Its not what I thought; not what I thought it would look like, not what I thought I would be doing, not who I thought I would pour into and not how I thought it would end.
I thought my main focus in Thailand would be the bar girls who work in the red light district.
I thought I would spend a lot of time, nearly all of my ministry time in the bars
I thought I would pour into the bar girls and my teammates.
I thought I would be tired by the end, but see a result and have amazing stories by the end of what we did.
I thought..
I began this month a little worried, about going out into the bars and loving everyone there and not being tempted myself.
Randomly I had a facebook chat with my original squad leader. He is an artist like me and challenged me to draw something for the girls in the bars.
Well I took this and put my own spin on it.
My ministry looked like this;
morning time=team time/free time,
after lunch we would pack up the building we lived in(everything was going to the land they owned and were developing)
sometime in there 2 people would prayer walk on Bangla road(our red light district), if they were going out that night
We would have some free time, then dinner.
At 8 o’clock we would have worship, then 3 of my team would go out and 2 would stay back and interceded
We had a rotation which meant I went out to the bars 3 times a week
Our girls would come home around 12am, and then we would debrief the night which meant bedtime was between 1-2am.
Sometimes we would have a date with a bar girl to try and make a friendship in the evenings.
Sometimes we would play games with the passport girls.
The passport girls!
They are amazing! There are 6 of them including their leader who is a past World Racer. They are between 18-22 years old and on fire for God. They would worship with us and go out to the bars/intercede at the same time we did. Who knew my favorite part of this month would be spending time with Passport girls! They poured into us and we poured into them! These ladies have crazy gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.
Remember how I thought a lot? Well I thought I would draw pictures for the bar girls. WRONG.
Every night at worship I would draw and by the end of the month I had 6 completed pictures. Not once did I feel God say take one to the bars like I thought He would.
Instead at the end of the month I heard Him say these are for the passport girls.
So I prayed
I wrote out a prophecy for each picture
I passed them to who they belonged to
Then I drove away to our bus that would take us to Malaysia
The End….of Thailand was not what I thought it would look like.
I was so much better! Thank you Father!
So here are my drawings. They are a new style for me and I believe that God is walking me into a new part of my life, even with my art. Fire was prophesied over me many times this month, even abstract fire by one of the passport girls.
God is pretty funny and awesome how He lets us see things sometimes. How He reveals what He has in store for us by way of multiple people.
Enjoy and embrace
I love you all and can not say thank you enough for all of your support! I will be home in less than 2 months! See you soon!
