From Darkness to Deliverance - Nichole Hensley Henson

Nichole Hensley Henson shares her incredible journey from the depths of trauma, PTSD, and depression to complete freedom through faith and deliverance.

After years of searching for healing through therapy, medication, and prayer, she discovered that her battle wasn’t just mental it was spiritual. Through divine intervention, she was set free and is now dedicated to helping others find the same freedom through deliverance ministry.

Join me as we discuss her powerful testimony, the reality of spiritual warfare, and how to walk in lasting victory. If you’ve ever struggled with deep wounds or wondered if true healing is possible, this conversation will inspire and challenge you.

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Israel Caminero: 0:04

Thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode. I'm grateful for your support and for being part of this community. If you've been enjoying the podcast so far, I'd love it if you could take a minute to leave a review. Your feedback helps me reach more people and share these inspiring stories with others. Let's spread the word. Please share this podcast with your friends and family. And if you haven't already, be sure to like and subscribe for new episodes. To stay connected and up to date on all the latest news, updates, and exclusive content, head over to my Facebook page, Living Testimonies. While you're there, be sure to subscribe to my newsletter. The link is on the page. Thanks again for listening, and I'll catch you in the next episode. I'm your host, Israel Caminero, and I hope everyone that's listening is blessed and doing well. With me today, I have my guest. Her name is Nicole Hensley Henson. And it's her turn to give her testimony. And I hope all you listeners are ready because she has a good one. Can you introduce yourself to everybody, Nicole?

Nichole Hensley Henson: 1:34

Absolutely. Like you said, my name is Nicole Henson, and I'm excited to be here and tell everybody what the Lord has done in my life. I am a grandmother, newly grandmother, which is completely exciting, changed my entire life completely. And I run a full-time ministry and I live out in Texas. So we're enjoying warm weather right now. And I'm definitely excited to share everything that God has laid on my heart to share with y'all.

Israel Caminero: 1:59

Amen. Texas, another one. It seems like everyone that's been on here so far is in warm weather. Well, we're over here in freezing weather.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 2:07

Well, it was really cold a couple weeks ago. We were down to like 19 degrees, and I woke up with no water at all because we're not equipped out here for temperatures like that. So our entire house had frozen solid. So we felt it for a little while, but we're back to our normal temps now.

Israel Caminero: 2:24

Oh, okay. Well, we'll we're getting there. I'll put it that way. But she's here to share her story. But before we get started, I'd like to pray over us and I'd like to say, Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you today grateful for the opportunity to share Nicole's powerful testimony with our listeners. We ask that you would anoint her words, that they would infuse with your truth, love, and redemption. Give Nicole courage, clarity, and confidence as she shares her story. May her words be a blessing to all who hear them, and may they bring glory to your name. We pray for our listeners that their hearts would be open to receive the message that Nicole's about to share. May they be inspired, encouraged, and drawn closer to you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right, Nicole. So the platform's all yours, and I know part of your story because we've been trying to do this for a while. And we had a few obstacles, but here we are, and it's your turn to give your testimonies to everybody so you can take the mic and roll with it.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 3:30

Alright, well, thank you very much for this opportunity. Um, I'm just gonna jump right in. I always go back to the very beginning because for me that's where everything started. I was born into a family that was full of domestic violence. My mom was really young when she married my biological dad. She was a teenager, and he was as well. But in my family, that really wasn't unusual. It it was never on our radar that, oh, we could go to college or we could do anything really with our lives other than getting married and having kids. So at a very young age, that's what she did. And that cycle had started before her and it continued after her. So really the first memories I have of my biological dad is just being afraid. I remember fearing making noise around him because everything in our home had to revolve around him, like what he wanted, his needs, his wants, and even down to him watching television. We weren't allowed to talk unless a commercial was on. That was like our time then to have any noise going on. I could remember him taking like the squeaky toys that I had and removing the squeaky out of them because he just didn't want to be bothered with any noise. When I was around three years old, my mom basically had had as much as she could take, and she divorced him. And her and I moved back to Indiana because that's where she was from. And he lived in Indiana, or I'm sorry, he lived in Florida with his family, and he had moved my mom there and me when I was just a couple months old. So we moved back to be with her family, but he was granted visitation every other Christmas and every summer. So every summer I would have to go there for like three months and be away from my mom and her family, which was very stable, and go into his home, which was very unstable. And when I was around seven, he had married a new woman. And almost immediately I could tell on that visit that something was different in my mind at that time. I didn't have words for it, and I didn't have the context to really know what was going on. But even their whole house was decorated like with dragons and wizards, crystals, and it was just a very dark atmosphere. And I knew I was afraid, I was scared all the time. It would be nothing to see him sitting at the kitchen table with a soldering tool creating uh jewelry to wear with crystals. He said he had power that came from them, and he was into very dark practices. Looking back, I know now exactly what was going on. He was into witchcraft, he was into the occult, there was even some Satanism thrown in, and he was getting deeper and deeper. I don't know who introduced who. I don't know if he introduced his new wife or if she introduced him, but they both were heavily involved in the occult. She read people's futures, and um they both were into just dark practices. That is also when I can remember the sexual abuse first starting. I have um very little record like clear kind of exact pinpointed memories. I have a few enough to know that the abuse definitely for sure happened. Um, but I don't have very precise day-by-day memory recall because it was so traumatic. But I do know that that first summer the abuse started, and it was with him and it was with his wife as well. And he was also very emotionally controlling. So I the physical, um, the sexual abuse was very damaging, of course. I mean, I would never say it's not, but I think that the psychological abuse that he did on me was even more controlling and more painful and worse because he told me he could read my mind. And I had seen him do rituals, I had seen him do very um ritualistic things and like animal sacrifices and those types of things. So and when he told me he could read my mind, I had no doubt that he could. As a seven-year-old child, you know, the that forms your your thinking and your your mental processes.

