One of my goals in this endeavor, as I
state on the page about this blog, is to learn more about human trafficking
worldwide and here in the U.S. and to relay what I learn to my readers as I go
along. As I prayed about how to do
that…I questioned what my first step should be in the learning process. I felt that my very first step is just to
pray. Many revolutions of all kinds have
been birthed out of prayer. Prayer can
ignite our hearts to action and I know that my hope is to have some part in
taking action against trafficking.
Prayer in itself is an action and the first step on this journey!
Will you pray with me as I share over
the next months about countries all over the world that have large trafficking
industries? in the next months, I will do some posts on different countries. While I will be investigating statistics and numbers, each number represents a person, a soul.
I hope to be able to relay specific prayer requests for each region and
lastly will do the same for our own country, the United States. I would like to address five countries around
the world, not necessarily in order of trafficking prevalence. Hope you’ll learn along with me and say a
short prayer each time you read about a different area.
Leaders have prayed to end slavery before:
"...I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right.
But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on
the Lord's side." The
Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska,
University of Nebraska Press, 1995), p. 282. Also, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Ward Hill Lamon (Lincoln, Nebraska,
University of Nebraska Press, 1994), p. 91.
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the
free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly
save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed;
this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just - a way which,
if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless." Lincoln's Second Annual Message
to Congress, December 1, 1862. (http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln78.html)
And a famous prayer by
Harriet Tubman:
The North Star leads and
guides my way.
O Lord show me favor now I pray,
For I’m walking to freedom day by day.
It’s more than a fight, more than a dream,
It’s the fact we’re all created equal, so let freedom ring.
So I’m not giving up, I’ll keep fighting still
I’ll die for this cause if that is Your will.
It is my hope for the next generation to see,
What it’s like to truly be free.
So there’s no time for worry, no time for fear,
For the light of independence is far too near!
O Lord show me favor now I pray,
For I’m walking to freedom day by day.
It’s more than a fight, more than a dream,
It’s the fact we’re all created equal, so let freedom ring.
So I’m not giving up, I’ll keep fighting still
I’ll die for this cause if that is Your will.
It is my hope for the next generation to see,
What it’s like to truly be free.
So there’s no time for worry, no time for fear,
For the light of independence is far too near!
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