I’m sitting in a coffee shop trying to collect my thoughts. Trying to process what I’ve seen and heard. Trying to comprehend the horrific realities I’ve seen recently. Trying not to break down crying in yet another public place.
The other night I was went out with a group into the street, bars, and clubs to encourage and bring truth to the prostitutes and strippers in this place. To tell them that they are loved and precious. To make friends, have conversations, and treat them like real humans. These girls were so warm and loving and welcoming. Each one of them was so excited to see us! I had a conversation with one girl and simply told her that she is so loved and so beautiful and she couldn’t accept it. She couldn’t believe it for herself. It pained me to see this reality, her reality. She is my age.
Another day this week I got to go to prison and visit an inmate from Thailand with the sole purpose of being her friend and sharing God’s heart for her. She was so sweet as we chatted, laughed, and prayed. I can’t wait to meet her again this week.
Today I got to help with a ministry that works with kids in the area. We teach them, we love them, and we minister God overflowing heart to them. Today I was informed that a good amount of these kids are not going to school and will likely never go back. God’s own children growing up without an education fully vulnerable for who knows what.
God has been breaking my heart for His people, His precious people, the ones that are lost and don’t know their magnificent Creator.
“There is no greater love than this to lay down ones life for a friend” John 15:13
He’s given me a whole new revelation of this verse. He laid down His life, His comforts, His everything so that I may know His heart, so that they may know His heart. I feel this passion stirring deep in my heart to lay down my life, my comforts, my desires, for these girls, for the lost, for the prostitutes, for the trafficked, for the hurting, the orphans, the abused, the convicts, the abandoned, & the broken- whoever God calls me to. He’s chasing them and they don’t even know it. When Jesus whispers His heart for me into my ears, I melt a little more each time but then He says, you know my heart, you know this truth, but they still do not. He laid down His life for them and I’m prepared to do the same.
“I can see your heart eight billion different ways. Every one a precious child to save. If you laid down your life to love them so will I” -Hillsong United
In two weeks I’ll be heading to Thailand to continue the call to reaching the lost and fighting against human trafficking. Would you prayerfully consider partnering with what God is doing there? You can use the link below if you feel led to give.
https://www.grouprev.com/indonesiapt2