Israel Caminero: 7:45

Right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 7:45

And so when I would go back, yeah, it was crazy. When I would go back to Indiana, I would be thinking, he can think, he knows what I'm thinking. So there was no safe space for me. I couldn't hide, I couldn't go into a deep dark closet, I couldn't hide under my bed. There was nowhere in my life that was safe. And I can remember that was the birth of OCD for me because I would rock back and forth and be thinking to myself, don't think bad thoughts, don't think bad thoughts, don't think. And I would count everything. I would count as he was abusing me that the tiles of the ceiling, and then I just started counting, and that really became my comfort and my go-to in the way that I would block memories. I would actively block them starting at seven years old because I didn't feel safe enough to even let my mind go there. And he would tell me that if I told, he would kill me and my mom. And I absolutely believed him. So during my childhood, you know, I was very sickly. I missed tons of school, lots of headaches, lots of allergies, stomach aches. I was just never well. I never fit, felt good, I never fit in with the other kids. I felt like I was 50 years old in an eight-year-old's body, like I wasn't carefree and happy go lucky. I was always on guard, always watching, making sure that I pretended to be happy with my dad or my my biological dad, but I pretended to act like everything was okay. And so I was just never a happy child. I did not have many friends. I was scared all the time. At nighttime, I was terrified. There was many, many, many nights. I mean, I couldn't even count how many, that I would lay awake in a cold sweat all night long and I couldn't go to sleep until the sun started coming up. So you can imagine what that was like for school. Like that, that didn't work out very well. Was not a high, yeah, like I was not a high achiever in school at all. From the outside, looking in, it looked like I was lazy. It looked like that um I just didn't want to achieve anything because I couldn't tell people what I was going through. I couldn't tell people that I was dying on the inside and that I was screaming for help, that nobody could hear me. I just looked like I was a rebellious teenager and that I didn't take my um schooling serious. When I was 12 years old, he attempted suicide and he um shot himself under the chin and he didn't die. Yeah, it was uh just a really freak accident, not accident, but situation, but he did not die. He really didn't have any damage at all. He had to have the bullet removed, but that was about it. But when that happened, my world turned upside down. Like I thought I knew fear prior to that, but it was nothing after like compared to that, because I knew if he could hurt himself, there was no doubt that he could hurt me because he was his favorite person in his whole entire world. And if he could do that to him, he absolutely could do it to me. When I was around nine, he and his mom and dad had moved back to Indiana, and that's where I lived, and he had left that woman and he wasn't with her anymore, and he wasn't actively participating in um the witchcraft anymore. He kind of went to being a recluse to where he stayed in his room a lot and he became addicted to pornography, um, all kinds of just nasty stuff, using his computer and his television. He was never secretive about telling people, but he wanted to show everybody, and it was it was just really it was just uh it was just gross. And so he wasn't involved heavily in the occult anymore, but I still had that fear of him because it had been instilled in me whenever I was like seven years old.

Israel Caminero: 11:32

Right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 11:33

So as a teenager, I started into therapy and I disclosed the abuse for the first time. And looking back, I have no idea why she didn't report it to the police because she was a mandated reporter. Um, but she didn't, she didn't report it to anybody. And the visits with him stopped for a little while, but I couldn't stay away from him because I was more fearful away from him than I was visiting with him. Because again, he had instilled in me, if you tell anybody, I will kill you and I will kill your mom. So it was the whole idea of if I'm staying away from him, he knows that I'm talking bad about him, and then he's going to come hurt me. At least if I go around him, it may keep him calm, and then he won't tell, or then he won't hurt me because he don't think I'm telling. And so I would go over and spend the night at his house, which he lived with my grandparents, and I can remember sleeping with a can of hairspray, or not sleeping because I couldn't sleep, but I would hold a can of hairspray all night long in the bedroom where I would stay. And I would think if he walks in, I can spray him in the eyes, and then maybe I can climb out a window or or run around him. But it was just complete and utter terror. There were times that my hands would just like visibly shake when he was in the room because I was so afraid of him.

Israel Caminero: 12:49

So was the abuse still happening at this time?

Nichole Hensley Henson: 12:52

No, the sexual abuse had stopped when I was around nine.

Israel Caminero: 12:55

Okay.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 12:56

Um, when he left hit when he left Florida, that stopped. I remember one time when I was around 12 that there was some abuse, but that's the only time I can remember from the ages of nine to twelve.

Israel Caminero: 13:09

Okay.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 13:09

If it happened, I don't remember it. And that is possible because I've blocked a lot of memories and I don't have those back. Um, but I only know one concrete time when I was around 12 that something did happen, but I don't remember anything else between nine and twelve as far as the sexual abuse. He lived with his parents, and I don't think that he so when I visited, he was never alone. Like we were not alone for the most most part. So I don't think the opportunity was there for him like it had been in Florida because we lived in a house with just us and his his wife.

Israel Caminero: 13:45

Gotcha. So you were just afraid as you were staying there with the spray bottle and stuff, just afraid because of the past things that happened and what he put in your head as far as he could read your mind. At this point, you were like, I can't even think anything because he already knows what I'm thinking.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 14:03

By the time I was a teenager, I didn't really believe that he could read my mind anymore, but I was terrified that he would kill me. It was always that I thought he was going to try to kill me, especially after he tried to kill himself. After he tried to kill himself, like there was no doubt in my mind. Like I thought at any moment he could just flip and come in there and try to kill me. I didn't know, did he still have a gun? Did he have a weapon? Like, I didn't know any of that. And so in my mind, I'm thinking he could kill me at any moment. Even when I was at home with my mom, I would be thinking he's gonna bust in the door. I couldn't sleep at night because I would think that he was gonna come in and that he was so it was like constant terror, like it never went away.

