Turning ashes into beauty
This place where I lay my head down
each and every night, this place where we worship God with songs,
prayers and Bible studies; was once a place where lives were torn
apart. This place where my dwelling is this month was once the
devil’s playground. This building once held Tegucigalpa’s most
infamous bar/strip club/drug/prostitution establishment. I feel very
strongly in my spirit that it also was a site of human trafficking.
When Tony and Nidia (the founders of
Zion’s Gates the ministry we are working with this month) were biding
to rent this place their offer was not by any means the best or the
most money, but then again I shouldn’t be surprised, God uses the
foolish things of this world to shame the wise. The people that own
this place were moved by Tony and Nidia’s vision for the property and
desired that even though they weren’t offering the most money, that
they have it. The building hadn’t been used in 18 years and required
a lot of cleaning up and fixing up to get it functioning, not to
mention the property was surrounded by chest high weeds.
Zion’s Gate’s heart is for kids who are
in trouble. Their heart is for the unruley kids on the streets that
are doing drugs, skipping school (if they can afford it), causing
havoc, and literally killing each other. They have a heart for the
unwanted, the undesired youth of this city. They have such a big
heart that in fact they have invited these very kids into their home
to live and love on them. This property is now a place of healing, it
is now a place where children come and play after school and where
street kids find refuge. Its a new kind of playground now, it’s God’s playground. It’s a beautiful thing.
God has redeemed and is consistently
redeeming this property for his purposes and I can’t help but put
this is contrast to last month’s brothel down the street from the
house we were living. Yes, we were living down the street from a
brothel, and we walked past that brothel almost every day and every
time we passed by we prayed against lust, adultery, sexual
immorality, human trafficking, prostitution, and perversion. One day
we parked ourselves in front of the building and did some spiritual
warfare through praying, and we got a vision of that brothel becoming
a part of a church, used for bible studies. Since that day we have
been praying that the brothel would go out of business and the church
we were working with last month “Compaz” would purchase the
building and use it for God’s glory. The last day we were in El
Salvador we woke up early and blessed the building with holy water
and prayer to consecrate it to the Lord. We left El Salvador leaving
that place in the hands of the father trusting in Faith that he would
indeed do as he promised.
When we arrived at Zion’s Gates (the
ministry we are staying and working with this month) and were told
the story of the property I knew it was complete divine foreshadowing
for the brothel in El Salvador. It was as if God was saying I heard
you and I will restore and redeem that place just like I restored and
redeemed this place. What a beautiful promise.
There is hope I have seen it with my own eyes. A prayer request for Zion’s Gates, is that they don’t own the property
they are on at the moment and are in negotiations with the owner to
purchase the place. Would you pray for favor with the owners and even
bolder that the owners would gift Tony and Nidia with the property
without them paying a cent?
God is Good all the Time!
The army of God camping out in what once was a stronghold of the enemy. Redemption.
