HEALING in the Club and so much more...

As some of you know, on top of reaching out to brothels, we have one strip club that we include in our outreach schedule every couple of months. Strip clubs were not our main focus but God placed this club in our path and keeps prompting us to go there and maintain this relationship, and NOW it is so clear He has work to be done in this place, listen to this...

Favor, Fruit and FUN was the theme of Thursday’s outreach! The atmosphere was truly different for us then it ever has been in that club, everything was lighter and easier! So many stories to tell, where do I start...?

As soon as we walked in, we were embraced and surrounded by the girls all welcoming us...the manager walked up and starts TESTIFYING, "this girl prayed and healed my hip, she prayed for my hip once, it stopped hurting for a long time then it started hurting again, when I told her the pain came back, she prayed for it again, and my hip has not hurt since!" Let me tell you, it has been about 4-5 months since we prayed for his hip, he was truly HEALED...Thank you Jesus! And he is finally giving God the glory and testifying to others (the first time he did not recognize/believe that God did/would heal him, he just dismissed it). Normally he is depressed and moping around and this time he was giddy and beaming with excitement!

All the girls wanted prayer right away, we exchanged several phone numbers, multiple people want to come to church (one girl did and she is supposed to come to lifegroup too), we were there for almost 2 hours this time...God's love and power was just dancing around in that place...it was truly beautiful!

The feet washing was a HIT as always, it is an amazing way to share Jesus' love by serving them and loving on them...not to mention a great way to share the stories of Jesus washing his disciples' feet before he died on the cross for their sins and the sinful woman that washed Jesus' feet.

A special friend of mine donated really nice body scrubs, body washes, lotions etc. and we used them to wash and scrub feet but also bagged them up and gave them as gifts to the girls along with some hand-made pillow cases donated by a great group of Christian quilters...and the hand-made pillow cases were soooooo popular!

The last time we were there we passed out many copies of the book Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers (also a generous donation from a great lady from "The Church"). If you have not read this book, you need to asap! I am not a reader and I could not put this book down. It is about a girl who is sold into prostitution as a child (takes place in the gold rush time frame). When she is an adult, a Christian man sees her and God speaks to him and tells him to marry her. The story is an amazing love story of her learning about God's love through a godly husband. The girls all loved the book and have been passing it around to other friends (in the industry). One girl said she is giving it to the other girls that did not get one saying, "here you need to read this book, it is about us!" WOW, God is speaking to them and calling them in so many ways!

The manager (whose hip was healed) went outside and talked to our male staff member and told him we should come back more often cause the girls LOVE IT and we are doing such a great job…he always welcomes us, but has never seemed thrilled we are there, now he wants us to come more often!

The male staff member was outside in the parking lot encouraging and loving on all the mangers. He also had the opportunity to pray for several homeless men walking by and had great conversations with them.

One girl pulled me aside and said she had no one else to go to and she wanted help getting free from heroine addiction. We prayed and she surrendered the addiction and her life to the power of God and has committed to Jesus. I assured her I would walk through this with her and we are looking into outpatient treatment option for her right now, so she can keep her kids. Please be praying for her, heroine is the most difficult drug to come off of and there are few resources to help her. If she really commits to this it will be a long hard road, but we assured her we are here to walk through this with her and she is the lucky one, cause she has the power of the Lord to get her through it!

WOW! After writing this down, I looked down to see specifically what I had asked our prayer contacts to be praying on that day and ALL of the day's prayer requests were answered!!!!!! God hears us and answers our prayers!!!!

The sex industry is satan's territory...ha ha, we laugh at the devil, we are declaring it God's territry and showing them the way home! Satan had no power and no authority when the Holy Spirit walks in!