S4B6 P2: The Snake, Liar, Deceiver
Heaven Bent
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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This is part 2 of Tara Jean's latest S4 bonus episode, with Tammy Woods. She's one of Mike Bickle's alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse. This would've been years before he founded IHOPKC. She was his 14-year old babysitter, and he was her 25-year old pastor.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Heaven Bent. I'm Tara Jean Stevens. Season 4, bonus episode 6. And welcome to part two, |
| 0:11.4 | as we hear a firsthand account from one of Mike Bickle's alleged victims, Mike Bickle, the founding leader of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 0:22.1 | So 14 years old, 15, 16, I was constantly hearing, you're a tool, you're a tool, you're a tool in the hand of God. |
| 0:31.7 | And that again was Tammy Woods. In part one, she told us that in the early 80s, Mike was her family's pastor, |
| 0:39.8 | and that he groomed and sexually abused her starting when she was 14, and he hired her to |
| 0:45.3 | babysit as young boys. That was in St. Louis. And that leg of her story was from 14 years old to |
| 0:53.0 | 16. |
| 1:01.5 | And as a young girl and as a young believer, that declaration of you're a tool, |
| 1:05.1 | you know, it distorts your perceived worth. |
| 1:09.2 | It would have almost been better if he had said, you know, you're a tool in the hand of the enemy. |
| 1:10.2 | But in the hand of God, |
| 1:12.6 | in the hand of dad, it made it seem like I was expendable and not really all that valuable to my |
| 1:20.3 | heavenly father. Whereas Mike, you know, of course, he was incredibly valuable. And he had the high calling on his life, which was going to be so far greater than who I was or ever would be to God. |
| 1:35.5 | On this episode, we'll hear her story of her relationship with Mike from her college years to now. |
| 1:44.2 | But first, let me quickly catch you up on a pivotal moment before she went to college. |
| 1:50.4 | It was when Tammy was still a junior in high school, and Mike and his wife, Diane, and their |
| 1:55.1 | young boys, moved from St. Louis to Kansas City. This was 1983, and Tammy describes herself as secretly devastated. |
| 2:05.9 | But for her remaining high school years, the Bickles would come to St. Louis for a visit when they |
| 2:10.9 | were in town, or sometimes Mike would drop by her house to visit her family. She describes that |
| 2:17.1 | as torturous. But after high school, |
| 2:21.2 | Tammy says Mike tried to hatch a plan to get her to move to Kansas City, get her own apartment, |
| 2:26.7 | and be his personal secretary. But dodging a bullet, perhaps, her parents refused to let her live |
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