You know we are in serious times when covens of witches are bold enough to announce on television that they are organized worldwide to curse the American President. I am sure they have organized in this way before. After all, Hitler and his upper military echelon were deeply involved in the occult. At least they were secret about these leanings.

But these witches’ curses are having a ripple effect. There is a strange general blindness that seems to have settled on much of the American population and a corresponding inability to hear as well as see clearly. Inexplicably, there is violence protesting the thought of violence; slander protesting the thought of slander; and fascism protesting the thought of fascism. This is complete madness. Of course, many are being paid to be so mad. So, they are “crazy like a fox”. But that so many others are unable to think through these situations – that so few are able to remain rational, shows that something else is tipping the emotional scale.

The boldness of the witches, the erratic behavior of many of the people, the defiance of the law, the disrespect of those in authority all show that we are dealing with the enemy camp. (I am not referring to political parties here). I am referring to our real enemy – Satan, using men as puppets and as masks.

Spiritually, this battle is not the American President’s. It is ours – the body of Christ’s.

BOOT CAMP IS OVER

We thought we would have a few more years of peace. But we now find ourselves collecting our gear and being shipped out to the front lines. Our heads are spinning and we are trying to catch our breath. We have gone from recruits to – dare we say it? Warriors! Warriors! Let me just try to get accustomed to the sound of that and – more piercing to our souls – the implications of that.

All right, let me think through where we are. This is no skirmish, that’s for sure. We have been dumped onto the beaches of Normandy. We have been set down in the middle of the “Killing Fields”. Well, we knew it was coming. But here it is.

We’ve been training for this for years but now none of us are sure the training exactly matches our present reality. The training was a bit more like knights in shining armor training for a jousting match. Everyone was going to hold to the rules. Instead we are confronted with no-holds-barred-back-alley-street-fighting. It’s dirty and there is not a whit of chivalry in it. We are cut off from one another and just doing the best we can with the stash of ammunition at hand.

But the good thing about it, is that – at last we are going to get to use all that training,. At last we’re going to see if we will plant our feet in the lentil field like David’s mighty men and refuse to budge or will we turn and run. We will at last see who God has made us.

We are honored that although we trained for a kingly joust, the Lord thinks we can adjust to street fighting if it’s required and Prayer is the weapon.

There are many styles and groupings of prayer. But truly, when all is said and done, prayer is prayer. I myself have moved from more formal prayer gatherings with worship music and some semblance of form and communion to praying constantly. Much more prayer is required than form can contain. The other is beautiful and a joy but we are in desperate times. I pray constantly. I pray out loud. I pray internally. I pray with anyone who will pray.

PRAYER

We, of course, must act as Christ leads – but at all times, we must pray. Pray with every fiber of your being, dear children of the Living God. The spring is always a perilous time as the Word says in I Chronicles 20:1 “Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle…”. Those high rulers are not just on earth, but also the princes and powers of the demonic kingdom. They are moving upon the lost and the weak minded during this season. They stir and stir like stirring a caldron – in order to cause conflict – and please pray for our President. The witches from all over the world cursing him, is a hard burden to live under.

May our Lord help him – and all the leaders seeking to return their nations to the rule of law.