Dear Chris:

You are referencing Robert Abel's website. There is another prayer listed on his site that reveals more about what the term "trafficking people" means.

I ask you to bring these people before your throne and bless them with a revelation of who you are and your love and plans of salvation for them. Please show them how they are being deceived by Satan. Please have your warriors send them back to their own bodies and seal them there with your blood, Lord Jesus. I thank you for establishing an impenetrable shield of protection all around me; in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Prayer to Remove Trafficking People

Dear Lord Jesus, will you please send a special assignment of warring angels to remove all spiritually trespassing people from me. In the name, power and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth who came in the flesh, I cancel all astral assignments over my life. I take dominion over all astral assignments of witchcraft sent against me, and I break their hold right now through the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Dear Lord Jesus, please have your warring angels strip these witches of their psychic powers, demonic powers and occult powers. Please strip them of psychic visions, powers of divination, and any other craft that allows them to interfere with me. Please have all their powers and devices destroyed and cast into the abyss.

Trafficking people refers to astral projection. This is a popular notion in the New Age and many people try to "astral project." Astral Projection is when one's spirit body leaves their physical body and travels wherever.

I imagine this term "trafficking people" came from Pentecostal sources, or maybe it is his own. The word does apply. One of the dictionary definitions of "trafficking" has to do with communication. If one decides not to talk to someone anymore, for example, that means that the person has stopped "trafficking" with that person. In this prayer it appears to be a petition to stop the communication coming from anyone who is astral projecting. 

When I was in the New Age I tried to astral project. One day I succeeded. I felt my spirit rise above my body for about a foot. Then I saw hordes of demons descending down upon my spirit body. It scared me big time and I never attempted to astral project again. The question, however, is whether or not I actually accomplished astral projection, or if this was imagination and perhaps hallucination.

At the moment, I do not recall an case where it was alleged that some live person's spirit was involved. I am not aware of any evidence of this phenomena. But, we do know that bi-location exists when God allows it. St. Padre Pio was reported to be seen in two places at once. What New Agers call Astral Projection may be the devil's attempt to counterfeit God's gift of bi-location.

It is possible that this term is referring to the spirits of dead people, but the theology concerning what happens after death would contraindicate that I believe. While there may exist "purgatorial ghosts", these poor souls would not be, and should not be, part of a deliverance prayer (see the essay, Seven Kinds of Ghosts).

In any event, in my opinion, there are too many ambiguities about this term, thus I would not use it in out prayers. 

Although I do not know for sure, many of his prayers and comments may be influenced by the Charismatic Renewal. The Charismatic Renewal likes to think of themselves as experts in demonology and deliverance, but in reality most of them know very little. Even more sad is that while the Charismatic Renewal can be a great asset to the Church, much of the Renewal is contaminated with ideas that come from the Pentecostals. I recommend reading our essay on this entitled, Charism Gifts Building Up the Church (pdf).

In this prayer that I posted above we see some possible evidence for Pentecost contamination in the sentence, "Please strip them of psychic visions, powers of divination." It depends on what the writer of this prayer means by "divination." There is no such thing as a person having the "power" of divination in the sense of knowing the future. Only God knows the future. Angels, demons, and humans have no power to divine the future. Thus, witches and psychics, and the like can only "attempt" to do this, but never accomplish it. God and God alone, and those to whom He might reveal it, knows the future.

The other definition of divination is to discover hidden information. When a witch or psychic or others attempt to access hidden information, that information comes from demons and not from God or any power they possess. Thus, a person can know your deepest darkest secret that no one knows because demons, who keep a watch on us, knows that information and reveals it to the witch or psychic.

Almost all alleged psychics, however, are con artists and use well-known techniques to make it appear they know things that they really do not know. If any witch or psychic actually knows some real hidden knowledge about someone that was not guessed using those techniques, then that information did not come from some "power of divination", but by the devil.

There is, however, a divination demon. This demon is responsible for those rare times when a so-called psychic actually does come into knowledge of something hidden. This demon is also charged to try to seduce people into divination and the occult.

While I have not examined Mr. Abel's site line-by-line, I was disturbed by what he said about "Praying with Authority." The information in-and-of-itself is accurate as we do have the authority from Jesus to do deliverance. But, like it is with Charismatics, he seems to suggest that we should all exercise that authority without restriction (except the Church's restriction on major exorcisms). That is dangerous and foolhardy. Just because Jesus said we can do this, does not mean that we ought to.

St. Paul makes that point twice in the Bible:

(1 Cor 10:23)  "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up. 

(1 Cor 6:12)  "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful...

While we can pray for deliverance for ourselves and our families, we ought not to go into a "deliverance apostolate" or otherwise try to deliver people unless we are called by God to do so and are specifically trained. Training is a lot more than learning a few prayers. In our Academy we train men and woman to be deliverance counselors. That program of training is not a few conferences, but is a three year curriculum plus Internship. This is issue is far more complex that just knowing a few prayers.

I have had to pick up the pieces of poor souls who were harmed by Charismatics (even Charismatic priests) thinking they know what they are doing. This sort of apostolate is not for everyone.

Although I suppose I am biased in this matter, I think the better part would be to use our prayers found in the Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog, linked below.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary