Hooker says God saved her and sent her back to the streets with a message

Annie Lobert worked for 16 years in the sex industry, battled cancer and got into drugs.

Annie Lobért, founder of Hookers for Jesus and former sex trafficked teen, prostitute, call girl and stripper. / Discovery Communications

Dressed in black and seated on a white couch, the 44-year-old founder of Hookers For Jesus appears in the nearly 14-minute video on the website that features the testimonies of personal struggle and transformation of celebrities and everyday people. She recalls she felt “I’ll never ever be clean.”…

After graduation, Lobert moved away from home to Minneapolis. She was 18. “I had to work three jobs to have my own place and buy a car.” …The lure of money pulled her into prostitution. During a vacation from her jobs, one night “I actually sold myself with my girlfriend to some Japanese clients and I became a prostitute.” …

Once when she had an overdose of coke, she realized she needed a savior. “I went completely blind. It’s like the whole room, the light that was on in that room turned dark. And I remember lying there and I felt like this demonic presence just come over me… I knew it was over. And I saw my family, I saw my funeral, and I was in the coffin. And everybody was crying. They were wiping their faces, and they were saying, ‘She was just a prostitute.'”

That’s when she cried out, “Jesus, please save me. I do not know if you are real, but I don’t want to die.” The ambulance arrived, and the doctor told her if God was not with her she would have died with so much drugs in her system. “And I knew that Jesus heard my prayer. And I laid there and I had this peace come over me, that was nothing like I had ever felt in my entire life. I knew God gave me a second chance.”…

Soon, she heard God saying to her, “Annie, I want you to go back down to that strip. And I want you to tell the girls that are in slavery that I love them.” So she went down to the strip and told the girls, “God loves you. No matter where you’ve been, no matter what you’ve done, no matter how deep, how dirty you feel, there is redemption.”

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