BLOW ME MIND!!!
GOD JUST BLEW MY MIND!!!
LIKE REALLY BLEW MY MIND!!!!
GOD JUST BLEW MY MIND!!!
LIKE REALLY BLEW MY MIND!!!!
Right now I am sitting in a coffee shop in Bangkok and I just burst into tears and I can’t wait to share with you why! Earlier today I sat in Starbucks with 11 other amazing, strong, bold, and powerful women of God as we learned what our ministry was going to be this month in Thailand. We are traveling to Phu Ket, Thailand tomorrow to go into the Red Light district and help shine the Light of Christ in one of the darkest places in Southeast Asia. Here we will be working to free women from sexual slavery, something that has burdened my heart for about two years now.
Over the years I have tried to reconcile my role as a nurse and the burden I feel for women in sexual slavery. What do I do Lord? Do I go somewhere and start a clinic and meet their physical needs? Do I teach them about AIDS, safe sex, pregnancy, monthly check-ups . . . what do I do Lord?! But this has never felt RIGHT to me. I have not had a peace about this yet. Then today, as God often times does with me, he gave me a seemingly random thought, that could have been quickly brushed aside as a product of my ADD tendencies. But I wasn’t so quick to brush it off. I wrote it in my journal. This was my thought:
Start a nursing school exclusively for women who desire to exit the sex slave trade!
Okay, Lord. Random. But the more I thought about it the more it made sense to me. God asked me, “Kristen, why did you want to be a nurse?” Because it is a way to be a missionary and serve the people I go to, and there is always a demand for nurses. “Exactly Kristen, jewelry making is great. It offers these women an alternative to selling themselves, but I want you to empower them to be professionals and give back to their community. Why don’t you start a nursing school exclusively for women who desire to exit the sex slave trade?!”
Then I arrived at this coffee shop to post my previous blog about our ministry for this month. And I came across this video and God then blew my mind. It is the last interview on the video that God used to break my heart. Before Jane’s precious words were uttered, I knew what she was going to say. Then when her heart’s desire was verbalized, confirmation flooded my heart and I burst, I mean BURST, into tears right in the middle of the coffee shop.
So what does this mean?! I only know that the foundation and place to begin is PRAYER!
SO . . . please be praying for me that if this is God’s vision then 1) he will increase my passion for it, 2) increase the vision itself, 3) give me a burden for a specific country and group of women, 4) provide the means, 5) map out the logistics, 6) show me what, when, where, why, and how to begin researching, 7) he would completely pave the way and light my path.
SO . . . please be praying for me that if this is God’s vision then 1) he will increase my passion for it, 2) increase the vision itself, 3) give me a burden for a specific country and group of women, 4) provide the means, 5) map out the logistics, 6) show me what, when, where, why, and how to begin researching, 7) he would completely pave the way and light my path.
PRAISE GOD THAT HIS THOUGHTS ARE HIGHER THAN MY THOUGHTS AND
HIS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN MY WAYS!
I LOVE MY JESUS!! LOVE LOVE LOVE MY JESUS!
