Two nights a week, Wednesday and Thursday, about half of my squad splits and goes out after dark.
During the day, Colombia is very safe contrary to popular belief. As long as you aren’t flashing around your Americanized things – you can walk around just about anywhere.
But.. after dark. It becomes a different place. Streets become flooded by the homeless with and without addiction. You can be walking down the street and see multiple people using drugs or drinking alcohol straight from the bottle in the middle of the street. Prostitutes are beginning to work – most are transgender, some even under the age of eighteen. Witchcraft is normal to encounter in the park we go to on Thursdays.
So far, the four times we have went out since being here our worlds have been wrecked. We have seen people being healed physically, people falling on their knees in awe of God, people come to know and love the Lord and we have made relationships with many who are excited to see us return the next week.
While half of the squad heads out each night, the other half stays back and goes to the rooftop to do intercession prayer. We stay on the roof from the time they leave until the time they meet us back on the roof to debrief what had just happened. The stories between someone who is out and someone who is on the roof is INSANE! Total proof that God is so real and speaks to us when we choose listen.
Few examples:
A squadmate wrote down in her journal ‘pregnant woman’ while another squadmate at the park witnessed to a pregnant woman who is being abused at home and desires Jesus. COOL!!
A squadmate and I were out at the park when she told me that she has had a song stuck in her head all day long and feels as if the Lord is calling her to sing out loud. We went up to share the gospel with an older woman laying on a cardboard box. Midway through the conversation she asks one of us to sing – so Lauren began to sing to her the song that was stuck in her head. When we got back, someone who had stayed back to intercede for us said that she was singing that song on the rooftop and wasn’t sure why it came to her. HOW COOL IS OUR GOD!
A squadmate was on the roof praying and got an image that the team out was covered in a blue shield. When the others came back, they had felt as if they were covered by a shield and nothing could come at them.
I could keep going.
My heart is awestruck at what the Lord is up to here. My prayer is that I would stop putting God in a box because He is always working outside and proving Himself so much bigger than I can think.
xo,
Ky
