Welcome. What is your name?
Jessica Padilla
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What did you feel when Pastor Hyeok prayed for you?
I still wouldn’t know how to explain what I felt, because it was something so powerful, something I had never felt before within myself. I felt that I was freed from so many struggles that I was carrying inside me. It was something that came out of me and that I do not want to have back.
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What were you dealing with in your life?
I used to practice witchcraft. My family—my mother, the one who raised me—taught me many things about witchcraft. My godfather was “El Negro Felipe”; he baptized me and I had him bound to my foot. Every time I got into a fight, I hated those people and wanted to hurt them deeply, just as people had hurt me so much—I wanted to do the same to them.

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What situation marked your life? 

My dad’s rape. At the age of 8 my dad raped me. He was the person I adored the most, all of this led me to drugs, to witchcraft, to be separated from my family, to every kind of things on the streets because to me he was everything, he was my life and he raped me.

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What did you feel when the Man of God, Hyeok, approached you?
I felt my body tremble, and I felt something cold running through my entire body, while heat was leaving through my feet. Then I felt something like a fresh breeze and something that told me, “Enough already—you will be free. Let go of everything that binds you.” I feel happy, with great joy, and I know that God will give me another chance to be with my children. That was what I needed: to be free so that He could open that door for me.
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Thank you, Jesus.

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