Lust, Passion & Purpose
Thirty-one Day Devotional to Fight Human Trafficking
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Father, grant us courage to speak out against injustices that plague our communities. Give us the words to speak in Your spirit of love and grace. We want to be used not only in our places of worship but also in our communities. Use us for Your glory to bring light in dark places.
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The Backstory
Are pornography and prostitution related to the human trafficking problem? It’s a question we at Rahab’s Daughters are often asked. Our answer is always the same: Yes. Today, the internet makes it easy to act in anonymity and forget that folks on the other side of the screen are also humans who breathe and eat and hurt. Prostitution, in some cases, is human trafficking.
Our youngest rescue thus far has been a 22-month-old little girl named Kenya with a charming, dimpled smile. Her mother was a prostitute; she and a sibling had been fathered by her mom’s pimp.
Kenya had been exploited in child pornography. It makes the stomach churn to think of it—and yet this little girl now has a life of freedom ahead of her, a life where she is free to pursue her dreams, not the abhorrent fantasies of her captors.
Prostitution has been around for as long as humans have inhabited the earth. However, people are not products. In many situations, what leads a person to make the choice to sell their bodies is desperation. (That is, if they even have a choice—and if they are underage, they cannot and are automatically considered coerced).
Sexual immorality is rampant in our world today and it influences so much of the demand for sex trafficking. If that demand did not exist, a now multi-billion-dollar industry would quickly be rendered unprofitable, and soon, extinct!
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About the Book
This 31-day devotional focuses on teaching the Christian community about Human Trafficking in a way that allows them to pray and learn simultaneously. Human Trafficking is a billion-dollar industry, and this devotional offers the opportunity to devote the next 31 days to taking a stand against human trafficking and seeing the industry through the eyes of survivors, their families, and mental health experts. Learn about modern-day slavery as a church, small group, or individual while you invite God into the situation and join the fight against human trafficking.
About the Author
With years of experience fighting against human trafficking, Sharmila Wijeyakumar, Dr. Denardo Ramos, and Indira Ramos have put their knowledge and experiences with combating human trafficking and interacting with survivors into this 31-day devotional. Sharmila is a survivor of human trafficking herself and has devoted her life to rescuing survivors and showing them that there is light on the other side of the dark tunnel. Denardo is a mental health professional who has worked and assisted many survivors throughout their recovery journeys. Indira has spent that last few years directly rescuing survivors and helping them figure out their next steps as they walk the path of recovery. Together, Sharmila, Denardo, and Indira have made it their mission to assist survivors in accomplishing the dreams they once viewed as impossible. Every day they work to educate communities on the realities of human trafficking and inform the faith community on the church’s role in battling against this modern-day slavery.