So, I’m preparing to go to Thailand and minister to prostitutes. God is asking me to do something totally off my radar. He’s asking me to love and pray for the men that are taking advantage of the women. We all know the women wouldn’t be there if the men weren’t creating a demand for them. The truth is, our society has deemed sex outside of marriage, prostitution, pornography and adultery as the norm. IT’S NOT THE WAY GOD INTENDED US TO LIVE. I need to stand up and say that we have settled for the scraps of life, when God is inviting us to dine at his banquet table. We are feeding from the trough, and returning to our vomit time and time again. By not standing up for justice and hating sin, we are allowing people to be in chains to satan. We judge people for their depraved lives and we don’t see them, we just see their sin. You know what? Something needs to change. We need to change. We need to start believing in the God of the Bible, the one that died for all of our sins. He died for the molester, adulterer, sex addict, rapist, murderer and terrorist. Do we actually think he just died for us, the one that hasn’t done something really bad or shameful? Do we think that if people do something sickening, depraved and disgusting that we should wish bad on them and hope they die? I have thought it, believed it and wanted it. I have thought about how they don’t deserve justice, mercy or forgiveness. I have tried to be God, so please forgive me Father.
I HAVE ENCOUNTERED JESUS! When you encounter him, your life is transformed and he calls you to reconcile others to himself. He calls us to believe the impossible. He longs to make our hearts look like His. Big news from Jesus to you and me! He died to save the sinner. He died to save the molestor, adulterer, sex addict, rapist, murderer and terrorist. He died so that they would live and not spend an eternity in hell. He has a message to us today! He is saying start having compassion on the sinner, and speak truth in love to them. Begin today, and start to believe that you are part of this world changing, one person at a time. The people that we are desperate to save have to be the ones that seem impossible to save. The ones that seem so far away from truth and freedom are the ones we need to be broken for.
I am no better than anyone. I am no better than the man I’m going to see in Thailand cheating on his wife with a girl he doesn’t even know. I’m passionate about God’s redeeming love and believe that His power is strong enough to save the one we don’t even want to look at. To save the one we don’t even want to speak to or recognize as human. We need to be like Jesus. I am going into Thailand asking Jesus to fill me with compassion for the men. I’m going to pray for their freedom daily. I want to talk to them. I want to speak truth into their lives and believe that Jesus can and will save them. I’m praying that their hearts would change and that they would find all their satisfaction and joy in Jesus. I know its easy to just say, so I’m going to ask God to allow me to really do it. I’m asking him to give me a supernatural love, compassion and boldness to speak to the men. I don’t want this just to be in Thailand, I want this fire for the rest of my life.
I’m speaking from a place of experience. I’ve been hurt by other peoples choices and their sin. I’ve seen the effects of sexual sin in people’s lives and its heartbreaking. I’ve been in situations where men have hurt me, taken advantage of me and cheated me. God is healing me, setting me free daily and I will never be the same. I’m fighting back with Jesus’ love because that is what has changed me and he’s our only way to eternity in heaven. Please be praying for us as we head into a heavy spiritual environment and new challenging situations. I’m not afraid to go to the dark places and I’m asking God to keep sending me the broken and the lost. I know where God has taken me from and I know His heart is for people that seem the most far away, because I’m a sinner saved by grace.