Israel Caminero: 14:42

Wow.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 14:43

So as a teenager, uh, you can imagine I became extremely emotionally erratic, depression, anger issues, self-hatred. I ended up with anorexia. I started cutting at a young age, and then I also started being interested in older guys, you know, daddy issues. And um, my mom had remarried and she had my brother, and I felt like I did not fit in with her and my stepdad and my brother because they were like the perfect family, and I was a hot mess, and so I did not feel like I was part of that family. It felt like I was always on the outside looking in, and my brother had everything that I ever wanted to have, and so it was very painful to watch him being raised in the home that I would have loved to have had, and it always felt out of reach, like I could never cross that barrier because I have been so damaged that I just could not be part of the family. I hurt all the time, but no one understood me, and I was crying out for help, but no one really knew what to do. The therapist that I was seeing, she never had family sessions with my mom and stepdad. She only saw me and she never offered them any advice. She never really offered any concrete ways to help me. It was more just me talking to her. Like that basically was it. So I had all of that going on on one aspect of my life. But then I had other things that were going on. So I would see things like shadows moving through my bedroom. I would see them in the house. I would hear things, I would hear scratching on the wall. I would feel like someone was standing behind me all the time, like just watching me. Like the hair on the back of my neck would stand up like somebody was standing there breathing. Things would move in my room, like I would walk out and something would be in one spot and I would come back, it would be in another spot. Or I would go to sleep with a piece of jewelry on, like a necklace or a watch or anything like that. And I would wake up and it would be completely gone. I'd strip my bed, couldn't find it. And then the next day I may walk back in and it would just be setting on top of my dresser or setting on top of my pillow. Um, I felt a dark presence all the time. I would hear voices, I would hear them like almost like a radio was playing, and I couldn't really pick up on what was being said, but I could just hear the chatter. I would hear people walking. Like there was times that I thought my mom was walking into my room, and I like I would hear somebody walk across my floor, like my back would be to the the door. I would hear somebody walk all the way across and then stand beside my bed and I would turn and nobody would be there. Sometimes my bed would shake all night, like somebody was standing there just shaking my bed all night. And so I had all of that going on. And I I did not know what to do with it. I mean, I definitely knew it was not not godly. I knew it was demonic. At that point in my life, I my mom's family had always been in church. So I was raised around church, but I wasn't a Christian. I hadn't surrendered to God or anything like that. But I knew enough to know that God's word was powerful. So there I had a little New Testament and I would put it under my pillow and I would hold it. And I would just want the terror to go away. So it continued that way until I was about 16. When I was 16, I followed the same pattern as my family, and I got married for the first time. He and I were both super, super toxic. Um, there was a lot of domestic violence from pretty much day one. I stayed with him for about six years. And within that time, when I was around 18, I had my son and I gave my heart to the Lord, and I fully, well, I would like to say I fully surrendered to him. I didn't not fully surrender looking back because I didn't trust God at that point in my life, and we'll never fully surrender to somebody we don't trust. But I did love God. I wanted to serve God, I wanted to be in relationship with him. I was in a church that taught the Bible like a lot of good foundational Bible teaching. I immersed myself in the church and in the word of God and trying to change my life. But the problem was I did not know how to heal. I didn't know how to heal from all of the wounds. The church wasn't teaching me out how to heal. And I did not know what to do with all the spiritual warfare, all the demons I was encountering. I had no idea what to do when I seen these shadows walking in my house. I had no idea what to do when they were slamming my front door. I can remember there were so many times I would be driving back and forth to church, and it was like somebody was sitting in the backseat of my car and kicking the back of my seat, like over and over, like just kicking it. And I was so scared to look in the rearview mirror because I knew there would be eyes looking back at me. So I would drive, I had like a 30-minute drive to church, and it would be in the like uh we lived out in the in a rural area, so it was out in the country, and so it was really dark, and I was I just knew there would be glowing eyes looking at me, so I would keep my head down, I would not look in the rear view mirror, I would turn it to where I couldn't even see out of it because all the way there, all the way back. And I just never knew what to do with that. I wasn't in a church that taught anything about spiritual warfare. I was taught things like, um, If you want to get through something, you lay it down at the altar and you don't pick it up again. And if you're still dealing with depression, it must be because you're picking it back up again. If you're still dealing with your past, you're picking it back up again. But there was no tangible, how do I lay it down and not pick it up again? Like in my mind, I started blaming myself and I started saying, Oh, well, I'm depressed because something's wrong with me. I'm anxious because there's something wrong with me. I'm going through all of this warfare because I'm doing something wrong. And so for years I internalized, well, God isn't setting me free because I'm bad. I'm worthless. I'm I'm full of shame. I'm wrong. I've done this. I've done that. God can't love me. And I didn't necessarily say those things out loud. Well, I definitely didn't say them out loud, but I would thank them. I would see other people getting free or other people getting miracles. And I would think, well, there must just be something so wrong with me that God can't do it for me. So I stayed in that marriage for about six years. Um, and then I left because the violence just kept getting worse and worse. And I knew it was going to come to the point that one of us wasn't going to make it out because it it just was bad. I remarried within, oh my goodness, probably six months because I was very codependent. I couldn't be alone. I didn't want to be alone. I had it in my mind that to be happy meant to be married. And whenever I went through that divorce, something switched in me and I said, no one will ever run over me again. And I went from being very passive to being very aggressive, but not in a good way. I became angry and bitter, resentful. If I thought anybody was even even looking at me sideways, I was ready to physically fight. Now I was still in the church, you know, bless the Lord, come to church with me. But if you look at me funny, I'm gonna claw your eyes out. Like that was my attitude.

Israel Caminero: 21:49

Right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 21:50

And the man that I married, he was very passive. We're still married, we've been married 20 plus years. But he came into the marriage with his own set of baggage, and because of that, he was very passive. And I liked that. I wanted to run all over him and I wanted to control him. After we've been married for a few years, I went to college and I got a master's in social work so that I could become a therapist, a mental health therapist, because I wanted to help other people. But that only lasted. I was only able to work for about two years because I was going to work every day and I worked with children. And so I was hearing their stories every single day of abuse and trauma. And then I was coming home and cutting just to get through the evening with my family because I was so unhealed. And I went into therapy for myself about a year into, or about two years into practicing as a therapist. And she quickly helped me realize that it was not ethical for me to be practicing as a mental health therapist when I was so unwell myself. And so I resigned with the idea of, oh, I'll go back. You know, I'll take about a year off, I'll get well, and then I'll go back because I had completely bought into the idea of the scientific medical side of mental illness. I was not leaving any room for the spiritual side of it because it made complete sense to me. I'd went through trauma that had altered my brain chemistry, and I was living with the effects of that, and I needed to address those symptoms. Now I knew God could heal me and set me free, but I wasn't looking at it from a spiritual aspect at all. I was looking at medication, therapy, and that direction. So I ended up being diagnosed with clinical depression, um, PTSD, multiple like uh complex PTSD, OCD, and then also disassociative identity disorder. And the DID was a really hefty diagnosis that um I didn't tell anybody about. I made sure I hid that one because I didn't want anybody to know. The others I I was okay with because I could say, oh yeah, you know, I was in trauma and all those things, and it made sense. The DID also, the idea behind it is that if you go through trauma, especially as a young child, your personality can split into separate individual like people, and you're all living together in the same body, and they're called altars. And for me, I had heard voices for years. I knew them, I knew their names, I knew their personalities, and I was taught in Christian therapy to begin to accept them, to allow them to have their space, to allow them to uh talk through me, write through me, express themselves through me so that we could learn to get along with each other and be cohesive, and that they were just part of me. And I completely accepted that. So at that point in my life, I was hearing voices all the time. Most of them were very angry. They would say things to me about God, they would say he doesn't love you, he's never loved you. If he did, he wouldn't let you go through this. Why doesn't he heal you? Like they would say that over and over. Why doesn't he heal you? Why doesn't he do something for you? Look at all these other people he's doing stuff for, but he's not doing anything for you. Why? Why isn't he doing it for you? And I would try to read the Bible and they would say, That's not true. All of that's fake. Why do you even try to read that? They also told me to kill myself. It was a constant uh like bombardment with your family would be better if you were dead, you would be better if you were dead, just kill yourself and go be with Jesus. Like, let that be your life, like just go. They hated everyone else also because they would always say everyone is out to get you, everyone is being mean to you, everyone is victimizing you. They would try to turn me against every single person in my family because they would always act like that everybody was against me.

