A Strip Club Strategy

January 11, 2007

A vision...

The Lord said we are as Joshua. We have crossed the Jordan and entered the Promised Land. The Lord has promised us this land! It is only up to us to claim and maintain it. But I also heard the Lord say, "There's still Jericho..." There are institutions and strongholds of demonic activity in our city. They have a synergy just like we do. There are demons working together to bring down individuals, families, neighborhoods, and communities and on up the line. The strip clubs are manifestations of this demonic activity. They are not the walls of Jericho, but are representative of those who are on or within it's walls. All we've been doing in praying and working against the strip clubs is shooting arrows over the wall. We are not attacking the wall itself - the foundations of sinfulness that have led to the expansion of the strip clubs. Be it personal, private sin; broken relationships; sexual immorality; lust; divorce; economic hardship (for the girls who work there); these walls need to be broken down.

The point... God says we need seven days of corporate prayer and fasting in which groups will prayer walk around the strip clubs of the city praying strategically that the walls break down upon which the strip clubs rest. There would be prayer also for how God's people can train their hands for war - so we could learn what we ourselves can do... Perhaps God will show us of the need for physical picket-line protests? Perhaps there are business owners who would give good-paying jobs to these girls?

What a wonderful picture of Fort Wayne Transformed!

Picture it... Divorce lawyers choosing not to take divorce cases or (better yet) having to find alternative practices because they aren't getting any business. Strip clubs razed to the ground and, in their place, dance studios where young girls and boys can learn to dance before God! The closure of the abortion clinic!

The Lord is asking us for - and we, as a Church, need this - SEVEN DAYS of prayer and fasting for wisdom and revelation about our role and our ability to close these places down and cleanse our city.

Another thought... Think about this not as doing what's right, as servanthood, as another volunteer effort... No, think of this seven days as an act of WORSHIP before our God... to cleanse our land, to cleanse the House of God (Bethlehem / Fort Wayne, See Previous Post), that the name of our Lord may be known throughout our region and our nation!

EDIT:

God gave me this other picture tonight (1/16/07) of just what the SEVEN DAYS could be and could mean. God wants to raise up warriors; He wants them called out to this event. As God has shown that his desire is prayer for loneliness, broken relationships, sexual immorality, lust, divorce, etc., God said that he not only wants to heal our land but he wants to heal our PEOPLE through this event. God wants us to call forth warriors to prayer and fasting. Those he wants are the people who come from the broken relationships, men and women who've gone through a divorce, children of divorced parents, men who've looked at porn on the internet... people who have been hurt, weighed down and burdened by the sins (represented in the strip clubs) that rae rampant in our community. He wants to use them to pray down these walls and, in the process, to break down their own walls, allowing the River to flow into them and heal their hearts and their souls as He heals our land!