Hope Deferred

Recently, the Holy Spirit illuminated the above Proverb during a prayer time with a saintly woman in the course of a phone conversation. I was going through an increasingly difficult time spiritually, emotionally, and physically, though I hadn't 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." 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 6-8 months’ time snapped off me like a tightly stretched rubber band being cut with a knife. I was free!