Israel Caminero: 25:47

That's pretty interesting that uh Christian ministry told you to let these voices talk to you. Yes. And they weren't the voices they expected, I guess, huh?

Nichole Hensley Henson: 25:59

Um, well, she was a s Christian psychologist. And over the years, I've learned just because someone puts a Christian label on their practice does not mean that they follow the Bible whatsoever.

Israel Caminero: 26:11

Right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 26:12

She definitely was looking at like the scientific side of it because in in that realm, in the medical realm, it makes perfect sense to them. They would say, Well, you know, your personality splintered, and that voice is trying to protect you, it's trying to keep you safe. You were unsafe, and now it's overactively trying to protect you. At the time, it made complete sense to me. Um, looking back now, I'm like, oh my goodness, how did I ever believe that? But I believed it because I had never had any of the other teaching to counter it.

Israel Caminero: 26:40

Right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 26:40

So when they said that to me, it's like, well, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, that voice is just trying to protect me. Yeah, it sees my husband as hurting my feelings. And so, of course, it's gonna lash out. Oh, it sees my son as being mean to me. Of course it's gonna like it, it made complete and total sense to me at the time.

Israel Caminero: 26:58

I get what you're saying.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 26:59

There there was also like one that was like a little girl, and when she was around, I always felt sad, I felt lost, I felt alone, rejected, abandoned, and that no one cared or loved me. Um there were many, many, many different personalities, what I would have called altars then. There were several, and there were other voices that I couldn't necessarily recognize, but that that were there. I would have to turn the TV on if I wanted to read a book just to try to drown out the chatter, or I couldn't read a book. Like that's how loud all of the voices were. The manifestations in my home continued. So I'm remarried at this point in my life, and he had never experienced any of this stuff. And he started experiencing things. Like he was in the bathroom one day, and the shower curtain just opened by itself. And another day he was in the kitchen, he had let the dog, we had dogs, he let them out to go to the bathroom, and the door opens, and the dogs come back in, and the door closes, and he goes in there, and the dogs are just like sitting there, and he would see things and hear things, and he's like, I have never experienced any of this stuff in my life. How did how do you live like this? And I'm like, Well, is there a different way to live? Like, I didn't know there was a different way to live. Like, this is this is normal to me. I never got to a place where I was okay with it, like it was always scary to me, and I was always terrified, but I didn't know what to do with it. I didn't know that life could be different because I thought it it just was what it was. Like, what do you do with it? And so my family and I could only come to the conclusion that because I had been introduced to the occult at such a young age that I was just like a magnet to demons, like they just recognized me. Like none of us knew what to do with it. If I went and stayed with my family, they would start seeing and hearing things. If I, it didn't matter what house I went to, it didn't matter where I lived, it wasn't like it was just a certain spot. It was me. At first I thought, oh, it's just the homes I'm visiting, this is really weird. But then I quickly realized, no, wait a minute, it's everywhere I go. I still struggled with extreme fear, hatred of myself, very low self-esteem. I um had huge walls between me and everybody else. I did not let anybody in, not even my family, not my husband, and not even God, because again, I didn't trust God because those voices have been telling me for years, why doesn't He help you? Why doesn't he help you? And I couldn't answer that. Like that was a question that I kept for my entire life. God, I see that your Bible says you do this, this, this, and this. But why does it not happen for me? And I didn't understand why kids have to go through the things that they go through. I I could never, people would ask me, Well, why do you think you had to go through that? And you know, I had the Christian responses that we all say, well, we live in a fallen world, people have free will and free choice. But then I would read the Bible and see these massive miracles that God did. So I knew that there was something there that I just could not get through. Like I could not reconcile it in my brain of why bad things happen. And I would always ask him, God, if you would just show me why. I think I could get past it. I think I think I could heal. And that answer just was not coming. I also had an eating disorder. I went from anorexia to binge eating, where I was a highly, highly addicted to sugar. I consumed massive, massive amounts of sugar. I was depressed, physically ill with depression. By the time I was in my early 30s, I was to the point where I was almost bedbound, housebound for sure. I barely went out of my house. I would go back and forth from my bed to my couch, my couch to my bed. And sometimes I would go visit my mom and stepdad. But that was about all I did because I was very physically sick and very emotionally sick. That would bring us up to about 2019. So in 2019, my husband and I and my family were living in Arizona. And I had my son reach out, or my son reached out to me, and he said, Mom, there's this minister I think you should take a listen to. And I said, Okay, you know, I'll I'll listen. And he sent me a message, and about five, I don't know, within five minutes into the message, the minister was talking about how even as Christians, we can need deliverance. I'd never even heard the word deliverance, didn't even know what it meant. He went on to explain that it's just closing doors to demons and verbally commanding them to go the same way Jesus did. And I knew in my spirit that that was exactly what I needed. I didn't know at that time if I needed physical healing and that. I had no idea what was what, but I knew that I needed something that he was teaching. So I reached out to him and I was like, Do you have any type of material that I can read or or go over? And so he suggested a few books and I bought the books and then I set them on the shelf and I lost a year. Like in that year, I got sicker and sicker physically. I was going back and forth to the mayo clinic. I was full of despair. I really don't even know what happened in that whole year, but I know that I didn't accomplish much of anything. I had this really weird thing happening that I would cough if I tried to talk. Like I would cough and cough and cough and it wouldn't stop. The fear got so bad I couldn't even shower by myself. The only way I could go in there is if my husband went in there with me, or I could sometimes take a bath. I was having PTSD triggers 24-7. They was all over the place, tons of them. And so about a year later, I felt like the Lord was saying, set aside a week for fasting and praying to get free and for healing. And I said, Okay, Lord, you know, I can do that. I I'll definitely do that. And whenever I did that, he then said, Call your mom and stepdad and have them come over and pray with you during that for one day during that week. And I'm like, Lord, I can't do that. They live so far away, they live like two hours away. I'm like, Lord, I can't do that. I, you know, I felt so unworthy. I felt like, who am I to ask them to drive two hours? I said, Lord, if if that's really what you want me to do, will you please tell them to come? And a little bit later, my mom called me and she said, You know, I feel like that we need to come pray for you. And I said, Absolutely. You know, like, yes, yes, Lord. And then the Lord told me to make it public, like that week of prayer and fasting. I'm like, Lord, people don't care, you know, why am I gonna make that public? But yes, Lord, like I was I was finally to the place in my life, finally, that I was willing to submit because I never fully submitted to God. Prior to this, if you said the word submit to me, I would have rolled my eyes at you like it was a four-letter word. Don't tell me to submit, don't tell me to submit to my husband, don't tell me to submit to any man. God understands because I've been through so much, like that was my mind frame back then. God understands, He knows how hurt I've been. I don't have to submit to anybody, I don't have to submit to my husband. Like it was absolutely ridiculous, the things that I believed and accepted as truth that were so unbiblical, but they became my truth and I lived out of them and they added to the bondage. But I was finally ready to submit every single area of my life, and I'm like, okay, Lord, I'll do it. So I posted it on social media, and the outpouring of love and support was beyond amazing. Like, I can't even tell you the number of people that reached out to me and said, I will be praying for you, I will stand in agreement for you and with you. People sent me scriptures, people sent me words from the Lord. I even had people mail me cards saying they were thinking of me.

