All Things Possible Ministries founder, Victor Marx, was severely abused and tortured as a child, now he rescues children all around the world who are experiencing the abuse he once endured.
In his testimony, Marx shares how a life of abuse led him to a lifestyle filled with drugs, fights, and other sins but through the discipline of the military and his faith in God has help him recover, become a husband, father, and empowers him to fight and help others.
According to his website, “Victor focuses his attention to the plights of those affected by ISIS, troubled juvenile offenders, and supporting military personnel from all branches including the special operations community.” Throughout his career Marx has help more than 45,000 children.
ChurchLeaders reached out to Victor Marx and asked him to share how the success of Angel Studios‘ film “The Sound of Freedom,” which has gross more than $210 million worldwide—over $183 million of that coming just within the United States—has impacted the fight on child trafficking.
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The success of “The Sound of Freedom” has put the abuse and trafficking of children in front of the church like never before.
“God used Tim’s story to put this in front of the Christian Church to say, now you know, what are you going to do? So the success of the film has really forced the conversation.”
Marx said that “that’s exciting, but it’s also concerning, because the [American] church is a reflection, sadly of our culture, not the other way around. And as quick as things come and go on social media news feeds, the danger is that people will get lathered up and emotional in the moment and then move on—and it becomes a fad.”
Therefore what happens is those of us who have been laboring in this field for decades are left with people who know enough verbiage to now not be responsible,” Marx added.
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They may support an organization by praying for them or sending them money, but it’s not longterm, it more of a one-off—a do something for a cause moment because they were made aware and it invoked an emotion. “They just kind of pay their token, get on the ride, take a picture, and then they’ll always refer to the picture” to remind themselves or someone else they helped.
Marx said that he believes that one of the reasons churches haven’t stepped up more to help fight human trafficking, especially when it comes to children is because “the current day church, they’re not keen on suffering, or embrace embracing it.”
As someone who could be perceived by many as a real-life Rambo character that repels down from Blackhawk helicopters with a knife in his mouth rescuing children from the cells of an evil Hollywood villain, Marx shared what the “secret sauce” is to his organization successfully rescuing children all around the world from abuse.
“It’s prayer,” Marx said. “We have 1000’s of prayer partners, I mean, people that nobody sees, who pray for us using real faith.
Marx told ChurchLeaders, these prayer partners are not only faithful, but diligent and they are “looking for a return.”
“They watch our posts, they watch our emails, and you better believe that if we ask for prayer, they’re looking for results. Just like an investor would do. And I love it,” he added.
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Marx shared the story of a recent rescue he and is wife did across the border where it credits their prayer partners for the successful rescue of a young girl. Their prayers open doors for relationships with people we need to pass through areas that ordinarily wouldn’t be accessible.
The American church is majorly lacking in the area of prayer, Marx said. And believes that it is not due the churches lack of faith in God, but that they don’t believe in biblical spiritual warfare.
“They just don’t believe there’s a little devil with demons that will manifest through and in people,” Marx said. “We encounter this stuff on a weekly basis here in the US.”
“The most effective thing we do, out of everything we do, is simply pray for people to be set free from demonic strongholds. I do that more than anything, he added. “This is the weakness of the church today. Not their ability to teach or preach or do worship. It’s their inability to face with authority demonic forces to set people free.”
Marx shared that he has seen pastors delivered from the bondage of demonic oppression, pastors he has personally prayed for, and those pastor never went on to tell anyone about it, nor did they share the power they have in God’s name to release others from what they once suffered from.
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He believes that it is due to a lack of faith that they fail to recognize the affliction of demons. “The opposite of faith is fear and pastors are so full of fear these days.”
As we concluded our interview, Marx warned the American church that the “biggest issue in America as regards to children and pedophilia and being trafficked is child pornography. Regular porn is just the gateway.” And he said that it’s not old men who are watching and creating a demand for it, it is men in their 20’s. “Because the church failed to stand and fight against porn, adultery, and fornication.”
The reason is due to men who have been watching pornography since they were young and need more perverse media to be stimulated. “I guarantee you I could go to any church in America. Any church. And let me polygraph every staff member. Every staff member—nobody escapes—and after three simple questions you’ll find just in the staff that people are struggling with porn.”
If you let me polygraph every member of that church and “I guarantee you will find at least one or two people struggling with child porn. I guarantee it.”