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Showing posts with label human trafficking. Show all posts
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Monday, January 4, 2010

Nefarious Merchant of Souls trailer

Exodus Cry is a ministry based out of Kansas City and has ties with The International House of Prayer. I love this ministry and others like it because it takes Gospel light to dark places and exposes and drives back evil with the justice of the Kingdom of God. Go Jesus!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

&*%@#!*+&#@!!!

There are very few things that anger me to the point of swearing and cursing, this is one of them. Just thinking about men who travel to foreign countries as sex tourists literally makes my stomach turn. It also makes my heart ache and yearn all the more for Jesus, the Savior King, to come with His iron scepter to judge and make war against those who would sexually abuse children and to come rescue the abused and discarded.

But lately, as I have been praying and interceding for these women and children, something strange has been happening - in the midst of my prayers of judgment upon these men, I have also started praying salvation and redemption for them as well. This has gotten me all kinds of sideways because who wants to pray mercy for &#@!!! child molesters (but, I regress: forgive me, Lord). Jesus has been impressing on me that the Gospel is for everyone and if anyone needs the power of God to enter into their lives, it's sex tourists and traffickers.

"Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NLT).

God can save and redeem anyone (my own life is proof of that). We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and until the final judgment, there is grace and mercy for all. So, until that day comes, this is my prayer: That the Lord of the harvest would raise up laborers for the harvest (Luke 10:2), people who were once sex tourists and traffickers - to His glory alone.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Here are a series of videos from MTVExit.com on Human Trafficking


TRUTH

TRAIN

SUBWAY

CRIBS

PIMP
We all would like to think that this is a tragedy that happens far, far away from our doorstep. But, in reality it is happening closer than you would probably like to believe. There are strip clubs, escort services and massage parlors in every major city, not to mention street prostitution. To be fair, not all the women or men providing these services are the victims of human trafficking, but it is safe to say that a large majority of them have been coerced and forced into the sex trade industry. But, there are many, many, many children who are being trafficked into sex slavery.

Now not everyone frequents these places. But if we bring Internet pornography into the conversation than it is safe to say that everyone who has a computer has the potential to support those who traffic human beings into sex slavery. Every time a person visits an adult website, what they are essentially doing is supporting the sex industry as a whole which includes those who are being victimized through sex slavery.

If you are struggling with sexual addiction, get some help. Do whatever it takes to break free! As long as there is a demand, the sexual exploitation of men, women and children will continue. Be part of the solution and not the problem.

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people (Ephesians 5:3).

Constance by Mr J. Medeiros with lyrics

1st verse:
An old man vacationing, he stands patiently
Under a hotel sign that blinks vacancy
He’s thinking maybe he’s too late to make the drop off
Til a truck coming his way brakes and stops short
And now he’s out of sorts and you can see he’s sorta nervous
Walking to the passenger door to meet his ordered service
This is someone’s daughter working, blames his conscience
When the driver says “she’s my youngest, her name is Constance”
He comments “and its only 6 dollars per visit
Just don’t leave any marks on her, it hurts business”
Thought for a minute and he confessed “that’s fair”
Since it was three dollars less then his cab fare
“How old are you honey?” she says “I’m thirteen”
Her nose was runny, its raining in the Philippines
He handed over the money in a chilling scene
The truck drives off and now he’s on the hunt to kill her dreams
The sign reads no vacancy, he leads Constance to a room
He has rented for taping see,
He’s about to turn six into six thousand
And all you have to do is click on your web browser
Its not illegal to use rapin’ as a cash crop
As long as it says she’s 18 on your laptop
The sound of rain is her backdrop laying there
Like she’s waiting for somebody to say they care
While the tears of God fall down the window pane
She feels unholy like her Father doesn’t know her name

Mary Magdalene and the Woman At The Well
He knows everything that happened and in His arms she fell.

In his arms she fell
Will you stay with me

2nd verse:
He’s 21 and all alone in his household
He’s tempted by the quiet he feels and the mouse he holds
The silence of his spouse is cold
So he’s about to help that man get his six thousand gold
One click and now she’s sold
Withholding his conscience scrolling through the comments
There she is looking confident a picture of Constance
In a series of video clips, “adult content”
The title blinks in bold letters like the vacancy sign
It’s his time to go get her
It’s like his mind doesn’t know better
Her soul is crying out “let me go” but he won't let her
He got her trapped inside his media player
Held captive by his need to replay her
Its a matter of he being here and she being there
That’s why he doesn’t feel the need to care
Guilt is in the seed he bears
Spilling his shares of the profit
On a 500 million dollar market
Where children are regarded as product
And traded like stock tips
And raped for the sake of our pockets
His laptop sits like a window into Constance room
Where he exits ’cause its almost noon
And he’s expecting his wife home soon
With new clothes for the baby
She’d be angry if she saw his new lady
A thirteen year old Filipino named Constance
Trust me girl God has not forgotten

He knew Mary Magdalene and the Woman at the Well
He knows everything that happened and in His arms she fell

In his arms she fell
Will you stay with me