For God and My Country, we say?

I was with a Muslim gentleman at church over the weekend, where he had come to service our machines, and I casually asked how his business was doing – he sold us the said machines, years ago.

He told me, he had closed the shop – it was one of the biggest downtown – and now worked from home, due to the bad economy. I was shocked and saddened.

As we talked about what had happened to his business, he asked me: “Do you know what takes place in Busega? How do you expect a city to prosper with such sexual perversion happening openly?”

He wondered: “What are you balokole even praying about these days?”

He said, the country was clearly in freefall when it comes to morals and the devil was using Kampala as a gateway to a lot of evil and ritualistic behaviour. I was pleasantly surprised that our different faiths notwithstanding, we were on the same wavelength when it came to this.

By pure coincidence, someone had a day earlier forwarded to me a graphic article about what happens in some notorious places in Busega, a Kampala suburb, and I almost threw up.

The things happening in that place with the full knowledge of law enforcement, say a lot about us as a country, as well as the state of our prayer lives as Christians. These are seemingly small, small incidents of people minding their own business, but with far-reaching consequences in the spirit realm.

Never underestimate the power of sex, money and feasts in the spirit realm. Add ritualistic humiliation to those. Speaking of which, what is this current obsession people have with caning adults?

Everybody seems to be brandishing a cane these days. I even saw a group of young men on TikTok walking around, paying people to let them cane them! It stinks of ritualistic humiliation, to me.

If you know, you know. And of course, the more the economy bites, the more the squeeze is felt even in intercessors’ and prayer warriors’ circles. Somehow, everyone gets overwhelmed by individual struggles and very few remain focused on praying for the nation.

And that is exactly where the devil and his agents want us. As we disappear deep into our own struggles and self-centred prayers, the spiritual rot festers. May the Lord have mercy on Uganda.

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