Visions (part 3)

I was visiting another church’s youth group when they had a guest speaker. It was a man promoting his organization called love146.

I had no idea, when I innocently walked into this youth group, that God would grip my heart or that this one speaker would open a door to me and forever change my life. Not that I am here to promote this organization, but I’m going to tell you about it so you can get a picture of what this subject means to me.

Love146 works to raise awareness and the ultimate freedom, reabilitation, and abolision of child slavery or “human trafficking”. The stories that he told as he spoke that day both broke and inspired my heart. Stories of children as young as 3 years old, boys and girls up to 16, 17 years old (if they live that long). Being sold by relatives or kidnapped to be handed over to a pimp. They would be placed in a brothel (a whorehouse for children) where customers ranging from Sunday morning churchgoers, to policemen, even government officials. Yes I’m talking about America as well as a staggering number of other countries: India, Tailand, Phillipines, China and so many more. As I listened to the figures it broke me even more, but it always affects us more when it hits home right? I couldn’t hold back the tears as he told us that 17,500 people are trafficked through the U.S. per year most of them not identified as victims, with Houston being a major Hub of which about 50-80% of them go through using Interstate 10. That is literally in my backyard using a freeway not even a mile from my house! But my vision on this subject came 3 years later after much prayer, crying, and thinking on all of this, it was a call not just to a local response but also a global one.

— The Vision–

In this vision it was very vivid and so real, after it was done I had forgotten where I was.

I know I was in a foreign country, which one I’m not sure… I began meeting people day by day as I settled into living there and every night I would go to where I was sleeping (not sure if it was inside or outside) and pray for revival in that area, that I would meet people broken for child slavery and prostitution and in love with Jesus before anything. I began to feel a change as I met important people, police, government workers etc., who were going to have sex with the children. I was friends with these people for a long time until they had a change of heart. I would have them help me by, posing as a “customer” and with their help save these kids. This is where it gets interesting…

I was alone in this country, but I was not working alone. I was working with a “network of people” on the same mission, to rescue and end child slavery and human trafficking, which is by the way the highest rate of slavery of any kind in the history of the world to date. Also being the 3rd most profitable crime syndicate in the world, after drug trafficking and arms dealing. (used to support this industry also…) 

So as all of us in this network had our struggles, wins, losses in each country, it would gather steam as more people joined in. I didn’t meet these people but in the vision I could “feel” them in my nightly prayers for revival; the weight and impact these people were making. 

So I have a guess at the country I was in, which is a place God has put as a calling in my life….India. But that’s another story…………….

check out this website for this video on this organization, it’s what broke my heart and is shaping my life with God.

Love John 

God bless you!!!!