Our Guest: Molly Grigg
When Molly Grigg gave her life to Jesus, she started grieving for aborted children. As she involved herself in pro-life work, she struggled to understand how parents could “terminate” their own children. Then she met Sue, a satanic ritual abuse survivor who offered healing retreats for moms and dads who regretted their abortion decision. Some, like Sue, had been traumatized and coerced into abortion, others just didn’t want to parent, but virtually none of them had anticipated the depth of shame, guilt and loss of esteem they experienced after aborting. Molly observes that “Every broken child also breaks the soul of their parents. Whether they recognize the extent of the damage or not, their relationships are affected, their self-image is affected, and their hearts are hardened in negative ways. But Jesus heals the brokenhearted, and He brings liberty to those who are oppressed.”
Molly now offers free abortion recovery healing retreats through Deeper Still, a pro-life ministry with over 30 locations in the USA and internationally. She holds a BA in Psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic and Master degrees in Communication and Public Policy from Regent University, but she considers the best “credential” is that God heals abortion wounded hearts through Deeper Still. Molly’s soul-mate husband is Dan and together they have homeschooled four adult children.
Key Thoughts and Scriptures:
James 1:27 NASB Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
John 10:1-10 NIV …The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
- Jesus came not to take from us, but to give to us.
- Zōē means physical and spiritual life in the fullest sense.
Proverbs 19:23 NIV The fear of the Lord leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble.
- Fear of the Lord here refers to having a relational reverence of God, which leads to a vital and flourishing spiritual and natural life.
- Relationship with God ensures life.
- Because life is at the center of our Creator’s plan, life is something to value.
Romans 10:9 NKJV If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
- When you’re not grounded in a church family, you get grounded in the culture.
- “Whatever truth is, I want to find out what that is and follow it with a capital T.”
- Molly got grounded in the Bible and that became her guide.
- Are you gonna do this full surrender? Whether you’re gonna be all the way in?
- “Who is your Lord? And I said, yes, God is God. He’s all I want.”
That point of surrender for Molly created an unexpected understanding of the value of life.
Genesis 1:27 NIV So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
- The people that think that it’s your body, your choice, just don’t have the full view of how God views life.
- When Molly was asked to describe the overall goal God had for her life. She didn’t want to just flippantly put something on paper. So she prayed and felt God say, I’ve called you to be a mouthpiece for the unborn.
- While she was at school, so much changed. She received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and felt a deeper connection with the Lord.
- Molly didn’t want to make things happen through her own motivation. She wanted to be directed by the Lord.
Psalm 127:1 NIV Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain…
- No ministry is immune from corruption no matter how passionate and beautiful and pure-hearted it gets. This is something we always need to be diligent about to guard.
- No one person can do what a whole team of people can do.
“How do I trust that I can hear from God if this is the outcome?”
- If we’re gonna be pro-life, we gotta be pro-life on both sides of life, on the elderly and little ones and all in between.
- This is the beauty of our creation in God’s image; we are intrinsically valuable.
- But in our world system, we feel like we have to prove our value.
- In that brokenness, she became Molly, child of God, not Molly performance orientation.
- God loves us in spite of our flaws and in spite of our failures.
- When we get healed and deal with the things that are in our past, we can begin to see relationships in a healthier way.
Romans 8:28 NIV And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- “‘I’m going to pray three impossible prayers and I hope I can trust you in them’ because I still had wondered about my ability to follow what God said and hear correctly from God.
Ephesians 3:20 NIV Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us
Instead of running from God when she messed up, Molly ran to Him. And that allowed Him to redeem all the mistakes.
- “How do I know that I can follow You? How do I know that I can really hear Your voice?”
- “There’s been a great disappointment in your life and God is going to take care of it.”
- Molly saw that she had agreed with the enemy who is the accuser of the brother and who accuses God. And she was hit in an instant with deep amounts of sorrow. She prayed, Father, God forgive me.
Revelation 12:10 NIV …For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
- So many people are wounded because they’ve had leaders that have been wolves in sheep’s clothing. But what do they do? Instead of saying the wolf is culpable, the wolf needs to be corrected, they get all offended with God.
- And then the enemy has you right where he wants you to be, offended at God, offended at leadership, and stunted in your growth.
- God’s plan is always good, but He gives us free choice.
- When you recognize that and repent, the flow of the Holy Spirit can be back unhindered in your life and He can redeem it.
- Never give up praying for those we love. God can redeem anything. Our job is to keep our hearts pure and open. And our job is to also know that He is the one that does all the work.
Matthew 11:30 NIV For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Jesus heals and forgives and His blood is sufficient for everything.
- We always think about abortion as affecting the woman. Of course it does, but it affects the men as well and these men have nowhere to go and grieve.
- You have to know the truth before you can be set free.
John 8:32 NIV Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
- Early in her pro-life advocacy, Molly used the pro-life tracts as a hammer and had no idea the agony that the women and the men were going through.
- But God brought her through such a process that now she has compassion and can minister grace and mercy and freedom to them.
- It’s a beautiful thing when God brings us into healing.
- Sometimes if you see people that are full of zeal and just not a lot of grace, just please pray for them because they might be diamonds in the rough.
- Molly’s constant prayer is, “God give me your heart for this person.”
- We have the wisdom of God and His compassionate heart at our disposal.
Women from the Bible
John 4:1-42 NIV The Woman at the Well
John 8:1-11 NIV The Woman caught in adultery
- Jesus had compassionate responses to both of these women.
- If you feel shame, God is never the author of that.
Isaiah 42:3 NIV A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out…
- Even though Jesus knew all about the woman at the well, she felt a degree of acceptance.
- Now she’s willing to go to all her village and say, come see what this guy has to say.
- Then with the woman who was caught in the act of adultery, does Jesus shame her? He shames the people that are trying to set him into a trap.
- Go and sin no more. That is the heart of God. The redemptive, compassionate love of God.
- Jesus already paid for your forgiveness on the cross and His blood is sufficient.
Molly has heard people say, ‘I know I’m forgiven but I can’t forgive myself.’ The fallacy of that is you’re not accepting that the blood of Jesus is stronger than your sin.
- Abortion is not a shame exception.
Romans 8:38-39 NIV For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Your actions may require repentance, but it does not change His deep abiding love.
Isaiah 61:1-3 NIV The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
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