Don’t you dare look out your window
Darling everything’s on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
I had the chance the other day to go out to the front lines where the battle was being fought. War always seems like a far off thing, something you hear about on the news, but for the most part, never really experience.
I remember one winter break waking up every morning to the sound of bombs exploding and artillery being fired. My little brother Tommy had an obsession with the military channel, and where I lay my head happened to be on the other side of that wall.
You may be wondering what kind of conflict is going on down here in Guatemala?
The other day I spent the afternoon in the trenches with the wounded and dying. The front lines in which I speak of is the red light district of Chimaltenango, Guatemala. The wounded and dying are the girls who work in the brothels that line the street.
We had decided that morning that we were going to prayer walk down in the red light district and just follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. As we walked up and down the street passing the red curtain doors of brothels and hearing the music playing inside, we stopped outside of one that was seemingly quiet and just began praying. To our surprise from behind the iron barred window a face appeared.
She was deaf and couldn’t speak very well, but she had a beautiful smile. Her eyes carried a tremendous amount of sadness as she communicated in broken Spanish and broken sign language that her husband was killed in a car accident and she had 2 small children.
We asked to pray for her, she nodded yes. Emily and I both reached for her hands through the iron bars and prayed a prayer declaring destiny and freedom over her life.
And then more women came out of the door, and we prayed and fought for them as well.
That day a war was waged in the spirit over that street, a battle for those women’s souls, for their freedom, and for their destiny.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12
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