Bound4LIFE is a prayer ministry, so I’m going to let you get your breaking news from our colleagues at the news sites out there, and all I’m going to say some things here from a spiritual vantage point. First of all. If you’re confused from the Komen/Planned Parenthood stories today, you can be certain it’s not from the Lord. In one sense, it doesn’t matter what the truth is because the confusion tells you something in itself. It tells you something’s very wrong spiritually.

We're seeing something rarely seen: We’re literally seeing spiritual warfare in ways that some only see through eyes of discernment in a spiritual sense.  Don’t get caught up in a war of words and decisions between Planned Parenthood and the Komen Foundation because this has already left that ball field and is suspended in air. If it helps you get a visual, imagine lots of pink (because both organizations actually use the pink as an identifier for themselves) robots running around and then picture Ephesians 6:12:

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

I cannot underscore enough that this really is a LIFE issue. It’s not a money issue, and I can tell you why for two reasons: 1) In three days, Planned Parenthood raised $3 million, according to an email from Planned Parenthood today; the total of lost grants was less than $700,000. It didn’t touch them financially; actually, it profited them 2) Planned Parenthood gets more money in one day from the US government than it does in a year from every Komen grant combined. So if you think this is remotely about money, think again. This is about the battle for LIFE in a culture of death. Remember Ezekiel’s conversation with the Lord? Reread it and place the appropriate characters in the places of the princes of Israel.

⁶ “Look, the princes of Israel: each one has used his power to shed blood in you. ⁷ In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the stranger; in you they have mistreated the fatherless and the widow. ⁸ You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths…^.12 In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God. (Ez. 22:6-8, 12)

This passage comes with the real kicker for me as God says,

“Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst. (Ez. 22:13)

Hear me, folks, this has nothing to do with a few puppets of darkness, but with the prince of darkness himself. The problem with human sentiment on the “winner” in this topic is it leaves the authority in the hand of an organization run by people, and some of those people are not fighting for truth but for profit, and they fight hard.

In the battle for LIFE, old mob movies come to the forefront. Imply what you will from that, but it’s interesting to me how every time Planned Parenthood gets threatened they manage to get even the US government on their side and make enough noise that they end up with something just short of a congressional medal. If we see with spiritual eyes, we will see this goes so much deeper than a tug-of-war between two women’s organizations.

As you read and grieve and vacillate on whom to believe, I want to remind us of what we’re here for: to pray. Men will make choices, but we have no loyalty to a man, an organization, or a philosophy. Our loyalty is to be in the place of prayer, petitioning the court of Heaven which never closes or gives into political or economic pressure.

The Bible reminds us in 1 Peter 5:8, to “Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

In the book of Job, which is an early story in biblical history, Satan was prowling around seeking to destroy, and 1 Peter tells us he’s still doing it. He has not stopped. He will never stop. There is no cease fire in the spirit. And I dare say he loves when our emotions get so caught up in an earthly battle we are too frustrated  to pray. Don’t give in.

We have an answer at the end of the spiritual warfare passage in Ephesians. It sounds a bit simplistic in this confusing scenario but that’s the beauty of the work of God:

Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. (Eph. 6:13)

Stand doesn’t mean sit or lie down. It means stand. Stand on the Word, declare the truth, stand in prayer. Do not waver, do not bend, turn off the news for a few days. Don’t engage in debate; engage in prayer. Stand firm on the one thing that will keep you steady and unshaken. This isn’t rhetoric; it’s the realest reality there is.

Last night I was consumed with intense prayer, sensing serious darkness. I still don’t know exactly what the Lord was showing me, but I stood at my refrigerator crying out for truth and justice. This morning I woke up to texts and news on the Komen/Planned Parenthood comments, and I felt a strange peace. Confusion is everywhere in an information age, and it really is the enemy’s easiest tool. Stop listening to the world and pray. There’s a fine line between being informed and being involved. If that information doesn’t take us to a place of intercession, we've missed the whole focus of the battle.