It Was Never Just Graffiti
"The Lord honored her prayer and revealed to her the source of her problems." — Reflect on Jeremiah 33:3
The Same Drawing, Two Continents
A photograph taken in a Midwestern American town in 1990 shows a watcher painted on a garage door in an alley behind a row of shops.
What made it significant was what it was watching. Standing directly in front of the watcher and facing the same direction, you see a symbol painted on a door in the side of the building — in the same spray paint.
That symbol is widely misread as an anarchy sign. But where the central letter extends outside the circle, it marks the site of one or more blood sacrifices.
That door was the back entrance of a business that served as a local center for occult activity. Sacrifices were performed in the room behind it, and the watcher had been placed to report exactly who came and went through that door.
And Then, Thousands of Miles Away
Five years later, in a large city in Mexico, a woman met visiting teachers at the airport. She was a strong intercessor. She shared briefly about her work, her struggle with physical illness, and other difficulties — and said she had been praying that the Lord would reveal the source of her problems.
Between meetings she took her guests to her home in a prosperous part of the city, where every property is enclosed by high concrete walls.
While waiting at her gate, one of the visitors glanced across the street at the opposite wall — and saw a watcher, strikingly similar to the one photographed in Iowa.
On that wall, in sequence, were: the watcher; the blood sacrifice symbol; a line of English words reading "We've eyes on you and you…" with the letter A in and made into the sacrifice symbol; a date; and a drawing of a figure with a sickle — the reaper, a spirit of death.
She had noticed the markings and assumed they were ordinary graffiti. She did not read English, so the words meant nothing to her. That was almost certainly why they were written in English.
The Interpretation
The wall spelled out her entire situation.
The watcher had been placed to track everything she did. The blood sacrifice had been performed to place a curse on her and her household. The figure of death had been stationed there to carry out that curse. The date, they believed, marked when the sacrifice was performed.
Looking back, she realized her troubles had begun about that time.
They drove the surrounding area and found other graffiti — but not a single other drawing that was occult in origin. Those markings had been placed on that specific wall, opposite that specific gate, for one purpose.
She was clearly making someone angry. She had asked God to show her the source, and He did.
Point to Ponder
She had walked past the answer to her own prayer every single day.
Verse to Remember
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." — Jeremiah 33:3
Question to Consider
Have I asked God to show me the source of my trouble — and then failed to look where He pointed?
Today's Practice
Walk your own perimeter this week. Not anxiously — deliberately.
Look at the walls, fences, gates, poles, and pavement immediately around your home, your workplace, and your church. Look at what faces your front door from across the street.
Note anything with eyes in it, anything drawn with apparent intent rather than as scrawl, and anything you cannot explain.
Then pray specifically: "Lord, You showed her. Show me. If anything has been placed near my home or my family, let me see it."
And then keep your eyes open for a week. Answers to that prayer often arrive as something you suddenly notice that has been there all along.
Prayer
Father, You said to call on You and You would show me great and mighty things I do not know. I am calling.
If anything has been placed near my home, my workplace, or my church — anything drawn, buried, spoken, or set in place — reveal it to me. Let my eye fall on it. Let me notice what I have walked past a hundred times.
Give me discernment to know the difference between ordinary marks and deliberate ones, and keep me from anxiety while I look.
And where You show me something, give me the authority and the resolve to deal with it thoroughly in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank You that You answer prayers like this. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Ask God to show you the source, then look where He points — including at what you pass every day.