In 2004, I was praying in Colorado Springs with Lou Engle and other young people. Chris Berglund, one of Lou’s best friends and a prophet, had a dream. God told him, “I am going to open up a well for the ending of abortion in Psalm 18.” I was leading worship as Lou shared the dream the next morning (listen to the recording). God ended up opening a well for me for the ending of abortion and this passage has been the primary well that I have come back to for the past 18 years in this fight. I wrote a song, “Voiceless” from this Psalm. The name Moses means, “drawn out of many waters” (Psalm 18:16). Psalm 18 is a prophetic word that God is going to draw these little ones forth from their mother’s wombs and rescue them because He delights in them (Psalm 18:19).
Last April, Theresa and I heard that Lou Engle was going to be speaking at a friend of mine’s church in Ka
nsas so we loaded up the kids and went there. For years, I’ve fought with the Engles for the unborn so I was looking forward to seeing them again. We saw Lou and his wife Therese in the lobby and caught up a bit. He was moved by the fact we already have three children. Then, surprisingly, suddenly he started prophesying. He said, “When two Levites marry then they have a son that 80 years later is used of God as the deliverer Moses. Abortion has been in America for 48 years but God will use the deliverer to bring it down.” We had been in some heart wrenching struggles with Jeremiah’s speech delays so I immediately assumed the word was for him since Moses in the Bible had speech problems too. I mostly forgot about the Word but thank God had written it down.
A few weeks later, we found out we were pregnant! Several months later, I went to the prophetic rooms at IHOPKC. The man prophesied that our baby in the womb would be like Moses and Paul, an encourager, pastor, leader, and teacher. I kind of ignored the Word to be honest, but my wife really laid hold of it and began to feel like that was supposed to be his name. I told her, “we are not naming our child based off a word in the prophetic rooms!” But she continued to feel like Paul was his name. Over the next few months, as I thought about my history in Psalm 18, I began to realize that his name needed to be Moses (I had completely forgotten about Lou’s Word).
On March 11th, we had an incredibly difficult birth. We were seeking to do a water birth at home but ended up transferring to the hospital because of incredibly intense labor pains related to his position in the womb. When we arrived at the hospital the doctors had some concerns, so, they brought in the NICU team. As Moses was born, he had difficulty breathing and I saw his hand just drop to the ground when the doctor held it up to test reflexes. For the first 24 hours, they were very concerned about his breathing. However, he had a quick turnaround, his breathing normalized and now we have a healthy, normal little guy after five days in the NICU.
The next day on the 12th, I woke up in the middle of the night and for some reason pulled up my news app. The AP news headline read, “Texas clinics’ lawsuit over abortion ban ‘effectively over’”. I began to realize that on the very day Moses was born, the Texas case was settled and an avenue opened up for states all over America to ban abortion the same way (Missouri and Tennessee are already putting forth laws modeled after Texas). I finally knew for sure that his name was Moses!
I talked to Theresa about it the next day and she agreed. We put it on his birth certificate. One of the nurses walked in and asked us what we had decided to name him (all of them had been excitingly asking us!) I said, “Moses Paul”. Immediately after she left, Lou’s wife, Therese, called me to make sure we were ok. I had been texted with their daughter Christy keeping her updated so they could be praying and Christy was very concerned about us. I updated them with the good news that he was doing better.
As soon as she got off the phone, I gave Theresa really big eyes and felt the rush of the Holy Spirit. The word I had forgotten from Lou months ago suddenly came back to me, “Abortion has been in America for 48 years but God will use the deliverer to bring it down.” The very day that Moses was born, March 11th, God gave a template for states all over America to bypass Roe v Wade and ban abortion.
We still need to cry out for the Mississippi case (which is still very much in jeopardy and has not been decided by the court). This case would give states a more direct approach to ban abortion and would be a much stronger victory, but I am rejoicing at the beginnings of God bringing abortion down in our nation! Moses is a sign to me and perhaps all of us that God really will send from on high, take them, draw them out of many waters and rescue them because He delights in them!
