Life wins.

And it is positioned spiritually to keep on winning.

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Choosing life is the message of the Bible.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live (Deut. 30:19).

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 (John 10:10).

And life now has a fighting chance in America, since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Lives Saved

In 2022, abortions dropped by 2 percent and the percent of women having abortions dropped by 3 percent, according to data released in early December by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This equates to tens of thousands of lives saved.

But it has been 50 long years under a national curse.

The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court did more than legalize national abortion rights with the Roe case in 1973.

They signed a covenant with death.

Suddenly America was subject to all the curses activated by such a covenant — regardless of individual beliefs.

To the Lord, child sacrifice is an offering to the demon Molech; perpetrators were to be put to death. And those in Israel who avert their eyes from the sin were also to be put to death.

America was not just averting her eyes but giving a hand to child sacrifice.

SCOTUS had granted satan permission to take swaths of American ground.

The bounty?

• Millions of lives snuffed out.
• Millions of women and men living with the guilt and trauma of participating in state-sanctioned murder.

And an inculcation of a death culture.

American children were trained through media, including gaming, to consume violence and respond reflexively to it. The young were seeing murders in films and on television daily.

The value of a life eroded.

A recent survey showed that more than 40 percent of youth think the recent murder of a healthcare corporate executive was justified.

This is shocking but shouldn’t be surprising. Sadly, it is expected in a nation that held hands with death for so long.

Our youth have been living in a world in which they too could have been murdered — seemingly arbitrarily — sucked out of wombs, diced to pieces.

In a world where life isn’t valued, is it a surprise we have developed child killers?

Years ago, the Lord gave me a dream — it was a post-apocalyptic landscape. Young people in the dream were treading upon baby parts and engaging in acts of violence. I woke with a feeling of dread.

The Lord showed me I was seeing the effects of sin and of the judgment of that sin.

In 2022, SCOTUS tore up that death covenant.

With the Dobbs decision, the death culture lost some of its grip…and satan lost some of his permission to operate.

Rich Swingle, also a contributing writer for IFA, celebrated this spiritual breakthrough in his article about the lifting of curses linked to abortion.

It is no coincidence — spiritually — that revival has been breaking out among our youth since 2022.

Thousands have confessed Christ and been baptized. Many intercessors are hopeful and expectant for the continued revival. See Rich Swingle’s article on revival.

Satan has inked death covenants with several states, though.

The states have split into sheep and goat states.

This was evidenced in the 2024 election, with three states fending off pro-abortion ballot initiatives and seven states adopting them.

Even so, 41 states have some sort of abortion ban; 13 have total bans.

The portability of the abortion pill has opened borders, though. A SCOTUS ruling earlier this year preserved access to one of the drugs used for abortions, rejecting the legal standing of those who sought to limit the drug’s use..

But states are fighting back. Louisiana has defined the abortion pill as a controlled substance, seeking to limit its use, while Texas is suing a New York doctor for prescribing the drug for a Texas-based woman.

The Lord is fighting back through His intercessors.

The battle for life is being waged expertly through IFA’s state prayer groups. Over the last couple of years, IFA launched state prayer groups, precisely positioned to tear down abortion through arrows of prayer.

For more on the IFA state prayer groups, see Gloria Robles’ article.

In the wake of the Dobbs decision, the Lord has given specific prayer strategies for the states and for the nation.

In early November, I wrote about a demonic effort to thwart life in the national elections. The enemy has deployed an entity called “The Blinding,” which works alongside “Death,” and “Self” to mire millions in the lie of abortion.

Additionally, the Lord has directed us to contend against the dominion of “Self.” Without question, the prayers of IFA intercessors were critical to securing the Dobbs decision.

Immediately prior to oral arguments on the Dobbs case, the Lord had also instructed me to bind demonic entities called “Death to the Helpless,” with the accompanying haze of “Acceptance” and “Correctness.”

The new administration may give life a boost.

Although the GOP platform backed away from its opposition to abortion, President-elect Trump signaled a willingness to support life with one of his nominees for the DOJ, pro-life Harmeet K. Dhillon.

Earlier, Trump had announced his choice of pro-life Dr. David Weldon to run the CDC.

And Trump’s cost cutters Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are aiming the axe at federal funding of Planned Parenthood.

How material Trump’s team will be against abortion remains to be seen, however.

Blessedly, we are not dependent upon a White House administration for action. The All Powerful Lord God is flexing His arm for life, and He will have the final word.

In a beautiful city.

By the tree of life.

Lord, help us celebrate life and the victories You have won for it in the past two years. Forgive those states that have voted for death. Bring reversals.  Bless those states that have protected pre-born lives. Pour out waves of revival among the young in every state in the Union. Reap a harvest of souls for Your Son, who Himself lay in a womb — just as vulnerable as any child. Praise You Lord!

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New York City–based Joyce Swingle is an intercessor and a contributing writer for IFA. With her husband, Rich, also a contributing writer for IFA, Joyce shares the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world through theater, speaking, writing, and film. Prior to going into full-time ministry, Joyce worked for about 20 major magazines and now works in pastoral ministry and Christian counseling. www.Richdrama.com. Photo Credit: Vika Glitter/Pexels.