For your entertainment as you read, please listen to “Nit” play on his version of a Thai mandolin.
From Palanque, Mexico to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. From Guatemala to Koh Samet Island, Thailand. From Thailand to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
He is everywhere. Should I be surprised? He reigns over darkness. He reigns over light. He is the Alpha and Omega. “For every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord.” Vietnam needs to know the one true God that can set the captives free. They need freedom from a life of bondage. They need to know they are loved. That they are beautiful. They need to know that GOD REIGNS!
I am living in a hotel this month with my whole squad. It is not your typical American Holiday Inn or even Motel 8. It is a place where darkness has fallen in its finest. As you walk in, you are greeted by your reflection in a mirror and a Buddhist shrine. Working at the front desk is a man named HUE, who always works up a friendly grin and who is eager to learn English. And then bam….
You walk straight into the first hallway that has a dark thickness in the air. Each door has black light seeping out from every crack. The first night our squad was there I felt it. It is hard to breath at times. The presence of the evil one is very much present. The hotel primarily uses the first floor for prostitution. They have thirty girls that come and go through out the week. It is dark and is in need of light.
And then we showed up. More like the authority of Jesus Christ showed up. My team is spread out on the second, third and fourth floors. We began the very first night diving into prayer. Tara Bruce (a girl on the squad) called an all night prayer. So each night two people will get up and pray for an hour from 10pm till 6am. There has never been so much prayer over this hotel. The darkness hates it. We are shaking things up and getting our “spiritual armor” dirty. We are in the front lines of this spiritual battle.
I can’t quite explain how overwhelming it is to see such brokenness. One prayer before the race started was that I would start to develop God’s heart. It is happening. God’s heart is hurting so much for His children. He so wants them to experience freedom and taste of the love that surpasses all knowledge.
Please join my squad tonight in prayer for the hotel and these men and women bounded by Satan’s lies. Pray that God will take back what is rightfully His. Pray that the Kingdom will fall upon this place and city. We are starting worship at 11pm and going until 3 or 4 in the morning. It is a 12 hour difference. We start in five hours.
God Reigns here! God Reigns everywhere!