Israel Caminero: 34:43

Amen.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 34:44

And so that that week was scheduled. Leading up to that week, there were several things that the Lord started leading me through. And again, I wasn't really sure exactly what was going on. I had read those two books, I had sent my mom and stepdad some um pointers on this is what you do for deliverance, this is what it kind of looks like. Like I think I maybe like two paragraphs. And so the Lord started leading me through deep repentance. And when I say repentance, you know, I got saved in my pastor's office and he prayed us through a prayer. I repeated the prayer after him, and I was sorry for the things that I had done wrong. And I I had since that time been regretful of the things that I'd done. But the Lord started showing me repentance is much, much deeper than that. It is having a change of heart, mind, and direction. That means you change behavior, you change what you're doing, you change who you are. And if who you are does not line up with the word of God, you have to change that. And those are the things he started showing me. He started showing me how I had allowed the abuse to make me somebody I was never created to be, and how I had started abusing those in my family, how I had been manipulative and controlling and dominating, all from a place of pity. And oh, I've been so hurt. Now everybody has to walk on eggshells around me. Everybody has to cater to my needs because I'm hurt, and how I had hurt so many in my life, and it was a time of deep, deep cleansing. It was not condemnation, it was not beating me up. It was so kind and so gentle and so loving. And it was a time of really looking at myself and saying, Wow, it's time for me, me to change. Like I'm waiting for God to change my situation, but it's time for me to change how I react in and through my situation. He also started showing me specific things I had said about myself and others, specific lies I had believed, like this will never change, I will never get better. I had doctors tell me this is chronic, this is lifelong, it will never look better, you will never have a high quality of life. Just accept what you can. Uh, all of those words, chronic, never better, never, never well, all of that had played over and over in my head, and I had believed it. So he started teaching me how to come out of agreement with those lies and saying, no, wait a minute, that doesn't line up with the word of God. The word of God says, by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed. Like that's the truth. And so he started teaching me that. He started showing me how to be submissive to him and my husband. Oh my goodness, I had never ever submitted to my husband, would never have done that. When he started showing me that, I was like, oh wow, yeah, that's gotta change. He started showing me how aggressive I had become and how much anger and rage was inside me. And then he said something to me that um I had a very difficult time with. He said, You've not honored your father, meaning my biological dad.

Israel Caminero: 37:45

Right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 37:46

Um, when he said that to me, it felt like a smack across my face, and I became angry. I was mad. And, you know, I was ranting and raving for a few minutes. How could I honor him? Look at what he did to me, look at all of that. And then I, you know, I calmed down and I said, Okay, Lord, from a sincere place, I said, Lord, what do you mean? What what do you mean? How could I have honored him? In what way? And he started walking me through all of the things I had said about him. I had called him names, I had looked at him like he was worthless, I had looked at him like he was a piece of garbage. I honestly, by this point in my life, he was deceased. Not not a lot before this, but um within the last two years prior to 2020, or yeah, 2020, I don't know exactly what year or date he had died. I was estranged from him, hadn't seen him for years, but my family told me he he passed away. But at that, at that point when God said that to me, he showed me my heart. I could have cared less if he died and went to heaven or hell. Now I didn't necessarily want him in hell, but I didn't care. I did not care where his soul went. And as a Christian, that's not okay. Like that, that's not that's not okay. And he also showed me that I had talked horribly about him, and I had never viewed him through the lens of a lost person that God wanted to save. And so I repented for that and I asked God, does that mean I would have had to have had a relationship with him? He said, No, but you would have had needed to keep your mouth shut and moving forward, you need to keep your mouth shut because when I'm in circles where they're bashing him and talking about him and calling him names, I have to not join in, I have to be silent, I have to excuse myself, I have to keep my mouth shut. So God was showing me it was a heart issue, and that that's where I had gone wrong. Like I had not honored him. He was my biological dad, he was used to bring me life, and God did want him saved, and he was a lost soul that God wanted to redeem, and I should have looked at him that way, and I didn't. So the other thing that God was showing. Me is that I mistrusted him. And he took me back to the question that I always asked, God, why do bad things happen, especially to kids? And I saw like a vision and I saw a two paths. One path was to continue down doing things the way I had always done them, asking, questioning, holding that question with a death grip. The other path was releasing that question and going down a new path of healing and freedom. And I knew that he was asking me to release it, but I also knew what he meant by that. If I released that question, that meant that I would never ask it again. And not only would I not ask it, I would release the need to know the answer. So I wouldn't be asking the question and I wouldn't be needing the answer anymore. And I grappled with that for a little bit because in my mind I felt like I needed it. I thought I needed that answer, but I released it. And when I released it, the Lord started teaching me what it means to walk by faith. It means that I had everything flipped upside down. I was looking at God through the lens of my abuse instead of looking at my abuse through the lens of God's word. And he brought everything back into the correct balance to where now I look at God and his character through the lens of his word. I don't look at his character through the lens of the abuse and my experiences. I don't look at him through the lens of what I'm going through today. Like I walk through battles today and I don't look at God through those battles. I look at God through the lens of his word and I choose to stand on the word of God. I choose to take him at his word. Whereas before I was looking at God through the lens of my abuse. So I had to switch all of that. He had to switch all that. I could have never done that on my own. But that was a big huge thing he did.

