In the months leading up to this trip, I noticed the Lord preparing me mentally and spiritually for some intense spiritual warfare. Now that we are here, I can see why. It is so dark and heavy here. There is no veil hiding the spiritual here like there is in America. The enemy is out in the open. People are worshiping non-existent gods in shrines everywhere you look, and when a lost soul is worshiping something that isn’t there, guess what takes its place.
As we were walking through the city, we passed a very large temple with a big black idol. It was holding severed heads in one hand and a bloody sword in the other. Blood “dripping” out of its mouth. Our guide, Pabitro (spelling?) told us how this is “Khali” the god of death and destruction of everything pure. He went on to tell us how people ignore Jesus’s power because when they worship Khali, they get “Satan Power”. “It makes it very difficult for us.” He said. The hopelessness in his voice unnerved me. I was shocked at how blatant demonic forces are here. Not hiding, but holding heads out in the open.
I have never felt more spiritually aware before. I can literally feel the enemy, and I literally feel it when they look at me. I see the demon-possessed walking around, and the people are just passing it off as mental illness (which is rampant here). There is a girl we pass everyday who paces back and forth on our street. She has such a darkness around her. It is hard to breath when walking past. We approached Pastor Sam about her and he went into the issue in depth.
He talked about how the “mad” people used to be very intelligent and normal, but their families get involved in Hinduism and mantra’s and they “go mad.” This is not isolated. “There are thousands and thousands; at least one in every family.” He said. My heart broke. These poor people have been lied to. They are confused. Demons are taking advantage of this and are destroying them. Sam talked about how they will walk around “mad” until they fall dead in the street. The people have simply accepted this as mental struggles. They do not know the truth. The enemy has a nice setup here. Hinduism and idolatry is a huge gate in front of India that is wide open. The evil spirits have invaded and are running around their playground doing whatever they will.
I cried. They don’t know their freedom, liberation, and salvation is in Jesus, and these demons are making it harder and harder to tell them. We hear stories of war crimes in past conflicts where an armed force would round up innocent, defenseless, and confused civilians and just lay waste to them. Well I will go as far to say as there is a spiritual war crime going on here in India. Demons are laying waste to these people with no remorse.
I pray everyday for God to give my team and I the opportunity to liberate the captives, and take the fight to the enemy. To give them a rude awakening. To let them know this amusement park of theirs is being closed.
There are so many prisoners here, stuck in the chains of Satan. But we know who has the power to break these chains. Jesus Christ. I pray that we have the opportunity to let them know.
