Sawat di Ka!
Amy here.
So just wanted to let you all know about the ministry we’ve been doing here in Chiang Mai. Our weekly routine and strategy is that every Sunday evening, our team would hit the streets near the Thapae Gate to prayer walk and do evangelism.
After stumbling upon the Red light District with our friend Tanner Peake from Every Home for Christ, we made it our mission to saturate that street with prayer and evangelism.
During our prayer meetings, we would cry out for laborers to be raised up and sent into the red light district. But little did we know, God was raising us up and sending us in as laborers…into a place that is hard and dark. We became the very answer to our prayers.
After prayer walking one night, our small team of 6 saw roses and decided to buy them and passed them out to the women.We included the roses with some Thai tracks about “true happiness in God.” We trusted God and His word as we made our way through the street.
That night was the beginning of a series of divine encounters and open doors including the Rabbit Bar in which God highlighted and we had prayed over during our prayer walk.
Just last week, Darius, Eric and I visited The Rabbit Bar again to visit our new friends and got a kiss from The Lord. As we walked into the bar, I noticed a new face sitting in the corner. I made my way over to her and introduced myself. Da was her name, spoke very little English and I spoke very little Thai. We sat down at a table near the front of the bar and with very few Thai and English in our pockets, we made conversations. After about 45 mins of getting to know each other, I found out, she had only started working there for 3 days, had a teenage daughter and was very unhappy with her job.
I asked if I could pray for her and handed her a track I found in my bag. She opened up the track, read one line and started weeping right before me. I immediately grabbed her hand and started praying for her. God’s presence and love was so tangible in that place…Da kept crying and so I came over and held her whispering “God loves you so much” in Thai. After a few minutes, she left to go upstairs to her room and I didn’t see her for another 30 mins. I got to see one more time before we left Chiang Mai which I will post about later. In that moment, I saw God break into a language barrier and touched a heart with His love and mercy.
As Darius, Eric and I made our way out to head home, the lead barista handed me a beautiful white rose and said “this is for the rose you gave me that one night.” That rose was a kiss from The Lord…that as out team passed out red roses that symbolized His love and redemption, we received a white rose as a promise that He was restoring purity, holiness and innocence to the women.
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