Prostitution ministry is one of the hardest ministries I’ve ever done. I went the other night to go minister to the prostitutes, God told me to bring my journal so I did. We walked the streets, looking for any women or men who were working that night. We saw a group of prostitutes and as soon as we walked closer they ran away from us. We walked where they ran to and they hid from us. It actually hurt my heart to think they are numb to this, thinking it is ok and normal to work on the streets like it is a job.
We gathered together in our group praying God would give us favor. As the prayer ended our ministry leader told us we were going to head on over to this hotel where it is known for the prostitutes to bring their clients. It also is very likely there is human trafficking going on and people are owned in this building. We walked over to the hotel and wow my heart felt so heavy. I felt beyond overwhelmed not in a way where I was afraid for my life but overwhelmed in my spirit. We stood outside the building and started praying, as we were praying clients were going in and out and I began to feel the people’s pain inside this building. I felt the unworthiness, I felt the shame and I felt the evil in this area. The strongest I’ve ever felt so far on my trip. I thought wow this is real, there is so much darkness in this area and I began to get scared. God reminded me to put on the full armor, so I did and as soon as I spiritually did I felt like I was literally in the middle of a spiritual battle fighting for these lost souls in the area. I kept feeling death over this place and I saw visions of it. I prayed and God showed me a glimpse of his heart breaking for these prostitutes and clients. I began to cry. I couldn’t help myself but to cry. I literally felt Gods heart breaking It hurt a lot to feel that. I began to feel like there was hope. We are the hope for these people. Not to just talk about Jesus but to love on them the way Jesus loves them. We got to pray for two women who want to get out of this job. As we prayed God told me to write them both a letter, so I did. I prayed they would keep those letters even if they didn’t know what it said but could feel that it was words from The Lord. As we were ending our prayers and waiting for the other group to finish up to leave a group of men came walking over. They were gang members and we weren’t sure what was going to happen so we all stayed calm. We realized they were drunk. Our ministry leader went up to go talk to him, at first she didn’t want to but she said fine, ok as if God was telling her to do so. She walked up and as soon as she got close she felt nervous. She walked up and she felt as if he was going to do something bad. They are gang members and they will kill whomever they want but she stood in her faith and asked one of the gang members if she could pray for him. God kept pressing it on her heart to get over the fear and just pray. The gang member said ok and she prayed this, “every wrong thing you have done or even the things you are going to do in this moment God still forgives you and no matter how your past was God was with you and loves you.” The gang member started to cry. I don’t mean a few tears I mean cry as if he was really hurting inside. He walked over to where the rest of us were sitting and shook our hands and kept saying thank you thank you.. And he started to cry again and asked if we could all pray for him. We all got up and prayed for him and he bent down and cried. As we finished our prayer he told us we were angels sent tonight…
I’m just so moved by this. I realized if we step out in faith it will heal people. Focus, focus on God and He will get us through the hardest times we will ever encounter. I truly believe I will walk in this 100% sooner than I think.
