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About human trafficking

Human trafficking is a very real issue in our society today.
According to the Federal Trafficking Victims Protection
Act, human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring,
transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the
purposes of a commercial sex act, labor or services, in
which the act, labor or service is induced by force, fraud, or
coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an
act has not attained 18 years of age. It is as prevalent in the
United States as it is in any other country around the world.
To learn more about human trafficking, how to identify it,
and how to respond effectively, please visit Polaris Project at
www.PolarisProject.org.

Purpose of the prayer guide

Our hope for this prayer guide is that it will be used as a tool
to combat the spiritual warfare associated with the injustice
of human trafficking. Ephesians 6:12 reminds us that “our
struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world
and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
One of the tools God has given us to fight against the enemy
is prayer. We hope that the excerpts in this prayer guide
provided by many different authors will aid in strengthening
your own fight to end human trafficking.

DAY 1

“Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the
widow.” —Isaiah 1:17
When I read this verse, I am ready for battle. I want to take down the enemy
with everything in me. I want to defend those who have been broken and beat
down by the world. I want FIGHT. As I have joined God on this journey to end
human trafficking in America, I am realizing that sometimes I must fight with
my prayers, my tears, and my heart.
Sometimes defending the oppressed means figuratively standing between
them and the devil and telling him that he has no place in their lives in the
name of Jesus. Sometimes ending human trafficking means crying out to God,
surrendering all that I am, and asking Him to show me where to go or what to
do. Through His power and His power alone, we WILL see the end of human
trafficking.

Father—

Give us the tools to learn to do what is right, to seek
justice, defend the oppressed, and speak up for those who
need us. Prepare us for battle, Lord. Empower us to destroy
the enemy’s work in the lives of the broken.

Amen.

Submitted by Abbi Tenaglia, Founder and Director of Transforming Hope Ministries. To
learn more about Abbi, visit her website or blog at www.AbbiTenaglia.com.