{"id":138106,"date":"2025-06-26T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138106"},"modified":"2025-06-26T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:52:34","slug":"christianity-today-rakthai-sophia-loibl-i-was-sold-into-slavery-jesus-set-me-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138106","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) Rakthai Sophia Loibl&#8211;I Was Sold into Slavery. Jesus Set Me Free."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I jumped out of that window, I asked God to give me everything back. He kept his promise: He kept my daughters safe and returned them to me. When I was locked away, he was my friend and savior. When I was dying, he brought me back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more, he has transformed my suffering into an open door to minister to other people in dire situations living in Thailand, including prostitutes, abandoned children, and those who have been trafficked or are without homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am living proof that God is working in the darkness. And all the ways he has loved me are glimpses of the everlasting life I now treasure in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/03\/sold-slavery-thailand-muslim-jesus-free\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Enslaved for over 20 years, I was on my deathbed in a Thai village, writes Rakthai Sophia Loibl.<br><br>Then Jesus brought me back to life and showed me true freedom.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JLjUU55mN\">https:\/\/t.co\/9JLjUU55mN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1921339484366344446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I jumped out of that window, I asked God to give me everything back. He kept his promise: He kept my daughters safe and returned them to me. When I was locked away, he was my friend and savior.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138106\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,426,659,108,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-religion-culture","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138110,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138106\/revisions\/138110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}