SINGING
TO SAVE BABIES

Topics: Abortion; Desires; Dreams; Fulfillment; Goals; Hope; Ministry

References: 1 Samuel 1:1–11; Psalm 20:4; 37:4; 139:13–16

“Being single at forty-two, I’m realizing I may never have a child,” says singer Kathy Troccoli. “But God has repeatedly brought me stories from women who have chosen life over an abortion as a result of hearing a song I wrote.”

Troccoli had just finished singing at a concert in Dallas when a young woman’s voice came over the loudspeaker. She said when she was pregnant with her second child, people told her to abort the baby. She went to one of Troccoli’s concerts and heard the song “A Baby’s Prayer,” which says, “But if I should die before I wake, I pray her soul you’ll keep. ‘Forgive her, Lord; she doesn’t know that you gave life to me.’ ”

The Holy Spirit used that song to help the young woman decide to keep her baby.

“God has shown me that more children have been born through that song than I could ever bear,” Troccoli says.

—Kathy Troccoli and Dee Brestin, Falling in Love with Jesus (Word, 2001)