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I’m in Phuket, Thailand for the beautiful month of May. This month we are teamed up with the all women’s team, Fullness of One and partnering with SHE ministries. Dearest Drew and Brian are with the other men of M squad where they will be doing MANISTRY in the jungle.

SHE ministries is Self Help and Empowerment and they provide women training for better job opportunities such as baking, candy making, jewelry making, English classes and hotel training rather than working in bars or selling their bodies.

We along with some YWAMers (Denver, Orlando and Montana) are fighting and battling against human trafficking this month here in Patong.

This whole ministry is different than any other ministry that I have done in the past. Our ministry hours are about 8-12pm with about 3 hour debriefs when we get back home.  We spend our days resting and resting in the Lord preparing for the battle. We are going to bars every night in hopes to show people real love. I’m quickly reminded of my past life of frequenting bars but this time with a whole different purpose-to bring Christ’s light in the darkest of places and to love our brothers and sisters.  I am being called to love my sister who hides behind the fake smile who sells her body thinking that this is the only way of means to live. I am being called to love my brother who sees the woman as a sex object that will temporarily fill his void of lonliness, love and lust. Nonetheless, I have never gone to a bar in hopes to become best friends with a woman who sells her body.

YWAM Montana (who named their band, Band of Living Waters) is so ridiculously musically talented and our contact set it up for them to lead worship in a bar called Coyote. I’ll say that again…
…WORSHIP IN A BAR… 
 
 

Daily, I ask God to reveal my identity to me. They played Phil Wickham’s  Beautiful song. 
 
I see Your face in every sunrise


The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakens in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say
You’re beautiful

 
God said, “This is my song for you. This is our song.”  I began weeping in the middle of the bar and just in awe of how much God loves me. Weeping in a bar. Not drunk, not on anything but just basking in the LOVE of GOD.

I thought “How did I get to this?” I was quickly reminded that one of the last times I asked that very question I was down on my knees begging God to take away my insecurities away after starving myself for about a week in attempt to be “beautiful.” I asked him if I was even worthy enough to just sit as his feet.

…and now here I am in the middle of the bar somehow falling more in love with my God and fully confident in knowing that his love has redeemed me in so many ways.

I prayed for my sisters out there in Patong. I prayed that they would see their worth and how beautiful and how much in love God was with each one of them.  

The band sang “God of this City” next which was actually written about the red light district in Thailand.

 
For greater things have yet to come


And greater things are still to be done in this City
Greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done here

I have faith and confidence that yes greater things are yet to come and that these women will finally get to experience the true love that they seek after, desire and deserve…not from an earthly man but from the God Almighty.

If God can deem me-a mess of a woman who daily makes mistakes, who used to hate herself and struggled with identity…Deem me as his precious daughter more than worthy to sit not at his feet but by his side than he can and will absolutely deem each every one of my sisters out there more than worthy, lovely, precious and beautiful. We are his BELOVED.

God wins. He always wins. As his army…We are bringing HOPE to the hopeless… PEACE to the Restless …..and LIGHT in the darkness. I have full faith that greater things are yet to come and greater things will be done in Patong because there is no one like our GOD.