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\"Whitney<\/a>In the first week of June I found myself sitting on a friend\u2019s kitchen floor, taking notes on my phone as the Lord began to tell me this: \u201cDeclare war on the walls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without a Bible on hand, I quickly scrolled through my phone to recount a familiar story of a man named Joshua and a city called Jericho. What I did not know at the time was that God would continue to use that story throughout the summer to teach me a process of not only declaring war on other people\u2019s walls that are keeping them from Him, but to also declare war on the walls in my own life.<\/p>\n

It was there on the floor that I sat, evaluating the account of the Lord\u2019s people taking the land He had promised them. As I did, I immediately began to focus on the details in which the Lord instructed the Israelites to follow. Each detail didn\u2019t require a reasoning or explanation, just that the people were obedient to do what the Lord had said in order to see the victory He had promised them.<\/p>\n

As they went forward, they were sure to take with them the Ark of the Covenant. Then, not only did they literally, physically move as God instructed, but they declared war on the walls with their shouts and with the rams\u2019 horns as they saw the walls of Jericho crash to ground.<\/p>\n

\"Whitney<\/a>This summer, I learned to lean on the Spirit of God more than ever before. This summer, my desire grew to only speak when He says speak. This summer, I learned to declare war on the walls that need to fall in order to see God have His way, and only His way, on this earth as it is in heaven. This summer, I have witnessed how obedience to do just what He says can force the walls that are standing in the way to crumble.<\/p>\n

Declaring war is not easy, but Jesus is so worth it. Seeing Him literally change lives is so worth it. Serving Him and His church body around the world day in and day out...it is so worth it.<\/p>\n

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In the first week of June I found myself sitting on a friend\u2019s kitchen floor, taking notes on my phone as the Lord began to tell me this: \u201cDeclare war…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,4],"tags":[336,337,319,360,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-3100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-justice","8":"category-world-missions","9":"tag-336","10":"tag-justice","11":"tag-september","12":"tag-whitney","13":"tag-whitney-browning","14":"entry"},"title_es":"Justicia: agosto de 2019","content_es":"

De 2013 a 2016, tom\u00e9 un curso intensivo sobre el tema de la justicia. Durante ese tiempo, vi c\u00f3mo Dios rescat\u00f3 a m\u00e1s de 60 mujeres y sus hijos de la trata de personas y los llev\u00f3 a nuestro refugio para curaci\u00f3n y restauraci\u00f3n. Muchos de los sobrevivientes enfrentaron abusos que la mayor\u00eda de nosotros nunca comprenderemos. Encontrarme con una injusticia tan cruel me llev\u00f3 a muchas oraciones personales, y tambi\u00e9n me ayud\u00f3 a comprender mejor el significado de la verdadera justicia. <\/p>

Proverbios 28: 5 (ESV) dice: "Los hombres malvados no entienden la justicia, pero los que buscan al Se\u00f1or la entienden completamente". Piensa en este vers\u00edculo. \u00bfTe imaginas lo arrogante que podr\u00eda parecer esta afirmaci\u00f3n para aquellos que no conocen a Cristo? \u00bfTe imaginas todas las formas en que los expertos pol\u00edticos podr\u00edan torcer esta escritura para que se ajuste a su agenda? Sin embargo, este vers\u00edculo trata menos sobre la competencia del buscador y m\u00e1s sobre la grandeza de Dios. Isa\u00edas 30:18 (ESV) dice: "El Se\u00f1or es un Dios de justicia". Conocer a Dios es conocer la justicia. No puedes entender correctamente la justicia hasta que hayas conocido al autor de la misma. <\/p>

Una noche, mientras ministraba a las prostitutas en Bloemfontein, Sud\u00e1frica, mi equipo conoci\u00f3 a una ni\u00f1a de 17 a\u00f1os llamada Mpho. La hab\u00edan vendido a su proxeneta actual por $ 50 cuando ten\u00eda solo 12 a\u00f1os. Durante cinco a\u00f1os, se vio obligada a prostituirse y vender drogas a hombres en las calles. Se esperaba que entretuviera de 15 a 20 hombres por noche. Su situaci\u00f3n era fenomenalmente injusta y terriblemente horrible. Nuestro equipo ayud\u00f3 a Mpho a escapar de su proxeneta y comenz\u00f3 a ayudarla en el proceso de restaurar su vida. La guiamos a trav\u00e9s de consejer\u00eda cristiana y programas dise\u00f1ados para ayudar a los sobrevivientes a entender c\u00f3mo Dios los ve. Ella fue genuinamente transformada por el evangelio. Sin embargo, era una tarea imposible traer incluso una apariencia de justicia. <\/p>

Cuando fue rescatada inicialmente, la justicia para Mpho habr\u00eda sido ver a su proxeneta asesinado por un pelot\u00f3n de fusilamiento. A decir verdad, en ese momento, no me habr\u00eda opuesto. La justicia, para ella, era ver a su abusador asesinado. Sin embargo, con los detalles de su caso, todo lo que los tribunales m\u00e1s duros de Lesotho pudieron hacer fue darle al autor un m\u00e1ximo de 15 a\u00f1os de prisi\u00f3n. El \u00fanico problema era que el autor hab\u00eda desaparecido en Sud\u00e1frica. Al final, no hab\u00eda justicia terrenal para Mpho. <\/p>

Cuando no hay justicia, el evangelio sigue siendo una buena noticia. La buena noticia es que a trav\u00e9s de Cristo, somos justificados. La buena noticia es que Dios es el Dios de la justicia. La buena noticia es que habr\u00e1 justicia para Mpho. Isa\u00edas 42: 3-4 (NTV) dice: \u201cTraer\u00e1 justicia a todos los que han sido perjudicados. No vacilar\u00e1 ni se desanimar\u00e1 hasta que la justicia prevalezca en toda la tierra \u201d. Como cristianos, oramos por justicia en esta vida con un profundo conocimiento de que nuestro Dios est\u00e1 en el trono. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","author_name":"Whitney Browning","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Justice-Gaphic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Ar-O0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}