Girls Night

We started the night out going and getting some delicious food and having some fun and interesting dinner conversation.  Then came back to the hotel and pilled onto beds to watch a documentary called “Half the Sky”.  It is based on a book also called “Half the Sky” and is about women and girls who are being sold into slavery and sex trafficking and some of the organizations and people who are working to stop it.  They also talk about how in many countries women have basically no rights and are raped constantly and there is rarely any justice for them.  The stories from some of these women and even young girls are moving.  I was brought to tears on more than one occasion.  While watching the film I kept getting this feeling that we needed to pray for the women all around the world that have been affected by this in one way or another.  After the movie was over the six of us women began to pray.  I felt like there was something powerful in women interceding for other women and fighting for them even if they don’t know we are.  There was something powerful in fighting for someone who doesn’t know that there is a God who loves them even when everyone around them has made them an outcast because of something that was never their choice.  

As women of God we are powerful.  We have a voice and can be the voice of women who have had their’s taken away.  Women who have been beaten, abused, sold as property, and in so many ways had their identity taken away.  These women all around the world have lost their identity because man has taken it from them, but what they don’t know is Christ died to give them an identity in him.  This month as women of K Squad we have been doing and identity study to find who God says we are.  I have learned that so often the world takes your identity away from you as a way to control you and to manipulate you to be a person that is like everyone else.  

God has made us all different and unique for a reason.  We must embrace our differences as well as those of the people around us.  We must fight for our sisters around the world, and our brothers too.  They need to know that God loves them and is reaching out his arms to wrap his children in his love and to heal their hurts.  Will you join me in praying for these women around the world, for the men who are participating, and for the families who are selling their daughters because they see it as the only way to make money to feed their family?  They need are help.  God hears the prayers of the righteous and we are righteous in his sight.  He hears YOUR prayers and they make a difference in the lives of people.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me financially, prayerfully, and through encouragement.  You have made it possible for me to come to the other side of the world and have my eyes open to so many things that I never knew before.  May God continue to bless you like he has blessed me through you.