Hi ~

If you don't know who Alaine Pakkala is, I want to commend her to you. She is a trafficking and satanic ritual abuse survivor and a warrior for the Lord in her latter years who founded the organization Lydia Discipleship Ministries.

Not long ago when Alaine was speaking to a group of us, she said something so profound I took notes.

"In our minds," she said, "the idea of 'protecting' means 'preventing bad things from happening.'

"But in the Psalms, it means sustaining," she said.

"The Lord promises to sustain us through the hardships. Paul was in a shipwreck, and the sailors strapped themselves to the pieces of the ship--"

And here Alaine used a word I'd never heard before.

frapping

To frap = "To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together."

That's what the Lord's sustaining is like. He fraps us.

He doesn't promise no storms and no shipwrecks.

He promises that In the midst of the storms, He will frap us to Himself.

Alaine then applied this to trafficking victims and survivors, which was the heart and focus of all of us in that group.

The Lord is at work, sustaining, frapping, those victims and survivors, so even when they feel like they're broken apart, they are still held together.

What does "protection" look like?

Sustaining in the midst of the horrors. Holding us together. Keeping us held in, to His heart.

For those who have felt abandoned, I pray they will be able to get to know the Great Frapper, who is so different from those abusers.

Praying with you for the frapping of the nations,

Rebecca

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