Today is the annual voodoo festival in Benin.
Centered in Ouidah. Core city for the religion, "point of no return" during the years of the slave trade, home to the vodun python temple. It sits just 42 km from where I write this. Its dark past has carried forward to modern times and, although many are procaliming victory of the one true God in this country, there remain many spirits being granted power who are against His purposes. Today will be a day of many animal sacrifices and other practices retiscent of what I would like to describe as "biblical". But they are as much a reality now as they were two thousand years ago. And the power they invite, although ultimately defeated, is still having very real effects on the lives of many today.

Please join me in prayer, standing together as the body of Christ against these dark spirits, proclaiming Truth over this beautiful nation and its people.