May 2021

While in Illinois, the trip Jesus sent me out to pray deliverance against the spirit astral projecting Tommy Guns, a very interesting thing happened to me.  My brother owns a bar in Peoria called The Neon Bison.  I stayed and spent time with my brother in between the business of Tommy Guns.  One day I was with my brother at his bar and one of his employees stood out to me…like unnaturally stood out to me.  I felt weird staring at her, but I couldn’t stop.  As I was looking at her, I started feeling things about her and hearing things in my spirit.  It’s hard to put into words how I feel at times like this. 

I thought about this girl all night; not in an unhealthy way, I just couldn’t stop thinking about what I was feeling and hearing from Jesus.  This morning while my brother and I were driving out to see Tommy Guns, I told my brother I felt as if Jesus was telling me wild stuff about this girl. Jesus was telling me something like “molestation.”  My brother replied to me that he heard a story that she had been kidnapped as a young girl and trafficked to multiple Muslim men.  She was severely traumatized by this event.  As he was telling me this, I knew I was supposed to pray for this girl.  We will call her Willow Tree. Willow is 21 years old as I write this article.

May 2021

Jesus gave me a message to give to Willow.  I had two days to give her this message before I left town to return home.  I felt funny asking my brother for her private contact information because I felt I would be violating her privacy rights and potentially put my brother’s business in jeopardy.  I began praying, asking Jesus that if He wanted me to deliver her this message, He would have to put her back in front of me before I left. 

On my last day in Peoria, my brother and I were doing some work for his business and stopped by to drop off some materials.  While we were there – in the middle of the day – Willow came in the door.  I couldn’t believe it.  It turns out her phone had been “lost” during her previous shift and she came in to see if she had left it at the bar.  She “pinged” her phone from a friend’s phone and found it and three others on the ground between two homeless men who had been stealing phones.  There is a bad crack problem in Peoria Illinois and the “No Panhandling” law has been lifted, so the homeless people there are very assertive.  She got her phone back from the homeless men and came into the bar to tell us.  This was the open door I had prayed for!  Isn’t Jesus awesome?   

I followed Willow outside and called her name.  She turned around, I introduced myself as “Your boss’s brother.”  She said, “I know.”  I told her “Jesus gave me a message for you.”  When I said this, she stepped back, eyes widened, looked concerned and said in a weary fashion “Okay.” 

I started by telling her how I was feeling when I first saw her and then how He told me “trauma” and something like “molestation.”  She started crying and confirmed the sex trafficking story.  After this I gave her the message Jesus gave me for her, she cried more.  She got herself together and told me she got saved after the sex trafficking incident, but she has never connected fully.  She admitted to “slipping” the last two years, but Jesus had just been speaking to her the last two weeks, calling her back.  She told me the message I gave her confirmed the message Jesus has been speaking to her in the last two weeks. 

Willow has a small child and has been struggling both spiritually and financially.  Jesus’ message was one of confirmation that He is taking care of her, that He loves her, and that He wants her to draw closer to Him.  After this I knew I had to pray for her.  I held her hand with one of mine, and with the other I held her head.  I cancelled out the trauma of rape, lifted that curse, and called out any spirits in her as a result of her experience.  I called in healing and peace to replace the spirits that have been tormenting her.  Willow cried and hugged me saying, “I really needed this today.  Jesus is so good.”

June 2021

I did not mention this in my last writing, but besides working for my brother as a bartender, Willow is also a stripper.  My brother text me Thursday, June 3^rd, that Willow pulled him aside at the bar to put him on notice that she is leaving.  She had a couple reasons; (1) she doesn’t feel she’s a good bar tender and (2) she makes much more money stripping.

At first I was disappointed, but Jesus comforted me that she just doesn’t know how to trust Him yet.  A couple weeks ago Jesus told me to tell her that He is going to provide for her, but she doesn’t know how to let go of what she knows enough to let Him be her provider. 

I find it awesome that Jesus would find mercy with a stripper.  I LOVE that about Him!  Besides that, He loves her enough that He is going to be patient with her while she continues to make bad decisions?  Sure, He may bring hard times on her to pull her closer to Him, but isn’t that merciful in itself?  Isn’t that what He does with all of us, despite our position in life?  During her 22 year old life she’s been sex trafficked and who knows what else.  Who knows the amount of psychological, not to mention physical, damage she’s endured?  None of us would understand the spiritual damage she is currently going through as a result of the demons she is fighting on a daily basis. 

Perhaps Jesus will give me another message for Willow; or, better yet, use me to be her deliverer.  That would be so awesome.