His Light Floods the Darkness

Last night was the most powerful thing I have ever experienced, hands down. It was so awesome. I think when we put our heart and our feelings on the shelf and let God pray through us, the power of God comes alive. I would have never thought that we would walk out of the Red Light and agree that it was a good experience.

Before i came here, my biggest prayer request was that God would hold me together. I have a habit of feeling with other people feel, and i knew that i would break when i got here. "Through Him, all things hold together." Col 1:17. We talked about letting go of our own feelings before we went last night, so that instead of wanted to drop-kick the men we saw gawking at the women, we would pray for them instead.

So what we did was walk down one street, and then regroup and pray specifically for those women and men down that aisle. It was cool the way that God was speaking with one voice to all of us. God was affecting us all in different ways for sure, but he was telling us to all pray for the same things for each set of women. The first aisle was for strength, it had a strong depression/suicidal feeling to it. The second aisle was for their purity in their hearts, that someday they would wear a white dress again, and know that they deserved to. The third one was filled with drop dead gorgeous women, like they were the untouchables. They had a strong mask on, and it seemed like the majority of the men that were around them were the guys that would never get a girl like them. Those girls have no idea how beautiful they really are. We prayed for their wall to break, and for godly women to step into their lives and tell them something true. Next was a street of older women and transvestites. We prayed for the feeling of failure and depression and identity confusion to leave. I can only imagine being 40 to 50 years old and feeling like "this is what my life has come to". We prayed for the men who are confused and lost and that they would begin to look for a way out, and when they cried out "Why, God" that God would show up and comfort them.

We prayed a lot for our protection, and I thank YOU guys so much for praying for us too, because of those prayers we didnt feel anxious or worried or afraid at any point. Which is a huge praise report. Then, we regrouped and prayed over the city as a whole.

The experience was breath taking, and I'm so blessed that I got to experience it. Tomorrow we are serving alot. Some of us will be babysitting, some of us will be cleaning, and then later on we will be meeting with some of the prostitutes who attend a bible study. Me, Mady and Shelby will be meeting with them because we are leaving on Thursday. So keep that in your prayers.

LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU :)

kirby