Last month IFA published an article dealing with the timely topic of “healing the waters.” That article began as a prayer for the people of East Palestine, Ohio, where a train derailment caused a poisoning of the river. All of this led the writer on quite a journey. Through an intercessor friend, she learned that mandalas — symbolic diagrams used in Buddhist and Hindu religious rituals — have been ritualistically placed in rivers in cities across the country, her own city included.

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A mandala ritual ostensibly promises to bring “healing and protection” to a city. (You can read more about these rituals here.) The article is a call for the people of God to resist these rituals and reclaim biblical authority over our land and its rivers.

Water is a significant symbol in the Bible. Just as physical water is vital for the biological sustenance of natural life on earth, the symbol of water is equally vital in spiritual terms. Consider the account in John 4, in which Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at a well of natural water and uses its symbolism to introduce Himself as the “living water” for her spiritual thirst. In John 7, Jesus again uses the symbol of water, to offer Himself as the source of “rivers of living water” that would flow up from their hearts. These are representations of the Holy Spirit (see John 4:7–15; and 7:37–38).

In Ephesians, Paul uses water to symbolize the word of God as a cleansing agent. Just as we bathe physically with water, we are to cleanse ourselves spiritually by reading and applying God’s word. And when people commit their lives to Jesus Christ, they are baptized in water.

Waters, Nations, and Deities

Did you know that in the Bible, water can also represent peoples and nations?

And the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages” (Revelation 17:15).

Other religions, too, see water as sacred and life-giving, and some countries still worship water deities. This is why so many different sorts of rituals are performed in water. This article will focus on the mandalas performed throughout the United States — on college campuses, dispersed into our waters, wherever.

IFA’s webcast about mandalas in our waters prompted one intercessor to do research on her own city and see if rituals had been performed there. Alysha Townsend, who lives near Tampa, Fla., did expect to find something, because Florida is a coastal state. But she was shocked to learn just how numerous such rituals actually were throughout Florida.

Alysha went all the way back to 2000 and found a surprising correlation. She created two maps. One was a map of the sites where mandalas were thrown into the waters. She also made a map of places where major Florida storms had occurred, and she overlaid the two. She discovered that these rituals had taken place just before catastrophic storms hit those very places.

If you have read the article on healing the waters, you know that the ritualists create mandalas using the themes of meditation, peace, and enlightenment, but the prayers invoke a deity. Each mandala is dedicated to a god or goddess and is then released into our waterways. Alysha concluded that it was no coincidence that those bodies of water that had been dedicated to idols for “protection” and “healing” are the very places that have suffered the exact opposite. Those cities saw major tropical storms make landfall, some of them catastrophic. Alysha also noticed that the ritualists visited Miami-Dade County several times, and also Broward and Palm Beach counties. As it happens, these three counties are the most liberal-left in all of Florida. Don’t you find that interesting? And it is not only at lakes and near the ocean that these ceremonies are being performed, but also on university campuses — which also happens to be where many Christian young people decide to walk away from the Lord.

Taking Back Our Stewardship and Authority

God has called us to steward the land, and instead we abdicate our authority to false religious leaders to perform ceremonies in the name of other gods. It is not a blessing that they are declaring over our land, but just the opposite. No god can bless us or heal our land but Yahweh the one true God only.

“You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” (Exodus 20:3–4).

Spiritual warfare can be an intimidating topic to some, but we must remember that in Christ, we are victorious. We have been given certain weapons of warfare: the word of God; the blood and name of Jesus; prayer; praise; worship. Remember: You have been given authority by the Lord, and this is something the devil hopes you will never walk in (see Luke 9:1; 10:19). We also are given power to release blessings over the land. We know that a curse can extend to the third and fourth generations — but the blessing of the Lord is for a thousand generations! The blessing is greater than the curse! This is also why the Lord commands us to bless rather than curse.

Alysha is one intercessor who felt compelled by the Lord to take action. She reached out to Anita, her IFA state prayer leader. Together they are now prayerfully seeking the Lord with plans to pray on-site within their residential region. Alysha is praying that other intercessors in Florida will join them by locking arms to pray over various regions statewide. How about you? Will you join in and pray with Alysha and Anita in their commitment to take back the waters and land that the Enemy has stolen? They are standing in the gap, in agreement not only for this nation, but also for the state in which God has placed them for such a time as this.

Pray with us:

Father, thank You for Alysha’s boldness and obedience to heed Your call and stand in the gap for her state. We pray for divine protection over her and over every intercessor who will partner with her and Anita. As they seek Your face, give them guidance and prophetic strategies for taking back the waters. Speak through Your word and through dreams and visions, not just to Alysha and Anita, but also to every intercessor who senses Your stirring to take action. We thank You, Lord. Every other “god” is a mere idol, but You are the one true and living God, and we worship You. We magnify Your name above all others. You are the Lord of all flesh, and nothing is too hard for You. We pray over the lands that have been devastated by storms; we pray for healing, hope, restoration, and, most important, for people to encounter Jesus Christ. We pray that any demonic strongholds over Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties would be utterly broken in the name of Jesus, and that we would see captives set free. Lord, come in Your power. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Do you feel God calling you to action? Share what you sense He is saying to you.

IFA contributing writer Gloria Robles is a passionate intercessor with a prophetic voice for today. For more from Gloria, go to Spotify or Anchor and listen to her podcast, Something To Share. Photo Credit: Canva.