FRONT LINES...

I spent this afternoon at the home of the head director/pastor of New Hope. It was amazing to listen to this thoughtful and wise man explain in more depth the situation in Northern Uganda. Incredible perspectives that in all my research I had not seen before today. There is such a need for prayer for the church of Northern Uganda... tribal warfare and prideful stubbornness (works of Satan) threaten to allow the atrocities that have been taking place for more than 18 years to continue. The spiritual vein in this mess is at the root of it all. Come humanitarians and adventure seekers and western idealists... you will never reach the place where true redemption and healing resides. At the Cross.

So many have asked me what they can do to help this situation. Let me tell you how exciting it is to confidently say that thousands of miles away the church in America can be the front lines of an offensive attack against the principalities of darkness. Because this physical war in Uganda is sustained by Satan and his demons, we- the body of Christ all over the world- have such an opportunity to be on the front lines in Uganda… and we will prevail against him. The call is now. It is unacceptable for us to shrug our shoulders and sigh that we despair over the situation in Uganda and “just can’t do anything.” We are the ones who hold the answer! The front lines are waiting for us to step up. The church in America can do so much for there sister church here! Prayer is so powerful. God works here in ways that America refuses to allow. He still answers prayers!!!

There is a pretty big reconciliation movement here to begin the work of repentance and forgiveness. New Hope is at the head of this process and has been since sometime around 2004. Of the handful of tribes inextricably tied to all this, there are two tribes that have dug there heals in the ground and are refusing to repent of the blood (literally) on their hands and have stalled the full reconciliation that this place thirsts for. This is where prayer is so needed. Once the tribes have been reconciled to God and through him to one another, Pastor Jay (and I) believe the spiritual darkness here will be confronted with the Light. And here lies the solution to the abductions and slaughters and all the other awful things taking place in Northern Uganda. The answer is the unity of the church against the unity of evil. An unbroken body of Christ. How can we ever expect to stand divided against such darkness? Only in unity of Christ’s blood can this evil be overcome. If the body of Christ would only be reconciled to God and through that be reconciled to one another as one body.

2 COR 5:18ff

“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.”

Please, please, please pray for the tribes here to be reconciled to God and through him to one another. Pray that God would glorify himself here in Uganda. Pray that the leaders of the church here will rise up to lead their people to repentance and forgiveness. This is the answer to the problem. Please pray, tell the family to commit to pray for these divided tribes, ask your friends to pray in Jesus' name for reconciliation, ask your Bible study groups to pray for God to be glorified in Jesus’ name. I can't tell you HOW needed prayer is... and there are so few praying.

Thousands of miles away the front lines are beckoning...

May God be glorified.

Praying with you in Uganda,

Brittany