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Philippines Brothels Transformed into Family Friendly Hotels

Philippines Brothels Transformed into Family Friendly Hotels King Flores is a Filipino Christian who, like Francis Oda in Hawaii, holds dual ministerial citizenship since he is both the CEO of an international financial-transfer service in Manila and a pulpit minister. When he was first exposed to Prayer Evangelism and Anointed for Business, he decided to implement the principles right away. At the time, he was working as a consultant to a person who owned eight businesses, one of which was a motel chain consisting of eight buildings with 1,600 rooms and employing 2,000 workers. However, each room was used an average of five times a day by 3,000 prostitutes who, in cahoots with the management, “processed” around 15,000 “clients.” King brought his boss to our seminar, where the boss realized that he was a minister, his employees were his disciples, his business was his ministry, and his clients were his congregation. He also embraced the truth that salvation could and should come to his corporation in the same manner that it came to him. Soon after the seminar, he walked into his boardroom and proclaimed, “The kingdom of God has come to my business and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” Cognizant that his 2,000 employees were in dire need of shepherding, he hired 30 pastors and, under King Flores’s leadership, gave them a novel assignment: “I will pay you a salary for you not to preach.” By this he meant that they were to practice prayer evangelism, which I describe in its most elementary form as “talking to God about the lost before we talk to the lost about God.”2 Luke 10:2-9 records Jesus’ fourstep implementation, which I teach in my book Prayer Evangelism. The methodology is taken from His instructions to 70 followers whom He had chosen for a special assignment: to bless the lost, fellowship with them, minister to them, and then (and only then) proclaim that the kingdom of God has come near them. Thus, what constitutes the four-part thrust is to (1) bless, (2) fellowship, (3) minister and (4) preach. Therefore, because preaching is listed at the very end of the sequence, King’s boss made the statement about paying the pastors not to preach — meaning that they needed to cover the other steps first. How serious he was about this became evident when three of the pastors, unable to overcome their training, violated his directive and preached prematurely. They were summarily fired and replaced with others who were willing to adhere strictly to the job description. The 30 pastors connected with the 2,000 employees by becoming part of the many task forces that are necessary for the daily running of a motel chain. This placement allowed them to quietly speak peace over the lost. As doors opened up for fellowship, they struck up friendships. As those friendships deepened, employees began to share personal problems with the pastors, who immediately offered prayer. Very soon, answers to those prayers materialized, providing a convincing platform for the proclamation that the kingdom of God had come to the motel chain. So much so that after two years and three months, the majority of the 2,000 employees had received the Lord. In the intervening time, the owner invested new capital to upgrade the motels to executive status to make them less accessible to street prostitution. He also built prayer chapels in each motel and recruited intercessors to pray on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for everyone who had spent the night there or was scheduled to do so that day. The improved spiritual climate was heightened as more and more employees came to the Lord and began to see themselves as ministers, turning their jobs into ministerial vehicles. Can you picture employees praying that the presence of God will greet the guests when they check in? If the new occupants happened to be an illegitimate couple, being greeted by the presence of God as they entered the room must have had a dampening effect on their lustful desires, to put it mildly! However, the most striking feature was informing the guests that prayer was available upon request, and instructing them how to avail themselves of this unusual hotel service. The spiritual game plan worked so well that after 18 months, more than ten thousand clients had received the Lord, not to mention many others who were impacted by miraculous answers to prayer. Similar to what took place at the bank in Elk River, once salvation came to the hotel chain, the motels began to do the work of the ministry as believers are expected and empowered to do. The key player here was the owner, someone without formal theological training and who was never ordained and who does not preach from a pulpit. However, when King Flores’s boss realized that he was a minister and chose to exercise his pastoral calling in the marketplace, what would have taken a traditional pastor two lifetimes or more and a fortune to accomplish happened naturally and speedily because somebody decided to give the devil a heaven of a time, 24/7, by taking the kingdom of God where evil used to rule unhindered. What was formerly a den of iniquity became a hallmark of God’s glory. These stories and many more like them confirm that the sweeping verdict that was won that day has stood the test of time. Wherever Satan has taken over an institution, whether it be in an industry, a prison or a bank, God’s children, deputized and armed with the legal jurisdiction that Jesus’ death secured, must move forward to reclaim it, knowing that the devil has no choice but to leave. The kingdom of darkness will flee! By Ed Silvoso From Transformation ch. 10 “Giving the Devil a Heaven of a Time”

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