For 10 days this month our Squad Leaders Justin and Patrice (Momma P) stayed with us. It was a fantastic having them here! They poured into everyone encouragement and godly wisdom. They were a light to us all and helped us in knowing even better how to run this race that has been set before us.
One thing they suggested was doing a Night Watch. We would each take different shifts during the night and pray for Bagot and the ministry there. None of us had ever done that before. They suggested we also write or draw out what visions or words God had given us so that we would remember them and not fall asleep!
During my night watch God revealed to me that Bagot is the spark that will ignite the wildfire of the entire aboriginal community. We are called to be faithful in prayer, word and deed to set a fire down in their souls for the Holy Spirit! However, we must also be aware that it is not us that will do anything, but only the power of the Holy Spirit.
God also reveled to me the magnitude of the spiritual war that is currently underway for the people of Bagot. Never before in my life have a felt the spiritual so physically. When I would close my eyes to pray in the dark of night by myself outside I literally heard and saw demons flying overhead. I was stricken with fear and wondered why I awoke from such a calm sleep to pick a fight with the devil. It was in that moment that God spoke the truth to me that this fear I was experiencing in these few moments the aboriginal people have every single day and have had for their entire lives. They live in deep darkness with multigenerational curses and evil spirits all around them. Many still practice black magic and witchcraft.
Jesus spoke to me that He died for them just as He died for me. And before I was a believer He stood in the gap for me and waged a war against satan on my behalf. He is now calling me to stand in the gap for the people of Bagot and wage a war against the spirits of iniquity on their behalf. It was a humbling time of prayer for me. I then prayed boldly against the spirits bullying me and allowed the Spirit of the Lord to crush my fear as demons screamed and circled, a cup fell where no wind and no one was near, leaves rustled in the stillness and other things went bump in the night.
Satan was pissed I was picking a fight with him, and he wanted to make damn sure I knew it. But God was on my team and angles were surrounding me. I prayed boldly and after an hour I saw the face of God smiling upon me. He gave me another vision of flowers growing out of a trash pile as a picture of Bagot. He gave me the vision of collecting broken glass from Bagot and making a mosaic out of it. It symbolizes how God takes our brokenness, our sin, our messy lives and cleans it up and makes something beautiful out of it!
Here is a picture of the mosaic we're making to hang up in the Bagot church. God is good!
