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Recently, a major religious service was held in Times Square in New York City. But this time it did not include prayer rugs.
No, it was not another gathering of Muslims commandeering Times Square with their prayer rugs and blaring Adhan. This time, it was actually a dynamic Spirit-filled worship service on Easter Sunday that filled the iconic NYC space. Right there on the same ground. At the same location. In a spiritual battle for territory.
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Lately in our nation, we have seen the full-blown displays of Islamic conquest in American streets and places of authority–state capitol complexes, city center streets, and yes, in Times Square. Islamists don’t have these kinds of public Islamic prayer sessions in Muslim majority countries–why in the U.S.?
It’s an intimidating form of dominance. A display of their numbers and their brazen presence. In the Islamic culture, mosques were built as a commemoration of conquest. The Hagia Sophia in Turkey–a former iconic Christian church– is now a Muslim mosque. Islamists in Texas are buying up struggling churches and converting them to mosques. Conquest. Dominance.
So why hold Islamic prayer in the city streets, our government buildings, and Times Square. It’s a message. There isn’t a mosque there today, but they are declaring that there will be.
Back to the vision that Pastor Mike Signorelli had to hold Christian worship on the holy day of Resurrection Sunday. Signorelli shared with CBN, “I live in New York City with my family, so I’ve got two daughters, and my wife and I are just trying to be a light in the darkness,” he told CBN News the night before the event. “And of course, New York City is getting incredibly dark, and whether it’s false religions, whether it’s witchcraft and … we’ve just seen politically it’s an incredibly dark place.”
CBN reported “Signorelli said he was praying about what he could do on Easter to help stem the tide of chaos and felt that doing a service in Times Square would be a powerful vehicle.”
Think about it. Worship is a form of spiritual warfare–our audible praises and declarations do carry weight and power! For a long time, we have watched Allah being worshipped, and through the Adhan–the Islamic call to worship, curses against infidels were spoken out into the atmosphere. Times Square (and many other sites across the nation) is a battleground for spiritual warfare. Some have even called it a portal for evil. But on Easter Sunday, it was the site where the one true God with resurrection power was declared and worshipped as supreme. Beyond those who attended in person, there were more than 40,000 watching online, and 400 came forward to receive Christ right there in Times Square.
What a shift in the atmosphere!
Intercessor, we are in a battle–it is spiritual. Islamists are ramping up their movement to increase numbers, plant strategic communities and mosques, infiltrate government, demand rewritten history in our textbooks, force Islamic holidays on our calendars and in our schools, and to use our own freedom to restrict our freedom. The battle has shifted. We, as believers and intercessors, must be engaged. Not only in prayer in our prayer closets and prayer groups, but also audibly, noticeably and courageously in our communities and in our states. If we don’t bring the Presence of God into these places, the vacuum will be filled with whatever is ready to usurp. Let’s not give them that chance.
Signorelli shared, “The devil is on the move,” he said. “He’s out to kill, steal, and destroy. He’s like this prowling lion. But there’s another lion — the lion of the tribe of Judah, and he’s roaring over our cities.” Amen!
(Kris Kubal is IFA’s Chief Program Officer. Photo Credit: Screenshot via Mike Signorelli/YouTube)
