justice starts here.

Human trafficking is the act of transferring or recruiting a person through force, deception or other means for the purpose of exploiting them. Many people who are trafficked are poor and told they will be leaving their families for a certain amount of time to make money and then be coming back. The minute they leave with their employers, their literal identities are taken and they are too scared to leave or have no idea where they're at. Some may return to home but most don't because it puts their families in danger. There are several different kinds of trafficking - sexual (which is the most known and consists of woman, children or men unwillingly being sold for sexual gratification), labor (doing work which they are either paid little to nothing for), child soldiers (kidnapping, brainwashing and training them for war), or organ trafficking (which is the act of a parent selling their infant or child to someone for them to kill for their organs). This isn't a demented story told in a different country, these aren't just words - they have faces, names, personalities, purposes that are being stripped from them.

This isn't something we can't do anything about.

The oppressors have a story, too.

All of human trafficking stems from the root lie of power or lust, but do you want to know where that lie begins? It begins in pornography. It starts with seeing woman as objects instead of jewels. It starts with a lie that watching the act of sex will gratify a man OR a woman's deepest desires. Most of the women who are in those videos are trafficked, most of them do not enjoy what they are doing; they are being forced. 

We can't just go into a red light district and take a person out and give them a new life because guess what? Another person will fill in their place, and another heart will fill their place because THERE IS STILL DEMAND. Demand starts with pornography. In the U.S alone, 20 million search engines typed in 'teen sex' or 'teenage sex'. 

Ted Bundy, who raped and killed 36 woman was sentenced to death. A network took an interview with him before he was executed asking him what his thoughts were, and how he could possibly do what he did. This rapist, this killer began to tell his story and this was it: he grew up in a Christian home. Went to church every weekend. Was an innocent boy, and one of his friends, when he was 13 showed him a magazine. And he took the liberty to continue in that. Pornography became an addiction. It became such an addiction that 'normal' porn videos weren't enough so, he started buying and watching violent sex. in the process, he felt so guilty and ashamed, he started drinking. Heavily. Soon, the violence wasn't enough and the alcohol and drugs numbed him enough that he had to act it out. To the point where 36 woman were his victims.

When boys are younger and you ask them what they want to be - none of them say 'I want to rape children', 'I want to run my own pornography business', 'I want to be more obsessed with sex than anything.' They're innocent, just like he was. It starts with a like, just like he was shared with. 

The reason I talk about this is because if we do not STOP the demand for pornography, it will be acted out. Woman will continue to be trafficked, as well as children. Men will continue to long for that power and give into that lie that pornography is normal.

A survey was taken at a Christian college campus and ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the men admitted to watching porn. When did this start becoming okay? When did this become just something fun to do? When does it stop becoming a habit and start being lived out?

This lie, this deception needs to be in the light.

The enemy is stripping us of what sex is meant to be. The enemy is taking one by one and decieving them that the woman actually enjoy being raped. The enemy is planting and rooting seeds that having sex with children is just another power source. The enemy is taking our flesh and making it our god. 

THE ENEMY CANNOT WIN.

JESUS HAS GIVEN US VICTORY.

PORNOGRAPHY IS NOT THE WAY, THE TRUTH OR THE LIFE HE INTENDED FOR YOU.

KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.

I fully believe once young man and even woman see the deception of this lie and see the consequences of this sin, they will try harder to stop this. They will become more passionate about the justice God wants to bring to this world. We cannot continue to sit back and let the enemy steal innocence and proclaim worthlessness over these woman and children. 

Justice starts with monitoring your computer. Justice starts with walking away from lust. Justice starts with relying so heavily on the strength of God. Justice starts with standing up and walking out of a room if you are by yourself and tempted. 

The demand ends today.

Human trafficking ends today.

Justice begins.