The Old Testament Book of Wisdom says, “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 KJV Other translations read: “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (NIV). “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when dreams come true, there is life and joy” (NLT).One day the Holy Spirit illuminated the above Proverb during a prayer time with a saintly woman during a phone conversation. I was going through an increasingly difficult time spiritually, emotionally, and physically, though I had not voiced it to anyone. On this day, I had simply asked for prayer for pain throughout the left side of my back. As she began to pray, she suddenly stopped in mid-sentence and said, “Oh my, you’re suffering from deferred hope.” David C. Hairabedian 2 I thought, “What is deferred hope?” Then calmly, yet with noticeable authority, she spoke directly to the problem, “Deferred hope, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I break you off my brother’s life right now and order you not to return to him again.” Instantly, I was delivered! The pain in my back left simultaneously. It was miraculous. The only way I can describe what occurred is to say that all the chronic pain in my back, neck, and shoulders that had been increasing in intensity for the last six to eight months snapped off me like a tightly stretched rubber band being cut with a knife. I was free! Then in the same gentle voice of authority, she said, “I now replace these areas in your life with God’s desire fulfilled, which the Bible says is a tree of life.” When she spoke these words my mind, which had been saturated with frustration and tormented with stress and chronic disappointment, was suddenly purged with the in-flooding mind of Christ. My faith level spiked instantaneously. My spiritual vision was renewed like an eagle. Said another way, it was as if my viewpoint and understanding of my life and its seemingly arduous circumstances suddenly changed. It was as though God showed me Heaven’s perspective – His aerial point of view – on the life issues I had been struggling with. At the same time, my heart was filled with new anticipation and godly optimism of what the Lord was about to do for me, as well as through my life, for others. In a word, hope was restored! Hope Deferred 3 As I stood amazed and praised God for this mighty deliverance, a renewed vigor and strength to finish the course set before me filled my soul. I then realized God had just supernaturally delivered me from unseen spiritual forces that had been hindering my life, oppressing my mind, and tormenting my body, spiritual forces that had been increasing in effect against me for a period of nearly three years. During this time, I knew something was awry, but could not, until being delivered, quite put my finger on it. Yet now, it all crystallized instantly. These forces of darkness had been subtle. Somehow, through my ignorance, they had increasingly hindered and oppressed my mind and body and had begun to vex my spirit. After hanging up the phone from this prayer encounter, the Holy Spirit began to reveal to me how subtle yet devastating deferred hope can be to a person. If it weren’t for the intervening hand of God through that saintly woman, deferred hope could have easily prevailed against me, derailing me in my walk with the Lord. I could have become shipwrecked in my faith as the Bible warns (1Timothy 1:18-20). I became aware of how I had nearly been destroyed because of my ignorance regarding this overlooked biblical subject of deferred hope.https://virtualchurchmedia.com/shop/
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