Nothing But Love and Cookies

For 18 years I have gone to the strip clubs delivering mainly cookies and little gifts for the employees.

Why? 

That has multiple layers to the answer. 

The first being that around three years before I went I visited a church where a "prophetic team" made up of people I had never met in my life asked me to come to a room where they could deliver a message to me from God. 

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Trust me when I tell you that I kinda throught they were full of it.

They told me that I would be going to bars to tell people about Jesus.

I was being polite at the time, but if I could have told them what I thought, I would have informed them that there seriously mistaken because although I am not afraid of sharing my faith with people, I don't like to do it in a public/pressuring way. There would be no way I would ever walk in a bar and start declaring Jesus Christ is Lord. 

I've just always been turned off by what I felt like were manipulative ways to get people to pray the sinners prayer so you have another notch in your Bible. 

They also told me I was an Archetype. They said I would be misunderstood by people my age but there would be loads of folks that would come behind me. 

They also told me I would face many battles. 

I later found out someone who knew the leader told them after I left that she was glad she did not have my anointing because it was going to make my life difficult. 

I based thinking they were wrong on what I thought they said would look like.

I pictured myself walking into a bar and standing up on a chair and preaching. 

No way. 

Me, an archetype? 

I pictured myself having some special intelligence or talent and I knew this was not true.

No way again. 

Life being difficult and full of battles? 

Who wants to agree with that? 

No thank you. 

But now, almost 22 years later. 

I see they were right on all of it. 

I do go to bars and love people. 

Someone asked what my motivation to go was and I have been asked this so many times before because.... 

People are suspicious of my reasons because they want my reason to be to get women to stop being a stripper and because I don't make that my focus and instead make my focus to love, they don't like it. 

But I decided long ago that I was called there to love and nothing else. 

You know why? 

Because I am so ding dong diggity dang in love with Jesus and believe in the power of His love that I don't think anything else could add to it. 

Can you imagine? 

Imagine if there was a love that powerful? 

People can argue all they want over what the Bible says and after having been baptized at age 7, having thousands of conversations with my higher power and having read the Bible 15 times cover to cover, I am convinced if we just have faith in the kind of love Jesus brought to the world, it is enough. 

And I won't go into it but in a supernatural way, God confirmed this to me because I sure got a lot of flack from folks in church over it.

So this has made me completely satisfied with going to the clubs with love and cookies and no other agenda.