Six years ago, we never would have thought the Lord would lead us into this type of ministry. However, after walking with Julie through her healing from SRA/DID and coming to know more about the eternal purpose of God, we are convinced that this is where He has us for His glory in our generation.

When we realized that Julie was DID, she began to read many textbooks on DID to find out how to heal from it. It was so good to have hope that there was FINALLY a solution, a hope of integration coming after years of struggle, not knowing what was wrong with her. What was frustrating was that we could not find a trauma counselor who was familiar with DID in our area, or even in our state. After working with a trauma counselor who was willing to learn about DID for about a year and a half, Julie was no closer to integration than she was when she started.

Where Traditional Methods Fail

The reason for this is that most textbooks, counselors, and ministries focus on ministering to the parts of the person, getting to know each one, healing the trauma that each one holds, and then working on creating more and more co-conciousness until there is agreement to integrate. In some ministries, the emphasis is on leading each part to Christ as well as healing from the trauma before integration can start to happen. Sadly, in some circles today, the thought is that each part has had a such an important role, it is okay for the person to just live co-consciously without pursuing integration, and therefore, wholeness as a person.

For Julie, she worked on getting to know her parts for a year and a half. At the end of that time she had “mapped” with descriptions over 100 parts. She achieved co-consciousness but she knew something was still terribly wrong and there were many, many more parts that she had not even begun to touch. Because she realized that she was SRA/DID, she began looking at how counselors and minsters handled programmed or ritually abused DID clients. The consensus in most of these was that you had to know what type of programming was used so that the person could be de-programmed. In addition, for those who came from a Christian perspective, there was the serious spiritual warfare to consider, so it seemed that people had to know every ritual that was done and the names of every principality, power, and demon in order to undo the programming.

Connecting to Core

It was December of 2020 when we met Doug and Lori Riggs via Zoom after Julie had watched the conferences that they did in Hawaii in 2018. From the very first Zoom time, things were very different. Doug went straight for the “girl who was there at the beginning” which provoked Julie to scream, “She’s dead! She has to stay dead!” And so began the warfare and integration process, as Doug facilitated, working with the Lord to gather up Julie’s humanity from where she had been scattered in DID so that she would finally be able to give her whole self to the Lord.

One big difference in the way Doug handled counseling is that he saw Julie as a whole person. God breathed us all to life as a whole person with a body, soul, and spirit. When we are born again, we are made a new creation and joined to the Lord in our spirit. When a child is chronically traumatized for programming, the initial splitting is in the child’s spirit. To anchor it, the child is led to the Lord as soon as possible and then brutally traumatized again so that the base-level split is off of the Christian heart. That way, the person belongs to Jesus Christ, being joined to Him in her spirit, but is angry and hates God also for not rescuing her from the abuse, thus deciding to participate in the idolatry around her.

Integration Is a Process Requiring the Body of Christ

Even with the knowledge and experience that Doug had in the Lord, the process of integration is long and arduous. Julie had to come face to face with all that had happened to her as a child in addition to (and what was even more difficult) facing that she was an idolator, going to rituals and participating in all the heinous acts that you can read about in the Bible by idolators. This shook Nick and Julie’s marriage as they walked together through the process. Nick was stretched in his relationship with the Lord, not knowing how to help Julie, hearing things that you normally do not hear about in Christian circles, and having to forgive Julie for acts she had done behind his back. They had to learn to deal with spiritual warfare, with Nick learning what it means to have spiritual headship over Julie.

After Doug passed out of this life to see His Lord face to face after ten months of counseling, Nick and Julie were at a loss. However, members of the Body of Christ stepped in to fill the gap: Lori, Doug’s wife, stayed in contact with Nick and Julie, encouraging them to go on in the Lord. When it was clear Julie was not integrated yet, Lori and a survivor that Lori and Doug had walked with for years and had been integrated for about twenty years came alongside Julie to counsel her. Lori invited Julie to her home in New York for a long weekend so that she and three integrated survivors could counsel and pray with Julie.

For the next two years, Nick and Julie went through periods of counseling and prayer with Lori and others who the Lord used in different ways throughout the process. There were times when Julie needed to be “cut off” for a time so that she could come face to face with whether she was serious about the Lord having His inheritance in her or whether she wanted to remain divided and cult active. These were hard times but necessary in that Julie had seen the reality of the risen Lord Jesus in His people, so to be cut off meant immersion in death. The Lord continued to draw her into life through His Body.

Besides these more intense times, Nick often talked to men who could help support him in the difficult journey alongside of Julie. He was challenged and stretched in His walk and capacity in the Lord Jesus. They were also in a Zoom group which met two days a week, one for Bible study and discussion and the other to pray. This group of people had some familiarity with SRA/DID and provided a place where Julie could share about her struggles at time, confess her sin, and receive the love of the Lord through His people. Nick and Julie also shared with the pastor, his wife, and two elders at a local assembly they attend so that they would know what was going on. They half expected to be asked to leave, but instead, were received with compassion and grace, the Lord’s hand extended once again through His people.

In all these ways, the Lord brought about integration a bit at a time as Julie “came to her senses” and the Lord gathered her up from all the places she’s been scattered (Deut. 30).

The Bride Making Herself Ready

The reason Nick and Julie are passionate about helping others is for this age to be consummated and the Lord to attain His inheritance in His people and to finally gain His pure and spotless Bride. The church that the Lord Jesus Christ is building today is full of survivors like Julie, who are Christians but are divided and weaponized, brining satanic defilement into the Body of Christ. Our Lord deserves to have His Bride and the Lord yearns for every Christian to come into his full inheritance. This inheritance must be gained by conquest and we have an opportunity today to walk alongside these broken and suffering brethren as “joints of supply”, administering the love of Christ as He leads and works through us.

The Lazarus Mandate has been formed to help in hastening the Day of Christ for His Church (2 Peter 3:12) by encouraging the Body of Christ to come into the full measure of the stature of Christ, to a mature man, as Ephesians 4:13 says. We want to help those who have endured much suffering in their pasts or who are currently suffering alongside of others to “let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” (James 1:4).