"Destany's Birthday"

Today, Melissa Moorman (a member of Living Hope), emailed me with something I had missed. As I shared on Sunday, one of the teenagers rescued from Human Trafficking through your efforts with the SOAP campaign during the Super Bowl was a 17 year old named Destany. Melissa emailed me to ask if I had noticed that today is Destany's birthday?

Nope. I had completely missed that. I dug out the paper work and sure enough, today is Destany's 18Th birthday. Think about that...today she can celebrate her birthday in freedom.

Jorie Hanson (another member of Living Hope) sent a prayer chain request asking us to remember to pray for the victims of human trafficking and the Ukraine Orphans (By the way, orphan and foster care ministries are a huge preventive measure for Human Trafficking). Thank you, Jorie!

Yes, please, Living Hope Church, let's pray hard! Pray for the children who found the soap in hotel rooms this past weekend. Pray that they have the courage and the opportunity to call the hot line. Pray for their freedom. Pray for God's healing grace to begin to mend their hearts and minds with his truth even before they are rescued. Pray!

Jorie also shared a scripture that I found to come alive in light of girls like Destany. "Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." Psalm 82:3-4. This verse reminds us that our prayers do not end with an "Amen." They end with action. God has called us, his Church, to "Defend", "Maintain", "Rescue" and "deliver." All of those are the action word "Amens" of prayer.

Sunday, March 11, Theresa Flores will bring her SOAP (Saving Our Adolescents from Prostitution) campaign to Dayton for the NCAA basketball tournament. Let's pray for this and say "Amen" by registering for FREE at http://soapfinalfourdayton-eorg.eventbrite.com I urge all men, women and teens to register. (Parents of teens, the training Theresa offers may very well be the best protection you could offer your child).

So, let's pray hard and let our amen be our action! Then, by Jesus' love and power answering prayer and working through us many more Destany's will celebrate their next birthday realizing that their destiny is not slavery.