Israel Caminero: 41:51

That's good.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 41:51

The next thing he showed me or told me, he said, stop consuming sugar. And I said, Oh Lord, wait, what do you mean stop consuming sugar? And I knew that he wasn't asking. It was like one of those things that I felt, like I felt it deep. And I knew he was saying stop. Like it was a stop. So I wrote down a post-it note. God said stop consuming sugar. Prior to that, like I'm not even exaggerating, it would be nothing for me to drink 244 ounces of soda a day, eat a half a gallon of ice cream, eat four candy bars and a bag of MMs, like the big family size. Like that would that would be nothing for me. I consume tons of sugar. I was the type of person that if there was something sugary sweet in my house, I couldn't sleep at night because I'd be thinking about it. The voices in my head would be saying, Go eat that. You need that, go get that. I mean, there was times I would get up and go to the gas station in the middle of the night just to get sweets. Or I would be begging my husband, go get me something. That's how bad it was. So when he told me that, I did it, and it was so hard, but I did it. And the other thing was my life first had always been, he gave me this years prior. When I was very first going through the divorce, he gave me this verse. It's Proverbs verse 3. I'm sorry, Proverbs chapter 3, verses 5 and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding, and he will make your path straight. He taught me in that preparation moment that I had always been leaning on my own understanding, and that I had been wanting what I wanted in the way that I wanted it, how I thought it would come, what I thought it would look like. I was not trusting him. I was not walking by faith. I was not laying down my will, my understanding. Like I always said, Oh, that's my that's my life first, but I wasn't doing any of it. I was saying it, but I wasn't doing it. And he taught me in this process what it means to trust in the Lord with all your heart, what it means to not lean on your own understanding. So then the week comes and my parents come over. They came about midweek. Um, because I started, I think I cannot remember correctly. I don't have my journal in front of me. I always think I need to get that out when I do this, but I always forget. I think I started on a Monday, and I think they came on a Wednesday. So they came a couple days in. I do know for sure they came a couple days in. As soon as my dad, my stepdad, I call him dad. That's why if you guys hear me mix that up, I always try to reference my biological dad, who was the abuser by biological, and then my stepdad. He is my dad. My mom and dad got married when I was 12. He's my stepdad, but he's been my dad since day one. So that's I don't want to cause any confusion there. But my mom and stepdad came in, and as soon as they walked in the room, I felt an immense hatred for him, and I wanted to claw his eyes out. Like I physically had to set on my hands because something in me wanted to physically attack him. Now I love my dad, I think he's one of the smartest men I've ever met in my life. I respect him. I love that he chose me. Like he didn't just choose my mom, he chose me. So when I felt that, I knew it wasn't me. Like there was no doubt in my mind. I knew it wasn't me. Going into this, I had no idea if when they prayed, like, did I need physical healing? Did I need mental healing, emotional healing? Did I have a couple demons in there that needed to come out? Like I had no idea what was what zero. I thought, oh, maybe there's one little demon, you know, it needs to go, and then I need a whole lot of healing. Like we we had no idea, but I started feeling all of this stuff. So I sat down, and then my dad just starts commanding anything unclean, any demon to get out of me in the name of Jesus. Like he would say, I cast you out, I command you to leave, I command you to get out in the name of Jesus. As he was doing that, it took about four and a half hours, and between 45 and 60 demons left me.

Israel Caminero: 46:00

Wow.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 46:01

And as they were leaving, I felt many of their emotions, many of them spoke through me. Uh, there was one that started laughing and cowling is the only word I know how to put to it. And it started looking at him, saying, You are so stupid. Who do you think you are? And it was a mocking spirit. There was one that I was sitting across the room from him, and this was a humanly impossible, but I spit and it landed on him, like from across the room. Like there's no way humanly possible from the direction that should have happened. At one point, because we we were not around this stuff. Like we did not know anything about any of this stuff. We did not come up in churches that taught any of this, that did any of this. We had zero idea, zero expectations going in. We learned a lot. In that four and a half hours, we learned a lot. Um, at one point, I was throwing up and gagging, and so I had a trash can, and then I felt a hand go around my throat that started choking me. And so he had to command that to stop. I tried to throw the trash can at him at one point, but it was like there was a wall protecting him, and it just fell flat. I would try to get up, and it was like somebody was holding me in my seat because I wanted in my body, I felt like I physically wanted to attack him and I couldn't get up. I felt each one of the what I thought were altars leave. There was one that would not leave, and the Lord said to me, You have to break identity with that. You have accepted it as part of you, and it's not part of you. So I verbally told it, I'm not you and you're not me. We do not belong to each other, you're not part of me, and you have to go. And then it left. Um, immediately, some of the changes that we seen, like I was completely changed. They came out and I was completely changed. We kind of just sat on the couch staring at each other for a little while. And like, did that just happen? Like, what was that? Some of the immediate changes that we seen was my eyes opened up wider. My eyes had got to where they were super dark and they were just really small slits. My eyes were open wider. When I walked, I could actually pick up my feet. I had gotten to where it was almost like there were blocks on my feet, and I would just shuffle when I moved. Like I could not even pick my legs up. I started walking completely normal after that. Um, the change inside me, I noticed very, very quickly, like within seconds, was I didn't hear voices anymore. The voices were completely gone. I had not been alone in my mind from ever that I could ever remember. All of those voices were 100% gone. I was able to just have peace and calm. When my husband came home, as soon as he got home, I I um asked for his forgiveness and I verbally and like told him, I am going to submit to you. Like that, that changed. So there were no more triggers. Every single one of the PTSD triggers were gone, like gone. Every single one of them. There was no rage. I thought I was a super angry person. I'm not. Turns out I'm not an angry person at all. All the rage is gone, all the accounting is gone, no depression. I see people differently, I feel about people differently. I've had zero symptoms of any of the mental illness, not one, since May 24th, 2020. The Lord then immediately started teaching me how to walk in freedom because it's not just getting free. Like that really is the easy part. The easy part is getting free. The lifelong part is staying free.

