Praying Over the Red Light Districts

To be honest with you, we thought when we arrived in Bangkok that we would be ministering more to the women in prostitution than the people that buy these women. But, lo and behold, we are and have been working with a ministry for the past 3 weeks that deals with the "consumer" strictly. Each night, we meet at 6:30 for an extended time of prayer and worship because this kind of ministry is pretty intense. For almost the entire first week we were working with MST project, the Lord led us to do prayer walks to each of the three main red light districts in Bangkok- Nana Plaza, Soi Cowboy & Patpong. We felt God leading us to anoint (discreetly, mind you) the entrances of the go-go bars, clubs, and love hotels with oil and pray as we walked. God even led us to stand in the middle of these red light district plazas with oil on our hands and pray over the streets. The passerbyers must have thought we were crazy- several of us crouched in the street praying while the rest of us surrounded them praying and singing as well. We got a lot of weird looks and several comments of "What are they doing?" But I even overheard a man say "Hey, I think they are praying."

There was one point where we were in Soi Cowboy, having anointed our feet with oil to walk the streets, about seven of us stood in a line side by side and marched forward while praying like an advancing army pushing back the darkness. It was then that I felt the Spirit of the Lord so strongly upon me and the rest of our team. It was as if I could feel the powers of darkness creeping back, frightened by the light we gave off.

The MST Project, only having been going for about a year now, had never praying walked with anointing oil before, but the founder, Chris Lenty, really felt to do this with our team. We all felt as a whole that bonds were beginning to be broken in Jesus name through our prayer walks. God is good, yeah?

Fast Facts:

Bangkok red-light districts

10% Agnostic

25% Christian

21% Atheist

26% Expats

74% Tourists

54% European

30-49 - Avg. age