Last night Kate, Jaclyn and I were able to go and do Bar ministry with some friends from other teams. I paired up with Jaclyn and Mam who was a prostitute herself and just got out only 3 months ago. Her heart is to help other girls get out and she is not even a Christian herself. If there is one thing I have learned since being in Thailand it is that people like Mam and our families in the Thai village love like Jesus and have such servant and loving hearts yet they don't even know Him. It is amazing to me how much God is in them even though they can't see it. Anyways, thats a little off topic.
I was so excited to do bar ministry even if it was just for one night. When I thought of Thailand I thought Bar ministry and my heart just breaks and loves for the women in these Bars, who are forced into this life because they need money to provide for their families, or a generational tie that is hard to break and many other reasons too numerous to name. I was so filled up and ready to get out there and talk to these women only God wanted something else from me. The first bar we went in to we bought a girl a drink and she sat down next to Jaclyn and it was so loud I could not even hear a word they were saying, all I could do was pray for the conversation they were having. After 45 minutes there we decided to go somewhere else, when asking the Lord where He wanted us to go we ended up at a bar and sat down. Jaclyn and I both agreed we were not feeling led to buy a girl a drink but rather sit down and pray God would bring us someone. Soon later to realize that who God brought us was with us all night, Mam. Mam was sitting by Jaclyn and not so coincidently again I could not hear a thing they were talking about. And so with a little bit of disappointment I prayed again while they talked, not knowing what they were talking about but knowing that God was working in that conversation. God showed me the importance of prayer and that I needed to be open to anything He wanted me to do, even if that meant me sitting praying for the conversations that were being had. It taught me the true meaning of the body of Christ, that God has different roles for us to �play in ministry and those might change from day to day or even hour to hour. Each role is important and being open to what God would have you to do even if it's not what you thought you would be doing is more effective than your own idea of what it should be. God showed me that last night and that doesn't mean that I will never get to talk to women in the red light district, that just means He needed me to be there for intercessory prayer that night. Be open to what God would have you do and you will find it is exactly what was needed.�
