(Read my last goosechase blog here)
Thailand has presented me the opportunity I’ve been praying for. An opportunity to stand in the gap and fight on behalf of people I’ve come to love. An opportunity to have a Mary Spirit; to call on my miracle-working Jesus to loose the chains of injustice that surround the bars of Patong, Thailand. Just like Mary in John 2, My heart has been broken for a group of incredible people, and I have been given the opportunity to come to Jesus and ask Him for a miracle.
This has been a spiritually difficult month in many ways, but a month that has stretched me more than I knew I needed stretching. I’ve had to repent for my judgmental thoughts toward the ‘customers’ in the bars, and also for assumptions of the reasons why the men are there. There are so many stories, so much junk that has brought people into the red light district of Patong. I’ve had the opportunity to pray over girls and men in the bars, seen people feel the Holy Spirit in a way that freaked them out, and had been asked by the Lord to tell a group of Thai girls a whole load of stuff about God’s love for them that NONE of them understood. I’ve felt ridiculous, misunderstood, overwhelmed, unsure, and stupid on more than one occasion. But, at the same time, I’ve been hearing the Lord more clearly, felt more of a sense of obedience in doing things that seemed crazy, and have had a growing hope for the people working in the bars than ever before! God’s been asking us to dream…
and to tell Him our dreams…
and to ask Him for our dreams.
We have only a few more days, but in the Kingdom of God, One day is like a thousand years. He can do anything, and I am dreaming big!
I declare that hopelessness and disappointment have NO place in the Kingdom of God, and I refuse to let Satan kill our dreams. That dirty devil has tried many things to keep us from hoping in the Lord, but honestly that’s all I’ve had to cling to!
“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” Romans 5:1-6
So who are these incredible people I’ve come to know and love? Who are the people my heart has been broken for? Who are the people that I’ve fasted for? The ones I’ve prayed over since meeting on New Year’s Day? Who has God called me to dream big dreams for? The owner, the bar tenders and the bar girls of WET DREAMS BAR. Read my next blog series to hear their story.