Israel Caminero: 49:35

Right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 49:35

And so he started teaching me that pretty immediately. My parents, um, COVID had hit, and my dad had lost his job. We all lived in Arizona together. And so he couldn't find another job in Arizona, so they ended up moving to Tennessee. My son and brother moved to Texas, so it just left my husband and I in Arizona with no family and very few connections. Well, really, not many connections at all, because I hadn't made a lot of connections because of how I had been. And I heard a voice one day, and it sounded like me, because that's how the what's that's what the enemy does. It usually doesn't sound like somebody else, it usually sounds like ourselves. And it said, What if I get depressed again because everybody moved? And immediately, like I'm talking immediately, the Lord spoke to me and said, You did not have depression, you had a demon that was causing depression, and that demon's gone. And I knew right then, oh wait. So that means everything that left is going to try to come back. Like he taught me that within days. So I learned right then, okay, I have to be on guard against that. So if I feel my emotions trying to go that direction, mm-mm in the name of Jesus, that has to go. If I hear that voice, no, in the name of Jesus, you have to go.

Israel Caminero: 50:46

That's right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 50:47

So we started, yeah, like every time. Some of the things that he taught me through the process, like over the last several years, is I have to choose every single day to walk in the spirit. He's not going to make me walk in the fruit of the spirit. That's a choice. And we have to choose to walk by the fruit of the spirit and not walk in our flesh.

Israel Caminero: 51:06

That's right.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 51:06

We have to also change old habits and patterns. Those try to stick around, even when the demons are gone. We're still left with our flesh. And so we have to choose to change how we talk to people, how we treat people, how we look at people, how we interact with people. All of that we have to change. I had to change. I refuse to speak death. I will not come into agreement with lies. I will not come into agreement with death. I will speak life and I will speak blessing. I choose to walk in his peace and joy no matter what I'm facing. I have faced very difficult days since then. I've walked through very difficult situations, as we all do. But even on those darkest days, we must choose joy and peace. Doesn't mean that we're going to feel like we're skipping around the world, but his joy is abiding in him. His peace is abiding in him, and we have to choose that. The other thing he taught me was how to reject all the attacks of the enemy. Mental attacks, refuse them, none of it. Physical attacks, none of it. The other way is to keep my thought life under control and positive, not focusing on the negative. And spiritual warfare is definitely a must. That's why I teach about spiritual warfare so much. I feel like it's so undertaught in the church. It's a must. We have we are in a war and we have to know how to fight the enemy. So, pretty much from that moment, fullness of joy ministry was birthed. He didn't give me a name. Uh, like right at first, like I think was in the first week, he said, Okay, I want you to go share your testimony. Oh, let me backtrack real quick. I do want to share this. So, this is how the enemy works as well. So I walked through all that, and you know, I had said he taught me that I had not honored my biological dad. I I try I I repented for that, then I knew I had true forgiveness and all of those things. Within that same week, I had a half-sister find me through DNA. This half-sister, now this is gonna be a little bit try to stick with me. So the half-sister, her father is the same biological dad I have. Her mother used to be my stepsister. So when he was married to my stepsister's mother, my stepsister and my biological dad had a child. Wow, she was four, yeah. She was 14 when they got married, she was 16 when they had the child. I knew, so this was at the tail end of the relationship with that woman. I met my half-sister one time. I visited one summer and she was a baby and she was there. It was never a secret in the house that that was his daughter. Now, outside of the house it was, but in the house it was never a secret. So, fast forward all of these years later, so we're like eight or nine years apart. And by this time in 2020, I'm in my 30s. After all of these years, she found me. And I knew, I knew what was happening. It happened on the week that I went through deliverance. The enemy was trying to get me in unforgiveness toward my biological father again, but it did the exact opposite. So when she found me, I put her in a group chat with my biological dad's family, and they started passing around pictures of family. Prior to my deliverance, I would have never been able to look at pictures of my biological dad. That was way too triggering. And this was post-deliverance, like within days, and I seen pictures of him, and he was a child, and I cried, like I shed tears, and I thought to myself, I wonder what happened to make you who you were. And you were just a child. And I knew in that moment the Lord spoke to me and said, That's forgiveness. You've forgiven. So what the enemy was trying to trip me up with, God was showing me, No, you've really forgiven. So, anyway, fast now go back to um the ministry. So he told me to share my testimony, and I'm like, Lord, people already thought I was crazy. They're really gonna think I'm crazy now. And so the first time I shared my testimony was on Facebook on my personal page, and I did it like at one o'clock in the morning because I wanted to do it when nobody would be awake, nobody would ask me questions. I was gonna get on there, read it, say it real quick, and hop back off and be like, okay, Lord, I did what you said. And he told me early on, my ministry was gonna be a lot of me being very transparent. And I was like, okay. So I mean, I just laid it all out there. And and I gave my testimony. And that testimony, I tell you what, it went to places I could not even imagine. There was people from literally all over the world contacting me, and they were saying, I I need what you you have, I need to go through what you went through. Where can I get that from? And I honestly didn't know where to send them because I had checked into some deliverance ministries. Some of them charged like $400. Some of them you had to fly to them. Like I didn't have that ability. I didn't have money like that. I didn't, I had no access to that. But looking back, I knew God didn't allow me to connect with anybody because he wanted to teach me what he was teaching me as I walked through it. So I started walking people through deliverance. I started walking them through everything that the Lord had walked me through. I started walking them through, and I started doing tons and tons of one-on-one deliverance sessions, like on Zoom or or Facebook Messenger video. And so I thought, okay, that this is where I'm going to be for the rest of my life, that this is the ministry that I'm camped out in. But that wasn't God's plan. He started telling me to write, and I'm like, yeah, but I'm not an author. And he's like, Yeah, but do it anyway. And so I wrote a couple, a few books. And now where we're at is he's led me to of a season of doing a lot of teaching and training. I'm doing some mentorship, still sharing my testimony a lot. Not I'm not exactly sure where I'll be a year from now, but for right now, lots of teaching, lots of one-on-one ministry, and it it's been an amazing, I don't know, almost five years. So that's my testimony.

Israel Caminero: 57:04

Amen. What a good testimony. You didn't get to it, and I don't know if uh people quite understood about the sugar part, but oh, I did not.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 57:16

I'm so sorry.

