B-'s story [[Thailand]]

B-‘s story is one of hope, restoration, and just the beginning of a new journey God has her on. To continue from the story below, we had the opportunity to share Jesus with B- on a sunny afternoon over ice cream. The Lord had promised my heart from the day we met her that she was going to hear about Him, that she was ready for the harvest. When we first met her she would say things like “I’m the only one who knows what’s best for my heart” and from that point, we knew she was ready to hear that Jesus was waiting to do that for her as well as flood her with healing and restoration. Telling B- about Jesus was difficult and we had no other option but to leave it completely in God’s hands. Speaking the powerful name of Pry yasu [Jesus] to B- and her not understanding who he was or ever heard that name before even was very difficult. She was very receptive to hearing about Him but she still didn’t understand who he was fully. After I handed her a thai bible and walked out those doors, I instantly began to protest God and what he had just allowed to happen in there. Thoughts flooded my mind of “But Lord, you promised this and she didn’t come to know who you were.” The Lord was quick to cut me off and whisper, “But Sarah do you trust me with her? You were obedient in sharing me with her and handing her my word, but do you trust me with her now because B- was never in your hands to begin with.” I broke down in that moment and quickly surrendered any of that relationship with B- I thought I had been a part of in realizing it was all God, I wouldn’t have even met her  if he hadn’t called me to this place.

 For 2 months, we poured into B- with all the love Jesus had to offer, told her that she deserved better than the way she was living and poured truth over her that she had worth. Our last week of ministry quickly approached and as it did one of my teammates and I had a going away dinner with B-. B- had been begging us for 2 months to go to this BBQ  place, but we heard the horror stories before we got there from other teammates. To say it plainly, a buffet of raw meat of every kind and flies surrounding it faced us. Anna and I stared at this small little grill on our table as B- had already began filling plates and plates of raw meat- most of which was unrecognizable. My stomach clenched with the thought of I was about to put in it as B- started piling all the meat on the grill. After the initial shock of what I was eating, and praying off any possible sickness that could come from eating what we did we had some incredible conversations with B-. It was like three sisters just laughing and talking about their lives, it didn’t matter that we lived around the world from each other or that there was a language barrior. Towards the end of the meal [when we had more animals in our stomachs that I could count fingers] B- got this real serious look on her face and said, “ I know God sent you to me.” I quickly assumed she meant Buddha, and as I asked her if she meant Buddha, she cut me off and said, “No, God sent you to me.” And then she proceeded to tell us that she knew she was “a lily precious and holy.” Those words we knew were only coming from the Lord, because for one those are big words in english to understand and say and also that she was so confident in how she was telling us that she really believed it. My heart was singing for joy at this point when she shared some even more incredible words with us, she told us that she no longer was working in the bars but was interviewing for a hostess job at a restaurant in the mall. We were left blown away by how God had moved. We also later were reminded of our original vision for this summer as a team that we had painted on a canvas- a woman surrendered with her hands in the air and A LILY IN HER HAIR. The very words B- was speaking over herself were what God had promised us from the beginning. It was incredible to see God’s faithfulness throughout the past 2 months in this one moment that God allowed us to see, and to see his hand on B- the entire time we had known her.       

                  God is faithful, his promises are true, and he does redeem hearts.