...love146..... Get up and do something!!!

two nights ago, someone retweetet something  on Twitter that caught my attention... I went to the website and read the story... let me tell you about Love146 and how they got their name...
It was a number of years ago that the founders of this organization went along with detectives on an undercover investigation in Indonesia.... they went to a brothel and found themselves behind a glass barrier, separating them from a row of very young girls, probably between 10 - 12.... all dressed up in fancy red dresses, with a white number pinned to the front of their dress.... they were staring into a tv, cartoons were on and their stares were vacant, empty and dead.... all of the eyes were like that but one, # 146.... she stared defiantly at the men .... she was the only one that seemed to still have some life left in her...
That night was for information gathering only, they felt sick that they could not have rescued those children right there and then from the exploitation as sex slaves... each of these girls would be raped that night 10 -15 times.... like every night.. Eventually the authorities had enough evidence gathered to close the place down but when the police came back # 146 was no longer there..... no one knows what happened to her...
The founders of Love146 are remembering her by making her number part of their name... Love146.org is an organization that fights for the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation...

When I went on their website and read that story it made me physically sick.... I looked it up,  between 700,000 and 1,200,000 children are sold into slavery or abducted every year worldwide...
This is an atrocity, let's ask ourselves, what does Jesus want us to do? He definitely does not want us to cringe and then just file it away as something horrible we know...  He is the Father of the Fatherless, the Defender of the Defenseless... He came to redeem the Lost, to bring hope to those without hope... He loves the little children... He IS compassion...
The first thing we need to do is to make this an item on our prayer list... lifting up these helpless children to Him, and asking how and where He can use us in furthering His Kingdom, pushing back the gates of hell by getting involved in some way with this cause... spreading awareness is one step in this direction and that is why I am putting this story out today......
We CANNOT just forget about what is going on there.... We serve an Almighty, sovereign God and He might just have this amazing plan for you to be an instrument of real peace....

... need to break the silence...

... this morning...holding on to my Saviour as I am so used to doing...So thankful for that!!!... holding on to Him, trusting Him for all preparations to work out..without technical glitches or malfunctions.. bathed in prayer a special event... a God ordained "First"....

... after meeting at the same time, same place, different session....my partner and I were this morning addressing the ladies of GAC, or should I say, the ladies of RENEW, our Women's Bible Study...
sharing with them our hearts... facts, statistics and information about the ministry the Lord has both called us to...sharing a story, moving testimony of a life gone down the path of destruction because of a fatal misconception...the misconception that God would indeed want burnt offerings and sacrifices... that He would want us to come and sacrifice for that one "unforgivable" sin over and over again.... not telling anyone, alone in the guilt and shame, locked into a prison of self destruction....
..the message: the sin: as any other sin... very much forgivable, indeed FORGIVEN and paid for, by the One and Only, the Lamb without sin and blemish... is what He did not good enough???

..."to forgive ourselves"... too hard to do when we are talking about "that" sin???? Abortion?
... theologically speaking there is never even a need to do that.... God forgives us, we need only believe that this is exactly why Jesus died on the cross and that by believing we are saved, our sins are forgiven and we are washed clean.... white as snow...

..emotionally this is a different scenario and he who wants to keep us in that place of guilt and shame plays with our minds and torments us... in this case, the story we heard this morning until death came... in the arms of Jesus the poor, tormented soul, safe, never to be snatched away...
..today the story.. told in obedience to the calling from the Father..

..WE NEED TO BREAK THE SILENCE.....

18 % of abortions performed every year are performed on women that call themselves evangelical Christians...to me that means in my church, in your church... in all the churches women are sitting in the pews ( or in more comfortable chairs like in our church ;) that are and will continue hiding that one sin, that one sin that no one can ever know about... that unforgivable sin, that haunts them, that makes them afraid and anxious, sometimes not able to cope with every day life....

..while all along all He requires is a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart He will not despise...
.. so the message today...come to the Healer... come to the Cross and once and for all tell someone about your sin... confess it and ask the Lord for forgiveness... He will remove it as far as the East is from the West and He will remember it no more...... NO NEED to bring it up again...

... this morning... blessing after blessing... hearts shared... a journey started... a beginning.... healing extended from on High... through humble vessels powered by GRACE... the unmerited favor... there is an infinite fountain of it right where He is.... the Saviour and Redeemer... Jesus, the Son of God...
my bestest forever friend... to Him be all Praise Glory and Honor, AMEN