Laurie Ishii

Thursday me and my friend Charity are going to bring gift bags to the working girls on the streets of Compton and South Central LA. Please pray that the rain will ease up by then!!! (Well it hasn’t started here yet but it’s supposed to tonight and go through most of the week) EP will most likely go with us on the outreach and pray in the car. She is quite the prayer warrior and has amazing discernment. Her health is still suffering but we are amazed at how well she is doing in spite of everything that has been going on.

Because I am still not at liberty to share the details of everything that is going on – it’s all quite complicated and crazy… remember the movie “Poltergeist”? Lol. Well, there is some stupid crazy demonic stuff going on – more like irritations, going on here. The Lord is so awesome because He proves His faithfulness over and over and shows us how much BIGGER He is than the enemy, it’s so encouraging, in spite of the harassment and irritation. We’ve become quite the prayer warriors and these experiences are really building our faith, big time! We are literally living in a war zone…

Jesus REIGNS and the enemy HATES it when we speak of the blood of Jesus!!! Anyway, like I mentioned before about EP’s pimp -Tony – also being involved in Satanism… well, let’s just say that we’ve found out how real the spirit realm is and how real (and personal, for those of us who are serving Jesus) our enemy is. The enemy isn’t really able to mess with Daryl and I but he is pretty constantly messing with EP, and because one of the biggest high holy days for Satanism is on Monday the 22nd and Wednesday the 24th (next week) we ask that everyone PLEASE KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS. EP is not doing anything “wrong” – in fact it is more like because she is doing RIGHT that the enemy is pissed and doesn’t want to let her go and is doing anything he can to discourage her, put fear in her.

All the crap she has had to go through makes me so mad at the enemy and I am praying that the Lord will continue to give us more wisdom and discernment to know how to pray to fight against the enemy’s attacks. It’s wearing on a person but again, the Lord is AWESOME and He proves Himself VICTORIOUS over and over!!!!

Last week I made some cookies (my first try! Lol) and wow… I was walking one day and saw this homeless man named Cody sitting on the sidewalk listening to Christmas music… it broke my heart. Daryl, EP and I gave him cookies (they turned out pretty good, wouldn’t have given any to him if they didn’t – don’t want to be a bad witness haha) and he had tears in his eyes when I gave them to him. There is another homeless man named Robert that we see all the time – he doesn’t drink or do drugs – he’s been on the street for YEARS (I used to see him back when I was on the street!!!) and he was so cute when I gave him the cookies cause he kept waving and smiling to us afterwards.

This time of year is SO DEPRESSING for some people – especially those who are on drugs, on the street or who are away from their family… I remember how depressed I was when I was strung out on dope and prostituting when the holidays came around… it was the worst. I’m sure the holidays are difficult for the working girls we see as well… please pray that we can be a blessing and share the love of Jesus with the girls out there so that they will know that they are special and loved.

I just need to tell you that although things have been pretty crazy around here – Daryl and I are SO BLESSED having EP living here with us – words cannot express the love we have for her and we have learned SO MUCH by having her here… she has amazing. We see her living here with us for a very long time, if not for good!

We have had the privilege of meeting a few of EP’s family members and have heard some incredible things about EP that she would never tell us herself. She is one of the most humble, compassionate, kind people I have ever known. It’s no wonder – she has been through so much crap herself – she knows what it’s like to be hurting and down and out. She has a heart of gold. Give it a couple of years and EP will be preaching to the nations! She has so much wisdom and is such an articulate amazing speaker – you would never know that she only has a third grade education. She’s smarter than a lot of people I know that have been through school, even college.

Thank you so much for your continued prayers!!!