SID: I had a lot of trouble imaging the life that you’ve had since this Lioness Arising occurred, this vision occurred. You were minding your own business reading a magazine about sex traffic. What happened?
LISA: You know, I was sitting there turning the pages and I was hearing about sex trafficking. And instead of just saying, you know, that’s really sad, I just began to weep. I let it pierce my heart. And I said, “God, if there is anything I can do, if there’s any strength I can lend, I’m your girl,” and I just believed God would take those moments. Because two weeks later, I had a phone call from Life Today, and they said, “It’s come to our attention that there are girls being sex trafficked. Can we send you undercover into the brothels in Thailand?” Then I went to Cambodia. Then I went to India and we went undercover into the brothels. We got the girls’ stories. We got the kids rescued. We talked to these people.
SID: Let me take you, I need to see a particular woman that’s in sex trafficking. You’re in Cambodia. You’re out at midnight. You’re in the worst part of town. Your husband should have never let you do that.
LISA: Yes, he shouldn’t have.
SID: But he didn’t know, maybe.
LISA: He still doesn’t know. He’s going to know now.
SID: Okay. Tell me what you saw, what you said.
LISA: Well there are so many stories first and foremost. But so many of these young girls, this is their story. They’re in poverty. They dared to dream. They dared to dream there could be something more for their life. They dared to dream they could get a job. They dared to dream that there might be a family that would take them in as an au pair and they can maybe better themselves. And so they leave with somebody they trust. Usually it’s an aunt, an aunt that can just be a trusted woman. They leave with a woman or an uncle and they go into this big city. They’re illiterate. And all of a sudden, they find themselves locked up into a room and sold. They’re sold for their virginity, they’re gang raped, they’re humiliated. They’re trapped into this lifestyle where they sometimes live in cages and they’re chained to the beds. And then pretty soon when they have completely destroyed their spirit, they unchain them, because they know they’ll never leave, because they have no hope. And so what we would do is we would travel with them and we would say, we need you to dream again, what would you hope for? And if you get them to connect with the hope, then they’ll come out. But there were some women that said, “I just want to die, but will you take my daughter, will you take her. She’s six. Before they traffic her, will you take her?” Sid, it was the most heartbreaking revelation that the depravity of humans outside of God can do anything like that. It was just terrifying. And we would just talk to them. We would get their stories and then we would give them “possible,” you know, we’d get them out and we’d give them medical attention. Then we’d give them counseling then we would also give them education or job skills to get out of it.
SID: Tell me one specific person that got out and what happened to this one woman.
LISA: Yeah. Well there was one beautiful girl that got out and she was just, she just turned her life around and she became a beautician, which I know doesn’t sound like, for our people, very much, a beautician. But she said, “You know what, it’s not enough for me just to have a future, I’m going to actually become a rescuer.” And so now this one girl that got out is now one of the advocates and one of the rescuers for other girls. You know, Sid, I want to tell you one particular story. There was a raid in India and they rescued 22 girls. And then they kept hearing a noise, and they just happened to realize that there was a false wall, and there were 11 minor children ranging from 12 to 14 that had been hidden in a wall, who would have died, who would have died because of the heat and no water, and no air. And those girls are all free. In the last year and a half, we’ve been able to rescue 330 girls in Southeast Asia.
SID: If you hadn’t had that vision of the lioness, would you have ever lived the life you’re living now?
LISA: No. I would have been captive to fear. I would have lived small. And more than likely my children would have also been afraid. Do you know that when I got free I positioned my son’s will. This is what I’ve learned, Sid. Our children inherit one of two things: either God’s promises or our fears, and the things that we do not deal with come back to haunt our children. And so this vision put something inside of me that my family hadn’t put in me, that my husband tried but couldn’t put in me. God took me outside of myself and said, “Your world needs to be so much larger than your fears.” And we need a people here that have a fierce faith. And see, they have no problem believing that about a lion, but that fearful wonder is your genesis. It is how God knit you together. You are stunning and we have dumbed that word down to mean beautiful. But you are not beautiful because you are attractive. You are beautiful because stunning means that when you become all that you were created to be, you will stun the enemy. You will arrest him. You will stop him in his tracks. And it is time the church understand that our beauty is in our function and not in our form.
SID: Lisa, I need you to pray that the lioness, and by the way, that’s for men and women, would arise, right now.
LISA: Absolutely. Heavenly Father, I just thank you, that perilous times give birth to courageous people. Father, I thank you that there’s a fierce uprising, that people are throwing off the limitations, that they’re remembering who they are, that they remember whose they are, that they remember what their territory is. Father, I thank you for every person that has suffered loss. I thank you that they’ll take back that ground. Father, I thank you that for a release of the boldness, of the lion of the Tribe of Judah. I thank you that the bride will begin to pray prayers that include more than just themselves, that they know the Creator of all Heaven, all the universe. And they’ll pray prayers that are so fierce that it will rise from a whisper to a roar, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
SID: And I can picture the Lion of the Tribe of Judah roaring over you right now, and fearing Jesus’ name. You leave that household. You leave that woman. You leave that man, and depression and hurt be gone in Jesus’ name.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth