Breaking Unhealthy Soul Ties: Do Your Relationships Produce Bondage or Joy? (13 page)

After about two or three months, one night when I went in to say prayers with him, he prayed a prayer that caused my jaw to drop, tears to fill my eyes, and a light of understanding to dawn. His prayer went something like this, “Dear Jesus, thank you for not letting my Daddy die.”

Here, once again, our assumptions had been incorrect. There had been a far deeper wound to his spirit due to my absence and illness than we had imagined. Because of this wound to his spirit, a fear had entered. It was an unspeakable fear, so deep and so great that he had been unable to face it or to articulate it. It was the fear that he would lose his father through death. After he prayed that short prayer that night, he was set free from this lingering torment. From that time on he was able to both receive and give normal, healthy affection toward me. The power of love and trust had broken through the barrier of fear, and allowed God’s light to bear upon this area of darkness; and it had brought deliverance.