure that if this happens, we will be ready and enact strong pro-life legislation.”
Lockett said citizens have an opportunity to make their voices heard about the issue in November.
“This November, every Kentuckian will have the opportunity to vote on a KY Constitutional Amendment that says the KY Constitution does not guarantee a right to an abortion,” he said. “I encourage everyone to vote YES for life in November!”
The sponsor of the vigil was a local chapter of Kentucky Right to Life. Right to Life of Central Kentucky was incorporated in 1972 as a nonsectarian nonprofit, which receives no government funding. Its mission is to restore legal protections to human beings whose lives are threatened by abortion, infanticide, involuntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Vigil included a college campus update by Jordan Moorman, regional coordinator of the Kentucky and Ohio, Students for Life of America. American Heritage Girls Troop 356 were scheduled to host a Hot Chocolate and Cookie Social.