Israel Caminero: 57:16

Demons do like do like sugar. You know, that's what they say that demons do like sugar.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 57:24

So I can tell you about that really quick. I'm sorry. I I did skip over that. So whenever I was being um in the prayer with my my mom and stepdad, there was one demon that spoke through me and it laughed. I mean, like laughed, laughed, and it said, I make her fat. I make her eat and eat and eat, and she's never full. And that was so true. Like I was highly addicted to food, to sugar, all of that. And then my dad cast it out, commanded it to go, and it left. And I knew then, oh, the Lord had me stop consuming sugar so that it would break the power it had over me, so that when my dad told it to leave, it would have nothing to hold on to, it would have to go. So I I there's no doubt in my mind, like he was breaking that addiction so that whenever we came into that, it couldn't say, Oh, well, you know, you're feeding the addiction, you're doing this, you're doing that. No, I'd already stopped.

Israel Caminero: 58:14

Right. Right. That's what I was getting at. I knew I knew where you were going before when you mentioned that you were eating all sorts of sugar. I just broke off. No, no, no, it's eight, it's perfectly fine. You know, we're only human, right? But yeah, I just want to say thank you for sharing that testimony. And is there anything that you want to share as far as like your ministry, your book? I'll have all the links to everything that you have as far as your ministry and books on the description of the podcast. But if you wanted to share something right now, you can.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 58:47

Yeah, I think, and this isn't because I wrote it, it has nothing to do with me. I I still don't even say I'm an author. I mean, I don't, it's the weirdest thing to me that God has me writing books. Uh, one of the ones that I highly, highly recommend, and again, it has nothing to do with me, it's because it's the exact process God walked me through. It's called self-deliverance workbook. On the front of it, it has like a cross and there's blue and white clouds. If you get that book and you walk through the process, God will do for you what he did for me. And no, that's not the only way for you to get healed and delivered. I'm not saying that, but I am saying that I know that it works because he led me through it and then he told me to write a workbook so that people that can't find somebody to help them can go lock in with him and get free because we all carry the same authority. I don't carry any heavy, heavier authority than anybody else. We all carry authority through Jesus Christ. That's where it comes from. So anybody that's in relationship with the Lord carries his authority, and we carry authority over our own life. So if you get the workbook, you do the steps, you can be free.

Israel Caminero: 59:52

Amen. And like I said, I'll have I'll have links to her website, books, and whatever else, social networks she has. On the description of the podcast. And now I don't know how I'm even gonna do this because you kinda already answered one of the questions that I was gonna ask. Um but usually I ask my guests if they have a life verse and or a verse that stuck with them and you already said that, which was Proverbs. And do you mind I'm I'm sure everyone has more than one because a lot of people share more than one. Is there a verse that you can go to besides the Proverbs, the one that you shared, and lean on it and read it, you know, when you're going through some trouble?

Nichole Hensley Henson: 1:00:39

Absolutely. It's James 4 7. Submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee. To me, that sums up our Christian walk right there. Number one, submit to God. So I'm always thinking, okay, Lord, are there any areas in my life that are not submitted to you? And I'm asking him to show me what do I need to submit more of? What areas do I? And I'll be honest and transparent with you, it's usually my time because I get super busy in the ministry, and it's like, every time I ask the Lord, he's like, Your time, and I'm like, okay, Lord, I got to get that back in balance. The other one is resist the devil. That is an action word. There's no passivity in resisting. We actively resist, we push back, we say, This is my ground. You're not, you're not stepping on it. Resist, verbally resist, and the devil will flee. I verbally let the devil know I have submitted to God, I'm resisting you, and you must flee. It's according to the word of God. You have no choice in the name of Jesus Christ. Flee. And that to me sums up where I live my life.

Israel Caminero: 1:01:40

That's good. Thank you for sharing that. You're welcome. Now we've come to my back to the past section of my podcast. And when my back to the past section is, is if the Nicole from today can go back and talk to the younger Nicole and let her know things that she knows today that she didn't know then, what would you say to her?

Nichole Hensley Henson: 1:02:04

I think the biggest thing I would say is stop leaning on your own understanding and fully submit to God and look at God through the lens of his word. Get in his word, learn who he is, learn who you are in him, and everything else will come into alignment and agreement once you start breaking off every lie of the enemy and living according to the word of God.

Israel Caminero: 1:02:29

That's good. That's good. Thank you for that. And Nicole, I'm sorry you had to go through that through all the trials that you went through, but look what you're at now.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 1:02:42

Amen. And I mean, God really does bring beauty from the ashes, and He does use what the enemy meant to harm us for his good.

Israel Caminero: 1:02:49

That's right. That's right. But I just want to thank you for being here and sharing your testimony. Like I said, it took a while, and I'm glad you're finally here. You know, I'm glad we were able to do this. Hey, life is life and life happens. I get it. Yeah. So um, before we close out, do you mind closing us out in prayer?

Nichole Hensley Henson: 1:03:11

Absolutely. Father God, I praise you, I bless you, and I thank you for your goodness and your grace and your mercy. God, I pray for each listener, Lord. I pray that wherever they're at, whatever they're doing, whatever they've walked through, Lord, that you would speak individually to each heart. God, I pray that every person would see through my story that there is hope in you, that you are Father God, that you are salvation, you are healer, you are deliverer. God, I pray that each person would cry out to you in total, total submission, Father God. And that if there's any areas of any of our lives that we've not surrendered to you, that we would lay those down, Lord. I also pray that you would heal those who are hurting, Father. So many people are on that what feels like their last straw or barely holding on. Lord, there's so much pain and so much hurt. God, I pray that you would show them the truth that they do not have to walk through life wounded. When you heal, you heal perfectly. Not even the scars remain. God, I pray that you would heal the brokenhearted. I pray that you would bandage the wounds, and I pray that you would teach us to war against the enemy in the name of Jesus. I pray that we would recognize our identity through you and break off every lie of the enemy, and that we would walk in the authority that has been given by your precious son, that we would walk in knowing who we are, and that the enemy belongs under our feet in every circumstance, that we would drive the enemy out of ourselves, out of our homes, out of our families, and out of our territory. In the name of Jesus. God, may everything we do bring you glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Israel Caminero: 1:04:52

Amen. Amen. Thank you for that prayer and thank you for sharing your testimony again.

Nichole Hensley Henson: 1:04:58

Thank you. Thank you for having me on.

Israel Caminero: 1:05:01

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