Pastor Adeboye speaks on Abortion and Family Planning

GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Adejare Adeboye, yesterday again condemned abortion, declaring that God frowns at it in any form.

Adeboye, while praying for pregnant women at the headquarters of RCCG, The Throne of Grace, Ebute-Metta, said through his Special Assistant on Administration and Personnel, Pastor Johnson Odesola that, “The Holy Bible is very clear on abortion. Abortion is ungodly, it is unbiblical and the Church’s stand on abortion is clear: it is unacceptable. God is not against family planning but God is against abortion,” he added.

The cleric noted that there are several methods of family planning that would completely prevent formation of a baby.

    "I do not need to go into details
     as medical practitioners would
     always explain to parents who
     want to go into family planning
     after getting the number of
     children they desire."

    "But after a life is formed and is
     terminated, that is clearly
     against God’s will and the
     couple would  be held
     accountable with a charge not
     less than murder."

Adeboye also explained that doctors and couples can look up to God for divine intervention when it appears that the life of an expectant mother is in danger instead of quickly concluding that the life of the baby should be terminated to save the life of the mother.

    "There have been similar serious
     cases in the Church that the
     mother ended up giving birth to
     such babies and this is where
     miracles come in. If we can trust
     God, He is able to reverse the
     situation and the mother of the
     baby would deliver safely
     without getting the baby aborted
     and the baby would also live."

    "Medical is terrestrial, which is a
     low terrain of knowledge, while
     a miracle, which is divine is
     celestial, which means God can
     do anything."

    "When the life of a mother is in
     danger, we simply pray and the
     God of miracle, who created life
     in the first instance, would
     intervene."

The cleric advised that mothers should take care of their children, sleep well and avoid stress.

    "Everywhere there is life, there
     is noise because children would
     play and fight and the irony of
     it is that one of the biggest
     headaches in the home where
     there are no children is ‘silence’."

    "Therefore, mothers should not
     bother themselves with their
     children’s noise at home
     because it is normal for a home
     where there is joy to be filled
     with noise of kid fighting and
     pulling each other’s leg."

    "Mothers should, therefore,
     avoid unnecessary stress but
     joyfully commit their children
     unto God and look up unto Him
     for proper training according to
     His will."

He prayed that every expectant mother would deliver safely, while those that are looking up to God for children would be answered.