In God’s grace and mercy, the Lord has established a Bound4LIFE chapter in Atlanta, GA, in response to the cry to “end abortion and send revival to America.” God has established this B4L chapter in Atlanta as a one of His strategies to end abortion, not only unto revival, but also unto Atlanta being established as a City of Refuge in the end of the age. Abortion is linked to Georgia’s history, and the ending of this atrocity carries tremendous implications, not only for the state and region, but also the country. As Rick Joyner stated in a prophetic word, “A great spiritual breakthrough in Atlanta will result in other strategic breakthroughs around the world”1. In January 2007, Georgia submitted a bill (HB1) in the Georgia House of Representatives that would ban all abortions with no exceptions. In March a resolution (HR 536) stating that the “right to life” would begin at conception was also submitted to the Georgia House of Representatives. Could Georgia be the next flashpoint in the war on the ending of abortion?

In 2004, there were 32,708 abortions reported in Georgia. Although the numbers have fluctuated over the last 34 years that abortion has been legal in America, using this number as an average, Georgia has contributed to the world-wide holocaust with at least 1,112,072 abortions (this is most likely an understatement). If the blood of one Abel cries out to God from the ground, what does the sound of 1.1 million babies’ blood crying out to the ground sound like?

Ultimately we have abortion in our land because we broke covenant with our God and made a covenant with death (Isaiah 28:18). Subsequently, we also broke covenants we made with each other, specifically the covenants that our forefathers made with the Native Americans. Because of the broken covenants, we have given the spirit of death an open door in our state and nation. Slavery soon took a front seat in the nation, and in 1857 blacks were labeled as property, denying them the constitutional right to “life, liberty, and a pursuit of happiness” in the case Dred Scott v. Sanford. Similarly, on Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court passed a law, denying personhood to those in the womb and labeling them as property, in the controversial Roe v. Wade case. Unlike Dred Scott, Roe has yet to be overturned in our country. Babies in the womb are still considered property and are aborted at will, regardless of the age of the baby.

Georgia, like many other states in our union, is guilty of the killing and removal of Native Americans, as well as the horrendous act of slavery. Georgia had a high percentage of Cherokees living in her land before the expulsion, known as the Trail of Tears, where over 4000 Cherokees died while traveling to Oklahoma. In addition, on the eve of the Civil War, the population of slaves owned in Georgia topped 44% of the total population in the state2. Both of these evils are backed by a spirit of greed and racism, influencing most of the theology of Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger. It is because of her ideas and writings that one of the primary reasons the abortion rate is so high in Georgia, especially among minorities, is because she blatantly targeted such minorities for extinction in order to produce a “pure race.”

Georgia was also the birthplace and home of pastor and Civil Rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Just as the Lord called forth Dr King, Jr. as a deliverer in Atlanta, to be a voice for the persecuted, He is also raising up deliverers to be a voice for the babies of the womb in Atlanta. Part of the prophetic word that Chuck Pierce and Dutch Sheets spoke over Georgia in 2003 during their 50 States’ Tour was that “the Lord is removing the hostile spirit…the womb is now receptive to carry forth the word of the Lord, this which it was destined to bring forth”3. We believe that the Lord was not only speaking of a spiritual womb, but the natural one as well, which carries the babies who will bring forth the word of the Lord in our state.

Another part of the word that Pierce and Sheets gave at that time was: “God says, ‘If you release and come before Me and ask forgiveness as a people and release that up to me, I will release this land from its cry of the blood that is within it.’” The Lord Himself is performing this word, by raising up His intercessors in Atlanta, where His people are coming together, asking forgiveness for the aforementioned sins night and day, unceasing. The intercessors have begun to gather, and we believe that we are on the cusp of a major breakthrough. As Rick Joyner also stated: “The cultural and spiritual forces of the world are still being assembled in Atlanta for one of the ultimate spiritual conflicts”1.

Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, has historically been known to be a city of violence and death. Even as recent as the early part of this century, it was in the top five cities in the number of homicides per capita, reported by the FBI. This is no coincidence, as the first name of Atlanta in the 1800’s was “Terminus,” a name given to it describing it as the end of the line for the railroad4. The word terminus comes from the Greek word “terminal,” meaning “fatal, ending in death.” Since we know that names have biblically been used to describe the state of something or its prophetic calling, the former name of Terminus, has literally ushered in a spirit of death in Atlanta.

Because of the redemptive calling on Atlanta, the Lord renamed her this, which actually means “New Beginnings.” We believe that the Lord is going to perform His word in Georgia, bring down the spirit of death and give her new beginnings: a culture of life. Just as one author of the American Civil War wrote, “The battle for Atlanta will decide the fate of the South,” we believe the Lord is still saying this today. As abortion is ended in Atlanta, Georgia, the gate city of the South, the gates will be opened for the ending of abortion across the region and nation.

Works Cited

1 Rick Joyner, “Strategic Prophetic Word…Atlanta” http://www.morningstarministries.org/feature/sw/us/US052902.htm

2 New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1019

3 Chuck Pierce, State Prayer Focus: Georgia http://www.glory-of-zion.org/georgia.htm

4 Billy Humphrey, “Atlanta’s Redemptive Calling” http://www.ihop-atlanta.com/page.php?p=media_blogs&postID=8